UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansa*
VOLUME XXXI
10
Heart Attack Fatal To Prof. A.L.Owen, Teacher of Spanish
Department Head Came to University in 1910; Was Graduate of Illinois and Vermont
NUMBER 146
Arthur L. Owen, professor of Spanish at the University for over 20 years and head of that department since its creation in 1918, is dead. He was stricken at his home at 1702 Massachusetts street at 5:30 this morning with a heart attack. He had been in apparent good health, and his death came as a shock to friends and relatives. He was 49 years of age.
Spent Year at Chicago
He is survived by his wife, Sarah
D. Owen, and two daughters, Catherine
D. Ward.
Professor Owen was born Jan. 9, 1885, at Burlington, Vt. He finished his grade and high school work there. In 1902 he entered the University of Vermont, obtaining his A. B degree in 1906. From 1908 to 1910 he attended the University of Illinois, receiving his master's degree there.
His teaching history is varied. In 1907-08 he taught languages at Betts Academy at Stanford, Conn. From 1908 to 1910 he taught at Illinois while working for his master's degree. In 1910 Professor Owen came to the University of Kansas, where he has been since with the exception of one year; 1913-14, in which he taught at the University of Chicago.
Author of Many Books
He was associate professor of Spanish from 1914 to 1918, and was chosen head of the department of Spanish at the time of its creation in 1918.
In 1911, he married Sarah Dellanor Morton at Fair Haven, Mass. They have two daughters.
Professor Owen was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and carried the key of Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Vermont.
Besides his teaching activities, Professor Owen was the author of a number of books and magazine articles. He was associate editor of "Hispania," the official organ of the Association of Spanish Teachers, and contributed to "Books Abroad," a magazine published at the University of Oklahoma.
Funeral to Be Friday
He belonged to the Modern, Language Association of America, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish, the Modern Language Association of the Middle West and South, and was a corresponding member of the Spanish Society of America. At Christ's Church in New York, he was the Modern Language Association meeting at St. Louis, where he was chairman of the Spanish division.
He contributed to many magazines, among them "Hipopia," Modern Lang-
age, and *Variety*.
Among the texts he has edited are Martinez de la Rosa, "La Conjuración de Venecia"; Poi Baraja, "Zalacain"; de Gorizita, "Contigan Pa y Cebella"; Martinez Sierra, "El Ana de la Casa"; and "La Casa de la Troya."
As a young man, Professor Owen traveled extensively through Europe, getting in contact with the language he was to teach, and studying methods of teaching. The most prominent men who were to remain his friends throughout his life.
Funeral services will be held from the Unitarian church at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev Charles A. Engvall will conduct the services.
PREYERS COMPOSITIONS ARE
PRESENTED AT AUDIORIUM
Last night's concert of original compositions of Carl A. Preyer, professor of piano in the school of fine arts, was well received by the capacity crowd in the University Auditorium. The compositions were played and sung by students and faculty members of the School of Fine Arts. Several of the numbers on the concert last night were their first dance, and these numbers were probably a little smoother than some of the composer's earlier compositions.
Those who assisted Professor Preyer were: George Trovillo, fa 35. Mrs. Alice Monchieff, Prof. Waldem Geltch, Miss Meribah Moore, Prof. Howard Taylor, Prof. Roy Underwood, and Ruth Orcutt.
Rakor Returce From Conference
Baker Returns From Conference Miss Gladiys Baker, who handles the detail work of arranging programs for the University's radio station. KFKU, in Oklahoma City, Ohio, where she attended the three-day meeting of the Institute of Education by Radio. Sessions were held on the campus of Ohio State University.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1934
J. C. NICHOLS TO ADDRESS ALL-UNIVERISTY CONVOCATION
The Fine Arts Day all-University convocation will be held in the University auditorium tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. J. C. Nichols, chairman of the Nelson Art Gallery trust in Kansas City, Mo., will be the speaker.
Mr. Nichols will lecture on the Nelson Art Gallery and illustrate his talk with slides. He is well-known in Kansas City as an architect, and is said to have done more than any one perenniality of northeastern refining of the city residential district.
