UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XXX
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 169
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933
Roosevelt Seizes World Leadership in Arms Cut Plea
"If all nations will agree to eliminate from possession and use, the weapons which make possible a successful attack, defences automatically will become impregnable and the frontiers of security in every nation will be sure come," he said.
President Urges Acceptance of MacDonald Plan; Speaks to 54
Nations
By the United Press
Washington, May 16—President Roosevelt today seized leadership of a war-threatened world and summoned all nations to pledge themselves to "send no armed forces whatsoever across their frontiers."
Roosevelt's message was addressed to 54 nations, through their rulers. Russia was among them. This is the first time an American president has communicated directly with Soviet authorities.
No mention of Germany was made, but the utterance was timed on the eve of Chancellor Hitler's statement to the Reichstag, which is awaked with apology in fear that it might reopen the issue which threw the world into war.
"Common sense points out that if any strong nation refuses to join with genuine sincerity in efforts for political and economic peace, progress can be blocked," he said. "I urge that no nation assume such a responsibility."
The President urged the nations to accept the disarmament plan of Ramsey MacDonald. While this is being carried out, that no armaments be increased.
"Nations arm for two reasons," Rooveel said. "A few want territory of their neighbors, but great majority fear invasion.
Donald Little, assistant United States district attorney for the past three and a half years, announced yesterday that he had resigned his position to become immediately and would reenter the law in Kansas City, Kan.
K. U. Graduate Quits Assistant U. S
District Attorney Position
Donald Little Resigns Office
S. M. Brewster, district attorney, said that Mr. Little's resignation is the result of an economy move in the department of justice, which decreed that one assistant should be cut from each district attorney's office. Mr. Little decided that he would accept the job with the other two assistants. Mr. Little practiced law in Kansas City, Kan., before he became assistant to Mr. Brewster.
Mr. Little is the son of the late Congressman E. L. E. Little and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He later received his degree in law at George Washington University of D. C. M. Little was formerly Miss Elizabeth Copley, who attended K. U. and was a member of Pi Beta Phi.
Y.W.C.A. Advisory Board Meet
The advisory board of the Y.W.C.A.
holds its last meeting of the year at
Henley house last night at 7:50 a.m.
carding to the Y.W.C.A. to secure
the Y.W.C.A., the advisory board is
the permanent group of the organization and is able to conduct success-
fully matters carried over from year to year in a manner impossible for the ever changing student cabinet. At this meeting reports were given and a budge-
considered for the ensuing year.
A picnic was held last night by the physical education department at the state lake at Tonganoxia. About 50 persons were present, including the physical education majors and the faculty.
Cady to Give Demonstration
Those of the faculty present were Miss Ruth Hower, Miss Elizabeth Dunkel, Roland Logan, H. W. Hargiss, Edwin R. Elbel, Dr. James Naims, and Herbert G. Alphin. The time before serving the meal was spent in boating and playing various games.
A liquid air demonstration will be given tomorrow afternoon by Professor H. P. Cady in room 305 Chemistry building, Dr. Cady will give a lecture to his class at 2:30 concerning liquid air. Although the demonstration is presented primarily for students in chemistry, the public is invited to attend.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION MAJORS
AND FACULTY HOLD PICNIC
YWCA Advisory Board Meets
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Robert A. Millikan, of the California Institute of Technology, who will deliver the sixty-first annual Commencement address for the University of Kansas, June 12.
Sachem Will Initiate in Ceremonies Sunday
The ceremony, for which elaborate plans are being made, is an authentic Sioux Indian ceremony. At first it was planned to dedicate some memorial to the originators of Rock Chalk Hill, but due to the fact that one of them, Dr. E. H. S. Bailey, is ill, these plans will not go through.
Senior Men's Honor Society Will Select Junior Members
Sachem, senior men's honorary organization, will hold initiation ceremonies Sunday night for several members of the junior class.
The membership of Sachem includes Eugene Manning, Harold Denton, Gordon Schuhmacher, Wilbur F. Coen J-Kenneth Billow. S会计 John Oleron Conyers Conyers, Gordon Shanl Phil McKnight, Don Roney, and Frank Theil.
Until the exact time of initiation only the members of the organization know who the initiates are. When the ceremony begins, a certain number of men are picked from the group of spectators, and become Sachems.
The qualifications for this senior men's organization are scholarship, leadership, service to the University, nd personality.
Broadview Imm was the scene of an all-day retreat for officers and cabinet members of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday. Roy McCullough, executive secretary of the organization, discussions. Problems facing the organization were raised at this time.
