The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXXIV
NUMBER 133
Concert Series Presents 'Faust'
San Carlo Performance Is Success
Small Crowd Attends
Grand Opera; Feature
Rolf Gerard in Tittle
Role
By Kemeth Postlethwaite, c.28
The season's one and only opera "Faust," was presented last night in Hoch auditorium to a small audience.
The San Carlo Opera company stageed Goundo's familiar work.
Star of the opera was Leo Laura Turner as Marguerite, heroine of the opera Miss Turner has a lovely, clear soprano voice. She stars in spots of the evening's performance.
Featured in the title role was Rol Gerard, a tenor of unusual merit Harold Kravitz, an excellent bass tenor, invincible and hateful Mephephistops.
Marguerite Is Star
Dances by the ballet corps of the opera company added much to the presentation.
Better pens than this have approved "F瓦斯" as a fine opera, so far be it from us to point out that in one lone performance the芭蔹-boelv raised just that with one cadenza; that the flowers called so "lovely" in one long song looked like the cullings from any sorority house garbage can on Monday morning; that the beard on Faust in the first scene might have set any child to wondering what will happen at the stage; that one of the orchestra was sporting a wig of uncertain relation to his own hair.
Company Travels Light
But the company should be complimented for its low tomah. It is the first opera company to visit the Campus in many moons that did no set the buildings and grounds deserves a new braces to the auditorium stage.
Worthy of comment also were the contributions made by University students who strolled in the background during the street scenes.
It was an evening of excellent entertainment, and drew generous applause from the appreciative audience.
Late Wire
Canadian Minister Quits
Oshawa, Ontario, April 14—(UP)—The General Motors strike caused the resignation of the Ontario Labor minister and attorney general today, and it appeared almost certain that a general election would be held on the issue of Premier Mitchell Hepburn's campaign against the committee for industrial organization.
Commons Votes Confidence
David Croll, labor minister, is
signed, explaining in a letter to Hephar-
burn that "My place is marching
into New York on riding with
General Motors."
London, April 14—(UUP) —The house of commons, resounding with cries of "Cowardly surrender," voted today its confidence in the government conciliatory policy in recognition of British military blockade near Biscay.
The members, after 13 hours of violent debate, rejected a motion of the Laborite oposition calling for the censor of Prime Minister Stanley Wilson to impose strictness of their refusal to protect British ships inside the Biscay blockade.
Jail 150 in Strike
Chrysler and Workers Agree
Detroit, April 14—(UP)-Police and sheriff deputies tonight tailed 150 sit-down strikers in a fierce气战 gas battle from the Yale and Towne company plant. The factory has been held by strikers for six weeks
Detroit, April 14—(UP) - Chrysler corporation and the United Automobile Workers of America signed a supplemental agreement complete with settlement of the strike which held Chrysler plants idle for 31 days.
Will Be Distributed Today
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937
The Kansas Relays issue of the Jawhyer magazine will be distributed today from the book excerpt to the basement of the Union building.
The social fraternities, along with a few professional groups, are featured in the magazine. An interesting article on Mussolini has been written, by E. W. Hullinger, acting assistant professor of journalism
'Causes of War' Is Forum Subject
"The Causes of War" will be the subject of a forum to be held Monday evening, in the Union ballroom at 8:20. The speakers will be Prof. R.H. Wheeler of the department of psychology, Dr. A.M. Lee of the department of journalism, Prof.F.T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, and the Rev.H. Lee Jones, of the Uuitarian church.
This is the third forum this year sponsored by the Peace Action committee. The subject of the first forum was "Is World War I inevitable?" The second was a student discussion whose topic was "I Have Only One Life-What Shall I Do About War?"
The forum will be conducted along the lines of panel discussion. Each speaker will talk 10 minutes at first, then there will be discussion within the group and questions from the floor.
Will Install
New Officers
Y.W.C.A.To Create
The three Commissions
At Banquet Tonight
Installation of the new Y.W.C.A. officers and cabinet will be held at a formal banquet this evening at 5:45 at Evans hearth. All members of the new and old advisory boards will be present. New officers of the advisory board will also be installed.
Martha Peterson, c37, will be toastmistress. Toasts will be given by Eleanor Slaten, c38, and Mrs. Marvin Le Sur, a member of the advisory board. Alice Russell, fa39, will play a piano solo, and Ellen Payne, secretary, will give a short talk on the Estes hymn which has been called a Danish folk song "That Cause Can Neither Be Lost nor Stayed."
Three new commissiones have been put into the cabinet of the organization—the "Ology" commission, the "I-am" commission, and an appreciation commission. The "Ology" commission, which will be headed by Mr. Coulson, will be a discussion group on theology, psychology, and so forth.
