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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Serkin Gives Recital Monday
Famous Pianist Opens
Concert Series; Many
Will Attend From Out
Of Town
Rudolph Serkin, nationally known, pianist, will open the University concert series next Monday night with a piano recital. Critics of New York City newspapers vied with each other in their praise of this young artist, according to the Fine Arts office.
Serkin made his debut in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra when he was two years of age. He was born in Czechoslovakia. Throughout his life he has studied under artists such as Arnold Schenker.
Made Tours in Euorpe
Four years ago he appeared in the United States for the first time with Busch at the Coulde Festival in Washington. He took solos parts in a full symphonic Symphony for a year under the baton of Arturo Tosconi.
Many Come from Other Towns
The pianist traveled on concert tours throughout Europe giving concerts in France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Austria. After becoming acquainted with Adolph Busch, the violinist, Serkin undertook several tours in joint recitals with this artist.
The surrounding towns will be represented by several subscribers at the Concert Series this year. The towns to be represented are Kansas City, Mo. Owatonna, Manhattan, Lecompton, Holton, Topokie, Ottawa, and Des Moines. These three towns have placed their reservations with the Fine Arts office.
This recital will mark the opening of a series of Monday night recitals and musicals which will be presented in the Chapels of the School of Fine Arts.
Those who have reserved season tickets are asked to call for them at the Fine Arts office this week, in order to facilitate the sale of tickets at the box office on Monday evening.
on the SHIN by Don Hays
Zero hour for the men of the Hib is coming up Friday night, Nov. 12. It's that big social event of the year, the Puff Pant Prom. It's very much not the thing to do to ask a girl for a date that night—of course you know. But this year, as a simply concise note to people who will have dates, the dance has been scheduled from 8 o'clock to 11. For formal attire isn't essential—you've no idea how hard it is to find a man with a tux of the right proportions who will willing to lend. The big attraction of the evening will be a dancing contest for couples from each sorority, Corbin, etc. It real promises me a chance to D. J. Willecus and company in charge. (And the Kansas isn't receiving a penny for this either.)
Guest Conductor—Betty Graham
The D.U. serenade the other ever practically left tragedy in its wake. At the Stigma Kappa house, about ten girls proved too much for one of the beds and it kinda blunched out, collapsing on the big toe of one of the girls. Fine serenade though it was—what with the D.U.'s showing off with a piano and stuff, "Bubby wonders whether it was worth it."
Can it be that Fred "Cuddles" McCoy, winsome Pohl Delt prexy, is another example of love's labor lost? After spending all weekend wooing Jane Waring in the city, rumor rises its ugly head that Janie is really carrying the torch to the Hill. Stay right in there Fred. Propinquity has its virtues (if you know what we mean).
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937
We hate to give the Phil Delti this much space, but we can't help wondering how Elmer Columbia manages to keep on going with four Gamma Phil's, one Alpha Cili, and one Phil Pi. What it says to it comes
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Kansan Representatives Charter Plane to Lincoln
Three members of the University Daily Kansan staff have chartered an airplane to fly to Lincoln, Satur- a day before the Nebraska football game.
The representatives are: J. Howard Rusco, c38; publisher, Claude Dorsey, c38; president of the Press Club and member of the Kansan Board; and Charles Alexander, c38, telegraph editor.
The chartered plane, a Stinson four-place cabin ship, is owned and placed by Elza Stone of Lawrence.
The staff members are to leave for Lincoln at 11 a.m. Saturday and expect to arrive in the Cornhuskers' city at 12:30 p.m.
After the game they may have a police escort from the stadium to the airport, enabling them to arrive at the game. Then the story of the game for the Kansan.
Break Feared In Conference At Brussels
England May Leave
After Clash With Italy;
Japan Refuses To Join
In Negotiations
Brussels, Nov. 4—(UPC)—Great Britain was reported early today to be paving the way for collapse of the Far Eastern peace conference—only 12 hours after its eloquent opening—because of Japan's refusal to provide assistance. Easily Italy's threat to block any plan for an armistice in the Orient.
The United States, Britain and France clashed with Italy after Norman H. Davis, America's roving ambassador, told the conference of 19 powers that war threatened the city as long as hostilities raged in China.
