UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student-Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
W.S.G.A.
Favors New
Library Hour
Would Prefer Sunday Night to Friday If Both Evenings Could Not Be Made Available
W. S.G.A. last night reversed its usual action on proposals of the Men's Student Council and approved a Council suggestion that Watson library be opened Sunday night.
By some form of mental telepathy, the women agreed that library hours should include both Friday and Sunday nights, with preference to Sunday if both evenings could not be made available, an idea that met strong favor in M.S.C. discussion in a recent meeting.
The meeting served as a "get acquainted" gathering for new members of the W.S.G.A. council, chosen in the recent presidential election
The petition, in the form of a letter to Chancellor Lindley, will be referred now to University authorities for action.
A drive was instituted by the W.S.G.A. group to make the Memorial Union building "more useful and to have definite functions to perform." A committee was appointed from the council to direct extra curricular activity and to act with the Union operating committee A petition, originating in the M.S.C., asking the class of 1935 for use of a $250 surplus to improve and expand the third floor in the Union building, was approved. The project was posed for a Faculty-School Relations board. Further business concerned "Guidance Week" and the assessment of fines for absence from council meetings.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1938
on the SHIN by Mitchell and Wire
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We are designing a medallion for Daisy Hoffman's discarded boy friends. The circular design is that of a Cupid pursuing a Father Time, who in turn is pursuing another Cupid, who in turn is pursuing another Father Time. A rather vicious circle. And running through the middle the inscription: "Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass." Or should we have said it in French?
While typing:----Does the University furnish "duty" for the Young Republicans as well as for the American Student Union?----Is it true that the Sigma Chi's spend five-sixths of their hours there, though they are the question?----Four Beta's playing choo-choo (h a n d s on shoulders, choo-choo) while toddling home---look alike: Prof. Clark over in sociology and Heywood Brown.----The steak frys scheduled for last night that were spioled by the rain.----Peggy Anne Landon and Chuck Alexander horseback riding. It's a carry-over from campaign days;Al Lee's toy machine day;Al Lee's veterinary building. The Veterans of Future Wars awarded it to him for extreme bravery.
From Gene Lloyd: —“---while dining in with two Texas senators, who told me how bad the political situation was. I told them it was worse than that when I was in school. That is why I voted three times... My creditors are no doubt looking forward to seeing me...etc.”
Which reminds us that Gene was in town the other d.a, but never stopped to see him. We he is in a hurry and came here where. Even the D.U.S. missed him.
A new type of apple polishing bubbled up in Professor Bulker's speech class yesterday. Members of the class were supposed to demonstrate some sort of procedure in their speech for the day. George Cochrane brought the making of cokes to class and went through the process of securing one, which gave to the professor. (Aside to the girls: One of the cokes that you inhale contains about 100 calories.)
Sometimes things make you laugh and you don't know why. This little Continued on page 1
Richardson Injured In Hand by Starting Gun
Jack Richardson, 140, former Jay-hawk track star, received a severe hand injury Monday evening at the stadium. Richardson has been as unresponsive as Hargiss this year and was starting crunches when the accident occurred.
Richardson had just started some runners and was watching them, while at the same time he played with the hammer on the starting pistol, which was loaded with blanks. The hammer slipped and fired the next cartridge. Richardson had his left hand over the muzzle of the gun and the discharge tore his hand severely.
The nerves in his hand were killed by the accident so that it felt numb, even when stitches were being taken in it.
Piano Team Plays Monday Russian Pair Have Wor Wide Acclaim in Europe And America
Vitya Vronsky and Victor Bobin, the two new, internationally famous, Russian duo-pianists who will be presented next Monday evening in Hoch auditorium, have known a course of triumphs which led them throughout the capitals of Europe, thence to England, and then on to America where their success was rewarded for their return the following season.
Vitra Vronsky is a graduate of the conservatory at Kieff, Victor Bibir of the conservatory at Riga. They met in the studio of Artur Schnabel in Berlin, where they had both gone for further study. With their marriage, they merged their careers forming the team of Vronsky and Babin. Neither of the artists is more than 30 years of age.
