UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 114
Eight Candidates Given Nominations For Alumni Posts
Strickler and Reilly Lead ers for President; Lela Hackney Youngest Office-Seeker
Eight candidates for the election
Alumni association election were an
nounced today in the March issue of
the Graduate Magazine. The candidate
have been named on two tickets, A and
B.
On ticket A: President, Major T. J.
Strickler, Kansas City Mo.; Mo; vice president,
J. Wayne McCoy, Lawrence; di-
literate instructor, Kansas City,
and Clem Barkan, Kansas City, Mo.
On ticket B: President, William D. Reilly, Leavenworth; vice president, Dr. Sherwin E. Mella, Kansas City, Mo.; directors, Lela Hackney, Topeka; and Mauz尔 Zollner Haze, Tonganoxie.
Retiring officers of the association are Mrs. Mabel McLaughlin Beck, president; D. C. Martindell, vice president; Ingalls and Hugo T. Wedell, directors.
Will Vote by Mail
Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, sent out ballots to all members of the Alumni association, and voting will be done by mail. Results of the election will be announced at the sixty-second commencement exercises in June.
Major Strickler, a candidate for president, received his bachelor of science degree at the University in 1906. He was born in Topeka, receiving his early education there. He attended Wentworth Military academy, before coming to the University. His activities there included two trips on the football team, 1963 and 1980, also president of the University Civil Engineering society. He is a past president of the engineering alumni organization.
Both Active Citizens
After graduation Major Strickler served four years with the United States reclamation service, and from 1911 to 1920 he worked for Kansas as assistant engineer and chief engineer of the Public Utilities commission. Entering the World war as captain in the engineer corps he was later made major in the railway transportation corps in France.
He moved to Kansas City in 1925 and has served the city in many fields, for two years acting as president of the Kansas City Safety Council.
At the University Mr. Reilly took a prominent part in R.O.T.C., Law school affairs, and student politics. He is a member of the state legislature and has served in Leavenworth since 1923, serving as county attorney from 1923 to 1927.
Mr. Reilly, B candidate for president,
came to the University from Leavenworth and was graduated from the
School of Law in 1923. During the World war he served in Company E,
139th infantry, 35th division, and was with the headquarters of the Second Army in France.
Miss Hackney, B candidate for director, is the youngest candidate on the ticket. She received her degree at the University in 1832. While here she was a tutor to the Theta Rho sorority, and Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalistic organization for women.
Directors of the Alumni association are elected for five years, two retiring each year. Other officers are elected for one year each.
Navy Flyer Visits Parents
Lieutenant Davis Is Considered One of Navy's Best Pilots
Lieutenant William B. Davis, reserve officer in the United States Navy air corps, is in Lawrence visiting his parents, Dean and Mrs. Robert McNain Davis, for a few days. Lieutenant Davis will return to Boston Thursday.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1934
Lieutenant Davis, one of the best of the navy's pilots, is now employed by the government of Columbia, South America. He is an executive officer in charge of seven United States navy fliers who fly the aircraft and its air forces by instructing naval pilots.
Known as one of the best of the navy's pilots at the Quantum air base in Massachusetts and at the San Diego naval base, Lieutenant Davis left active service for the United States in 1931. He was one of the three daredevils who did the spectacular flying in the motion picture "Hell Divers."
A graduate of Tufts University, in 1929, Lieutenant Davis later studied at Harvard University. He entered the Naval flying corps from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he did his preparatory ground work.
CHANCELOR WILL ADDRESS
HIGH SCHOOL CONVOCATION
Chancellor E. H. Lindley, accompanied by Fred Elsworth, secretary of the alumni association, will drive to Coffeyville tomorrow morning to appear at a convocation of the combined senior high school and junior college. Charles Ise, '08, chairman of the Board of Education in Coffeyville, has charge of arrangements for the meeting.
Mr. Ellsworth and Dr. Lindley drive to Parsons after this meeting where they will speak at a similar conversation. Owen Paul '31, and Dick Chapin, '30, are handling the arrangements for the Parsons program. In the evening a meeting and banquet of southeastern Kansas alumni with the Chancellor as chief guest and speaker will be held in Parsons.
