UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXIV
NUMBER 163
To File Charges Against Green Organizer Claims He Was Discharged For Union Activities
Chicago, May 28—(UP) -Dor Stevens, American Federation of Labor organizer assigned to the American Newspaper Guild, announced tonight he would file charges with the National Labo Relations Board against William Green, A. F. of L. president, alleging he was discharged for "uniot activities."
At a Sunday meeting of the Chicago Newspaper Guild, which he organized, Stevens informed the membership that he favored John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial organization. The meeting then instructed him to attend an ANG convention at St. Louis to vote for affiliation with the C.I.O. The vote was 59 to 4. Green telegraphed Stevens Tuesday that he was charged, effective immediately. The telegram gave no answer for the discharge and Stevens wired a reply demanding a reason.
"Now that you have been smoked out into wiring me, belatedly, your asserted reasons for ruthlessly firing workers so that you can better oppose bona fide organization of the workers and interfere with their lawful activities, it becomes my duty to file charges against you for violation of the National Labor Relations Act, and I am so doing."
Stevens said he considered that he had been fired "for union activity."
on the SHIN by Kenneth Morris
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937
Bill Michnic journeyed to the Sunset Club in the city again—with trumpet. It was after the Senior Cakewalk and Crosby's band was likewise in attendance to watch the festivities. The master of ceremonies noted the band's presence and announced that the featured trumpet music would last much longer in time getting the matter straight-ened out. It finally ended up by one of Crosby's men playing a number on Bill's trumpet.
The unfortunate ability to insert at least one foot in one's mouth each time one opens it, becomes even more unfortunate in the case of a radio announcer. One of the NBC boys who announces Louie Penico's nightly entertainment recently announced to the world that it was listening to Henry Buse—then, when announcing a group of numbers Tuesday night, he said, "Carelessly played in the Penico manner."
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The Sour Owl's optimistic publicity manager, "Laughing Boy" Comer, reports that the five-ceent group issue him with some of his climax to a somewhat bicent year.
While Prof. W. W. Davis, in his Modern Asia class, delivered the final lecture of the semester on Japan, and incidentally, brought in how the children wouldn't wipe their noses, Carl Smith, a senior, marked off the minutes by writing down. Seven more students of college left, and so on until he marked his way out of any more regular class sessions.
Final Potter Lake report:
An old lady catfish (Million Diane) has 10,000 little blessed intents. The water is murky. A zoologist reports a nice catch of amoebae and paramecia. A large bass was caught Saturday—in its stomach was found one (1) Phi Gam pin, two (2) Beta pins, and one (1) Carolo Johnson will repaint the goldfish soon. An egg will float.
Yours.
Yours,
(Signed and Sworn) thi
26th day of May,
Shiller Shore, Warden.
S. P.—Fishworms for sale, 15 cents a dozen.
George Bowman's Tennessee street romance was revealed the other night when his Phil Delt brothers received the cigars passed around for him at the dinner table. Although the couple had long been involved, they had progressed that far, their curiosity was satisfied and George has been sweating considerably.
Harry O'Riley Wins Local Fraternity Award
Harry O'Riley, c38, has been awarded the first annual Chandler activity award of Sigma Chi fraternity. The award is given to the man in the local chapter of the fraternity. He is also the most active in University affairs.
John Chandler, a member of the fraternity who will be graduated this year, has established the award.
Hill Soldiers Get Reserve Posts
Lieut.-Colonel Karl F. Baldwin announced yesterday the appointment of the following senior R.O.T.C. members to the Reserve Officers Corps:
Those appointed two lieutenant in the coast artillery are: King P. Aitken, Jr., Eleverson E. Baker, Charles J. Bekler, James W. Brain, Robert L. Browning, Jr., Bill Bryan, David A. Coleman, Hubert P. Coleman, Earl H. Dearborn, Daniel F. Elam, Rex B. Finley, George M. Flint, Gordon W. Guise, Guy S. Guthiret *Edward D. Heter, Edward S. Hunt, Robert L. Holmes, Trawl M. Maichelet, John R. Malone, John S Marietta, John J. Miller, George Mc Moore, John S. Page, Claude L. Parish, Clancey W. Peck, John A. Pojtel *Robert E. Richardson, Jack W Schrey, Robert E. Simpson, James E. Trawy, and Jay K. Wisdom.
