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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
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VOLUME XXXV
Jayhawkers Plan Victory Over Iowa
Shooting for *Sec on a*
*Position in Conference,*
Kansas Quintet *P l a y*
Cyclones Tomorrow
Back in the conference running with their recent victory over Kansas State, Doctor Allen's Kansas Jayhawkers will try to make it two straight when they meet Iowa Cyclone five here tomorrow night.
It will be coach against pupil, and Louie Mencz, particularly anxious to break the long run of defeats suffered at the hands of his former teacher, Doctor Allen, brings a club with an even chance of victory for the first time in several years. The Cyclones have not licked the Jayhawkers here since 1932, when they came through for a 37-29 win.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938
Doctor Allen still has not hit upon a regular starting five. Constant shifting of the lineup to find the smoothest team seems to indicate, however, that there is only one position not settled. George Golay, by virtue of his brilliant play in the defeat of the Kansas State Wildcats, appears to have hit his true stride, while sophomore Don Ebbing will start at the other forward. Sylvester Schmidt will be back at his old center position, along with Fred Pralle at one guard, and other players. The team's other, Johnson started and played well in Manhattan, while Dick Harp, though in the game for only a short while, managed to get 3 field goals.
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No Regular Starting Five
For Iowa State it will be Menge and Anderson at forwards, Ryan at center, and Bliss and Blahnik at guards. Bob Blahnik's driving play, which has given him an average of 14 points in six non-conference games, has served notice that he is the man for the Jayhawks to concentrate on. Also very capable is Louie Menge's son, smallest regular in the Big Six. In the Kansas State game Blahnik hit for 12 points, while Menge gathered 6 on 3 field goals.
Steady Practice This Week
An interesting feature of the Menze team is their slow-break offense, which seems to have been little affected by the new no-tip rule. It seems futile, however, to attempt to whip the Hawkjawers at their own game, the style which gave Doctor Allen six championships in seven years. It was a fast break that did it in the Utah State series two years ago, and again last Friday night.
The Jayhawkers have gone back to steady practice this week, centering most of their attention on a defense to stop the Cyclone scoring. The team has been the weakest part in the play of Doctor Allen's cagers this year.
Another interesting fact which points to an interesting game is the score of each team against Kansas State. The Cyclones won, 41-30 the Jayhawkers 33-21, a difference in margin of only 1 point.
--late Frank W. Blackmar, professor of sociology, in his biography of Governor Charles Robinson.
HAY by WIRE
If you see students carrying eigh by ten inch pieces of cardboard around the Campus as if they were afraid that they were going to be high-jacked, think nothing of it. They are just seniors with four years of hard work represented on the transcript in their hands. It is almost as difficult to get out of here as it is to get into the place. A friendly tip to the freshmen: Ge your required courses early, and start saving $7.50 for that "sheep skin."
Starting next week the pool room in the basement of the Union building might do well to replace the present billard balls with else something like that next week will develop plenty of customers.
Doris Johnson and Sailie Jane Bachelor, Kappas, were so interested in the welfare of the basketball team last Tuesday night that they made the announcement to the players. Penion Durand enough inspiration to make the first team.
One of the local economists says that the depression must be on the way out. He saw a rabbit the other day running like h---- and there was no one after him.
We doubt it item: Harvard fresh-
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A Cappella Choir Needs One More Tenor
Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, announced yesterday that there is one place open for new students. Cappella choir in the tenor section.
According to the announcement from the office of the School of Fine Arts, candidates for the place should attend a workshop. Swarthout at once for a tryout.
At present the choir is preparing a concert program that will be given in Kansas City, Topeka, and other cities. It will also be featured during Music week and on Palm Sunday.
Feb. 13 the choir will appear in its mid-winter concert. The choir now has 70 selected voices.
Dr. Palmer Talks Sunday
Topic Will Be "Ten Days Among Commun-
Dogs Among Comm
ists” in Union Ballroom
Dr. A. W. Palmer, professor of practical theology and president of Chicago Theological Seminary, will speak on "Ten Days Among Communists" Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Union building.
Doctor Palmer has spoken before many groups in Chicago about his experiences in Europe last summer. He is spending two days in Lawton, upon his return from Oklahoma, he will be filling several engagements.
