UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
British Ship Is Explosion Victim
High Seas Disaste t
May Have Been Caused
By Rebel Mine, Allege
Logalists
A serious international situation may arise if it is determined that the Hundar, a 1340-ton warship of the "Hero" type, hit a rebel mine on the high seas two miles outside the limit of Spanish territorial waters.
Gibraltar, May 13—(UP)—The British destroyer, Hundar, was badly damaged, eight of her crew were reported killed, and 12 others reported injured in an explosion supposedly caused when she struck a rebel mine five miles off the southern Spanish coast.
Great Britain recently has warned General Francisco, rebel generalisation, that any interference with his high seas would bring stern reprisal.
The British admiralty said the cause of the explosion was unknown, but the loyalist Spanish navy also said India's Hound struck a rupture.
on the SHIN by Kenneth Morris
The newest organization on the Hill is the Ancient and Independent dent Order of Soakers. It is a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization of folks who like to read in the bathhut. Those who are members must spend a minimum of one hour per day in the privacy of the bathroom for the purpose of reading books, magazines, news papers (including the funnies without hindrance, wise-cracks, terference or other annoyance bribe friends, associates, or members of the family. The organization in association with Dr. J. M. A. Prof. L, N. Flint, A. M. Prof. E, N. Doan. We had to join to find out the password which are "Gurgle, Gurgle, Gurgle"—symbolic of the ancient and effective oleafy tingling cause by odoriferous armpits. The word are to be used only in the event of oUR circumstances.
A young man in the library yet
today morning had occasion to
shed his trousers and had plenty of
reason to be sorry for so doing.
Someone grabbed them and placed
them on a radiator in the hall—the
junior came along and carried
trousers up to the third floor.
By then the radiator was more than concerned about the matter, and quite relieved when a friend who had been on the search
finally returned with the jeans.
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No doubt the Beta serenaders were quite displeased with the small amount of applause given them recently by the Chi Omegas. It so happened that the Chi Omegas were also out seradling and the Betas arrived before their return. So she went to the Minga, the house to do the applauding, but she thought the Beta's loud and long singing was worth it.
A student walking down the Campus came up with this pun which is plenty bad, but does contain the element of fact: "The Chemistry building is foul, but the building across the street is Flower."
NUMBER 154
Imagine our disappointment when we looked in the box reserved for contributions to this column and a book titled "Europe Since 1500."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY. MAY 14. 1937
Professor "Marty" Rice of the department of physics adequately entertained a class the other morning when he appeared wearing a new pair of bright green suspenders with the price tag still attached. The students are reported as being treated better by their trying to read the 23 cent price tag from the back of the room.
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When an animal, used for experimental purposes in the Bacteriology department, passes on, it is re-
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Hospital Notes
Meetline
Another Meeting
Dr. Gail McClure, assistant physician in Watkins Memorial hospital left Tuesday morning to attend the Iowa State Medical association meeting in Sioux City, Iowa this week.
Dr. R. I. Canutese, director of the health service of Watkins Memorial hospital, and Dr. Gail McClure, assistant physician, will attend the South-central section of the American Student Health Association to be held in Manhattan on Saturday.
Condition
The condition of Mary Helen Gray, b37, was reported as favorable yesterday by Dr. R. I. Canutace. Miss Gray suffered a fractured skull last Thursday evening when the motor scooter she was riding crashed into a curbing at Elevend and Missouri streets.
Tennis Team In Ninth Win Kiley and Hoverstock Lead Kansas Attack To Down Huskers
Kansas' tennis team bung up it ninth straight win yesterday by defeating Nebraska 5-1 at Lincoln.
The Huskers took only one singles match from the Kansans, who were led by Kiley and Hoverstock. Kansas won three of the four singles matches and both of the doubles.
Kiley, Kansas' number one man, had an easy time again Reedy winning both sets with the loss of only one game. The scores were 6-0 and 4-3. But Kirklin 6-4, 6-5, and Butler defeated Kiley 6-3, 7-5, in close matches.
The lone Kansas loss was the defeat of Kell by Detrich. Detrich triumphed 0-6, 6-3, 6-4. After winning the first set by a love score, Kell weakened, losing the two remaining sets and the match.
In the doubles, Butler and Hover-
stock combined to defeat Freedman
and Detrich 6-2, 6-1. Kiley and Kell
defeated Kirklin and Ready 9-7.