Those appointed second lieutenant in the engineers' section are: 'Wilbur M. Clemmens, Neal Edkins Haggard, & Eldgar D. Leigh.
Those appointed second lieutenant in the infant section are: Lawrence B. Bigelow, Emil F. Bowers, Dwight H. Bridges, Duane N. Bridges, John E. Chandler, Keith M. Corbin, Robert J. Wu, H. Wada, Cornard W. Foster, W. Elder, Charles R. Roderick, William F. Sager, and George Wood, Jr.
*To be appointed at close of camp July, 1937.
†Appointed Feb. 1, 1937.
Architects
Awarded Medals
Medals for superior work in architecture this year were awarded to five students at the annual architectural banquet Saturday night. The freshman medal given by Alice Chittenen for excellence in freshman design was awarded to Robert John-knapp, Means, e30; was presented the Samuel McRoberts medal for his church problem in design.
The American Institute of Architects' medal was given to Margaret Wheeler, £37, for her general excellence in scholarship, and John Hay received the Thayer medal for having made the best progress in design.
"A Portrait of Mexico," by Diego Rivera, was presented by the architectural library by the local chapter of Scarab.
New officers elected for the Architectural Society for the coming year are: president, Ton Gernaughy, c'38; vice-president, Iain Sutton, c'39; secretary, Joy Swommon, e'u turchi, historian, Raymond Friedon, c'40.
Frank Preyer, e'38, was elected vice-president of Scarab Society.
Strike Affecting 90,000 Called in Steel Plants
Chicago, May 26—(UP) -Cheering steel workers of Youngstown Sheet and Tube company and Inland Steel corporation advanced their strike deadline two hours at a mass meeting tonight voting to begin their strike at 10 p.m. instead of midnight.
Pickets encircled the Republic Chicago plant almost immediately. Seven plants of Republic at Massillon and Canton, Ohio, were closed after an outbreak described as a "spontaneous" strike which started prematurely.
Earlier tonight the steel workers organized committee had a pronounced that a strike affecting some ninety thousand workers would be called in all plants of Youngtown, and Republic Steel corporations.
Holland's Voters Return Premier Collii to Office
Amsterdam, May 27-(UP)-Holland's electorate, smash the ambitions of both Nazis and Communists, today tended overwhelming faith in the "middle of the road" policies of Premier Hendrik Collins, returns from yesterday's general parliamentary election showed.
Exemption Slips Are Discontinued Advisors of Jayhawker Magazine Submit New Plan to Students
The Jayhawk board voted yesterday to discontinue the exemption slip requirement for one year. The governing body of the University year book took this action in response to many protests against the rule requiring all students to subscribe to the publication, or receive exemption slips, giving reasons for inability to subscribe.
This move was taken as an experiment, and will be in effect one year. Under the new plan, the Jay-hawker will be listed on the fee card, but payment will be optional. If the student does not desire to take this course, he should be asked to fill out an information card at the time he pays his fees.
As a part of the new policy, it is planned to give each student a brief announcement at enrollment, calling his attention to the new plan.
A summer camp for the purpose of collecting vertebrate fossils from the pliocene strata of Kansas will be set up in southwestern Kansas by a party of four from the Uni-College Hillbard, assistant curator of the paleobiology and instructional leader of the group, announced vesterday.
Fossil Seekers Will Dig in Kansas
Joe Then, c40, and two other students not yet known will form the group, which will live in tents during the summer, cooking its own food and remaining close to its work.
The trip will operate from Meade, Kan. until about July 10. This expedition has been conducted every year since 1894, except for five years between 1951 and 1956 when the expedition was abandoned to vertebrate paleontology were closed. From July 10 until August 1, the geologists will work out of Kingsdown, and from August 1, to September they will use as a base localities where fossils were found where fossils were called to their attention by residents of those regions who donated fossils to the University.
