UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
Jimmy Patterson, Stanley Horstman Win Revue Contest
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Students Are Asked to Submit Titles for W.S.G.A. Presentation to the Kansan Office
NUMBER 69
James R. Patterson, c34, and Stanley Horstman, c35, have been announced as the winners of the musical comedy manuscript contest offered annually by the W.S.G.A. This year's show will be presented in Fraser theater about the middle of March.
A contest to decide a title for the revue is being sponsored by the Daily Kansan and the W.S.G.A., and is open to any student in the University. The winner of the contest will be awarded free tickets to the forthcoming production.
The submitted titles should be written and turned in with the contributor's name at the news room of the Kansan. A committee composed of Margaret Gregg, managing editor of the Kansan, Virginia Sterling, and James Patterson, will judge the titles. Since the general theme of the revue is concerned with school life at the University the title should contain this idea.
Directors Are Announced
Virginia Sterling, c'34, W.S.G.A. representative in charge of the revue, also announced the directors for this year's show. James Patterson, last year's director of the "East-West Revue", and former assistant director of the musical comedy, has been selected to coach the cast. Ruth Fyle, c'35 and Virginia Sterling will direct the dances.
First Year for Revue Here
Whether the music will be composed entirely of popular numbers, or partially supplied by student composers remains to be decided by those in charge.
The revue idea begun in this year's production will be the first time that the W.S.G.A. has sponsored such a show. In past years, the custom has been to present a musical comedy. In an attempt to bring a novel and fresh type of show to the campus the revue idea was conceived.
FIFTY-SEVEN K. U. WOMEN
TRYOUT FOR RIFLE TEAM
Tryouts for parts in the show will not be held until the second semester is started. It was decided to wait until that time in order to check the eligibility of the applicants.
Final eliminations for the women's rifle team will be made this week. From the 57 women trying out for the team, between 25 or 30 will be chosen. Eliminations will be based upon improvement in the size of the bullet group.
The selection of this year's rife squad will be made by Rowena Longshore, Patty Arnold, and Sergent C. E. Engle, who will appear in the Kansan next week.
Those of last year's team who passse first eliminations are: Rowena Longshore, captain; Patsy Arnold, manager Martha Dodge, secretary-treasurer Winnifred Koenig; Helen Harvey; Dorothea Watson; Louise Jarboe; and Ruth Pyle.
MINNESOTA STUDENT UNION
PAYS OFF $2,400 ON DEBT
Receipt of $6,000 from student fees enabled the Minnesota Union to pay off a debt of $2,400 to the general fund of the University incurred when $45,000 was spent to remodel the building in the summer of 1932. The Union receives about $156,000 a year from the student fees.
One dollar each quarter is given to the Union from the incidental fee of every male student. A certain percentage of this money is put into a fund for needed repairs. Other funds received from the sale of candies, cigarettes and fees for pool table are put in a separate checking account and are used to pay the expenses of attendants and the managers salary.
Pi Lambda Theta to Meet
Pi Lambda Theta, women's honorary education sorority, will hold its January meeting Jan. 16, at 7:30, in room 119 Fraser. This is the second meeting held in the series of panel discussions on current education problems. City school officials and members of Pi Delta Kappa, honorary education fraternity for men, have been invited to join this discussion.
Accident Victim Is Improving
Burch Harwood, 65, who was injured Saturday night in an automobile accident at Eighth and Massachusetts streets, was sent home yesterday. He was confined at Lawrence Memorial hospital where his condition was reported as favorable.
Crash Kills W. L. Newman
Victim of Sunday Accident Was Father of K. U. Student.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS. TUESDAY. JANUARY 9. 1934
W. L. Newman, 333 Ohio, was killed instantly Sunday and his wife seriously injured when the motor car in which they were riding skidded at a turn and crashed into a bus about 18 miles wes of Boonville, Mo. Mr. Newman was the father of Robert Newman, 'c37.
The bus, which was driven by Wally Warma, attempted to keep from hitting the car head-on, and crashed into a ditch and then continued on into a field. The passengers of the bus were placed aboard another bus and taken on to Kansas City.
