UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXII
on the SHIN
By JOE HOLLOWAY, c'35
Joan can't "Crusade" . . . Alas poor Norton. . . Believe It or Don't. . . We hear from Erdman. . . Weep no more My Ginger.
We hear from our own front page that Laurel Allen will have one of the leads in Prof. Crafton's play "Yankee Crusader" which will be the next effort of the Kansa Players. It is current rumour that one thing which made the importation necessary is that Joan had so many social engagements she couldn't even come to rehearsals. One must learn to give for one's art mustn't one?
Our lawyer friend Bill Norton has quite a tale of woe to unfold to them as will listen. In the first place, he is slated to get married on the second day of next month which you'll admit can complicate most anything else one might have to do. To make matters worse though, he was made a member of the hospital brigade the other day with a light touch of the flu. Now he has been discharged from the sick ward and told to stay and rest as much as possible. Bill thinks he won't have any trouble carrying out their orders what with having to officiate at the Delta Tau elections, taking his law finals, and then getting married. Wonder what he'll do with all of his spare time?
NUMBER 83
Speaking of plays and such reminds us that we heard that the W.S.G.A. is picking the cast for the musical comedy without even trying the contenders out. Such talent among our audience could have been discovered before now.
Believe it or not: Hans Fleute and his assistants always work themselves up into a frenzy at basketball games. Ask Hans.
We hear that our acquaintance from last year and the year before, the Great Erdman now is holding the leashes on a Princeton man and spinning him tales of her prowess at our poor middle-Western institution. It seems that her best yarn is one about how she had hids from nearly every she-lodge on the campus but just didn't care to be bothered about them. It is easy to understand how she'd consider that one her best.
We noticed these signs in the University Post-Office today. "Sender please call at window — I postcard not addressed, written to Mother ... 1-7-35—signed Henry. Sender please call for postal card without name or address—written to Mother—signed Ruth." Fuzzy what finals can do to you.
By remote control-very remote in fact--we hear that Lyman told Bramwell he was just sure that Ginger Ewers was sitting at home all the time pining for him and doing a bit of weeping on the side. It seems that if the truth were known, Ginger has not time either to pine or weep because theres a new love at Wichita, not to mention a Princeton man of money. (Editor's note: Neither Field nor Bramwell pay for the advertising herein.)
Jayhawks in Honolulu, Hawaii, will celebrate Kansas Day, Jan. 28.
Bill Cochrane reports that some of Lloyd Wright's Taleis assistant spent last night on the third floor of the Union building, thereby proving that men of younger years can get used to anything.
FORMER KANSANS IN HAWAII WILL CELEBRATE KANSAS DA
Among the prominent Hawaiians from Kauaas, who are helping to plan the celebration are: Ralph G. Cole, general secretary of the M.Y.C.A., University of Hawaii; Julianne L. michelle instruction; John W. Westgate, University of Hawaii; Arthur H. Greene, secretary of the territory; Adna G. Clarke professor at the University of Hawaii; Edward P. Irwin, editor of the Honolulu Journal; William de Waal at the Oahu presi- dentary; and Clifton H. Tracy, Honolulu Attorney.
All special validation students of the College should make an appointment with us as possible for arranging programs for next semester.
PAUL B. LAWSON Dean of the College.
Basketeers Show Improved Morale In Last Practice
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935
Victory Over Kansas State Saturday Night Would Tie Jayhawkers for Lead
The Jayhawker basketball team finally developed a portion of pop and drive in the practice session last night. The team had been in a slump since the defeat at the hands of the Oklahoma Sooners Jan. 16. The team was passing much better and their drive for the basket was more pronounced. "The Aggies arent going to be the setup that every one this season will be," Allen said this morning. "I have been stressing the fact in practice that Groves, who was out of the first Aggie game will add 15 points to the Aggie offense," he added. The Aggies will have undisputed control of the tip-off with Freeland and Groves to take care of the jumping duties. Freeland and Groves will be a big asset under the basket. Freeland opened up in the second quarter against Bush Groves for the scoring honors. Any team with two scoring hot-shots is dangerous.
In Better Condition
The Allenmen are in somewhat better condition than they have been in since the Oklahoma series, Wellhausen and Shaffer are still out, But Gray, Noble, and Wells are back in fair condition. Dr. Allen said this morning that, although Wells' foot injury is healed, he is not in good physical condition and will not be able to play two 20 minute periods. Gray has apparently recovered from his sinus infection and is going strong.
Would Tie For Lead
The Kansas lineup tomorrow night will probably have Ray Noble in place of Milton Allen at one of the forward positions. Allen is in a slump which he has been unable to break. He has never been a strong scoring man, but his ability to feed the ball to the open men has made him valuable. Noble has been improving fast, and Dr. Ellen plans to start him at forward. Elong will be at the other forward position and, should Wells have to retire, will be shifted to the center position. Rogers will be called to forward in that case. Wells will be in as long as possible, however.
