UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Chancellor Greets New Students
Freedom in Individual
Lives Is Explained by
Lindley at Freshman
Convocation
Chancellor E. H. Lindley officially welcomed more than 1,200 freshmen and new students to the University at the New Student Convocation in Hoch auditorium last night.
Stressing the place freedom has in the life of a University student, the Chancellor pointed out that the University is based on as much freedom as is possible with the large enrollment, and when the confusion of registration and enrollment is will be more freedom of individuals.
"The University is interested in each student as an individual," stated the Chancellor. Everyone has his own way of doing things and should learn to tolerate other points of view."
Dr. Lindley warned the freshmen that a certain amount of freedom of action in the University not only opened the door for advancement but that it also left a chance for a student to lower himself. "Liberty appeals to manhood and womanhood." He urged that everyone participate equally at the beginning of the year, since excellence or success in something, large or small transforms the whole outlook on life.
An educated man, as explained by the Chancellor, can be recognized by his willingness and ability to accept new things. He believes that everything has a cause and he has an open mind. He doesn't trust to luck. He urged the new students to remember that the first requisite is interest, dependability second, and ability third.
Chancellor Lindley closed the address by congratulating the new students upon their matriculation at the University. The new students were named "Black Blue" and "closed the convocation with the "Rock Chalk" yell.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1837
on the SHIN by Virgil Mitchell
Quotation: "We pledged the boys we wanted," from every frat man you meet.
Question: "What has become of Dave Hamlin, last year's Shinster?" It just so happens that Dave has gone the way of the others. He is out in Lyons reporting for the Lyons News. All of which brings back memories of other Kansan humorists. The founder of the school to observe for a Kansas City paper; Reg Hop committed to the society "Diddle" Asher graduated to a society editorship; Rex Woods is coining money on a one-hour weekly; Bud Evans went small town, too; and "Flash" Morris up and put his pin on. Observations: all are single, all are working, and none of them sees anything funny in life anymore.
Much about nothing: What is all this hullaboo about the younger Jenkins snubbing the Pi Phis for the Kappas? Most likely Janette and little sister are like other sisters and find life more livable when out of sight and hearing distance of each other.
Peggy Ann Landon signed on the dotted line before she read what she was signing the other afternoon and found herself with an inch of male attraction and too long standing in accounts for the slip. But in true Landon style she set out to balance her budget and did. She
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Botany Department Offers New Landscaping Course
A new course of interest to students of architecture and landscaping, and to all students interested in beautifying their own home grounds, is being offered for the first this year in the department of botany.
The course, Fundamentals of Landscape Design, is a three hour course offered for junior-senior credit, and no prerequisites are required. The course was offered by David Durrell, who was appointed to the faculty this summer.
Regent to Talk At Opener
The seventy-second annual opening all-University convocation will e held in Hoch auditorium Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
H arger Will Address Students at Open ing Convocation
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will prefeet, 8 inch sophomore guard, is the students in the University are urged
Charles M. Harger
The convoction will be opened with the doxology and responsive reading led by Prof. W. L. Burdick. Following the responsive reading, the assembly will repeat the Lord's prayer in unison.
to attend. C. M. Harger, chairman of the board of regents, will make the principal address.
The University band will play two numbers, Valor and Victory March, (Cline), and Street Scene, a modern tone poem, (Newman). After the band numbers the group will sing a hymn.
The formal program will conclude with Mr. Harger's address and an address by Chancellor Lindley. Before the students leave the auditorium, all voices will join in the alma mater, "Crimson and the Blue," and the famous Rock Chalk vell.
Oil-bearing Rock Studied In Geological Field Trip
The Geological field trip arranged each year by the Kansas Geological Association in Wichita has just been completed. This year's trip, under the direction of Professor Moore, state geologist, studied oil-bearing rock which is penetrated in reaching oil formations.
There were 126 geologists in the party with a convey of 46 cars including a state patrol car as an escort. Eleven states were represented including California, Washington, D. C., Pennsylvania and Texas.
Prof. J. M. Jewett, a new member in the University department of geology, and Dr. G. E. Abernethy, newly appointed Professor of the University Survey staff, were among those from Kansas who were in the party.