R. C. Moore Will Address Tulsa Geological Society
Studies by Kansas Survey Affect Oil and Gas Producers
R. C. Moore, professor of geology and a member of the State Geological survey, will speak tonight at Tulsa at a meeting of the Tulsa Geological society. His subject will be "The Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks of Kansas."
From Tula he will go to Dallas for a series of meetings of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists to be held March 21 to 24, where he is scheduled to deliver a paper on "The Mission of the Arctic Boundary in the Mid-Continent."
He will also attend concurrent sessions of the Society of Economic Palenontologists, where as editor of the Journal of Palent酵he will give a report on the magazine which is published by the society. At present this magazine is the only national publication devoted to palent酵ology.
Studies carried on by Dr. Moore in conjunction with the Kansas State Geological Survey have led to an important revision of classification and interpretation of rocks that occupy the eastern half of Kansas, southeastern Nebraska, northwestern Missouri, and most of Oklahoma.
The Tulsa Geological society includes about 125 commercial geologists, resident in and near Tulsa who are interested in these studies which bear or their work in petroleum geology, because Peninsylvanian and Permian rocks are important in the production of oil and gas in the mid-continent region.
Upon his return March 26 from Dallas, Dr. Moore will meet the National Research council committee of Ore Deposits of the Mississippi region, of which he is a member, for a field conference at Baxter Springs. This meeting will be attended by geologists of the United States Geological Survey. To be listed as a guest at the event, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines, Northwestern University, Washington University, Oklahoma University, and Missouri University.
This conference will be devoted to the study of geologic problems concerning the origin of lead and zinc ore of southeastern Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma, and southwestern Missouri commonly known as the Tri-State district, which is the most important zinc producing area in the United States.
K. K. Landes, professor of geology and assistant geologist on Kansas State geological survey, and G. L. Knight, professor of geology, will accompany Dr. Moore to Baxter Springs.
Y. W. C. A. Sponsors Course
Florence Stone Will Conduct Training for Prospective Teachers
Frances Ballard is in charge of arrangements and is being assisted by Willella Curnutt.
The course is open to all women who intend to become teachers, and it has proved very helpful to those attempting to secure teaching positions. Application blanks may be signed at Henley house, and it is requested that all women desiring to take part in the course sign blanks as soon as possible. There will be a small registration fee. At the completion of the course each member will be given a certificate from the state Y.W.C.A.
Glee Club Pictures Taken
Moving pictures, were taken yesterday afternoon of the Women's glee club and will be shown in the towns which the glee club will visit on its annual trip which will start April 16.
Marihuana, Oriental Drug Which Brings Strange Visions, Is Banned in Kansas
Marihuana, the use of which is still being in vestigated by University authorities, is a drug with a past as interesting as that of any better-known narcotic. Scientifically the drug is known as Cannabis, but the common term for it in the United States is the Mexican name, marihuana. Almost every country in which the drug is known and used has its own colloquial name for it.
The plant from which Cannabis is obtained is Cannabis sativa Linné, a native of India, but now extensively grown throughout the world. Hemp is obtained from the same plant. Sayre's 'A Manual of Organic Materia Medical and Pharmacognosy' (1899) gives these botanical characteristics: "Stem 4-8 feet high, annual, tall and roughish, the inner bark consisting of tough fibers. Leaves palmately 5-7 divided, the leaflets coarsely serrate. Flowers dioecious, green, in compound, axillary racemes or panicles. Akene globose, crustaceous." Dean D L D Havenhill, head of School of Pharmacy at St. John's College for learning, muscat is bushy and sometimes attains a height of 20 feet. Botanists growing wizard will rubhc
Large Audience Attends Last All-Musical Vespers
Group and Solo Numbers Given at Fine Arts Presentation
A large audience attended the last of a series of four all-musical vespers which was presented by the School of Fine Arts in the university auditorium Sunday.
About 140 students and faculty members took part in the program which was one of the most outstanding of the year. The program was made up entirely of concerted numbers, and included organ with brass quartet; violin and orchestra; vocal solo with string ensemble and organ; ensemble for violin, flute, and harp; glee club with string accompaniment; and orchestra.
