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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Women To Observe Anniversary
Co-eds W will Celebrate 100th Education Yea a In Formal Banquet at Union Building
Women of Lawrence and the University will unite in observing one hundred years of co-education Tuesday, Feb. 8 at the Union building at 6:30 o'clock. A formal ban be followed by a talk on "A Century of Co-education" given by Dr. Louise Pound, professor of English at the University of Nebraska.
The co-ed at the university today shares few of the perplexities and obstacles which faced the first four co-eds, who matriculated at Oberlin College in 1837. Those young ladies had to have the vision and strength of character to face the suspicions of society, which frowned upon women competing with men in the educational world.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938
Rules governed their rising at 5 o'clock, and common ladylike decency demanded a 10 o'clock retirement hour. Meals for all were served in the Ladies' Hall by the ladies themselves. Their curriculum carried such manual duties as scrubbing floors and keeping all rooms clean, including those of the men. The young men were of course forbidden to tarry in their rooms while working. The women worked. The clothes of the men were washed and mended also, and for these various duties these first courses in history received two and three-fourths cents an hour.
Up at 5 a.m.
When it was ruled that the women's class in composition should be merged with the men's, several "went to their rooms and wept." They felt unable to face such an indelicate situation as being forced to read their compositions in the press. In 1850's a rule prohibited co-eds and men from walking together on Sundays.
Tea, Coffee, and spices were sent
from early early-ced menus. When
Oberlin received a new telescope,
there was real hesitation in allowing
co-eds to stay up after hours to
observe the stars.
No Tea or Coffee
The Oberlin Female Moral Reform Society was the popular extra-curricular activity. When two male sophomores were dismissed for visiting a co-ed, confined to her room by illness, a Reform Society resolution was adopted. "The disgrace of the gentleman who takes improper liberties with a young lady shall be as great as that of the young lady who permits such liberties." Improved Character Toe
Improved Character, Too
Efforts were made to improve the character as well as the mind during those early days of co-education. The lectures given to these students are as objects as engagements, marriage, hygiene, politeness, and dress.
When graduation time arrived for three of the four they were not permitted to read their orations, along with the eight men graduates, because it was considered most unbecoming for a lady to read her writings in the presence of men. The rhetoric teacher was told that she had read the essays of the young ladies who were receiving their Bachelor degrees.
One hundred years have revolutionized the opportunities and privileges which today's co-ens joys. There are in the United States alone 451 co-educational colleges, 120 exclusively for women, and 80 limited to men. More than a million women have received college degrees.
HAY by WIRE
Big chunks of Nebraska and Colorado are floating in this mighty blast. This cold wind can find more ways to get into a building than little boys into a circus. Anything to make the customers more uncomfortable during finals. Those who are through with finals say they can't even feel a thing. But those saying that tarring and feathering are none too good. Only one more day and you can relax until mid-semmers.
We heard a farmer say the other day that if it didn't rain in big bunches pretty soon he was going to have to cut them, she saw
Huxman Recommends Parole for Ireland
Toppea, Jan. 25—(UP) Gov. Walt A. Huxman today announced he had recommended Olin C. Ireland, 40 years old, serving a life sentence in the Lansing state prison for first-degree murder from Washington county, be paroled to a state institution for hospitalization. Ireland has tuberculosis. Last summer the convict found a revolver concealed in the prison and turned it over to officers.
Senior Class Unsettled
President and Ed it o r Disagree a t University Of Wisconsin
(Special to the Kansan)
Madison, Wis., Jan. 23 — Dissension in the University of Wisconsin senior class remained unsettled today over payment of $2 dues, following weekend statements by the class president and the editor of the student newspaper, chief opponents in the controversy.
George Rooney, senior president, in a statement issued Saturday, declared that those not paying the dues could not obtain caps and gowns and invitations at graduation time and could not attend Cardinal for its stand against the fee.
In reply to Rooney's statement, Morton Newman, executive editor of the paper, said the class president had done a "wonderful job of confusing the issues," and reiterated his contention that payment of the dues could*not be forced upon members of the class.
About 32 more students will receive CSEP work at the University next semester to bring the total to approximately 415, it was announced yesterday. The monthly payroll will be increased by about $640.