The trip included southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. Two days were spent in each state.
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All Ku Kui's report to the Fire Basket on North College Hill at 6:30 Thursday evening. A short business meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building will follow induction.
The entire facilities of the Memorial Union building will be thrown open to all University students tonight as the Union and its staff again become hosts at the annual student free "mixer."
Open house at the student center will be held from 8 until 11 p.m., and all new decorations, changes in student life will be open for student inspection.
The newly established women's recreation room as well as the enlarged men's recreation room will be open and all their facilities available to students free of charge from 8 until 9 p.m.
Two Mixers On Program For Week
Union Building Is Scene Of Both Parties: Kubu To Provide Dance Music Tonight on Saturday
Saturday night, the Memorial Union building will again be the scene of a free student mixer with the Chancellor and M.E. H. Lind-Jefferson and faculty and faculty as hosts at the Faculty-Student reception and dance.
dancing in the United States All entertainment at the mixer is free to University students.
from 8 to 11 Louie Kuhn and his orchestra will furnish music for dancing in the Union ballroom.
The Union fountain will also be open for inspection and will serve free cokes from 8 until 9.
The reception, beginning at 8:30 p.m., will enable all new students to become acquainted with Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley and their future professors and faculty members. Upperclassmen will also be given the chance to acquire acknowledgments among the faculty members.
The reception will begin promptly at 8:30 and will be followed by dancing in the ballroom.
To Make Water Surveys
The U. S. Geological Survey in co-operation with the State Geological Survey and State Board of Health, held a warm conference in room 201 of the Geology building yesterday in which plans were made for a detailed study of the water supply conditions in the McPherson, Harvey and Sedgwick counties, a region known as the equus beds.
Professors Moore and Landis of the State Geological Survey, Professors Boyce and Mitchell of the State Sanitation division, were local representatives in the conference. S. W. Lohman and D. W. Thompson of the U. S. division of ground water survey, are the other members.
The primary object of the study is to determine the amount of water there is available and possible change in its characteristics as a result of the development of oil fields in that vicinity.
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Paris, Sept. 14, —(UP) - A major fashion crisis that has all the appearances of an outright feud arose today when seven "best dressed" women discovered that each was wearing the same dress creation.
Paris Bars Buzz
When 'Best Dressed'
Dress Alike
Each of the seven women, three of whom are Americans, is noted for her originality in sartorial effects and each has built a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for trail-blazing new fashion trends
The fashionable bars buzzed with talk of what would happen at Schiaparelli, the famous courrier's. The fashionable Schiaparelli had nothing to say about it.
Two new buildings can be seen at the southeast corner of the Campus. Miller hall has been completed and is being filled with students rapidly. Watkins Home, which is to be used by the nurses of Wake Forest nursing completion and should be ready for occupation in six weeks.
While most of us have been spending the summer at various tasks over the country, workmen have been busy making improvements on the campus. A tour of the University has several changes that have been made.
F.D.R. To Await Black's Return
Washington, Sept. 14. —(UP)—President Roosevelt said today that when he was considering Hugo L. Black's qualifications for the United States Senate, he formally formation about Block's reputed relation with the Ku Klux Klan.
Business School Professors Leave
But now, said an official of one of Paris's best known fashion houses, each one is likely to see herself going or coming almost anywhere, and you can be quite sure that they won't stand for that.
Two sun parlor have been added to the hospital. These rooms are so arranged that in case of emergency, 12 beds may be placed in them. In the northwest corner of the Chemistry building a room has been made for technical engineers. One of the major improvements has been made at the west side of
Other than that, the President, confronted with demands that call for Black's resignation, which followed upon published statements that the former Alabama senator is a life member, had no comment and the would have gone until after Black had returned from Europe.
Miller Hall and Watkins Home Head Vast Number of Improvements
Three of last year's instructors and a professor in the school of business will not teach at the University this year, having accepted jobs in other schools and branches of service.
The four who have left are:
Robert Wallace, A.B., 35, an assistant instructor in economics who has taken the position of instructor in economics at Park College, Parkville, Mo.
The four who have left are:
Hugh Wales, instructor in Marketing, who this summer attended Northwestern University on a fellowship during which time he accepted a position there as marketing instructor.