Babin Has Published Concerto
Josef Hoffman, famous pianist and director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, who calls them "the most extraordinary two-piano team in Europe," was instrumental in having them appear in Philadelphia prior to their New York debut, Feb. 14, 1837. Their success was such as to lead to a second engagement a few weeks later. Other artists acclaimed them with equal en-husiasm.
Their first American broadcast was in a sustaining program of the 'columbia system. This was followed by other programs owen national hour-ups.
Victor Babin was born in Moscow. After the revolution, he went to Berlin to study piano under Artur Schnabel and composition under Franz Schreker. As a composer, he has already published a pianoforte concerto, works for one and two pianos, and works for an orchestra. Studied Under German Masters
Kiev was the birthplace of Vita Vronsky. There she followed the courses at the Conservatory, and at the age of 15 made her first concert tour as solo pianist. In Berlin, she continued her studies under masters, among them Artur Schenabel, meanwhile giving concerts in the principal European capitals. She first visited England in 1928.
Says the Metropolitan Musical Bureau, Inc.: "They have the temerature of their race, with all its nurgical moods, capable of running the gamut from joy to despair in a single hour."
The University of Kansas program which is one of the regular concert course series, will be at 8:20 Monday evening, March 28. Thursday evening at 7 o'clock the concert will be discussed at Henley house. Alice tussell, fa 39, will play parts from his selections of the famous team.
St. Louis, March 22—(UP)—Rober Wells, 19-year-old former city sanitariem inmate, disarmed a policeman today and then barricaded himself in his mother's home where he was finally subdued with tear gas after 20 policemen had besieged the place.
Youth Has Fun Disarming Cop and Watching Him Rur
"I did it for fun." Wells explained at police headquarters. "Boy, you should have seen that cop run when I took his gun."
NUMBER 120
Chanute Alumni Honor
Chancellor Lindley Today
An alumni luncheon will be held Wednesday at the Toga hotel in Chanute for the Chancellor, when a town council meeting of the young people's association of the Christian church.
Enrollment Figures Show New Record Twenty-five Per cent Increase Over the Last Five-Year Period; Total Enrollment is 4.413
The March 1 attendance at the University indicates an increase of more than 25 per cent over the last five-year period. The figures compiled by Geo. O. Foster, register also show the winter term registration has reached a higher point than that of last year.
The total for the various schools of the University at present is 4,413. This is an increase of 67 over March 1 figures of 1937 and a gain of 808 students over those enrolled during this period of 1934.
The greater increase has been made by men students, who have located their number 29.2 per cent higher than the women's enrollment rate.
Men Make Greater Increase
The net registration from the opening of the fall semester to present was 4,922, an increase of 11 above figures of last year. The reason for the noticeable drop from the fall number is due to the fact that
A smoothed gpm or 15t befell
ent. A woman had a 2,979 man and 1,434 women, the former represented by twice the number of the latter.
There has been a steady gain of Kansas students registering at the University, but from other states countries there is a decided decrease.
more than five hundred students have completed their work or have withdrawn for other reasons.
This year there has been a student enrolled from each of the 105 counties of the state. Haskell, Kearney, Stanton, and Wallace counties have only one representative each. Douglas, Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee, and Wyandotte each represent of more than 100, and Leavenworth and Lewiston are marked by only 6. Forty-one other states and the District of Columbia are represented by 853 students, 560 of these coming from Missouri.
Decline in Out-State Students
Present Japan Bill for Panay
Washington, March 22—(UP)—The United States today assessed the Japanese government $2,214,007.36 for deaths, personal injuries and property damage resulting when Japanese planes bombing attacked and sank the U. S. gumball Panay in the Yangtze river last December. 12.
The note was in formal composition and was delivered by Joseph C. Gray, American Japanese ambassador in the foreign office, upon instructions from Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
The Japanese government had promised in two separate notes that full indemnification would be made. In his note, Gray reminded the foreign office of these promises made Dec. 14 and 24.
Gray said in his note that the amount was "conservative." No item of punitive damage was asked.
"A small fraction of the thousands who love you takes pride in the fact that you are 78 years young," he
While Dr. William L. Burdick, professor of law, lectured his 11:30 class yesterday in Green hall, there was a surprise brewing in the hall outside his classroom.
