UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 137
VOLUME XXXI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934
Annual Scientific Lecturer to Talk Before Engineers
'Boulder Dam' Will Be Subject of This Year's Address by R. A. Kirkpatrick
The lecture on "Boulder Dam," which is to be given tonight by R. A. Kirkpatrick, of the Union Pacific Railroad company staff, is in line with the popular lectures which the School of Engineering and Architecture has brought to the campus from year to year.
M. Kirkpatrick is a speaker of unusual charm, so those who have heard him say, and his subject concerns one of the greatest engineering projects now under way in the United States, involving, with its related projects, the expenditure of funds not to exceed $165,000,000.
World's Largest Dam.
The Boulder dam, which is being built at a cost of more than $70,000,000 is located on the Colorado river about 25 air miles from Las Vegas, Nev. It will furnish flood control, power, and water supply to a great portion of the southwest. The dam, which is second to none in size, will be 730 feet high. The dam in comparison is the 465-foot Owley dam in Oregon, completed in 1932.
Enough concrete is being poured in the dam to build a monument 100 feet square and two and one-half miles high. When completed the dam will hold up its 115 miles long and from several hundred feet to eight miles in width.
Give Interesting Demonstration
In 1931, Sergius P. Grace of the American 'Telephone and Telegraph company laboratories made several interesting demonstrations. A device which converted dialed telephone numbers into spoken words was demonstrated. Since too much machinery was required to make the experiment possible in the auditorium here, two long distance wires were connected with the machinery in New York. The numbers were dialed on the stage here and sent to New York. The machinery there converted the electrical dialing impulses into speech and sent them back to the stage where they were given out through the loud speaker.
Airplane Travel Discussed
Mr. Grace also demonstrated the pocket microphone which has come into wide use; scrambled speech used for secret communication; the artificial larynx which enables dumb persons to talk if it is their larynx which is useless; delayed speech and many such marvels.
Airplane Travel Discover
Two years before that, Dr. Herbert E. Ives, of the Western Electric company laboratories, gave one of the first popular demonstrations in the country of the new marvel—television.
Reserve Officers to Elect
1928, C. M. Ripley, from the General Electric company offices in Schineck addressed a similar popular meeting on airplane travel in Europe, and predicted that shortly airplane travel would be common at that time. Passengers were carried the 800 miles from Berlin to London in nine hours, at a cost of $40 each.
Target Shooting and Mess to Be Included in Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Douglas county chapter of the Reserve Officers association will be held tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock at the old 40 and 8 cabin east of Lawrence along the old Eudora road.
Those who plan to go will meet first at Fowler Shops at 5 o'clock; from there they will proceed to the cabin.
Targets will be provided for anyone who wishes to do any firing before mess. The election of officers and additional entertainment will be held after mess.
The following officers were nominated at the last meeting of the chapter: for president, Colonel Dinsmore Alter, CA-Res. and First Lieutenant R. E. Lawrence, Eng-Res.; for vice president, Major H. E. Roy, CA-Res. and Major Adrian Lindsaye, FA-Res.; for secretary-treasurer, Second Lieutenant Gordon McMillan, FA-Res. and Second Lieutenant Urban Hess, CA-Res.; executive committee, Major D. J. Jackson, Jr., CA-Res., Lieutenant Colonel L. S. Powell, MC-Res., Major N. P. Sherwood, San-Res., Major A. M. Fortney, MC-Res. and Second Lieutenant T. J. Leasure, Vet-Res.
Senior members in the R.O.T.C. are eligible for junior membership in the RO.A. without payment of dues. They are invited to attend this meeting. Sergeant William Kollender, assistant director of military science, is in charge of mess for the chapter meeting.
'Ex Libris,' Used by Charlie Chaplin. Is Featured in Book Plate Exhibit
Book plates of famous actors, artists, and dramatic critics from the Clark Memorial Collection have been placed on exhibition in the show-case on the second floor of Watson library. They are part of the nine or ten thousand plates collected by Dr. Clark, and presented by him, his brother, Alfred Clark, artist.
The book plates are from actual books owned by the persons from which they were purchased.
Plates from the libraries of such actors as David Garrick, Jo Jefferson, John Drew, and Charles Chaplin, and producers who were famous in the "gay nineteen" such as David Belleza, Auggie Doyle, and Daniel Frohman are displays.