Mr. Newman was a well-known Lawrence business man and for several years had been employed at Weaver's department store. He and Mrs. Newman were on their way to St. Louis when the accident occurred.
International Harmony Aim of Banquet Tonight
Foreign Students of K. U to Be Guests at Annual Dinner
"Better Relations Between the Nations" will be the theme of the International Banquet which is to be given at 7 o'clock this evening in the University cafeteria for the guest students attending the University of Kansas.
Shirou Matsumata, e34, toastmaster for the dinner, announced this morning that 125 persons, including 25 guest students and 50 faculty members and 50 townpeople will attend the dinner and foreign countries will be represented.
Rev. Harold Case, pastor of the First Methodist church of Topeka, is the main speaker of the evening. Chancellor E. H. Lindley will make a short talk of welcome to the guest students. A musical program will be provided by the Filipino students who will play Filipino music on their native instruments.
The tables are to be appropriately decorated with world globes and flags of all the countries represented. A prize is given to identify the greatest number of flags.
This is the second year that an International Banquet has been held at the University.
Addresses Entomology Club
Dr. Hungerford Reports on Science Association Proceedings
Dr. H. B. Hungerford, head of the entomology department and state entomologist, reported to the Entomology club at its regular meeting yesterday afternoon at 4:30 in Snow hall, on the proceedings of the American Association for the protection of Science held in Boston the latter part of December, which he attended.
With temperatures hovering around 17 degrees below zero and three feet of now along some of the streets, Dr. Jungerford said he attended meetings of the association with nothing less than rozen cheeks.
Dr. Hungerford gave brief accounts of several papers read at the meetings, especially those concerning ontomological branches. He attended meetings of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and the Entomological Society of America. Of the former group he said that that branch of entomology has recently been divided into more specialized branches than heretofore, and is not under one head as has been the case in the past.
Meetings of the next two years will be in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis respectively, he said. He holds the position of secretary-treasurer in the Entomological Society of America and was re-elected at the recent meeting.
Arthur C. Everham, consulting engineer for the Raymond Concrete Pile company, will be the guest speaker. He will talk on "Recent Developments in Concrete Foundation Construction." All civil engineers have been invited to the banquet. Members will be admitted free with their cards.
The annual banquet of the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is to be held Thursday evening at 6:30 at the Colonial Tea room.
OCCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
TO HOLD BANQUET THURSDAY
Freshman Commission Elects
The Freshman Commission of the Y.W.C.A. met yesterday at 4:30 p.m. for the election of officers, with Muriel Williamson presiding as chairman. The new officers are: Ruth Eber Purdy, c'37; president; Barbara Pendleton, c'37; vice president; Mary Louise Andreson, c'37; secretary; and Eunice Hults, c'37, treasurer.
In the morning mail the University Daily Kansan recently received three interesting collegiate newspapers: the Ka Leo o Hawai, published every Thursday by the associated students of the University of Hawaii; the Queen's Journal, published at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; and the Varsity, published by the students of the University of Toronto.
Foreign College
Newspapers Contain Many
Novel Features
It is interesting to compare the three papers in the light of American journalism. The Hawaiian paper has an eight page rotrogravure section containing "national collegiate news in pictures and paragraphs." The paper is characterized by the large black headlines which feature our sensational American papers, but it is well-organized with its campus and international news, editorial pages, sports page and campus society It contains a section on "What to Wear", advocating chick new turbans instead of the conventional grass skirts.
The four-page University of Toronto paper is more like American college papers as to type and make-up, although nearly all of its articles are written in editorial style. One of the front page headings stating that "Library Sleepers Slumber in Peace" sounds a bit homely.
The Queen's Journal is much more conservative with its gray type and small headlines. It s also an eight-page paper containing very little news outside of campus life. It is well-organized with separate divisions for music, the arts, and travel. A great many pictures are printed in this paper along with a vast amount of advertising including an ad for 15 cent taxis, two for 25 cents.
