UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER 68 Z-229 Independents Plan National Converiion - Will Reorganize N e x t Week; Dance and Two Network Broadcasts Will Be Given Anticipating an approaching national convention in the spring, the Independent Student Association will reorganize next week at a special conference of council members, according to plans made last week by his colleagues Alexander, f., chairman of the national executive council of the I.S.A. The reorganization is declared necessary due to the lack of co-operation of several members in the present council. The council to be selected will include representatives from organized independent houses and rooming houses with enough members to merit representation. Two network broadcasts, and a dance with one of the most popular orchestras in the country are planned to bring nation-wide prominence. Professor Burt will be held at the University March 31, April, 1, Alexander declared. An organized membership drive will begin Feb. 6, with memberships offered for $1. Included in the benefits of the memberships are two dances, the convention dance, and subscription to the Independent News, a bi-weekly publication of the local group. One broadcast will officially open the convention and is to be made by a prominent figure in Washington. The other will be made from the Memorial Union ballroom during the convention dance, April 1. In making plans for the bi-weekly newspaper, Alexander said. "A staff of 25 students will be used on the paper which is to start publication at the beginning of the spring semester." Cunningham Will Run Tomorrow The "barrel-chested" Kansas, who ran a 4.107 mile at New Orleans Sunday, will make his initial appearance on the board taerk this season when he meets Gene Venkee, last year's winner, Charley Beeetham, who was N.C.A.A. half-mile champion at Ohio State, and Howie Borek, who set an LC4-A outdoor mile record last year. Glenn Cunningham, veteran mas- ter of American milers, has accepted an invitation to run in the Grand Knight Trophy 800-meter race in the Columbus Council K. of C. track meet tomorrow night at New York Y LAWRENCE KANSAS. FRIDAY JANUARY 6, 2030 by jimmy robertson Schiller Shore's Stupendous Static Stupper is the latest product of Shore Laboratories Inc. Ltd. The Static Stupper was invented to fulfill the crying need of something to prevent shocks when a large charge of static electricity is raised up in the humble dance dancer or machine. A simple device made of wire and chain. The dancer merely clamps the wire around his neck and lets the chain drag on the floor much like a gasoline truck does. ON THE SHIN Ladies a story of holiday frivolity and nonsense about some Sig Eips and a few wimmens. The boys and girls were coking at Martin's (That is a K. C. tea-room) when one of the ladds had the ogkestra play "Happy Boldday" so they could all sing to Merdither Dewd. Not to let had enuf eloque, Lynn matert had the masseur of wedding dirdge of Spink and Ann Car-. Which the Okekura did while a spotlighted on Mr. Frank all of it was just a little vacation horsepark—nothing serious. Ernie Leaves has foresaken his hobby of looking over transoms and now devotes his time to Anita Warden. The couple says they are not engaged—merely keeping company and holding hands. Howse-when, when Ernie decorated Anita Continued on page 2 Arm in Arm With Movie Starlets-- Snapped by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer photographer as they visited a movie set, James Morris, c'40, and Dorothy Jane Willecus, e39, were caught in an informal pose with Virginia Grey, left, and Rita Johnson, M-G-M players. Morris "dJ." wan a vacation trip to the film capital by winning the Granda theater-Jayhawker magazine bean guess contest. "The Upside Down Man." That what's they called Frank Annebern, ed'unc, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, where he was a feature attraction in Robert Ripley's "Bellieve It Or Not" exhibit. "Upside down" doesn't mean that Frank is physically abnormal, but that he delights in walking in an inverted position—on his hands. 'UpsideDownMan'IsTitle Given Frank Anneberg Anneberg, who coaches the University tumbling team and teaches a class in adagio dancing, has travelled about the country performing his hand-walking tricks to groups of wide-eyed spectators. Many University students watched him walk down the north stadium steps at the Kansas-Nebraska game. He has hand-walked down the steps of 12 state capitals;站了 his head on the rim of the Grand Canal and climbed the edge of 40-foot playground slide in Hollywood; and has climbed up the outside of many buildings to perform on narrow ledges. He made his longest hand-walk at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles when he walked down the 305 steps of Olympic stadium. One of his greatest feats was performed at the World's Fair at Chicago when he stood on his head on the top of a building, and while thousand gaps gaped between, calmly played a trombone solo. Undress—Upside Down Some of his other tricks are just as difficult. He is perhaps the only many in the world who can do a Physician Opens Lecture Series Dr. T. D. Fitzgerald of Watkins hospital opened a series of three lectures, sponsored by