Others making up the new cabinet include: Virginia Griffin, c'40; secretary; Gevene Landrith, c'39; chairman of the race committee, which will take the place of the commission on race problem; Catherine Holmes, c'38; chairman of the membership committee; Dorothy Butcher, c'39; social service commission; Velma Wilson, c'40; social committee; Irene Moll, c'38; assistant treasurer; Dorothe Caldwell, c'38; sponsor of freshman commission; Dorothy Trokell, c'38; chairman of counselling board; Eda May Parks, c'40; chairman of Estes committee; Erna Lee Brower, c'39; chairman of the fellowship committee; Mary Lou Borders, fa'39; chairman of publicity; Ruth Olive Brown, c'40; finance chair; Eleonor Canfield, c'39; chairman of ways and means committees; Ruth Fangel, fa'unch, chairman of creative leisure commission.
Jeanne Youngman, 'euncl,' will be chairman of the new "i-knn" commission, a group to inform itself on issues related to the social, social, and economic thought.
Alice Russell, fau29, will be the leader of the appreciation group in which the fine arts will be synchronized.
Doris Johnson To Leave
By Plane Friday for Hollywood
Doria Johnson, c'40, who won the University beauty contest sponsored by the Comedians' Congress for Choosing Comely Coeds, will leave Kansas City by plane tomorrow for six days in Hollywood, Calif.
Warner Appointed To Represent Engineers
Prof. R. W. Warner of the department of electrical engineering has been appointed a representative of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on the Delegate committee of Engineers for this region.
The purpose of this committee is to inspect engineering schools and to secure data as to the course instruction that is offered. This council is making a study of all engine schools which have approved courses of study and they will be officially credited by the council.
Dean A. A. Potter of Purdue University is chairman of the committee for this region. Professor James company the committee next week and a trip of the engineering schools at Austin, Lubbock, and Dallas, Texas.
Winners of the 1937 National Scholarship Award of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, were announced today by Prof. John J. Kistler of the department of journalism, adviser to the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. Those who are Donald Ames, Alpine Moline, Johnson John, Kansas City; Doris Elaine Kent, Humboldt; and Richard Malone, Leavenworth; and Mary Esther Rutter, Lawrence.
Announce Five Winners
The award, which has been made annually since 1925, represents the highest 10 per cent of the seniors in journalism at each University and college in the United States where there is a chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, and is based solely on scholarship.
The award last year went to Melvin Harlin, laboratory instructor in the department of journalism; and Robert Robinson, and Ruth Stoland.
Professors Will Attend Medical Meeting Tonight
N. P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology, and O. O. Stoland, professor of physiology, will attend, a dinner meeting of Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical fraternity, in Kansas City tonight.
Two men ranking highest in the School of Medicine are elected yearly into the fraternity. Honor guest at the dinner will be Dr. Thomas G. Orr, who will be initiated as an increment to his being elected to full membership from the Maryland chapter of the organization.
Doctor Orr will address the chapter on the subject, "The Treatment of Acute Appendicitis and Its Complications."
Prof. E.F. Engel, of the department of German, returned yesterday from Wichita, where he spoke to the Ger- menoners on his recent trip to Germany.
Professor Engel Returns
Stevens Talks Tonight
Noted Flier To Tell of Recent Trip Into the Stratosphere
Major Albert W. Stevens, who will speak on "Explorations in the Stratosphere" tonight at 8:20 in Hoch auditorium, has been highly acclaimed for his scientific discoveries.
Since his recent flight into the stratosphere, Major Stevens, "the man who brought the altitude record back to the United States," has given a number of lectures on his flight. Nov. 11, 1935, Major Stevens and Captain Orvile Anderson, both born in Copenhagen, capped 137.1 miles into the stratosphere, the highest that man has ever gone.
The purpose of their flight was to bring back certain observations. With a variety of apparatus, they were able to obtain specific observations concerning the effect of cosmic rays on simple forms of life. Among the more important assignations studied were the effects of air at the peak of the flight. An examination of the two quarts of air that they were able to bring down revealed that the percentage nitrogen-oxygen mixture prevailing 14 miles above the earth varies but little from that of the denser atmosphere, and preconceived scientific notions that there would be a marked change
Major Stevens will describe these experiences and a great number of similar ones in his lecture here tonight. He will illustrate the lecture with moving pictures and slides taken on the flight.
there would be a marked change in this balance in the upper air. "Attempt to land the great balloon," it were, "little wren, and it rashed."
The lecture is the last of the community lectures for this year. Student activity books or season tickets will admit. General admission is 25 cents, reserved seats, 50 cents.
Authorized Parties
Friday, April 16
Lutheran Student Association Picnic, 10:30 p.m.
Roger Williams Foundation, Hike,
11:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 17
Corbin Hall, Party, 12:00 p.m.
