UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Jack Laffer Is New Glee Club Head
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Men Singer Choose Officers for 1938 at Annual Banquet; the Chancellor Speaks
Clima ing another year of many activities, the University Men's Gloe Club last night elected officers for the coming year at its annual banquet.
new o.liers of the club are Jack Laffer, c'39; president; Blaine Grinez, c'39; vice-president; Walter Classman, b'39; business manager; Gordon Kohman, e'uncl; librarian; and Louis Foeckle, c'38; publicity director.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley spoke briefly to the club, commenting on its influence among other organizations on the Campus, especially fraternity groups as evidenced in the last inter-fraternity singing contest. He complimented the organization on the progress made in recent years and expressed a desire that it aid in the perpetuation of American folk songs—notably the Negro spirituals. Thanked Retiring Officers
Prof. Joseph F. Wilkins, director of the glee club, thanked the retiring officers for their work and co-operation in making the year a successful one, adding that from now on he will become only "more superior."
"In the fall," he said, "we will present Sigmund Romberg's 'Blossom Time' in conjunction with the University Women's Glee Club. Since there has not been an operetta of this sort on the Campus for some time, it should prove interesting to everyone."
In succeeding Harry O'Riley, b38, as president of the club, Jack Laffler said that through its concert tours the glee club has become known over the past as an outstanding music organization, and that next year an album will be made to bring it before the students more often in an effort to make them equally familiar with its work.
Will Present 'Blossom Time'
The organization provided its own entertainment at the banquet with barber shop renditions of "Down in the Old Cherry Orchard"; "Slew-foot Sue"; "The Deacon Went Down"; and "Auld Lang Syne."
on the SHIN
by Hugh Wire and Dorothy Netherton
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The Shin is now re-incorporated as you may have noticed at the top. It has been quite a while since there has been a woman Shinister around you. We hope you keep on reading and hating us as much as ever.
We just found out that Maxine Laughlin, a Gamma Phi, has a nanaresac. Last summer Keith Swinthear, a Sig Chi, had a job down by Noah. He was in a washing machine. One day he was out on the country to fix a washing machine at a house and while he was there the woman of the house had a baby. This was about the thirteenth in 14 years so she had run out of names. She asked Keith to volunteer a name for the child. He thought fast and he knew why he chose this name, but to know why he chose this name, he said that he went with a girl by that name. This makes Maxine one up on Keith.
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"Go to Father," she said, When I asked her towed; And she knew that I knew That her mother was dead, And she knew that I knew What a life he had led, What she knew that I knew What she meant when she said "Go to Father."
Ruth Buehler
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938
NUMBER 15
Helen Jane Edwards, a Ptihia wrote, to her father recently and asked for more money, just after he had sent her some. He wrote back and said that he was sending her allowance for two months, and asked if she were keeping a man. She replied in her next letter that
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Madamoiselle In Parisian Styles In Coleman's 'Owl'
Gowns for madamoiselle in the latest Parisian styles will be pictured in the May edition of the Sour Coleman Coleman will release Monday.
Take a dress. A pretty dress Make it a formal. Make it five formalts. Then take a beautiful_woman Rather, take five beautiful women. This is what Coleman took. Then he made the beauties put on the dresses. Then he had their pictures taken.
Now this is obviously not something sensationally new. In fact, it is a very ordinary procedure. Editors the world over have gene through just such operation in turning out a fashion issue. But not every editor has had access to such a stock of fancy females.
Two of the five models Have won recognition for their locks. A third has been publicized for her allure. The last two are members of the Sour Owl staff. Isabelle Bash was R联赛 in 1937. She was sophomore beauty queen last year. Doris Johnson, c40, was homecoming star in 2015. The Kani was entrant who won a trip to California last year, sponsored by the Comedian's Congress to Choose Comely Cd-cds.
Betty Butcher, c'41, was the 1938 Most Alluring She" and went back) New York with Foscinarti Fred trille. Maria Bantnae席, c'40, and borothy Fritz, c'ep, are members of owl Owl edential staff.
Two hundred R.O.T.C. cadets in 30 army trucks, accompanied by six members of the R.O.T.C. senate committee and two motorcycle patrolmen, stopped a train, had cars strung out behind them for miles in the kitchen to pull pots reak in the kitchen, saw two aerial shows, and became sleepy.
The first business of the unit after arriving at Leavenworth was eating, and one of the faculty members, Prof. W. A. Dill, who "snuck in," beamed as he recalled that the only necessity for having one's plate refilled was to "shove the tray down to the water." The food was furnished by I and K companies of the 17th infantry.
