UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Lindley Asks For Increase In Salaries
- Twenty Per Cent Raise
In Appropriations Is Requested in Chancellor's
Biennial Report
A 20 per cent increase in salaries appropriation, and funds for new University buildings and equipment were the requests made by Chancellor E. H. Lindley in his biennial report to the governor and Board of Regents during the Christmas holidays.
The staff of the University, on the other hand, has not increased, and there is need for enlargement in some of the fast-flowing departments, such as chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, business, and public school music.
Assistants Do Teaching
Lindley pointed out that although salaries and maintenance costs were cut during depression days in anticipation of a smaller enrollment University attendance has increased on a maximum reached an all-time high.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1930
In too many instances, the Chancellor said, introduction has devolved upon laboratory assistants and graduate students, and, if the academic standards of the University are to equal those of other middle universities, these must be replaced with more experienced instructors.
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He did not ask a general faculty salary increase, although pointing out that most other public employees in Kansas had received complete restoration of predepression salaries from two to four years ago, while University faculty reductions have been restored only to the extent of 37 per cent of the university's total scale 20 to 35 per cent below that of all other Midwestern states except possibly the Dakotas.
Maintenance costs have increased at the University, not by reason of buildings added from state funds, but because of the gifts presented by citizens, including the student hospital, nurses' home, and two residence halls for self-supporting women students.
Repairs in Urgent Cases
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by jimmy robertson
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Reporting at large, Ye Shinstar discovers that New Year's Eve was spent studying or in bed by most students . . . that not one of a thousand new neckies on the Hill is admittedly a Christmas present . . . that Kris Kringle brought little girls snow boots to go with the much too many ski-suits he gave them last year . . . and that everybody is disgruntled because of school on a double holiday.
There's seldom anything very funny about a person's middle name. But resisting the temptation to stick it on an envelope when sending a fellow student the season's greetings is like trying to keep your tongue off the vacant spot left by an extracted tooth. It's almost too bad that the student directory exposes middle names. And speaking of such, did you know that Glenn Verniss Cunningham is the full fledged moniker of one of K. U.'s greatest?
Wuxia! Wuxia! Read all about it! Dean Lawson caught in public place not wearing his trousers! But don't start getting excited. Even the dean can be seen in his long underwear if the underwear is part of his costume. Which it was at the University Club's Christmas dinner when he was a character in a skirt from the "Pickwick Papers."
Monday I dropped in to annoy Prof. Eastwood of the Fine Arts School, and in an effort to get rid of me he explained surreality in art. In case it has baffled you too, let me hasten that it is also easy so simple that even a law student could understand it.
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Campus Improves In Two Years--$250,000 Worth
Charles G. Bayley, superintendent of buildings and grounds at the University, announced in the biennial report of that department that the past two years have seen many improvements on the Campus.
Expenditures totalling more than $250,000 have been made, including $48,000 for Dyche museum ($25,000 is still needed to complete the rebuilding of the museum and permanent improvements; and $113,000 for general maintenance.
The close of 1538 saw Dyche museum near completion, the addition of a new dining room in the Memorial Union building, and the construction of a class of 1631 memorial in front of Watson Library.
This memorial provides a set of bulletin boards and benches built of stone from old snow Hall. The project is now complete except the inscribed table of an inscribed table.
One of the jobs of last summer was the addition of two laboratories in the department of chemical engineering at a cost of $2,100. The big lecture room in Bailey chemical laboratories was redone and new lights and a public address system were installed. A new system of ducts and a ventilating system was placed in the anatomy building.
New lights were placed in the Kansun newsroom, and the room was repainted. In Fraser hall about ten rooms were renovated for the department of home economics. Two new rooms were constructed for the department of design in Frank Strong hall, the mathematics office
Ferrell Anderson, all-Big Six guard, announced Monday that he had signed a contract with the New York Yankees baseball system. Anderson was catcher on the University nine for two years, and received the all-Big Six distinction a few weeks ago.
Anderson Signs With Yankees
Anderson has been orded to report to the Joplin Western association club, which is a Yankee farm, by late February. He plans to drop out of school next semester and return to college to complete his studies. Anderson is a senior in the School of Education and halls from Maple City.
Quill Club Meets Tomorrow To Elect New Officers
Quill Club will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Green room in Fraser hall to make plans for initiation and the election of new officers. All pledges and members are urged to attend.
The organization will lose two members next month when Leo Freed, f₁, and George Michalopoulos, chancellor of the chapter in New York City, sees editors and publishers regarding their recently finished novels
Adams and Wife Will Be Guests At Feature Showing
King Adams, for 35 years a janite at the Engineering building, and Mrs Adams will be guests of the Granada theater at noon today for a special presentation by Dr. George Washington Carver, noted Negro scientist.