Gray, who is back in good condition, is the real spark plug of the team and will be in all of the time. Grays ability to maintain morale and his defensive ability make him the most valuable man on the squad. Kappleman will be at the other guard. If the Jay-hawkers can defeat the Aggies to win it they will a play with Oklahoma for the conference lead. If they hope to stay in the race it is necessary that they get over the Aggie hardle.
DURANT ENGAGED TO TEACH AT CALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT
Leaves Hospital
Will Durant, eminent philosopher and author of the best seller, "Story of Philosophy," will be a member of the 1931 summer session faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles, according to a statement by Dr. Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the session, in the student publication of the university. The distinguished philosopher will conduct courses on "introduction to Philosophy" and "The Great Philosophers," it is reported.
The 6-foot-7 understudy of Dica. Wells left the yesterday after an attack of measles. He will not be able to play tomorrow night, however.
Spanish-American War Was Laboratory For Medical Study, Says Prof. Winter
Delegates to Alumni Conclave Arrive Today
Session to Close in Time for Wildcat Game Tomorrow
Delegates began to arrive today for the Regional conference of District VI of the American Alumni council which will hold an all-day meeting starting tomorrow morning at 9 in the Memorial Union building. The session will close in time for the delegates to attend the basketball game between the University and Kansas State college tomorrow night.
Third of a series of Spanish- American war stories told by Prof. C. J. Winter of the Spanish department.
Baker University, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Bervet; Bethleigh College, Willis E. Rich; College of Emporia, Ms. Froly Timmerman; Cornell College, Walter Gray; Creighton University, Frank E. Pallegrin, Joseph P. Murphy; Grinnell College, John R. Glassy and others Iowa State University, Harold Pride
Iowa State Teachers College, A. C.
Fuller; Kansas State College at Hays,
Nita M. Landrum; Kansas State College
at Manhattan Kenney L. Ford, Miss Inez Ekdahl, Miss Alice Barrier;
Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia,
Ray C. Maul; Missouri Valley College,
Wylie F. Steen; Ohio State University,
John B. Fullen; Ottawa University,
Claude Webb; Rockhurst College,
V. J. OFlaherty, Jr., Father J,
F. Walsh.
WELLHAUSEN
The following people are expected to attend:
University of Iowa, F. G. Higbee; University of Kansas, Fred Ewellson and staff; University of Nebraska, Ray Ramsey; University of Oklahoma, William University, Philo Stevenson; William Jewell College, J. E. Davis.
Prof. R. Q. Brewster of the department of chemistry will speak to the University class of the First Baptist church, Sunday morning at 9:45 o'clock on "How to Apply Christian Idealism to Everyday Life."
Professor Brewster to Speak
No war stories can omit grief, especially those of the Spanish War. The army lost many times the number of men by disease that it did by Spanish bullets. In fact, the army was one great laboratory for medical study.
Miss Bertha Boyce will give a book review at the Young People's meeting at 6:30. She will review Walter Pitkin's "New Careers for Youth."
PATRIOTISM
Professor Winter did not escape the war without enduring his share of hardship. At Camp Bushnell, Columbus, Ohio, he and half his outfit were at one time unfit for duty. They lay in bed with a few friends. August sun and late summer rains intermittently went through and into the tents without sparing the sick man. Mr. Winter lost 30 pounds in a month. The drinking water at one time was brought in with fur in it, the remains floating in the water sources of the water. The camp eventually had to use distilled water. Only one or two trained doctors attend*
the whole camp. The other medical attendants were intermeshed who often did not bother to help the sick. Add to these conditions the heavy winter uniforms that were the only clothes available and the result was plague.
Mr. Winter can tell how he lay in bed, sed, sick, listening to the cries of another for water. No attendant appeared, and at last the sounds drove him to sit down on the couch and sick to help the man, so he got out of bed and gave the sufferer a drink.
Hardships were not limited to disease. At Camp Meade in Pennsylvania the men had to live for a week on a can of salmon and hard-tack. This was the only food near the place when prevalent inefficiency delayed the arrival of provisions. At the same camp the rough pine guard house was burned to kill the lice on its walls. The men had to boil their underclothes to kill the pests; ordinary washing was ineffective.
And for all this the soldiers were paid $13.60 a month!
Big Shots in Junior Men's Honor Society Unable to Distinguish Black Balls from White Balls
Owls Are Color-blind
By Max Moxley, c23
Scene: Election of the Owl Society in the council room at the Memorial Student Union.
