UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 64
VOLUME XXXI
County Committee Proposes Two-Day Tour for Speaker
Publicity Campaign Plan ned for Christmas Vacation May Be Postponed
Plans which called for a two-day speaking tour by Chancellor E. H Lindley, through southeast Kansas, on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 21 and 22 were formulated at a meeting of county club committee representatives meeting in the Administration building Sunday afternoon. The Chancellor announced later, however, that conflicting plans would make such a tour impossible.
Today, the committee was not certain as to whether another speaker from the University should be substituted in the Chancellor's place or whether the proposed tour should be postponed until mid-season. The committee will be available both for the committee in charge of the tour and for the high schools which would be visited.
The proposed tour would include five of the principal towns in the southeast corner of the state, Iola, in Aller county, would be the first stop, with Chanute, Neosho county, and Parsons Labette county, following on Thursday. The second day's activities, as outlined would include a return tour by way of Independence and cofellvie in Mongomery county on Friday.
Ellsworth Lists Plans
In the Sunday meeting, Ensworth pointed out to the county committee that many methods might be utilized in the publicizing of the University. Speaking tours, newspaper articles, and motion pictures of the campus are effective means of getting the advantages of the University before the public, he said, and banquets and parties are other possibilities.
Plans were made to show the new motion picture of university activities, convocations, buildings and students at Norton, probably on Dec. 21. Other events were planned for the film pending confirmation by groups of alumni in their communities.
Dean Paul B. Lawson, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts, had agreed to make a one-day speaking tour, Mr. Ellsworth announced. Arrangements had not been made for him to speak however, it was learned today.
Eighteen Named on Committee
Eighteen Named on Committee
The student county committee which met Sunday was made up of 18 representatives from 17 counties of the state. They were chosen by a committee composed of students; Raymond Nichols executive secretary to the Chancellor Professor W. A. Dill, director of University publicity; and Fred Ellsworth alumni secretary.
The list of county committeemen follows:
One representative was chosen from each county and in one case, Marion
Juaia Markham, Parsons, Labette county; Meyer Rosenberg, Pittsburg, Crawford county; R. G. Fegan, Junction city, Geary county; Clyde Coffman, Dodge City, Ford county; Heysen Russell, Great Bend, Barton county; Frances Ballard, Attica, Harper county; Merle Heryford, Oloa, Allen county; Owen Smith and Beverly Burmn, Marion, Marion county; Edna Turrell, Gardenson, Anderson county; William Gough, Chanute, Neosho county; James K Hitt, White Cloud, Doniphan county; Robert Rokin, Turrill County; George Lemon, Pratt, Pratt county; Bob Hartley, Columbus, Cherokee county; Frank Affleck, Aitchison, Atchison county; August Annebue, Leavenworth, Leavenworth county; and Bill Decker, Coffilley, Montgomery county
Carol Program Is Planned
Prometheus Club Members Will Sing
Christmas Songs Dec. 24
Members of the Promethean club at the Unitarian church will go caroling Christmas eve, Catherine Wilburn c. 331 president, announced today. William Boudry gave the carol the program. All students are invited to meet at the church at 7 p.m.
Carol singled for everyone on Christmas Sunday will be led by Mrs. Irving Hill at 10 a.m. At the church service "Veni Emmanuel," a 13th century missal, will be sung by the quartet consisting of Mrs. Henry Werner, Mrs Alice Moncrieff, Keith Davis and Professor Rolland Maddox. Mrs Moncrieff willsing a solo from Bach's "Christmas Oratorio."
The Unitarian forum will not meet this Sunday but will meet Dec. 31 when a book review arranged by Henry Werner will be given.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1833
Engineers Adopt Student or "Beer Cap" as Senior Insignia
What may be the beginning of a new tradition on the campus was started last night when the Engineering council officially adopted the student cap, or beer cap, as it is sometimes called as the senior engineer insignia.
