1 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN VOLUME XXXIV The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas Russians Adrift on Floe Snow Isolates F l i e r s On Ice Cake: Say They Are 'Safe and Secure' Moscow, May 25 — (UP) –Thirteen Russian explorers, isolated on an ice floe near the north pole by a snow storm, radiocast today that they were drifting away from the pole at the rate of one-half mile an hour. Fierce winds whipped up the snow on the ice floe, further lowering the visibility. The radiocast said that the sun which shines for six months at a time at the pole, was blotted out entirely by the snow. It was impossible for three supply planes, poised 560 miles south at Rudolph island, to start for the polar camp. Prof. Otto J. Schmidt, bewiskhier, leader of the expedition, revealed to the first time the exact number o men in the party. "An unusual picture is presented by the 13 members together on the ioflee under an open sky listening to "The River" from a government," his radio message said. "In spite of the snow storm none feeling cold. We continued our wor here." He said the party landed beyond the pole, but toward evening escape 57 degrees west longitude and 89.4 degrees latitude. Yesterday the ilee foe had drifted to 88 west longitude and 89.7 latitude. "Due to the absence of the sun, we are unable to make further calculation's," he said. "The weather can be a different planet planes from reaching us." The planes, manned by 29 men, waited for a let-up in the weather I take off with their eight tons of fo- and equipment. NUMBER 161 on the SHIN by Kenneth Morris We are told that Rolla Nuckle and Elizabeth Dunkel are nursing bruises received Saturday night when they visited the skating rink south of town and mingled with seven of the rural element in attendance. After the duck performed in the pond at the Sigma Chi party Saturday night, Challis Hall and Sewe Black purchased one of the young ones and gave it to the keeping a Iabelle Bash and Bornie Bonharr It has been named "Percy" and becoming quite a problem to (1) keep them from feeding to feed it, (2) the Gamma Phi sisters, who, it was overheard, to keep their respective room locked, and, (3) to the house cleaners. You guessed right, the duck doesn't seem to like its cage Cakewalk oddities: One gentleman with foresight equipped himself with a towel as an accessory to his formal attire. He danced wielding the towel draped over his arm waiter fashion, and used it to advantage by wiping the beaded birch of his partners and himself . . . Buangs, most enterprising of the PtDelt, collected the pass-out tickle, and placed them in the hands during intermission, and sold tucuts to late-comers at a nip profit...Gene Buckley and P partner became so engrossed in fancy whirling step that they did notice the circle of onlookers were watching the exhibition at clapping hands in time to the must When the stars of the show final noticed what was going on, the beat an embarrassed retreat toward corner where they coiled The look on the faces of Kay We'r parents as they watched 'capping gambols of KU. "truars." LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937 Word has been received of Kappa's who searched all over Kasa City for one man, Tex Clair1 who they thought might aid them, their search for a beaver. It see the girls were out to pull a principal joke on the Sigma Ch'i by Sigma Eta Pi Honors Four Students at Pienio High school members of Sigma Eta Pi, Congregational church orchiority, gave a senior picnic at Potter's lake Sunday morning in honor of Margaret Wheeler, c.37, Iris McDonald, c.37, margarita Osma, ocd-37, and Maxine Taylor, c.38. Ruth Mason, Mable Yeaton, Alice M. Jones, Kathryn Werges, Jean Stoffer, Ruth Mary Chandler, and Kathleen Parker were the high school students attending. 800 Slain By Rebel Planes Bulletin by Harrison Laroche, UP staff correspondent Y.M.C.A. Elects Conner Clayton Conner, c39, was selected as publicity chairman of the Y.M.C. at a cabinet meeting of that organization Sunday evening. This is a new position in the cabinet, but it does not offer the holder a vote. Budge and Plans For Next Year Are Made by Cabinet Present membership on the cabinet includes the president, Paul Moritz, c'39; vice-president, Bill Fusen, frs; secretary, Kermit Frackn, c'40; finance chairman, C H. Mullen, c'39; chairman of Freshman Council, Wilbur Leonard, c'39; chairman, David Henry, gr; secretary, Don Henry, c'40; chairman of New Citizenship commission, David Anougine, c'40 and chairman of Per- PUBLICATION NOTICE There will be three more issues of the Daily Kansas. It will appear tomorrow and a Thursday mornings, and in the evening on Wednesday, June 2. The Kansas track team held its annual banquet last night at the Eldridge hotel. Harry Wiles, b'38, was elected captain