UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 119
VOLUME XXXII
--on the SHIN
By JOE HOLLOWAY, c'35
have You Heard of Bald Bobby
the Attorney . . . Sorry But We
Had a Dust Storm . . . George
Lost His—Well, Dignity.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935
We feel sure that our readers like to hear now and then about the success stories of fellow students so here goes one. This story is one of success because Bob Jones now has hair on his head. Perhaps you doubt the success angle of this particular tale but the truth is that until Robert was five years old his head looked very much like that well known eight ball—a little lighter perhaps—and his papa gave him daily attacks of hair tonic until the damage was fixed.
We really had no intentions of mentioning this "???etc. dust storm but we can't help wondering how the engineers can tell their building from the gym what with the warm weather, dust, and those green sweat shirts.
Have you heard the sad tale of George Fry losing his pans - panery, 'wed better say tourists? He missed them for several days and looked the house over from top to bottom but nary a pants-belt could he find. Last week endband Hub Meyers in Bartlesville on his way down. No reason has been given why he should be at Dorothy Foster's house, but we are told that when he came home Sunday he had George's trousers with him.
Our narration instructor was reading from a paper the other day, "He knocked on the door." At that moment there came a knuckle on the desk in the next room. This combining of sound effects would make for a better college education.
Wednesday night after M.S.C. meeting the phone rang in the Union fountain room. One of the fellows answered it and then came a loud yell for lennet. There was no answer so the bat at the phone said, "Mettler isn't here. In fact all of the big shots are gone." We found that Mykland was still there though.
Maxine Miller very nearly had Mar-
Farland, Manany, and Co. out Greta-
ed Wednesday night with a red felt slosh
on her knee. Her elbow cells glows
when wear it’s raining real hard.
We understand that Flossie Lee Kohl works in large numbers when she's out amongst the fellows. At the last mid-week she had a date whose name she couldn't remember. Apparently she couldn't remember what he looked like either so when the time came for the last tune and the prayers of thanks for the thing being over, she asked her mom to go home with someone else. So far, we haven't heard of anyone being injured in the rush.
The limitations of life are sad indeed. From the Graduate magazine via the Topkea Daily Capital, via the Miami Republican we hear of Emily Jane, a K. U. graduate, brooding over the fact that she has never seen a mountain, a lake, a horse race, a table spread for thirstiness, and an old-fashioned western Kansas, a prize fight, a radio broadcasting station, triples, or a sail boat... and she can't very well join the navy. Said someone, "Ah, the injustice of the double standards!"
Not casting any asparagus at the Phi Pai's, but—Mike Getto was honored with an invitation to Dick Wells' dinner for the basketball squad at the house where he was seen eating at the Eldridge Hotel at the time appointed for said dinner.
Hurd Chosen as Candidate
To Represent University in Drako Relay Queen Contest
Katherine Hurd, fa'38, has been chosen to represent the University as its candidate in a contest to choose a queen for the Drake Relays to be held at Des Moines, la. April 27. The winner was selected from the three highest standing candidates in the freshman and sophomore beauty contests. Each of the schools participated in the relays will select a queen and submit a final judgment petition will have her expenses paid to Ames and during the time of the Relals she will preside over the relays.
The committee which selected the queen was comprised of Harry Valentine c. b38; Lloyd b38; Katherine Caskey c. b38; Katherine Caskey c. and Fred Harris b36.
Missouri Valley Forensic Contests Into Second Day
First Round Debates Complete; 'Extemp' Speeches This Afternoon; Oratory Tonight
A banquet last night at the Eldridge Hotel opened the Missouri Valley Forensic Meet here, in which 12 midwest schools are taking part. The first round of debates began at 9 p.m. in the Administration building last night. The Missouri Valley meet will continue through today and tomorrow. At 9:30 this morning the Oratiorical and Debate Associations will hold a business session that covers all of debate are scheduled for 11:30 a.m., and 2 p.m., with the extemporaneous speaking contest at 4:30 today.
Lyman Field, c36, representing Kansas, wwn both the extemporaneous speaking and oratorical contests in the Missouri Valley meet last year, and for that reason is ineligible to compete in this year's tournament. Gunnar Mykul, c25, will be the Kansas speaker. Faculty members from the department of political science and the school of business have prepared a list of topics, bearing directly on the New Deal, which will be used by the various speakers.
William Zupanc will speak for Kansas tonight in the craterical contest in Fraser theater. Schools represented in the area are the universities of Missouri, South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Washington University, Arizona State College. All colleges are 25 cents. The contest will begin at 8 p.m.