Amateur Army Antics Ardently At Aerial Show
In short that is the complete program of the R.O.T.C. unit which attended the exhibition of anti-aircraft gun units of Fort Sheridan Ill., performing at Ft. Levenworth Tuesday.
Two demonstrations, which were primarily given for officers attending the command and general staff school, consisted of aerial fighting craft and anti-aircraft forces, the latter giving spectacular demonstration with the aid of an eight-million candlenower searchlight.
The demonstration was made available to the University R.O.T.C. unit by Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, officer in command here.
Among the members of the senate committee and other faculty members attending were Dean Paul B. Pierce, president of the College, Ernest E. Bayles and Professor Dill.
Authorized Parties
Friday, May 13
Delta Upsilon, Chapter house,
12 p.m.
Delta Sigma Theta and Kappa Alpha Psi, Union ballroom, 1 p.m.
Triangle, State Lake. 11 p.m.
Student Amer. Inst. of Elec.
Engineers. 1537½ Tennessee. 12
p.m.
Sigma Chi, Chapter house, 12 p.m.
Phi Kappa Psi, State Lake, 8:30 p.m.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Eldridge hotel, 12 p.m.
Kappa Alpha Theta, Union ballroom, 12 p.m.
Wesley Foundation, "Hades Hollow," 9 p.m.
Sigma Nu, Chapter house, 12 p.m.
Saturday, July 14 Delta Chi, Chapter house, 12 p.m.
p.m.
Westminster Foundation, 1221
Oread, 11 p.m.
Saturday, May 14
Colored Students, Dance Robinson Gym, 12 p.m.
Sunday, May 19
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, State
Lake, 10 p.m.
CLAZABETH MEGUAN
Advisor of Women for the
Joint Committee on Student
Affairs.
Week Planned For Religion
Preliminary plans for the week during which the University Christian Mission will be here next fall were made at a meeting of administration officials, faculty members, representatives of the Student Christian Federation, WS.G.A., M.S.C., and other interested groups. Members of the Morton Room of the Memorial Union building.
University Christian Mission Prepares for Next Year's Meetings
Paul Braisted, Campus secretary of the University Christian Mission, gave the group suggestions on organization and plans for the week, and outlined what the mission had done at Ohio State, North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin.
Members of the Group
Included in the Mission will be Stanley Jones; Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton of Ann Arbor, Mich; the Rev. Albert W. Falker of Chicago; the Rev. Robert E. Bates of Episcopal young people; Dr. Jesse Bader, executive secretary of the Mission; Herrick Young of New York, who is now doing personnel work for the Presbyterian church, and recently returned from Persia; and Bryan Green, of London, whose work in English universities has been done; Dr. T. Z. Koo, who spoke here last fall at a convocation and at two previous convolutions, will probably be with the group.
The Mission will come here from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and will be here for the week Oct. 23 to 28. During the week there will be conventions, assemblies, presentations, discussions, and classroom lectures.
From Colorado University
Some time before the Mission comes a list of the various subjects on which the speakers are prepared to give lectures will be sent to the University and professors will be given an opportunity to invite members of he group o classroom subjects related to their class work.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Earl Stuckenbruck, cpr',39, president of the Student Christian Federation, will appoint a committee of 12 which will select a committee of 100 or more members, representing both students and faculty before May 26. The large committee will be divided into sub-committees and will be in charge of detailed plans for the week.
LeVan Presents Graduate Recital
Presenting two recitals in one year was the accomplishment performed Tuesday night when Miss Lila Lea Van, pianist from the studio of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, played her graduate program at Frank Strong High School. A large audience. Van's Lea Moris' first appearance of the year was in her senior recital on October 4 last year;
The high spot of the evening was the Rimaky-Korsakow “Concerto,” with Dean Swarthout playing the orchestral parts on the second piano. The concerto varies from the usual composition of this type in that the various movements are played without pause.
During the evening Miss LeVan was recalled after each group to receive the applause of her audience. Members of Mu Phi Epsilon, education society, of which Miss LeVan is a member, eat in a group at the recital.
The program consisted of numbers not often used nor heard. The Tansman "Sonata Rustica" was an interesting example of the modern treatment of old peasant folk and dance tunes. The slow second line of the piece and leading into the rapid carnival-like last movement.
Sigma Delta Chi sponsors the Sour Owl, Campus humor magazine this year James Coleman, c'38 served as editor and Bill Grant, c'39 served as business manager. The "Most Fascinating" He and Most Aluring She" contended was sponsored by the Sour Owl this year.
