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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
All Coaches Accept New Positions
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938
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★Hurt of Tulsa U. and Lansing Will Be Aides; Getto Stays To Coach Freshmen
The three men nominated as assistants by Gwinn Henry, new University head football coach, yesterday unanimously accepted their positions.
Getto's contract is for one year "I took the appointment this morning," Getto said. "I talked to Mr. Henry and learned the details of the arrangement, and then I was happy to accept. As freshman coach, I will do my best to drill the new men in all the fundamentals so they will be well prepared for variety football the next year."
Victor Hurt, Tulsa University coach, will train varsity linemen; Mike Getto, present line coach, will take charge of the freshman squad; and Henry Lansing, of Pittsville, Md., will serve as assistant and football scout. Henry said.
Hurt has been awarded a three year contract and will be Henry's chief assistant. "It was too good an opportunity to pass up," he declared yesterday. "I am very much pleased with the set-up at Kanass and I'll be happy to work with Gwinn Henry, my old coach."
Coach Gwinn Henry appears pleased with his new appointment which came after a five-hour meeting of the Athletic Board Wednesday and four of four from the University Board of Regents also attended the meeting.
"I appreciate the confidence that the Athletic Board and the Board of Regents has placed in me, to give me an opportunity to improve the present situation of University football," said Henry. "I will begin work now." I hope we make every effort to better our present condition."
Desires, Good Will
He also indicated that he would call a meeting of the freshman and varsity squads before the Christmas vacation and encourage them to come home among them among their home town high schools. Lindsey Congratulates Henry
He explained that his principal efforts now would be to gain the good will of alumni throughout the state, the confidence of the football players and support of the students in bringing new material for the next year.
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Adrian Lindsey, former head coach, removed in favor of Henry, said, "I congratulate Mr. Henry on getting a five-year contract and I wish him success in his new position." He declined to make further comment and gave no indication of his future plans.
Chairman of the Athletic Board, Prof. W. W. Davis, was pleased with the outcome of the meeting "I am very pleased with its outcome, and I appreciate the fine co-operation of all our coaches—their council and their patience."
"I am happy that every member of the Board, the alumni, students, and faculty put the interest of the University before all other considerations. To the best of our ability we discussed the football problem in
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ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
Prof. Otto Miaisser is now working on an invention that will call attention to anyone who slips into the room after class has started. As the tardy student enters the door he will interrupt a photo-electric cell circuit and a phonograph automatically
A pleasant thought for the day is always a nice way to start out a column—even if it's about somebody nobody ever heard of. Here it is: John Randolph Tye is such a big liar that whenever he catches himself telling the truth he tries to lie out of it.
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Will Sing Tuesday
Miss Gladys Swarthout who sings Tuesday evening in Hoch auditorium as the next aftertrace, the University concert course
W.A.A. Members Present Comedy
★Two Women Receive Blazers at Annual Athletic Dinner
"The Night Before Christmas", a comedy farce, was presented by the nitizens of the Women's Athletic Association last night in the Unionuilding at the annual hockey-volesball feed.
Members of the W.A.A. met for the presentation of awards and the initiation of new members into the organization. Mary K. Lattner, ed. 39, president, presided at the meeting, and introduced Miss Rita Hoover, director of women's physical education, who presented the awards.
Geraldine Ulm, ed'40, and Lois Wise; ed'40, were the recipients of blazers, one of the highest awards for women's sports. To earn a blazer, which is a red jacket with "KU" on the side, one must have scored over 1,350 points in women's intramural games.
"KU" letters are awarded for amassing a total of 600 points in intramural athletics. Letters were given to: Virginia Bell, e4; l14; Renna Grizzell, c4; Julia Ruth Huth, e4; l04; Holfman, h5; l14; Curtis Leese, c4; Betty McVey, c4; Jane Montgomery, c3; 95; and Margaret Van Cleave, c4.
To be initiated into the W.A.A., a woman must have made at least a "C" average in her last semester's scholastic record, accumulated 125 points in intramural competition, and recommended by the athletic department.