CSEP To Add More to Pay Roll
Grades of students who worked or CSEP the first semester are being checked to verify eligibility for reappointment for the second semester, according to Miss Martha Tilman, instructor. Tilman already has a long waiting list of those seeking positions for the second semester.
The increase in CSEP money available comes through unused balances in other parts of the state NYA program rather than from additional alletments, Miss Anne Laughlin, state director, announced at Toneka.
The increase in CSEP payrolls throughout the state will be about three hundred students. Forty-five oligees are involved.
Scholarships Offered at Iowa
Scholarships are now being offered at Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. The scholarships are offered in order that the graduate school of the college at Ames can be enlarged.
These scholarships carry stipends of $225 to $450 per year. They are granted to students who have graduated in the upper quarter of their class from approved colleges, and who have had the necessary preparation for graduate work. The students in these scholarships, fellowships and graduate assistant positions in the school there.
The student is also benefited by a reduction in registration fees to $30 a year. The new student is required to pay a matriculation fee of $10 upon entrance. Many of these appointments carry with them a certain amount of classroom work and some also require laboratory work. In addition to these appointments, a certain number of tuition scholarships valued at $150 to the appointee may be granted.
Any student wishing to make application for these scholarships may secure further information by writing to the dean of the graduate college at Iowa State College. The applications should be on file in the office not later than March 1. The awards will be announced about April 1.
Rich Haul Overlooked
Cleveland.—(UP) Police are convinced that Cleveland is a city of either honest or unobserving people. A n automobile containing $1,500 worth of musical instruments was seized from the downtown alley, unguarded, unattended, and unlocked—with the keys in the car.
Texans Back Bible's Grid Plan
Ex-Students in 15 Districts S e e k Material- Longhorns Open Sept. 24 With Kansas
Austin, Texas. Jan. 25—D. X. Bible's and the Ex-Students' association's athletic program for the university, up for discussion Saturday afternoon in the Texas Union, was accorded enthusiastic support by ex-student representatives from over the state, according to a sports editor of the Daily Texan. Texas basketball season, which opens Sept. 24, with the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
The occasion Saturday was the first meeting of the athletic chairmen for the 15 districts in the state, each of whom reported that the "Bible system" was gaining strength and converts in his district, that the ex-students in general were optimistic about the University of Texas' athletic programs, and that school athletes are showing great interest in the idea of entering the university to get an education as well as to play football.
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"We're for the program of advancement regardless of victory or defeat on the athletic field," seemed to be the prevailing thought of the men present. Moreover, they reported that they had not heard of any discontent or howling about the past season's record, which anyone will admit was scarcely worth bragging about.
The main idea behind Bible's program is to give the boys an education and character - building four years in the university first and out into a winning football team while doing it.
Back Bible to Limit
But whether Longhorn teams win or lose is not so important to these men, who are spending their time and money contacting athletes and hunting jobs, as one might believe. They said that they would like to win, as who would not, but that they would still back Bible and the Ex-Students' Association in their program if the university didn't win.
A temporary financial committee with Dan Harrison of Houston a chairman, will operate until June 1raising funds to augment the Athletic Council work fund. After that date no more contributions will be made and the ogrant will stand on its own feet. Plan Has Two Objectives
There are really two ideas behind the financial program: First, the Athletic Council needs a little more money to keep its budget straight, and contributing money is the only form of help some ex-students can give, since they do not have time to actually get out and contact them. These men can feel that they are helping the program along just as are the men who are giving their time.
The main program, the permanent one, is that of getting the ex-students to work contacting promising and ambitious athletes and providing summer jobs for the boys. That is the work of the athletic committee in each district, and that work is coordinated by Maxey Hart of San Antonio, chairman of the ex-students' athletic committee.
Ex-students are expected to find jobs for the athletes during the summer, thus providing them with the means to register in the university. From that point on the Athletic Council will be responsible for finding work. Jobs will be available from universities and through a number of Austin business men who have promised to give work.
Planes Complete Endurance Flight
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 25.
(UP)—Two Italian bombing planes, one piloted by Bertone Musolini, son of the former, completed a gruelling 6,500-mile endurance flight from Rome today.
