UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 163
VOLUME XXXV
Identity Of 'Ghost' Is Disclosed
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Bob Pearson, Jafkauhoven Editor, Is Author of *Article in Sylribern* Revealing His Past
Submitted Two Articles
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that as far as his office is concerned the whole affair is cleared
The ghost writing activities of Bob Pearson, c39, editor of the Jayhawk year book, yesterday caused a stir among students on the Campus when it was learned that he is the author of an article, "Ghost in the Grade," which appeared in the June issue of Saranbis magazine.
"I do not intend dabbling into Pearson's past writing activities. He saw where he was wrong and quit of his own accord. There is no question of his own personal ability as a student," the dean stated.
Disclosing his business of writing term papers and themes as a means of working his way through two years of school at Kansas City Junior College, the article which appears under the name "Robert E. Shanker" describes students for students who either didn't have the time or ability to prepare them
Pearson's ghost writing first came to the attention of the faculty when he was discussing the matter with an English professor after a student had carelessly spoken of it. The professor told Bob that with his manuscript he should write a manuscript in one of the Scribbler's contests.
He submitted two articles, one dealing with fraternity house life and the other with his ghost writing team. He was accepted.
Does Not Repeat
Happy that he had succeeded in having one of his pieces appear in
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on the SHIN by Hugh Wire and Dorothy Netherston
Phi Bha Kappa key "spirited"
away. What, no announcements?
? . Pome. ? . Rides.
Philosophy. ? . Tarzan.
If by some chance you haven't seen it in the papers, this month's issue of Scribner's contains an article on "Ghost Behind the Grade" by Robert Greenlees, alias Bob Pearson to you. The pseudonym is just Bob's first and middle names. The article was written by the bag-bink and the publisher of the grab-back by the publishers at this time because it was appropriate.
From all the furor that it has caused, and all the free advertising that the Phi Beta Kappa's have gotten, we should think that they would be glad to vote Mr. Pearson into their ranks. The situation has numerous other ghost writers doing little spirit dances of their own. Writing papers for students who would rather go to the show has long been a business for a student's students in college, hence their style at well. Even masters' theses can be had for a price. Judging from the number of Phi Beta Kappa keys that we have seen in the City, maybe Bob was lucky to get the $100 for the article.
There are about 800-old seniors on the Hill who are plenty mad about the Commencement announcements which didn't get here about a week ago. Aunt Minnie and Uncle Burch won't get the darn things until after the shooting is all over if they live more than a whoop and a hole away. But the Law is that they can take pictures at Commencement, so the camera fiends can sing their negative-burners under the sown.
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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1938
Children Are Total Loss,
Says Sociologist P Venoe
Cleveland, May 26- (—) P)-Child are a total loss, economically speaking, believes Dr. Paul Popenoe, eugenist and sociologist.
He said that since the 'an age of industrialized methaneation, a decrease in the birth rate will be capable in the next decade its census.
Cit
parents house a great percet of the population and child are barred from many of them, he added.
He said that as a result of this condition, "the child has no place to play, with mother and father out all day, has no adult-cultural patterns to follow." Such a child never progresses further than the adolescent stage of emotional development, according to Dr. Popeen.
Dr. Popenoe was on the University Campus in March, 1937, and gave three lectures on marital relations and problems of marriage to several dignitaries and general director of the Institute of Family Relations of Los Angeles.
Ninety-five Pass Tests Meet the Committee's English Proficiency Requirements
Ninety-five students of the 120 second-scimer sophomores who took the English proficiency tests required for senior standing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences after Sept. 1, 1939, passed the examination to the satisfaction of the committee in charge.
Those who have met the requirements are:
Mary Alice Gorrill, Louise Gray-
man, Katherine Fitzgerald,
Harn Fryn Hill, Hurry Hill, Marian
B. Horn, Evelyn A. Johnson, Mubiel
Johnson, Earl R. Einken, Robert M
Dorothea Lacey, James G. Lee,
Susan Kirkpatrick, Corinne Martin,
Evalyn McCool, Viola McCool, Mary Jane
McCool, Robert McMatr, Ruth Merr-
ington
Mildred Akers, Crystale Anderson,
Bryce Groski, Wila Baker, L. Rose Budwin,
Larry Blair, Jane Bleaney, Elizabeth
Broadbent, Robert Brady, Robert
Brogert, Brandy
Lois Naylor, Kenneth Mennel II, Michael J. Morton, Gordon O'Brien, Thelma Oyler, Mary Park, Edina May Parks, Emily Carson, Mary Pierce-Joyce Platt.