Those initiated last night were: Jane Montgomery, c'4; Ruth Olive Brown, c'4; Ruby Crary, c'3; Betty Ann Sherratt, ed'; Mcully, Mary Lou Randall, c'unc1; Victory Hawkey, ed'; Glacia Rose Koelzer, ed'; Barbara Owen, c'4; Louise Graves, ed'4; Virginia Appell, c'4; Pattie Woodward, c'4; and Barbara Allen, fa'39.
Of their $15 loan from students of the University, the Y.M.C.A. already has $502, it was announced yesterday by the 'Y's executive secretary, John J. O. Moore. The donations are either in cash or pledged. One-third of the membership has not yet been contacted.
M.C.A. Drive For Funds Near Goal, Says Moore
“What has already been contributed,” said Mr. Moore, “six times as much as the amount which was given by students last year.”
$522 of the $550 goal from members of the faculty have already been donated, with a good many reports yet to come in.
Hull Opens Way for Peace Program
★Secretary of State Says
*Menace to Peace of
Western Hemisphe re
Is of Concern to All
Closing its first day's activities it be Memorial Union building yesterday, the Y.W.C.A. Christmas Bazaar and shopping fhoppers in former years.
The unusually large crowds which have been attracted to the bazaar this year are attributed to the fact that it is being held in the main market area. In past years it has been set up in the W.C.A.K. Henley house.
Y.W.C.A. Christmas Bazaar Draws Large Crowds
Homemade candy, made by members of the Y.W., is being sold this year at the bazar. It is according to the Y.W.C.A. president, Eddie Parks, c4, 10 gift which the giver may appropriately give to himself.
Lima, Peru, Dec. 8—(UP)—Secretary of State Cordell Hall tonight warned the world on the eve of the eighth Pan-American conference that a menace to the peace of the western hemisphere is of "utter concern" to every nation of the Americas.
Opening the way for a program of New World solidarity when the parley formally opens tomorrow afternoon, Hull, who is head of the United States delegation, outlined a three-point program for making more effective the measures already underway and imminent on this continent. His program outlined in an international broadcast, included:
1. Securing of world peace.
2. Economic co-operation for the welfare of all American people.
3. Strengthening of international law.
"We shall seek to implant and make more effective the measures already adopted for the maintenance of peace on the American continent." Hull said, "Any menace to us is a matter of concern to all of us."
The secretary of state said it appeared to him there are three major fields in which the conference may hope to strengthen and carry forward the work already begun at other parleys.
"The first," he said, "has to do with the effort to secure peace throughout the world and as a correlate to the preservation of our American institutions and our system of international relations based on peaceful settlement of international disputes.
"We are determined that peace shall be maintained on the American continent and we are in agreement that we are of utter concern to all of us."
Lists Three Fields
Will Develop Trade
Hull said the second field in which the conference may take action concerns co-operation for the welfare of all American people.
The American republics have recorded their intention to develop their international trade on the principle of equality of treatment and to eliminate aggressive and uncooperative barriers to such trade, he said.
Offering a large collection of gifts for sale, the W.Y.C.A. members have arranged articles from China, Russia and Brasstown in various departments.
Students Will Shop In Lawrence
Among the services of the University Daily Kansan are the gift-suggestions appearing in the advertising columns. Lawrence merchants have packed their shelves with items designed expressly for students to give. Their ads make the University Daily Kansan your gift-shopping directory.
In the spirit of the first Christmas, gifts this year will be mailed, shipped, flown, carried by dog-sled and canoe—to every corner of the world—
In a survey conducted by the department of market analysis of the School of Business, it was discovered that 62.5 per cent of students enrolled at the University will buy gifts in Lawrence before going home for the holidays. Three thousand students will exchange thousands of gifts.
A new department consisting of the work of members of Delta Phi Delta, national honorary art fraternity, was added to the bazaar this year. These articles consist mostly of dolls made by the University students. Most of the dolls are each dressed differently and are entirely hand made.