The judging personnel for the tourn-
ment is composed of University faculty
members, debate coaches from nearby colleges and high schools, local ministers and lawyers, and Missouri Valley Debate League coaches.
Following are the representatives of the various schools who had registered last night:
The fourth round of debates is to begin at 9:30 Saturday morning, with the fifth and final round at 11:00 a.m. A lunch at the Union building at 12:30 will conclude the meet. Decisions in the final contest will be announced at the luncheon.
Kansas State College; Warren DeLapp, Nat Lippa, and John Barbary; South Dakota; Vernon Lyon and Donald Fowler.
Arkansas; William Pentrose, John Kane, W. Bradley Trimble, and George Makris, and V. L. Baker, coach.
Iowa State College: Glenn Brockett,
James Hogrefe, and Vincent Armstrong,
and F. L. Whan, osch.
Texas: Jesse Villarreal, Leonar Frank, Simond Franklin, Bill Hall, and Emmett Whitset, and Thomas A Rousse, coach.
Iowa: Ansel Chapman, and Addison Hickman.
Drake: William Hoffman, James Mills, and Lawrence Bash, and C. C. Carruthers coach.
Oklahoma: Gene White, Henry L. McConnel, and John Herwitz, and Walter B. Emery, coach.
Washington University, St. Louis
Oscar Fernandez, Howard Williams
Ferrelheel, Kenneth Dugan, and
Donald Leonard, student manager
Missouri, Ed Payne, Bob Siler, Bol Folkes, L. B. Skibely, James B. Liebeman, and George J. Freeman.
"The spoken word is coming into its own again after a period of eclipse," said Chancellor E. H. Lindley in the opening address at the Missouri Valley Forensic banquet last night. The banquet, held in the grill room at the Eldridge hotel, was for extempore speakers, debaters and coaches of the universities belonging to the Missouri Valley Forensi League.
William Bracke Furnishes Comedy at First Meeting of Teams
LINDLEY WELCOMES DEBATERS
Extemp Speaker
Chancellor Lindley emphasized the fact that oratory has grown a great deal since the old days of declamation. "Speaking," he said, "as carried on today, is an adventure of the intellect." *Tell Iowa of South Dakota answer*
The third speaker, Prof. Allen Crafton, of the University department of speech, remarked that modern oratory
AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Phi Alpha Delta, Dance, Union building, 12.
Ted Lyons of South Dakota answered the Chancellor's welcome.
Triangle, House, 12.
Women's Panhellenic, Union
Awards, 19.
AGNES HUSBAND, Chm,
for the Joint Committee
on Student Affairs.
Gunnar Mykland, president of the Men's Student Council, will represent Kansas in the extemporaneous speech contest of the Missouri Valley Forensic meet, to be held in Fraser Theater today at 4:30 p.m.
Tons of Dust Deposited In Lawrence Yesterday
Posey Analyzes Samples of Particles From Recent Storm
Thirty-seven and eight-tenths tons of dust to the square mile were deposited in Lawrence yesterday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, of the department of geology.
A cube, 11.1 feet on a side could be constructed with the dust from a square mile area if it were as thick as this 168 square feet.
Samples of dust from 164 square feet were included in the experiments. The 164 square feet yielded 285.6 c., which equals 38,704.003 c.c. of dust to a square mile, or 38,704 cubic meters per square mile, or 58.6 cubic yards per square mile.
If this dust extended over an area 100,000 square miles of equal intensity as here at Lawrence, there would be ever the whole area 5,000,000 cubic yards of dust, this being the equivalent of a cube 17.16 yards on a side.
Professor Posey's figures reveal that if the dust cubes were of rock, then the size of the rock cube per square mile would be three yards or nine feet, on a side, and for 100,500 square miles would measure 127.9 yards on a side.
Professor Poscy was uncertain yesterday as to the total distance the dust burden air would travel. The density of air was even thicker to the west of Lawrence.
The density of the storm here was assumed to be an average for the storm.
Engineers Hear Strickler
Speaker Discusses Work of Graduates of University in Field
Going into practically every phase of engineering, Mr. Strickler told of the accomplishments of a great number of University of Kansas graduates, pointing out that from this school had grown so much themselves in the engineering world.
"There has been the opportunity for young men to come to this engineering school, to go through it and to accomplish something, either for his own good or for the good of someone else." Taking this as his theme Major T. J. Stricker of Gas company, spoke to the engineers of the University yesterday morning.
Corinne Dick, soprano, and Elizabeth Stearle, harpist, from the School of Fine Arts, will broadcast a program of musical favorites over station KFKU this evening. The 15-minute broadcast begins at 6:15 o'clock.