When the fliers reached Natal, completing a 1,800-mile flight over the South Atlantic, the planes plotted by Mussolini and Col. Attilio Della Marmore but, caput, Nino Moscarelli landed at Natal, his plane in good condition.
Two of the three planes that left Rome yesterday flew nonstop from Dakar, Senegal to Rio.
WEATHER
Kansas: Colder today, and partly cloudy in east portions. Don't throw away your ear muffs.
New students may register Monday at the office of Geo. O. Foster, registrar. Physical examinations will be given at Watkins Memorial hospital Monday and Tuesday.
ENROLLMENT ORDER
Enrollment for the spring semester will be next Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
Following is the enrollment schedule:
Dodge City, Kan., Jan. 25—(UP) —A layer of powdery dust settled upon the wheat and pasture lands of the Southwest today, the aftermath of a raiding wind storm which swept in from the Pacific Northwest.
Dust Follows Wind Storm
Following is the enroln-
schedule:
Monday, Jan. 1
8:30 a.m. Z. O. G, W
10:15 a.m. E, B
1:30 - 3:00 S, N, Q
3:40 - 4:50 D, H
Tuesday, Feb. 1
8:30 a.m. L, T, R
10:15 a.m. J, M, X, C
1:30 - 3:00 V, C, K
3:40 - 4:50 F, P, A, Y, U
A. D. Robb, federal meteorologist at Topoka, said some of the dust had been blown to the extreme eastern coast, where it had previously had not been affected.
The wind, which at times reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour, caused considerable damage to winter wheat, the thin stand being uprooted in many fields. The area was missed by weekend rainfall.
Crop experts feared rains now would be too late to save much of the acreage.
The dust obstructed the sun from Hutchinson west to the Colorado line through Monday. In a few sections the skies cleared late in the day, but the wicks started again with renewed fury shortly after midnight.
Mary Lou Jounies, 14 years old, of Wright, Kane, was killed in an automobile collision on a highway near her home when the ear in which she held it collapsed into the machine. George and Donald Wiseman, brothers, and Donald Crane were injured. Drivers of both cars said dust was responsible.
Highway travel in most sectors was light.
High Winds To Abate Today
The cold snap which chilled the studying for late finals is expected to abate slowly today, weather buireau forecasts said last night. Wind which accompanied the drop in temperature reached maximums of 45 miles an hour Monday and 35 Tuesday.
In the West Hills district, fraternity and sorority students studying for finals were sometimes interrupted by intermittent breaks in electric service caused when tree limbs fell on power lines. In some places, candles and kerosene lamps were pressed into service.
Damage estimated at $50 was done at the entrance of Watson library when one of the heavy doors was broken by the high wind. The door is being repaired, and plans made to install storm doors, C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, resorted.
Funds for the scholarship which has been awarded annually since 1915, will be raised by a free will offer at the February meeting of the club next Thursday in the Memorial Union building.
Vivian Harrison, ph, will receive the $100 gift scholarship of the University Women's Club. It was an award given to E. H Lindley president of the club.
Club Award to Vivian Harrison
The University Women's Club is an organization composed of women faculty members and wives of men on the faculty. The meetings are of a social nature and are held once a month during the school year. In addition, the meeting provides at the meeting, and the April tea is given in honor of senior and graduate women at the University. An annual Christmas party is given for the husbands of the members and for all the unmarried men of the faculty
Peanut Thieves Leave Trail
Fresno, Calif—(UP)—Fresno police needed no bloodhounds to track down five boys who broke into an entertainment park and stole $10 worth of peanuts. The officers followed a trail of peanut shells seven miles long and caught the boys, bu
most of the loot had disappeared.
Legislature To Meet In February
Huxman Announces He Will Call for a Session To Consider Problem of Relief Financing
Topeka, Jan. 25—Governor Walter A. Huxman announced Tuesday his intention to call a special session of the Kansas legislature not later than Feb. 7 to consider means to enhance the state's social welfare law.
The exact date of convening remains to be set after the Governor has conferred with some members of the legislature.
In a prepared statement containing announcement of his plan for calling the legislators together, the Governor said in part:
"I have arrived at the conclusion that there is a real need for additional financial provision for the needy people of Kansas. It is generally law that under our present law the counties are required to bear too great a share of this financial burden and that the state has not assumed its full share of the burden.
