UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 65
Union Committee Seeks to Collect Overdue Pledges
Less Than One-Third o Original Amount Remains to Be Paid at Present
Since August, 1931, when the Union Operating committee first took charge of all the old pledges payable to the Memorial Union, payments have come in slowly until at the present time there is $261,000 to be collected. The amount of pledges in the first place was $62,000. The committee is now making an attempt to collect on the back pledges.
Since 1927 the Memorial Union has been fitted up with a ballroom on the second floor and the fountain in the sub-basement; in fact all in the sub-basement has been put in through payment of student fees, and pledges.
Out of the amount collected the first half of the stadium has been built, which cost $288,000; the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green has been erected, costing $33,000; and $210,000 has been used for the erection of the Memorial Union exclusive of the class gifts.
The Union Operating committee has decided to meet the friends and alumni of the University halfway and offer them a settlement in order to collect all the pledges that are yet unpaid. One reason for doing this is that 25 percent of the pledges have been Union almost as much as a dollar did at the time that the pledges were made.
However, there are some conscientious persons who feel that they want to complete the pledge in the original. If so, they are asked to adopt this plan, to pay 25 per cent of the balance now, and 20 per cent each year for four years
Letters making these propositions have been mailed to all persons who have made pledges and the committee is now awaiting answers.
The plan is this: If the persons will send a check for 25 per cent of the balance of the pledge they owe, the Union Operating committee will count the obligation fulfilled and the pledge paid in full.
Ozwin Rutledge, manager of the Memorial Union, said today. "If 25 per cent of the pledges outstanding could be collected, we could have many new features including finishing the building, and probably even adding a wing to the north side."
Lindley Gives Main Address at Music Teachers Annual Meeting
Dean Swarthout Re-Elected
Dean D. M. SWarthout of the School of Fine Arts returned yesterday from Lincoln, Neb., where he attended the annual meeting of the Music Teachers association. He was re-elected secretary of the association for 1934.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley delivered the main address at the annual banquet on Thursday evening on "Art and the World of Men." At the orchestra concert on Friday evening the琴师 Abbas renowned cellist, featured the "American Indian Fantasy" written by Professor C. S. Skilton. Professor Skilton presented a paper at the organ forum on "The Background of the American Organist."
Professor Waldemar Geltch, head of the School of Fine Arts violin department, was chairman of the violin forum Others from Lawrence who attended this meeting were Professor Roy Underwood, Carl Preyer, and Howard C. Taylor, all of the fine arts faculty, and Mrs. Mary Thomas.
HARRY HARRYMAN, FATHER OF STUDENT, ESCAPES PLOT
Harry B. Harryman, Wichita, father of Miss Margaret Harryman, c37, was the victim of an attempted extortion plot shortly before Christmas. Elzey E. Simmons, 39, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded not guilty on the federal charge of attempting to extort $2,500 from Mr. Harryman by use of the mails.
Post Office inspectors said a letter was mailed to Harryman at 628 South Commerce avenue, Wichita, from Oklahoma City and both bodies bodily harm unless he paid the $2,500.
Weeks to Address Chemists
Weeks '10 Address Chemists
Dr. Elva Weeks, of the chemistry department will speak at the meeting of the Chemistry club tomorrow at 4:30 in room 201 of the Chemistry building. Her subject is to be, "Some Spanish Chemists and Their Contributions." Dr. Weeks is the author of a recent book entitled, "The Discovery of the Elements."
Miss Harryran was one of the beaut; queens for the 1933 Jayhawker.
Former Student Takes Trip to Norway on Freighter
Sanford Skilton, son of Professor C. S. Skilton of the School of Fine Arts and former University student, has just returned to Lawrence after a five months journey to Norway, which he took working as a deck hand on the Norwegian freighter, Nansenville.
Leaving San Francisco Aug. 5, the ship took 24 days to cross the atlantic. On this side, stops were made en route at Los Angeles, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and on the other side at Liverpool, London, and Hull, before they reached Oslo, capital of Norway, and home port of the Nansenville.
Although Skilton was the only American aboard, he had no difficulty in conversing with the other members of the crew, as English is a compulsory subject in Norwegian schools. The average age of the deck hands, he said, was 22. Their duties were those of a captain, who, after being painted the ship, and on the return they scraped rust from the iron decks.
Skilton is back in Lawrence now, and will attend school here second semes-
Committee to Consider Consolidation of Schools
Chancellor Lindley recently has been appointed by the Board of Regents to a committee which will conduct a survey to determine the advisability of consolidating state schools or duplicate departments of the schools. The committee is composed of the five heads of the state educational institutions.
