UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas*
NUMBER 143
VOLUME XXXI
A
Kansas Newsmen Make Selections For Hall of Fame
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1834
Names of Moses M. Beck and Wm.E. Blackburn Given by Lindley at Assembly
Names of Moses Milton Beck, for more than 50 years editor of the Holton Recorder, and William Elmer Blackburn, of the Anthony Republican and Herington Sun, were added today to the "Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame." Their pictures will be hung beside those of their eight predecessors on the walls of the news room in the Journalism building at the University.
Mr. Beck, a native of Indiana, owned and edited the Holton Recorder for 55 years, until his death in February, 1931. He was 92 years old. He came to Kansas in a covered wagon and settled near Holton, later going to that town where he studied pharmacy and opened a drug store. When a local newspaperman engineered the removal of Mr. Beck from the postmastership, he bought a printing plant and established the Holton Recorder.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley made the announcement at the all-University conversation which was addressed this morning by Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star, in the presence of Dr. Andrew C. Lansford on some phase of dynamic journalism.
Wrote Well-Known Article
Mr. Blackburn likewise entered Kansas in the days of the cowboy and Indian fighter. He obtained the Anthony Bulletin on a defaulted mortgage, and while continuing as a bank clerk by day, he learned newspaper editing by night and established the paper firmly:
Selection was made by the Kansas editorial members of the Quarter Century club after the University chapter of Sigma Delta Chii, national professional journalistic fraternity, had objections to nominations from the editors of the state.
One of Earliest Editors
An advantageous sale of the paper enabled him to try farming, but he returned to the press when he bought the Herington Sun in 1914. He was president of the Kansas Editorial association in 1907, and its secretary until his death June 2. 1929. His "October in Kansas" reprinted ten times without number.
The Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame was established four years ago by the University department of journalism, and thus far eight notable Kansas editors have been selected. The two this year making a total of ten. They are: Sol Miller, the Kansas Chief at Troy; Major J. K. Hudson, the Kansas Parmer, Topeka, and the Topeka Daily Capital; Marsh M. Murdock, Burlingame Chronicle and Wichita Eagle; D. R. Anthony, Leavenworth Daily Conservation and the Leavenworth Times; Noble Prentice, Topeka Daily Record, Junction City Union, and Kansas City Star; D. W. Wilder, Ft. Scott Monitor and the Hawiata World; Edward Wallis Hoch, Marion Record; and John A. Martin, tenth governor of Kansas and editor of the Atchison Champion.
Choir to Open Music Week
A Cappella Group Will Present Special Numbers at Sunday Service
The choir will also broadcast three numbers over WREN at the 9:30 morning religious service. They will sing "Dear Lord," which is a common title for *Lord," (Dett), and "The Lord's Prayer." (Gretchaninoff), with the solo part sung by Mary Louise Beltz, fa.36.
For the opening of Music, the Westminster A Cappella Choir of the First Presbyterian church under the direction Dean D. W. Swarthorth, will present on Sunday morning one of the most effective numbers of their concert program for this season. It is an eight-part unaccompanied number of Gertchannoff, "O God, Hear My Prayer."
Karl Bratton, head of the voice department at Baker University, will sing in an effort to "reinforce" his role. "I truly seek Me," from Mendelssohn's oratorio, "The Elijah."
Nebraska Dean Speaks Here
Dr. C. W. M. Pointer, dean of the University of Nebraska medical school at Omaha, addressed the Douglas County Medical association at the Country Club last night. His subject was "The Relationship of the University Hospital to Medicine." Mr. Pointer, who has been with the Nebraska School of Medicine for thirty years, holding the position of dean twice, is vice president of the Association of Medical Colleges. He left this afternoon for Omaha.
DEADLINE FOR SENIOR PICTURES IS EXTENDED
The final deadline for the entry of senior pictures in the Jay-hawker magazine, originally set for today, has been extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, F. Quentin Brown, editor, announced today.
Misunderstandings have arisen because the deadline date was changed at least once before.