Leave in Discouragement
The delegates left the marble salon of Belgium's Academy of Arts and Sciences in deep discouragement and the British statesmen immediately began "salvage operations" in anticommunication of a breakdown of negotiations.
The British ambassador to Brussels, Sir Robert Henry Clive, who was stationed in Tokyo until last March, conferred with Japan's ambassador, Savuro Kurasu, and was understood to have attempted to learn whether Japan would attend the 1953 Games and date and discuss a Chinese-Japanese settlement on a broader basis" than the present one might attempt.
9-Power Signers To Meet
The British delegates believed the proposal might enable Japan to "save face" and at the same time allow the Brussels conference to break up without the embarrassing necessity of coercive measures against Japan.
The fate of the conference may be decided this morning at a restricted
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Business School Smoker Tonight
George Docking, prominent Lawrence banker, will speak at the first School of Business smoker tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting will be held at the Alpha Kappa Psi house.
Without the furor and beating of drums which accompany the men's elections, the freshman women will be given the opportunity with their annual election today.
Teachers To Hear Lecture On Results of Reading Clinic
A preferential ballot, which allows the vote to designate in order the first three candidates of her team. The method eliminates candidates who do not receive enough votes to win, and makes the winner the choice of the largest number of voters.
Voting for the offices of vice-president and secretary of the freshman class will be held from 8 to 12,30 a.m. Monday in the grounds of the Administration building
Freshman Women Cast Votes Today
Teachers of Lawrence and vicinity for more than a year have been bringing to Dr. Nash's clinical pupila whose work was lagging, especially if it appeared that the difficulty has kept pupils' inability to read effectively.
several Candidates U p for Vice-President And Secretary of First Year Class
Candidates for the office of vice president are as follows. Betty Jean Van Devanter, Wellington; Betty Kimble, Mulvane; Carolen Green Ahleine; Jean Robertson, Maryville and Jean Bowston, Baxter Springs.
The other 75 per cent were found to have reading difficulties that required special attention in the educational. In other words, they lacked interest in the material, having no
Class Most as Psychological Examinations at the clinic disclosed in about 25 per cent of the cases that he could detect and aids defensive eyesight. With that corrected, he took his place in his class.
Those elected will replace Harriet Stephens, c$40, vice-president, and Velma Wilson, c$40, secretary. They will position on the 18th W.G.S.C.A. Council.
Those running for secretary are: Lenora Gibraze Bussit; Bornardine Hall, Kansas City; Dorothy Newell, Lawrence; Lloyd Louise Owens, Seaworth.
To Use Preferential Ballot
All freshman women are urged by Doris Stockwell, president of the W.S.G.A., to vote today sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for freshman vice-president and secretary.
background of related experiences
A reading clinic, conducted at the University of Kansas under direction of Bert A. Nash, professor of education, is having excellent success in discovering, and in many cases finding a remedy for pupils who are backward in their school work. Lectures and demonstrations of the apparatus and methods used by students will be a section meeting of the Kansas State Teachers' convention, tomorrow and Saturday.
He is going early to attend meetings of the committee on classification of universities and colleges, which will last several days. The committee will consider also the graduate work that is being offered by smaller institutions in the United States.
To Vote From 8 to 5
Thirty-two of the larger universities of the United States constitute the association, with Leland Stanford providing the president; Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the secretary; Delegates to the meeting will be mostly presidents of institutions concerned.
Stouffer To Make Trip to Rhode Island
Freshman will not be required to present their activity cards, but those listed as unclassified in the student directory must have a statement from the registrar's office certifying that they are eligible to vote.
E. B. Stouffer, de the Graduate School, will leave this evening for Providence, R.L. to attend meet- nals and a summer American Universities. November 11-13.
One of the dozen guests of the meeting will be Fred J. Kelly, formerly dean of the School of Education here, and now chief of the division of higher education in the U.S. Office of Education.
Class Most as Psychological
NUMBER 41
they might have acquired lazy reading habits, permitting attention to wander to anything else at hand; groundings or home duties interfered.
Effectiveness of the reading was tested by a series of questions about the subject matter, asked by the examiner immediately after the reader completed. Repeated use of the machine induced improved reading habits.