Special music will be offered by the University Glee Clubs and band.
Annual Engineering Poll To Be Held Tomorrow
Balloting for Council Members to Begin in Marvin at 8:15
Balloting for members of the engineering student council will begin to tomorrow morning at 8:15 and continue until 5 p.m. when the counting will start. The polls will be in the basement of Marvin hall.
Nominees were named April 26, but since that time two men have been declared ineligible and three have resigned. Denis McCarthy, sophomore representative, and Franklin White, e'36, mechanical representative, were ineligible, and Waldo Shaw, e'35, James Hughes, e'36, and David Ormiston, e'unc, candidates for the offices of president, vice president, and electrical representative respectively are the men who banded in their resignation.
The list of nominees follows; president, Dan McKim, *e*35; and Chevy White, *e*35; vice president, Don Williams, *e*35; and Carl Kindsvater, *e*35; and co-occurrer, Riley Woodson, *e*35; Carroll Martell, *e*34; and George Wright, *e*36.
Sophomore representative, William Brown and Ed: Heter; junior representative, Dale Williamson, John McNown and Eugene Gray; senior representative George Taylor, Ford Dickey, and Frank Stahl; civil representative, Victor Koelzer, e'36, Edwin Phelps, e'36, and Robert Williams, e'34; chemical representative, Henry Thorne, e'36, and Allen Lilley, e'35.
Architectural representative, Robert Dunham, *c*35. Kenneth Scherrer, *c*31 and Frank Slezak, *c*34; electrical representative, Billy Biles, *c*35; and Everett Eberhard, *c*38; mining representative Preston Catch, *c*26; Joe Dougherty, *c*37; Loren McMahan, *e* mechanical representative, Loren Craig, *c*38; and Frank Neal, *c*35.
Hilger Trio to Give Concert
Violin, Piano, and Cello Music Will Be Presented Tonight
A concert featuring the Hilger sisters, string trio from New York City, Ruth Oreault, professor of piano in the School of Fine Arts, and the University Symphony orchestra under the direction of Karl Kuersteiner and Dean D. M. Swarthout, will be given tonight in the University auditorium.
The Hilger trio will play two movements of the Mana-Zucca trie for piano violin and cello, and Elsa Hilger, one of the three musicians, on the day. will play two solo numbers.
There will be no admission charge to this evening's concert which is being held in conjunction with National Music Week.
Tonight's program:
Ruth Oreault, pianist, and University Symphony Orchestra Cello solos:
Kel Nidrel Brud
Konzertstuecke Carl A. Preyer
Ruth Orcutt, pianist, and
Kol Nidrei
Bruch
Moses Family
Pagani-Hilger
Ela Hilter
Trio, Op. 40 ... Mana-Zuccé
Adagio and Allegro con lino
Op. 36 Beethov Allegro, Largo, and Rondo alla
Maria, Greta, and Elsa Hilger Triple concert with Orchestra:
Tonghua's program:
Piano and Orchestra:
Kouwarttuttke
Op. 36 Beethoven
Allegro, Largo, and Rondo
Polacca movements.
Maria, Greta, and Elsa Hilger
Maria, Greta, and Elsa Hilger University Symphony Orchestra
Concert for violin, cello, and piano
Op. 36
Beethoven
Lindleys are at Abilene
Alpha Phi Omega Hold Smoker
At a smoker of Alpha Phi Omega, honorary securing fraternity, held last night at Wiedemann, plans were discussed for the next year. As the speakers of the meeting H. Roe Bartle, of Kansas City, Mo., president of the nautical society, and Paul Campbell, Kansas City, Kan., executive, delivered short talks.
Hughes and Hughes con into movements.
Veria Greta, and Elsa Hilgo
Chancellor E. H. Lindley and Mrs. Lindley went to Abilene today where the Chancellor is to talk before a district meeting of the Rotary Club for the benefit of the state crippled children association.