Dr. Lee To Attend Honor Banquet at Yale
Prof. and Mrs. Alfred M. Lee and son, Fritz, are leaving Lawrence this afternoon for the summer. They are to attend a banquet in New Haven, Conn., Saturday evening in honor of Prof. A. G. Keller of Yale University. Professor Lee is co-author of a volume of sociological studies to be published by the faculty at Yale. He is a honor of Professor Keller, the first copy of which will be given to Professor Keller at the banquet.
The Spooner-Thayer museum has been busier than ever this year," according to Minne S. Moodle, curator Maio Moodle estimates that some two thousand persons visit the museum every month. This includes people from all over the state, especially from Topeka and Kansas City. Mo Women visiting the museum usually go immediately to the glass and quilt display. Student attendance also has been very gratifying, many making it a point to see each new exhibit in the loan gallery. The best attendance seems to be from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
But the museum serves other purposes than pleasure. At the inception of each semester Indian blankets, shawls, quilts, and other Indian art are brought out for design students who are then studying primitive art. Throughout the semester the art department makes abundant use of the museum Speech, rhetoric, and critical writing students gain inspiration here for their work.
The museum furnishes a consulting library of about 2,500 books on costume design, general art, art history, and travel.
By Clinton Raymond, c'37 and Martin Bentson, c'38
'Busier Year Than Ever At Spooner-Thayer Museum
University classes are not the only classes to profit by the exhibitions. Grade school students convene at the museum every Saturday during the school year. Lectures sponsored by the public schools give teachers and the public a chance to learn more about art in the museum; these lectures have been exceedingly well attended this year. Also at this time of the year high school graduates are overrunning the place. The unaccountable reason August is the time for Permanent additions to the museum made this year include the memorial window given by Sybil Martin, '19, in memory of her father; Henderson Martin; a collection of English porcelain and glass given by F. P. Burnap of Kansas City, Mo.; and a number of prints, etchings, and woodblocks, the latest
. Know Whereof They Speak
The commencement exhibition of the department of design, which consists of work of all phases of design by students in the four classes taught in the department, has beenpared. This exhibition will be completed and on display in its entirety from Saturday, June 5 until after Commencement. It will be displayed in the corridors of west Adelaide rooms 308, 310, 314, 316, and 320.
Design Students Prepare Final Exhibit
There are 16 members in this year's graduating class in the department of design. According to Prof. Rosemary Ketcham, head of the department, this is the largest department in the history of the department.
PROF. M.W. STERLING # DR.FLORENCE SHERBON # L.T.COL. KARLE F. RALDINW
PROE WALDEMER OELTCH 4 PROR E.O. STENE 4 PROR G.M. BEAL'
*These six members of the University faculty will speak on special topics in Commencement Forums,
addition being eight Chinese woodblocks in colors.
Next year Miss Moodie expects to continue the present policy of a continuous round of exhibitions in the loan gallery. In September she will exhibit garden prints, and paintings by Eilbih Vedder, whose work will be on view for the winter. During October Professor Bloch of the University will present his oil paintings. The first two weeks of November, the exhibit will consist of wood engravings by Winslow Homer, one of the greatest American painters, whose centenary is being celebrated this year; the artist's work will be the head of the art department of Bethany College, Lindsburg, have several of his paintings on exhibition. To conclude the semester, Miss Moodie will utilize Russian icons, crude religious and church paintings rescued and sold at a time when the destroying everything in usaia could their hands on. Other displays will be planned from time to time.
The Thayer collection which has proved so beneficial to the University was presented in 1917 just prior to the war, but was not housed for exhibition until ten years later when the University library was moved from the present Thayer building to the newly completed Watson library. The collection was presented by Mrs. Thayer to commemorate her deceased husband, W. B. Thayer, of Kansas City, Mo.
Business Seniors Receive Positions
Slightly over 50 per cent of the graduating class in the School of Business this June have already received positions through the activities of the Business Placement Bureau, Dean Stockton announced yesterday.