Some pupils it was found, were spending two hours on an assignment that others were completing in a half hour.
Machine Induces Speed
Where the inability to read and comprehend content within a reasonably short time appeared to be a matter of habits, the pupil was given training with a reading chart in which a simple tale (sometimes a nursery story) was told with but one hand and not at all any one time. The machine, with rhythmically opening and closing shutters, led the pupil's eye across the line in three regular fixations, then returning it to the left for the next line, and so on. Speed of the machine could be varied to the capacity of the subject.
Machine Induces Speed
Kirby Page
Kirby Page, author and lecturer will appear on the Campus today and tomorrow in a series of lectures and conferences. His appearance is sponsored by the YMCA and the WYCA. Page will give a lecture today in Prentice at 4:30 a.m. on *A Creed for Youth*.
K.U. Alumni Plan Dinner
To Be Held for K.S.T.A.
Convention: Allen Will
W be M. C.
Dr. F. C. Allen, professor of physical education, will act as toastmaster at the University Alumni dinner in the Memorial Union building tomorrow evening at 5:30. The alumni organization is meeting in conjunction with the Kansas State Teacher' Association which is conducting sessions on the Hill Friday and Saturday.
Entertainment provided for the guests includes two dramatic skirts, "Louder Please!" and "Seeing New York." to be presented by the University Dramatic Club. Dr. John Kesel presents a solo performance in his own unique style, a vocal solo Martin Nugen. c$^4$, will perform "Fifteen Minutes of Magic".
T. J. Craig, 35, will direct group singing of University songs, including "Our Team," a new song written by the David Taylor of the School of Fine Arts.
Greetings will be extended to the graduates attending the dinner by Chancellor E. H. Lindley.
Pi Lambda Theta
Pledges Fifteen
Pi Lambda Theta, national education sorority, pledged fifteen women yesterday afternoon. Initiation ceremonies will be held at the Chapel of St. Mary, 1, at Eustoria Heart followed by the annual Founder's Day banquet.
A list of the new pledges follows:
Dorothy Alexander, c38; Marargaret Babcock, c38; Dorothy Caldwell, c38; Alice Scoulbath; Rosemary Cairns, c38; Kathryn Goldamith, cop, c38; Kathryn Goldamith, c38; Roberta Hackman, c38; Thelma Page, c38; Jullie Reh, c38; Lucille Rosch, c38; Geral Dean Sutton, c'enc!; Dorothy Trekell, c38; Eliza Roesch, c38; Dorothy and Dorothy Weingartner, c38;
Members of Pi Lambda Theta who are attending the Kansas State Teachers' convention here will be entertained at a luncheon in the Union building at 12:30 o'clock, Friday, by the local chapter.
As has been the custom in past years, the luncheon will be an informal "get together." Plans are being made to sponsor similar luncheons in the various towns at town of the convention is meeting this year.
Theta Tau, Memorial Union. p.m.
Pi Kappa Alpha, chapter house 12 p.m.
Reservations may be made with Miss Ritch Litchen, who is in charge of the luncheon, or Miss Mattie Benson, president of the local chapter.
Friday, Nov. 5
Authorized Parties
"1011," 1011 Indiana, 12 p.m.
Roger Williams Foundation, Baptist Church, 10.30 p.m.
Wesley Foundation, Eckes hall 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 6 Limited Date
Limited Date Varsity dance, Memorial Union 12 p.m.
Pep Reaches A New High For Game
Phi, Chi, Country Club, 12 p.m.
FUZARTH, MEGJULAR
Adviser to Women for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
Twenty Years of Defeat For Jayhawkers Make For 'Will To Win' Over Huskers
The enthusiasm of the University's ally-conscious students will reach it pok this afternoon when the Jayhawk saupers, led by Russell L. Wiley's crack band, will march from Robinson gymnasium to Memorial stadium at 4:30 o'clock to stage a rally.
The stadium will fairly rock with the lung-bursting shouts of a student body which, for the first time in many years, see in coach hard-faced 'top' players 'hop' that it takes to give the Cornhuskers their long-needed trimming
Coaches To Talk
The coaches and captain of the team will be called over to the stands to make short opn talks.