Among the artists represented are Aubrey Boardale, Edwin Abbey, Mary Henderson, and Gordon Craig. The
Business School Names Morrison as Presiden
Thornton Cooke Speaks at Banquet; Juniors Win Baseball Game
The School of Business Day officially ended last night with the annual banquet at the Eldridge hotel and the announcement of the officers who have been elected for the coming year. The officers chosen are president, John Morrison, b3; vice president, Robert Cory, b3; secretary, Arthur McKittick, b3; treasurer, John Lix, b'uncl.
In the afternoon the seniors played the juniors of the School of Business in a baseball game. With able support from John Blocker, assistant professor of economics, the juniors won by a onusided score, 15 to 3. Dean Stockton played for the seniors. Due to a shortage of juniors the first five innings were played with only one man in the outfield. Morrison pitched for the juniors and Turner for the seniors.
The banquet was designed to convey the NRA idea. The principal speaker of the evening was Thornton Cooke president of the Columbia National bank of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Cooke talked on "A Business Man's Crowe" Chancellor E. H. Lindley gave a few comments on "New Deeds for Old" Jera P. James spoke briefly on the Truman-Robert D. Hardley, representative of the senior class, entertained the group with several jokes. James Christy was the tauntmaster for the evening and had a joke for everybody.
During the course of the meal John Lake, 'eunel, and Horace Hedges, 'bunel, entertained. Lake sang "I Surrender Dear," and "Our Big Love Scene," accompanied by Hedges. For an encore Hedges played "Raphsody in Blue."
New Night Hour for KFKU
University Radio Station Changes Because of "Daylight Saving"
Beginning April 30, the University radio station, KFKU, will broadcast at 9:45 p.m. instead of 6:00 p.m. as has been the custom. This change is being made because of the change from East to Daylight Saving time which has affected many students now at 9:00 p.m. This will not affect the afternoon broadcast at 2:30 p.m.
a week later "The Congo," a study of the negro race will be dramatized. The last poem to be dramatized will be "The Chinese Nightingale."
Vachel Lindsay. The programs which will begin at 2:30 p.m. on April 28 will be in form of dramatizations, the first of which will be "General William Booth Enters Heaven." This poem is as study of the Salvation Army.
John E. Hankins, assistant professor of
English is presenting a new series of
texts about the Bible.
Sigma Nu Freshmen, State Lake, 6:30-10:30
Cosmopolitan Club, Congregational church and Elks hall, 6:30-12. Kappa Eta Kappa, Colonial, 12. Theta Tau, Country Club, 12. Varsity, Union building, 12. Delta Delta, Union building, 12.
Wesley Foundation, Moffett's Farm,
5:30-10:30.
AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Friday, April 27, 1934
Saturday, April 28, 1934
Varsiyt, Union building, 12.
Delta Chi, house, 12.
Agnes Husband, Dean of Women,
of the United Community.
Husband, Dean of Women,
for the Joint Committee on
Student Affairs.
sencery for the staging of Macbeth in Kansas City last year was painted by Craig, who is the son of Ellen Terry. Two famous French dramatic critics, Francisque Sarcey and Ferdinand Brumetti, are also represented.
There are many interesting and original "ex libris" in the collection Chaplin has a picture of himself standing in the sunset, viewing the London skyline, symbolic of his start on the road to fame. His enormous shoes and cane are displayed at the corner of the drawing. Ellen Terry used a simple bouquet of flowers, with the initials "E.T." at each side of it. John Drew, the famous uncle of the equally famous Barry-mores, has a representation of the old Globe Theater in London, in which so many of Shakespeare's plays opened, and where Richard Burbage, the original Hamlet, appeared in his friend's
Many of the plates have either a picture of Shakespeare or quotations from his plays, usually Hamlet or Macbeth.