3y Max Moxley, c'35
The Owls were "sardined" in a small room of about the capacity of a railroad freight car. The meeting had been called for 10 o'clock, and while it was now 10:30, the session evidently had not begun. The air in the little room was already becoming bad, and curls and veils of white smoke wafed back and forth beneath the beam of the one large ceiling light.
The men were restless. They mumbled and chuckled, and chuckled and mumbled, but there were no outbursts of laughter. Mysterious little groups betook themselves into the corners and conferred in a most confidential manner. Ala! Grave matters were obviously hanging in the balance. The solemnity heightened as the smoke in the light rays grew heavier.
Shady Doings
in the ball we打 a couple of jolly outers jello floating fendishily over a small walnut box. These two gentlemen have kind, honest faces, but there is a below-the-board air about their doings. Could it be that they are about
Benet to Pick Best Poem
William Herbert Carruth Contest Is Open To All Students
Stephen Vincent Benet, author of "John Brown's body," will be the man of letters to judge the William Herbert Carruth Poetry this year, it was announced today. Katrina Baldwin, '12 teacher in Westport high school in Kansas City, Mo., will be the alumna judge, and Prof. W. S. Johnson will represent the department of English here on the judging committee.
This context is open to any resident student, regularly enrolled in the college, who submits a poem which has not been printed before.
The manuscripts must be in the hands of the Chancellor by April 8, and announcement of the award will be made May 1, 1935, and the names of the prize winners will appear on the commencement program.
Business Courses by Mail
Changing Conditions Necessitate Additions to Correspondence Study
In response to an increasing demand for more specific training in the field of business, new courses in business correspondence and business organization are being offered by the University of Kansas extension division. The rapidly changing conditions in the business and industrial world have accentuated the need for home study courses in those fields for adults, both business executives and office employees.
These courses may be taken for university credit by those who are qualified. For non-credit students the requirement is ability to do the work.
The assignments in Business Correspondence are organized to give an unstanding of various types of business and the principles of effective writing.
The course in Business Organization presents the various types and forms of business enterprise, the problems of industry, government regulation, instruments of finance, and the reorganization of business and industrial enterprises.
These correspondence study courses are available to business men and women in Kansas; also to students in any state. Information will be furnished by the University of Kansas Extension Division.
The regular meeting of the University of Kansas Medical Society will be held Jan. 28, at 8 o'clock, at the Bell Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Dr. H. E. Carlson, assistant professor of surgery, will speak on "Anesthesia. Past and Present." Dr. Clendening will discuss "History of Anesthesia." The course is "Spinal Anesthesia." Dr. Calkins will speak on "Nitrous Oxide—Oxygen Anesthesia," and Dr. Mills will discuss "The Selection of the Ames-besis."
MEDICAL SOCIETY WILL MEET
CLOSING HOURS
AT BELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAI
Wednesday, Jan. 23 thru Friday,
Jan. 25 10:30
Jan. 25, Mon.
Saturday, Jan. 26, 12:30
Sunday, Jan. 27, 10:30
Monday, Jan. 28 thru Monday,
Feb.4,12:30
Feb. 4, 12:30
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 10:30
Peggy Sherwood,
Pres. W.S.G.A.
to pull something underhanded before our very eyes? Little do the innocent souls within the smoke-filled room of these two impressions of satan are brewing.
The jolly jokers picked up the little walnut box and entered the congested meeting room. Ah! just a couple of sharks mingling among the partly enclosed
After a few words of greeting, the pair walked to the desk in the far end of the room where the shorter of the jolly pair of jokers took his place behind the desk. The taller one seated himself close by at the end of the desk.
“The meeting will now come to order,” called out the little joker. “Will the secretary please read the minutes of the last meeting.”
The secretary explained that the minute-book had been left out in the rain, and anywy, why not "let by-ones be by-gones."
Picking the Center Leaves
Facing the Central Group
It soon became apparent that the little joker was the Kingfish of the group.
"And now," said the Kingfish, "as we are nearing the end of our Junior (Continued on page 3).
Hearst Papers Accused By College Publications
Menace to Academic Freedom, Says Columbia Student Editor
A statement attacking the Hearst newspapers for a "crusade of reaction" and an attempt to start a "red scare" was published simultaneously recently in 14 leading college newspapers in various parts of the country.
The 14 editors, headed by James A. Wechsler of the Columbia Spectator, assaulted William Randolph Hearst of seeking to "attitle freedom of inquiry" in his book *American education*; American education the terror which terrorized education in Germany."
Fascism Attacked
Although of widely divergent political beliefs, the statement said:
tement, in part, follows:
"We are in accord in our opposition to Sacrifice. We interpret Hearat's on-launch as the vanguard of Fascism in America."