LaBan and Claassem To Head Sour Owl
Dick LaBan, c'39, was elected editor of the Sour Owl and Walter Chassen, b'39, was elected business manager of the magazine for next year in a meeting of Sigma Delta journalism Fraternity, yesterday.
Floyd Kelly Elected To Head Pachacamae
Stewart Jones, c'40, was elected vice-president; Henry Swallwer c'40, secrstary; Hugh Phillips, 140 treasureur; Seth Gray c'40, recorder; Ed Wiles, c'40, custodian of files; and Wayne Coe. c'40, historian.
Floyd Kelly, J40, last night was elected president of the Society of Pachacamac for the year 1938-39. The election preceded the party's annual victory benquet which was attended by 85 members.
Rome--Paris Pact Planned
Kelly, a non-ftraternity man, is the party's retiring vice-president. In that position, he acted as campaign manager for the Rising Sun party in its successful campaign for the spring election. Kelly was then known by this major being active in intramural sports—having managed the Galloping Ghosts basketball team the past four years.
Rome, May 11.—(UP) —French and Italian diplomats said tonight that a pact of friendship between Rome and Paris, built on almost the exact pattern of the Anglo-Haitian agreement, may be concluded before the weekend, simultaneously with the release or disposal of the Ethiopian problem.
Premier Bento Mussolini was represented as desiring a specy drafting of the pact as a means of convincing the world that the Italian visit of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in no way alicrred Italy's desire to restore solid friendship with the western nowers.
Count Galezo Ciano, Italian foreign minister and Mussolini's son-in-law, confered at Chigi palace for 45 minutes late today with the French charges d'aires, Jules F. Blondel, who is handling all the groundwork negotiations on the pact.
Sources close to the negotiations said that as a result of today's conference no great obstacles remained in the way of a rapid conclusion of the pact. Mussellini, it was reported, may announce the new Italian-French when he makes his key-swept speech at Genoa next Sunday.
Tau Sigma held its annual formal banquet and initiation of new members at Evans Hearth yesterday evening. Mrs. Alice S. Baumen, '20, gave a short talk on the composition of the modern dance and its music, and Prof. Allen Crafton, of the speech and dramatic art department, spoke on the connection of the舞 with the theater.
Tau Sigma Holds Annual Banquet
Several members of the organization presented a burlesque of "Mid-Western Theme," the modern dance conceived by Mrs. Bauman and presented at the dance demonstration recently. They were: Fern Hill, c40; Ruth Butcher, c89; Ruth Dornan, c92; Dan Dorn, c63; Iron Moll, ce38; and Alice Bauman. Ruth Ardis Bauman accompanied on the piano.
Guests at the banquet were: Prof and Mrs. Crafton; Frank Kuckle, assistant professor of organ; Rolla Nuckles, instructor in speech and dramatic art; Don Dixon, gr; Jane Cheky, shewry; Dorothy Gehrer, fa'41; and Ruth Ardis Bauman, Lawrence.
The following new members were initiated preceding the banquet: Maxine Pendleton, c'uncl; Tildle Fowler, c'uncl; Virginia Appel, c'41; Payne Payne, c'41; Mary Noel, c'uncl; Hase Nebitt, c'41; Irene Moll, c'38; Ether Gilleness, c'40; Mike Learned, Ulm, c'40; Mickie Learned, id'40; Dona Hughes, fa'41; Sallie Harris, c'uncl; and Marriage Lor land, c'38.
The third summer conference in speech and dramatics, sponsored by the University Extension Division, will take place some time in June. Miss Ruth Kenny, secretary of the division, said yesterday.
Dramatics Forum Here in June
These conferences are offered as a medium for the presentation and discussion of problems in the field of speech and dramatic art.
Prof. Robert Calderwood, of the department of speech and dramatic art, will give a demonstration and lecture on character analysis. He has taught over 150 students in the visual appeal necessary to the successful character interpretation.
To Continue NYA Program Applications for CSEP Work During, Coming Year Are Receivable
The NYA program is expected to be continued next year although no official notice has been received from Washington as yet, according to Miss Martha Tillman, executive secretary. Letters have been sent to the departments and agencies that have CEP workers at present requesting them to send in applications for work projects for next year.
Any staff member of the University or any non-profit organization in the city of Lawrence such as schools or churches may submit applications for work projects, which may be obtained at the CSEP office. Miss Tillman urges the departments to submit their projects before June 4. Clerical work not replacing regularly maintained buildings, research and surveys, and recreation supervisors are a few of the many suggested types of work which CSEP students can do.
Students who wish to apply for NYA work next year may do so by leaving their name and address at the CSEP office. Application blanks will be sent out some time during summer to those requesting them.