'Y' Officers Hold Retreat
problems of Organization Discussed and Next Year's Program Proposed
The session after dinner was concerned with the discussion of these problems. A program for next year will be posted up returned to Lawrence at 5 o'clock.
At the closing meeting, McCullough announced that the installation services for the new officers of the Y. M. C. A. will be conducted at 5:30 Wednesday evening in the Episcopal church All board members and "Y" members are invited to be present at these services.
MATHEMATICS CLUBS OF THREE SCHOOLS HAVE JOINT PIICING
Four of the speakers who have appeared before the club in the past year attended the picnic. They were: Professor W. H. Garrett, Baker University; Major W. C. Koenig; Professor E. B. Dade; and Professor C. S. Skilton. The members and faculty played baseball, horseshoes, and volley ball. The picnic was the last meeting of the club for the year.
The Mathematics club held its twenty-first annual picnic last night at Hole-in-the-Rock, four miles west of Baldwin City. The members of the Mathematics clubs from Ottawa and Vernon were guests of the local club.
R. O.T.C. Receives High Rating Letters have been received at the Chancellor's office from General Johnson Haygood, inspector for the Seventh Corps area, stating that both units of the R.O.T.C. have received a rating of excellent in the annual inspection held this spring.
Rhadamanthi Elects Officers
At a meeting Sunday, Rhadamanthi,
honorary writing society, elected the
following officers to serve during the
coming year: President, Maurice Rice,
c'34; secretary, Harriette Sherwood,
uncl.; keeper of the archives, Virginia
Sterling, c' uncl.
Rhadamanthi Elects Officers
Puts Hope in Conference
Professor Chubb Places High Value on London Economic Meeting
"The hope of the would lies in the success of the International Economic and Monetary conference to be held in London beginning June 12." said Caryn Bardell, an associate professor of science department, at the Cosmopolitan club meeting Sunday evening.
Professor Chubb said that transportation has scattered the peoples of the world to all its parts. This has changed nationalism from a sameness of language, folklore, and culture, to a unity of economic interest. Today the nations are economic factors in a world scheme. "The world will never get rid of this depression until there is some kind of economic adjustment," continued the speaker. "The intermingling of people and the economic arrangements have led to the inter-dependence of all" . . . he world. The whole quar
After tracing the part that the United States played in past conferences, Professor Chubb said that it is very important that our delegation accepts its responsibility in leading the conference to success in lowering tariff walls, eschewing world markets, and creating an international marketplace. He said that this conference in London is the only thing to save us from war in Central Europe and in Asia.
Noel P. Gist, instructor in the sociology department, made a short talk to the club. He said that the club represents a spirit of tolerance and good-will which is lacking in the western world. Special music was provided by members of the club. Abraham Asis, gr, was in charge of the meeting.
Two Students Present Last of Senior Recitals
Margaret Smith and Loda Newcomb Give Joint Presentation
Presentation
R.O.T.C. Events to Be Wednesday
Formal guard mounting of the Engineer Battalion of the R.O.T.C. will be held on the parade ground north of Fowler shops on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The Coast Artillery Battalion will present its review at the same time.
Miss Loda Newcomb, a pupil of Professor Howard C. Taylor, and Miss Margaret Frances Smith from the studio of Professor Carl A. Preyer shared the honors at the final senior recital last night.
Miss Newcomb opened the program with the first of the "Poeal Studies" from Haberberi, a Prelude in D; followed by an arrangement by Juliia Rive-King of a Fugue in D by Gullman. With hardly any appreciable music, she added Mileu comb went directly into the Fugue and the two numbers, though from different composers, gave one the impression of a unified whole.
Her second group included "Prelude Melodie" by Clerbois, the whimsical Fantaches or "Puppets" by Francis Hendriks, and the "Concert Etude" by Dennec. To close her part of the program, Miss Newcomb presented the opening movement of the D minor Concerto by the Chicago composer, Felix Borowiak, a work that has been seldom heard in Lawrence. Professor Taylor supplied the orchestral parts on a second piano.
Miss Smith appeared also in three groups, opening with the Theme and Variations by Paderewski. Her second group offered Dohanyi's Music of the Spheres, Distant Bells, by Hendricks, and the Jopour Isle by Debussy. In closing the recital, she gave reading of the colorful Spanish Rhapsody by Liszt with her teacher Professor Carl A. Preyer, at the second piano.
Following the recital the Mu Phi Episcopal sorority of which Miss Smith is a member, held a reception for both students and staff in rooms of the Dean of Women's office.