The bazaar will be open until 10 o'clock tonight with the final closing at 5:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Radio Speech Class Plans Moliere Skit
The radio speech class, directed by Rolla Nuckles, instructor of speech and dramas, will present Moliere's "The Doctor In Spite of Himself" Thursday evening at 6 o'clock over KFKU.
The cast chosen from the radio class are: Freed Fleming, c'40; Bob Evans, c'39; Jack Laffer, c'39; Bert Brandt, c'unel; Kenneth Rockhill, c'39; Mary Noel, c'40; Elizabeth Barclay, c'42; and Helen Wilson, c'39. The program will be announced by Jim Robertson, c'40; Assistant director will be Betty Jane Heitmann, c'39; and the music and sound will be under the direction of Mary Jane Schleekey, c'unel.
"The Doctor In Spite of Himself" by one of the greatest French dramatists of the 17th century is the story of Sganarelle, played by Jack Laffer, who finds himself famous as a philosopher. He thought to be speechless and finds that he has become a "doctor in spite of himself."
Business School Grads Find Jobs
*Seventy-four of 1938
Class of Ninety-six Are
Now Employed
Seventy-four of the 96 students who were graduated from the School of Business last spring are employed at practice and have been awarded by that school.
Of the 22 remaining, 12 are continuing in school, and the rest are either unemployed, have secured temporary employment, or could not
The distribution of last year's class geographically is about the same as in previous years. Students are reported to be working or going to school in 12 states and the District of Columbia, ranging from New York to California and from Michigan to Texas. The prevailing state in the United States is the states of Kansas and Missouri, and the Kansas City trade territory.
Members of the class are employed in various types of jobs. The survey indicated that the types of businesses in which the greatest numbers are manufacturing; 6; oil companies; 5; government service; 5; finance and banking; 5; tire companies; 4; public accounting; 3. Three graduates are serving as assistant instructors in the School of Business, and two others are in office jobs connected with universities.
Of the 12 who are continuing study four have gone into law, seven are doing business along economic and business lines, and the other is studying music.
Independent Student Association
Christmas Semiformal at Union, 12
Miller Hall, Christmas Formal at
Hall, 12.
Leo Rhodes, b'40, will substitute for Mastover Kay Kayser Saturday night at the Owl Serech variety to be hold from 9 o'clock until 12 in the Memorial Union ballroom, when an Intelligence Queen will be chosen.
Clyde Smith and his crew will provide the tunes for the affair, which is the last dance before school dismisses for Christmas vacation. The dance is sponsored each year by the Owl Society, junior men's honorary organization, and this year replaces the Christmas Varsity, which is usually held about this time of the year.
Phi Delta Theta, House. 12.
Phi Kappa Psi, Dinner-Dance a House. 12.
Owl Screech Is On Dance Docket
Five comely young ladies will be chosen from the group of dancers, and then will be subjected by Mr. Rhodes to a quiz on swing music in its many phases. The winner of this contest will be crowned Intel- Queen to the accompaniment of the thunderous aplause of all present.
Alpha Kappa Psi, House, 12.
Delta Upsilon, House, 12.
Authorized Parties
Friday
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, House, 12 Saturday
Chirstmas Varsity (Owl Screech) Union Building, 12.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Dinner-Dane at Eldridge and House, 11:30 p.m.
Gladys Swarthout Started Singing Solos When Thirteen
When Gladys Swarthout was 13 years old she pinned up her curts, went to a Kansas City church, calmly announced that she was 19, and asked the choirmaster for a job as solist.
She sang for the choirmaster, and the maturity of her voice dispelled his suspicions as to the accuracy of her singing about her age. He gave her the job.
Miss Swarthout is a Missouri girl who was born at Deepwater and later went to the public schools in Kansas City where she soon attached much attention. A wealthy Kansas City family heard her sing and offered to finance the career of the talented girl. Since then she has sung on the concert and opera stage, for the radio, and in motion pictures.
The story of Miss Swarthout's rice to fame is not a story of struggle and disappointment. Her ability, charm, and beauty speeded her along a path toward the Metropolitan Opera, hindering her a career which includes the Chicago Civic Opera, Metropolitan Opera, coast-to-coast concert tours, and broadcast engagements.