The statement, in part, follows:
"The Hearst press have been embarked upon a campaign which seriously threatens every vestige of independent thought and action in the schools.
Liberals Suffer
"There is grave evidence that the hysteria is directed not against a single political element but against all progressive thought. It does not distinguish between faint pink and deep red. It classifies liberals and radicals alike as public enemies to be investigated and imprisoned or deported. It is a deliberate ruthless attempt to stifle the hysteria and expression and to impose upon American education the terror which characterizes education in Germany.
"Mr. Heart is a mamen to the academic freedom which students and faculty have fought many bitter struggles to preserve. Now more than ever in a world fraught with disorder and insecurity, its preservation is most vital. Mr. Heart declares that he is seeking to keep the mind of youth 'clean and wholesome.' We contend that he is advocating the academic gooseSET."
LEE MASON ASKS INJUNCTION AGAINST GRANADA THEAT
Lee Mason, Negro, yesterday filed suit in the district court asking an order from Judge Hugh Means restraining the Granada theater from discriminating against the plaintiff and others because of race or color. Judge Means denied a temporary order, and set the petition down for hearing F. 9.
A misdemeanor action against Stanley Schwain, manager of the Granda, is now pending in the justice court of Massachusetts on Monday. Jan. 31. Mason signed the complaint against Schwain after, he alleges, he was refused admission to the theater.
Oliver Q. Cloff III, '34, and Harold Harding, '34, are practicing law together in the Commerce National Bank Building in Kansas City, Kan.
Harold F. Ahlstedt, 34, lives at Reedport, Oregon, where he works for the Teufel and Carbon Construction Co., of Seattle, Wash.
Ura James Hallis, 33, is inspector on Missouri River work with the United States Engineer Office, Nebraska City, Neb.
Survey of College Students Reveals Anti-War Feeling
Questionnaire Now Being Conducted by Literary Digest Answered by 30,000
(Ed note—Evidently the sponsors of the poll were looking for Moly Pitchers, for the women students, as well as the men, were quizzed about bearing
Five students out of six, according to the recent Literary Digest Poll which included the University of Kansas, would refuse to fight if the United States invaded a foreign country. These are the reactions of 20,000 students from 30 colleges. Returns from 295,000 college men and women in 70 colleges, of which Kansas is one, have not been received vet.
The League of Nations question is the only one of the five that was close, with 15,731 students voting "Yes" and 14,072 "No." Two out of every three think that the United States could stay out of a big war. Almost 27,000 students voted for control of the "municipal" largest guest vote of any of the five questions.
The Peace Ballot has received enthusiastic support from most of the university newspapers of schools where it has been held. The Crimson and White of Alabama opened its columns for debate on the questions. The University of Chicago "Daily Maroon" conducted a symposium on the Poll, and the editor of the Daily Herald at Brown University got President Clarence A. Barbour and faculty members to answer and comment on the questions.
The Poll has been criticized in several college newspapers. The "Pointer" of the United States Military Academy questions the negative vote on the need of a large military force. The Harvard "Crimson" doubts the value of the vote, because of the tendency it offers to "climb on the bandwagon" at the cost of true sincerity. In spite of these disenticing voices, the Peace Ballot may be said to have the distinct approval of the American Universities as a whole. Canadian anti-war sentiment is being tested with questions of faculty at Queen's University. Mass meetings are raised there to debate the poll raised by the Poll.
Michigan Curtails Parties
Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 25- J-Hop week-end, usually the gala social period of the University year, lost much of its glamour to many fraternities as a result of President Alexander G. Ruthen's "cleanup" program inaugurated Saturday, and S2 houses definitely stated their intention to do so rodding parties during that period. Of S2 houses, six said they had abandoned plans for their house parties following President Ruthen's statement that houses would be closed if attitudes in three fields did not change immediately. These fields were social conditions, scholarship and finances, but fraternity men evidently assumed that the president was placing particular emphasis on social conditions in his pro-
Social Activities in Abeyance Following President's Order
Every fraternity on the campus, including professional houses was interviewed by telephone last night and of all the interviews only 10 planned to have house parties.
One house president declared "we figure we'll avoid a touchy situation for the time being." Another, rather rately suggested that "we may hold a box social if the president doesn't mind." The president responded by saying whether their plans had been dropped because of the president's statement, blankly asked "What statement?"
Alumna in Gallery of Fame
Miriam A. Palmer, graduate of the University, and assistant professor of zoology and entomology at Colorado Agriculture College, was recently in the Denver Post Gallery of Fame for research which she did on heredity.
Robert Edwin Ganoung, 34, is doing graduate work in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering at Cambridge, Mass. He lives in the dormitory of the Institute.
LIBRARY NOTICE
All Library books will be due on or before Jan. 31.
C. M. Baker, Director.