Life Saving Tests to Be Given
Miss Rita Hoover, swimming instructor, announces today that the life saving tests will be given Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Anyone who wishes to take the tests may report for practices during this week and then take the tests.
Members of the Mu Phi Epsilon and
Sigma Kappa sororities attended the
reunion.
Dr. R. C. Moore, Professor of geology, and Dr. M. K. Elias, of the Kansas Geological Survey, together with a party of ten students of historical geology, spent Sunday on a field trip near Garnett and Ottawa. They visited fossil rocks in both places, and assumed some very good specimens from both localities.
Geologists Return From Trin
R. O.T.C. Events to Be Wednesday
Working Students to Consider Laws at Called Meeting
Executive Committee Will Submit Revision of Constitution to Organization
The executive committee of the Self-Supporting Student Association of the University of Kansas unanimously accepted the revised constitution for the government of that group at a meeting Sunday afternoon. The constitution will be submitted to the entire group of self-supporting students for approval Thursday night in the men's lounge in the Memorial Union, at 7 o'clock.
The original proposed constitution was completely reorganized by a committee, appointed by the executive committee, which consisted of Wray Chode, c'35; Waldo Shaw, c'35; and Evangeline Clark, c'35; with the assistance of W. R. Maddox, instructor of political science, as adviser.
The purpose of the Self-supporting association of the University according to the revised constitution is to enable that group of students, who are either wholly or partially self-supporting, to become acquainted and to have occasional social functions; to gather information concerning working conditions, and to co-operate with the employers in better these conditions, and to assist students in obtaining work through co-operation among the members of the association and with the employment bureaues at the University.
Any student may be a member, who is regularly enrolled in the University, and who is registered with one of the University employment bureau. This enrolment clause, according to Wray Chate, acting chairman of the association, is in order to keep statistics of all working students in the University, regardless of whether they already have a university degree or not. The bursars shall include only those students who have expressed their desire to belong to the organization.
The constitution provides for an executive committee which will be composed of 12 members, three being the other officers and the other nine executive.
Regular business meetings will be held at least once a month and social meetings, at least twice a year. Business meetings have been also for the calling of special meetings.
Small Fee Assessment
Regarding fees, the constitution reads, "Fees may be assessed for any purpose with the consent of a majority of those present at any regular business meeting provided such assessment is proposed at or before the regular meeting next, preceding the one at which the vote is taken."
Honorary members and faculty advisers of the organization will be the dean and assistant dean of women, the men's student adviser and the secretary and assistant secretary of the University employment bureau.
Offers for the association will be elected at the meeting Thursday night and all working students are invited to attend and to become members, according to Choute. An anonymous member of the faculty of the University will provide refreshments for the group. Dorothy Johnston, c$35; Harry Foster, c$34; and Waldo Shaw have been elected to nominate officers.
Dr. M.K. Elias, of the Kansas Geological survey, left this morning on a three or four weeks field trip to South Dakota, Nebraska and Western Kansas.
DR. ELIAS LEAVES TO STUDY PLANTS AND FOSSIL REMAINS
The present trip is being made in connection with special research on herbaceous plants of the high plains. Dr. Elias work in this line last year won him a grant from the Natural Science Foundation $500 to finance further field work. Special attention on the present trip will be paid to fossil remains of grasses.
Red Boot Stolen From Shoe Shop
Between the hours of 1 and 5 a.m.
last night, the red boot that has
decorated the front of Burgert's Shoe
shop at 1113 Massachusetts street for
the past 25 years was stolen.
No clues have been found, but Mr. Burgert is offering a reward for any information that might lead to the arrest and conviction of the thief.
Lander to Lecture on Alaska
Landes to Lecture on Alaska Dr. K. L. Landes will give a brief illustrated lecture on Alaska at a meeting of the A.S.M.E. society Thursday evening in Marvin hall. Election of officers for the organization will follow.
ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME
John A. Martin, tenth governor of Kansas and an editor of the Atchison Champion for 30 years, was selected by newspaper editors of the state as the eighth member of the roll of honor sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, and the department of journalism.
Fee Plan Necessitates Various Adjustments
Limited Seating Capacity of Auditorium Presents Big Problem
Considerable adjustments will probably have to be made in order to accommodate audiences at University concert numbers, now that the compulsory activity ticket has been approved by the Board of Regents.
The seating capacity of the Auditorium is 3,996 and it may be necessary to limit single admission sales if the greater part of the student body buys will mean that there will be a shortage of seats for the faculty and the public.