The cap with a soft crush top and short stiff bill was popularly adopted by the student engineering body at a recent Tau Beta Pt convoction. The council expressed the belief and hope that this will be the insignia not only for this year but will become a tradition the same as the senior laws canes. In the past the insignia has changed often. For several years a black shirt was worn by the dignified seniors. Last year a large brass watch chain was accepted.
The student cap is not original with its adoption by the engineers of the University of Kansas. It has been used at many of the larger universities for many years. Some of those having a Master's degree in the mouth Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California and the University of Southern California.
Arrangements are being made now for procuring the caps, and as soon as the color scheme is selected it will only be short time until they will be available.
Professors Are Chosen to Serve on Executive Committees
J-Hawk Business News Discusses Faculty Work
Numerous activities of the faculty of the Kansas University School of Business are reported in the J-Hawk Business News, issued today. These "extra curricular activities" include membership in various executive committees, advisory boards, union unions, state laws, and banks, and advisers on current economic topics.
Professor John Ise was recently elected to the executive committee of the American Economic association which is an honor awarded by a very few economists. Professor J. P. Jensen received notice that he has been elected to the executive committee of the National Tax association. In addition, Mr. Jensen and Harold Howe of Kansas State College have revised their "Tax Studies in Thirteen Lessons." Mr. Jensen has also been asked to read a paper at the annual Christmas session of the American Economic association.
Professor Domenico Gagliarlo has revised an earlier study of trade unions and the law in Kansas which has been published in the American Federationist. He is now conducting a study of the Kansas Industrial court instituted during the administration of Governor Henry J. Allen.
William Shannon attended the University of Michigan Law School during the summer and received his C.P.A. degree last spring. Last winter Mr. Shannon conducted a course on the analysis of the balance sheet in Topeka.
Leonard Axe, associate professor of economics, is preparing a text book on business law, and W. F. Kissick is making a study of state banks in Kansas. John G. Blocker, assistant professor of economics, is working on his Ph.D. degree. Professor H. F. Holtzclaw has recently had four of his text books published.
Scott Discusses How Technocrats May Gain Power
New Economic Plan Grew Out of War Industry Board,' Speaker Declares
"You have to decide whether you will be taken for a ride, as suckers, or whether you will utilize the means of production to maintain civilization. The technocrats have studied these means for 14 years, and know what is needed in the way of production and how it can be secured.
"Technocracy is a scientific, technological plan with the entire price system left out, and based on energy produced and consumed," said Mr. Scott. "It started out of the War Industry Board in 1920, with such engineers and chemists as Steinmetz, Stuart Chase, and Sullivan Jones.
"When we are ready to do something, we will do it so fast that you will not have time to ask about techniques," said Howard Scott, Technocrat Number One, to students of economics, sociology, and political science classes this morning at 11:30, when he was asked how the technocrats plan to gain power.
Hurrying Crowds and Tinkling Bells Combine to Typify Christmas Spirit
"The erg which Technocracy will put in place of the price system, is not a commodity evaluation, or a means of exchange, but a means of distribution. It will not be interchangeable, but simply purchasing power, good for a specified length of time.
"Personal integrity is a luxury under the present price system until you have a billion. No one can afford to live under the illusion that you can succeed by being honest. You must create debt claims faster than debts are created. The more credit you mean of exchange is in debt claims, and the other 5 per cent in currency."
Massachusetts street was alive Saturday night. People hurried here and there. Some looked wistfully in at windows. Some carried bundles to waiting automobiles. English, Indian, German, Negro, Italian, Swedish, and just plain "America." All were represented in cars. Wet-dressed folk. People in rags.
"Human effort comprises only two per cent of the energy which operates the nation today," said Mr. Scott. "There is no longer any particular reason to toil for tolls. People are merely energy-consuming devices."
Tiny bells in Salvation Army boots tinkling incessantly. You see, it's Christmas time and things are just naturally more lively, and somehow different. There's more joy, and more sadness. And we meet this time of the year than normally.