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Doctor Palmer is an honorary member of the Rotary Club, and is one of the board of managers of the Chicago Metropolitan Y.M.C.A. This fall he was elected president of the Chicago Church Federation, which includes 18 denominations and 200 churches. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity. Some of his publications include "The Human Side of Hawaii," "The Man in the Mirror" and "ship." "Pathways to the Presence of God," "Orientalists in American Life," and "The Minister's Job."
Members of the faculty and students will have an opportunity to meet and question Doctor Palmer at a reception to be given at Henley house at 1236 Oread street from 5 to 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Jeanne Youngman and Erma Lee Brewer are chairmen of the two commissiones that are sponsoring the talk.
Blackburn Plays for Ball
Red Blackburn and his band have been picked by the committee in charge to play for the President's Ball. The dance will be held in the Memorial Union ballroom, Jan. 29 lasting from 9 until 12 o'clock.
Roger M. Williams, chairman of the committee on arrangements for the dance last year, has been appalled to fill the job for the dance this year.
This will be the fifth year a dance of this kind has been held at the University. The proceeds from the paid admissions will go into a fund to fight infantile parts throughout the country. A part of the fund is provided by Lawncare for the aid of sufferers of the disease in Douglas county.
Taft Asks For Relief Funds
Washington, Jan. 13—(UP) The senate unemployment and relief committee today heard urgent pleas for a unified relief program to meet increased needs caused by the business recession.
Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, chairman of the committee of the community mobilization for human needs, and Louis E. Kirstein, Boston merchant, supported the unification program.
Taft said the government should make direct allocations to the states for a "general relief program, including work relief," and that the states should match the funds in a prescribed proportion.
Graduating Seniors
Taft proposed the creation of a national commission to study the operation of relief, security, and public welfare programs in order to eliminate the confusion which he contended now exists.
All seniors graduating this semester are requested to call the Jayhawker office or the W, S.G.A. book exchange to make arrangements for their pictures in the Jayhawk.
BOB PEARSON
Editor.
Zeta Barbour Explains Hostel Idea
"We just travel around, and sleep places at night."
Movement Aids Young And Old in Getting a Better knowledge of American Scenery
With this statement, Miss Zeta Barbour defined the activities of the American Youth Hostels, Inc. The purpose of the movement, continued Miss Barbour, is "to help young and old to a greater knowledge of the countryside both here and abroad."
Miss Barbour spoke yesterday afternoon at the open forum sponsored by a joint committee of the W.Y.C.A. and the Y.M.C.A. Her subject was, "The Youth Hostel Movement in America."
The "hostelry" movement was started in Germany about 1910 by Richard Sherman. Gradually, it spread over Europe—to Norway, Scotland and Wales, Italy, and several other countries, attracting those who enjoyed the culture of travel. Brought Movement to America.
About 1932, Isabelle and Mumrow Smith were chaperoning a Boy Scout tour through Europe. They became interested in these hostelries and, in 1932, were appointed by the International Hostelry convention to bring movement across the Atlantic to America so that ex-servicemen could be arranged. In 1935, it became the American Youth Hostels, Inc.
Brought Movement to America
Today there are 70 hosties in New England alone. They are spaced about 15 miles apart, and form connected trails or loops which the travellers may follow either on foot, by bicycle, or in any fashion they desire. In winter, skiing parties are frequently organized, in hostels, boarding halls, Germany is a favorite means of transportation.
Hostelries at Farm Houses
These hostelries are usually located in farm houses, preferably off the main travelled roads. The owners act as "house-parents," or chaperons. Each traveller must possess a pass-card, which is checked every night at the hostelry in which he stays. The only other necessary equipment is a knapsack, the most important part of which is his sleeping bag. Blankets and pillows are furnished at the hostelries.
There are separate sleeping quarters and other facilities, and a common recreation hall and kitchen in which the travellers prepare their own meals. The cost of a pass-card is $1 for all who are under 21, and $3 for those over 21. A nominal fee of 25 cents per night is charged at the hostels.
Purpose to Arouse Interest
Miss Mary E. Wooley, former president of Mount Holyoke College, is now the president of A.Y.H. Inc. The national director, Mumrow Smith, is expected to speak on the movement Feb. 20 in Kansas City. Any further information may be obtained by writing to the American Youth Hostelries, Inc., Northfield, Mass.
Miss Barbour is traveling through this part of the country for the purpose of arousing interest in the hostelry movement. She feels quite hopeful that trails will be established in Colorado and possibly the Ozark area, where very more future. She is a member of the national staff of A.V.H. Inc.