Alpha Kappa Psi, Party, 12:00 p.m.
Delta Upsilon, Dance, 12:00 p.m.
Kappa Alpha Theta, Dance, 12:00
p.m.
Missouri Jumper in Relays
Kappa Sigma, Party, 12:00 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Party
12:00 p.m.
Sigma Alpha Mu, Dance, 12:00 p.m.
ELIZABETH MEGUIAR,
Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs
Dick Waters, ace University of Missouri broadjumper, who will compete in the Kansas Relays here Saturday.
Nobel Winner Speaks on Isotopes
Dr. Harold C. Urey, of Columbia University, discoverer of heavy hydrogen and 1834 Nobel laureate in chemistry, spoke before the faculty and graduate students in the departments of physics and chemistry yesterday afternoon on "The Separation of Isotopes."
Doctor Uvey, who married Miss Friederda Faum, 18', claims the University as its "alma-mater-in-law", and in an interview after the lecture.
After the lecture, which was illustrated with slides, Doctor Urey answered questions from the audience.
The lecture yesterday was planned in a hurry since it had not been scheduled between the lecture which Doctor Urey made Tuesday evening in Manhattan, and the lecture which he will deliver at the University of Indiana, in Bloomington, this evening.
Henry To Meet Board Tomorrow
Gwint Henry, recently named athletic director, will be introduced to the University athletic board at an informal dinner meeting tomorrow evening at 6:30 in the Eldridge hotel, Dr. W. W. Davis, chairman, announced yesterday. Members of the coaching staff also will be present.
Doctor Davis said there is no official business to come before the board and he doubted that a formal meeting would be held.
Henry, who is driving from Albuquerque, NM, is expected to arrive in Lawrence today. He will be the official starter for both the state high frack and field meet tomorrow and the Kansas Railway on Saturday.
on the SHIN by Kenneth Morris
Out of the kindness of our heart names of persons will not be mentioned in this story. A young man called a Theta and asked for a date, but the girl didn't remember him very well and hesitated to accept. Then her mind began working and she remembered a lonesome sorority sister so she decided to accept the date but let the lonesome sister do the fulfilling. When the young man called for the date the lonesome sister appeared using the other girl's name—but the "switching" didn't work because her name was quinted, knew it wasn't the girl he wanted and turned around and walked off, leaving "lonesome" in the lurch.
One yellow - sweatered Romeo yielded to impulse undoubtedly caused by Tuesday's balmy evening, and went scampier up the drain pipe to call at a second-story window of the Kappa house. His reward? An envised snack on the lips from the girl within. He did it the hard way!
Jeanette Jenkins, who will be married April 17, has invited her past boy friends to the wedding, and several are wondering if they were in love with her. Are she married or whether Jeanette is fostering an "Aren't you sorry" attitude.
Crown Princess of Beauty might be the title applied to Isabella Bash, and it started way back at home. In Kansas City, Isabelle was runner up to Doris Johnson in a contest. Then here she turned up in the same position in a beauty content blog, where it got cited of what he wrote to Hollywood. Since Doris decided to make the trip Isabelle's was an empty title. More recently came the news that Doris was also selected as Relays' Queen ahead of her rival. Since the real queen cannot be in attendance at the races because of a previous engagement in Hollywood, Isabelle will reign for the crown princess, wait for the revolution we've been promised for some time so that the aspect of things may be changed.
Ben Hibbs Is Alumni Judge
For Carruth Poetry + Contest
Ben Hilbs, 23, now associated with the Curtiss Publishing company,
has been selected as alumni judge for the Carruth Poetry contest. The
contest closed yesterday, but the app-posed committee has not tabulated
the entries.
M.S.C. Votes Thanks to Women
University Delegation Travels to Topeka Friday
A delegation composed of two University professors, two students, and the secretaries of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. will go to Topea CRA.friday morning to discuss personnel leadership of the Student Christian movement in the Rocky Mountain region.
Dr. Bert Nash of the department of education and Anna McCracken of the department of philosophy, Paul Moritz and Eleanor Slater, students, L John Hunt, Y.M.C.A. secretary, and Miss Ellen Payne, Y.W.C.A. secretary, make up the delegation from the University.
Dispute Splits Senate
Argument Arises Over New Attempt To Reach Court Compromise
Washington, April 14—(UP) - Dispute over introduction of testimony against President Roosevelt's reorganization plan late today caused opponents to prolong the hearing of the Senate tucidary committee.
The fight broke out as opponent sought to modify the President plan and refused to believe that M Roosevelt will not accept a promise unless he himself makes statement.