Dramatic Club Selects Cast for 'Journey's End'
Jo Jefferson, who will be remembered as one of the greatest comedians that America has produced, has portraits of Shakespeare, Richard Brendish Sheridan, and Washington Irving illustrated in his plate. Sheridan was a contemporary, while Irving was the author of "Rip Van Winkle," the dramatic version of that story being Jefferson's greatest Broadway success. Daniel Frohman, one of the foremost of theatrical producers at the turn of the century, has been featured in many plays on the floor and across the pages are footprints. Underneath are the words, "Across the page to the last chapter which reads—"
Only Male Characters in Final Presentation of Season
of Season
The cast of "Journey's End," the final dramatic club presentation of the season, which will be given in Fraser theater April 30. May 1, and 3, was completed yesterday afternoon. The scenery and full equipment is now ready and the final rehearsals will begin Saturday afternoon.
Characterists cast for the production include Captain Hardy, Albert Evans, c³4; Lieutenant Osborn, Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech and dramatic art; Private Mason, Harold Gurrell, cunei; Second Lieutenant Raigeh, Gilmer Reynolds, c³4; Captain John Browning, William Jubbert, William Icra, c³4
Second Lieutenant Trotter, Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic art; Company Sergent-Major, Kenneth Kell, ed35; the Colonel, Robert Haiq, instructor of speech and dramatic art; Private Broughton, Robert Mullard, ffae, British Soldier, Millard Laing, fape, British Soldier, George Lerrigg, c34.
The equipment used by the soldiers in the production will be American as it did not vary a great deal from the British during the war.
Ticket sales are now going slowly, and since there will be only a limited number offered, many who wait until next week will be unable to get them. Activity ticket 15 can be exchanged for either the Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday performances at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall.
Other school events are the High-
Home Night on May 4, field day and
picnic on May 10, and the junior-senior
banquet on May 28. An all-school
party, for which the date has not yet
been settled, will also be held.
Dates for most of the spring activities at Oread Training School were decided upon at a recent meeting of the Oread student senate. May 17, was selected as the date for the senior play, "The Whole Town's Talking," which will be given in Fraser theater. Researchers in Glenwood as the Dramatic City is rehearsing the theater in Fraser for rehearsals of "Journeu's End."
OREAD TRAINING SCHOOL SETS
DATES FOR SPRING PROGRAM
Louisiana Star Breaks Record Jack Torrence, giant Louisiana State College football and track star, put the 16-pound shot 55 feet, 8 inches last Saturday on the Drury college athletic field at Springfield, Mo. Torrence is a former player who stopped off in Springfield for a brief workout. The throw beats his own American record of 53 feet, $2½ inches and the official World record of 53 feet, $2½ inch set by Leo Sexton of the New York athletic club in 1932.
Louisiana Star Breaks Record
Engineers Select List of Nominees For Council Posts
Election of Group Officers and School Representatives to Be Held on May 10
Nominations for the Engineering student council were announced today. Council officers were nominated last night at a meeting of the engineering council, and representatives were nominated at an engineering convoction held this morning. The election of the School of Engineering and Architecture will be held Thursday, May 10.
The following men were nominated. President, Dan McKim, *c*5; Chey White, *c*3; and Waldo Shaw, *c*3; vice president, Martin Wendt, *c*3; Krystal Knapp, *c*3; and James Hughes, *c*6; secretary-treasurer, Riley Woodson, *c*3; Carroll Martell, *c*3; and George Wright, *c*3f.
Sophomore representatives, William Brown, Ed Heter, and Denis McCarty; junior representative, Dale Williamson, John McNown, and Eugene Gray; senior representative, George Taylor, Ford Dickey, and Frank Stahl; civil representative, Victor Koeeler, e'36, Edwin Phelps, e'38, and Robert Williams, e'34; chemical representative, Henry Thorne, e'36, Allen Linley, e'35.
Architectural representative, Robert Dunham, e35; Kenneth Scherctr, e3 and Frank Szekal, e24; electrical representative, Billy Biles, e31; everet Eberhard, e33, and David Ormiston, e3c; mining representation, Preston Cole, e36; Joe Douglais e37, and Patrick McManus, e33; mechanical representative, Franklin White, e38; Loren Craig, e33; and Frank Neal, e35.
F. L. Brown, professor of mechanical engineering, and F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering, were appointed to assist Charles Sphar, c'34, Harry Holloway, c'34, and Eugene Bartlett, c'34, on the election committee in determining the eligibility of the nominees.