the Freshman Council, on the care of the body with a talk on "Student Health" yesterday afternoon in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Dr. Fitzgerald reported that in a recent survey conducted at universities and college hospitals throughout the country, the hospital at the University was listed among the best in regard to service, equipment, and personnel. He advised students to get fresh air from the capital and stressed the importance of going there as soon as alliments are discovered. On Jan. 19, Dr. Beulah Morrison professor of psychology, will discuss "Helpful Hints to Tired Students Who Live Through Examination Week." Ira H. Cram, chief geologist for a Tulsa, OK. oil company, will deliver a series of lectures here Jan. 15, active for the department of geology. There are two other lectures yet to be given in the series. On Jan 12 Jm H. Rapport, instructor of Biology, will talk or "Student Recreation." The meetings will both begin at 4:30 p.m. and will be held in the Men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. Tulsa Oil Company Geologist To Give Lectures Here Bill Miller, c42, president of the Freshman Council, presided at yesterday's lecture. The final lecture, Jan. 12, on "What is the Future of Petroleum Geology?" will be of popular nature; the others on trapping of oil and geological and geophysical methods used in exploration for oil will be more for the specialists. cheek stand and shave himself at the same time. He can stand on his head with his feet against the wall and undress completely — trousers, shirt, shoes, socks, neckties, undershirts and shorts — in 12 minutes. He stands upright down, eats a piece of cake, drinks some water, and then plays his hymnone. He walks around on six-inch hand stilts and at the present time he is learning to roll skate with his arms bent. But some of his stunts at a basketball game here sometime this month. Annebergl earned his specialty while he was an undergraduate here several years ago. Robert Ripley has mentioned him several litimes in "Belle it Or Not" and John Hix has mentioned him in "The Spectacle" has portrayed Annetberg walking down the steps at the east entrance of Corbin hall. This "wrong-way man" was mentioned in Ripley's cartoon once for doing what many individuals who are over-weight would like to do—lose 20 lbs. in 10 days. It seem that AnneBee wanted to wrestle it the 135 lb. class of the Big Six wrestling meet several years ago. He weighed himself and found that he was 20 lbs. over the limit. To lose weight he went on a diet of orange juice and one or two pieces of celerie a day. Believe it or not, he lost enough weight to wrestle in the 13 Continued on page 2 Skilton Has Article In New Music Volume Arthur Mendel, critic for the Saturday Review of Literature, writes "As the first American musical reference work on such a scale, this Cyclopedia is a landmark in our development as a music loving nation. Twenty years ago it could not have been published." The International Cyclopedia on Music and Musicians, recently published by Dodd, Mead and Company, of New York contains an article on American Indian Music writer Clayton Kilson, Siflon, of the School of Fine Arts. School and Society magazine for Dec. 31 has as its leading article an "interpretation" of Lotus Delta Coffman, late president of the University of Minnesota, written close friend, Chancellor E H Lindley. Doctor Lindley quotes Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of Indiana University, as saying of Coffman: "He was a product and then a leader in the democracy which is not yet dead in America. They say over there—the dictators say—that democracy is dead and dying everywhere in the world. It was not死 for Lotus Coffman. It met him among the corn rows and showed him a path to the leadership of free men." Doctor Lindley finds in Coffman's career a "modified Horatio Algero story of American success." The record of his advance begins with country school, then normal school, Indiana University, superintendent of schools, graduate study, professor of education, dean of education in the University of Minnesota, and president. Y.W.C.A. Drafts New Constitution - Ratification Is Goal of Drive Which Will Open Today Ratification of the newly revised Y.W.C.A. constitution by a necessary two-thirds majority will be the object of the drive which will begin this afternoon when the house meets live at 3:30 in Henley house. The constitution, recently approved by the W.M.C.A. cabinet, will be explained to the representatives by Elizabeth Barclay, c$40. Four major changes have been made in the constitution, one of which applies to the national organization. This article will give the privilege of voting to national convention representatives who are not members of a church affiliated with the National Federation of Churches. An article which will apply only to the local organization concerns the election of officers. Three officers, president, secretary and student treasurer, will be placed on the ballot; the fourth office, that of vice-president, will go to the woman having the second largest number of votes in the election of president. House representatives will be given a copy of the constitution which they will present for