The cheerleaders urge that every student bring along his best noise-makers, bells, whistles, horns, anything that will create a din which
The University athletic office announced last night that 200 additional tickets for the Kansas-Nebraska game at Lincoln Saturday are on the way, and will be available this morning.
The supply first sent was practically exhausted yesterday, with only a few scattered tickets available. Manager Selleck predicted, if the weather holds up, gate of 30,000 for the game.
can be heard above the shouting voices of the crowd.
The "K" Club will again sponsor a rally at 10:30 this morning, at which time more female speakers call the sound off" in support of the team.
To Rally at Depot
Everyone is asked to meet at the Union Pacific station at 5 p.m. Friday to help give the helpers a rousing send-off as they embark for enemy territory.
To Rally at Depot
The special train will leave Law-
rence at 6 a.m. Saturday and will
arrive in Lincoln at 11 a.m. A rally
will be held at the Union Pacific
station upon arrival and the studu-
ents will parade to the Cornhushk
hotel, where another short rally will
be held.
All students who are driving to Lincoln are urged to meet the train and join in the parade.
Firechief Thanks
Kansan for Finding
Lost Headgear
City Fire Ingle Chalfas, whose $12 that was stolen from his car during the bounce on the Kappa drive last Saturday night, called to shank Henry Watt. The Kappa did not aid in the Daily Kansas, for aiding in the return of the article.
The hat, said Ingalls, was returned Tuesday, by a person who confessed that he had had his fun, and certainly didn’t want to cause expenditure of $12 more for replacement of the headgear.
"I can now go to fires again with the proper spirit about things," Ingalls said.
Faculty Supports Red Cross Fund
The drive for members and contributions began Monday when members of the soliciting committee began contacting University employees. Chairman of the campaign committee of 32 members is Laurence Woodruff, assistant professor of entomology.
Forty-eight members of the faculty and employees of the University have contributed more than $50 to the campaign. It was the first three days of the campaign.
Many Have Too Little
Dean Lawson Answers University Misconceptions
Of the amount received by the organization, half is retained for Red Cross work in Douglas county. Of that amount, 60 quarterbacks at Washington, D.C.
Teachers
Open Meeting
Tomorrow
Mts. Dorothea Brande
And Lord Marley Are
Speakers; Lindley Will
Address Group
More than 1,900 members were en rolled in the Red Cross of Douglas county last year. This year's drive is for 2,100 members and contribution
"Neither conception is true.
Neither conception is true.
"Of course, there are some sons at a daughter's age and the University, but fully one-fourth of our students are entirely self-supporting, and another half earn at least part of their way.
"One misconception of the University is that it is a 'rich man's school', and the other is that a student has to belong to a fraternity or sorority to be 'anybody' on the Hill," said Dean Lawson.
Many Have Too Much
"My candid opinion is that more students at the University are actually suffering from too little money for a bare living than there are any students with a financial need. I learned just the other day that a faculty member had given a student—a junior—a suit of clothes. That boy told the donor that this was the first full suit of clothes he
Two misconceptions of college life and particularly college life at the University, were answered by Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, in a recent talk to more than a hundred students of the K.U. Correspondence Club.
Banquets for Friday evening have been arranged by graduates from the University of Kansas, Emporia and Pittsburg Teachers Colleges, McPherson College, Kansas Wesleyan, and other groups.
Swarthout Speaks To Philharmonic Group
During the two-day session, departmental meetings for schools from kindergarten to college have been planned, and roundtables will be provided for school librarians and school board members, as well as group meetings for the various studies.
The committee consists of about two hundred women. Dear Swarborough spoke to them on music appreciation, referring particularly to the programs of the orchestra to be performed on Thursday and Friday of this week.
Dean D. M. Swarthout spoke to the Women's Committee of the Phillharmonic Orchestra Association in Kansas City yesterday.
Conferences on "Newer Movements in Education — Nursery Schools, Adult Education" with Dr. J. W. Twente of the University as chairman, will have principal speakers from the WPA state organization which directs adult and nursery school projects.