Seniors desiring to enter their pictures in the magazine will not have to have the picture at the Jayhawker office at that time he said, but must come in to fill out a card. Pictures may be taken and brought in at a later date, to be announced soon. No applications for entering pictures will be accepted after that time.
Early Enrollment Passed For Employed Students
Provisions of Plan to Be Inaugurated in College Listed
"Arrangements have been completed with the College office for early enrollment of working students," announced Charles Sterberg, cunl, chairman of early enrollment committee at the regular business meeting of the Self-Supporting Students association Wednesday night.
The following plan was presented by the early enrollment committee of the association and accepted by the College at enrollment in September, 1934.
3. When the card is signed by one of the instructors, the College office, where Dean Lawson will have an authorization for the enrollment of the student on the first day of school.
1. Working students who desire to enroll early shall be required to present a work card signed by their employers, which they can obtain by either Dora R. Bryant, of the Women's employment bureau or Fred Ellsworth of the Men's employment bureau who are given cards when they are convinced the student is equal and is a necessity to the student.
4. Early enrollment applies only to students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
a usher who 'plan to work' are eligible for superlausen The plan was suggested in business meeting of the association in February. Charles Sternberg, c35, and James Polklinghorn, c36, were appointed on a committee to work in conjunction with Dorothy Johnson, c35, president of the association, in an effort to secure the adoption of such a plan after first discerning its advisability.
Plans were completed at the meeting Wednesday for the party to be given tonight at 8 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building by the association. An informal invitation is extended to all CSEP employees as well as other partial self-supporting students.
The next business meeting of the Self-Supporting Student association will be held Thursday May 17, the last meeting this year. All committees will be required to report and plans for next year will be outlined.
Set New Membership Goal
Alumni Make Drive for 1000 "Keeper of KU. Traditions"
Returns are beginning to come in from the annual alumni association drive for membership. The goal of the drive is 4000 additional members and contributions are being asked to retire the deficit that has been cut down during the last three years.
Folders have been sent out to graduates appealing for their support. The folders contain a space where the signature of the member may be placed and will be reprinted with others in a composite page in the May issue of the Graduate Magazine as "Keepers of the KU, Traditions."
The ballots are coming in faster this year than they did a year ago, and increasing interest is being shown in the ballots. The number of ballots and $265.50 had been received. This year on the same date, 163 ballots and $403.00 have been sent in.
HUDDER to ADDRESS Convention F. H. Hodder, head of the department of history at the University, is attending the annual meeting of the Iowa Political Science association and the Iowa Historical association held at Grimnl College, Grimnl, Iowa, today and tomorrow.
Included in the letter with the folder is a ballot on which the member may vote.
Hodder to Address Convention
Professor Hodder will speak before the meeting tomorrow on "An Airplane View of the Monroe Doctrine."
University to Be Host of Parents At Annual Affair
Banquet, Program's Main Event Tomorrow, Will Be in Honor of Mothers
This weekend the University will be host to the fathers and mothers of University students. The annual Parents' Day celebration, held this year in honor of Mother's Day, will take place Saturday and Sunday, with the annual event the main event of the offair. Saturday evening at the Memorial Union building.
Tickets for the dinner may be secured at the business office. No tickets will be available after 5 p.m. Friday, January 13th. The general committee said yesterday.
Musical selections during the dinner will be presented by the Women's Glee club, with Dean Husband directing, and the men's Glee club, with J. T Craig directing. A vocal trio, composed of Chrystabelle Bryan, fa'35; Helen Kissell, fa'34; and Ruth Pyle, ed'35, is also on the program.
Final plans for the dinner are not complete. Mrs. E. H. Lindley will preside, and the Rev. C. W. Thomas, student pastor of the Baptist church, will give the invocation. The main speakers for the dinner will be Mrs. Mabel McLaughlin Back, '04, president of the K. U. Alumni association, Chancellor E. H. Lindley will also give an address.