The payroll for the period of April 3 to May 2 is at the state office in Topeka where the checks will be sent out the latter part of this week. A total of 359 college students worked 14,799 hours to earn $5,030.80 which is an average of $14,191 a college student. One special and 13 regular graduate students worked 478 hours for a total of $192.95 or an average of $12.53 a graduate student.
Vargas Halts Fascist Rise
Rio de Janeiro, May 11 (UP)—Fasist uproins against Presidem Catelulo Vargas months old government was crushed today with a loss of at least 20 lives after bloody fighting in which the president, his wife, and two daughters jailed in the court of their busted Ganambala palace.
Five of the dead were Loyalist troopers and police.
Chief of police Filino Muehler said that the death toll in the unsuccessful coup, in which dissident navy elements, chiefly marines, joined with members of the outlawed military faction, might own fifty.
More than a score of loyalists, including war minister General Gaspar Dura, whose check was crushed by a bullet and rebels w耳
hundreds of marines and civilians were jailed in a general roundup of suspects which began when the abortive coup collapsed.
The uprising started shortly after midnight, a few hours after a security tribunal had freed several army and civilian leaders who were suspected of plotting attacks in an alleged plot to overthrow the Brazilian government.
Jay Janes Organization Holds Pledging Service
The Jay Janes, their pep organization, pledged 22 women yesterday in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
D. J. Willecuts was in charge of pleading services and installation of officers followed. The new officers are: D. J. Willecuts, ed 23, president; Dorothy Blue, fa 39, vice-president; Beth Graham, c4, tenurer; Winfred Anderson, secretary; and Mary Lifed Anderson, f29, member. The women, were
The following women were pledged:
Louise Bowen, c'unc!; Margaret Harbaugh, f41; Fern Hill, c'40; Eleanor Hosford, c'41; Audine Fausett, f41; Lorraine Love, c'44; Marjorie Fausett, f41; Dorothy Sullivan, c'44; Ruth Wiedemann, c'44; Marguerite Jones, c'40; Eva Ruth Meinke, f4; Maurus Wiedemann, c'44; Russ Kliussman, fa4; Mary Nocl, unc!; Mabel Savage, c'44; Nancy Kesler, fa4; Martha Jane Starr, c'41; Dovothy Hendrickson, fa4; Marion Ellis, c'42; Betty Kimble, c'41
WEATHER
Kansas: Unsettled Thursday and Friday, showers and local thunderstorms in the north portion Thursday and possibly in south portions Thursday or Thursday night; not much change in temperature.
Ten Students Appear
In Recital This Afternoon
A student recital will be given th afternoon at 3:30 in the auditorium of Frank Strong ball. The program which includes numbers for piano solo voice, violin, two voices, and two pianos, follows:
for piano, "Concert Ecutte" (Mac-Dowell), by Elnora Hilst, fa41; for voice, Musetta's aria from "La Boheme" (Puccini), by Patricia Glenfa8; for violin, "Walzges 1 and 2" (Rossi); for cello, "Brown," make fa, 18; for voice, "A Brown Bird Singing" (Haydn Wood), by Alfred Gallup, b'umcl.
for piano, "Ballade A flat major" (Chopin), by Jane Cheeks, fauncl for voice, "Charming Chloe" (German) and "Yesterday and Daytime" (Syspress), by Vera Caruthers, ed28 for two voices, "Solene in Quest Ora" (Verdi), from "La Forza del Destino" by Keith Davis, fa38, and Warren Wilson, fa39; and for two pianos, "See What His Love Can Do" (Bach), tenor aria on Church Cantata No. 85, and "Caps and Bells" (Turner), by Ruth Ardis Boman, fauncl, and Jane Cheeks, fauncl
Seniors Meet This Morning All Members of Upper Class Will Be Excused To Attend
Plans for the selection of a class gift for the University will be discussed this morning by the senior class in its meeting at 10:30 in Fraser theater. Seniors will be excused from 10:30 classes to attend the assembly.
Don Voorhees, c38, chairman of the gift committee, will present a report of the committee's activity. Possibilities for a class budget also will be considered. The budget will include the rental of caps and gowns, senior breakfast and the senior gift.
All seniors are urged by Grant Cowherd, e'38, president of the class, to attend the meeting.
Tonight Is Last Senior Recital
The last in the series of senior recitals presented by the School of Fine Arts each spring will be given at Carroll University's Strong ball at 8 o'clock, with the appearance of Carroll Nichols, violinist from the studio of Prof. Karl Kurtsteiner, in a solo program. Miss Marian Reed, fa41, will accompany. Nickles will be assisted by Mr. Christopher University Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Nickels comes from McLouth and has done all his work at the University. For the past year he has been concertmaster for the University Symphony Orchestra and have done considerable public playing. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha musical fraternity.