"The success of all of these men has all grown out of the past and present educational and social conditions that prevail at the University. Engineers should not confine themselves to going through school and thinking of themselves as engineers only, but they should also be engaged in practical activities, so that they may be better fitted to make their place in the business world."
PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN ON KFKU BY FINE ARTS STUDENTS
Miss Dick's selections include "When Love Is Kind" (Old English), "Songs My Mother Taught Me," by Dovar, concluding with "On Wings of Song," by Mendelsohn. The harp solo numbers by Miss Searle will be two selec- tions, and the harp solo by Hasselmann, "Reverie," and "The Spinning Wheel." "Beautiful Memories" ("Schone Erinnerung") will conclude the program.
Bryan Emphasizes Differences in Old And New U.S.S.R.
Can Understand Present Situation Only in Light of Past History, Says Speaker
"The old and the new"—that theme ran through the films and accompanying lecture of Julien Bryan on Soviet Russia at the Auditorium last night. "You must understand the Russian history of the past," Bryan said, "to be able to correctly evaluate these films." In introducing Mr. Bryan, Prof. J. F. Brown, of the department of psychology made three requirements upon the audience. That they think of the Russia under the Czar as a semi-feudal agrarian backward state, that they remember that the Soviets were through four years in the war and, today, because of the fear of foreign intervention, a great deal of the nation's resources go to the unseen of the Red Army.
In prefacing his films, Mr. Bryan talked of the link he had with K.U. in his friendship with James Pennley, graduate who is proving himself an artist of "integrity and individuality." Mr. Bryan recommended a impartial sources for a knowledge of the backstories of Wallace and Captain Spence's histories and observations upon Russia in the last century.
Then the pictures that were certainly worth more than thousands of words were flashed on the screen. Children playing in the park of Culture and Rest; the Kremlin, ancient stronghold of the Czars and now home of Stalin; the popular Ambassador Bullitt playing ball with his embassy staff against a Russian sports group; a group of unshaved Dartmouth students "who looked more Russian than the Russians" stared out at the audience. A rose when the picture of Kermit Arose when the photograph of broadcasting by wave his opinions of Communism after a short stay of a few weeks. A picture of the Russian writers conference with Maxin Gorki, gravely puffing at his pipe—the idol of millions, and the richest man in Russia, an ancient poet from Uzbekistan telling of the new Russia of which he was writing is also shown.
A marriage court was shown with the couple calmly going through the formality of marriage. Curiously enough, Mr. Bryan explained, the ratio of divorces to marriages is the same in Russia as in the U.S. 7 to 1. The quaint and ullitarian custom of sending a postcard to a woman was was not made one who made the formal application, was the occasion for a beauty laugh from the audience.
To Bryan, the most striking things about Russia was the vast advance in hospitalization and the treatment of the minority nationalities. Then Siberia was shown, Lake Baikal, the crude schools, the Baku region with its pools of oil, the herds of reindeer that furnished the means of sustenance for the nomadic northern Siberians, all these vying with picturesque photos of the seamed faces of Russia's nationalities.
A large audience was agreed upon the excellence of Mr. Bryan's work.
RUSSIA IN TOO MUCH HASTE
Lecturer Answers Questions About USSR In Open Forum
Mr. Bryan in his question and answer discussion of Russia at the administration auditorium yesterday afternoon declared, "The greatest fault I find with Russia's Five Year plan is their attempt to do too much in too short a time." He explained that a very large proportion of their produce is given in payment for new machinery from the United States, leaving many of their populace undernourished as the result.
"Decidedly there is a place for personal initiative in the plan," Mr. Bryan declared. "A person is paid in proportion with no discrimination made as to sex
"There are no capitalists in Russia, but an individual may own all the private consumptive goods he can afford." The automobile production is beginning to flourish in Russia and soon the government will be well supplied with automobiles, then Mr. Bryan believes, the populace will begin buying them. In answer to another question, "Is forced labor prevalent in Russia today," Mr. Bryan answered that it is not. While there are jobs for everyone and many occupations require more men, a person may choose any work he likes.
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PACHACAMAC ENDORSES FOUR-DIVISION PROGRAM
Editor to Speak
C. A. Franklin, editor of the Kansas City Call, will speak at the first conference of the Lawrence Council of Race Relations organization. The meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, March 24, at the Unitarian Church.
Franklin to Speak Sunday
Kansas City Editor Will Address Council of Race Relations
The first conference of the Lawrence Council of Race Relations will be held Sunday afternoon, March 24, from 2:30 until 5, at the Unitarian Church.
The conference, which has the active support of Lawrence churches, has as its purpose the furthering of a better understanding of the church's history and Lawrence and of the campus.