Mrs. E. W. Martin, widow of E. W. Martin, former chief electrician on the Hill, is lil at the home of her son, Robert Pugh, 1809 Illinois street.
Rehearsals of the Second University Band are postponed until second semester. Members of the band are to be resumed. rehearsals are to be resumed.
Authorized Parties
Friday, January 14 University band, dinner dance 12 p.m.
POSTPONE RECITAL
Mrs. E. W. Martin Is Ill
JAMES VAN DYCK. fa'39
Friday, January 14
Saturday, January 15
Jeffersonian Duad, Memoria
Union. 12 p.m.
Friday, January 14
Chi Omega, winter formal, 12 p.m.
Saturday, January 15
ELIZABETH MEGUIRA
Adverse to Women for
the Joint Committee on
Student Affairs.
University Club Will Hear Baker Professor
The University Club will give an informal dinner Tuesday, Jan. 18 in honor of Senorita Elisa Perez associate professor of foreign languages at Baker University, in Baldwin.
She is a native of Spain, where her family still lives, and where her brother is a member of the loyalist fighting forces. She holds several degrees from colleges and universities in different countries.
Senorita Perez, who received her master's degree from the University of Kansas in 1927, will speak on "The Present Crisis in Spain."
Prof. and Mrs. Leonard Axe will be hosts for the dinner.
Will Hold Tryouts Today
To Complete the Roster
Of Performers for All-
Musical Event
Competitors for spots in the all-Campus musical revue which is assuming shape under the direction of James Coleman, e38, producer. The orchestra will be joined by the Union ballroom at 4 o'clock to complete the roster of performers.
Although a number of well-known Campus artists have already signified a desire to take part in the revue, several openings in the lineup have not yet been filled and the staff is anxious to secure acts that have had little publicity on the Campus. In addition to a variety of solo acts, the Modern Choir and a 14-piece band composed of Campus musicians will take part in the revue, the first to be given here in several years.
Contrary to an announcement in yesterday's Kansan, the tentative chorus chosen Wednesday will not practice today, but will work out Monday afternoon under the tutelage of Catherine Dunkel and Jayne Coats. At that time any University woman who has not yet tried out but so desires, will be tested and it is likely that several changes will be made in the lineup chosen Wednesday.
The task of selecting the music for the revue is virtually completed, although competition in that field will not be open until the close of the first semester. Entirely original compositions will be used, and effusive writing will have these audited by publishing agents with a view to publication.
The complete personnel for the show's production staff will be announced in Sunday's Kansas.
Founder of Beta Theta Pi Dies in Alta Dena, Calif.
Dr. Charles F. Bassett, who attended the University from 1869 to 1874, died Dec. 19 at the age of 87. Dr. Bassett was a member of the alumni office yesterday.
Dr. Bissett was the last living founder of Beta Theta Tau. He practiced medicine for the most part of his life and spent the last few months of his life in Alaena, Calif., where he died.
Under these guarantees, the legislature in 1863 passed a law establishing a state University at Lawrence, providing a site of 40 acres and endowment of $15,000. The act passed the legislature Feb. 11, 1863, and was signed by Governor Thomas Carney, Feb. 20, 1863.
The struggle to raise the $15,000 endowment is told in detail by the
Incidentally, it required the vote of Edward Russell, presiding officer of the house of representatives, to decide that the word "Lawrence" was indicated for "Emportt" in the law. The senator passed the measure readily.
Debris Bits Mark Grave Of Clipper
No less than three denominations tried to start a college in the pioneer free-state town of Lawrence, but it failed. The ruption of the Civil war prevented.
The congressional act admitting Kansas to the Union had granted 72 sections of land for a university endowment, and the Wyandotte constitution provided for such an institution to "promote literature and the arts and sciences, including a crop and an agricultural department."
Plane Down One Thousand Fathoms Following Blast; Water Strewed With Wreckage
Pioneer struggles to establish an institution of higher learning are recalled by the announcement of a committee to suggest suitable recognition of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the University of Kansas.
Washington, Jan. 13—(UP)—Bureau of Air Commerce officials said today that Pago Pago reports indicate the Pan-American Airways' Saman clapper may have suffered the same fate that beffl the German dirigible Hindenburg.
Pago Pago reported that wreckage of the clipper was found strewn over a wide area, indicating that the ship may have been blown to bits in midair as gasoline was being dumped to "trim" the ship for the descent to the ocean surface.
