I UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN K The Official Student Paper of the Universitu of Kansas VOLUME XXXI LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1934 Most of Increase In Taxation Falls On Greek Houses Survey Shows Fraternitie Will Bear 50 per cent of Brunt of Rise in Evaluation That fraternities and sororites will bear a goodly share of the increase in taxes resulting from a higher evaluation of property in Douglas county, and especially in the city of Lawrence, is the cause of much consternation among the Greek letter organizations. They are at a loss to understand why their sorority should represent more than half of the total increase in Lawrence. Members among the organizations have been startled to find that valuations on property have jumped from 20 to 38 per cent over last year's figures, in contrast to the far less intense assessments on privately owned property. Total Half a Million In Lawrence the total increase of assessments on Greek organization property represents nearly a half million dollars, while the increase of the value of all property totals only about three quarters of a million. The obviously heavy levy on fraternity property is due to the high cost of the social organizations. Total property in Lawrence this year is $12,242,730 compared with $11,497,655 last year. 105 committee A committee composed of representatives of more than half the fraternities and sororites on the campus is acting to find the reason for the sudden and unexpected increase in property value Increase of $30,000 One frenzierity reports an assessment of $30,000 more on property that was valued at $17,000 last year, while a sorority report an increase of $11,000. These evaluations, protest the members of the organizations, necessitate an almost prohibitive increase in their budget. The sorority board has be raised far above the present standards to meet the added expense in meeting tax payments. This year the assessors worked without regard to past records to build up a new appraisal. The lots of property holders in the same vicinity were taxed equally, according to measurements, that utilities did not suffer in this evaluation. The buildings on the property were then measured and evaluated according to cubic contents. The large dining halls and ball rooms of the Greeks added greatly to the evaluation. This "waste space" is responsible for the increase in the property of the organizations. Evaluations Lowered in 1933 Evaluations Lowered in 1932 Previously the state has been inclined to be more lenient with these organizations than with private owners of similar property, realizing that such houses are not representative of large masses of wealth, and they are not conducted for a profit. In 1931, the first year that Greek organizations were taxed, the combined value was set at $800,000 in Douglas county, with approximately $650,000 of that represented by Lawrence organizations. In 1933, the evaluations in the city had dropped appreciably due to the fact that the landings and installations on fraternities and sororites are largely responsible for the increase in the county. While improvements have been made to property owned by fraternities, these do not represent the added increase in taxes, the leaders of the houses maintain. DR. CLARK TO TEACH THREE CLASSES AT OREGON SCHOOL Dr. Carroll D. Clark, chairman of the department of sociology at the University, who was recently appointed visiting professor at the University of Oregon will teach three classes there this summer, he announced yesterday that the Oregon summer session will begin on June 18 and will close on July 27. Mapehu Smith and Mabel Elliot, assistant professors of sociology, will teach classes in sociology during the summer session here. Scholastic Ratings Due Lists of the members of all social and professional organizations on the Hill are due at the registrar's office for determining the scholarship rating to be published next fall. The lists must be made on the blank which have been mailed to the presidents of each group, and are to include all active participants in the conference. Frequency having the highest average is to be awarded a silver cup. Albert T. Reid Collection of Cartoons Goes on Display at University of Kansas The collection of original cartoons and drawings by leading American cartoonists, which was recently presented to the University of Kansas department of journalism by Albert T. Reid, New York artist, operator of an artist's syndicate, and national vice president of the American Artist' Professional League, will be exhibited in Spooner-Thayer Museum of art beginning June 1. The collection will be open to the public 'through the greater part of June.' This collection, consisting of mor han eight indexed original cartoon, with editorial notes, and comic stig drawings, is one of the most complete n the United States. Although Mr teid has been offered attractive sums or the collection he wished to leave the drawings in possession of his own state Students to Play Own Selections on Program Work of Tom Ryan, George Trovillo, Mildred De-Weese Featured A program of original compositions by music students will be presented in the Administration auditorium tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. The composers will play their own numbers in most instances. The program is divided into two parts, the first being those works by students of junior composition, under Professor Laurel E. Anderson, and the second those of senior and graduate students, pupils of Prof. C. S. Skilton. The program follows: Part I String quartet: "Pavanne" (Tom Ryan); "Theme and