A program, beginning with a brief introductory talk by C. A. Franklin, editor of the Kansas City Call, will consist mainly of talks by colored and white students on the hill and by local ministers on the discrimination against the negro in community restaurants and houses, theaters, student athletics, student activities and organizations, and in working conditions.
The program will close with the development of a program of action and the election of a permanent chairman. Impetus is given the program by the results of an investigation of race discrimination on the campus by W. Blount, H. Hawkins, B. Rhoades, and W. D. Wells, of the Legislative Investigation Committee from Topcka which submitted its report to the legislature last March 5.
Alumni Make Dinner Plans
Special Meeting Also Set for Week from Sunday
All officers and directors of the Alumni Association and their wives are invited to attend a dinner to be held in the Eldridge hotel, Sunday, March 31, Fred Elworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, announced today.
After the dinner, a special meeting of the board of directors of the association will be held in the alumni office, while the wives will be entertained by local
A general discussion of alumun activities, plans for the coming spring finance and membership drive, the association's budget and financial condition, and the Alumni Association's participations exercises will take place at the meeting.
Those planning to attend the dinner are requested to notify the Alumi office at once.
STATE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY WILL MEET HERE SATURDAY
The Kansas State Entomological Society will meet Saturday, March 30 at the University of Kansas. This organization has a membership of 100, and publishes a journal which is now in its eighth volume. The magazine is devoted to research studies by the various members and is issued quarterly. Dean Paul Stern is president and made by Dr. Kathleen Doering of the department of entomology.
The first two issues carried pictures of Prof. Mudge, formerly of the University, Francis Huntington Snow, former chancellor of the University, and Edward A. Popeen, early entomologist of Kansas.
Sorority Sponsors 'Vanessa'
The Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority, is sponsoring the showing of the picture, "Vanessa," at the Granda theater on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery are starred in the picture. Tickets may be purchased from any of the sorority members.
Rising Sun Party Pledges Support Of Council's Policy
Political Group Offers Continuation of M.S.C. Plans in Spring Campaign
The Pachacamac party, through its president, Lloyd Moyet, last night announced its program for the spring election. In stating elections, Moyet said:
"Pachacamac pledges its support to the continuation of the three-point program instituted by the present student council, and summarized Wednesday night at the council meeting. In addition, we are originating and backing a movement for closer co-operation between the faculty and students in matters as enrollment system curricula and general administration problems.
"The four-phase program which we are presenting indicates the broad general outline of a comprehensive field of student endeavor, the details of which will be worked out by the new council."
Improvement of Kansas University's relation with other schools. Already much has been done to give Kansas an outstanding position among colleges and universities. KU, will be host to the National Student Federation of America at its annual convention next year. Pachacamea promises to continue its efforts to secure national recognition for the University through such agencies a. the N.S.F.A.
I. Perfecting the mechanism of Student Government. To make the Student Council a more truly representative body, the present members have adopted the proportional representation method of voting. This gives the political organizations representation in the council according to the relative strength of the organizations. Further efforts to make the student council more representative and accountable goal of a council which is an accurate barometer of student opinion.
II. Unification of K.U. Student Sentiment. Under the direction of the Student Council Traditions Committee there has been a remarkable revival of the feeling of school unity which should exist in all universities. Pachaacama will bring to the student body an even greater student unity through such an effort as the Nigra Cultural Parade, and intramural Carnival ideas. The specific practical methods will be determined to suit the occasion.
More Student-Faculty Co-operation. The gulf which exists today between the student council and the faculty must be abridged. The present policy of allotting definite spheres of influence to the two groups cannot be condoned. There should be more student influence in such matters as planning the curriculum. There should also be more faculty opinion regarding those activities which now are regarded as important for students. To This end, Fauchacea will support a student committee to investigate and make recommendations about student-faculty relations.
State Linguists to Meet
Professor Mahieu and Herbert Mueller, Exchange Scholar, to Speak
R. G. Mabie, professor of romance languages, and Dr. Herbert Mueller, German Exchange scholar, Will be speakers at the convention of the Kansas Modern Language Association, to be held in Emporia on Saturday, July 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Juggerdweegung, wild. Prof. Mahiulus will be poten "Pot-Pourri."
This annual meeting is held at Emporia upon the invitation of the Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, the College of Emporia, and the Emporia High School. To strengthen the individual efficiency of the teachers involved in the implementation of modern languages in Kansas is the purpose of the meeting.
Besides Professor Mahieu, other professors of modern languages w will attend the meeting are Miss Elsa Stanton, Miss Crume, Miss Matte Crumme.