UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXIII
on the SHIN
By BUD EVANS. '36
The Mile Farce . . . Approved Cut
Manner . . . "Sacred Cows" .
Borah or Kansan . . . Hill Politics
(Edited by Dave Hamlin)
The mile races, featuring Curingham, Mangan and Venzek, will degenerate into farces if the practice of running a race continues of running of running a race continues.
Cunningham is becoming a commercial runner, if runners that make the rounds are true. It is said that in a recent race in which Mangat beat the Kansei by incises, that there was an attempt by both runners to make the dead heat to keep the current paying through the rose at the box office.
Is such abashed time as the recent 4 minutes and 46 second mile continues, customers will join in the race and beat the contestants.
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Collegians. There is something about the way the campus big shot cuts in as a variety dance that is especially ludicrous. There is noting of the tinnid soul pecked on the shoulder type of cut practiced by the ordinary dancer.
You can see him coming clear across the floor. He gives the lucky female a coy glance over her partner's shoulder and says, "Hey, you're hitting his tie in a final twist or treating his coat to that final smoothing so necessary to his satiator splendor. Guerense so popular in this column he'll be simplification of the big shot at his worst.
One journalism professor was talking to the other day about the "sacred cow" of the news media, and she seems we reporters keep out of print any story we might think would throw a storm.
The recent squabble between Phoen Allen and Mitt is a shining example of how difficult it can be to get an office, not a line of it got into print. The metropolitan papers had it, how?
One newspaper that reached the Kansan through the mails attempted to explain the jering of Mitt from the Nebraska game as the supreme attempt to get publicity for the Jawhawk quintet. Take it for what it's worth.
LAWRENCE KANSAS. THURSDAY. MARCH 19. 1936
Few people know that the University has more than one chance to get a graduate into the presidential chair Senator Borah, leading Landon opponent for the Republican nomination also was a candidate who was well-known, chiefly, I suppose because he has been elected senator from Idaho on an "Tm a home product" basis.
Campus politicians are little wardchewers in the making. Lyman Field was in the Kansas office when the letter was sent to him for connection with the W.S.G.A.-M.S.C dating resolution. He even went so far as to try to designate the size of typeface used.
Their voices are usually those of the milk and honey variety which yet try to carry a note of authority, usually by a sermon or speech, making the political wheels turn round. I suppose they do learn something in their way. At least we'll have a nice crop of politicians to run the country with them, now, after we go out of school.
Addition to Naismith Fund
Professor of Languages II.II
A personal gift of $25 for the National Naismith fund was received at the athletic office yesterday from Robert K. Johnston of Oklahoma City. In his letter, Mr. Johnson says the check for the presentation of his gifture for Dr Naismith.
Professor O'Leary Is III
Professor R. E O'Leary, of the English department, who has been ill a his home for the past two weeks, probably will be unable to meet his classes this week.
Art Students to Visit Gallery
Prof. Karl Marten of the drawing and painting department will take a group of his freshmen students in composition to the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City today.
NUMBER 118
New President at Iowa State Dean Charles E. Friley was name president of Iowa State college to succeed Dr. Raymond M. Hughes, resigned by the state board of education, Tuesday.
Paul Ahistedt, '35, has a new position in the office of the Reed Sanitary Supplies company, in Kansas City, Mo.
Women Students Are Preparing for W.S.G.A. Election
Meguiar Announces Rule and Qualifications; Election Will Be March 26
Women students at the University will go to the polls Thursday, March 28, to vote for their representatives in the W. S.G.A. elections.
A mass meeting at which the annual treasurer's report will be given and the petitions of the candidates read, will be held Monday, March 23. Petitions for the candidates may be secured from Miss Meguiar's office any time during the present week. They must be returned to the office by Monday, March 23.
All those holding petitions will be introduced at the teas to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. March 24 and April 18, 2015, the dollar candidate fee must be paid.
Qualifications for the office are:
the president, vice-president, secretary,
and representatives of the school shall at the
master's level work with the masters' work, of which three of the four immediately preceding must have been done at this University. The treasurer,
the managers of the point system and
workshops, the director for at least three semesters' work which the two immediately preceding must have been done at this University.