When Stanley Schawn, local manager of the theater, learned that Mr. Adams' son-in-law, Austin Curtis, is a laboratory assistant to Dr. Carver, he made special arrangement to the picture to Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
The film deals with the life of the life Carver who has discovered over 150 by-products of peanuts and foods of combating infantile paralysis.
was partitioned, and the department of psychology quarters revised.
Intramural Field Regarded
Watkins nurses' home came into use last year. The grounds around the building have been graded and will be landscaped this spring. The intramural practice field, south of the Hill, was regressed and improved through a gift of $1,200 from the student council and a WPA grant.
At the present time a $16,000 WPA project, employing about one hundred men, is in progress for the improvement of the Corbin Hall grounds. Included in the plans are construction of four tennis courts, a rock road to circle the crown of that portion of the hill, a sidewalk, a large stone wall, gardens, and the planting of shrubs and trees.
The activity behind Strong Frank hall is part of the WPA project. The purpose is to quarry stone for use on the grounds and be built on the grounds at Corbin hall.
Stone Quarried for Corbin Wall
More than 8,000 yards of earth and shale will be taken from Old North College hill. This material is being taken to build a fill on Mississippi street drive. By so doing, the drive will be ready for widening when the sewer system is available. The engineering work on both projects is being done by Prof. F. A. Russell of the department of civil engineering.
A. C. Elison, University landscape architect, reports the planting of 200 evergreens, 200 shade trees, 500 conifer trees, which will bloom in the spring.
University Staff Members May Use Research Fund
University staff members will have the use of a $50 fund set aside by the Graduate research committee for use in the purchase of photographic work from the University Photographic bureau or for the purchase of microfilm prepared elsewhere.
Application for a grant from the photographic fund should be made to E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School and chairman of the Graduate research committee. The committee has purged some materials that have been installed, for use of staff members, in room 404, Watson library.
M.T.N.A. Re-elects Dean Swarthout
D. M. Swarthout, Dean of the School of Fine Arts, was re-elected secretary of the Music Teachers' National Association at a convention held during holiday in Chicago. C. Dearden and Mrs. Swarthout returned主席。
It was the fourteenth time that Dean Swarthwort has been elected secretary. Twice he has served as national president of the Republican Party, and he is now elected president.
Spending two days in New York before the convention, Dean and Mrs. Swarthout with their daughters, Evelyn and Ruth, were enter- ing for the dinner given by Glads Swarthout and her husband, Frank Chapman.
Evelyn Swarthout appeared with the Natinoal Symphony Orchestra of Washington under the direction of Hans Kindler last Wednesday. Miss Swarthout played the piano solo in Constant Lambert's new work, "Rio Grande." For her performance she received the praise of Glen Dillard Gunn, music critic of the Washington Herald.
The Syracuse University informary is asking students to give crutchete for use of crippled or injured students.
The University of California's atom-smashing cylotron weighs 85 tons.
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Summer Session Bulletin Now Available at Fraser
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The preliminary summer session, bulletin announcing the offerings of the various departments for the students, in room 121, Fraser hall.
All who expect to take work next summer and those who need to plan second semester enrollments to fit their courses should consult the hallette.
The regular descriptive catalogue is now in the hands of the state printer and will be available about March 1.
- Regents Committee I s Working With Faculty Group
On With Search For Chancellor
Eligible men both from this University's faculty and from the faculties of other universities are under consideration for the Chancellorship soon to be vacated by Dr. E. H Lindley.
A special Board of Regents committee headed by Dr. H. L. Snyder of Winfield is conducting the search under authority from Ralph T. O'Neil of Topeka, chairman of the Board of Regents.
For assistance Doctor Snyder looks to a committee of 12 faculty members appointed at his request. C. L. Burt, president of the Alumni Association, announces the appoint-alumni interest in the issue. Such alumni interested in the issue. Such a committee has not yet been recognized by Snyder. Differ Over Source
The Board of Regents' committee and 10 to 12 members of the faculty group met December 17 to discuss prospective candidates for the Chancellor's position. Opinions were divided as to the comparative advantages between a leader with fresh ideas and a leader with familiarity of this faculty familiar with the Kansas legislature and with traditions of the University.
The faculty committee was asked to answer two questions in order that the Board of Regents might complete investigations. The first question was, "Do you think that some member of the University should be considered for the position of Chancellor?" The response, strictly in relation with the first, was "If a member of the University's faculty is to be considered, whom do you think it should be?"
In addition to Doctor Snyder, the committee from the Board of Regents includes Maurice Breedlein of Kansas City, Lester McCoy of Garden City, Leslie Wallace of Laredo, James Neil of Top尔 of Peak-xxo-officio member.