Recall Pioneer Struggles In Founding of University
The men of the Avocet found the clipser's watery grave 16 hours after the Pan-American Airways skydiver jumped from here to Auckland, New Zealand.
The old United States mine-sweeper Avolce, only available boat at this remote South Sea island, returned late last night from an only splotch of sea, 14 miles from the island, where Capt. Edwid C. Mui and his six companions of the clipper crew were lost Tuesday morning.
(Webster's dictionary gives the following pronunciation of Pago Pago: Pagapago (one word) pronounced Pago-po -pang o -wac with a cursive 'a'. The second "o" is "as in the word "arm", and "o" is "long as in the old.")
Pago Pago, American Samoa, Jan. 13.—(UP) The Samoa clapper went down in 1,000 fathoms of water after an explosion so terrific that it strewed the ocean with tiny bits of debris from the sheltered interior of the fuselage, searchers reported today.
Clipper Was Blown to Pieces
The wreckage that was left, Chief Boatshain H. S. Bogan, of the Avocet, indicated the clipper was blown to pieces.
One was a two-hour gap in the plane's log. It was at $3.90 am. Samae time, Tuesday, when Captain Musick lifted his great four-motored craft from the harbor and headed south on the 1868 mile last week. The Pan-American's new route from the United States to New Zealand.
Neither the search by sea nor air produced any trace of the bodies of the seven men who died. The Avocet crew took soundings and found the water more than a mile deep. Little more was known of the clipper's fate than that it burned and sank. Several things about its disastrous trip remained to be solved.
Motor Developed Oil Leak
It was 38 minutes later when Captain Musick reported one of the motors had developed an oil leak and
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As early as 1858, Dr. Blackman relates, the Birmingham Church of America had planned a college at Lawrence, and in 1859 obtained a charter from the territorial legislature which allowed those were chosen, including Charles Robinson, chairs established, faculty chosen, and, in fact, some instruction was given in the basement of the Unitarian church, then on Ohio street just north of Tenth Plans were made for a building, 36 blocks south and ultimately to cost $50,000, and work was started on the foundations.
About the same time the Congregational denomination sought to establish a college as a memorial to the triumph of liberty over slavery, but the drought of 1860 prevented active work, and the Presbyterians stopped work on the foundations of their college.
The people of Lawrence kept alive the interest in a college, and in 1861 obtained a charter for "Lawrence University of Kansas," and this time found the Episcopal church as sponsor. Again the project failed.
Governor Robinson veted a legislative act of 1861 to put the state university at Manhattan. Two years later the agricultural college was lo-
Noyes Will Retire From AP Presidency
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New York, Jan. 13.—(UP)—Frank Brett Noyes, for 38 years president of the Associated Press, announced today his retirement from that post effective at the expiration of h is 75 years old July 7. Noyes will be 75 years old July 7.
Noyes, who will continue as president and publisher of the Washington Evening Star, has for many years been the only surviving member of the small group which founded the Associated Press.
Minister Persuaded To Delay Resignation for More Study of Problem
Paris, Jan. 13.—(UP)—The popular front cabinet, plunged by finance and labor problems, fought off crisis today after Finance Minister Georges Bonnet had threatened o resign.
After an emergency meeting of three hours, with Pierre Fournier, governor of the b Bank of France, sitting in part of the time, officials announced Camille Chautemps would draft a statement on finances to be read later in the afternoon in the chamber of deputies.
As the cabinet meeting started, general nervousness prevalent lest resignation of Bonnet, and of the entire cabinet, be announced today. But no resignations were announced. It had been reported Bonnet, offering his resignation, agreed to defer it at least until tomorrow to give Chaumtemp's a chance to seek an agreement between employers and workers to end a long series of strikes, and to strengthen finances.
The statement presumably was to be read after stock market and money market closing. Governor Johnson should have approved the statement.
Bonnet was dissatisfied both with the finance situation and failure of the government to effect an agreement between capital and labor.
Chautemps' statement will appeal to the nation to support the government's efforts to protect the franc and establish social peace.
Bonn went to the cabinet meeting intending to resign, but was persuaded to delay it to enable Chauntems to continue negotiations.
Parliamentary circles, however,
considered the crisis merely delayed
a week. There was a growing belief
that Edouard Daladier next would
attempt a cabinet concentration of
the powers in Paris, allowing Paul Reynau and Pierre Etienne Flandin to join it in an effort to invite public confidence.