A strong wind hampered both teams with their shots, but the fine condition of the courts offset the hindrance of the wind to provide a good setting for some brilliant tennis.
Leadership Training Women To Hold Picnic
Women who have been enrolled in the Leadership Training course sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. and the School of Education will meet south of the Lawrence Memorial High School for their afternoon at 3:30 for the picee to be held at Smith's Timber. This is the last meeting of the series.
Hellen Allen, c27, is chairman of the picnic committee, and has worked with Faye Jean Gish, president-elect of the high school Girl Reserves, to plan the affair. About 40 women are expected to meet with 40 high school Girl Reserves for the picnic.
Plans are nearing completion for the annual R.O.T.C. Spring Barbecue to be held Wednesday after-credit. Stadium immediately allow'd drilling.
Dr. Edmond Vincent Cowrey, who was brought here by Phi Sigma, national biological research society, and the University Convocations committee, spoke last night at central Administration auditorium on "Social Relationships of Cells." Doctor Cowley drew an analogy to the relationships between cells of the body in a community. He showed that in the body cells there is division of labor—legislative, judicial and executive branches of government, labor regulations and reserve workers.
Doctor Cowdry pointed out that there was no age limit set in the body for labor regulations as there is in the human sociological field, and that aged cells can be of the utmost good. He compared the cells of the body and the members of society in a strike situation.
Explains Cell Relationships
The menu for the barbecue will follow roughly these lines: fresh ham and beef, ice cream, coffee, fresh vegetables, including radishes, onions, pickles, and the famous R.O.T.C. beans, each of which is guaranteed to be edible, the beans I mean.
Doctor Cowdry Draws
Analogy of Body Cell
To Society
The social organization of the cells was stressed by Doctor Cowdy when he pointed out that there is much class distinction among cells.
"In the body," he said, "cells are never in a position to stop their neighbors; in human social relationship this is not true."
Underfed Students' Big Moment Comes With R.O.T.C. Spring Barbecue
It is evident that the food committee is having some difficulty in locating the necessary provisions for the feed. Although the following statement is not exactly official it carries the idea of the seriousness of the situation. "All young pigs in this vicinity are not safe. Owing to federal regulation of the hoof it is necessary for us to contend all the above species of livestock that can be located."
"A cub reporter can become president of the United States," he said, "but a muscle cell can never be a nerve cell. Yet there is more room for the same social class," he stated.
Menu for Barbecue
Southport, England, May 13—(UP) Dick Merrick, veteran American transport pilot, gunned his twin-motored Lockheed monoplane off the sandways at Rockdale airport tonight on his fourth flight over the Atlantic. Merrill, accompanied by his co-pilot Jack Lambie of Birmingham, Mich., took off at 4:13 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) bound for New York with pictures of the coronation of King George VI. He is expected to land in New York Friday noon.
Dick Merrill Begins Homeward Flight
C. M. Young, professor of mining engineering, addressed the natural gas section of the American Gas Association in Kansas City Wednesday morning. Professor Young discussed the new correspondence course in his own laboratory, which has been prepared by the University at the request of the association
By giving the ingredients of the barbecue sauce alone the proportions that the feast is expected to contain, you can make pounds of onions, five pounds of
Young Discusses New Course in Gas Engineering
Starting today, George O. Foster, registrar, will give six talks on station KFKU on problems which graduates who plan to enter college.
"A Four-Year College Course, Why? Where? When?" is the title of the speech which Mr. Foster will present at 10 o'clock tonight. The titles of the other talks, which will be given each Friday evening, will be found in the radio schedule for that day.
Foster Will Talk
10 High School Graduates
As the name of this unique household appliance suggests, it eliminates the unnecessary shedding of tears while preparing onions. This feature is especially attractive to the feminine sex, which most people would consider adequate to sell such a device, but not Sergeant Engle. He has added another important feature. The operator may sit down while preparing the vegetable, with the least effort possible. This feature was added especially for the men.
mushrooms, five pounds pimestones,
10 pounds of green peppers, 24
talks of ceylon, four quarts of
Worcestershire sauce, 16 gallons of
spices, one-ball pound of spices, two
quarts of olive oil.
"This is the greatest feed in this part of the state. It is locked forward to by many underfed students," said Sergeant Kollender. A special attraction in the preparation of the vegetables will be Sergeant Klender's latest invention the 'Ultra-medium Tear Proof Oenothera Peeler'.