Law School Plans Banquet
Lilleston, Prominent Law Examiner, to Be Principale Speaker
W. F. Lilleston of Wichita, secretary of the Kansas Board of Law Examiners, will be the principal speaker at the annual School of Law banquet which is to be held at the Eldridge hotel, Wednesday evening, May 2. Mr. Lilleston is president of Earl Ransom, who is now president of the American Bar association.
Dr. William L. Burdick, vice president of the University and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Spokesman for the various classes will include Chanders Pruyn, T34; Siono Sloan, T35; and Charles Hucker. Jack Poppelwell, T34.
Out of town guests who are invited to the banquet include: the members of the Kansas Supreme Court; Governor Alfred Landon; Judge George McDermott, United States Circuit Court; Judge Richard J. Hopkins, United States District Court; Roland Boynton, Attorney General; Ernest E. Blincez, 117, Kansas Corporation commission; James M. Challis, 194, president of the Kansas Bar association; Fred M. Harris, 198, member of the Board of Regents; and Balle P. Waggener, 122, also of the Board of Regents.
Local guests include Chancellor E. H.
Lindley, and alumni of the University
of Kansas School of Law residing in
Lawrence.
EMPORIA CHORUS WILL GIVE
VESPER SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The Vesper chorus of the College of Emporia, consisting of 100 voices under the direction of Daniel A. Hirschler, will give an extra vesper service Sunday afternoon in the University auditorium. The program will begin at 4 o'clock. This chorus has gained a new friend on Friday and week during the past few years. It has been giving regularly monthly vespers in Emporia this year.
An elevated platform will be built on the stage so that the group will be raised to four levels.
CANUTESON ASKS RETURN
OF COLD QUESTIONNAIRE
Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, asks that the questionnaires sent to students in regard to the cold preventative projects be returned to the hospital as soon as possible so that the results of the study may be determined, and made known to the public.
Phi Mu Alpha to Meet Here
Delegates Plan to Attend Hofmann Recital as a Group
The West Central Province convention of Phi Mu Alpha, national musical fraternity, also known as "Sinifonia," will meet in Lawrence on May 6 and 7 with Supreme President James T. Quarles of the University of Missouri, and Province Governor D. A. Hirscher of the College of Emporia, attending. The province includes chapters at the following schools which will have delegates at the meeting: University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska, Kansas State College, Hays State Teachers' College, College of Emporia, Pittsburg State Teachers' College, Tulast University, Kansas City Horner Institute, Denver College of Music, and University of Kansas.
The meeting will be held at the opening of the University Music Week Festival and the delegates plan to attend the recital by Josef Hofmann, master pianist, in a body. Ray Lawrenson, fa34 is president of the local chapter and Lyle Bailey, fa34, is in charge of convention arrangements.
Fred Harris Is Chosen New Jayhawker Editor
Fred M. Harris, Jr., c35, of Ottawa,
was elected editor and Paul Wilbert,
c35, of Belleville, was elected manager
of the Jayhawker, the annual yearbook
publication of the University of Kansas.
Selection of the editor and man-
ger was made by the Jayhawker board
late yesterday, and announced today.
Paul Wilbert to Be Business Manager of 1934-35 Publication
Harris is a sophomore in the University, and has been on the sophomore staff of the Jayhawker this year. He was business manager of the Ottawa High School Record, and last year, when he attended Ottawa University, was sports editor of the college paper. During the summers he has done reporting for the Ottawa Herald and hit Chanute Tribune. He is the son of Fred M. Harris, Ottawa, member of the board of regents.
Wilbert this year was assistant business manager of the Jayhawker, and in Belleville was assistant business manager of the high school paper.
Until this year, the Jayhawker had been issued as an annual book of elaborate proportions, but this year it is appearing in five magazine-like sections which are proving popular with the students.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY TO MEET
IN KANASZ CITY MAY 3, 4, 5
The twelfth midwest regional meeting of the American Chemical society will be held in Kansas City, Mo, May 3, 4, and 5. Dr. Robert A. Milliken of California Tech will be the speaker at the open meeting. The subject of his address will be "Some of the Newer Problems in Nuclear Physics."
In conjunction with the meeting Alpha Chi Sigma, chemistry fraternity will have a dinner. Papers will be offered on inorganic and physical chemistry, organic and biochemical chemistry, sodium, chemical education, and paint.