Several of the students have received more than one offer and have not decided which position to accept and many firms are still sending requests for interviews. Dean Stockton believes that over 60 percent of the class will be placed by commencement and that requests from business concerns will carry over into the summer, providing employment for nearly all of the class by next fall.
Stockton indicated that requests for interviews after commencement were unusual and that students usually had to do their own job hunting if they had no position by the end of the school year.
Helen Ward New Prexy Of Honorary Art Group
Definite interest was shown by 60 or 70 of the firms contacted this year by the placement bureau. Among the firms which have given employment to students this year are: General Electric, Goodrich Rubber company, Firestone Tire and Rubber company, Standard Oil公司, Texas Oil company, Life Insurance company, Carnation Milk company, and Sears, Roebuck, company.
Other officers installed were: Katherine Hurd, fa38, vice-president; Margaret Cleverenger, fa38 secretary; Betty Sterling, fa38 treasurer; Lucie Mavity, fa38 historian; and Anna Grace Doty fa38, chairman of the eligibility committee.
Helen Ward, fa'38, was installed as the new president of the Alpha chapter of Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, Tuesday night at the annual spring banquet of the fraternity held at Evans Hearth.
After dinner, Arlene Martin, ed37;
Betty Judd, fa39, and Wilson
Fleming, fa39, were pledged by the
fraternity.
Following the pledging services,
Charlene Forbes, ed 37; Helen Huffman, ed 37; and Robert Cooke, fa 37;
initiated into full membership.
Graduates Allowed Fewer Transfer Hours
Apothecaries Prepare Prescription Displays
Other regulations which have in the past applied to work done toward the master's degree were retained.
The faculty of the Graduate School, at a meeting in Central Administration auditorium Tuesday, adopted the rule that the "president regulation permitting the transfer of 15 semester hours to apply toward the master's degree" changed to permit the transfer of only eight semester hours."
Members of the graduating class of the School of Pharmacy are preparing displays of the different prescriptions which they have filled during the year and of the products which they have manufactured. These displays, 12 in all, will be judged by members of the State Board of Pharmacists the first of next week and then will be on display in room 111, Chemistry building.
The student winning first prize with his display, will be given a membership in the American Pharmaceutical Association. A subscription of one year to the "American Druggit" and "Midwestern Druggit" will be given for each of the five best displays.
Thespians Perform for Large Crowds
A total audience of ten thousand persons, the largest home attendance since the inauguration of amateur theatricals at the University, turned out to see the 20 presentations given in Fraser theater this year. Although a total cast of only about 40 participated in "Bury the Dead," and "Land's End," Kansas Player's products, and "This Thing Called Love," sole Dramatic Club audience of 2.500 saw each play.
More than 3,000 additional players saw the Jitney Players' presentation of Sheridan's comedy, "The Rivals," given in the University Auditorium last fall under the auspices of the Kansas Players. This brings the grand total attendance at University theatres to 3,039, several of which are held outside of town presentations made by the dramatic groups this year.
Next season four plays will be presented, according to plans announced by Prof. Allen Crafton, director of drama of the two of these will be given by the Kansas Players and the other two by the University Dramatic Club. "In the future, we shall use Fraser theater exclusively," he said. "I hope there will be experience with the Jitney Players has proved the inadequacy of the Auditorium for dramatic productions."
Plays considered for presentation next year include "The Last Mile," Wexley's sensational play of prisoners in the death house of an Oklahoma penitentiary, "Al'Jaqlon." Rosstand's poetic drama of Napoleon's son, the Duke of Reichstadt; "Winterst," by Maxwell Anderson, the critic's prize play for 1936; and "You Can't Take it With You," Kaufman and Hart's Pulitzer prize play for 1937.
Entomologists Will Hunt Bugs In Mexico
Arbeny D. Thomas, '36, and Philip Henry, 'c40, will leave June 10 for an entomology collection trip to the states of Chapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, where they will spend the summer gathering insects of that region
While in Mexico City, the pair will visit the museum of Alfonso Dampf, entomologist, inspecting the collections there. H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology at the University, will aid in classifying the insects, especially water bugs, which class is his specialty.