To Satisfy the Underfed
Assigned by Prof. W. A. Dill to his Reporting II students, the result produced several answers that could not stand print, and yet it produced many which were downright humorous.
Reporter Will Fry Steaks if Chemistry Building Burns
If the Chemistry building should burn . . . what?
"I'd be so happy I'd probably get all messed up and run right in the fire," said Bob Rohde, c29.
"Maybe we could smell the spring when we are on the Hill, instead of those horribly maneating odors from our yards," said Don Black, c38. "trad."
The prize crack of the papers (all incidentally supposed to be serious documents) was that he (Marvin McNamara) his friends this friend and have a steak fry."
Ever since God cursed the serpent in the Garden of Eden, human beings have held an antipathy for the long and sinuous. They have shunned the python and loathed the boa and it is said that some girls don't like garter snakes paranoid of them; in these reptiles it are not even necessary and facsimiles of them unnerve the timid. In fact anything that looks like a snake is objectionable and that brings us to our subject.
Innocent Water Pipe Causes Varied Reactions
Under a pale moon the water pipe stretched in front of the Administration building becomes a first cousin to a cobra. Even under a bright sun it looks akin to a black snake. So it is no wonder that strong men detour and women blanch and children cry to keep away the snake. Tipping it causes one to acquire at least two sore toes. And one of them results from kicking in the pipe in a fit of temper.
A sentry posted to report the action of those daring its sway said that out of every ten, there is but one who ignores it and he because his luck stride missed it. The rest, showed varied reactions.
House Votes Big Sum for Relief
Washington, May 13—(UP) The powerful House Appropriations committee迟 refused to economize on relief, and voted 23 to 14 to give President Roosevelt the $1,500,000,000 he demanded to care for the nation's needy during the fiscal year beginning July 1.
As Mr. Roosevelt sped back to the White House from a restful fishing trip in southern waters, the Senate co-operated with his economy program by slicing $60,000,000 from the soil conservation allotment in the $571,281,000 agriculture department appropriation bill.
The measure passed after a brief flurry of debate during which Senator Arthur Vandenbush, Republican from Michigan, charged that there is an element of "tracteering" in the soil conservation program. He suggested he owned a farm but who had neither signed up nor co-operated with the agriculture department had received a government benefit check.
About 15 students are already signed to go to Estes. Others who would like to learn more about attending the conference are asked to attend the conference in the secretary of the Y.M.C.A., or to Ellen Payne, secretary of the Y.W.C.A.
Setse Pooc To Picnic
Sunday at Cameron's Bluff
Approximately 200 students will attend the Setse Poo picnic sunday afternoon at Cameron's Bluff. Students will be invited to spend time in Henley house. They are 20 cents. Students are asked to meet at Henley house at 4 p.m. Sunday. Students invited are those who are being interviewed by Catherine Holmes, c38, and Harold Dyer, co-chairman of the Estes committee, on attending the Estes Park Y.M. club from 1-9. 19. Any interested may go.
Spring Dance and
A nature service, with many unusual features, will be held by the Unitarian church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock on the Fred Heck farm, five miles north of Lawrence. A spring dance by Virginia Lee Walker, e37, and a prayer in the Navajo language by John Boin, a senior at Haskell, will be included in the service.
Indian Praver Feature Service
Miss Irene Peabody, assistant professor of voice, will direct the A Cappella choir.
Italy Will Leave League
Genève, May 13—(UP) —Premier Benton Musello will announce Italy's withdrawal from the League of Nations as soon as he concludes an economic and military alliance Germany, it was reported tonight.
The reports that II Duce will follow the Adolph Hitler example in breaking off collaboration jolted European diplomats as they prepared for two important brief sessions on May 24 and the assembly on May 26.
Y.M.C.A. Changes Membership Plan
The plan of functional membership which the Y.M.C.A. has followed since the day of Roy McCulloch, former general secretary and president yesterday afterward at "Y" collisions with 50 cent minimum membership fee.
Minimum Fee Expected To Give New Impetus To Organization
John L. Hunt, general secretary,
explained that the change was only partially a financial matter. "The benefit which the organization will receive when a student feels he really belongs" will be great, Hunt believes. The added obligation of the organization to the individual was also a factor effecting the change.
Under the plan of functional membership, a University student became a member of the "Y" by participation in its activities. The new student is issued a declaration of membership and payment of membership fees.
Paul Moritz, c39, president, appointed David Angevine, c39, Clayton Conner, c39, and Greg Himes larning the "Y" in the K-book.
