UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXVI
NUMBER 11
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1938
Religious Leaders Will Come to Hill
University Authorities Keep Week of Oct. 23 Clear for Christian Mission
Religious leaders of national and international renown will make up the University Christian mission which is to come to the University Campus October 23-28. University authorities are keeping the week as clear as possible of all other activities.
Included in the party of visiting religious workers will be E. Stanley Jones, evangelist of the Methodist Episcopal church in India; T. Z. Koo, secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation of America; and president of the Chicago Theological seminar; Herrick B Young, secretary of missionary personnel for the Presbyterian church; Jesse M. Bader, executive secretary of the department of evangelization of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; national student secretary in the Northern Baptist Convention; and others.
The work of the mission is sponsored by a special grant, leaving only local expenses for the institutions where the mission appears. The mission group opens its program at Oregon State College at Corvallis the week preceding its appearance at the University.
Leaders of the mission will occupy pulpits of Lawrence churches the opening day of the mission and that evening there will be a public meeting. Monday through Friday will be a succession of classroom seminars, no luncheon with faculty and student groups, a dinner meetings with fraternities, sororites and semi-organized groups.
Some of the seminar topics and the leaders assigned include: "The Meaning of the Christian Faith," T. Z Koo; "Cultivation of the Spiritual Life," E. Stankey Jr; "Christian Vocation," Harold A. Ehrensperger; "Christian Living in Social Relations"; Winnifred Wygal, secretary of the labor division of the nation; Y.W.C.A.; "Christian Marriage"; Mrs. Mildred Inake Morgan of the Iowa Civic Iowa; and "The Work and Mission of the Christian Church," Paul J. Braised, executive secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement.
by jimmy robertson
on the... SHIN
Noise made by Matt Benton and a few boys masquerading as musicians was exceeded only by that of some Milking machines on the sidelines last Friday night which resulted in Matt's winning the Rythm Rodeo.
An advanced English composition teacher was late to her 9:30 class Friday morning because she did not know there was a convaction. She explained that she will not subscribe to the KANSAN so long as this vulgar column clutters up its pages. Bet she's just being an old sour-grapes because her name never appears here .
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Tom Reames and Gene Harris pulled a fasty on the Gamma Phi not long ago about which they aimn't atlinkin much. They need and told us that we were a group of students from Northwestern eager for some dates, adding that they were well acquainted with Gamma Phi in old Chicago
Passing themselves off as "Legs" Ulrich and Jack Johnson, the boys collected Shirley Jane Ruble and Jane West, then fled to the Jayhawk. For more than an hour friends passed by hello-ing to Tom and Gene before the girls got wise. Heigh-ho.
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Critics may not pay nearly as well as it did in 1932, but Bob Pearson, ex-ed of the Jayhawker who exposed himself as a ghost writer in Scribern's last spring, is now in New York editing a Shell trade
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Student's Hand,
Not His Whiskers,
Slashed by Razor
If some inventor had wasted his talents inventing a better mouse-trap than his neighbor instead of inventing a razor blade holder that makes an all-purpose tool out of an old razor blade, and if Clifford Nesschrode, c'uncel, was different from most people and don't like to work with them, the workman work, he wouldn't be carrying his arm around in a sling. It all happened when Clifford was watching a workman scrape paint off a window pane with a patented scraper made of an old razor blade. He was merely giving the workman some pointers when the blade slipped. Result: A severed wound on the back of his right hand.
Many Drivers Want to Park
Two Hundred Forty Students Apply for Licenses
Two hundred and forty applications for University parking licenses were accepted by the student parking committee Monday. The tags may be obtained today from Henry Werner, advertisement of men.
Price of the parking tags is twenty-five cents and they must be purchased for all automobiles parked in the designated zones on the Hill. No applications reviewed by the committee were refused, but there are many more which have not yet been examined.
"It has not been possible to accommodate all drivers by allowing them tags in the district they desired." Bill House, 139, chairman of the student parking committee, announced yesterday. "But the licenses were granted according to the needs of the drivers as could best be determined by the applications."
In Zone I, behind Frank Strom,
hall four licenses were granted;
in Zone II, by Fraser hall, there
were six licenses apportioned; in
Zone III, behind the Watson library,
52 tags were given out; and 176
have been granted in Zone IV, behind
Maryn hall.
On Monday morning all parking regulations will become enforceable.
Members of the student committee besides House are: Harry Wiles, bm39; Richard McMillen, 173; Joyce Vetter, fa39; Lucille McVey, fa39; and Delos Woods, c'40.