Subject to Call
A tentative date of January 18 has been set for the customary biennial visit of the Kansas legislators to the University Campus. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the visit, will deliver its invitation soon after the legislature convenes next week.
The members of both committees are subject to calling at any time, and all necessary design decisions have been made, according to Dexter Snyder.
The committee has discussed plans, adopting the general program of two years ago, at which time a group of the legislators left Topeka bus by about 2 o'clock and were met on the Campus by members of the Chamber of Commerce and of the faculty. Visits will be paid to various points on the Campus, and at 6 o'clock it is planned to have a dinner at the Memorial Union building at which the legislators will be guests of local men. At 7.30 the legislators will be guests of the athletic management at the Kansas-Missouri basketball game.
State Legislators To Campus
"In the Garden" is the favorite hymn of co-eds of Glenville (W. Va.) State Teachers College.
The Catawbia College Yearbook is called "The Swatika," but has no connection with a well-known totalitarian government.
A Newberry College psychologist after a survey of students in 22 colleges, says student opinion is well to the right of center.
Begin Lecture Series on Love And Marriage
★ Personal Relations Commission Sponsors Talks By Mr. and Mrs. Mano Stukey
The purposes of the engagement period are, ideally, to find and cultivate mutual ideas, and to plan for a happy marriage to be based upon these same ideas, according to a discussion by Mano Stukey, ed30, and Mrs. Stukey, which was given at the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. Personal Relations Commission meeting last night.
Speaking informally to the group of commission members, Mr. and Mrs. Stukey discussed the purposes and problems of engagement. The time before marriage is to be looked upon as a period of experimentation, according to Mr. and Mrs. Stukey; it is a time during which both perceptions make that management is desirable and can be successfully carried out.
This discussion of engagement is the first in a series of three to be sponsored by the Personal Relations Commission of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. The next two will be given on Jan. 17, and Feb. 7, and will deal with marriage itself, and ideal marriage.
The personal relations commission is an outgrowth of the series of lectures on "Love and Marriage" which was given here last spring. Because of the success of these discussions and also because the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. felt that a fuller discussion of these problems was necessary, the commission was formed. It is their hope that a course designed along these same lines will be offered by the University.
Through a full group discussion the problems of dating during engagement was discussed both pro and con. This lead to a discussion of the purposes of dating, and then to the purpose of marriage.
The discussion was guided by the questions of the members of the commission and the financial aspects of marriage and its importance to a happy marriage was fully talked over.
Kernit Franks. c'40, had charge of the meeting, which was held at Henley house. Bettie Barnes and Kernit Franks, heads of the Personal Relation commissions, planned the meeting.
Symphony Concert To Be Given Soon
The University of Kansas Symphony orchestra will present its thirty- sixth annual mid-winter concert Jan 12. The program will consist of miscellaneous symphonic numbers. Charleen Barber, fa39, violinist and concert-master, and Arlouine Goodhun, fa40, mezzo-soprano will appear in solo numbers during the concert.
The feature of the concert will be Schuberts "Unfinished Symphony." The music in "Blossom Time" was derived from this symphony. The score was performed and this score performed; it was found after his death in manuscript form.
The University Symphony String Quartet and the University Symphony Woodwind Quartet will assist the Symphony. The String Quartet members are: Charlene Barber, fa 39, first violin; Paul Stonar, fa 40, second violin; Lola Higley, ed'uclai; surai Mohler, fa 41, cello.
The members of the Woodwind Quartet are: Alex Fieldier, c39, first flute; Helen Rue, c39, second flute; Michael Bauer, c42, third flute; Clairet, Jean Moyer, fa42, 58.
New Economics Courses Announced by Stockton
A course in sales promotion with two hours credit will be included among the four new courses to be offered by the department of economics, Dean Frank Stockton of the School of Business announced yesterday.
Other courses give two-hour credit are business reports, which will deal with the principles and technique of effective data; and economic and accounting systems, the course will open to graduate students only.
The course in savings and trust functions, the general descriptive course in marketing and the gradual introduction to transportation have been discontinued.
Graduate Named Chemistry Head
Dr. Charles A. Kraus, '98, this week assumed the presidency of the American Chemical Society, an organization of some 20,000 members. Doctor Kraus, the fourth graduate of the University to become president of the society, is known to science for research which made possible the commercial production
of ethyl gasoline and also research leading to the development of pyrex glass and ultra-violet lamps. At the present time he is professor of chemistry and director of research laboratory, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Other Kansas graduates who held the presidency of the American Chemical Society were John Harper Long, 77, who was president in 1900; Robert S. Smith, 88, president in 1923, and E. R. Weldon, 90, who was honored in 1937.
In addition to these graduates, two men who had been members of the University faculty held the presidency. They were L. V. Redmond, H. H. Bradley, and Edward Bartos, 1809 to 1913, and Edward Bartos, who taught here from 1897 to 1905.