The school presidents were requested in a resolution adopted at the regents' meeting to report back to the board by April 1, 1934. The last session of the board made provision for a survey that failed to answer any appropriation to carry on the work.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1834
Chancellor Lindley Included in Group That Will Make Survey
1. The advisability of consolidating five state schools.
The four points that the survey should cover include:
2. Whether graduate work should be limited to one or two state institutions.
3. The revision of courses of study to clear up the large number of unnecessary topics.
4. The possibility of consolidating certain schools or departments to eliminate unnecessary work at the various schools with particular reference to engineering, journalism, education, and extension work.
The first meeting of the committee of the school presidents will be held the following day.
Other business of the board included a resolution to ask the Public Works Administration for a grant of approximately $8,000 to repair Dyche Museum. A plan to ask some federal agency for construction of a negro ward at Bell Memorial hospital, Kansas City, was considered. The estimated cost would be $200,000. Nothing definite has been done.
ELEWSWORTH ISSUES FOLDERS
ABOUT GRADUATE MAGAZIN
Advertising folders concerning subscription to the Graduate magazine of the University, have been composed and sent out by Fred Ewellsworth, alumni secretary and Edward H. Kimball, A.B., 27, former business manager of the Sour Owl and now in the advertising office of the Capper Farm Press at Topeka.
These folders are a new type in advertising for the alumni publication They consist of news and letters from alumni as well as their pictures done by a planograph process, which is a cheaper method of reproduction and much more adaptable than the usual process.
SIX KANSAS LAW GRADUATES
APPLY FOR BAR EXAMINATION
To Arrange for Banquet
The Y.M.C.A. cabinet will hold the first meeting of the year in room 10 of the Memorial Union at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. At this time committee reports will be given, and final plans for the International Banquet which is to be held Tuesday, Jan. 9, will be made at this meeting. All members of the cabinet are invited to be present.
Freeland F. Penney, '134, and five former students of the University are among the 41 applicants for the Kansas bar examination to be given Jan. 15. The others to take the examinations are: H. Hermes Nye, '33; Milton Beach '33; Dudley Eugene Brown, '33; Robert Reynolds, Jones, former student; and Robert William Wagstaff, who received his A.B. degree in 1930.
Ballroom Nears Completio
With the work on the Memorial Union dance floor going forward at a rapid rate, the contractor for the finishing has announced that the new ballroom will be ready for use on Feb. 1. The Soph Hop, on Feb. 6, will be the first party to be held on the new floor.
Memorial Union Dance Floor May be Finished for Soph Hop .
Owin Rutledge, manager of the Memorial Union, said today that the main work will surely be completed by Feb. 1, although the chandeliers will not be up. Drapes and lights will be added as soon as possible, but the fact that all this year's funds are being used up in the construction work alone may slow up the complete decorating until back pledges due the Memorial Union have been collected.
Law Professors Report Good Meeting in Chicago
F. W. Jacobs Reads Paper Which Causes Much Comment
Dean Robert McNair Davis, Professors F. W. Jacobs, F. J. Moreau, and T E. Atkinson of the School of Law returned yesterday from the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, held in the Stevens hotel in Chicago.
Dean Davis reports that the meeting was the best attended and probably was the most interesting and vital meeting during the 18 years of his attendance. Much of the discussion centered about the recent congressional legislation which furnishes the foundation for the "New Deal."
One of the most remarked upon papers read at the convention was that of Professor Jacebs upon "The Effect of Provisions for Ratable Protection of Debenture Holders in Case of Subsequent Mortgage." This paper had to do largely with the legal entanglements arising out of the Insult debacle, and is to be published in the Harvard Review in the near future. Other outstanding papers upon the constitutionality of the National Industrial Recovery act and the Agricultural Adjustment act were read by Professor Ray A. Brown who was a member of the University of Kansas law faculty last summer, and by Professor Maurice H. Merrill who will be a member of the Kansas law faculty during the coming summer.
The speakers at the banquet were Honorable Earle W. Evans of Wichita, now president of the American Bar association; Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, whose subject was "The Autobiography of an Ex-Law Student"; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, spoke on the recent developments in the law of domestic relations under the title "The Law of Marriage." Judge Joseph Hutcheson is in line for the next vacancy in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Dean Davis states that from year to year there is a notable increase in the number of practicing attorneys attending the convention of law teachers. This increased interest on the part of law teachers has led the department to the fact that the law teachers have become the outstanding specialists in their various fields.
Irion to Address Students
The first School of Education convo-
cation of the fall semester will be held
tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Fraser theater.
Attendance is required of all junior and
senior candidates for the University
of Alaska, and of all graduate
students in education.
Other students and teachers are invited to this convocation at which Dean Theodore W. H. Irion of the School of Education at the University of Missouri will speak on "The Educational Outlook."
The members of the education faculty will hold a dinner Thursday evening at the Manor in honor of Dean Irion, guest speaker at the convocation.