All representatives must have attended
the University during the semester pre-
Rules governing the wigs of the petitions as stated in the W.S.G.A. constitution are Petitions for offices of the association shall be signed by not less than 15 or more than 25 electors. Petitions for class office shall be signed by not less than 15 or more than 25 electors. Petitions for College representative shall be signed by not less than 20 nor more than 30 electors. Petitions for Business shall be signed by not less than 10 nor more than 20 electors. The term, "electors," shall include those women in each case who are qualified to vote. No elector shall sign more than one petition for should an elector do, her signature shall be void as in the petitions last filed.
H. E. RIGGS, CLASS OF 1886,
ADDRESSES CIVIL ENGINEERS
Mr. H. E. Riggs, e86, vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, spoke yesterday afternoon to the work and value of the A.S.C.E.
Mr. Riggs was professor of civil engineering for many years at the University of Michigan. This spring will mark his fifteenth commencement anniversary since his graduation from the University.
Car Damaged in Accident
A crowd assembled rapidly yet afternoon at the corner of Nint and Mississippi streets when two auto repair shops, Bradshaw Burlham, c30, collided Burnham's car, a brown Chevrolet couch, was damaged badly but it was possible for Chids to drive his Dodge vehicle from the scene. No use was inured.
Employment Bureau Receives Many Requests For Student Help
Mr. Ellsworth requests that all applicants, whether employed or not, drop into his office occasionally in order to check the records and to keep the records up to date. The Men's Student Employment Bureau is operated by the Alumni Association in room 2 of the Administration Building on campus. A fray a part or all of their expenses at the University. Faculty members and other townpeople need student help are asked to call this bureau, telephone KW, for Women KU 23.
"Many of our 724 applicants are holding down steady jobs, and the rest we are keeping busy with spring house cleaning, yard work, and other odd jobs." said Fred Elsworth, director of students for Mr. Ellsworth. "The employment situation for working students is improving, with many requests coming in daily for student help, according to Mr. Elsworth. At the present time there are calls for a barrer, a dish washer, a night clerk in a hotel, a cook, a cleaner and a preserver, a cleaning technician, a tector, a kitchen helper, and a number of other types of student help.
Emerson Medal to Taft
Award Is For Article on History
Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, received the P. H. Emerson media awarded for the merit of his article or
of Photography
awarded for the merit of his article on "M. B. Brady and the Daguerreotype Workshop." It was published in the August and September issues of the "American Photography" magazine last fall. It contains part of the work of early photography in this country.
P. H. Emerson, who is an English writer and authority on photography, has been awarding the Emerson medal for the past 12 years for important contributions to the science, practice, $v$ history of photonany.
Of the 30 medals awarded two have been awarded to Americans: Dr. K. L. Meez, director of research for Eastman Kodak company, and the late John Eckmeyer, one of the best known American professional photographers
Senior Class Invitations To Be on Display April
Miller Announces Three Forms Have Been Selected
Selected
Senior invitations for commencement will be placed on display April 1, Jack Miller, chairman of the senior invitations committee, announced yesterday. The invitations were selected from the line of the Charles H Elliot company. Philadelphia, which has furnished the invitations in the past.
The invitations selected are of a modernistic design. Three types were chosen, two of which are in booklet form and will include the program of events. The other type will be a formal invitation. The booklet form will be available in both a cardboard cover and a leather cover of white pigkin. The invitation to the party has been definitely set but it is expected that the prices will conform closely to those of last year which were 10, 25, and 45 cents.
The members of the senior invitations committee are: Jack Miller, b3; 36; chairman, Edward Boggess, b3; 36; Mary Belza, b7; 36 and Elizabeth Hanson, c8.
APPOINT PROFESSOR DAVIS
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE
APPOINT PROFESSOR DAVIS
Prof. Robert M. Davis of the School of Law has received notice of his appointment by the president of the Association of American Law Schools to serve as chairman of a recently established committee of that association.
The work of the committee will be concerned with the co-operation between the Law School Association and the University of Chicago laboratories. Joint committees of the two associations will study the problems common to the organizations and report to their annual meetings with recommendations of plans for permanent cooperation.
Councils Clarify Mistakes In Ideas on Dutch Dating
Some have objected on the ground that women have personal expenses that men do not have, but the councils contend that unescorted women spend a great deal of money for cokes, etc., without realizing it, and they would spend no more under this plan. It is hard on the men working students who are part of the workforce that the woman's way to everything. The working women will of course have!