Sour Owl Goes On Sale Friday
The Sour Owl, Campus humor magazine, will be placed on sale Friday. This issue will be devoted to the freshman class.
It depicts in a humorous fashion the somewhat hectic first few weeks of the freshman at the University through the medium of cartoons, features, photographs, short stories and numerous jokes.
This year's Owl, according to Dick LaBan, c'38, will feature more cartoons and short humorous features on Campus life than ever before.
In Vincent Davis, c. 39, LabBon believes he has uncovered an ace humorist. Several of his articles will discuss the freshman Lampooning issue.
Kansas Players Select 'Liliom' as First Drama
To Feature Kansas Band In Parade
The play, a portrayal of the lower life of pre-war Budapest, ranks high in modern literature of the stage. Its seven scenes will be adequately and quickly set by means of a revolving stage now under construction by Don Dixon, stage technician for Fraser theater. The value of the novel scene shifting was proven last year in the productions of "Beggar on Horseback" and "Elizabeth the Queen."
University Group Will
Play at Annual Fall 1
Downtown Windo w
Unveiling
The University band will be featured in the seventeenth annual Lawrence Fall Window Unveiling and Style Show which will be held tomorrow night. The band will lead up to the opening of the Music Hall and down Massachusetts street.
When the Haskell organization arrives, the Junior High School band will continue the parade by marching northward. The Dorsey-Liberty post American Legion drum and bugle corps will leave the bridge when the Junior high group arrives, with South Park as its goal.
The Liberty Memorial High School band will end the parade by marching northward to the bridge.
A contest to guess the value of merchandise displayed in various store windows will also be staged. Fifty stores are expected to take part.
Rolla Nuckles, instructor in the department of speech and dramatic art, will direct the production. He stated that the "Glaser" translation which will be used is the same as used by the New York Theater
Scheduled to leave South Park at 7:45 p.m. the park will march to the Kaw river bridge, playing at intersections. When it reaches the bridge, the Haskell Institute band will take over and will march to South Park
By Frederic Fleming, csp
The choice of "Lilium," one of Ferece Molnar's more famous plays, for their first production in the 38 season by the Kansas Players, was announced last night by Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic art.
There is no limit on the number of windows upon which a person may guess or on the number of prize which may be won by any individual
The University will go "on the air" over a national hock-up Nov. 2, when it celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of its existence. The program, which will be broadened upon WREN, will be given at 10:30 p.m.
Some stores will have variations on the guessing idea, such as asking persons to guess the number of beans in a jar.
The program sub-committee of the seventy-fifth anniversary committee, which is composed of University executives and faculty members and WREN officials, met yesterday and decided upon the coast-to-coast program. This program will be preceded by a dinner-program to commence at 7 o'clock.
Tentative plans for these programs include as speakers William Allen White, Kansas author and edi, President Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago, and Chancellor E. H. Lindley.
Fred C. Black of Lawrence is chairman of the committee on arrangements.
Persons who compete in this contest will be asked to obtain entry blanks from the store and place their guesses as to the value of the merger. Those who make the most nearly correct guess will be awarded prizes
The sub-committee appointed a special committee on details and program which will be composed of Verl Bratton of WREN; Prof. Allen Crafton; Harold Ingham, director of the extension division; and Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association.
Will Broadcast Celebration
WEATHER
For today and tomorrow, continue fair; slightly lower temperature
guild in the world premier of "Lilium."
Mr. Nuckles announced the times for try-outs as 7:30 tomorrow night, and the place as the Little theater of Green hall. The following partial cost will benefit those desiring leisure time regarding the parts available.
The play, which depicts the testing and trial of a man's soul in this world and the next, shows also how a man, low even as Lilium, can be raised by the love of a woman such as Julie.
Lilium—neer-do-well of a Budapest amusement park; Julie—a maid of all work, sincerely in love with Lilion; Marie—a simple country girl; Mrs. Muskut—the haridian who owns the merry-go-round. You must be a student of the Budapest slums; Wolf—the doorman of an apartment house; Mrs. Hollunder-Julie's aunt, a photographer, the Carpenter.
Hitler Sets Zero Hour At 10 O'Clock Today
Three Pledge Support To Czechs
By United Press.
Probable lineup of nations at war
Great Britain, France and Russia are committed to aid Czech-Slavakia. These combined populations total about 283,000,000.
Italy is committed to aid Germany; between them they muster about 118,000,000 people, Japan, although a member of the Rome-based group she would like to remain neutral with her 70 million subjects.