The Kansas State Teachers Association conference, to be held at the University tomorrow and Saturday, will open with a welcome address by P. H. Lander at his first general meeting at 9:30 noon morning
Mrs. Dorothea Brande, author of the recent book, "Wake Up and Live," will be the speaker at the morning meeting. At the program tomorrow night, Lord Marley, deputy speaker of the English House of Lords, will talk on "The Danger of War."
The meeting was held at the home of Judge Henry McCune and Mr Cune.
had had in three years at the University. If I were to tell you his name you would recognize him as active in student affairs.
"The other day at Otawa, at a P.T.A. meeting, a woman said she was afraid they would not be able to afford the cost too much to belong to a sorority.
Two-thirds Are 'Barbs'
"I told her that the cost of sorority membership is debatable--that the social organizations have their good ones and their bad ones—but that membership is not essential at the University.
"I told that mother that, if her daughter didn't 'make' a sorority, or preferred not to join, she would be in good company, for fully two-thirds of the students are not members of any social organization. Not hometown-friendly, member cut off from student leadership activities.
"As a matter of fact, three of the five presidents of the Men's Student Council at the University have been non-fraternity men.
"So much for misconceptions about the University."
Polls Open This Morning For Frosh
First-Men To Vote For Class Officers From 9 to 5 in Basement of Central Ad
The candidates:
President: Bae Riggs, Pachacamac;
Bob Brockett, P.S.G.L.
Freshman voters today will choose their class officers in the annual fresh election.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Men will vote in the basement of Central Ad.
Bob Brockett, P.S.G.L.
Treasurer: Ernest Kiema, P.S.G.L.; Harold Hardy, Pachacamac.
President. Votes on MSC.
Dance managers (two will be chosen); Larry Winn, Pachascam; Howland Iaup, P.S.G.L.; Steve P. Gollil; P.Blair, Douses; Pachascam.
President Votes on M.S.C.
Only the president of the class has a vote on the Men's Student Council, a privilege granted first year in the fall of 1936. The election of this seat is of slight importance to other colleges. A present time, P.S.G.L. 17 to 9 majority can be rarely affected by the loss of one vote. The office, however, carries over until next year's freshman voting, and may be advantageous after the spring election.
Voters will be required to present their identification cards, which will be punched as the ballot is handed out. Any student classified in the student directory as a freshman is required to have his voter is listed as "unclassified," a clarification of his standing may be obtained at the registrar's office.
Polls are in Central Ad Dance managers, as in last year's election, will be chosen by proportional representation. Voters will indicate their preference by marking the order of their choices in numbers after the names of the candidates. Then, in the counting, two successful candidates emerge by elimination of other nominees through their last votes. The president and treasurer are choosing a simple yetitive: voter
Three tables and six voting booths have been set up in the Central Ad basement. Each party may name six men for service at the polls. Election-ning near the polls is prohibited, according to a statement by Newton Hoverstock, c38, chairman of the election board of the M.S.C.
Both parties, in choosing their presidential nominees, followed the same plan they used last fall. Pachacamea again named a non-fraternity freshman from Lawrence, a choice which has been successful in three previous elections. PSGL for the second consecutive year nominated a non-fraternity engineering student.
Counting of the ballots will begin immediately after the polls are closed at 5 p.m.
Play Tryouts
Held Last Night
Troysa for "Elizbeth the Queen," under the direction of Hola Nuckleks, instructor of speech and dramatic acting. She is based in the Little theater of Green hall.
More than thirty students will participate in the production and the cast is not limited to students of drama. The student will be presented Dec. 6, 7, 8, and 10.
"Elizabeth the Queen," a tragedy, is considered the greatest of the first plays written by Maxwell Anderson. Other plays by the same author are "The Woman in the Dress," "What Price Glory," "First Flight," and "Winteret."
The revolving stage, constructed for use in "Bergars on Horseback," will again be used in this play. A special effort will be made to make the scenery and costumes authen-
NOTICE
Will the president of all or-organized houses please see to us that someone obtains copies of the two new songs, "Our Team," and "Old K.U." at the alumni office?
NOTICE
All women planning to make the trip to Lincoln, Neb. Saturday, Nov. 6, must sign up in the office of the adviser to women, 220 Administration building, and have their parents file a written permit with -the adviser to women.
ELIZABETH MEGUIAR Adoption to Women