UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXII
--on the SHIN
By JOE HOLLOWAY, c'35
Tale of a Summerfielder's Easter
Antics . . . A tedium Used to Know
Uncle Jimmy . . . A Gag From the
90's. . . A Student Viewpoint.
We offer you this as the most interesting tale of the Easter vacation. . . and it's on a Summerfield at that. It seems that one of the local honor boys took a boat lead of high school lads to the Pan-Handle College of Agriculture and Mechanics for some kind of a contest they were putting up, and boot-scraping. Upon arriving there, the chaperon discovered that there was a typing contest in which there was a college class, and since he had at one time been considered a rapid exponent of the hunt and punch method, he decided to enter the college class. How did he do it? The chaperon then so he entered assuming the name "R. K. Chalk" of KU.-and that's an inspiring worthy of only a Summerfield scholar. The R. K. Chalk business was bad enough, but what did he to top it off but go and win the damned thing!
We heard a new description of our statue of Uncle Jimmy Green yesterday. Betty Eldison tells us that her rhetoric pre, asked the class to give her a description of Uncle James and, her memory not being any too clear, the lady described Mr. Green as a nice bronze statue in front of the law building, holding a shovel. Maybe we're wrong and it's the Pioneer who's standing in front of the building with his arm on the shoulders of an engineer.
Once upon a time we read a joke (?)
in a gag book of the Gay 90's which went
something like this: Buford went down to
the station one evening when it was raining and reported that he saw the choo-choo come in with "the bell wringing wet" (and that really has an odor girls and girls who'd been home looking for eggs and bunnies. They left their luggage on the car for the muchly overworked conductor to throw off for them and they got fooled — the engineer started his little engine and it looked very much like the luggage would go off the bus. Then she decided it went to Kansas City. It looked like a nice party for a while but they finally got the business stopped and had a student-suicide reunion.
Overheard the other day from a student intending to buy a used car: "Well, just because a professor used to own it doesn't mean that he couldn't have got it." Instead, he burst out of it does it? Tsk, tsk, tsk language from one of the uninitiated!"
UNIVERSITY IS REPRESENTED AT ENGINEERING CONVENTION
Wonder if the honorable Josephus Sutton will sue the Union again if he doesn't get in free to the varsity tonight? Think it was pretty low of him to drop the suit before anything interesting came of it.
A three-day sectional convention of the combined student and nationals branches of the American Institute of Engineers commenced today in Oklahoma City.
Professors and members of the University branch attending the convention: Dean George C. Shaad, of the School of Engineering and Architecture; Prof D. C. Jackson, of the department of electrical engineering; Prof. R. W. Warmer, of the department of electrical engineering; Prof. G. Gibson, e;36; Theodore E. Neyer, e;uncl Dean S. Ward, e;36; Guy C. Oumer, e;36 and Leon Kaplan, e;36.
Jayhawkers Attend Reunion
One hundred ten University anum
attended the reunion dinner given in
New York April 16, at which William
Allen White was the guest speaker. A
dance followed the dinner. Members of
the new board of directors elected at the
meet are: Charles Haines, '29; Waldo
Bowman, '23; Erie Murer, '22; Clara
Nigg, '21; Brewster Morgan, '26;
John Madden, '14.
E. H. Lindley to Give Sneeches
E. H. Lindley to Give Speeches
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will go to
Bloomington, Ind., April 30, to speak at
a dinner meeting of the Association of
University Professors. The next morning
he will deliver the main address at
the University of Indiana, the University of Indiana. He will go to Indianapolis that evening where he will speak at a banquet of the Indianapolis
Alumni Club.
Renowned Artists Will Be Featured In Music Festival
University Band, A Capella Choir, Frantz, Thomas and Nizan to Be Presented
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.1935
The program for the Annual Music Week Festival, featuring John Charles Thomas, world-renowned baritone; Daries Frantz, brilliant young American pianist; Renee Nizan, eminent French organist, and a special program commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Bach, has been completed. Many organizations of both Lawrence and the University are taking part in the program during the week of April 28 to May 4.
Sunday the churches will observe music week by their sermons and special music, and Sunday evening at 8 o'clock the Westminster a Cappella Choir will give their annual spring concert in the First Presbyterian church. The Rotary club, the Lawrence Memorial high school band, and John Charles Thomas are scheduled on the program for Monday.
Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock there will be a campus concert of the University band, in front of the Administration building, followed by a music festival program by the Lawrence public schools Wednesday Mile. Renee Nizan of Paris will present an organ recital in the University auditorium at 4 o'clock. In the evening there will be a concert of the orchestra and chorus of Haskell followed by a program commemorating the 250th year of Boch's birth.
Thursday the program consists of Dudley Crafts Watson in an all-University convention, group singing in hospitals, American Guild of Organists Kiwanis club musical program, demonstration of instrumental music in Lawrence schools, School of Fine Arts Band; and Dalles Franti, featured pianist. Friday afternoon at 3:00 there will be a concert numbered by U+12B4 string quartet and at 6 o'clock there will be *a*. banquet and initiation of new members of Pk Pianna Lambda, Saturday there will be a concert by the Haskell band.
R.O.T.C. to Give Barbecue
Athletic Stunts by Haskell and University Students to be Featured
The annual R.O.C.T. spring picnic will be given Tuesday evening, April 30, at 6:30 in the National Guard Armory, Eighth and New Hampshire. Sergeant William Kollerender is making the arrangements for the barbecue dinner. Guests will be Chancellor E. H. Lindeman, Master H. L. King and Master P. L. Focardi, who are the officers that will make the annual administrative and training inspections Wednesday and Thursday; National Guard officers from the local companies; officers from the CCC camps at Lone Star; R.O.C.T. committee members; the state senate; deans of the University schools, and members of the infantry army from the 19th Infantry regular army unit stationed at Ft Leavenworth.
- Senior Invitation Orders Die
Senior commencement invitations may be ordered by May 1, according to Gregory. Invitations may be secured in leather, cardboard and folder styles by placing orders in the business office.
The program will consist of boxing outts and Indian dances to be given by indian boys from Haskell Institute, and erestling and tumbling stuns by University students under the direction of ferbert Alphin and Ed Eleb. R.O.T.C. students must wear their uniforms to join admission.
SECOND NUMBER OF HIGH
SCHOOL PAPER OUT TODAY
The second number of the Kansas High School Newspaper, published by the department of journalism, is being sent today to the high schools of Kansas interested in newspaper writing. This issue contains the list of winners of the high school news paper contest. Winning editorials, feature, human interest, stories are also published. Officers of the history Council of Teachers of Journalism are: Paul M. Johnson, Arkansas City, president; W. M. Moore, Parsons, vice president; andelen Reardon, Leavenworth, secretary-treasurer.
Chancellor Lindley to be Speaker
Chancellor Lindley to be Speaker
In conjunction with the Kansas State Chair of Commerce, Chancellor E. Ellen Kirkup told tomorrow at Garden City and Friend Park a topic of both his addresses will be "Kansas Pioneers—What Now?"
NUMBER 139
Senior Invitation Orders Due
"Kansas Pioneers—What Now?"
Festival Awards Ordered
Wiley Announces 114 Medals and 2 Trophies for Band Contest
Russell L. Wiley, conductor of the University band, said yesterday that 114 medals and 24 trophies have been ordered to award during the National Band Festival, which is to be hold here, May 9, 10, and 11.
Among the new entries that have registered for the National Band Festival, re hands from the following tower:
Collinsville, Ill., is bringing a 90-piece and which is considered to be one of its best in the country.
The Central State Teachers band, 29 pieces, is coming from Ada, Okla. Waynaqk, Okla, high school has reg
Pinckneyville, Ill., is bringing a 40-piece high school band.
Waynoka, Okla., high school has registered to bring a 20-piece band.
The North Plate, Neb., high school 15-piece band and Scott's Bluff, Neb. 55-piece selected band are coming.
Outstanding Scholastic Underclassmen Honored
First of Series of Annual Lecture Teas to Be Held Today
The first of a series of annual lecture teas honoring freshmen and sophomore men and women who lead their respective classes in scholastic standing will be held this afternoon in the library of the Administration building in a 3 o'clock.
active members of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society, will be hostesses at this and succeeding teas. The teas were inaugurated to give special recognition to members of the sophomore and freshman class outstanding in scholarship as there are no honorary societies to which they may be elected as are junior and senior honor students.
The following guests have been invited: John H. Anderson, c37; Elevon Baker, c37; Imogene Beamer, c37; Dorothy Dodge, c37; William Howe, c37; Charles Manville, c37; Ross Robertson, c37; Wilmoth Smiley, c37.