ratification to W.Y.C.A. members of each house. Independent women will be contacted by the cabinet members in Henley house. Three hundred women must sign the constitution by Monday in order that it may be sent in to the national headquarters. Professor Mix Is Granted Leave Prof. A. J. Mix, chairman of the department of botany, has been granted a year's sabbatical leave of absence by the Board of Regents upon the recommendation of Chanceller Lindley. Accompanied by his wife, Mix will leave in June, immediately after commencement. After spending the summer in Sweden, they will go to England, where he will study special research work for two months. Professor Mix received his A.B. degree from Hamilton in 1910 and his Ph.D. from Correll in 1916. He was at that time assistant botanist of the New York agricultural experiment station. The same year, he came to the faculty of the University. Later, he became head of the department upon the retirement of Prof. W. C. Stevens. Professor Mix had a similar leave 10 years ago, at which time he studied in England and Germany. When the Kansas legislature begins its session next Tuesday, the youngest representative ever to hold his Kansas will start his two-year term. George Michalopoulos was reeled chancellor of Quill Club at a special business meeting of the club last night. Other officers elected were John Brown, one of the parchments; and Jean Brown, c'42, secretary-treasurer. Former Student Is Youngest Legislator In Kansas House Verniss George, fs, 22 years old who attended the University last year, majoring in political science, George was opposed in the general election by L. A. Dubs, who was minority leader in the House of Commons, and a school next year and complete work for his degree. On Dec. 28 he married Dorothy Hawes, fs of Belfy, Kans. Michalopoulos Re-elected Chancellor of Quill Club Authorized Parties-- Friday, Jan. 6 Sophomore Hop, Union building. 1 a.m. Friday. Jan. 6 Acacia, Chapter house, 12. Alpha Chi Omega, Union building, 12 o'clock. Saturday, Jan. 7 Sigma Kappa, Chapter house, 12 o'clock. ELIZAEBETH MEGUIR, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs. Library Will Keep Open Four Sunday Evenings C. M. Baker, director, announces yesterday that Watson library will be open Sundays from 2 to 5 o'clock and from 7 to 10 o'clock on Jan. 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. This is a continuation of a practice started last spring before the semester examinations. Orchestra To Give Annual Concert ★ Kuersteiner's Symph on y Features T wo Soloists In Coming Performance The University Symphony or- chestra, under the direction of Prof. Karl Kuerstein, will feature two solists in its thirty-sixth annual mid-winter concert to be presented Jan. 12 in Hoch auditorium. Arloune Goodjohn, fa'40; mezzo- soprano who sang the part of Bella Bruna in "Blossom Time" will sing Sampson and Dellahil by Saint-Saure. The orchestra will accompany concert master Charlene Barber, fa-39, as she plays a movement from Godard's "Romantic Concerto," for violin. Schubert's "The Unfinished Symphony" will be the feature number for the orchestra. This film also uses a script form after the composer's death. He never heard it performed. The University Symphony String Quartet composed of Charlene Barre, fa 39, first violin; Paul Stoner, fa 40, second violin; Lola Higley, ed'uncel, viola; and Sarai Mohler, fa 41, cello, will present the movement of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." The minutel movement will be played by the woodwind quartet make up an Alex Fielder, c39, first lute; Helen Riley, c39, second lute; Gordon Terrellinger, fa12, harpist and Jean Moyer, fa12, basson. Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences spoke yesterday in Norton and Oberlin before four different groups. The occasion for Dean Lawson's addresses was the inauguration of the new $100,000 Decatur County community high school in Oberlin. Lawson Addresses Kansas Groups After he had spoken before the student body of Norton high school in the morning, Dean Lawson addressed a luncheon group of University alumni. Miss Mary Hays' 24, was chairman of the meeting. In the afternoon Dean Lawson spoke before the Decatur high school assembly in Oberlin. His fourth address was a part of the Oberlin Chamber of Commerce banquet last night. In addition to the regular members, the Chamber of Commerce was host to a large group from near-by northwestern Kansas counties. In attendance at the series of meetings with Dean Lawson was Fred S. Montgomery, secretary of the National Fusion Instruction extension division. WEATHER The unfortunate situation of a year ago will not prevail tonight, and Jimmy Joy and his crew will be able to devote their entire eve- Jayhawks To Norman For Big Six Opener Jimmy McNatt, Oklahoma junior who caused the Jayhawkers plenty of trouble last season, will be up to his old tricks in the conference opener. Hill Socialites Swing Out To 'Dance with Joy' Kansas: Mostly cloudy today; somewhat warmer in east portion; rain changing to snow by today or tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. - Tomorrow Night's Tussle With Oklahoma Looms as one Of the Stand-out Games of the Season; Winner Will be Favorite to Cop Crown; Injuries