Probable neutrals are Sweden, Norway, Finland, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland-if their frontiers are respected—and this category also includes the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Switzerland and Belgium hold neutrality pledges from the bigger newers.
Among the smaller Europeans powers the probable allies of Britain and France include Roanum, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece. Probable allies of Germany and Poland, India, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Portugal, surrounded by Fascist Spain, probably would be sympathetic to Germany but her traditional ties to Britain and her exposed position might force her onto Britain's side. Spain, of course, would be divided, with Insurgents favoring the Fascist power and Loyalists favoring Britain and d'France.
An interesting probability is that a European war might end the Spanish war quickly. It has been suggested that French Colonial troops would be coated from Africa through Spain, behind the present Spanish Insurgent front. The Insurgents thus might be overwhelmed and the Civil War resolved into a Loyalist victory which would relieve about one million Spanish Loyalists troops, all of them seasoned fighters, to aid Britain and France.
Doorn, Holland.—The former Kaiser and supreme war lord of Imperial Germany, nearly 80, has followed anxiously every move of the European situation the past few days and is praying that no other World War would be forthcoming.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
TOM TATLOCK,
A haunted house is scarcely the place for a stair-fry. Of course the spirit dead don't mind the smell of cheese and chili, but you need the handcuff to contend with.
Students Find Haunted House Poor Picnic Place
So when eight University students set forth to fry steak on the lawn of a haunted house Saturday night the landlord didn't wait for the spirits to take care of things, he being more or less spirted himself.
He appeared on the scene carrying what four boys thought was a baseball bat or what four girls insisted is a fence post. There ensured a bit of clever repartee which no one thought was funny—especially the students and the landlord. For years, he intruded to the sheriff—and the young people, being University students, naturally pleaded ignorance.
The youngsters were allowed to depart only when they promised to insert a notice in the KAN-SAN and be presented to thequent the place. Which the KAN-SAN will gladly do on receipt of 25 cents and the proper address.
BEAT NOTRE DAME!
There will be a meeting of all Young Democrats of the University in the men's lounge at the Memorial Union building this afternoon at 4:30. All members please be present. Important.
Roosevelt Sends Second Message
Washington, D.C., Sept. 27 — (UP)
—In a message which commentators said might be a turning point in preserving peace, or might be a "voice crying in the wilderness," President Roosevelt late tonight addressed a second message to Congress on the continuation of negotiations for the settlement of differences and the avoidance of resort to arms.
"The question is not a question of errors of the past or injustices of the past, but it is a question of the time when people came and tomorrow," said the President.
"The resort to force in the great war failed to bring tranquility to the world. Victory and defeat were common. The world should have learned its lesson.
"The points I would emphasize are these:
"All matters of difference between the German Reich and the government of Czechoslovakia could and should be settled by pacific methods.
"The threatened war on a scale likely to result in general warfare is unnecessary and unjustifiable. It is supremely necessary that present negotiations continue without interruption until a solution is
"Present negotiations can be continued if you will but give the
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Independents' Day Friday
Newseel, Hour Dance
And Fashion Review
On Program
A Campus newsreel, a fall fashion review, and an hour dance sponsored by the University Independent Student Association will be held Friday in a day of activities known as "Independent Day."
The association, organized last year to give students not in social fraternities or sororities a more balanced life will be in full charge of the events.
The newsrel, first of its kind to appear on the Campus, will portray Hill activities and contain shots of the Jubilesta in Kansas City and the football game with the University of Texas. The pictures will be shown both in morning and afternoon in Fraser theater and is free to everyone. Photographers responsible for the newsrel are Harold Mulligan, c'uncel; Charles Paddock, c'uncel; and Gordon Fielder, c'uncel. In the afternoon fraser will be presented, the dance will be held in Memorial Union building at 7 p.m. Susan Maloney, c'39, is president of the Independent Student Association. Members of the council are: Gordon Fielder, c'uncel; Nancy Fleming, c'uncel; Tom Reames, c'uncel; Terry Lilly, c'uncel; Ray Phelps, b'39; and Bill Dickens, c'uncel.
Appoint Homecoming Chairman
Mr. Arman Woeestmer, "23, of
Lawrence, has been appointed general
chairman of arrangements for
the University Homecoming celebration
which will be held Nov. 5.
Mr. Woeestmer is assistant cashier of
the People's State Bank.