Mrs. Margaret Pearson Speelman, dean of women at Haskell, will be the speaker for the occasion. Her subject will be "Indian Ceremonies." Den Adagio is to be decorated; a table is to be decorated with pink and yellow tulips and pink candles.
Henry Barker, c*38; Dorothy Caldwell, c*38; George Cromemeyer, c*38; Doris Griffen, c*38; Isabel Klopfer, c*38; Carolyn Latty, c*18; Lore McCorpach, c*18; John McDonnell, c*38; Richard Moorehead, c*38; Beulah Payne, c*38; Eugene Ricketts, c*38; Eros Achro, c*38; Sylvester Schmidt, c*38; Donald Voorhees, c*38; Charles Ward, c*38; Martin Witherens, c*38.
Margaret Wheeler, 'c73; Emil Wienle-
e, c28; Lea Hausamp, 'f37; Aldene
Kluter, fa 38; Helen Schlothauer, fa 38;
Philomel pholson, 'f37; Bye Baller, fa
38.
Professors C. S. Skilton, Laurel Everette Anderson, Karl Kuersteiner, and Dean D. M. Swarthout, national officers of Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary music society for scholarship in music, have returned from Chicago where they attended a meeting of the society during the Easter holidays.
NATIONAL OFFICERS OF PI KAPPA LAMBDA IN CHICAGO
Mrs. Virginia Petty, for many years housemother of the Sigma Cla fraternity, died Sunday at the home of her sister, Alex Fisher of Hammond, Indiana. Word of the death of Mrs. Petty was received in Lawrence yesterday, but did not indicate when the funeral was to be held, but burial is to be in Los Angeles. Before her retirement, she was said to have been longest in service of any housemother in the country.
All of the chapters were represented by delegates. The officers from the University of Kansas were re-elected for the next two years with Dean D. M. Swarthout as president-general; Prof. Karl Krauter, president; Prof. Karl Krauterstein, secretary-general; and Prof. Lauren Everette Anderson, treasurer-general.
Former Housemother Dies
Kellogg Speaks On Architecture
Prof. J. M. Kellog, of the department of architecture, spoke yesterday evening in Spooner-Thayer museum on Tuesday. He attended the Other Art." He showed slides and photographs of well known houses and buildings. Many of the pictures were taken on various trips abroad.
Kellogg Speaks On Architecture
Summerfield Scholars To Meet Summerfield scholarship applicants will meet Friday at 3 p.m. in the men's lounge of the Union building.
In this "progressive" decade, students may not believe that the system of "cutting" used at the University of Texas was an important product of the World War period.
Chet O. Hamm, gr.
When the American soldiers enroute overseas stopped at New York, organizations which were to entertain the doughbags turned to the dance floor as a means of providing them amusement. Dance parties were given and all the available girls were invited. Every girl in those days was besieged by partners. Perhaps this is the only time in American's dance history that every girl found herself to be a belle toy. I loved boy's Beautiful Piece that time, when the "shimmit" was in fashion, to the present day of Fox Trot and Tangoes, "cutting" has been the medium of circulation on the dance loor.
"Cutting' is a foolish custom," maintains Adelaide K. Merrill, president of the New York Parents League. "It is totally unnecessary," she adds, "for boys and girls to be subjected to the worry and anxiety, and sometimes bitter humiliation that is the result of the widespread acceptance of a present day social custom. I refer to the 'cutting' in system."
For more than fifteen years the dancers of the University of Kansas have used the "cutting" system. It has become one of the many traditions of the campus. And not since November 26, 1918, when the following headline
Former Professor Here Named Engineering Dean
MeCaustland at Missouri University Succeeded by Johnson
F. Ellis Johnson, former professor at the University, has been appointed dean of the college of engineering at the University of Missouri to succeed Dean E. J. McCaustland, who reached the age of retirement on Feb. 1.
The newly appointed dean came to the University of Kansas in 1915, as instructor of engineering. He served as assistant professor from 1916 to 1918 and as associate professor from 1918 to 1921. From 1921 to 1930 he was professor of electrical engineering. From 1930 to 1938 he was head of the department of electrical engineering.
He has been head of the department of electrical engineering at Iowa State College since 1930. Before he came to Kansas he taught at Rice Institute,
He holds two degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Eta Kappa Nu and is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering.