The presentation opened with "Chris-
and Resurettel* played by Charles Sanford Skilton at the Console of the organ, assisted by a brass quartet consisting of Cloyd Vermilion, and Lawrence Boggs, trumpets; and Oliver Hobbs and C. E. Sawbill, trombones
The second number, the first movement of the "Symphony Espagnole," was played by Karl Kuersteiner on the violin accompanied by the University Symphony orchestra under the direction of Dean D. M Swartwhatch.
Shirley Gibson, a senior in voice, song the beautiful "Ave Maria" from "The Cross of Fire" by Bruch, and was accompanied by an instrumental ensemble consisting of Margaret Love, violin Genevieve Hargiss, cello; George Troville, piano; and Laurel Everette Anderson, organ.
Student's Condition Satisfactory
One of the outstanding number of the afternoon's program was the "Impromptu" from Goossens' 'Suite, Op 6' for violin, flute, and harp, with Walderem Geltch, violinist; Bruce Lumfatist; and Morven Anderson, bartinist
"Turning the corner at Ohio and Eleventh streets last night a Chevrolet coach, in which Mary Lou Bagby, c35, and John Case, c24, were riding, ran into a telephone pole to escape a head on collision with a car which was coming down Eleventh street from the West.
Both students suffered minor cuts and bruises, but neither was seriously injured. A broken front axle was the only damage done to the automobile.
The Women's Glee club, with Miss Agnes Husband directing, presented two numbers, "The Perfect Hour," Poldowski-Harris, with Mary Louise Betz appearing as contrato solist; and Rose Thépault, an Aksy-Knauer; with Geneva Lorgues, collist and Ike Bond, violinist, furnishing the accompaniment.
The last number was Goldmark's "Overture, 'Sakuntai,'" played by the combined University Symphony orchestra and the University Little Symphony orchestra under the direction of Klaus Kuersteiner.
The last of the year's vespers programs will take place next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock when Prof. Laurel Evertree Anderson, University organist, will present an organ recital in the University auditorium.
The condition of Hazel A. Feathton, c'27, who was operated on for appendicitis at Watkins Memorial hospital Friday by Dr. M. T. Studler, as reported as entirely satisfactory today.
AUTOMOBILE CRASH INJURES TWO UNIVERSITY STUDENT
Cannabis is widely used in India, where it is usually called hashisch. The natives gather for haschish parties and when sufficiently stimulated will sometimes rush from the hut to do violence to whomever or whatever comes in their way. It is said that the drug does not affect Orientals as readily or as violently as it does Occidentals, however.
ahly be destroyed since the focusing of public attention on the drug by recent
Marihuana is usually smoked, though it can be taken in liquid form. The effect on the user varies exceedingly with different persons. Ordently the first feeling is one of wild exhilaration during which the user sees visions of the weirdest sort. The hallucinations bring on uncontrollable grinning and laughter.
The later effects are described thus by Dr. Harvey Felter in his "The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics"; "Finally, drowsiness overtakes him and he drops into a heavy sleep, which may last for hours, and from which he awakens with no other (Continued on page 3).
Seniors Give Joint Recital
Virginia LaCroix and Charles Wilson Present Performances
The joint senior recital of Virginia La-Croix, soprano, and Charles Wilson, pianist, met with enthusiastic accord from the large audience which attended the performance in the Administration auditorium last night. Both of the young artists presented finished performances which held great promise.
Miss LaCroix's voice is rich and expressive, and she has a pleasing stage presence. She presented three vocal groups, French, Italian, and English from which her best interpretations were the lovely Verdi Ariza "Pace, Peace Mace Hopak," and Moussierguy, Miss LaCroix is a pupil of Prof. W.B. Downing.
Mr. Wilson's first number, the long and exceedingly difficult Chopin Sonata, Op. 35, was skillfully executed, and was accorded a fine reception by the audience. His talent was best evidenced by his precision in the finer details of the more difficult passages. His interpretation of the "Bumble-Bee" by Rimskay-Korsakoff-Rachmaninoff, was popular with the audience. Mr. Wilson has studied in the University under Prof. Carl A. Preyer.
Communication From California Sherif Gives Leiby's Past Record
'Count' Has Prison Record
Henry George Lebly allie Count Paul Gregory Herschel von Leibnitz, who left the University campus a few days ago after succeeding in fooling several Greek letter organizations and in getting himself a short-time vaudeville contract at the Varsity theater, was only replaying his performances there. The restations were here yesterday from L. Howard Durley, sheriff of Ventura County, Calif.