She has starred in four motion
Prof. Mary A. Grant
Speaks to English Majors
Prof. Mary A. Grant of the Classical department was reader at a meeting of the majors of the department of English Thursday afternoon. Introduced by Prof. W. S. Johnson of the department of English, Professor Grant gave a short statement concerning conditions in Greece during the life of the philosopher Scorates and about the nature of ancient Greece, then read in English his defense of himself before the Athenian judges.
Prof. M. W. Sterling, also of the classical department, was to have recited the defense; owing to a sud- dered study, he eloquish his part on the program.
Dudley. Buck's oratorio, "The Coming of the King" will be presented at the First Methodist Episcopal Church at 10:45 Sunday morning by the vested Wesleyan Chorus, composed of 65 University students, under the direction of Dorothy Enlow Miller, B.M.
Wesleyan Student Choir To Sing
Solists will be Mary Lowe Beatie, be41; Helen Meyer, fa39 Elen Shafer; Richard O'Donnell c39; Ray Wright, gr; Bill Henderson c39; Bail Milles, fa42; Ergene Crabb, funct, and Hartling b40.
The program will be as follows:
Soprano: "O Jerusalem, Look About Thie";
*thee*; "Awake! Put On Thy Strength, O Zion"; alto and tenor;
*The Annunciation*; male chorus;
*The Caravan of the Magi*; female chorus tenor, full chorus;
*The Plains of Bethlehem*; bass male chorus; soprano: "The departure of the Shepherds"; alto: "The Virgin's Lullaby"; bass and male chorus: "The Questioning of the Magi*; soprano and baritone: "The Adoration*; and women's chorus, and full choir: "Adeste Fidesc" Benediction and Seven Fold Amen.
Huxman Addresses Phi Alpha Delta
“If the ideals of young lawyers continue to be sound, American ideals will be preserved,” stated Gov. Walter A. Huxman last night when he spoke at the Phi Alpha Delta initiation banquet in Wiedemann's Grill room. The speaker was introduced by Elmer Goering, T39, president of the local chapter of P.A.D.
The following were initiated: Marcel Pugh, l'39, and Alfred Anderson, l'40.
The Governor spoke before 35 members of the fraternity and the law faculty. The banquet was held not of newly inducted members.
Topekans Hear Nuckles
Rolla Nuckle, instructor of speech and dramatics, spoke before the Civic Group in the Mulvane Theater at Topeka Wednesday night. He then directed a finished Production" and gave a cutting from the play "Bury The Dead."
pictures, "Rose of the Rancho, "Give Us This Night," Champagne Waltz," and "Romance in the Dark." At the time of her engagement with the Chicago Civic Opera company, Gladys Swarthorth did not know a single complete operatic role. She had sung in concert and made great contributions to make an attempt at opera. Finally the friends took matters in their own hands and arranged an audition for her in Chicago.
She went there, sang a few of the operatic arias she had learned for her concert repertoire, and a few days later was amazed when offered a contract for the following season. Then from a small off-stage part she rocketed to fame and success. Miss Swarritt's husband is Frank Chapman, Jr., a son of the dean of American Museum of Natural History in New York. The two have a home in Beverly Hills, Calif., which they remodeled as a French provincial man.
Tuesday night in Hoch auditorium Gladys Swarthout will present her third concert at the University.
Independents Dance Tonight
★Semi-Formal Party Will Be Heated In Memorial Union at 8:30
With the lights dimmed, the setting perfect and a good orchestra, the independents will invigorate the audience with their music in the Memorial Union building.
After much thought to an affair such as this it was decided by members of the organization to start more activity for the independent students. Henry Werner, adviser to men, in a statement earlier this week said that he thought this idea would be of great benefit to the students and that tonight would be "brown as Independents' Night.
With all the gaiety of Christmas planned for the party, the majority of unaffiliated students are expected at the dance.
The dance is the first step to organize the greater portion of independent students in preparation for the coming Independent Student Association convention which is to be held in March.
A large attendance is expected because of the lack of entertainment for independent students as not all members not having parties tonight.