Next Play Production to Be 'Distant Drums'
Action of Opening Scene Takes Place in Lawrence in 1848
Dan Totheroh's play, "Distant Drums",
will be presented by the K.U. Players in
Fraser theater Feb. 12, 14, 15, and 16.
Second semester activity tickets will admit
students.
"Distant Drums" will have an unique appeal to Lawrence theater-goers because the first of its six scenes is laid on the site of Lawrence in 1848. As the play progresses the scene of the action is carried westward along the Oregon Trial into the Idaho mountains. Tothis, the author, is himself a native of Idaho.
"We hope to have the best cast ever gotten together on the hill," Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic art, who is directing the production, stated today. Several former actors at KU, will boob in the cast.
Tryouts for places in the east were started yesterday evening and will be continued tonight.
"Distant Drums" is a New York show of 1932. Pauline Lord played the leading role in the New York production.
The death of Charles Benson Strong, 83, veteran of the civil war, reduces the membership of the Washington Post of the G. A. R. to four members living in Lawrence and three living elsewhere. He died Sunday at his home at 447 Ohio street after a brief illness.
CHARLES BENSON STRONG, 85
DEAD AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Funeral services for Mr. Strong will be held at 2 o'clock, tomorrow afternoon from the Rumsey funeral home. The Rev, Seth Slaughter will be in charge and burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery. Services at the grave will be conducted by the American Legion.
Club Meeting Postponed
A school of teacher training for the church school to open Tuesday night, Jan. 28, at the First Baptist church under the direction of Dean Homer K. Ebright of Baker University, has been announced by the Rev. C. C. Cunningham, pastor of the First Baptist church.
DEAN EBRIGHT TO CONDUCT
TEACHERS TRAINING COURSE
Courses which will be offered for church officers and Sunday school teachers are open to all University students. Meetings will be held each Tuesday night extending over a period of six weeks.
The meeting of the Faculty Women's club which was scheduled for Friday evening, has been postponed until Friday, Jan. 19.
Miners to Hear Talk on Blasting Sigma Gamma Epsilon, professional nining fraternity, will hold an important business meeting Thursday even tranced Charles Rohren, e34, will discuss lasting with liquid oxygen.
Miners to Hear Talk on Blasting
Jayhawkers' Title Will Be at Stake in Lincoln Tonight
Kansas to Play First Big Six Game of Season Against Husker Court Five
Nine members of the Jayhawk basketball squad will begin a defense of the Big Six basketball title which has remained in the possession of the University of Kansas for three years, tonight at Lincoln, Neb., with the Cornhuskers as opponents.
The Huskers are leading the conference along with the Missouri Tigers following their surprise victory over Iowa State in Ames last Friday night. The Tigers won handily from Kansas State in Columbia the next night.
Kansas players may have a great deal of difficulty in stopping the basket assaults of Lunney and Parsons, forward and guard, respectively who were instrumental in scoring the winning Nebraska points last week, but in Copple and Boswell, both veterans, they will have as much of a problem. Boswell it was who slipped in under the Cyclone goal to count a difficult backward flip shot which tied the score 30 seconds before the game would normally have ended, and Copple who controlled the tip throughout the game against Wegner, 6 foot 4 inch Iowa State center who is considered one of the outstanding pivot-men of the conference.
Kansas will use four veterans and one sophomore in the starting line-up tonight. Seeking to keep both Urie and Ebling, high scorers and outstanding players in the last two contests, in the game, Dr. F. C. Allen, coach, has shifted Paul Harrington, a senior forward, to guard position replacing Ernest Vanek who is also playing his last year. Gordon Gray will play the other guard, and Dick Wells, forward on last year's team who was converted into a center at the beginning of this season, will be at the mid-post.
Substitutes will include Vanek, guard and Curd, forward, both veterans; and Winer Shaffer, forward or center, and Kappelman, forward, both sophomores.
The squad, limited to nine players in accordance with the conference ruling which does not permit either contestant to enter more than that number of players in a Big Six game, left last night for Lincoln accompanied by Dr. Allen and Mike Getto, football line coach.