It will not "take the romance out of dating" as some have suggested. In fact it will be more probable that the woman and man will go out together because each other's company is not merely the woman wants to be taken some place.
budget more carefully but they will not
Student Votes To Decide P.S.G.L. Election Policies
They wish to make clear first of all that the resolution is in no sense a law and there will be no attempt to enforce it. The students will register their opinion by following the plan or not following it. The councils merely ask that everyone co-operate and give it a try. The plan is based on financial release for "steady couples" but as a means of bringing better relations between all men and women in their activities together.
So many mistaken ideas have arisen concerning the "dutch dating" plan that W.S.G.A. and M.S.C. have issued a statement answering the objections.
The Progressive Student Government League, in accordance with its policy inaugurated last year, is again conducting a primary election for the purpose of enabling student voters to have a fundamental part in the selec-
tion process. The officers are council positions, and to solicit augements for its platform.
The P.S.G.L. primary election was designed to create democratic government, which demands a participation of the whole student body in the process of selection, and it was felt that that approach would not within a political organization could
WEATHER FORECAST
WATER COLOR COURSE
Kansas, generally fair Thursday
and Friday; cooler in the south
Thursday; warmer Friday.
NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA
At noon yesterday 59 patients were in the hospital, as contrasted with 71 at the same time last week.
Influenza cases still continued to be admitted to Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday, with six reported to the State Board of Health. According to Dr. Ralph I. Canutenato, director of Watkins Memorial hospital, the epidemic, although not as extensive as it has been, appears with more complications.
Last night 2,250 letters had been sent out to men students of the University. The letter consists of four sheets: ballots for class officers and council positions, a personal letter from the league, a list of suggested candidates of the league, and a list of suggested candidates. Students who receive letters are asked to fill out the ballots with the name of any student they may feel be qualified for an offer to play in a league. Their choice to the list of suggested candidates. The ballots will be collected over the week end, and if any man's ballot is overlooked, he may call Earl Dearborn, who is chairman of the compilation and collection of straw ballots.
Atkinson Attends A.A.C. Tournament
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, director of athletics and Olympic basketball team discussions, the national basketball tournament of the National Amateur Athletic Union. He felt it a courtesy due the A.U. to attend the tournament. In addition it gives him an opportunity to confer with Richard Romney, Unh State coach, on details of the forthcoming inter-sectional basketball tournament at Kansas City March 25, 26, and April 3. Games are necessary to decide the winner.
Over 2000 Circulars Have Already Been Distributed to Voters; Offer Ballots, Letter From the League, Explanatory Pamphlets, and List of Candidates
STILL APPEAR AT HOSPITAL
Allen Attends A.A.U. Tournament
The council further advocates that the women call the men for dates if they already know them. Formerly, the man called because he paid. Now that the woman is paying her share, she has the right to do the asking, too.
be any worse off than the men in this respect.
The following are a list of suggestions which will help make the plan a success To the Women
The council feels sure that the plan will work if the students will honestly give it a chance.
Take the lead in paying your bill Don't leave it to the boy to suggest it Call up boys of your acquaintance to pay you won't be asking them to pay your way
Be sensible about the whole affair and act just as you would when out with one of your own sex.
Everybody give it a try. Be good sports. See if you don't like it. To the New
Do not give your money to you date and let him pay. Take your own cheek and step up and nav it yourself
It is the most natural thing in the world. Be sensible and act just as you would if you were out with another boy.
To the Men
Don't feel timid or ashamed about allowing the girl to pay for her own entertainment. She should.
Don't think you're a better man in your date's eyes because you "magnanimously" grab her check. She won't think you are.
Don't carry your date's money. Let her step up and pay her own check. Be courteous. Allow her to step up first and buy her own ticket at shows.
not be truly representative of campus affairs, since they are often not the best men available.
The league feels that the effectiveness of student government depends upon the selection of the most capable men to serve in official capacities, and that the student body as a whole by its representatives will gain this end.
Last year marked the first time that the entire student body was given an opportunity to select its representatives, and this year's primary is being conducted on the strength of its enthusiastic acceptance last year.
The primary election is only one of a number of reforms inaugurated by the new constitution. The League in Hill politics. Others have been the Student Court proposal, the doing away of council expenditures for college expenses and the student forum.
The student forums have proved one popular innovation, and have drawn large crowds. Speakers thus far have been Bruce Bilven, V. F. Calverton, Marco Morrow, Norman Thomas, J. P. Warbasse, Anna Louise Strong and Mrs. George Hoeke. The subject have covered a wide range of student interest, and are well presented. The forum scheme has since been widely coupled in other schools.