Variations" (George Trovello), played by the University string quartet: Walderd Gelfelt, first violin; Conrad McGrew, second violin; Karl Kauersteer, viola; and D. M. Swarthout, cello. Piano: "Prelude Caucerole," written and played by Mildred Seaman. Voice: "The Night Will Never Stay" (George Trovillo), song by Shirley Gibson. "By the Sea Isle" (Mildred Seaman), and "The Lake Isle of Innesfree" (Tom Ryan). sung by Virginia La Croix. Piano: "Three Rhythmic Movements," and "Sonatina" composed and played by Tom Ryan. Part II Violin: "Sonata for two Violins" (Mildred DeWeese), William Beck and J. Morley Brandstetter. Piano: "Mazurk for piano," written and played by Paul Larey. String quartet: "Variations for String Quartet (jeanette Stassin), presented at the Ucliffe String Festival." Voice: "The Cry of the Night" (Lorien Grant Pilot), sung by Miss Mary Louise Beltz, with the composer at the piano. The concluding number will be a chorus of women's voices, "The Calico Cat." by Mildred DeWeese. Members of the chorus are Esther Brockway, Leis Lippitt, Maxine Roche, Chrysandra Bryan, Elizabeth Lewis, and Augusta Mueller, who are pupils of Alice Monrieff. Piano: "Variations for the piano," played and composed by Mildred DeWese. Voice: "Cradle Song," and "My Life Is a Bowl," sung by Meribah Moore, accompanied by Jeanne Case, the composer of both the "Serenade" and "Scherzo" (Everett Fetter), played by the University String Quartet. Will Be Washburn Speaker John Hughes, El Dorado, to Give Commencement Address at Topeka Topeka, May 26—John F. Hughes, superintendent of schools of El Dorado, will be the commencement speaker at Washburn College Tuesday morning. June 5, thus celebrating the twenty- fifth anniversary of his graduation from the college. The commencement exercises will mark the close of the sixty-ninth annual commencement week at the college. Dr. Philip C. King, president of the college, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduates at 4:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, June 3, in MacVicur chapel. Immediately afterward Dr. and Mrs. King will entertain the students and feed them at an informal reception on the lawn of the White House. Mr. Hughes has been in public school work in Kansas ever since his graduation from Washburn, except for time spent in graduate study. He has been superintendent in El Dorado for the past 25 years and before that he was superintendent at Chanute and principal of the high school at Independence. His wife is also a Washburn graduate, and their daughter Helen is now a junior in the college. NUMBER 159 noping they will serve as an inspiration and instruction to a rising generation of newspaper artists," he says in a letter to Prof. L. N. Flint, head of the department of journalism. Mr. Reid, noted cartoonist, was born in Concordia. He was instructor in the Lawrence Business College, and attended classes in the University of Kansas, but was never regularly enrolled in the University. "I 'bootlegged' some classes and shouted 'Rock Chalk' as loud as anybody, but my pocketbook was so flat I had to teach at the Lawrence Business College in order to make ends joine oe-ceanially." "I wanted a Kansas University education more than anything I could think of. It was a terrible disappointment when I had to forge it. I thought if I had owned a University sheep—skin I have written about. Reid wrote recently to Professor Flint. Sigma Delta Chi Loses Records in Chicago Fire (Continued on page 4) In this letter he spoke with affection of William Herbert Carruth and "Uncle Jimmy" Green, who allowed him to visit their classes and get what knowledge he could assemble from his visits. The cartoons, which were collected over a number of years, will not only be interesting as examples of cartoonists art, or for their news, political, and economic value, but as history recorded in cartoons of the past 30 years—of the National Journalistic Fraternity Headquarters Demolished Members of the local chapter on Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, were notified Friday that practically all records of the organization headquarters were destroyed in the fire which last Saturday consumed 12 city blocks in the stockyards district of Chicago. The fraternity headquarters were located in the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal building, 836 Exchange avenue, at the entrance to the Union Stock yards. Only a card membership record and a financial record book were saved from the flames. All other materials were kept in a supposedly fireproof concrete and steel vault which proved to be insufficient protection against the heat of Chicago's worst fire since 1871. Personnel bureau records,训诫 correspondence, account books, convention minutes, leaked records, original enrollment records—in fact, all fraternity data and supplies accumulated in the 25 years the organization has been in existence were lost. Even files of Quill, the monthly fraternity magazine, were completely destroyed. The local chapter has been requested to furnish any information it has or can secure for the rebuilding of the records. Alumni among the journalism faculty, Prof. L. N. Flint, Prof. W. A. Dill, and J. K. Jister, chapter adviser, have expressed their willingness to contribute information which will help bring the records up to date, especially that pertaining to this chapter. The Drovers Journal building in which SIGma Delta Chi headquarters has been housed since 1928, was completely destroyed in the fire. The loss was estimated at from $150,000 to $200-000. An International News photo which appeared in last Monday's Kansas City Star shows the ruins