Progress which has been made in architecture was pointed out by George Beal, professor of engineering, when he spoke on "Stream-lines in the Progress of Architecture" before the Forum Soirée at the Unianarian Church Sunday morning.
By winning tonight the Jayhawks could go into a first place tie with Missouri. A Nebraska win would give that team an edge in the standings with two victories to no losses. Nebraska will play Missouri Saturday night of this week, and the Jayhawks will play in Columbia a week from tonight.
PROGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE
IS SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION!
With the aid of slides, he showed how architecture had developed from the Greek Thesium, built in 2500 B. C., through the Roman baths of Carricula to the modern steel and stone buildings in New York, Chicago, and other large cities. Professor Beal concluded his lecture by showing a picture of a spiral elevator shaft as they will be constructed in 1940.
Helen Rhode Hoopes, professor in the English department, will speak on "Progress in Poetry and Art" at the meeting of the Forum Society next Sunday morning.
Topeka, Jan. 9—Holding a record of four wins and only one defeat against non-conference foes, the Washburn basketball squad will meet Southwestern College on the Washburn court next Friday night. The Builders, an army chief enemy of the Ichabods, are doped to have a powerful team this season.
BASKETBALL SQUAD TO TEST
SKILL AGAINST SOUTHWESTERN
Washburn's strongest combination, tested and found potent in the first five games, will be on the floor as long as they are needed Friday, Conch Elmer Holm has declared. This combination includes Irvin Deschner and Captain Cecil Peterson at forwards, Delbert Roskam at center, and Joe Fee, high-scoring ace, and Dan Enrich at guards.
Fee has scored 54 points in five games for an average of nearly 11 points a game.
Debaters to Meet K. S. C.
KFKU Will Broadcast Last Contest January 19
The debate programs arranged for KFKU each year by Professor E. C. Buehler will be closed this year with a debate between Kansas State College and the University at 2:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 19. The subject for debate is: Resolved that the United States should adopt the essential features of the British system of radio control and operation.
The University of Kansas will uphole the affirmative side of the debate. Paul Bramwell, c'36, and Lyman Fields, c'36, will represent K.U.
In the last of the series of debates held Fridays at 6 p.m. Jack Rice, c37 and John Phillips, c37, will discuss the phase of "Whether or not it is possible to have the necessary improvements in our systems" under our system without changing to governmental control." This debate will be Friday, Jan. 12 at 6:00 p.m.
Winners of Scholarships From District Announced
Rhodes Awards Are Won by Four Men From Mid-West
W. E. Sandellian, secretary of the Kansas Rhodes Scholarship committee, received a telegram this morning from W. D. P. Carey of Hutchinson, secretary of the mid-west Rhodes Scholarship committee, announcing the following winners of the coveted scholarships from the middle-west district;
Norman Beers, Seymour, Mo, student at the University of Missouri; Hugh Cunningham, Wichita, now studying at Yale University; Hedley Donovan, Minnesota, Minn., student at the University of Minnesota; and, Harry Jones, Webster Groves, Mo, enrolled at Washington University, St. Louis.
The scholarship winners will enroll at Oxford University next fall.
The middle-west district includes the six states of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. The two Kansas entries were Richard A. Burma from the University, and Hugh Cummings of Wichita from Yale University.
Chancellor Lindley, chairman of the Kansas Committee, commented upon the high character of the Kansas candidates and the difficulty of making a selection.
Ballroom to Open Feb.
Sophomore Class Party to Dedica
Transformed Dance Floor
The mortarium on dancing, instigated by the University authorities for the duration of the final examination crisis, will not be lifed until Feb. 6, when the Hop reopens the Memorial Union building in its new party dress.
No variety dance is scheduled for this coming Saturday night. The first regular Saturday night dance will not be held until after the beginning of the second semester.
Postponement of the sophomore class party has been necessitated by the repair work being done on the ballroom, and the approaching quizzes. On Feb 6, however, all will be in readiness for the dance which will allow University students to participate in the elded ballroom, said Lloyd Lane, varsity dance manager.
The premier for the transformed dance floor will be the occasion for several special features, according to the dance manager. Lane is now contacting severally nationally known orchestras in order to bring an unusually popular band here for the opening.