Five little rag-a-muffin Negro children, lined up across the sidewalk, each clasping the hand of his neighbor, running from this window to that, looking out at them. They are so precious that precious little, if any at all, of this Christmas splendor would come to them.
A very dignified lady waddling along in her expensive fur overcoat as if it were quite beneath her dignity even to
At the noon luncheon forum today, Mr. Scott described the change which Technocracy plans to bring about in the processes of eating, heating, and work-
Erg Is Means of Distribution
Mr. Scott explained that Techno-
cracy will be brought about and managed by engineers. Individuals will have to work only four hours a day, between the morning and evening, so do the work that is needed to be done rather than what they want to do.
'No Reason to Work'
A tiny toot, about two and a half years old, snugly encamped from head to foot in a snow suit of pale blue, so agog with the excitement of it all that he ran in zig-zags from one side of the walk to the other, his mother chasing him.
"It will mean a renaissance for amateurs," Mr. Scott believes. "With the increased leisure, there will be more chance for amateurs than there is now. Each person will have a definite task to accomplish in order to allow work on his own. He will not, however, be able to sell his services for the extra work."
To Speak to University Club
Howard Scott, formerly of Columbia
University and president of Tech-
mocracy, will speak at 8 to night-to
the University club, H. Chubb, chairman
of the program committee arranged
the program.
To Speak to University Club
notice this "scum of the earth" about her.
Women swarming over the Christmas card tables in the dime stores. The children pushing and shoving around the candy counters in the same establishments. Grocery stores all dressed up in cedars and colored lights. White painted trees scattered in various stores.
around and around, attracting all the children and most of the grown-ups in
Lights shining. Theater signs swink ling. The great red "Merry Christmas across the north end of the street addin the final touch. Little artificial ceda trees in one window, with the tiniest lights winking over them. An animated cardboard Santa Claus attracting attention to a refrigerator in another window and the same display ingenuously illuminating naming flood lights and ceiling lights of red, white and green. Toy electric trains in two different windows, runnir
And then there's that intangible something, that fleeting thing that eludes description but which makes the whole crazy-cult fit together in a pleasant, satisfying whole. We call it Christmas Spirit.
FEDERAL MONEY IS AVAILABLE FOR REPAIR OF DYCHE MUSEUM
Student Manuscripts Will Be Closcn In Preference to Other Work
Copy for Gale Requested
Preference to Other Work
Manuscripts are wanted for the second issue of "The Gale" which will appear in February. Short stories, short-short stories, sketches, poems and articles are needed. Student work will be given preference over that of other writers, but it must come up to the standards of the magazine, the editors have announced.
"The Gale" is especially interested in short stories and articles which give an expression of college life. Contributions of a whimsical nature are desired for a new section.
A quantity of manuscripts has been received from persons not connected with the University. One writer has asked for more information about "The Gale," wishing to incorporate it in an article entitled "These Little Magazines." The author, whose name is not described in the same article are "Story" and "The Prairie Schooner."
Manuscripts should be addressed to "The Gale." University of Kansas. They will be delivered to the editors if placed in the campus mail.
Roy Burt Explains Need for Social Adjustment
The seven possible contributions which religion can make to social change were enumerated by the Rev. Roy E Burt, Methodist minister and member of the Socialist party, at a union meeting of young people's groups Sunday evening in the Uititanian church.
Socialist Speaker Says I Is Up to College Generation
"Religian can," said Rev. Burt, "make clear the desirability, the possibility, and the necessity of social change; (2), religion can help men and women face facts; (3) religion can pass moral and ethical judgment upon the present social and economic order; (4) religion can make clear the implications and the ideals of the gospel which it teaches; (5) mreligion can refuse to accept any social or scientific program which repudiated those ideal;s; (6) religion can help men and women identify themselves with the last man and the last woman; and (7) religion can discover and evaluate the causes and movements which are moving toward a new order, and then choose the one which most nearly follows the ideals of each individual."