Theodore L. Raymond, Donna B. Williams, Richard Johnson, Virginia Lee Roach, Virginia Rodriguez, Helen Runyon, Mabel Savage, Robert Sawyer, Scott Faidley, Robert Shaffer
Uarda Sherry, Lutetia Smith
Pauline Nyder, Sylvester
Kramer, William Truman
Frank H. Welch, Patty Woodward
Joseph Zhurak, Francesco Zentymony
Zhratek, and Francine Zentymony
The committee in charge of the proficiency tests was composed of John B. Virtue, associate professor of English, as chairman; Prof. Seba Eldridge of the department of sociology; Prof. Margaret Lynn of the department of English; Prof. Robert Taft of the department of chemistry; and William Howie, assistant instructor in English.
Vernon F. Schwalw, president of McPherson College, will preside at the Thursday meeting, which is to be broadcast jointly by KFKU and WREN. President C. C. Ellis will be the speaker.
Brethren Church Will Convene
CSEP STUDENTS
Sessions will be held in Hoch auditorium with some of the women's meetings in Fraser theater. A score or more of classrooms, chiefly in Marvin hall, will be reserved for committee meetings.
MARTHA TILLMAN.
Executive Secretary
Final time reports are due at the CSEP office by noon of June.
The one hundred fifty-second annual conference of the Church of Brethren will draw from three to five thousand members to the University campus, it was said yesterday. The conference opens June 8, and closes June 14. The principal meeting will be held the evening of June 9.
To and From
SAM ANDERSON
ULRICH POHLENZ
Samuel Follett Anderson, c38. Chanute, and Ulrich Pohlenzih, Hamburg, Germany, will be German exchange scholars next year. Anderson will study German language and literature at the University of Munich Polhien hopes to study means o overcoming business depressions
All seniors may obtain their invitations today at the business and are requested to get immediately.
SENIOR INVITATIONS
GRANT COWHERD President, Senior Class.
GRANT COWHERD.
The Duke Loves Pictures; That’s Why His Are So Good
'Laws' Write Bar Journal Articles
In pictures of happenings at the University appear in all of the papers of the United States and, if so, at what intervals?"
Thirty-nine University Students Prepare Notes Features, Comments for May Issue
The third article deals with a conveyance as a will or testament. The remaining notes and comments were prepared in conference with members of the school faculty and deal with such subjects as bank nights at theaters, liability for improper medical treatments, redemption from Home Owners Loan Corporation, mortgages, and relief by injunction against usurious contracts.
"Hardly a day goes by but what
By John Hill, c'40
Among the subjects of constitutional character discussed by various groups of students are the following: "Unlawful Governmental Expenditure"
His ability to get pictures was later proved when he displayed photos of a Dunkard convention. This may mean little to some persons, but the Dunkards are a group whose religious code absolutely restricts the appearance of their members in a photograph.
His full name is A. P. D'Ambra. He was born on the Island of Capri, in the Gulf of Naples, in the year 1850, entered the United States when only 18 months old, joined the University from Philadelphia and the University from Washington University in St. Louis to be an instructor in the R.O.T.C. department in 1621. In 1925 he left his position on the Hill and established a commercial photography studio in Lawson, which operates the same concern today.
Thirty-nine law students participated in preparation of the articles Two articles and all of the comments and notes in the issue were prepared under the supervision of Prof. J. B. Smith, and most of them deal with various phases of constitutional law.
Almost every student . . . w a Duke D'Ambra, local photographer, well enough to about H. "Piuke," when they see him rushing about the Campus with his lack camera box and tripod. The crowds at football games get dart up and down the sideline getting choice "shots," organizations call on him to take group pictures, and he is somewhere near the center of attraction every important occasion on the Hill.
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The May issue of the Kansas Bart Journal, publication of the Kansas Bar Association, contains three principal articles, seven comments, and nine case notes prepared by members of the second and third year classes of the School of Law. The University of Kansas College has one leading article.
"Every picture affords me a thrill," he answered, turning quickly in his chair. "I have taken every type of picture imaginable-hard ones and easy ones. The hardest to get permission to take was one of the famous Companionate Bride who was dancing in a local theater. For two days she had been featured as a sensation without a name, then the news broke--she was the famous Josephine Roselle whose husband was a student on the Hill. All of the papers wanted a picture. I faa picture from the University appears somewhere in the world."
"To me, photography is everything—it is my avocation, my supreme desire. If I had all the money in the world, I would still be taking pictures," said Duke in an interview at his studios yesterday morning.
The Kansas Bar Journal is finishing its sixth year of publication. It goes to every member of the State Bar Association and has a wide distribution among law libraries throughout the country. It is published under the directorship of W. E. Weite, secretary of the association, with one member from each law school of the state serving as an advisory board.
Cover Law Subjects
"What picture gave you the most thrill in taking," he was asked.
"That is very hard to do, but
"I remember quite distinctly Clyde
Tombaugh who discovered the
planet Pluto, and a real Russian
count who was discovered playing
through the strange station. In the field of sports Glenn
Cunningham ranks at the top, with
Jim Bauch second."