In the business world he has held positions with the Seattle-Tacoma Flour Company and the Electrical Railway and Vancouver Power Company. In 1918 he made a survey of the electrical transmission lines in Kansas. He is married and has four children, three daughters, who are now attending Iowa State College, while the son is enrolled at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
This week's issue of the Publishers Idea Exchange, edited by Charles H. Wiseman at Des Moines, Iowa, contains a page of the most clever advertisements selected from Kansan newspapers by the Kansas-based pressases in the department of journalism.
STUDENTS PICK BEST ADS FROM KANSAS NEWSPAPERS
McCaustland has been head of the engineering college since 1914.
Newspapers from which these advertisements were taken are: Atchison Globe, Burlington Republican, Hamboldt Union, Augusta Gazette, Scott Cities News-Chronicle, Cherryvale Republican, and Coffeyville Journal.
SCHEDULE FOR REMAINDER OF SCHOOL YEAR ANNOUNCED
Oread Training School has announced a schedule of events beginning April 26 and continuing through the remainder of the semester.
The Publishers Idea Exchange is issued monthly to editors of Middlewestern newspapers to help them to sell advertising to their local merchants.
The program is as follows:
April 26, Physical Education Honors assembly at which letters and Junior Red Cross awards will be given. May 3, Hi-Home night; May 10, physical education swimming carnival; May 4, picnic and field day; May 31, junior-senior banquet; June 2, Baccalaureate; June 4, Commencement.
appeared in the KANSAN, have many traditions been broken on Mt. Oread: "All K. U. Traditions"
Smashed; Woman Runs For Senior President"
In the spring that this tradition was broken the student senate enacted legislation that the future Hog's and Prom's must not cost more than $1.50 per person. Today the same ruling is in effect.
What a defeat for those who revelled in traditions.
Before the World War broke up the established rules of social life, the girls did not fear that they would have the opportunity to be cut nor did the boys fear that they would be "stuck." But by this system of "cutting," a boy could easily be "cursed" and another "cuts in" and asks the girl to dance with him. If no other boy would ask, then the girl must dance with her partner for the entire evening. This
Stag Fee Is Abolished For Mid-Week Dances
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Dateless Men Limit Must Be 200 During Rest of the Year
Announcement was made yesterday by the Union Operating committee that will be no 10-cent fine for late-dress men attending the mid-week-variety dances on Wednesday nights in the Union building, however, there will be a stag limit of 200 and this rule is *be enforced*.
Henry Werner, chairman of the committee, explained the above action by saying "This ruling applies only for the balance of the present semester. As to policy for next year, that will depend upon the joint decision of the Activity Committee and the Executive committee. They have not met as yet to consider the question."
Joseph Sutton, 137, who filed sometime ago for $5.30 against the Union and the University, has dropped his suit because of the committee's action in removing the 10-cent fine on stags. After being assured that he would not have to pay the stag fee at tonight's mid-week variety, he made the following statement: "My purpose in bringing this suit was to have the charge removed from the students who were forced to pay it. Since this has been done there would be no point in continuing the case."
Engel To Attend Meeting
German Professor To Present Paper at Meeting of Language Teachers
E. F. Egel, professor of German, will go to Chicago this week-end to attend the 18th annual meeting of the Association of Modern Language Teachers of the Central, West, and South. Saturday morning Professor Engel will present a paper on "The Radio as a Medium for Modern Language Instruction."
For the past three years Professor Engel has conducted courses in elementary German over station KFKU. The course is divided into 50 broadcasts of 15 minutes each. The lectures are given on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the evening, and students have been given to 17 students in the radio course this year. The lectures cover the essentials of grammar, similar to German I and 11.
Questions sent out on return postal cards at intervals during the course provided a way for checking up on the progress of students. Those enrolled in the course represent many different professions and trades including stenographers, farmers, interior decorators, bank clerks, teachers, salesmen, and switchmen. Some had never studied German and wished to learn the language, so the student enrolled the course as a means of reviewing. The youngest person enrolled was a 13-year-old high school student, and the oldest a preacher of 29.
GERMAN CLUB TO SPONSOR COMIC-OPERETTA AT PATER
The comic-operetta "Walzerkrieg" or "Waltz in Vienna," whose music and humor have received high praise from Eastern newspaper critics, will be shown at the Pates theater. Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m., the German Club of the University.