of the track team for next season, replacing Wade Green, e'38. Greens tenure of office was rather short because of his being elected in January. The team presented a stop-watch to Coach "Bill"Hargiss following the banquet. Track Team Elects Wiles Seventeen persons attended the banquet including Elynn Dees, Kansas trainer. Trackman attending PUBLICATION NOTICE The Capper Publishing Company of Topeka was awarded the contract for the printing of the 1937-38 Jayhawkers, and Burger-Baird Engraving company of Kansas City was reawarded engraving contract. This year's printing was done by a Kansas City company. The Men's Student Council's proposal for outlawing the necessity of exemption slips for the Jay-hawker was referred to a special committee at a meeting of the Jay-hawker Advisory Board in the office of the Adviser of Women yesterday afternoon. Members of the committee on exemption slips are: Robert Pearson, c'38, editor of the Jayhawker; Bill Seitz, c'38, business manager of the Jayhawker; Karl Klooz, bursar; and Raymond Nichols, executive Three former University student were elected to offices in the Kansas City alumii chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, national women's journalism fraternity, in their meeting yesterday. Elizabeth Sanborn was elected president, Mrs. Joe V. Knack vice-president, and Gretchen Oreilup treasurer, Jane St. Clair was appointed chairman of the committee for the regional convention of the fraternity which will be held in Kansas City in June. Jayhawker Contracts Let Huxman To Be Honorary Greek Kansas City Sorority Elects Three Alumnae Officers Charter Train For Estes Pilgrimage Thiety Persons F from University Will Attend Summer Conference of Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. A special train has been chartered to carry students to the annual Estes Park W.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. conference this summer. Chartering of the train has been made possible through the signing of 30 students from the University and large groups from Manhattan, Topeka, and Baker. More students are expected to announce their intention of attending the conference in the near future. Gov. Walter Huxman will be initiated as an honorary member into Kansas Gamma chapter of Sigma Phi Epilog, at the chapter house Saturday afternoon, June 5, accord- The train, which will leave Topeka June 8,will carry all students SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1937 University Bards Try Their Hands At Meter and Cadence for Carruth Prize Twenty-two poems were submitted by M. Orland poets in the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry contest of 1836-37. The judges were Prof. W. S. Johnson of the University's department of English; Robert Naumov, novelist and poet, author of "One More Spring"; Jerome B. Cunningham, former Country Gentleman, and a graduate of the University. By Isabel Voss, c'37 According to Professor Johnson, the poems, generally, are of two sorts—the experimental and modernist type, and those written in more traditional forms. "The latter were more perfect in technique, but the experimental were on the whole more interesting and showed greater understanding." Professor Johnson said. First prize was won by Kenneth Lewis, c 39, with the poem "Prumes at Dawn; Variations." Professor John believes that Lewis poems come nearer to what modern writers call "pure poetry" than any of the other entries. It seeks its effect through melody and beautiful imagery and a somewhat vague feeling or atmosphere. "Prumes at Dawn" shows a close relationship to the work of Conrad Aiken, contemporary American poet, and also has something in common with the work of John Gould Fletcher. Following is the complete poem: UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENC. KANSAS "Trumpets at Dawn: Variations' Here by the river the afternoon is soft and warm with light; the black earth clings to boots; willows beside the water are bursting green; and there is a bright sun peeking veining the sand of the back wash scoured clean with winter snow, slim silver minnows gleam. Listen quietly now; perhaps you can hear it. The tremor across the water, the sand; half close your eyes and await it. The drowny spirit feigns sleep, awakening slowly. Over the land, above the water, across the marble sky, within the water, she falls. There! Did you feel it, feel the lazy stir, the tremor that passed like shadow across the sand, see ripples furrow the water, hear the whir of unseen wings, or breath drawn slow and long—long into the night, the songs? Spring is awake by the river. Tonight slow fire will cover the hills; a trumpet will sound at dawn; the bough break open with glame, and strange desire quicken to trumpets at dawn; and discovered in won- I have watched spring swaken by this river longer