"Will you name a few of the out-
standing students who have attended
the University while you have been
here?" he was asked.
Duke keeps a huge scrapbook. It is really an authentic and complete photographic history of Campus events since 1925. After leaving through the entire book and carrying it to the back room, Duke again stained, "I take pictures because I love it." His pictures show that.
Professor Crafton Writes Book in His Spare Time
The volume is an outgrowth, he says, of the University course he teaches, called "Theory and Practice of Directing." Twice in the past this has happened, resulting in a book on acting and one on the general subject of play production. He's been watching the show three time, too, so anything can happen.
Plays Illustrate History
The present work deals with the qualifications and problems of the amateur or semi-professional director—the managing genius of the college or little theater group. The contention is: If you want to be a successful director of actors (in your home town, perhaps), you must know something besides a few common-places about acting.
Equipped first with an "apitude for the theater—meaning "imagination, emotional capacity, social instinct, and theater sense" the director himself with pretty intensive and extensive training. Study of the history
Outstanding among the year
Campus mysteries was the class-
room murder perpetrated by artist
Carol Johnson, c28, in the June
issue of the Sour Owl. Most mis-
terious about the whole thing, how-
ever, was the solution to the mystery.
The problem was to have been
solved on page 10 of the issue, but
wasn't.
Murder Mystery
Muddle Solved
By Bowl Editor
By Richard MacCann, c 40
Apparently Prof. Allen Crafton isn't content with directing three plays this year and staging four, besides doing regular classroom drama in the department of speech and dramatic art has just finished a new book about "Play Directing."
By Richard MacCann, c'40
Kansas Lags In Attention
Now comes Editor James Coleman, c'38, with the assurance that the problem actually has a solution, and lets Kansan readers in on it first. The murderer was "Bernie," who wrote that the kid was a recording to Johnson, Bernie put strychnine on the thumbs concluding of the text, and the Phi Beta Kappa was the only student conscientious to thumb through the entire text. So another perplexing problem is solved by the Sour Owl while the remainder of the students are in room solving still deep nuzzlers.
Moore Says Mineral
And Agricultural
Resources Need Interest
"Research is necessary not alone in the petroleum industry, and in the minerals we get from the earth, but also in the products of Kansas fields." Doctor Moore said the principal purpose of the visit to the East was to learn what was being done in other states to utilize raw materials.
"We were particularly anxious to learn to what extent it would be possible to process Kansas raw materials before they get to market, thus shipping them out of the state as finished products."
Senior Is Awarded Prize For Ability in German
Kansas should give increasing attention to research into its mineral and agricultural resources, the comment of Dr. R. C. Moore, state geologist and professor of geology at the University, who accompanied the Kansas Chamber of Commerce on its recent trip into eastern states.
"We found in every big industrial plant a well organized research department," said Doctor Moore. "This emphasized the fact that Kansas must do even more research into the materials it produces, and seek to learn how they may be best prepared for market.
Virginia Quiring, C83 is the winner of the annual prize of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia. This year the prize consisted of a set of the works of A. Sifter, nineteenth century prose writer.
The foundation awards every year a complete set of the works of one of Germany's representative writers or poets to a member of the senior class who has been majoring in German, and who has done outstanding work in the field of German language and literature.
of the theater, reading many plays, actual work in acting and in stagecraft, plus a thorough cultural background—these are the essential fields of preparation, according to Professor Crafton.
As to the problems to be met when the work begin, the aspiring director will find in this book many of the answers. Here are suggestions and axioms based upon lengthy experimentation and presentation. Mr. Cratton knows.
There are several details of especial interest. There is a list of 53 plays "illustrating the history and development of the theater." The chapter on "The Form of Production" includes as an example the author's detailed conception of the soliloquy scene from "Hamlet." Last of the chapters is a group of questions about the character of the everpresent royalties to love scenes and six-course dinners. There is, finally, a series of photographs, including a few of University productions, notably "Juno and the Payne," "Androcles and the Lion," "Hamlet" and "False Gods."
Wrote Other Books
A little about the author
He has also written "Self-Expression Through the Spoken Word," with Mrs. Crafton. Before that there
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Mexico May Pay for Oil
Situation Is Not Rosy but Survey Indicates That Prospects at University Are Better Than Over Nation as Whole; Officials Blame Economic Conditions for Employment Shrinkage
Washington, May 25. - (UPI) A plan under which the Mexican government would compensate American oil companies for properties it expropriated was submitted to the state department today by Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Naiera.
Immediate prospects for the class of '38 in obtaining jobs are better at the University of Kansas than the prospects over the nation as a whole, yet the job situation is not as rosy as it was for University seniors last year.