Rev. Burt explained the need for social change, and described the way in which the Socialist party is seeking to bring about that change.
"It is no longer a question of whether we are to have a revolution, but whether we will recognize it and know how to direct it when it does come. It is possible no longer to maintain训练." And practices. The world is too small.
"There is hope for peace only in solidarity of the human race, not in nations It is up to the college generation now. The older generation has 'muffed the traditions of race prejudice, the traditions of race prejudice, nationalism, and the present economic system.
At the noon luncheon forum yesterday Rev. Mr. Burt spoke on "Socialism Answers the Present Chaos." He emphasized the need for action on the part of college students and graduates.
"I am 'fed up' on religious groups which talk about teaching people to 'adjust themselves to the present order'. What is needed now is the challenge to a moral crusade to adjust society to human needs.
Vacation hours at the Library have been announced as follows: The Library will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday and will be open from 9 to 5 p.m., with the exception of Saturday when it will be open from 9 until 12. It will be closed on Sundays and holidays.
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AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Wednesday, Dec 20
Kappa Sigma, house 12
Beta Theta Pi, house 6-12
Alpha Tau Omega, house 12
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, house and
Eldridge Hotel, 6:30-12.
Phi Kappa Psi, house, 6:30-12.
AGNES HUSBAND,
Dean of Women,
for Joint Com. on Student Affairs
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Cunningham Ties for Fifth Place In the third annual Associated Press poll of the most outstanding athlete conducted recently, Glenn Cunningham, Kansas university miler, shared fifth place with Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants, according to the results of the nation wide vote released yesterday. For his records at 1,500-meters and one mile Cunningham received the vote of eight experts in the race which nominated Carl Hubbell, New York Giant pitcher, for the highest honor.
Auditorium Overflows for Christmas Vespers
Choir and Tableaux Combine to Present Impressive Program
The loveliest presentation of the year, the annual Christmas vesper service attracted one of the largest crowds ever held in the University auditorium. All of the four thousand seats were taken and many persons were standing, while a number were unable to obtain admittance at all.
A soft organ prelude, an old Christmas carol, introduced the audience into the proper spirit. During the number, the candles on either side of the stage were lighted by small chair boys, Seba Eldridge, Jr., and Edwin Bedin.
Such beautiful scenes and lovely music, the charm of which lay in their simplicity, are seldom presented to the public. It was truly a manifestation of Christmas spirit which aroused in the hearts of all a reverent, holiday feeling.
After a hush, the well-loved straits of the ancient hymn, "O Come All Ye Faithful," were heard in the vestibule, and the choir in vestments, bearing candles and singing, lighted their way slowly down the aisle to the platform where they seated themselves on either side of the center screen.
Dallier's "contemplation" was the next number played by Karl Kuersteiner, violin, Mrs. Mervyn Anderson, and Laura Laurent Laurel Euvreette Organ, organ.
After this presentation the choir sang the first number of the new cantata, "A Christmas Choraleogue," by W. B. Olds, directed by Swearthont. The first part, "The Annunciation" consisted of a narration by the Rev. Carter Harrison of the Episcopal church, accompanied by the humming chorus.
At the close of the number, the first of the living pictures prepared by the departments of design and of painting, was shown depicting the scene described in the music. The tableau was very impressive by virtue of its effective arrangement of figures and costumes.
A slow movement from a string quartet by Gretchenianoff led to the second scene of the choralogue, the "Vision of the Shepherds," in the middle of which the melody accompaniment was accented by the singing of the "Gloria" which died away again as the narrator began her performance presenting a group of shepherds listening to the angel, surpassed in beauty any former presentation.