EVENTS OF MUSIC WEEK
8:00 p.m. Hilger Sisters Recital,
Auditorium, Ruth Orcutt,
piano, presenting Preyer's
"Concertsteuck."
Wednesday
10:00 a.m. All-University Convocation, to be addressed by J. C. Nichols, Kansas City, Mo. for glee clubs and orchestra.
Thursday
6:00 p.m. School of Fine Arts banquet, Memorial Union building, Rosalter Howard Art division, City Art Institute, speaker.
8:30 p.m. Evelyn Swarthout, pianist, presenting young artist's recital, Auditorium.
3. 30 p.m. Concert by Kansas String Quartet, Auditorium.
Friday
7:00 pm. Banquet and initiation,
7:00 pm. Banquet and mutation,
Phi Kappa Lambda, at the
Manor.
Evelyn Swarthout Recital To Be Given Tomorrow
Daughter of Fine Arts Dean Here After Studying in London
Miss Swarthout was an outstanding student at the University. During her senior year she was elected to the presidency of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical sorority and of Mortor Board, honorary senior women's society. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta national social sorority, and of Pi Kappa Lambda, national honorary musical or 'anization.
Evelyn Swarthout, B.M.'32, will give a piano recital tomorrow evening in the University auditorium. This is to be Miss Swarthout's first appearance in Lawrence since she left for London two years ago to study under Tobias Matthay, internationally known piano instructor.
While studying in London, Miss Swarthownt won the three year Jeffrey-Reynolds scholarship over ten of the leading students of Mr. Matthey. She was also on the staff of the British Broadcasting company. She won her place on this staff by an audition last winter, and in March gave a piano recital over the air, that received highly favorable comment from many foreign critics. Her London recital was given in February at Wigmore hall, and London newspaper critics gave her complimentary write-ups in review.
She arrived in the United States in April and plans to stay in Lawrence with her parents, Dean and Mrs. D. M. Swarthout, until September, when she will return to London to continue her study.
The regular meeting of Psi Chi, professional psychology faternity, was held Monday afternoon. Dr. Purdy spoke on "Aphasia" and Alfred Baldwin on "Recent Experimental Work of Lashley and Kuto."
PURDY SPEAKS AT MEETING OF PSYCHOLOGY FRATERNITY
The fraternity is planning a picnic, to be held Monday, May 14, at 4 o'clock. Transportation will be provided and all members are urged to attend.
W.S.G.A. Approves Proposed Changes In Activity Ticket
Bill Requiring Attachment of Picture to Ticket Will Go Before
Although students have expressed conflicting opinions in regard to the recently drawn up resolution, there seemed little doubt today that the Uni would not concern in the passage of the activity ticket amendatory proposal.
Senate
As a result of its passage by the W.S. G.A. last night, the resolution which calls for a new type of student activity ticket and which would necessitate the attachment of the picture of each individual student on his activity book, will go to the University senate for final approval before it definitively be approved. The vote was passed by the Men's Student Council at a meeting last Wednesday night and was passed on to the women's council for approval at that time.
Astrology Would Be Fine Profession But Is Mere Superstition, Says Alter
The cost of the pictures, which is not to exceed 10 cents per student, is to be taken from the reserve fund of the activity ticket. The estimated cost at the time of the resolution's passing by the Men's Council was $350.
The football and dramatic tickets would require presentation at the respective offices for the purpose of making reservations, but the fine arts and lectures ticket would be in the form of general admission. Reservations will not be made free for concerts and lecture Reservations plays would be made for the season and not for individual performances, under the new plan.
The resolution provides that three pictures of each student shall be taken at the time of registration next September. One of the pictures is to be attached to the identification card of the individual activity book by means of the University seal, and the other two are to be sent to the University business office for booking as a check against students attempting to transfer their books, and to allow for the replacing of any books which may be lost.
The new plan has been outlined by its exponents as a means of simplifying the ticket in general. Under its proposed new form the activity book includes cards for football, dramatic productions, and fine arts presentations, each.
The book would also include the usual identification card, and presumably a Memorial Union membership card as the present activity book carries.