than dreaming, longer than memory; felt the slow beat of the heart, the soft rush of the blood. the quiver of bloom-sprung magic beside a wall, the blown illusion of petals caught in the sand, the flashing of sun-smote wings, the sudden thunder shaking the sky with promise of April flood. And always the willowbuds bursting green by the band, and always the ripples dancing like silver girls, and always the splendor of clouds, and the clinging And once a rainbow swung spinning around his shoulders. and once, by the moon, he rose to the voices of trumpets blown prematurely, and he was beaten laughing the stars away ... Med, till the cry of a loan, lonely and lazy and hysterical, he schooh him surely. in the eboh of dream-blown trumpets, the valentines boys chalk on the fences in March . . . But spring has forgotten all those awakenings; and we have forgotten . . . found strange bewilder- Dawn flooded the cast, and the sun like a scarlet balloon the pen took a new significance, and the lyre first sang in the heart, and the tongue was strangely Slipped out on the mouth of the river. too early, too soon. the tramp on the box-car told un of Marble Bay? And where is the later spring, when the evenings of kites in the wind, and puppies, and roller skates? And where is that early spring that we discovered the violets by the river were free to pick, used to carry in baskets the first May . . . And when. girls riding bicycles through the iliac dusk, the top-spun springs, the marble-short springs, the Ⅲ smitten with new articulance; and the words came gleaming and tall, and purple, and given so much to dreaming; when the book once broke into flame, and the verse rises. out of the duck and dreaming of young desire? What does it matter; what matter the ancient springs? They matter from us; slain from us like tide They have gone from us; slipped from us like tide from the rocks: crudified the mind for a moment; reluctantly lingered return to the sea, where the wind was blinding, reminds us that once they Our former springs aligned from our quietly. No passing trim - we wore it in the green great green and thick green great green and thick the wind departed, rain dead, a silent dawn; and only Phaeton, run amuck with summer, scouring his cloud-wide mustangs over the land, trampling the violets, searchring the dunes, conealing rain in stormy rains, making hard as the backs of turtles, brittle as shells . . . We were too young to sorrow at his madness, regret dead flowers, or ask that horn and bell fill the sky, so that we could cheer little nostalgia, thinking of other springs. They have flooded the brain as the river, in April freshet. cover the wrinkled boulder beside the bend; they have washed it clean and withdrawn, leaving to glint in the cracks, but summer will make and end of moisture, and we are still young for remember. (The spreading, invisible fissure, the ice-cheeked vein, splitting the heart with the frost of imagined springs; grinding the mind to dust with the ancient pain) For spring is a promise that never yet has failed us, diverse through his paths have been; and always his trumpets at daybreak have assailed us with his screams. And we wake to find the hills holding his slow fire; and we hear his laughter far on the dunes of night, and with it comes strange and we hear his laughter far on the dunes of night, and with it comes strange and the heart, that lay cold as a star, blooms suddenly with that promise; and straightway the breath quivers a moment, as though awakened from death. Oh fire and wonder, coming with trumpets at dawn, return to us always, as long as that breath be drawn! In his poem, Lewis shows a wide background of reading and understanding of the ideals of modern poetry. He has published a good deal of verse; some of his work has appeared in "Poetry and Magazine of Verse," the journal started by Harriet Monroe which is considered the leading magazine of poetry in the country. Professor Johnson's opinion is that Lewis poem is a very unusual promise for a young man and that he shows unusual promise. Second prize in the contest was won by Martin Maloney, 63, with his poem, "Symphony From a Smoking Car." Maloney took first prize in the Carruth contribute with his poem "The Hill: Snapshots of a Candid Camerag." In "Symphony From a Smoking Car," the writer is influenced by T. S. Eliot in his attempts to write scaled symbolic verse expressing a series of moods and impressions which are loosely connected. The title gives the point of view of the writer, and no narrative is attempted. An excerpt follows: ix. of lunch rooms: Newton —Oh, the thudding pistons, and the blunt smoke stack! Shoot a highball, then to Bill, swing a circling hand we're for the Dickies and the Rio Grande!) (of the pearl-diver in the kitchen) Pearl diver, dream of the windy