L. A. Semionier, assistant instructor in economics, who resigned that position during the summer to attend a law school at National City Bank, New York City.
Henry Holtzclaw, professor of economics, has been serving during the summer as supervisor of examinations for the Kansas Unemployment Compensation Division, under which positions are filled through cv11 service merit examinations. Holtzclaw has had charge of the examinations which are under the general direction of the personnel committee of the advisory council and its chairman, F. T. Stockton, who i
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Hoch Auditorium where, instead of filling in the large drop, a wall has been erected and a cave for the storing of the anti-aircraft guns of the R.O.T.C. has been made. This cave has been covered with grass. It is a road to the west stage door and pianos will no longer have to be carried into the building.
The Journalism building has been awarded a new dark room for the development of photographs.
An office and laboratory for the new petroleum department have been established in Haworth hall. The athletic office in Robinson gymnasium has been changed so that Dr. F. C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education, and Gwinn Henry, director of athletics, both have an office and can transact their business more quickly.
The drive back of the Journalism building has been paved.
Shipping Ammunitions Outlawed
Government Ships Can No Longer Transport Arms; Private Vessels Served Warning
Washington, Sept. 14. —(UP)—President Roosevelt today prohibited government-owned merchant ships from transporting arms or ammunition to Japan or China and warned all other vessels flying the Stars and Stripes that they were warring war cargoes at their risk.
In a statement issued after a lengthy cabinet meeting and after the President had conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Chairman Joseph V. Kennedy of the maritime commission that the order did not invoke the necessity law against China and Japan.
The neutrality act, it was said, remained in status quo, with the question of invocation on a 24-hour basis.
The President's order was aimed primarily at the government-owned Wichita which is enroute to China with a cargo of bombing planes and was due at San Pedro, Calif., today before heading for the Orient.
The Wichita, operated under lease by the Rosevelt Steamship Company, left Baltimore, Md., August 27.
The Wichita, were it permitted to proceed to China, would head into a blockade of the coast by the Japanese navy and add to the dangers of a situation already tense with war possibilities.
San Francisco, Sept. 14—(UP)—Officials of the Dollar Steelship line, whose vessels ply in Oriental trade, said today that they would not comment on an order from President Roosevelt banning trumpet or ammunition to China or Japan until they had studied the decree.
'Piracy' War Starts Soon Italy Refuses To Join Nyon Nine-power Pact After Consultation
London, Sept. 14—(UPI)—Great Britain and France tonight enforced immediate concentration of nearly one hundred twenty warships in the Mediterranean Sea; the Red海军 marines, although Italy refused to join the crusade.
In a note to Britain and France, Italy announced that it could not enter into the nine-power Nyon agreement against piracy because it denied Italy "absolute parity" with the French and British fleets in patrolling the Mediterranean trade routes.
The Italian refusal amounted to Fascist-Nazi defiance of the Nyor accord because it was not delivered in accordance with capitulation between Italy and Germany.
Within a few minutes after announcement of Italy's rejection, British and French officials - in London, Paris, Nyon and Geneva - declared that the "war on piracy" would start immediately. Italy's refusal was to be regretted, they said, but could not halt the purpose of the Anglo-French fleets in sweeping terrorism from the Mediterranean.
The British foreign secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, said in a world-wide radio broadcast from Geneva a few minutes after announcement of Italy's note, that attacks on Mediterranean shipping were "a kind of gangster terrorism" and would be brought to a swift end.
NOTICE
Dr. R. L. Cantouse, director of the health service at Watkins Memorial Hospital, requests all students who have taken the tuxedo test to come here with their appointed time in have the test read.
Ku Ku's Will Assist With Induction Ceremony
The Ku Ku's, University men's per organization, will be on hand in a body Thursday night to assist in directing the freshman march from the North College hill, near Corbin hall, to the stadium where the official induction ceremonies will be held. Bill Bailey urges that every Ku Ku who has not contacted him to receive instructions, do so immediately. Fines will be assessed for any absences from the ceremony.
All members must meet at Corbin hall not later than 7 o'clock this evening.