Harold Dyer, gr. co-chairman of the Estes Conference commission, briefly reviewed plans for the 1937 Constitution, and co-chairman of the New Citizenship commission, presented plans for the commission for next year.
Class Visits Arkansas Mines
Their study will be concentrated around Magnet Cove, Ark. The mercury districts and the titanium deposits which are near Magnet Cove will first be studied. The class will then proceed to Bauxitio, Ark., where the titanium deposits and diatom mines in this country are to be found.
H. T. U., Smith, assistant professor of geology, and Mrs. Smith left Wednesday with the Economic Geology class, to spend the remainder of this week in southwestern Arkansas, studying the mines and mineral formations found in that section of the country.
Those making the trip with Doctor and Mrs. Smith are: Bill Neisbett, e'37; George Lemon, e'37; and Thad McLaughlin, gr.
Great Britain Still
A Feudin' : MacDonalds
Can Be Shot on Sight
London,—(UP)—Nearly 200 per sons in the British Isles are out laws, and, according to law, may be shot on sight. They are descendants of the Clan MacDonald, famous in the 1715 and 1745 Stuart rebellions. Now an effort is being made to have the law repealed.
Henry Pays Brief Visit to Lawrence
Gwinn Henry, New Mexico cose who will take over his duties as aath lecturer director here July 1, paid a hair tied visit to Lawrence on his way to Atlanta City. Mo., when he will attend Atlanta city tomorrow. Albany tonight.
Henry arrived by train from Albuquerque Wednesday night and spent last night at the Hotel Eldridge He was a guest of the Bonehole Club for lunch yesterday and took dinner to the restaurant of the "Bie Three" athletic committees.
Accountant Scout Here
Henry will return Saturday for the Kansas-Missouri track meet, and will address the annual meeting of the NCAA in Athens on Tuesday night at the Country Club Tuesdary night.
Over the Hill
Yale Takes Cornell
R. W. Meyers, a representative of Montgomery of Rockford, Ill., is a visitor on the Campus today. He will interview students interested in pub
Kirksville Hears Wilkins
Wesley Foundation students will go on their annual spring hayrack ride this evening. All students will meet at the church at 5 o'clock and all students will be provided. There will be a charge of 15 cents for each person.
Prof. Joseph Wilkins, head of the voice department at the University, appeared in a concert at the State Teachers College at Kirksville, Mo. last night. He was accompanied or Mimi Wilkins, Ms. Wilkins.
A *Hazride for Methodist*
Kenneth Cornell, instructor in the department of romance languages, has been awarded a Yale scholarship for graduate studies. He will spend the next two years at Yale, working on his doctor's degree.
The use of aluminum instead of silver as a reflector in telescope mirrors saves money and increases the light transmission. The coating has been abandoned because the silver corroded, and sulpher in the air blackened the surface, making it necessary to resilver the surface regularly. Aluminum will not corrode, and will also reflect the ultra-violet rays, which of importance in revealing the state of matter in stars and nebulae.
Fireside Forum will hold a Sign-Your-Name party this evening at 8:30 at the parish house on Main Street, church Charles Coulough, c38, and Evelyn Brutkner, c38, members of the cabins. The entire cent admission will be charged.
Virginia Lee Walker, c. 37, received announcement yesterday of her appointment as one of the leaders of the creative dance program for the conference for June 19-19, to have charge of the interpretive dancing work. She was appointed by Mira Huey, who is in charge of the creative lesse program for the conference.
Fireside Forum Party Tonight
Exhibit James Penney's Work
Doctor Strong is at present working on the apparatus to coat the big 200-inch mirror to be placed in the Mt. Whitney observatory. He also coat the 27-inch mirror first and it back here some time in June.
A large oil painting made by Jane Penney, '31, is now on exhibition at the Corcatoran Gallery in Washington. The painting, entitled "Subway," was displayed in Thayer museum during an exhibition of Mr. Penney's works.
Mr. Penney is now engaged in the painting of mural decorations in New York. This summer he will teach drawing and painting at the University.
Telescope To Be Completed By Alumnus After Seven-Year Delay
Mirror Valued at $5,000
N. W. Storer, assistant professor of astronomy, is sending the mirror of the 27-inch telescope in the Mt. Oread observatory to California today, where it will be coated with aluminum by Dr. John Strong, "26, inventor of the aluminizing process, and now a faculty member in the Astrophysical Observatory of the California Institute of Technology
This will be the final step in the making of the University's telescope which has been 95 per cent complete for the last seven years. Operations were discontinued in 1930 because of lack of funds.