"No matter what some may say, the sales tax law was passed for the purpose of providing for social welfare. We have not discharged our workers because we only approximately 25 per cent of the sales tax for the needy people.
'Sales Tax for Social Welfare'
"I fail to see where any worth-
while object is realized by a law
which causes the counties to bank-
rupt themselves by issuing bonds
and excess levies for the poor fund
when there is on hand at least $4-
000,000, raised for this purpose,
which can be used to help the县
and relieve them of their finan-
cial distress.
"An unbroken line of precedent shows that every new tax is just another tax unless there is a mandatory provision compelling the tax spenders to reduce taxes. The plan of the legislature to compel a reduction of taxes on real property by 10% would be against the sales tax fund to all the funds in all the municipalities will not succeed because, in the opinion of lawyers, that provision of the law requiring this is unconstitutional.
'Should Call Special Session'
"This emergency having arisen, it appears to me that the proper thing to do is to call a special session of the legislature, amend the law, placing this additional sum in the welfare fund, make it available to the counties, raise the percentage of the burden that the state bears, and lower the percentage that the counties bear, and thus enable the counties adequately protect their own property, reduce their poor fund levies. In this way, we will get more tax relief than if we fritter their money away through more than 35 funds in all of the different municipalities and will also be using this money for the purpose for which it was raised.
"It is my intention to call a special session of the legislature at the earliest date possible to give the legislature an opportunity to consider these matters. A definite time for convening the legislature has not been determined and I am consulting with some members of the legislature regarding the date, but it is my present intention to call the session of the legislature at least by the 7th of February."
Hospital Notes
Allen D. McCoy, c'41, who was accidentally wounded by a rifle bullet recently, underwent an operation at Watkins Memorial hospital Tuesday morning for removal of the bullet, which had lodged near the lower end of his spine. He was reported to be recovering satisfactorily.
Dorothy Seaver, c'38, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, was reported improving.
Fourteen students were confined in the hospital Tuesday.
Robert Mouncey, gr., underwent an operation for the removal of his tonsils Tuesday. In addition to doing graduate work, Mouncey is a chemist for the Lawrence city water department. ...
Wagstaff to Study at Columbia
Leave of absence for next semester has been granted to Miss Helen Wagstaff, secretary of the bureau of general information in the extension division. She will study at Columbia University, New York City, during the second semester, working for her librarian's degree.
M.T.D.U. and I.T.U.
Affiliates Separate
Indianapolis, Jan. 25.- (UP)-More than 3,700 members of the Mailer Trade District Union, who are affiliated with the International Typographical Union, voted in a national referendum to separate from the typographers, members of the canvassing board announced today.
The vote, taken in 65 local unions over the country, was 1,995 for separation and 1,762 against it.
The next step, it was said, is a vote of the typographers on whether they will consent to the separation.
The masters' union wants to for-
 its own international organization It is composed of mailing room em-
ployees, newspapers and publishing companies.
Noted Poet
To Be Here
William Rose Benet Will
Speak on Modern Poets
Next Month
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying.
I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride below!
I shall start a heron soon
In the marsh beneath the
moon—
Over the nation, and in other nations, critics have reviewed and poets have discussed his poem of "the Earth." He has also contributed of his contributions to modern verse.
So wrote William Rose Benet, American poet, who will speak here next month. And so read elementals in his literature text books, students in their literature text books.
Mr. Benet is conducting an extended lecture tour this year and will speak in Fraser theater on Feb. 11 at 3:30 p.m. on "Modern Poets." The lecture, which is under the auspices of Phi Beta Kappa, national university, and the department of English, is to be open to the public.
Born in Ft. Hamilton, NY., in 1886, he was graduated from Albany Academy and received his Ph.D. from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1907. Later, an honorary M.A. was conferred on by that university, and an honaria Litt.D. from Dickinson College.
The late Eleanor Wylie, outstanding writer of verse who died in 1928, was his wife. At the present Mr. Benet is chairman of the committee which is working on the creation of a memorial to her.