of the building. All records in possession of the local chapter will be sent to Chicago to help national officers reconstruct the files of headquarters, Arnold Kretzmann, c34, president of the chapter, said yesterday. Weber Heads List Of Beauty Queens In New Jayhawker Cornelius Vanderbilt Makes Selection of 15 Women for Final Edition of Magazine Miss Nadine Weber, c34, of Osawatomie will head the list of 15 senior beauty queens whose pictures will appear in the final issue of the Jayhawk magazine which will be available to subscribers tomorrow. Miss Weber, who is a member of Chi Omega, social sorrow, was selected as the recipient of an esteemed journalist and member of one of New York's richest families, as the outstanding beauty. Mr. Vanderbilt, well-known for his world travels and numerous articles, made personal comments about each of the 14 books he co-wrote with a worry of outstanding mention. Mary Louise Harrison, of Kansas City, Mo. a member of Sigma Kappa, was chosen as second place winner, over Loberta Brabulant, of Pleasantan, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Fourth place went to Dorothy Zimmerman, ed'34, Kansas City, Kan., a Sigma Kappa, and fifth to Jessamine Jackson, of Lawrence, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. Those receiving honorable mention and whose pictures will also appear are Frances Ballard of Attica; Mary Welker, of Centerville; Betty Nuzman of Ottawa; Harriette Sherwood of Kansas City, Mo.; Frances Hamlin of Kansas City, Ky.; Charlaine Armstrong of Wellington; Katherine Tien of Kansas City, Kan.; Dorothy Brinker of Wichita; and Marjorie Chapman of Independence. 10 Others Get Mention Besides the beauties, the Commencement number, the final for the magazine this year, will feature the pictures of graduates and senior class officers. An amusing article, "College Men What Now?" by Harriette Sherwood, c34, and "The Graduate," by Meggusogue, c34, with the conclusion c34, will appear along with the conclusion of Veron French's serial history, "K. U. Through the Ages." Other contributors in this issue are as follows. Ray Senate; c4; Charles Zakey, c3; William P. Utermohlen, c36; Alfred Ames, c36; Maurice Riee, c34; James Patterson, c34; Fred Harris, cunel; Meyer Rosenberg, c35; Waldo Shaw, c35; Lawrence Leigh, c36; Ray Flick, c34; Beverley Berman, c34; Bob Braden c,34 Ed Willerford, c35. Three Pages of Cartoons Theree pages of cartoons by Senate, Donahue, and Moore will be used in the magazine. tumeses of the Kansas Relays, in tranrural sports, and other outstanding Campus events will be illustrated. Sachem, Mortar Board, the R.O.T.C. staff, and the publication staff will give page account of the work of 1954* and *Journey's End*. recent stage productions, will be reviewed. Copies of the final issue of the magazine, which has been edited by F. Quentin Brown, c35, will be distributed at the Memorial building tomorrow and Tuesday after 1 p.m. APPOINTMENTS FOR TEACHING POSITIONS ARE ANNOUNCED The Teachers Appointment Bureau announces the following appointments to teaching positions for next year: Harold Hoeglund, A.M.34, principal of elementary school in Burlington; John Jacobs, M.S. in education, '34, principal of Junior High School at Lawrence; Burl Beam, A.M.30, Spanish at Ottawa. Thomas Nast cartoon in the collection given to the Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas by Albert T. Reid, Kansas cartoonist. Columbia—Be sure they will not bring you. General Blanchard. It may be a heist. SACHEM WILL INITIATE THIS EVENING AT CAIRN Initiation of the new members of Schem, senior men's honor society, will take place tonight at 5:30 at the Rock Chalk Cairn. The ceremony will be performed around the traditional campfire and will be a re-enactment of an ancient custom of the Sioux Indians. Names of the students to receive the honor will not be announced until the time of the initiation. Each year a stone is added to the Cairn by the members of the organization. The stone this year this year will commemorate the sportsmanlike athletic competition as exemplified by the work of Glenn Cunningham. Unemployed Graduates Will Hold Conference Federal Education Officia to Aid in Seeking Solution of Problem New York, — (N.S.F.A.) — An invitation has recently been issued by George F. Zook, commissioner of education, to the National Student Federation and a number of other organizations to send representatives to a conference "of about 50 people who are among those best prepared to suggest ways and means of helping youth to bridge the distressing gap between school and environment," has been called for June 1 and 2 in Washington, D.C., and meetings will be held in the department of interior building. In explaining the purpose of the conference, Doctor Zook said, "There are in America today about 20,000,000 young people between 16 and 25 years of age. Of this number about 20,000,000 are in high schools, 1,000,000 are in college, a few are in other schools, and 250,000 are temporarily in C.C.I.camps. This leaves sixteen millions of employment are available, you are doubtless aware of how large are the numbers of these young people still unemployed. "The conditions forced upon the country by the four and a half years of depression have been particularly baffling to youth because they have witnessed their numbers increased by that two and a quarter million each year who reach the age of employability. Furthermore, the industrial and business sectors are still in NRA and other efforts towards recovery, have inevitably left the doors still largely closed against youth. In the interest of economic recovery, this is probably