Attendance Required at First Fall Convocation for School of Education
Miss Bischof to Teach Art
Case Continued Indefinitely
The replevin action brought by William Chapple, I34, against the student activity in Dec. 21, which was scheduled for hearing in the local justice court Dec. 21, was continued indefinitely by agreement of both parties. The action grew out of seizure of Chapple's activity book at the Missouri football game. Chapple sued to regain possession of the book.
Case Continued Indefinitely
Miss Bischof to Teach Art
Miss Mabschif, gr. has been employed
at the minor of grade school art at Paola. She will work in imme-
dately after the holidays.
Committee Names Porter Candidate for Rhodes Award
Cunningham of Wichita Also Will Represent Kansas in District Competition
Richard William Porter, c34, of Salina, and Hugh K. Cunningham, of Wichita, a senior at Vale, were chosen as the two candidates to represent the state of Kansas in the district competition at Des Moines, Iowa, for the Rhodes Scholarship.
The selection was announced today by Chancellor Lindley who is chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship committee in Kansas. There were 25 candidates who competed from which two were chosen.
Porter is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Stigma Tau, and also a Summerfield Ski
Cunningham is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, chairman of the Yale Literary magazine editor of the Yale Daily News, a member of the Yale ylee club, and is majoring in English.
Although Mr. Cunningham is a student at Yale his home is in Wichita, and the rules require that a candidate apply from the state where he lives.
The qualifications for being a candidate are that he must be unmarried, not over 25 years of age, and a senior in college. The method of choosing candidates provides that two candidates be nominated from each state. The United States is divided into districts and there are six states in a district. This district covers Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota. There will be four Rhodes Scholars chosen from this district.
The Rhodes Scholarship was first started about 30 years ago by Cecil Rhodes, an Englishman, who made a diamond fields of South Africa.
Those winning the Scholarship will go to Oxford, England, for a three year course of study. Each winner is allotted about 400 pounds a year and traveling expenses during the summer.
City Plans Water Tower
New Structure Will Serve High Level District on Mt. Orcad
Plans for the erection of the new city water tower and tank, which are to serve the high level district on Mt. Oread, are planned and work has been begun on the tank.
The location of the power house will not be decided upon until after the meeting of the Board of Regents on Jan. 20. At this time the board will decide whether or not it is advisable to place a station in the University power house.
The city commission is now considering a change in plans whereby a small brick building would be erected near the site of the tank to house the pumping station. The tank will be located 4 outheast one-fourth mile west on West Campus road, on property formerly owned by Mrs. Mary Miek.
LIBRARIANS MOTHER STRUCK
BY DEPARTURE SHERIFF'S CAL
While accompanying her daughter part of the way to the campus this morning, Mrs. William Moys, mother of Miss Fay Moys, University librarian, was struck and injured by a car driven by Deputy Sheriff Milton Beach. The accident is reported to have taken place at the intersection of Tenth and Kentucky streets, where Mrs. and Miss Moys were crossing the street.
Chester Fischer, e'uncl, Rayburr Bond, b'34, and Arthur Voss, c'35, represented the local chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at their province convention, held in Lincoln, Neb. Dec. 29.
Her condition is reported favorable, although she suffered a fractured shoulder and slight head injuries. She was admitted to the Lawrence Memorial hospital for treatment.
S.A.E. PROVINCE CONVENTION
ATTENDED BY LOCAL MEMBERS
Approximately 35 persons were present, representing fraternity chapters in South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Two national officials, John O. Moseley of Norman, Okla., and Lauren Foreman of Chicago, national secretary, were in attendance.
The convention will be held here in 1935.
Kansas Relays Date Set
Preliminary announcements of the twelfth annual campus delays are ready and will be mailed soon to colleges and universities throughout the country. The dates have been definitely set for April 20 and 21.
Wins 1933 Sullivan Award
Glenn Cunningham, Jayhawker miler, recently was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award for 1933. The medal is awarded each year to the amateur athlete who has done the most to advance the cause of sportsmanship.
Textile Display Held Over
Will be Retained Until Middle of Month Through Popular Request
The exhibition of textiles now on display in the department of design in room 320 of the Administration building will remain on display until about the middle of January. These textiles have received so much attention and interest that it has been requested that they be left on display for a short time after the holiday recess.
The various examples of textiles on display are a part of the permanent collection belonging to the department of design. They represent the development of textile design during the last 12 years since the organization of the department, and present a striking review of the development of color and design.
The last textiles purchased, which were obtained this fall from New York, illustrate extremely large motif and vivid colors as applied to cretones for drapery purposes. The west wall of the exhibition room presents examples of printed dress silks manufactured by Marshall Field & Co., from designs made by students in the design department. Some small pieces are shown in one of the three glass cases in the room, and the two other cases contain decorative motifs executed by junior and seniors of the department.