DEAN SCHWEGLER TO ATTEND
EMPORIA TEACHERS MEETING
R. A. Schwegler, dean of the School of Education, will attend a teachers training conference Feb. 2, at the State Teachers College of Emporia. The purpose of the conference will be to consider the subject of "Supervised-Student-Teaching-Participation." It will try to determine teacher-preparation goals and provide guidance in identifying a program that will effect the teacher-preparation desired.
BASKETBALL TEAMS ENGAGE
IN DOUBLEHEADER TONIGHT
The Ouread team under the coaching of Roy Klass has broken even so far this season, winning two games and losing two.
Oread Training school's basketball teams will engage in a double header with Lawrence High School tonight in the high school gymnasium. The second team will play at 6:30 o'clock, and the first team game will begin at 7:30.
University Farm Becomes Airport Emergency Field
Robinson Tract, Leased to City Five Years Ago, Is Transformed by Workmen
Five years ago this March the city first leased the tract from the University, and last December was at the point of seeking to have the last half year of the lease cancelled, since the field was not used to any great extent.
Eighty workmen are fast transforming a 60-acre section of the Robinson farm, owned by the University, and situated two miles northeast of Lawrence, into a modern emergency landing airport. The work is being done by volunteers who offer assistance to the $12,000 appropriated by the public works administration.
Field Being Leveled
When the federal government evinced a desire to have an emergency field fitted up here, and it was pointed out that the Lawrence tract offered an unusually safe landing place free from surrounding hazards, a new lease was made at rates for the first years somewhat lower than had previously been in effect.
The men are engaged in leveling off the field, clearing brush from the edges, and cutting a few trees growing along the fences, which offered hazards for some of the runways.
The workmen now working at the airport were brought in from the Stull gravel road project—the Stull road being the old road to Topeka that continued westward where No. 40 now turns north at Kanwaka.
Three runways, each 100 feet wide, are to be constructed and covered with cinders, some of which have already been hauled from the University power plant, and others of which are furnished by the railroads.
Runways to Be Constructed
The longest runway will be 2900 feet long, extending diagonally across the field from southwest to northeast. Two runways, each 2500 feet long, will be constructed, one running east and west along the southern edge of the field, and the other north and south through the center of the tract.
Two hangars had previously been erected in the northwest corner of the field. One of these is to be further improved by construction of a concrete
Boundary fences are marked with metal cones painted black and orange. No plans are being made now for night lighting.
STUDENT NEEDS SUPPLY
OF COOKING UTENSILS
Roy McCullough, secretary of the Y.M.C.A., announces that there is a student who needs several cooking utensils. He has his house paid for and a little money left over for his food but he does not have the proper cooking utensils. He needs a frying pan, a double boiler, a dispan, a small kettle, small pans for various uses, tablespoons, a small gasoline store, camp cook, or kerosene stove, a butcher knife, a kitchen tool, a coffee pot, or drip-o-later, and a small teakettle. Any one who would care to donate any of the above named utensils is asked to call 1162 or see Mr. McCullough.
Paul Endacott, c'23, has been visiting his father, Frank Endacott, 943 Ohio street, for several days before returning to his home in Detroit. Endacott has just returned from a conference with the Phillips Petroleum company at Bartlesville, Okla.
FORMER K. U. STUDENT VISITS
FATHER AT LAWRENCE HOME
He is the assistant general manager of the Philips company, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum, and is looking forward to a large expansion and development program for his company during 1934.
Discusses Speech Defects
Miss Margaret Anderson, instructor of speech, spoke to Phi Chi, psychology fraternity, yesterday afternoon on the subject of "Speech Defects." She discussed speech defects especially among students, and suggested some remedies. Vavrel, grl., president of the organization, conducted a short business meeting.
Temcoff Trial Tomorrow
The trial of Victor M. Temeff, c'oulm who is charged with carrying concealed weapons, is scheduled to be held in police court at 8 c'clock tomorrow morning. Temeff was arrested Dec. 29 and was released on $100 bond.