necessary, but it is threatening to break the morale of these mounting millions of young people who rightfully want their chance. "What can we do about it?" is on the lips of every thoughtful American, and is a question of paramount national importance. The United States Office of Education is calling the conference to consider these problems." George F. Zook, commissioner of education, received degrees from the University of Kansas in 1906 and 1907. He is recognized nationally as a leader in educational fields, and he was instrumental in making arrangements for the College Student Employment Projects. Symphony Group to Play University Orchestra to Present Program of Arrangements by Students The University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Karl Kuersteiner, will present a program of compositions the orchestrations of which were made by graduate students of instrumentation this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the University auditorium. The students who have arranged the numbers are Loda Newcomb, Jeanette Cass, Katherine Jordan, and Gavin Dougherty. The program will be: "Organ Prelude in C Major" (Bach), arranged by Loda Newcomb, Ballad, "Edward" (Brahms), arranged by Katherine Jordan. Barcarlo, "June" (Tschaikowsky), ar- ch. Barcarolle, "June" (Tchaikowsky), arranged by Jeanette Cass. "Slumber Song" (Schubert), arrange "Slumber Song" (Schubert), arranged by Loda Newcomb. Zonella Emerson, soprano. "Time Chant" (Bemberg), arranged by Kenny Feldman. Alice Denton, soprano "Gavotte and Musee" (D'Albert), and "Rencio" (Scheuett), arranged by T. Cohen. Mary Louise Beltz, mezzo-soprano Hannah Heineman (Heberbier) Rebecca Busholwun ngues: "By the Banks of the Manzanares" (Jensen), and "Forest Conversation" (Jensen), arranged by Gavin Doughty. Fugue in D Major" (Guilmant); arranged by Loda Newcomb. K-Club Will Carry On Traditions But Give 'Frosh' Break First Year Men to Receive Instructions Next Fall; Only Violators to Be Punished Efforts of a committee of students, largely made up of freshmen, to obtain legislation barring hazing, and especially paddling of freshmen, brought comments yesterday from leaders of student affairs, and especially from the K-Club, to which has been delegated the task of maintaining traditions on the campus. Further agitation for regulations against hazing is believed to have been aroused by the recent action of the K-Club in promulgating a set of rules for freshmen, including insistence that all freshmen wear the new uniforms and that lab dogs be used by the freshmen on the days preceding home football games. Ernest Vanek, recently elected president of the K-Club for next year, said yesterday that although the club had been given the power of enforcing the traditions of the University, that K-men had no intention of beating the freshmen for trivial things next year. "The interests of the club are in the school and in the development of school spirit which has been lacking in the past few years." Vanek said. Excessive Paddling Abolished "We are going to give the freshmen a better break next year than they have had in the past. We are going to give the first year men a pamphlet at enrollment time explaining the traditions and rules governing the wearing of the cap. The freshmen who wear their caps and observe the "o date" rule at football games need have no fear of the K-men's paddles." The zoning rules, which will be put into effect the day before each football game, Vanek said, would be enforced to "get" the freshmen who failed to wear the traditional caps and ribbons. "In the past," Vanek said. "Some freshmen have been subjected to excessive food system provided no check as to who had evaded the regulations. Our new system will put a stop to that." Gunar Mykland, president of the Men's Student Council, corroborated Vanek's statement. It was true he said that the present Student Council had followed the example of the old in turning over the handling of freshmen to the K-club. However, he said he believed that men should not have the freshmen would not be extreme or dangerous to the health of any conceived. Mykland Makes Statement "There will be no hazing, in the true sense of the word, on the Hill next fall." Mykland declared, "but merely paddles to enforce the wearing of fresh-man caps as a part of the traditions program. "The matter will lie entirely in the hands of the K-club to enforce the wearing of the caps as they see fit. There will, however, be no promiscuity among them and their children of the Men's Student Council or by members of the Ku-Ku club." Leaders of the group which is trying to bring about the abolition of any embeance of hazing on the campus, and who asked the aid of Chancellor andley in gaining their desires, had no tatement to make yesterday afternoon. They did not say whether they had orulated definite plans whereby they would continue the work begun Friday afternoon. Aggies Must Drill Compulsory Military Training Endorsed Manhattan, May 26 — (U.P) The Board of Regents of Kansas educational institutions in session here today adopted a resolution endorsing the compulsory military training program or freshmen and sophomores at the Kansas State College. In their resolution, the Regents said the program was in harmony with federal and state statutes. A petition of 1300 names obtained by the Student League for Peace was disregarded by the Regents. Dr. Harold Collins, m31, has recently taken over the practice of the late Dr. O'Brien at Beloit. Dr. Collins had his internship at the Wisconsin State General hospital at Madison, and also spent a short time at the State Tubercular hospital at Norton. 1.