Law Students Give Burdick Surprise Birthday Party
M.S.C. Sets Election Date For April 7
The entire School of Law awaited the signal. Suddenly the door was thrown open, and Doctor Bugdick found himself surrounded by smiling and singing lawyers.
The new proportional representation system, going into effect for the first time this spring, will tend to decrease past emphasis on the position of Council president and lend increased importance to the body as a whole, it is believed. Under the new plan, the defeated candidate is placed in front of the Council representative-at-large, which removes virtually all but the honor of winning from the presidential contest.
With the advent of the new system, University schools are redistricted and classified into divisions with representation based on enrollment. All M.S.C. members will be by proportional representation.
"Happy Birthday to You" and "Law School Song" rang out as the men and women surrounded the beloved professor on his seventy-eighth birthday. A huge white cake trimmed with pink icing and bearing the words "Dear Doctor, Happy Birthday From Your Boys and Girls," was buried in and placed in the same front of his painted eyes. He stood for a few moments in silence, perhaps too overwhelmed to speak. When everybody had entered, Chancellor E. H. Lindley presented the cake to Doctor Burick.
Election of class officers remain unchanged, however.
Council Meets Tonight To Appoint Committee To Make Voting Arrangements; Present Interest Centers Around P.S.G.L. Presidential Candidate With Moritz and Mullen Holding Spotlight
The Men's Student Council yesterday set the date of the men's spring election for Thursday, April 7.
Interest now centers around the probable P.S.G.L. presidential candidate and the content of the Pachacamac platform. Veteran Campus politicians were of the opinion that either Paul Moritz, c39, or C. H. Mullen, c39, would be named to head the League's ticket. No hint of the Pachacamac platform has been given.
Inaugurate New System
said, to the accompaniment of the cheers of the lawvers.
By Harry Hill, c'40
The Rising Sun party's first move was the nomination of Blain Grimes, c'39. SUMmerfield scholar and leader in junior class activities, as its candidate for M.S.C. president. The complete Pachacamac ticket will be announced in the near future, party leaders said.
Announcement of the decision by the Council after a special session in the Pine room provided Hill parties with a definite objective toward which to direct campaigns which they formally opened yesterday morning.
There will be a meeting of the Men's Student Council at 8 o'clock tonight in the Pine room.
Pachaacam a n d P. S. G. L opened their active campaign simultaneously with announcements of their presidential candidate and platform respectively. Because the election is just two weeks in the future, both parties probably will announce plans before the end of the week.
Moc Ettenson, Secretary.
COUNCIL MEETING
Doctor Burdick cut the first slice of his cake after being instructed in the art by Mrs. Burdick. He blew out the 78 candles with the following wish: "Everything good in life for each and every one of you."
As a second surprise an announcement which constituted an intangible gift was made. Doctor Burdick has worked for twenty years on his "Work in Roman Law." He had no idea that he would say it has very little commercial value. As a tribute to the doctor, the faculty and students have made plans with publishers to have the book published. This present is to show the appreciation and love which all of his students and colleagues have received as vice-president of the University and dean emeritus of the School of Law.
TABLE sounded off with a 16-point platform, stating definitely it would conduct its campaign on the basis of "issues and not personalities". The platform included five major planks concerning student labor. University publicity, library resources, students' student loans. Eleven "aims for specific action" by the party were superiors; proposals.
The Council meets again to election and to appoint an M.-S.C. committee to direct voting arrangements.
The Council meets again tonight to complete plans for the election and to appoint a M. $ ^{*} $
P. S.G.L. Gives Platform
"These gifts are the outpouring of your affection and I accept them in that respect. I thank you and I thank you." He continued as he cut the cake.
Refreshments of ice cream and cake brought the surprise party to an end.
Roosevelt Proposes Anti-Lynch Compromise
Washington, March 22. — (UP) President Roosevelt today disclosed that he had proposed to congress a compromise for the anti-lynching bill under which Gunen or legislators could vote against and publicize all acts of mob violence.
The substitute proposal, as outlined by Mr. Roosevelt at his press conference, presumably would not call for federal prosecution of mobsters, but he did provide a full exposition of facts which, he said, is what the nation needs.