Presentation of prizes will be made by Marie Wachter, c24, to the parents coming the greatest distance, to the parents having the most children enrolled in the University at the present time, and to the organized house having the largest percentage of parents in attendance at the banquet.
Gamma Phi Beta, 9-12, house.
Chi Omega, 9-12, house.
Phi Alpha Delta, 9-12, house.
Mrs. R. H. Wheeler and Mrs. W. C. Koenig are co-chairmen of the dinner committee. Student members of the committees are J. T. Craig, c$4; Milton Bosse, c$4; Clyle Nichola, c$3; Ruth Bose, Kennell Kall, c$3; and Rae Stolc, Raine
Zoologists to Go to Coast
Dr. W. J. Baumgartner Will Conduct Party to Study Marine Life
Alpha Phi Alpha, Union building, 9:30-12.
Combining recreation with education Dr. W. J. Baumgartner of the Zoology department will conduct a party of students to the West Coast for a study of marine life. The party will start on June 2, and will remain there for six weeks.
Dr. Baumgartner announces the following courses: cytology, three hours credit; ecology, three hours credit; research, one to five hours credit. Seaside animals will be stressed in the study.
Classes will be conducted at the Laguna Beach Seaside Station, which is about 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The party will travel by automobile to Laguna Beach and Grand Canyon. The return may be by any route the students wish to take
Bathing suits will be essential for the work as well as for recreation, a field trips along the beach, and the collection of sea life will form a large part of the work. Studying will be done in the Pomona College laboratories. Living quarters will be provided in conveniently situated cottages.
Dr. Baumgartner will offer courses for upper classmen and graduate students, while Dr. W. A. Hilton of Poetron will offer classes for freshmen, and sophomores.
About 1,000 fossils were collected by the Geology I class on a field trip under the direction of Dr. Raymond C. Moore, head of the geology department, yesterday. The trip was made for the purpose of studying rocks, and the fossils will be used in laboratory work.
Anyone interested in making the trig is requested to get in touch with Dr. Hugh Williams.
Geology Class Collects Fossils
AUTHORIZED PARTIES May 4—Friday
AGNES HUSBAND,
Promethean Club, Bridge Party Unitarian Church, 8-11.
Parents' Day Celebration, Banquet, Memorial Union building.
Dean of Women,
For the Joint Com. on Student Affairs.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEL LET MEMORIAL LECTURE
"The right of the freedom of press, of free speech, and free conscience, is too vital to gamble with.
"If a free press has any one duty, one first task, it is to preserve individual liberty.
"Most newspapers, not all, feel that the heritage and privilege of a free press carry a corresponding obligation of public service, reader service, no matter what the cause.
"Dictatorships and a free press cannot live side by side.
"There can be no intelligent public opinion when there are no facts upon which to base an opinion—only predestined governmental prejudices.
"Newspapers as such are not popular—the tread on too many pet corns, and I confidently believe the overwhelming majority of the American people, when asked to think about it all, regard a free press as essential to a democratic form of government as ours.
"The public will sustain freedom of the press as the bulwark of American democracy, but it will in turn be more insistent that the press fulfill its obligation of freedom of the news."
Miss Husband Will Head Department of Voice
Succeedes Prof. W. B. Downing Who Resigned Post Recentiv
Miss Agnes Husband, associate professor of voice, was recently named head of the voice department by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts. Miss Husband succeeds Prof. B. B. Bissett, because of outside business interests.
Miss Husband received her A. B. degree from the University of Kansas, and her masters degree from Columbia University, New York City. She also studied voice at Bethany College, Baken University, and under such eminent instrumentists as Mine, Beersburg-Barachia, Isaac Grove, Della Valeri, and Dudley Buck.
Miss Husband taught voice at Stetson College, College of Emporia, and Stephens College before she came to the University in 1821. In addition to her teaching at the Department, she is director of the Women's Club, and is Dean of Women.