To Study on West Coas
Zoology Students and Teachers Will Start on Trip, June 17
Dr. W. J. Buumpartner, professor of zoology, will conduct a party of teachers and students to the west coast for a study of marine life this summer. The trip will begin June 17 and will be made in automobiles.
Six hours of graduate or undergraduate credit can be earned and applied to a degree at this University.
After reaching the coast the time will be spent at Sagma Beach, the Pomona College Seaside laboratories, located 56 Here she will study at Angels. Here sea life will be studied.
Dr. Baumgartner will offer courses in field zoology, cytology, and graduate research in order to help students will offer courses in general zoology and biology of invertebrates. Field trips along the beaches for collecting specimens will form a major part of the work.
On the journey west, stops will be made to see the Carlabad Caverns, Roosevelt dam, and the Imperial Valley. On the return trip each car group will go up to the Grand Canyon, which will return to see Mohave desert Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon.
Holloway Gets New Job
Joe Holloway, 35, who has been connected with the Capper Publications company and is a senior position in the radio advertising department of the German Furniture company of Kansas City. Holloway is also a column in the Daily Kansan last year.
Skilton to Present Opera
Prof. Charles S. Skilton will present part of his opera, "Kalopin," at a musicale of the National Association of American Composers and Conductors and of the Metropolitan Opera program will consist of works by composer-members of the association.
Chemistry Club will meet this afternoon in room 201 of the Chemistry building. Professor Kinney will describe the flotation method of ore concentration and Mr. J. W. Kennedy will describe the elements elementi 93 and 94. All are invited.
Chemistry Club Meets Today
Louis Maser Still Critically Ill Louis Maser fa 'unle, is still critically ill in Wakins Memorial hospital with streptococcus pneumonia, according to the medical office of the university hospital. Today is Maser's 83rd birthday in the student hospital.
Construct Safe for Medies
Construct Sate for Mates
Workmen are now engaged in building a vault within the Commons building that will provide a safe keeping place for the valuable instruments used by the medical students.
CSEP Director Is Ill
Miss Mary C. Olesen, director of CSEP is absent from her office because of illness.
More Money for Relief
Roosevelt Asks Congress for $1,500,000.
000 Additional Funds
Washington, D. C., March 18—(UP)—President Roe v. Wade asked congress to continue work relief another year and bluntly warned industry that unless it co-operated to reduce unemployment more money would be needed to aid destitute and further plans and policies initiated.
In a sharply worried message declaring $3,000,000 families are obtaining federal or state relief, Mr. Roosevelt estimated the treasury share of the burden during the 1936 fiscal year ending July 1, at $3,000,000,000. He said unexpected appropriations totaling more than $1,800,000,000, the additional $500,000,000, and the $600,000,000 voted the Triple C and various public works works would be utilized to meet relief needs in the 1975 fiscal year.
This amount he will be sufficient only if substantial employment gains are made through combined efforts of various industries.
Hill Personalties, Freaka and Fortune Tellers Featured
Ballyhoo Will Hold Sway During Friday's Carnival
Fortune tells, freaks from the free show. Hill, personalities, and members of the floor show of the Hollywood night club will run riot amid the ballyhoo decorations of the 1910 era at the W.S. carnival to be held tomorrow
Great interest is being taken in the forthcoming carnival for various reasons. Inauguration of the dutch dating system will be of primary importance. It will also mean that have been made will supply entertainment for the entire evening.
An outstanding program has been planned by the W.S.G.A. carnival committee. Possible conflicts between stage managers and volunteers may be setting various performance times for each booth. Booths will be commenced this afternoon and will be decorated on Friday. The only booth under the supervision of the W.S.G.A.
The censorship board, composed of Miss Morrison, Dorothy Lewis, c36, and Ruth Learned, c37, will meet this afternoon to approve the plans of the various booths. Judges have not been given until there will probably be three chosen.
"Red" Blackburn's band will furnish the music for the dancing which will be held from 9 to 12. There will be a dance during each dance during any set of pieces.
Advance sale of general admission tickets began yesterday. The general admission price will be ten cents and the side-scarves and side-scarves will each be five cents.