Sub-titles are used to aid the American audience in understanding the story of the comedy which portrays the musical warfare between the two pre-eminent composers of the Austrian capitals, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss. The posters on the bulletin boards carry complete synopses of the story.
Hargiss to Take Twelve Track Men To Drake Relays
Dees and Pitts Are Sure to Be Chosen From 23 Entered in Iowa Meet
Tomorrow noon 12 Kanass truck man,
headed by Qach Bill Hargiss will leave for the Drake Relys to be held in Des Moines Saturday.
Cocharg Hailson has entered 23 men in the Drake club and from this list he will select 12 who will make the trip. They are Dennis Dees and Charles Pitts, both veterans.
Pitts, a junior letterman, in the Kansas events Saturday set a new broad jump mark of 25 feet 10-3-8 inches for a Relay record. Coach Craghill believes that he has a good chance to equal the first place jump of 25 feet, 11-1-8 inches made by Hall of Kansas last year in the Drake relays.
The Kansas athletes came out of the Kansas Rails Reply in good shape and Coach Hargis will have his full squad ready for the Drake classic, which as a rule is more closely contested and larger than the Kansas Rates. The teams, many of them from the Big Ten and Eastern universities, competed.
Captain Dees who put the shot 51 feet 3-3-8 inches for a Kansas Riley record also bettered his all-time University record heave of 50 feet 9 inches established in the Kansas - Missouri dual meet of 1933. Dews placed fourth in the Drake Rales last year when Tornance of Louisiana State set a new world's record with a toss of 55 feet 11-2 inches.
The Jayhawker tracksters will be accompanied to Des Moines by Dr. Forrest C. Allen, and either "Frosty" Cox or Clyde Coffman.
The Kansas entries for the Drake Relays as announced by Coach Bill Harviss are as follows:
Two-mile relay: John Fitzgibbon,
Gordon Guise, Coulter Cunningham,
Robert Shroeder, and Couler Pankratz.
100-yard dash: Charley Pitts, Frank Neal, and Paul MacCaskill.
Mile relay; Paul MacCaskill, Boh Shroeder, Theno Graves, Claude Trotter, and John McNown.
Javelin; Al Welhausen, Dick Sklar,
and Jack Pearce.
Discuss: Ai Weimausen, John Seigle,
Gordon Gray, and Harry Kanatzer.
Javelin: Al Welhausen, Dik Sklar.
Pole Vault: Ray Noble, Gordon Gray,
and Robert Kirk.
High Jump: Al Welhausen, Dale Shannon, Frank Neal.
Broad Jump: Charley Pitts, and Frank Neal.
Two-mile run: Howard Pankratz.
R O T C to Have Inspection
and 2
Visiting Officers To View Cadets May 1 and 2
The annual administrative and training inspections of the R.O.T.C. department will be held May 1 and 2, Col. R. H. McMaster, F.A., R.O.T.C. officer, Seventh Corps area, will make the administrative inspection, Maj. H. L. King, C.A.C. and Maj. P. L. Foecardi, C.E., will conduct the training inspections for the Coast Artillery and Engineer units respectively.
The inspecting officers will inspect the military quarters, classes in the school rooms and the battalions on the drill field. The cadets will be questioned on the demonstrations demonstrate practical work on the instruments, guns, and on a parade ground.
In order that the inspectors may see the student body of the R.O.T.C. in than an official capacity, the annual spring barbecue will take place Tuesday evening, April 30. The inspecting officers will be special guests.
CLASSES OF 1900 AND 1910 INVITED TO COMMENCEMENT
Letters inviting participation in the thirty-fifth Anniversary reunion of the Class of 1900 during Commencement Week have been sent to all members of that class by Porter Fones of Kansas City, Mio., and president of the class.
Letters have also been sent by Albert Learned, chairman of the Arrangement committee of the Class of 1910, to all members of the Silver Anniversary class. Prof. W. H. Johnson of the School of Education is making similar reunion plans for the Golden Anniversary activities of the Class of 1885.
Will Discuss Picture Process
The Chemistry Club will meet at 4:30 Thursday in rom 201 of the Chemistry building. Prof. E. D. Kinney will speak on "The Copper Industry," and Bernard W. Hunt will discuss a technicolor process used in motion pictures. All students are invited to attend.