The mirror was ground in 1927 by Dr. Dinnore Morley, former professor of astronomy, and William Pitt, Kansas City notebook manufacturer and amateur astronomer. It was ground from a blank of pyrex glass costing $200 and is now valued at $5000.
Strong's Aluminizing Process
The aluminizing process worked by Doctor Strong requires that the glass surface be absolutely clean, so clean that the final dust hardens of electrons and ions.
The thirty-five hundred mile trip in a felt-lined, dust-proof box for the coating process climates ten miles of snow or ice and creates of several thousand dollars in the completion of the big 'scope. Ad Astra per Aspera.
Then the mirror is placed in a chamber from which as much air as possible is pumped. Within the chamber bits of aluminum hang from tungsten wires which are electrically heated. The tungsten becomes white hot and the aluminum boils off, forming a sort of aluminum "steam" which rushes to the cold glass disk only a few inches away. Thus a uniform dew of reflecting metal only one 250-900th of an inch thick is deposited on the surface of the mirror.
Five Seniors Can't Decide On Memorial
Contentious Minority Spikes Effort To Equip Dental Clinic for Watkins Hospital
Five (5) members of the class of 37 jammed Fraser theater at 30 yesterday in response to a call for senior students to consider the senior memorial.
After discussing the proposals of the memorial committee, the five (5) representatives of the class decided to adjourn and trust to another meeting to bring out a quorum.
Bob Childs, class president, after expressions of gratitude for the fine spirit of interest evidenced by their attendance, turned the meeting over to Harry Epperson, chairman of the memorial committee.
To Change Ballroom Air?
Epperson announced that the committee still held to its original proposals of Dyche dioramas or an air-circulating system for the Me-Union ballroom. In the first meeting expressed that the installation of the system would be practical. Bolt Cochran, Union building manager, took the floor to explain what would be necessary to provide the ballroom with air-changing apparatus.
There is already a 54-inch fan in the building, Cochrane explained, which draws air from the kitchen of the cafeteria. By cutting grills in the ballroom ceiling and running conduits to the fan, the air in the ballroom could be changed every five or ten minutes. The fan has sufficient capacity to take care of both the kitchen and the ballroom. Cochrane said the estimated cost was $300.
The ballroom stage also came up for discussion. Built before 12 and 15 piece bands began playing at Kansas, and constructed without provision for getting on or off stage, it has temporary additions which, expert witnesses testified, are going the way of all temporary staging.
What, No Dentist?
Epperson reported that a new public address system for the Auditorium had been considered, but that a first-class system would cost about $4,000. If the estimated $1,100 of this year's senior class were used to make a start on such a system, its completion would be problematic. Equipment of a dental clinic in Watkins's hospital was also compared and Epperson pointed out that no fund was available for employing a dentist, and who wants a dental clinic without a dentist? Nobody period.
The class-all five of it- ada-
urned following a decision to call
nother meeting at a time when
iore might be present.
Clifford Willis To Head A.I.M.M.E. Chapter
The University of Kansas student branch of the American Institute of Mining and Metalurgical Engineers elected officers for the coming year last night in Haworth hall. Newly elected officers are: president, Clifford Willis, e38; vice-president, George C. Leon, e38; secretary-treasurer, Robert Garnett, e38.
Retiring officers are: president, Kenneth Rittingly, c37; vice-president, David Coleman, e37; secretary-treasurer, Clifford Willem, e38.
Authorized Parties
Friday, May 14
Alpha Omicron Pi, dance, 12 p.m.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Spring Party, Memorial Union, 12:00 p.m.
Tringle, picnic, State Lake, 11 p.m.
Wesley Foundation, Hayrack Ride,
0:00 p.m.
Westminster Foundation, Party,
12:00 p.m.
Scabbard and Blade, picnic, 4:30- 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 15
Saturday, May 15
Delta Tau Delta, Party, 12:00 p.m.
Pi Beta Phi, Party, Memorial
Union, 12:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 16
Kappa Eta Kappa, Picnic, State
ake, 8:00 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Violet Hunt;
State Lake, 10:00 p.m.
Christian Church Young People's
society, biciac, Tongonese, 19 p.m.
ELJABEHT MECUARI Adviser of Women, for The Joint Committee on Student Affairs.