Hit Sooner Camp as Mesh Receives Leg Injury LYMAN CORLIS Sooner Threat-- Lyman Corlis, Kansas ace who starred on the Carlton quintet, will be the bulwark of the Jayhawk defense when they clash with the Sooners at Norman, Saturday. By Jay Simon, c'uncl The result was that everyone expected a "battle of the bands," but Arlie Simmons' men stayed only long enough to tune up their instruments. Ben Pollack, the party of second part, played for the dance, but none of the participants were extremely happy about the affair. Orchestra leader Jimmy Joy's slogan "Dance with Joy" will, by all indications, be entirely appropriate tonight when Hill students ewing out to the rhythms of this maestro's band at the Sophomore Hop in the Memorial Union ballroom. Kansas and Oklahoma are not going to pry the lid off the 1939 Big Six basketball campaign Saturday night—they are going to blow it off. Star Sentinel- The situation is much more agreeable this year than it was for the Sophomore Hop of 1938, for at that time the dance manager was impositioned in hands, both of whom claimed contracts to play for the dance. Last year's champion and runner-up clubs tangle in Norman tomorrow night in one of the league's two opening games, and nording to playing the versatile music for which they are known, without casting smouldering glances at rival entertainers. Secondly, dance manager Don Wood is even happier because advance ticket sales are reported to be progging better than exe- plaining that a satis- table crowd will be an hand to "dance with joy." The dance will last from 9 o'clock until 1. Tickets may be obtained in advance at the desk in the lounge of the Union building, at the University business office, or at Bell's Music company. The orchestra is noted for its many novelty arrangements, among them one in which each member of the band plays a set of partially-filled Coca Cola bottles, producing Coca that is "swingy" and entertaining. Dress will be formal for women and informal for men. Advance ticket sales close at 6 o'clock this evening. it promises to be one of the feature tilts of the season. Both outfits are well fortified with veterans and sparkling new-comers and they are top-heavy favorites to fight it out for the league gonfalon again this season. The team that takes this game will be off to a good start for the championship. It seems unusual that the opening game of the race would have such vital bearing on the outcome, but it most certainly is the case here. It is not at all impossible to imagine either Kansas or the rest of the teams participating in their schedules without meeting defeat. That is, until they tangle again for the season's finale. Miller To Go Along The Jayhawkers leave at 10 o'clock on a Santa Fe pullman with a squad of 14 men, including Ralph Miller, brilliant sophomore cager whose injury has been rapidly mending this week. Dr. F. C. Allen announced after last evening's practice session that Miller would make the trip along with the 13 players who went to Texas over the holidays. The coach was highly pleased at the way Milton performed each week and believes that his presence will bolster team morale . "It is not likely that he'll play this one. But if we get in a pinch late in the ball game, I may stick him in," the coach added with a sly grin. However, he hastened to assure that Miller would not be inserted if there was any chance of re-injuring his knee. Split Two Last Year Last year Oklahoma downed the Jayhawks in their first encounter, but later Kansas evened up. The Sooners bowed to Nebraska. The only missing from that famous "Boy Scat" troupe is Bill Martin, who was merely the steading cog in the sophomore machine. They are old heads themself. The team they have come up with two sensational stars that more than make up for the loss of Martin. Garnett Corbin, Oklahoma City high school hot-shot, tallied 19 points in the Sooners 49 to 31 stomp over Southern Methodist and seems to have cined him a berth for himself. The other new-comer is Herb Scheffler, towering front line man, who has tallied 39 points in six games. Scheffler comes from a small Illinois college and is rated one of the best rebounders in the loop. McNatt Leads Scorers Holdovers from last year's runner-up outfit are Jimmy McNatt, leading scorers so far with 56 counters, Marvin Mesch, stellar guard, Roscoe Walker, forward, and Vernon "Moon" Mullen, guard. Continued on page 3 Language Professors Back From New York Meeting Prof. J. N. Carman of the department of romance languages and Professors Alan Holak and Otto Springer of the department of Germanic languages attended the meetings of the Modern Language Association in London and the Linguistic Society held in New York City from Dec. 27 to Dec. 30. Prof. J. N. Carman read a paper on "The Peresvaus and the Gospels"; Prof. Alan Holak, on "Adalbert Stifter as the Spokesman of the Protestant Church"; and Prof. Otto Springer, on "Dialektgeographie and Textkritik." Prof. Otto Springer was named to serve through 1943 on four committees: Advisory Committee of the General Germanic Section, Committee for the Study of German Dialects in America, Research Committee for German Language and Literature to 1700, and Research Committee for Historical German Grammar.