Kihm Is Dance Head
A Varsity Will Be Held
Nearly Every Weekend
Under New Plans
Paul Kilm, b38, has been selected as the varsity dance manager for the year to fill the vacancy created when Jack Tognsand, c38, was appointed assistant manager of the Dealer Kiltner.
Memorial Union building. Town send had been chosen to handle the variations last spring.
Paul Kihm
"While I have no definite bands chosen for the class parties, I have my eye on some good ones and I can promise that the policy of getting better bands will be continued," said Kihm yesterdays show was shown to the class parties last year is responsible for this promise."
Kihm says that he intends to hold more variates. He plans to inaugurate a system whereby a varisty will be held every weekend.
Several new ideas and innovations which should prove to be interesting and entertaining will be presented to the students who attend the variances throughout the school year. These ideas are those which were presented to the committee which chose the manager last year.
When asked his opinion of the new platform in the Memorial Union ballroom, which is a present of the class of 1937, the new dance manager answered, "The new dance manager is doing what it needs. It will make the problem of seating the larger orchestra a much easier one than it has been in the past."
Fire College To Be Held At University This Month
The second annual Kansas Fire College will be held at the University from Sept. 27 to 30. This College is conducted by the Kansas State Firemen's association in cooperation with the University.
All lecture and conference sessions will be held in the main lecture room on the second floor of Marvin hall and all outdoor work will be conducted immediately back of Marvin hall.
WEATHER
Demonstrations will be given in the newest and most efficient methods of fighting fire and protecting property.
Kansas: Fair Wednesday and d Thursday. Cooler Wednesday with rising temperatures in northwest Arkansas, extreme east portion Thursday.
Enrollment Of Students Under Way Increase in First Year Students Is Indicated; New Physical Education Department Is Success
No definite figures regarding the number of students who had registered were given out by University officials although they intimated that they were approximately the same as had registered at the same time last year.
Registration of over four thousand University students was completed yesterday and approximately half of those registered were sent through the enrollment "mill". The scope of the greatest enrollment activity was in Robinson gymnasium, where students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were signed up for semester classes.
Indications point to an increase in first year students with over one thousand three hundred taking the psychological examination and slightly over a thousand being given the health examination.
The new department of physical education, organized for the first time this year under the School of Education, is receiving a large enough enrollment to merit its edu-ition, officials report. The department health instructors signed up yesterday for the new four-year course .
The first day's enrollment in the R.O.T.C. shows a marked increase over that of previous years and the value of this training is also attested to by the fact that three army officers' sons have to date enrolled in the R.O.T.C. They are: John R. Baldwin, son of the P.M.S.A.&t here! Fred Luke, son of Major A. Lakdah of Office of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; and John M. Wilson, son of Major John Wilson, on duty at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth.
Wednesday
8:30 - 10:00    S, N, Q
10:30 - 11:50   D, H
1:20 - 3:00    Z', O, G, W
3:00 - 4:30    F, P
Enrollment in all classes continues today. Students who are unable to enroll today may do so Saturday morning from 9 till 12 in Robinson gymnasium. A fee of $2.50 is charged for all late enrollments.
Classes in all departments will get under way tomorrow according to regular class schedules. Friday's class schedule will be used for the all-University convention at 10 am in Hoch auditorium.
Neutrality' Favors Japan Chinese Officials Assert
Shanghai, Sept. 15 (Wednesday).
—(UP)—Chinese government officials were dishearded today at President Roosevelt's order prevent-ing ships owned by the United States government from carrying arms or ammunition to China or Japan, and warning other American-owned vessels that they carried such cargoes at their own risk.
A high Chinese official in Nanking, to whom the United Press telephoned the news, said that "regardless of whatever purpose may have inspired this order, it is the best way to help Japan and hurt China." Japan, he said, with one of the world's largest merchant fleets protected by the Japanese navy, easily purchases American munitions on a cash basis, transporting them to the Orient in Japanese bottoms.
China lacks a merchant fleet except for a few coasty vessels, and is utterly incapable of an attempt to supply herself with much-needed American arms, the Chinese official pointed out.
CLOSING HOURS
Closing hours for all University women during registration and enrollment, Sept. 10 to 15, will be 12:30 a.m.
Doris Stockwell, Pres. W.S.G A
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