The demand for a compromise seemed to regain strength despite the fact that two cabinet officers had been accused of determination to continue the fight
Attorney-General Homer F. Cummings, whose first reply to compreme talk was "looey," said today he was "hewing to the line," in support of the program. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said farmers must continue to work end what he termed "discrimination of agriculture," after sure constitutional farm legislation.
The Senate committee fight came when Burke asked permission to introduce in the record the letters of a group of college presidents opposing the bill. Administration senators maintained it was against the rules
Roosevelt Makes Pledge Gives Traditions Talk Before Pan-American Governors
Washington, April 14. —(UP)—President Roosevelt pledged this country to keep presidents in a tradition-racking speech before the governors of the Pan-American Union. His supplements supplied a prepared address in which he said the positive co-operation of the American republics for peace has given the world "an example which is destined to have far-reaching influences."
The Chief Executive remained standing after concluding his formal speech. He made certain that the microphone had been deadened and then began his extemporaneous discourse.
Representatives of 21 republics in the western hemisphere were the only ones present. Through them it was learned the President sought to prove the United States' integrity in foreign affairs by outlining promises made to a republic by his administration, and then with accomplishments to date
Mr. Roosevelt told diplomats that promises had been made by others but that ours had been fulfilled. He cited this country's promise not to intervene in turbulent Cuban affairs and that Cuba's country continued stand-off policy.
The diplomats attached greater significance to these words than to his former remarks.
Occasion of this speech was a special session of the board of governors in celebration of Pan-American Day, an event planned for the Pan-American building.
Sigma Xi Will Meet Today
Sigma Xi, science fraternity, will hold a short business meeting at 4 p. m. today in room 101 of the Chemistry building to elect new members received by the board of elec All members are requested to be present.
W.S.G.A.
Must Act Next
On Store
Bill Which Establishes Labor Relations Board Is Passed by Council Last Night
By Dick Martin, c'39
The Men's Student Council last night voted a unanimous "thank you" to the W.S.G.A. in behalf of men students for their proposed donation of $8000 in funds now possessed by their book store for the co-operative equipment of a co-operative book store for the students of the University.
The obvious attitude of the Council upon the proposed book store was that no one organization should be asked to contribute so large an amount for the operation of such a book store and accept all the risks confronting it. However, since the W.S.G.A. has proposed the financing of the store with its own book exchange funds, it was the opinion of the Council that such action should be highly commended.
Lies Upon W.S.G.A. Action
In commenting on the action taken by the W.S.G.A., John Milton Phillips said the responsibility of getting a co-operative book store next year is to hire people with which the W.S.G.A. makes its funds available for developing such a store.
The Council deemed it unnecessary that they take any further action on the plans submitted by the Union Operating committee. The development of a co-operative book would be solely in the hands of the W.S.G.A.
Pass Labor Relations Bill
Pass Labor Relations B... A bill establishing a student labor relations board for the promotion of the welfare of working students of the Campus was passed by the Council.
The board will be comprised of the men's student adviser, the women's student adviser, secretary of the men students' employment bureau, secretary of women students' employment bureau, secretary of the CSEP, a member of the Kaunan board, a student chairman and such other students as the chairman deeds advice to them, and any additional faculty members as the chairman shall desire.
The bill provides that the board be empowered to hold hearings at the request of any student or the employer of any student, where such a hearing is, in the opinion of the board, justified; that the board shall be authorized to publish the facts and personalities of the case in any instance where the persons in the case fail to abide by the recommendations of the board; and that the board shall from year to year compile and publish detailed sets of minimum working standards in all occupations enjoined by working students, covering wages, hours and working conditions.
OVER THE HILL
Newman Club To Hold Dance
Newman Club To Hold Dance
The Newman Club announces to the public that it will be at Odd Fellows hall tomorrow at 9 p.m. The public is invited.
Fourth Mumps Case Reported
Marguerite Jones, c 40, is confined in Watkins Memorial hospital with the mumps. This is the fourth case reported this week.
Instructors To Attend Meeting
Miss Rosenberry Ketchan, professor of computer science at the instructor in design, will go to Wichita Friday to attend a meeting of the board of trustees. Miss Ketchan is a member of the board of trustees. Miss Elsworth will present a paper Saturday on "Art in Public Life."
Professors To Attend Meeting
Prof. C. D. Clark and Prof. Noel P. Gist, of the department of sociology, will leave for Des Moines today to attend the meeting of the newly-formed Mid-West Sociological Society, tomorrow and Saturday. Proposed plans for the book will present a paper on "Social Migration" in Rural-Urban Migration."
Delta Sigma Pi Holds Smoker
Delta Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity, held a smoker at the university. Edgar Dowling, assistant instructor of economics, discussed the Wagner College's graduation program and the Kansas City gym gave a short chance of the college graduate to succeed in the business world. About students and Kansas City alumni attended.