Hereforde all independent social events have been more or less "get-ogethers" but the event tonight will be the first attempt at having
The admission price will be 25 cents and the dance will be semiformal.
Decorate Union For Open House
The main lounge of the Memorial Union building will be fitted dressed in gay Christmas attire Saturday, as preparations are getting under way for the Union Open House to be held Wednesday afternoon. The decoration committee of the student activity board is busy arranging and stringing lights on a 12-foot Christmas tree which will be anchored near the center of the room. Numerous green sprigs and wreaths will add finishing touches in portrayal of Christmas greenery. Plants for the Open House Wednesday are not yet completed; however, the committee has arranged for a musical program, in which group singing and various selections by Ross Robertson's choir are among other attractions. Doughnuts and wassail (old-fashioned English hot spice cider) will be served.
'TIL CHRISTMAS VACATION
Jayhawks Invade Enemy Lair Tonight
By Jay Simon, c'uncl
★Two Champion Teams Meet I n Dedicatory Brace of Games A t Stillwater
If we could just change nicknames with Haskell for today, I'd say the Kansas cagers are going to play "Cowboy and Indian" for the next two nights in Oklahoma A. and M's new half-million dollar basketball corral.
The Jayhawkers, 19 strong,
board the Rock Island "Rocket"
at 8:43 this morning and head
for Soonerland where they
tangle with Henry Iba's Oklahoma Aggies at 8 o'clock tonight. The second half of the doubleheader will be completed tomorrow evening.
Champions of the Big Six and Missouri Valley conferences will take the floor to dedicate Stillwater's magnificent gymnastium, but both teams will be missing valuable members from the outfits that last year capped their respective league titles.
Looking For Another Pralle
The Jayhawkers lost only two men but how those losses hurt. Coach F. Allen is putting on a one-man Sherlock Holmes' exhibition looking for a guard that can fill the shoes of all-American Fred Pralle, and he might even furnish a little cotton to stuff his jacket. Schmidt, half-year quarterback, was dumb about sophomore Bob Allen is coming along in fine style.
Coach Allen has the team pretty well schooled in the defensive department, but with the possible exception of Howard Engleman the officer of finesse and of finesse. Pralea's dozen points a game would come in mighty better.
Da has only four lettermen back this year, and they all are guards. This indicates that the games should be pretty much along defensive lines.
Have Yet to Beat Kansans
Alen says he will be tickled to death with an even split in the two-game setto. But if the locals drop one it will be the first time Oklahoma A. and M. has beaten Kansas on the court. The Jayhawks have seven decisions to their credit, the most recent a 34 to 28 victory in the sección finals of the Olympic tourney in Kansas City.
Those who are likely to start tonight's fray are George Golay and Bruce Reid, forwards; Don Eling, quarterback; Dick Harp and Bruce Voran, guards. However, sophomores Allen and Engleman are pressing for opening berths and may get the green lights.
Henry Ib is likely to start Danny Doyle and Merle Sheffer at the defensive posts, send one of last year's high scoring guards, Harvey Slade, to forward to team with Arthur Johnson, and turn the pivot over to John Gibbs, sophomore and brother of Warrenstens's Jib Gibbs.
Iba Wins Two Crowns
Last year the Aggies won 25 games while dropping only three and captured their second consecutive Valley bunting. Ia has been coaching at Stillwater only four years, but in his second season he boosted the Cowboys into the runner-up slot and then into first place the next two years. Previously to the advent of warm-ups, the teachers mastrø, Oklahoma A. and M had been the conference doormat in basketball.
Two members of the Jayhawk squad turned in their togs yesterday to devote more time to their
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McCollum Will Speak
To Sociologists, Tuesday
The Sociology Club, a newly
formed organization, will meet at
5:30 Tuesday evening to hear Aug-
ht McCollum, of the Kansas City
School for the Blind. Mr. McColu-
m will bring along his "seeing"
dress and a hat him in this com-
sition. The meeting is for-sociology
majores and faculty members. A
dinner will be served, for which a
charge of 25 cents will be made.