He will play the entire Handel Sonata in D major, a group of shorter numbers - from Kreisler, Bach, Godowsky, Schubert, and Skilton, and will conclude his program with the three movements of the Concerto in G minor by Max Bruch, with orchestral assistance. The public is cordially invited to attend.
The program follows: "Sonata in D major" (Hendel); "Paeudolium and Allegro" (Kreisler), in the style of Pugnian; "Arioso" (Bach), transcribed for violin and piano by Sam Franko; "In Old Vienna" (Godowsky-Press); "The Bee" (Schubert); "Shawnee Indian Hunting Dance" (Skilton); and "Concerto in G minor" (Mux Bruch)
Four Students Enter Extemporaneous Cot
Four University students will enter an extemporaneous speaking contest which is being sponsored by the Kiwanis club in Kansas City, Kan.
The four students who are entering the contest are Martin Maloney, gi; Paul Moritz, c'39; Elden Smith, c'; and John Lintner, c'39. Each one has this topic and after 20 minutes preparation, will give on 5-minute speech.
A plaque is to be awarded the winning speaker. Don Voorhees, c38, won the contest last year.
Washington, May 11.—(UP) Under-secretary of Interior Charles West, former Ohio congressman and contact man for President Roosevelt on Capitol Hill, soon will be named Controllor of the Currency, sources close to the White House said tonight.
Will Name Charles West Comptroller of Currency Soon
Kate Stephens Dies at 85 In Concordia
Graduate of 1875 Was Prolific Writer; for Several Years Taught Latin and Greek Here
On Miss Stephen's last birthday, Feb. 27, a reception was held for her at the Memorial Union building many of her old friends attended.
Miss Kate Stephens, 75, who was graduated from the University 63 years ago, died yesterday at the age of 85 at the home of her niece, Mrs. Leo Louhaye, at Concordia. Miss Stephens received a second degree from the University in 1878 and for the 'next several years taught Latin and Greek here.
She was born at Moravia, NY,
and came to Lawrence while still a
child. In protest to the credit given
"Uncle Jimmy" Green, her brother-
law, for founding the School of
Law she published a pamphlet,
"The Truth Back of the Uuncle
Jimmy Myth." Her father, Judge
Nelson Timothy Stephens, had a
part in establishing the school.
Miss of Most Stephens' life was spent in New York where she was a literary editor for Harper's and Macmillan's publishing houses as well as several New York newspapers.
Her Best Known Book
A prolific writer, her best known book was "Life at Laurel Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas." Other writings include "Delphic Kansas," "American Thumbprints," "A Letter to the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation," "A Woman's Heart" (later republished as "Pillars of Smoke"), and "Workfellows in Social Progression."
While a student at the University, Miss Stephens became engaged to Prof. Byron Caldwell Smith. He died the year they were to have been married, and later she published some of his letters under the name, "The Professor's Love-Life; Letters of Ronsby Malclewth," which afterward appeared with the professor's own name. Objecting to what she considered aspersions on Professor Smith by a writer, Frank Harris, she published "Lies and Labels of Frank Harris."
Shortly after the Kansan became a daily newspaper she wrote to it:
"I regret I cannot subscribe to her newsletter, but my way to subscribe to any publication assuming the attitude toward men, and especially the women of the University of Kansas, which I find in the number you presented me." (Her objection was designated item.) Objects "to Be"
"Also I note the word co-'ed applied to women students of the University of Kansas. A woman student of the University of Kansas is no more a co-'ed than a man student. The University was founded by Elias Pacha, an American Pechapa you may see that the spirit of the word is as low as its origin. .1. I regret that your printing it may bring it into more general use. I can not be party to such diffusion by subscribing to your paper."
For some time Miss Stephens was a companion and assistant to Susan B. Anthony, woman suffrage leader of several decades ago.
She was a song writer as well as an author, having written words for "Our Founders" to be sung to a popular hymn tune. It was first used at a Student's Day meeting in the Fraser hall auditorium.
After her retirement in 1935 Miss Stephens lived in Lawrence until she became ill in March.
Chamber of Commerce Features University
The University is featured prominently in a new folder issued by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce concerning the city of Lawrence.
The folder contains a map of Law-
rence, and information about industrial
condition conditions, agriculture, eucu-
rational, religious and social opportunities
in Lawrence. All information is
amply illustrated with pictures.
Anyone interested in obtaining copies of the folder may inquire at the Chamber of Commerce office in the WREN building.