"Golden Fleece," a collection of ballads and verse, is his most recently published work. His poetry includes: "Merchants from Catbay," "The Burglar of the Zodiac," and "The Tide." a novel in literature and trifecta, written comment in literary circles when published several years ago.
Benet has served as assistant editor of the Century Magazine and the Nation's Business, and he was associate editor of both the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post and the Saturday Review of Literature, to which he is now a contributing editor.
His works have also appeared in such magazines as: The Common-weal, The Lyric, The New Yorker, and Poetry.
President's Ball Saturday
Along with dancing to Red Blackburn's orchestra, those attending the President's birthday ball Saturday evening at the Memorial Union will hear the address of President Roosevelt over a loudspeaker system.
All details for the party have been completed, Roger M. Williams, manager of the dance, reported yesterdays that he will be furnished from 9 to 12 o'clock.
Inner Circle of Second Milers Meets Tonight
The Inner Circle of the Second Milers will meet tonight at 7:15 at Westminster hall.
On Sunday at 7:30 there will be a joint meeting of the high school and University groups at the Presbyterian Church.
Snow Storm Maroons Children
Fifty-High Males Giles Pile Up
Twenty-Foot Drifts in
Upper Peninsula Region
Of Michigan
Marquette, Mich., Jan 25 — (UP) — Winter's fierce storm stipped Michigan's northern peninsula today. Gales of 50 miles an hour choked all highways with mountainous drifts, roads and motorists in zero temperatures.
Snow Plows Fail
Drivers of two busses carrying the children to their homes from Iron-wood high school sought shelter in a house consolidated school late yesterday.
Nearly fifty high school children were marooned in a school house five miles from Ironwood, Mich. Farmers nearby fought through drifts which in some places were plied 20 feet deep to carry food to the stranded chil-
At Bessener, road commission officials said they were trying to break through to the school with snow plows, but so far had failed.
George W. Koronski, superintendent in the county engineer's office, said there was no danger that the boys and girls would go hungry as are several farms within half a mile of the school.
At noon snow plow crews broke through to another school bus in which a driver and several children had been reported marooned all night. The bus was empty and it was learned the driver, Raymond Mullins, had taken his charges safely to a nearby farm house.
Fire, which started while the blizzard was at its height, swept through three buildings in downtown Marquette. Firemen were hampered by wind. Emergency equipment from other cities was blocked by drifts.
Highway crew rescued more than a hundred motorists caught in the swirling drifts. Calls for aid continued to crowd switchboards where telephone service still was available. Service Paralyzed
Mainstreet was isolated until 10 o'clock this morning. Power service failed last night, paralyzing all electrical service to hospitals, homes and factories. A 1-toot snowfall was piled into drifts 7 feet high, blocken; all highways beyond hope of opening them with snow slopes.
At Holland three coast guardmen searched for a fisherman reported to have been swept into Lake Macatawa with his cottage last night.
Barometer readings throughout Michigan were the lowest in many years, indicating a continuation of the storm.
Flood Waters Recede
Temperatures that dropped as much as 25 degrees within a few hours in some sections halted the rush of flood waters through southern Wisconsin, northwestern and central Illinois, and part of eastern Iowa.
Streams which gushed over their banks yesterday, taking at least one life<sup>1</sup> forcing hundreds from their homes, and disrupting traffic, were receding or holding at earlier levels. Suffering was intense among the 400 persons made homeless by floods in Rockford. Ill. The cold, although it cut down the flow of flood waters, endangered the health of many famili- ties in makeshift quarters until the water receded from their homes.
Choral Union In Need of Tenors
Need for more tenors in the Law-
rence Choral Union, which will present Edgar Stillman Kelly's "The
Easter Song," is announced at rehearsal last night.
It was also urged that those who have enrolled as members but have been forced to be absent from several rehearsals, re-elist.
"Numbers alone cannot make a great chorus, but without numbers you cannot have one either," a spokesman said.
The University Symphony Orchestra, which will participate in the presentation, has devoted three rehearsals to the work.
"The orchestra is already handling the work in a brilliant and inspiring manner." Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts said yesterday. "The orchestra this year is the best one in the history of the school." Karl Kueerstine, Dr. Otto W. Missner is director of the chorus.
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