NOTICE
W. S.G.A. will give a tea this afternoon from 3 until 5 in the women's bounce of Frank Strong and many young women are invited to come
NOTICE
There will be an important meeting of all music edubes who are teaching in the Lawrence city schools this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in room 37 of Frank strong hall.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the Jay James at 4:30 this afternoon in the Pine room.
D. J. WILLCUTS,
President.
Europe Prepares For War Deadline
London, Sept. 28, Wednesday — (UP) — Europe plunged headlong toward war today as Great Britain, despairing a peaceful solution of the central European crisis, mobilized her mighty fleet, and Germany, massing her military machine, threatened an immediate march on Czechoslovakia.
Britain in State of Emergency
Two: Hitler, stirred to anger by the British warning was reported to have set 2 p.m. today (10:00 a.m. Wednesday, CST) as the "zero hour" for a solution to the Czech question, and prepared to order his army to march if the solution is not found by that time.
In 24 hours of rapid fire moves these things happened: One: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain asked Fuehrer Adolph Hitler of Germany not to go to war over the Czech issue but warned if Hitler tries to dominate Europe by force, Britain will fight too.
Four: Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy informed his councilor general that there was no longer any hope of preserving peace, announced Italy would fight on the side of Germany, and set the Fascist mobilization machinery in motion.
Three: Britain, which was declared under a "state of emergency"—a prelude to a declaration of war—by order of King George earlier in the day, received news of Hitler's threat to strike at once and immediately ordered mobilization of the British fighting fleet.
Five: Premier Edouard Daladier of France, in an eleventh hour move to stave off war, urged that President Roosevelt offer his services as a mediator in the Czech-German dispute, but little hope was held that it would be accepted.
In view of Hitler's earlier replies to President Roosevelt's message to European powers asking them to find a peaceful way out of the crisis, it was doubted that he would consider any further mediation offers.
French and German Soldiers Again Face
When Chamberlain began his peace address today, the world knew that Europe had reached the last mile-post on the road to war and that this was the final offer of any value that could be made to Hitler.
As dawn broke over the Old War battlefield along the western front, where soldiers fought and died a scant generation ago. France and German soldiers again faced each other a few miles apart on the Maginot and Seigfried lines, awaiting only a signal to start shooting.
"I have done all that one man can do," the slender 69-year-old British statesman said, "for the moment, I can see nothing further that I can usefully do in the way of mediation."
After that events moved with stunning swiftness. Within an hour of Chamberlain's speech, the British foreign office heard that Hitler was planning to march tomorrow, instead of waiting for the deadline for the surrender of the Sudetnland to expire it midnight Friday.
Hitler Angers at Chamberlain's Speech
Chamberlain, in his speech, had said that he was surprised to find during his second conference with Hitler, that the dictator unreasonably wanted the Sudetenland "handed over to him immediately, and immediately occupied by German troops, without previous arrangement to safeguard the people."
Hitler's anger at Chamberlain's speech was reported to be "violent." German troops began rolling through Berlin, anti-aircraft batteries were set up and the Reich was made ready for war.
Hardly a statesman in Europe doubted last night that the zero hour for war—which the world had dreaded since 1918 was at hand. In Rome Mussolini met the generals of his 16 army corps and told them he had abandoned hope of peace.
Dramatic Club Attracts Fifty to Reception
About 50 members and apprentices of the Dramatic Club met in the Little Theatre of Green hall last night for a business meeting and refreshments. Prof. and Mrs. Allen Crafton were introduced to the apprentices and the 20 apprentices were introduced to the members of the club. Lucile Gaynor, vice-president gave a summary of the work that be married to you. To be married secretary, called the complete roll of members and apprentices. Bob Rhode, treasurer, called for the $1 apprenticeship fee. The entire meeting was under the direction of Jack Laffer, president
NOTICE
All these planning to participate in men's intramural touch football this season are urged to attend the meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Hoch auditorium.
DR. E. R. ELBEL, Director.
BEAT NOTRE DAME!
Women Educators Will Get Awards
Pi Lambda Theta, national association for women in education, is announcing three awards for significant research in the field of interest to women educators. The awards of $250 each are to be made March 15, next year. Competition is open to women of graduate standing or any member of Pi Lambda Theta, whether or not engaged in educational work at the present. Only one of the awards, however, may go to a non-member of the organization.
Suggestions for research include "A study of outstanding American women who have achieved distinction in a profession, in community service, or in politics;" "Women as intelligent investors;" "Legislation concerning women's work;" "Propaganda concerning 'women's place.'" Further information about the competition may be obtained from Miss Mateel Rink in the office of the School of Education.
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