According to the survey made recently by the Kansan, jobs are approximately 20 per cent fewer than last year although starting salaries are about the same. The national situation shows jobs to be from 10 to 60 per cent fewer than last year
Najera submitted the proposal to Under-Secretary of State Summer Welles upon returning to the capital from Mexico, where he conferred with President Lazaro Cardenas. The plan, Najera said, will be transmitted by the state department to the oil companies involved.
He declined to disclose details of the proposal, but said that it embraced methods of guaranteeing the compensation agreed upon.
Outlook for Job Placement Is Fair
Prague, May 27 (Friday) – (UP) Czechoslovakia's frontier crisis boiled with new complications early today as the government prepared to lodge representations in Berlin against the border "violations" in which partisans of the pro-Kremlin blocs were said to have encountered German bombers over Czech territory.
Czech's Prepare To Lodge Protest
By David E. Partridge, Publisher
Circles close, to the government said that steps would be taken today to call Germany's attention to the incident involving the bombers.
The situation assumed deeper gravity when Germany's official news agencies questioned the sincerity of the Czech allegations and said they were designed to "save face with their agencies suggested that the Czechs drew up their charges in order to have a counter-claim.
'Sod and Stubble' Show Into Third Performance
Saturday, May 28, 7:30 p.m.
A third performance of the marionette version of Prof. John Isle's "Sod and Stubble" has been scheduled by the Public School Art Method class to perform and will well accommodate the 'sators.' The schedule of performances now is:
Saturday, June 4, 10:45 a.m.
All performances will be in the auditorium of central Frank Strong ball.
Sweetheart Slayer Insane.
Sav Two Psychiatrists
New York, May 26—(UP)—Two psychiatrists swore today that UP-did Carroll was "insane" when he shot his 18-year-old sweetheart, because she was about to have a baby and two swore he was same.
The defense and the state rested and prepared to send the fate of the 16-year-old high school youth to the jury tomorrow.
Toledo Cuts Automobile Deaths
Toledo (UIP) - Fatal auto accidents in this city of 300,000 were cut in half during the first quarter of 1938. There were only 10 fatalities in this period.
NOTICE
Librarian
Students are reminded that the library will not be open Sunday night, May 29.
C. M. BAKER,
N.Y.
WASSERMANN TESTS
Twenty-five students were given tests Wednesday.
Fifteen students had then Wassermann tests yesterday.
The total number of tests now given is 1,643.
The Wassermann tests are free until June 3.
Have you had yours?
with starting salaries unchanged, according to a survey of 78 universities made by the Northwestern Life Insurance company.
From 75 to 90 per cent of the 900 University of Kansas seniors will be placed by next fall, according to the boards of departments and placement bureaues. The board indicated that only from two-thirds to three-fourths of the graduating seniors of the nation's universities were expected to be employed by fall.
General economic conditions are blamed by University officials as being largely responsible for the shrinkage in employment activity. Several express the opinion that many industries are not expanding, possibly even cutting down, until they have some definite indication regarding the attitude of the federal government toward private industry. This opinion was substantiated in an interview with the personal manager of a large automobile manufacturer who said that his firm and several others were cutting down in order to force favorable action by the government, even though they were behind on production.
Not all departments or schools in the University maintain organized placement bureaus for majors, many of which are handled through the Teachers Placement Bureau. Seven of these bureaus are maintained by funds prohibited such activity although many make an effort to place their majors.
The School of Business Placement Bureau, with an excellent record in placing seniors, is headed by Dean Frank T. Stockton who is trying to place 108 seniors this year. He indicates that calls for seniors are about the same as last year and that starting salaries are about the same. Accounting and sales jobs are most abundant in the education field. About 30 to 35 per cent of the School of Business seniors have definite employment now and he estimates 80 per cent will be employed by fall.
The School of Engineering and Architecture Placement Bureau is seeking employment for 100 seniors, for which the number of calls is only about 45 per cent of those received last year. Starting salaries for engineering jobs are about the same. Approximately 38 per cent of the salaries it is estimated that 75 to 80 per cent will be employed by next fall. The demand for seniors is about the same in each field of engineering.
Salaries Higher for Teachers
The calls for seniors are a little better than last year in the teaching profession, according to H. E. Chandler, head of the Teachers' Placement Bureau. Starting salaries also range from 8 to 10 per cent better than last year, and from 25 to 30 per cent last year. While only 10 to 20 per cent of the more than 150 seniors handled by the bureau have positions for next year, Chandler estimates that 75 to 80 per cent will be employed by fall. Teachers of music, commerce, home economics, manual arts, and athletic coaches are in the greatest demand so far this year, although it is too early to tell if they will be available for next year. There is less demand this year for teachers of foreign languages and social science.
"In education students must realize that many new types of education are appearing which demand new types of training." Chandler said. "Adult education, night schools, extension courses, nursery schools, educational library work, visiting teachers, guidance experts, education for handicapped children, etc., are all new fields. Probably many persons now in training should be thinking of these and other new fields
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