County Bar Association Has Dean Moreau as Speaker
Dean F. J. Moreau, of the School of Law, spoke before the Montgomery County Bar Association at the opening of the new building in Independence Monday evening.
The topic on which Dean Moreau spoke was "The Reception of Statute Law by the Courts." The president of the Kansas State Bar Association, I. N. Platt, of Junction City, also spoke at the meeting, Warren B. Grant, president of the Montgomery County Bar Association, presided at the banquet and meeting, held at the Booth hotel.
NOTICE
All students interested in the approaching Independent Student Association activities should attend a meeting in the Memorial Union lounge at 8 p.m. Thursday. A report will be heard from the delegates that attended the Purdue convention during vacation. Plans are to be outlined and discussed presently at the National Convention to be held here this spring.
CHARLES ALEXANDER Nat'l. chairman of L.S.A.
Jayhawker Contest Winners Saw Stars
NUMBER 60
Two weeks ago, Dorothy Jam Willetts, ed.39, and James Morris, c'40, arrived at the Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles, a result of having won a beam guessing contest sponsored by the Jayhawker magazine. As a prize, the two winners were given the week's free trip to Hollywood, plus $20 each, and a planned itinerary around the movie capital.
The first morning, the pair went to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer location, and saw Jeanette MacDonald making "Broadway" Serendale." Mickey Rooney's latest production, "Huckleberry Finn," was also being
filmed while they were there. The next day they visited Columbia Picture lot where Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson were making a scene for the forthcoming production of "Big Town."
"D. J." and "Jim" had lunch at the Warner Brother's restaurant, before watching Bette Davis filming "Jaurez," and seeing a cowboy fight starring Errol Flynn in "Dodge City."
The couple also visited Grauman's Chinese theater, the Santa Anita race track, the Rose Bowl, and the Riverside Mission Inn.
Jimmy Joy To Play At Soph Hop
★ Popular Dance Band's Tour Has Been Changed so that It Can Appear Friday
"We had formerly been unable to get joy, but his tour has been resulted, and so he will play his one night engagement her Friday," said
The leader is not only an accomplished clarinet player, but is also an expert performer with trumpet, axophone, and trombone.
Jimmy Joy and his popular dance band will play for the Sophomore Hop in the Memorial Union ballroom. Friday night from 9 o'clock until 1, it was announced yesterday by Don Wood, student dance manager.
Vocalists Featured
The band boasts a good staff of vocalists, with Bonnie Parsons and Ken Nealy as featured soloists, and several glee club arrangements with the entire orchestra taking singing parts. "Cigar" Higgins songs comedy selection somewhat in the manner of Glen Gray's "Pee-Wee" Hunt. Joy does the stallard seem seen on the wrist fans, of playing two clarinets at once. Most of the other members of the band double on other instruments, thereby providing variety and chance for novel interpretation.
Tickets on Sale
Joy's crew has recently played engagements at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, the William Penn Hotel and Steven's house to make cake and Stevens hotels in Chicago.
Tickets may be obtained in advance at the desk in the lounge of the Union building, at the University business office, and at Bell's offices in advance. Tickets are $1.75 date or stag. The price will be $2.00 at the door.
Eitner Presents Faculty Recital
Miss Olga Elitner, violinist, presented her faculty recital in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall last evening. She was accompanied by Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of piano.
Joining the School of Fine Arts faculty next semester, Miss Eitner will take over the studio work of Prof. Waldemar Geltch who is leaving soon to spend several months in Europe.
Miss Either plays the viola as well as the violin and for some time she occupied first chair in the viola section of the Women's Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ethel Legniska. In her appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Herman Devitts of the Chicago Evening American, described her appearance there as "tremendously successful, winning an ovation not only from an enthusiastic and understanding public but from the orchestra as well."
She began her study of violin when eight years old, and her progress was such that in a short time she was nailed as a child prodigy, being in much demand for recital work. Later he taught at St. Mary's College in Omaha and for a short time was head of the department of Ottawa University.
There her work was interrupted when she won a year's scholarship at Ibana Conservatory. Later she won scholarships at Bush Conservatory where she remained in the Master's program over wookey for three and a half years.
Miss Eitner's program last evening included: "Sonata in A major" (Brahms), "Albumblatt" (Wagner-Wilhelm), "Rondino" (Eddy Brown) and "Turra Turtle" (Teresa Turra telle) (Wiensiak), and "Hurla Hungarica" (Dolmany).
Crafton and Nuckles Back From National Convention
Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatics, and Rolla Nuckles, instructor of speech, attended the national convention of the Association for the Teachers of Speech held December 27, 2014. Professor Crafton read a paper on "Actions in Oral Interpretation" before the convention. Nuckles attended the meetings for radio teachers.