The tenth annual Water Works school which met at the University yesterday as the guests of the morning, meets today and tomorrow.
CALENDAR OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS ON THE CAMPUS
Several members of the chemistry faculty plan to attend this meeting which includes representatives from all the midwestern states.
The dramatic department will present "Journey's End," a war drama, in Fraser theater, April 30, May 1, and 3.
Max Monitor, well known reader and dramatist, will present a program of famous German and Engl-ese selections in Fraser theater, May 2.
R. H. Kirkpatrick, Union Pacific railway representative, will speak here tonight on "Boulder Dam."
The Don Mellett lecture will be presented in the University auditorium, May 4.
Mrs. Mabel McLaughlin Beek, of Holton, president of the K. U. Alumni Association, will be the guest speaker on "King's Day celebration, May 5 and 8."
The annual Music Festival will be presented in the University auditorium from May 6 to 13, with Josef Hofmann, world renowned pianist, featured.
Seniors Will Meet Tuesday Morning To Conclude Plans
Dues and Class Memorial to Be Decided at 10:30 Convocation in Fraser
An all-cenior convocation to clarify commencement procedure, to decide on the class memorial, and to set the class dues, has been scheduled for next Tuesday morning at 10:30. Foster theater. Daylight hours of the meeting at that hour to attend the event.
Howard Hoover, president of the class, said in announcing the meeting, "We expect this to be the most important agreement. Every senior should be there."
The selection of a class memorial has been under discussion for several weeks in previous class meetings, executive committee meetings, and by the memorial committee, headed by George Brown, c34. A number of proposals have been made. The ones receiving the most consideration are paying for the lights in the Memorial Union ballroom, leaving the money to the student body, and placing a plot of ground south of the campus for a parade ground, and adding the money to a fund being accumulated to build a carillon tower on the campus. A number of others have been suggested to the committee.
The class will also vote Tuesday on joining the alumni association in a body for one year. Several recent graduating classes have done so, and have been granted a reduced fee by the association.
Orders for senior invitations, which are being taken at the business office, have been coming in very slowly. Charles McCreight, auditor of student organization accounts, reported this morning. Orders must be in the hands of the student office before it can be at 5 p.m. tomorrow to be included in this order.
The final deadline for senior invitation orders stands at 5 p.m. Friday, May 4. No orders will be accepted after this time, and it will not be possible for seniors to get invitations if they fail to order before the deadline. Robert Hartley, C34, chairman of the invitations committee, said this morning, "We are nearly a month late in our invitations deadline this year, and it simply will not be possible for anyone, no matter who it is, to get invitations after May 4. Last year the whole matter of invitations had been cleared up before this time. We have set a much later dendel期 than has been made for a number of years, and it must be observed without fail and exclamation."
Delivery of the invitations will be made late in May, in order that the members of the class will have a chance to address and mail them in plenty of time before commencement. Three styles of invitations are available, the paper announcement at 10 cents, the booklet with the complete commencement program covered with cardboard at 25 cents, and the same booklet with a leather cover at 45 cents. Samples of the invitations may be seen at the business office, or on the posters placed in several of the campus buildings.
TRACKMEN LEAVE FOR DRAKE;
CUNNINGHAM TO PENN RELAYS
Eight members of the University of Kansas track squad left by automobile this morning at 10 o'clock for Des Moines, where they will compete Friday and Saturday in the thirtieth annual Drake Relays. The track men were accompanied by Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics; W. H. Hargitts, head track coach, and Adrian Lindsey, head football coach.
Glenn Cunningham, indoor record-holder for the mile run, left last night for Philadelphia where he will continue his track rivalry with Gene Venze, Pennsylvania sophomore, in the Pemrel Campaign on April 28.
WALL OF KAPPA SIG HOUSE CRASHES DURING HARD RAIN
A large section of the south front wall of the fire-scared structure of the former Kappa Sigma residence fell last night, probably due to the heavy rain. Many parts of the standing wall were broken considerably, since fire swept the area around the building Feb. 16, and these are likely to fall in the near future.
The fraternity, temporarily housed in the Underwood house at 639 Tennessee street, plans to rebuild on the site of the demolished structure when negotiations with the insurance companies are concluded.