Kansas Farmers Stop Soil Erosion
Salina, Jan. 13—(UP)—Use oo soil conservation in Kansas increased more during 1937 than in any other year in the state's history, reports made by the service indicate. All phases of erosion control showed a gain, according to the report. Contour farming was the type of erosion-control most used; terracing ranked second. Strip planting was the most effective body eroded land from cultivation, the planting of grass and trees, gully control and pasture management were other methods used.
Vegetation was used in addition to trees for gully control. It also has been used successively on cultivated fields, and in terrace-on-output systems.
The coming year will see an ever greater use of all types of soil erosion control, workers believe.
Phi Alpha Delta Installs Officers
Installation of officer was held yesterday afternoon in Green hall by Phi Alpha Delta, law fraternity for the coming semester will be:
Cyrus Wade, '138, justice; Joseph Sheedy, '139, vice-justice; S. Dotts, '138, secretary; Elmer Merville, '140, loyal Layes; M33, marshal.
Those graduating are: Virgil McElroy, Paul Haggard, Charles Stough, Donald Hansen, Darrel Dinette, and John Aderhold.
Herbert Sizemore, 1738, retiring justice, was presented a key by the chapter in appreciation of his services at a banquet held in the evening at the Colonial tea room in honor of the graduating members.
Dean Frederick Moreau and Prof. P. W. Viesselman of the School of Law faculty were also guests.
Roosevelt Considering New Bureau
Another Agency Will Facilitate Co - operation Between Business and Government
Washington, Jan. 13—(UP)—President Roosevelt was understood to day to be considering the feasibility of establishing a new federal agency to facilitate co-operation between business and government.
Another Meeting Jan. 19
Donald Richberg, former head of the NRA and now a member of a Washington law firm, and Ernest Draper, assistant secretary of commerce, were said to have formulated the plan.
Although it was emphasized the President has not formed any definite program for promoting greater business-government mutuality, high administration officials indicated his study of possible means to end the economic recession centered about the new agency idea.
Significantly, Richberg attended the White House conference Tuesday when the President met five prominent industrialists. Yesterday Draper's immediate superior, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, and Richard Grimes, encouraged the President to meet 50 more industrialists, Jan. 19.
The new agency plan is not considered out of line with the objectives of the administration's recently initiated trust-breaking drive and, it was said, is being advanced by several of the President's closest ad-
The plan proposes:
1. To revise, strengthen and clarify anti-trust laws, believed to have become obsolete, in order to stimulate competition and break up unhealthy
2 To establish a new agency which would supervise and sanction specific acts of business, guiding it along with the adjustment schedule.
No Anti-Trust Legislation Yet
The President's desire for a revision of anti-trust statutes was announced when he called Congress back to Washington for a special session. He requested the heweder more stringent anti-true legislation in a four-point program.
rower, no definite anti-trust legislation has been devised yet and the President now is understood to be considering supplementing its objectives with aid-to-business measures.
Draper, who said he and Richberg were advocating the business-aid program as well as the anti-trust drive, said.
"We believe the anti-trust laws should be revised not only negatively—telling business what it cannot do—and telling business what it can do.
Should Be No Price-Fixing
"I think it should be made clear that industry should come to the government voluntarily to get together for action in the public interest and trade to cut out unfair trade practices as well as learn exactly how far business men may go by using the internet, planning to market and purchasing power estimates without trespassing on anti-trust laws."
He said Assistant Attorney-General Robert H. Jackson in a recent speech before the Federal Bar Association advocated a possible agency to tell business what it could and could not do.
"There should be no price fixing." Draper said, "but there should be an adjustment to purchasing power.
"As I understand it, the idea of creating a federal agency is now under contemplation. Such an agency would supervise but at the same time help industry, and would help understanding of new trust laws."
"It will take new legislation to establish such an agency."
Quill Club Accepts Two Pledges at Meeting
Two new pledges, Ben Mandelville,
c'38, and Gordon Brigham, c'uncle,
were accepted by Quill club last
spring in the Green room, Frasher厅.
Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and dramatic art, was the guest speaker. He discussed "Your First Book."
Agnes Mumert, c'40, George Michalopoulos, sp, Anthony Zbonik, c'unel, and Karl Kraus, c'38, were nominated as candidates for chancellor for the new semester. Election will be held Feb. 3.