"Sometimes, when salaries are low, we envy Keppler, who did this. It would be rather nice, if, with our knowledge of the planets, their masses, diameters, distances, and orbits, and with our ability to predict their positions, we could use this knowledge to become billion-aires in the stock market, to choose
Astrology is a superstition based, it is alleged by its promoters, on the science of astronomy. That it is a dangerous superstition, in that the public is defrauded of large sums, was the statement of Prof. Dinsmore Alter, university of Kansas astronomer, in a recent radio address.
Although W.S.G.A. officers were not certain how much the new form of the activity ticket might add to the general cost of preparing the ticket, it was believed that part of the expense of having pictures taken could be replaced by a saving in the cost of printing the smaller book.
"At a time, a few hundred years ago, when the ethics of science were not as rigid as they are today, a very famous astronomer made a good living by practicing astrology in the court of Voliston.
Bartley Continues Research
S. Howard Bartley, former instructor in psychology at the University, is now at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., continuing his research work on human cognition and on under a rockefeller grant. Mr. Bartley left the University in 1931.
"The belief that the position of the stars and of the planets affects human affairs, and that human affairs can be predicted because the future position of the stars can be predicted, goes back knows how many thousands of years.
our wives, to decide the times we would apply for new positions, and in general to secure greater power in the world by controlling all of other professions put together.
"The professional astrologer merely uses the tables we have been computing to make his living. He explains his horoscope and makes the stars incline but do not compel."
"Can you believe that we who would gain such tremendous advantages, and who have such exact knowledge of these bodies, would fail to make use of these beliefs if there were the least grain of truth contained in them.
"Remember that in general these planets are hundreds of millions of miles away; remember that many of them are bodies much larger than our whole earth; remember that they follow orbits determined absolutely by the law of gravitation; remember that their gravitational effect on the planet is negligible; simply the fact that all the planets; remember that the light we receive from all of them is thousands of times less than we receive from the moon.
"In this cold, abstract light, can you believe they have any effect?"
To Get Doctor's Degree
EDWIN B NEWMAN
Edwin Newman, who two years ago was one of the German exchange scholars from the University of Kansas, will lecture at Harvard from Harvard University this June.
Blowers Named Editor Of Humor Publication Jack Miller Also Elected Business Manager of Sour Owl
William Blowers, c'uncl, was elected editor, and Jack Miller, c36, was chosen business manager of the Sour Owl University humor magazine, at a meeting of staff members and contributors in the Journalism building yesterday. Both men have been active members of the Society for the Advancement of writing the popular "Snooper" column, and Miller rising in good work as local advertising manager.
These are the only two officers to be elected at this time, as the rest of the staff positions will be filled by appointment. Blowers and Miller said that they would name their assistants well in advance of the first number nqxt fall.
The Sour Owl is published by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. Although the fraternity assumes financial responsibility for the magazine, the Sour Owl is of Hill-wide interest, both as offering all students a chance to exercise their writing ability, and publishing material of general appeal.
Paul Woodmanse, c34, is tre retraining editor, and Arnold Kretzmann, c34, has been business manager during the past year.
From 1914 to 1924 the magazine was controlled by the Owl Society, junior men's honorary organization. In the spring of 1924 Sigma Delta Chi took over the Owl and has been publishing it each year since then. The magazine has survived numerous attacks on the type of material it features, the most notable of which was the time the Men's Student Council fined the Internaty $100 for providing all of aled to the "Lucky Number" of 1926. Another high point in the history of the magazine was the removal of an objectional artistic detail on the "Florida Number" in 1926 by cutting a hole in the cover.
The magazine has appeared on the campus six times this year. After the first issue the price per copy was cut from 25 cents to 15 cents and has been maintained at that level. This step was taken to make the Owl available to students, because it might be a representative student publication in fact as well as in name.
The last issue this spring will be the "Farewell Number," scheduled to appear on May 23. Editor Woodmanse said today that all students with a funny story, joke or item of campus gossip on their mind should write it up and drop it in the box in the Kansan news room before May 18. The staff expects this number to be one of the most popular of the year. An attractive cover in black and white is being designed by Ray Senate, c'34.