Wednesday, March 30, is the date for the Peace Oarator Contest, new to the University this year. The contest is open to all students in the University. Speeches are to be about 12 minutes in length and must relate to the problem of peace. Students who receive $10 and will have the opportunity of trying for state prizes of $50, $40, and $30.
Oratory Contest Schedule Peace
This is the third year the speech department has taken part in the state-wide contest. It is the first time the student has been open to the student body.
The state contest in peace cratery will take place in Wichita on April 8. A preliminary clash and a final deciding contest will be held then, among representatives of all the colleges in the state.
Czech Nazis Become Dominant
Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 22
—(UP) The Nazi Sudeten Germans under Komrade Henlein, who is called the "Czechoslovakian Hitler," became the dominant party in parliament tonight when the Agrarian League withdrew from the government.
The Agrarians, one of the smaller German minority parties which had supported Pres. Edouard Benes in his effort to resist Fueber Adolf Hilzer's "nazification" of Czechoslovakia, withdrew from the cabinet and merged with Henlein's Sudeten German party.
The surprise move, hailed by Nazis as bringing nearer a German full-suit of Bismarck's 70-year-old theory that "the master of Bohemia of Europe" gave Hussein 40 deputies in the lower chamber of parliament.
The Czechoslovakian Ag农商 had been relegated to second position in parliamentary strength, but he was a strong nationality's most powerful political union.
Roosevelt 'Fires'
TVA Chairman Morgan
Washington, March 22—(UP) President Roosevelt today summarized discharged Chairman Arthur E Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who defied the President's private investigation of TVA internal strife and challenged his power to oust him.
Mr. Roosevelt said the ouster is effective tomorrow, at which time he will transmit the whole record of the dispute to congress in a special meeting from Attorney-General Homer S. Cunnings upholding his action.
Hitler Refuses Windsor's Plea For Release of Rothschild
Paris, March 22—(UP)—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany today sent a message to the Duke of Windsor politely refusing the duke's personal plea for the release of Baron Louis Rothschild, of the famous banking family, who is a Nazi prisoner in Vienna.
The baron was the duke's host on several occasions when Edward visited Austria.
Six Jewish Grave Markers Overturned By Poetic Vandals
San Jose, Calif., March 22—(UP) —Vandals today descend and desecrated six grave markers in the Jewel position of the Oak Hill cemetery.
Sheriff George Lyle said the desecration apparently was the work of Nazi sympathizers.
On the tombstone of Babette Rosenthal, the vandals scrawled the following doggerel:
"Babbette, born in 44,
Now is dead and knows no more;
Ghouls it may of us be said,
Worse for Babbs to be Nazi alive
Than on our mantel dead.
Boll Dottie and May Dottie."
Chandler Opens Series Teachers' Bureau Head Gives First Lectures On Vocational Guidance
According to Mr. Chandler, "There are new kinds of jobs in the educational field and the outlook for employment is better. Among these new jobs are demands for people trained in library work which resembles a technical background as well as a technical knowledge of library methods."
H. E. Chandler, director of the Teachers' Appointment bureau, struck an optimistic note in relation to opportunities in the field of teaching in an address made to University students yesterday afternoon on May 25. It was the first in a series of three which are being given in observation of Vocational Guidance week, a project of the W.S.G.A.
"There is also a demand for people trained in kindergarten and nursery school work, as well as positions as school nurses. These positions require an ability to work with people as well as to teach."
Chandler brought out that student advisers and guidance instructors have little trouble in finding work. Another open field is that of adult teachers, which has become popular in an increasing number of night schools.
At the present time there is in this state an immediate demand for commercial, music, physical education and home economics teachers. There is also evidence showing a decline in mathematics and language fields. However, there is an increase in social and natural sciences.
In giving the qualifications for a good teacher, Chandler said, "The best instructors should like to teach and be around people. Patience, intelligence, as well as the ability to take suggestions."
Next Thursday Miss Elizabeth Sanborn, director of publicity for charities in Kansas City, will talk on "Journalism and Its Related Fields."
Tau Beta Pi Elects Thirteen
Tau Beta Ph. engineering fraternity, announced the following elections to membership at the engineering convocation yesterday:
Junioris: Howard Sailors, Leo Johnstone, Walter Clarry, Thomas Winnell, David Garner, thur Lorenz and George Hollinger.