Research Article Printed
Treatise by Dr. Baumgartner Published in Journal of Morphology
Dr. W. J. Baumgartner, professor of zoology, is the author of a research article appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Morphology. The research deals with the germ cells of the squash bug. It confirms the work of a cycologist who studied these germ cells 34 years ago, and adds a number of new and interesting facts. Dr. Baumgartner's work was conducted on the cells in the living condition. The chief interest of this article is that his observations are in agreement with work done at that time. One peculiarity in the publication of this article is that actual photomicrographs are used to illustrate the work.
One concern of the scientists is the confirmation of the findings on "fixed cells" by the photographing of living ones. "But this article makes it," says a local zoologist, "forever impossible for any one to deny the real existence of the various structures in the germ cell."
STUDENT PLACED IN CUSTODY
FOR CARRYING HIDDEN KNIFE
Victor M. Temcoff, c'uncl., a student from Bulgaria, was arrested Dec. 29 by Chief of Police W. J. Cummings and Officer James Messer on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. According to the officers, Temcoff was carrying a hunting knife with a six-inch blade in a sheath attached to his belt.
Chief of Police Cummings said that Temcoff was arrested at Bassett's Lunch. Temcoff was arraigned this morning and entered a plea not guilty. The case was continued one week.
Temcoff's bond was raised from $25
$100, and this afternoon he was still in
Miami.
Mrs. McCullough Improving
Mrs. McCulloch in Iowa.
Mrs. Roy McCullough, wife of the general Y.M.C.A., secretary, has been ill at the home, 1325 West Campus road, for the past two weeks. Her condition was reported improved this morning.
SULLIVAN MEDAL FOR 1933 IS GIVEN TO CUNNINGHAM
Jayhawker Miler Makes It Two Straight for Kansas Athletes; 1932 Honor to Jim Bausch
BONTHRON IS SECOND
Princeton Flash Fails to Win Coveted Award by Single Point
Through the prowess of Glenn Cunningham, Elkhardt, University of Kansas middle distance runner, the coveted John L. Sullivan medal, awarded each year to the amateur athlete who by his example and influence has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship, has come to a Jayhawker athlete for the second straight year.
Cunningham won the Sullivan medal for 1933 in competition with over 600 other outstanding world athletes. His margin in the vote taken by members of the Amateur Athletic Union, which awards the medal, was but one point over Bill Bontonh, Princeton miler. Cunningham received 611 votes to 610 for Bontonh.
The vote, the closest in the four-year old history of the award was taken in New York on Dec. 30. James A. Bauch, former University of Kansas track star and Olympic decathlon champion won the 1932 award.
Last year after a highly successful season in competition with athletes in the United States and Canada, Cunningham went to Europe as captain of the American athletic team. He won all of his 13 races, defeating such runners as Erie Ny and Dr. Otto Pelzer.
Fashion in High School
Cunningham came into national prominence during the school year when, after winning high school races at the Kansas Relays and at the state high school meet in Manhattan, went to the National Scholastic meet at Chicago and set a new mile high school record of 42:47—a record which still stands.
The Jayhawkier mile returned to the University last week to resume training for the eastern indoor track season in which he will participate. Most of the races in which he expects to take part will come during the mid-semester vacation here it is believed. Cunningham said the university would sometimes a week since school began last September, head track coach Bill Hargill said.
Carries Heavy Schedule
Cunningham has been carrying an 18-hour schedule this semester; he will have to enroll in but a few classes next semester in order to graduate in June. A lighter schedule will give him more time for training during the intensive outdoor season. The Jahayh flier is a student as well as a runner, however. He makes his long eastern trips, leaving at the last minute and arriving just in time to participate in the races. He returns immediately to the University. He gave up a proposed tour of the Orient this year in order to return to the University.
Cunningham's outstanding successes as a middle-distance runner and record-breaker are more outstanding in view of the unfortunate early experience which almost cost him his life. A school house fire when Glenn was only 8 years old took the life of an older brother and critically burned the runner's legs. Cunningham began runners to develop the shattered legs.
Following is Cunningham's athletic record:
Set New Relays Record
Set new K1003 record
In the spring of 1900 he won the high school championship. Relays in 4:31.4, a new record for the relays and bettered the time to 4:28.3 for the mile in the state meet at Manhattan. He was a member of the Elkbart medley team which won their events both at Lawrence and Manhattan in class B.
He was also anchor man for the State of Kansas Relay team which set a new record at the Chicago Intercholastic meet.
In the school year 1930-31 he was not in athletic competition as he was a freshman at the University. In the fall of 1931 he was the star performer in the Big Six in the two-mile team race. His best time was 9-38.1
Fourth in Olympic Mile
In July, 1932, he became the National Intercollege mile in Chicago, setting a new record at 4.111, a record which he himself broke the following year.
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