Dr. Clark Goes to West Coast C. D. Clark, professor of sociology, is teach sociology classes at the University summer session at Portland this year.
To provide time for the convocation to be held Thursday morning, May 10, at 10 o'clock, the following class schedule will be followed:
First period 8:30 to 9:05
Second period 9:15 to 9:50
Convocation 10:00 to 10:50
Third period 11:00 to 11:35
Fourth period 11:45 to 12:20
E. H. LINDLEY.
KANSAS MILER AND BONTHRON TO RUN TWICE
Outstanding Track Stars Will Renew Rivalry in Meets at Los Angeles and Princeton
BOTH RACES IN JUNE
Cunningham Will Graduate From University Before Time of Competition
Arrangements for the races were announced this morning when Matt Geis, Princeton track coach, agreed that Bonton would fly to Los Angeles with the other two teams, where Bonton is to run again against Cunningham, probably at the mile.
Glenn Cunningham, Kansas miler, will meet Bill Bonthron of Princeton, the only runner to best the Kansan this year, in two races, one at Princeton June 16, and the other on the Pacific coast the following week. The distance will be one mile.
The Princeton meet is one arranged in preparation for sending a team of Princeton and Cornell athletes to Eng- competition with Oxford and Cambridge.
Venzke May Run. Too
The Princeton track is the one on which Lovelock and Bontron ran to world record time last year, and if conditions are right this year, the mile record should fall. The Kansas stadium, with its 220-yard straightaway and four-lap track, is modeled after the Princeton stadium.
In addition to Bonthorn and Cunningham, it is practically assured that Gene Venkze of Pennsylvania, who came to the Kansas Relays to run against Cunningham, will be entered, and efforts are being made to get Jack Lovelock, holder of the world's outdoor record, and Luigi Becalli, Italian runner who won the 1500-meter run in the 1932 Olympics.
Immediately following the Princeton race, Cunningham, Bonthron and Hargiss will leave for Los Angeles, where Cunningham is entered in the National Intercollegiate meet June 22 and 23. He is listed to run the mile and the half-mile. The trio will travel by plane, so as to arrive in Los Angeles early this summer to participate in which to become accustomed to the weather and the track.
Other Kansans to Coast
Other Kanans to Coast
To make the journey by train would consume the greater part of the time between the two meets, and would put the runners on the coast too car-weary to do much in the races.
Kansas will be represented by two or three other athletes at the Los Angeles meet, but they have not yet been selected.
Cunningham is entered also in the 800-meter and the 1500-meter runs in the National A.A.U. meet which is to be held in Milwaukee June 29 and 30. All three of these meets—Princeton, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee—come after Commencement, and after Cunningham has received his B.S. degree in education. He has been anxious for some time to meet Bonthron in another race, and when the invitation came from Princeton, he was glad to accept.
Doctor Allen Will See Race
Bonnor After 4. Cunningham by inches Baxter mile, at the New York Athletic club meet Feb. 17, covering the mile in 4:14. A week later, running at 1500 meters, Cunningham won by a stride from Bonnor. In this race, Cunningham established a world's indoor record for the distance at 3.522. Cunningham will be entered in the mile and half-mile at the Missouri meet at Columbia, Saturday, and in the same events at the Big Six outdoor meet at Lincoln the following weekend. This will close his collegiate competition.
Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics, will go to Princeton to see the race. From there he will go to Columbus, Ohio, to become a member of the faculty of the Columbus Coaching School starting Monday, June 18.
Pi Mu Epsilon Initiates
The 10 students recently ected to membership in Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity, were initiated into the organization at Broadway Inn last night. Following initiation a banquet was held on the lawn at which 39 were present. Games and singing constituted the evening's entertainment.
Spanish Picnic Postponed
The Spanish club picnic, which had been scheduled for tomorrow evening, has been postponed on account of the death of Prof. A. L. Owen.