Senior: John Headrick, Harry Noble, Lewis Kieffer, Raymond Horne Campbell and Campbell Lovelace.
Membership represents not more than one-fourth of the senior class nor more than one-eighth of the junior class.
Graduates and Faculty Member Named on Ticket
The ticket for the final election of members of the board of directors of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, to be held on March 28, contains the names of four graduates, and a University aculty member.
John Brand, 29, Glenn Charlton,
fs 07, Dr. H. P. Jones, 28, Nobel
Lindstrom, 25, Neal M. W. Mhry-
34, and Dean D. M. Swarthout,
are those listed among the 14
persons nominated by the seven retiring
members of the board of directors.
Roosevelt on Vacation
Washington, D.C., March 22- (UP) - President Rosevelt, accompanied by Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, left the capital tonight at 8 o'clock aboard the Presidential special for Warm Springs, Ga. where he will vacation for 10 days.
Winterset Successful In Opening Stage Settings Impress Audience; Ma c C a n n And Perry Give Good Performance
By Willie Harmon. c'40
The Kansas Players' version of Anderson's poetic drama opened a four-night run last night to a large audience in Fraser theater.
High is the standard set by University dramatic productions the past season, and the current offering. "Winterset," in no way falls short of the mark.
In a year of abundant plays par excellence, two of Maxwell Anderson's most famous works have been presented to balance a pair of snappy comedies, and "Winterset" bids fair to equal in attendance and quality, its sister drama, "Elizabeth the Queen."
Stage Settings Excellent
As a historian, Maxwell Anderson described an important period in English history in "Elizabeth the Queen." In "Winterset" he is a poet telling the brutal story of a world of hate, crime and fear. He protests against the social injustice of law and questions the description of America as "the land of the free and the barve."
The stage settings, prepared by Prof. Allen Crafton, director of the play and a member of the cast, mean everything to it. Action takes place in two settings, one a cellar apartment under a tenement building and the second the bank of a river under a bridge head. Both are reproduced realistically, accurately, and with excellent lighting effects.
Equally as effective as the stage settings is the performance of the cast. Character interpretation on the whole is faultless and more than a single character players made strong bids to outshine an academic faculty members of the cast.
A Difficult Assignment
Outstanding student portrayals are Richard MacCann and Alain Perry. MacCann, cast in the difficult role of Garth Erdős, speaks forcefully and is correctly "scared stiff" as a boy gone mad with worry. Perry employs an Italian-mobster accent that is commanding, overbearing and dictating in the "toughest" manner of a Trock Estrella.
Allen Crafton is impressive as the old Jew Eadras and his every action displays correct interpretation of the anguish of a father as he begged for the life of his son. At several points, Crafton and MacCann stand on the stage and say nothing as they sit in conversation, but they fill this difficult assignment with professional ease.
Rolla Nuckles, as Mio, and Betty Butcher, as Miriamne, are acceptable in the leading roles. Miss Butcher, a freshman in the University, is already a veteran student actor. She is definitely not hard to look at and should go far in Campus dramatics.
To Robert Calderwool goes a bouquet for a meritorious portrayal of the character which might easily mean the success or failure of the play.
Myers Dies Well
Joe Myers is a perfect "Shadow" and his death scene, in which excellent make up is important, means much to the production. Will Wilcox delivers a convincing "radical" when a crowd of young people, including a grinder's music under the bridge, meet the interference of a policeman.
Although the action seems to drag momentarily during the dance scene in the first act, it is by no means the only reason for construction of the play itself.
The Kansas Players will take the production on tour upon completion of the four-day Fraser engagement.
Sigma Tau Elects
Seven New Members
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, announced the following new members at the engineering convocation yesterday:
Juniors: Leo Johnstone, Robert K. Williams and William Harold Miller.
Seniors: LaVerl Bryant, John Headrick, Harry Noble and Leon Yarham.
Vogeler To Address Y.W. Group
Charles Vogeler, 'cunl, whose home is in Venezuela, will talk on "South America" at a meeting to be held. Henley house this afternoon at 4:30.