Last year Thomas spent the summer in Mexico with Hobart Smith, worker in national research at the University of Michigan, and Dr. E. H. Taylor, professor of zoology here. The territory covered was Yucatan Campepe on the east coast of Mexico, states of Guerrero and Michoacan.
While in Mexico last year, Smith collected reptiles and amphibians and Thomas gathered insects, getting about a dozen new species apiece. The material is still being sorted and arranged.
To date Professor Hungerford has discovered about six new species of water bugs. The names of three have been published in the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society.
NOTICE
Doris Stockwell.
Closing hours in women's houses from Wednesday, May 25, through Commencement. June 7, will be 12:30 PM. June 8, will be 1:00 PM. Courses after 8 o'clock during final week except on Saturday night.
Hill Bards Place Well InCompetition
Michalopoulos, Maloney
And Lewis, Win Prizes
In National Poetry
Contest
Rhadamanthi, the *T* university poets' club which includes only six regularly enrolled members of the College Poetry Society of America, walked off with the lion's share of the prize money awarded for the year 1936-37 by the national organization's magazine. Of the $130 given for the best undergraduate scholarship under $500 Hillards, according to the announcement of prizes made in the final issue of "College Verse."
Although approximately 100 poets, from half as many American Colleges and Universities, competed for the awards, Kansas succeeded in taking both first and second places in the Lawrence Tibbet Award for the best narrative verse of the year, and second place in the Emily Dickinson Award for the best lyrics of the year. Both of these contests carry first prizes of $25 and second prizes of $15.
Michalopoulos Wins First
George Michalopoulos, sp. won first place in the narrative award with his poem, "Anecdote," parts of which were published in two issues of the magazine. H. G. Merriam, who judged the contest, said, "For interest of story, for narrative movement, for ambitious conception and distinguished accomplishment Mr. Michalopoulos's "Anecdote" rates first. The picture are strong and the lines are fine and often powerful, the manner is of today. The writer has evidenced not complete but certainly remarkable control of his conception and his tools."
Martin Maloney, c37, winner of second place in this year's Carruth contest, ranked second also in the Tibbet Award. "Mr. Maloney's 'Mexican Battle Piece' is consistent and strong and thoroughly narrative in the ballad manner," Judge Merriam commented.
Carruth Winner Places
Although first prize for lyrics went to a Yale entry, Kenneth Lewis, c'39, winner of this year's Carruth contest, placed second with his verse, "Be Miser, Soul." Jesse B. Rittenhouse, nationally known woman poet who judged this discipline the award, said, "The second choice I will take Be Miser, Soul," by Kenneth Lewis, which communicates to me its first emotion. Nothing is lost in transmission. 'Be Miser, Soul' is a lyric in form which seems to me exquisite in feeling and treatment." These poems are drawn from Washington University, the University of Wyoming, Northwestern University, and Yale University.
Sigma Xi Initiates With Economy Supper
Sigma XI, national science fraternity, initiated new members recently in a meeting held in the Concordia campus, followed by an economy supper.
The program included four speeches on economy, "The Blessings of a Frugal Life," by N. P. Shervood, professor of bacteriology; "Saving Money," by G. W. Smith, professor of mathematics; "Saving Time," by A. W. Davidson, associate professor of chemistry; and "Saving Energy," by F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering.
The new members who were initiated into Sigma XI were;
Full membership from the alumni:
Robert Samuel Havenhill, 25, research chemist with the St. Joseph Lead company at Monaco, Pa., son of Dean L. D. Havenhill of the School of Pharmacy; Robert C. Mitchell, 25, research engineer with the State Board of Health.
Full membership from the faculty:
Dr. Edwin H. Hashinger, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan.
Full membership from the graduates: Botany, Donald J. Obe; chemistry, Harold S. Chagoul, Joseph W. Kennedy, Wesley Scherow, and Vanston H. Ryan, professor of Earth Science at Kansas City, Ma.; geology, Grace C. Keroher, Raymond P. Keroher; zoology, Overton T. Ballard.
Schwegler Speaks at Russell
Dean R. A. Schwegler, of the School of Education, gave the commencement address at Russell, last night.