Leiby who broke his Varsity engagement after a one-night stand which he evidently considered a failure, has a gun. He shot him, the communication revealed.
On Sept. 22, 1935, his burglar $charges were reduced to petit theft and he was sentenced to six months in the city jail, because issued on order of the court on Oct. 10.
Further records of the "Count" revealed that he had been picked up on varying charges at least four other times. On Dec. 11, 1930, he was arrested on the suspicion of giving bad checks; the disposition of his case was not given. On Feb. 6, 1933, he was arrested in Los Angeles on a suspicion of burglary and was turned over to the county for prosecution.
In August 1933, Leilby served 30 days in the Ventura, California, county jail, for pilfering the home of a Ventura citizen who had befriended him.
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS FORUM PLANS KANSAS CITY SESSION
Six days later he was arraigned on three burglary counts but was released in custody to his attorney. He was sentenced to 2033 on a Superior Court Bench warrant.
The business school forum of the University will hold its first Kansas city session on April 3 at 8 p.m. in the Hotel Baltimore, Joseph H. Taggart, associate professor of finance, will speak at the forum on "The Currency Situation."
All graduates of the University are invited to attend and bring a guest.
invited to attend and bring a guest.
Mr. Taggart will speak for 30 minutes followed by an open session which will be devoted to discussion of questions on timely economic and social problems.
10 P.M. CLOSING HOUR TO RETURN AT LIBRARY
"Starting tomorrow, Watson Library will lengthen its hours of service until 10 p.m.
"The extension of these hours have been made possible by the employment of several CSEP students at various points in the schedule, releasing the more extensive hours for night work. Several weeks were required to train these new assistants."
"But for this unexpected help the library would not have been able to return to the 10 p.m. hour this semester.
"This later closing time applies to the Main Library only."
C. M. Baker, Director.
1934 Relays Dedicated In Cunningham's Honor
Authorities Are Attempting to Get Bill Bonthron Here for Race
The twelfth annual Kansas Relays, April 21, will be dedicated to Glenn Cunningham, Kansas premier miler, Dr. F. C. Allen, director of athletics announced this morning.
"We want to recognize the outstanding work of Glenn Cunningham, in establishing new world's records, both in the field and in the indoor mile," said Dr. Allen.
"Cunningham will run in the Kansas Relays, and we are now endeavoring to find suitable competition for him, and hope that he may be able at that time to set a new world's record for the outdoor mile."
Dr. Allen revealed that negotiations had been going on for nearly a month with Princeton University officials in an endeavor to get William Bonthron, the only runner who has bested Cunningham this year, to come to the Kansas Relays.
Dr. Allen added that while the present schedule of events for the Relays provides a 1500-meter event, that can be changed to the mile, should the athletes most concerned desire the change made. Boy Scouts of the four states of Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas will be invited to attend the Relays as guests of the athletic management. Kansas high school athletes who participate in the thirtieth interscholastic track and field meet, the day preceding the Relays, will be invited to remain as guests at the Relays.
Page Gives Peace Address
Speaker Puts Blame for War on the "Good" People
"War is not caused by wicked people," said Kirby Page in his address at the Congregational church Sunday afternoon. "War is caused by kindly, good, sympathhetic 'intelligent' people."
"France and the other armed nations are under the illusion that they can get security by armaments and that their strength can be maintained by keeping some other nation down," said Mr. Page. "There can be no safety for either France or Germany until there is safety for all Europe."
Kirby Page spoke to two meetings in Lawrence Sunday afternoon and evening on "Techniques for Peace." The meetings were held under the auspices of the International Affairs and the Lawrence Council of Religious Workers.
At a state-wide student conference Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Emporia, Kirby Page addressed over 300 delegates on the economic and political situation in the United States and the world. The conference was sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. in the university and colleges of Kansas. In theology, led the discussion group on "Campus Patterns and How They Can Be Changed." About 40 students from the University attended the conference
FACULTY MEMBERS ATTEND MATHEMATICIAN'S MEETING
Twenty members of the University faculty and graduate students attended the joint meeting of the twentieth annual Kansas Association of Mathematics Teachers and the thirtieth annual meeting of the Kansas section of the Mathematic Association of America in Topeka Saturday.