Following the tableau came a rendition of the "Meditation" from "Thais" by Professor Waldemar Gelch, violin, accompanied by Ruth Orcutt at the piano, and Professor Anderson at the organ. The "Visit of the Magi" by the choral group concluded the beautiful selection. The tableau following the conclusion of the number heightened the feeling of the audience that it was witnessing the creation of a great masterpiece in art, as well as in music, and for this impression, the service will always be remembered.
A recessional and organ improvisation by Professor Anderson whose appropriate renditions of Christmas added the touch of the tincae, closed the impressive service.
Four to Be Delegates
The Alpha Phi alpha national convention will be held in St. Louis, Dec. 28, 29, 30, 31. Four members of the Upsilon chapter who will go as delegates are: John Henry Bluford, Dowdall Davis, Prentice Townsell, and Byron Mason, Joseph Spotts and John Wheeler also will attend the convention.
Women Cagers To Play Tonight
Two remaining basketball games will be played tonight at 8 o'clock. I.W.W. will play T.N.T., and Etc. will meet Ind., in the finals of the first round.
Public Works Aid to Increase Total by $10,500 or More
Legislature Provided First $25,000; Plans Under Way to Put Fossils in Basement
The federal grant is to cover 30 per cent of the total cost of the improvement, and is to be used in conjunction with the $25,000 appropriated by the state legislature last January.
Topeka, Dec. 19. —(UP)—Attorney General Roland Boynton today sent a letter to Benjamin Franklin, state business manager, informing him that the attorney general's office found no legal obstacle to the acceptance of money from the federal government to assist in the reconstruction of Dyche Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas.
Dyche Museum, one of the shows places of the University campus, visited by thousands of persons annually, was closed a year ago Dec. 1 when it was opened. The museum was loaded to an extent that madeOccurance of the building dangerous.
Exhibit Material Now in Storage
Accordingly, all exhibit material except the animals in the great panorama on the main floor was removed and placed in storage. Many of the heavier fossils are in a specially erected house south of the greenhouses, and birds and skeletons are packed in boxes and stored in the basement of the Memorial Union, and elsewhere about the campus.
The legislature, when it met last January, was asked for $50,000 to place new floors in the building, but cut the sum in half. This, it was found, would barely rough-in new floors and supports, and an appeal was made for federal funds now being dispensed for public works. The ruling of the attorney general removes objections that were first raised, and it appears that a total of $55,500 to $57,700 will be available.
Dr. Lane Is Pleased
State Architect Radotinsky has been delaying the moking of plans, until the sum total available was determined, but has tentative outlines under way.
Dr. H. H. Lane, co-curator of the museum, when informed of the attorney ruling in favor of the federal grant, said the news was decidedly pleasing, as it would make possible a start toward the repair and reopening of the museum.
When the building is again in use, fossils, which are the heaviest exhibit materials, will be in the basement, instead of the top floor, and the present occupants of the basement will be given top floor space. This will include workshops, and the University's collection of bird skins, and skeletons.
Kansas Collection Famed
The museum was named in honor of Professor L. L. Dyche, who for many years was a member of the University faculty. He made the museum famed throughout the United States for his collection of mammals from every corner of North America. In 1893 his collection was taken to the Chicago Exposition and at that early date was valued at $50,000. It contained every mammal in North America except the musk ox.
In 1895, he was asked to make a trip to find Commodore Robert E. Peary and finally rescued him after many advent-
Chapple Case Still Indefinite
To Come Before Court Thursday;
Plainiff Undecided on Action
William Chapple, plaintiff in the activity ticket case which is scheduled to come before the court of Judge Charles A. Springer, local justice of the peace Thursday morning, said today that he is undecided as to what action he will take on the matter. It is probable that he will ask for a continuance, he said. He was appointed set for Dec. 9, but was postponed until Dec. 21 on request of the defense.
Raymond Nichols, secretary to Chancellor Lindley, who with Henry Werner, his student adviser, has been named defendant in the case, said today that he knows nothing about the present status of the case and is awaiting orders from Henry Asher, his attorney.