palms of sea; how you sailed the wine-dark sea and tamed a yellow fleece. Pearl-diver, plunge in the sky-gray water; downwarming dandelions catch the South Wind's daughter. Scrub those dishes, pile them high under Bill's cold argus-eye, the great is black his eye. (of Bill and the Harvey House) There is the Harvey House across the street. Bill stands in the doorway; he has a booming gong! his apron is the toga praetextata, and his cook's cap is the phylactery. When Seven screams in, he believes that grievance to the world (like Cato damming the Carthaginians before the senators). "Ha! Hot lunch, right over here, right over here!" He holds his coldly toddler Carthage across the street. "Right over here, right over here!" Clatter of the gong. Deterida on Carthago! The poem is executed with skill, but has the fault of obscurity in some parts. It is thoroughly in 'a modern vein, showing bitter disillusion and a satirical view-point. "Mars in a Veil" "Mars in a Veil," a dramatic satire on war by Marjorie Houston c38, was the third prize winner. Professor Johnson believes that this poem has promise to the other two prize works, although it is rather unfinished and hasn't much to prove. It is a poetry which show the unusual intellectual power of the writer. It is a remarkable piece of sustained narrative. The "Written Word" by Frank Purla Hull, fa'39, "Guerra" by Maye H. Leonard, gr, and "The Gulley" by Harold Rapid, gr, were all honorable memorials for the first two formations, the traditional form and are more finished, better perfected, than the other poems. The virtue of Miss Hull's work is an original point of view. "Guerra" expresses considerable feeling, but is overstrained and hasn't the security that is found in the best PAGE FIVE Professor Johnson believes that the best way to describe "The Gulag judges," it has a kind of groping power." He added, however, that it is imperfect in its handling of verse or poetic material rather than poetry. "A number of other poems," Professor Johnson commented, "had squirmed up to the point but most of them lacked the freshness and originality of the prizes." Special Lime Freeze 15c Cools and Refreshes UNION FOUNTAIN Sub-basement Memorial Union Lindley To Speak at St. John Chancellor Lindley will be the commencement speaker at St. John High School May 27. After the excises there will be an informal meeting of the senior class and the alumni of the University. Glessie Blackburn is in charge of the meeting. ne 8, will carry all students section of the country, together with the Denver alfomia Limited, will he two special trains carry students to the paid for used Two Book Stores All Shoe Repairing Is Not Done Alike some is much better than others We take pride in doing good work ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP 1017 Mass W.E. Whestone, Prop Ph Phone 686 DRESS WELL ON LESS Take Advantage of ADVANCE CLEANING Phone 101 Advance Cleaners N.C.LINDSTROM PHONE M.E.LINDSTROM ibtain Special Fees students sign to attend university, special regican can be obtained. The early $5.50, but 40 signers it to $5. The cost of at-10-day conference is includes transportation, room, and registration. yne, secretary of the and Mrs. Hunt will ace group. Hunt will as-Technique group of theent Christian Federationayne in the Quest groupLeisure, assisting Mrs.e of Toneka. manage has been made by who is general chairman of creative leisure work ference, that 10 persons the creative leisure face- g these are Dr. Kenneth C. McDermott and middle-west poe- t has been widely pubi- will have charge of the titing classes; and John in crafts, who will ne e craftwork courses within Lee Walker, d37, computer of interprative Speak at Conference confidence initz, c350, and Eleonor are asked to speak of six the first night of June, 19. he already signed from city in addition to Mr. Funt and Miss Payne inine Holmes, c37; Har-37; Harold Dyer, gr; ed38; Dorothy Bucher, gr; ed39; Rose McVey, c38; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; Rose McVey, gr; ed41; W. Holmes of Lawrence pany the group. Students eratively during the con- ly Model Planes test at Airport year-old Edward Krum en-year-old Jay Butler model airplane contest the Lawrence Municipal hunday afternoon. The signed by the Lawrence binder of the final of a be hold to encourage invention. rd flights were made be-was too windy for the perform perfectly. Sev-gave exhibition flights models which were not the contest. s in the University and men organized the avia- which has both flying and $ m $ members, to develop in Lawrence Dease and Bed Andrews harge. finded Bossy to Machinery of Law May 24- (UP) -Cruising 书 John Devlin and Arthur were puzzled when their radio began blasting static. the street they found the cow munching the an- t had been chewed off the car automobile.