K-Club to Sell 'Frosh' Caps
Athletes Will Receive Profit Formerly Taken by Merchants
Ating upon a motion made by Richard Wells, ed'34, the student council Wednesday night passed a resolution providing that the K club shall be in charge of the sale of freshman caps next year. The caps will be sold by the same merchants that have always sold them, but the K club will receive the profit from their sale, which is about 14 cents per cap.
According to Wells, the merchants have been contacted and are quite willing to sell the caps for the K men as heir wish is merely to get the new jen at the University to come to their tores.
"The main reason," said Warren Plaskett, ed 35,"for wishing to be in charge of this matter is to be sure that all freshmen wear the caps. This year but about one in ten freshmen were the caps and we believe that this tradition should be observed. The K club is not wholly interested in the profits, but this should furnish an incentive for the strict enforcement of the rule."
SCHWELGER TO BE SPEAKER
AT OREAD HI-HOME BANQUE
- Toasts by Oread seniors, faculty members, and practice teachers from the University will precede the main address. Music will be furnished by Oread students. Decorations will be white in out a color scheme of Blue and white.
- Dean R. A. Schwegler of the School of Education will be the main speaker at the banquet celebrating the tenth annual Hi-Home Night of Oread Training School. Approximately 200 persons, including teachers, practice teachers, students, their parents, and friends of the school, are expected at the banquet which will start at 6 tonight in the University cafeteria.
NEWSPAPERS STAND AS SENTINELS SAFEGUARDING INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, DECLARES DON MELLETT LECTURER
Roy Roberts, Managing Editor of the Kansas City Star. Eulogizes Principles of Dynamic Journalism Exemplified by Slain Editor of Canton. Ohio. Publication
"The fight for freedom of the press is not a fight of newspapers for newspapers, but a fight of individuals for individual liberty," Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star who was the speaker for the Don Mellett memorial lecture at the University this year, told an all-University convocation audience this morning. The lecture is the fifth of a series which was founded to honor the memory of Don Mellett, once editor of the Canton, Ohio, News, an aggressive newspaper man who was killed by an assassin's bullet. This
Noted Artists Send Pictures to Be Added To Hall of Fame
The "Hall of Fame" in the gallery of signed photographs of distinguished artists who have appeared on the University Concert course in the new Auditorium is to be augmented this week with the hanging of several new photo-graphs.
The Hall of Fame now includes signed pictures of Galli Curci, Iturbi, Heifetz, Schipa, London String Quartet, Glanniini, Madame Schumann - Heinck, Myra Hess, Pablo Casals, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Abbas, Spalding, Beatrice Belkin, Tibbett, Muzlo, Thibaud, Grainger, Soura, Harry Luader, Elman, Gladys Swarthout, Llevinen, Gabrilowitsch, and McCormick.
One of the finest pictures in the collection is one recently received from Rosa Ponselle, prima doma soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company, who opened the concert course last November. A photograph long delayed but finally on hand, is that of the distinguished Polish pianist, Horowitz, who electrified the audience here some five years ago. Another is a signed picture of the Roth Quartet. There is also one Hilger Tiger who were here last year and will appear again during Music Week this year.
It is rapidly growing into a collection of great historical and musical value.
Engineers Leave for Texas
B. F. Wheeler Is on Program of A. I
E. E. at Austin
B. F. Wheeler, e34, former president of the K.U. Radio club, left yesterday for Austin, Tex., where he will read a paper on "An Electric Wave Filter With Sharp Cut-Off" at the annual student convention and branch conference of seventh district of the A.I.E. to be at the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
Wheeler will be accompanied by Robert Oliver, e'34, chairman of the K.U. branch of the A.I.E.E. and K.U. delegate to the district conference; L. D. Weiser, e'34; A. J. Hoover, e'34; John Hillford, e'34; B. Wallis, e'34; D. C. Jackenmoor of electrical engineering and faculty counselor of K.U. branch of the A.I.E.E.
An interesting program has been assured by the chairman of the convention. Two general sessions have been held. Several student papers will be given.