CLUB OFFERS INSTRUCTION IN BRIDGE AND DANCING
A series of contract bridge and social dances lessons will be inaugurated tonight in the Unitarian Church, under the auspices of the Promethean Club. The bridge instructions will be given from eight to nine o'clock, and the next hour will be used for dancing lessons. The lesson will then go on ginner through the primary to the more advanced stages of each activity, will be continued every Thursday evening for several weeks. A charge of 10 cents will be made for each lesson
German Club Show March 26 "Enil und die Detektive," a motion picture in the German language, under the auspices of the German Club, will be presented March 26, at the Patez Theater in New York City, virtually announced. There will be three performances, and the admission price will be 25 cents.
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Closing hour for those who attended the carnival Friday, March 29 at 12:30 a.m.; for others 12:30 a.m.
Signed,
JULIA JENCKS,
President W.S.G.A.
AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Friday
W.S.GA. Carnival, Robinson
Gymnasium, 1 a.m.
Saturday, March 21
Continued Pan-Hellenic Council
Memorial Union, 12 p.m.
Wesley Foundation, Ekes hall,
11 p.m.
ELIZABETH MEGUAI,
Adviser of Women,
For the Joint Committee
on Student Affairs.
on Student Affairs.
Flood Threatens Life and Safety Of Million Victims
Fire and Food Shortage Increases Suffering; Power and Lights Are Cut Off
Pittsburgh, March 18—(UP)—Floods, fire, and a dwindling food supply threaten life and safety of one million persons in the vast Pittsburgh industrial
Use Candles for Light
The city struggled in darkness tonight, except for candle light. Power and light service failed around dusk. Fires were frequent because of the candles. They were difficult to fight because water pipes were covered by fire; they fire engine that clamped through the streets carried a cane or small boat.
Although there were millions of tons of ice water in and around the steel plant, it was not enough for the city's supply of drinking water would be exhausted in 30 hours unless the food receded. Food became source and product exchanges were closed.
There was tragedy in the outlying towns. In Sharpsburg, seven miles north, about 300 persons were marooned with only four rowboats available for rescue work. Known deaths in the Pittsburgh area were few but more were feared. In addition to the danger from drowning, the weather was bitterly cold. Exposure floods covered the streets and the enricling mountains.
Business Center Inundated
The famous "Golden Triangle" business center was inundated. The city was almost isolated from the world with its own transportation service operating regularly.
Property damage in the downtown section alone was estimated conservatively to this amount, but to this were additional millions in personal expense incurred by individuals and the less in waters by thousands of properties from stores and shops by water lands.
The water was beyond the flood stage which is 25 feet deep. As darkness closed over the city the water appeared to reach its crest. No rain was falling.
Candles and oil lamps were at a premium. Gasoline sold for as high as 46 cents a gallon. The day before yesterday the price was 18 cents.
Most of the bridges connecting Pittsburg and the residential section were closed. Travel to the densely populated central part of the city, which surrounded the city was cut off.
Establish Roosevelt Award
Establish Roosevelt Award
$2500 Prize Offered for Best Manuscripts on Contemporary America
A Theodore Roosevelt Memorial award has been established which provides a prize of $2500, in addition to book royalties, for the best manuscript on any political, economic or social phase of contemporary American life. Manuscripts must reach the committee of the Library of Congress, with 18 of its Judges of the book manuscripts are. Dr. Harold W. Dodd, president of Princeton University; Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Bookings Institution of Washington; Dr. Henry Selden Canby, editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature"; Prof. Rosco Pound, dean of Harvard University Law School; Prof. Thomas McDougall will represent both his family and Doubleday, Doran & Company on the committee.
The book must be by an American citizen whose non-fiction work has not been published. The book must be typewritten, and not less than 65,000 words in length. It should be sent to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Garden, New York City, Long Island, New Jersey.
Sweet and Ward Will Speak
W. E. Sweet, ex-governor of Colorado, and Cal Ward, former head of the Kansas Farm Bureau, will speak this morning in the auditorium in Snow hall on the work of the Resettement Administration. Speeches will be given at 10:30 and 11:30 o'clock. Any person interested is invited to attend.
Davidson Sneaks to Y.W.C.A.
"The Jewish Problem on and off the Campus" will be the title of the talk to be given tonight by Dr. A.W. David W. of the chemistry department, before the Group of the YWCA.CA. The meeting will be held at 12 o'clock in Hayley house.