Prof. G. W. Smith, assistant professor of mathematics, was elected chairman of the Kansas section and Lucy C. Dougherty, '27, was elected secretary for the coming year.
At the meeting Gilbert Ulmer, assistant instructor in mathematics spoke on "Derivation of the Equation of a Ruled Surface in Series Form."
Finals of Debate Tourney Reached By Three Teams
State High School Forensic Titles for Both Divisions to Be Decided Today
Canton and Mulvane tied for state championship in Class B, the negative team winning a 2 to 1 decision in each case.
The Kansas High School debating league finals, which are being held at the University, at noon today reached the finals in Class B, with one of the finalists in Class A also selected. The triangular debate participated in this morning by Topeka, Hutchinson, and Coffeyville resulted in a draw, the negative teams in each debate winning by a 2-1-to vote of the judges.
The three teams, with a new alignment and a new set of judges, will debate again this afternoon at 3, and in the final at 4:30. The winner of the triangular debate will meet the Pratt team which defeated Dodge City this morning in the semi-finals. This is the first time it has been necessary to repeat a debate because of close decision.
Twenty-two teams kheredo Canton, which defeated DeSoto this morning in one of the finals, is meeting Mulvane, winner over Grinnell, for Class B first honors. Canton and Mulvane were the finalists last year also.
The tournament started yesterday morning, with 12 teams entered in class A and 10 in class B. Three rounds of debates were held, closing in time for some of the high school debaters to attend the Kansas-University of Southern California debate last night. After the college debate, the visiting 'high school speakers assembled for the opening of the judges' reports.
Hutchinson Undefeated
Hutchinson debaters were found to have won all six of their debates in class A, the debate against Wellington having been decided by a 2-to-1 vote. All other debates of the day were by single judges. Dodge City was second in the Hutchison group, while in the Topeka and Coffeyville were tied for second with four victories and two defeats each.
In the same way, in the Class B debates, Canton in the second won all its debates and Grinneil was second with a standing of four and two. In the first group Mulvane lost but one and DeSoto two.
The question is the same as that used throughout the winter, namely, "Resolved, that the United States should adopt the essential principles of the British system of radio operation and control."
Debaters Attend Dinner
The trophies this year are small bronze figures of a woman upholding a torch of learning. These figures are mounted in front of a piece of black onyx, which in turn is mounted on a panel of walnut wood.
Nearly 100 of the visiting debaters and their coaches attended a dinner at the University cafeteria yesterday at 5:30. H. G. Ingham, director of extension, and secretary-treasurer of the debating league, was coastermaster. Chan-meri Duncan, secretary of the baters briefly, complimenting them on 'heir interest in debating.'
"Your experience in debating is teaching you the necessity of clear thinking," said the Chancellor. "I congratulate you on your interest in this magic means of influencing the human will."
Following are the results of the vari-
ious debates of the round robin series
of games.
Class A—First Group
Pratt aff. defeated Salma neg.
Pratt aff. defeated Colby neg.
Pratt aff. defeated Junction City aff.
Pratt neg. defeated Coffeville aff.
Pratt aff. defeated Topeka aff.
Topeka aff. defeated Junction City
Topeka def. defeated Coffeyville neg.
Topeka neg. defeated Colby aff.
Topeka neg. defeated Pratt aff.
Coffeyville def. defeated Junction City,
Coffeyville aff. defeated Junction City, neg.
Coffeville aff. defeated Salina neg.
Coffeville neg. defeated Salina aff.
Junction City aff. defeated Salina neg.
Junction City aff. defeated Salina neg.
Junction City aff. defeated Colby neg.
Junction City neg. defeated Colly aff.
Salina aff. defeated Topoka neg.
Class A—Second Group Hutchinson af. defeated Dodge City gent.
Hutchinson af.
Hutchinson aff. defeated Ottawa neg.
Hutchinson aff. defeated Osage City neg.
Hutchinson neg. defeated Wellington aff.
arr.
Hutchinson neg. defeated Hays aff.
kempson. neg. deleted Hays an.
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