The University of Texas Power Show will be open both Friday and Saturday evening for any who are interested. A side trip to San Antonio, one of the show places of Texas, has been added as a special entertainment.
REPORTING STUDENTS ASSIST
ON KANKSAS CITY NEWSPAPER
Nine members of the Reporting III class of the journalism department, and W. A. Dill, associate professor of journalism, went to Kansas City yesterday to aid in gathering news for today's edition of the Kansas City Kansan.
Those making the trip were Chiles Coleman, c;34; Margaret Gregg, c;44; Dorothy Smith, c;44; Dorothy Foster, c;44; Arnold Kretzmann, c;34; Howard Bousselah, c;34; Boosey Habbs, c;34; Curnell Lindsay, c;34; and Mary Jane Dale, c"uncul.
School to Hold Open House
Lawson Leaves for Meeting
School to hire OPEN
The nursery school which has been conducted under government agencies for the last eight weeks at the Unitarian church will hold open house next Monday morning from 9 to 12:30 pm. Alumni on the school staff includes Mona Simpson, "33, Esther Wulf-kühle, and Archibald Oliver," '26.
Paul B. Lawson, acting dean of the College, left yesterday for Columbus, Ohio, where he will attend a meeting of college deans. Dean Lawson will return Monday.
is the first year that the address has been given west of Chicago.
The Chancellor introduced Mr. Roberts as a former student of this University, who had attained a standing in the newspaper world that made him
Chancellor E. H. Lindley presided, and after announcing the election of the late M. M. Beek and W. E. Backburn to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, complimented the press of Kansas for its history of fearless endeavor for the public welfare. The newspapers of Kansas were credited with safeguarding the continued liberty of teaching at the University.
ROBERTS GTVS MELLETT
CHECK TO JOURNALISTS
When Roy Roberts received his cheek from the Don Mellie Fund, for his lecture this morning, he endorsed it and returned it to Prof. L. N. Flint, head of the journalism department, with instructions that it be used for some departmental enterprise—and added that he would add as much more to it when it was decided what the enterprise might be.
most suitable as the speaker to deliver the annual lecture in memory of the dynamic journalism of Don Mellett. After reviewing briefly the work of Mellett, Mr. Roberts turned to economic and political situations of recent years which have and changing forms of government here and abroad.
Self-Government Disappears
"In one nation after another, self-government has disappeared," said Mr. Roberts. "Democracy could not meet the terrific after-war problems, and the masses, not schooled in the democratic tradition, turned to dictatorships. Today they have a muzzled press, with newspapers printing only what the government wants or tells them they may.
"Since the Nazi accession to power, 330 German newspapers have voluntarily given up, and hundreds of others have been savagely suppressed by the Nazis. They are also newspapers under government rule, so much allie, they soon lose their appeal."
"The destruction of so many fine newspaper properties is trivial compared to the moral loss to the world of free expression of great peoples. With a free press goes freedom of speech, of conscience, and of religion.
"In the span of a few years we have seen a free press disappear in nations involving more than two-thirds of the people of the earth. Is it any wonder that we of the American press should feel concerned, perhaps over-sensitive, at the first hint of anything that would curb a free press.
If a free press has any one duty, one first task, it is to preserve individual liberty."
The long discussion of the NRA code for newspapers, Mr. Roberts said, was more or less unnecessary, pointing out that, as a manufacturing enterprise, the newspaper should comply with regulations imposed on other factories.
"But the newspaper, as a medium of expression of opinion, free opinion, if you please, occupies an extremely different status," continued Mr. Roberts. That is why, with few exceptions, the newspapers insisted that the constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press should be restated in the code. "When so precious a right as human liberty may be involved, certainly there can be no valid objection to stating and restating the constitutional guarantees. It may not add a syllable to the heritage of a free press handed us by the founding fathers, but certainly does not take anything away.
"I repeat, the right of the freedom of press, of free speech, and free conscience is too vital to gamble with.
"I would go further and say that if and when the licensing sections of the NRA are extended, as they will be, I
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