The Memorial Union will receive more money under the new arrangement. Whereas the Union has received between $2,700 and $2,800 in voluntary fees this year, the income next year may be between $3,000 and $6,000 if the enrollment is up to expected levels. Students can purchase of new play and recreation equipment and the finishing up of meeting rooms will be made possible.
The question of whether there will be a program of dramatic productions next year is to be decided by the budget committee. If a program of plays were given it would probably be necessary to give several productions of the same play in order to accommodate all the ticket holders.
It has not yet been decided if the faculty will be allowed to buy individual tickets for each event, or if they shall buy the activity ticket.
Chemical Society to Meet
Kansas City Section of Chemists Will Convene in K.C.A.C. Building
The Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society will hold its last meeting of the season tonight at 8 o'clock in the reception room on the fifth floor of the Kansas City Athletic Club building.
The speaker will be Dr. R.E. Wilson, vice president in charge of research at the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Dr. Wilson is also a director of the American Chemical Society and the Society of Automotive Engineers. His subject will be "Some Recent Developments in the Refining of Motor Oils."
Some of the professors in the chemistry department expect to attend the meeting.
GEOLOGISTS WILL PRESENT 'THE LOST WORLD' TONIGHT
"The Lost World," a moving picture showing the strange animal and plant life of millions of years ago, will be held at the Museum of Art at 7 o'clock this evening.
The picture, which is being presented by the geology department, will be given to you.
Dr. W. H. Schowe, associate professor of geology, in commenting on the picture this morning, said that it is important to recognize the interesting life of the epoch.
Speaks to Entomologists
Oman Speaks to Entomologists
Paul Onaim, '30, homopterist in the bureau of entomology, a division of taxonomy in the National museum at Washington, D. C., spoke to the Entomology club at its regular meeting yesterday afternoon about the work being done there. The club also made plans for a group picture to be taken tomorrow at 12:30 p.m.
J. Martin's Name Is Added to Roll of Hall of Fame
Editor and Tenth Governor of Kansas Is Eighth Addition to List of Editors
The name of John A. Martin, tenth governor of Kansas, and for more than 30 years editor of the Atchison Champion, was today added to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame, sponsored by the University department of journalism, and by Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity.
Two years ago the fraternity took a poll of Kansas editors to assist in selecting a half dozen names for the beginning of the "Hall of Fame," and last year another name was added, to be covered this year by that of Governor Martin.
The original list in the Hall of Fame contained: Daniel R. Anthony, Leavenworth Times; Joseph K. Hudson, Kansas Farmer and Topeka Capital; Solomon Miller, Troy Chief; Marshall Mearcell Murdock, Burlingame Chronicle and Wichita Eagle; Noble Lovely Prentise, Topeca Record, Lawrence Journal, Junction City Union, and Kansas City, Mo. Stuart Daniel W. Wider, this year's "Hilder's Amkns". Added last year was the name of Edward Wallis Heeh, Marion Record. And now is added the name of John A. Martin.
Governor Martin was a native of Pennsylvania, where he learned the printing art, and at the age of 19 came to Atchison. He was employed as a printer o the nite Squatter Sovereign and the Crusader of Freedom, which he purchased in the fall of 1858 from James Redpath. He changed the name to Freedom's Champion, and later to the Atchison Champion.
In 1860 he was a delegate to the terri-
torial convention held in Lawrence,
and then to the Chicago National con-
vention which nominated Lincoln.
Served in Kansas Legislature Martin was a fervent free-state man and an ardent Republican. In 1859 he was elected secretary of the Wyandot state, where he was 20 years of age, and was later elected state senator from Atchison and Brown counties, thus serving in the first Kansas legislature.
In 1831, at the age of 22, he helped organize the Eighth Kansas infantry, and was made its colonel, and also provost marshal of Leavenworth. Later, he commanded his regiment at Corinth. He fought all through the Civil war, serving the Army of the Frontier, the Army of the Mississippi, the Army of the Ohio, and the Army of the Cumberland. At the close of the war he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious service.
He was the first department commander of the Kansas G.A.R. and was instrumental in the establishment of the Soldiers Orphans' home at Atchison, where a member of the board of managers of the National Soldiers' homes.
Concerned With State Education
Concerned With State Education At the age of 45 (in 1884) he was elected governor of Kansas and was re-elected. During his administration, six educational institutions of the state were founded, and in that single year of 1887, 182 school houses were built in the state.
He was instrumental in obtaining legislation that gave Kansas women the right to vote in school, bond, and municipal elections, one of the first steps he took in getting elected by submitting his administration, Greely, the last of Kansas' 105 counties, was organized.
At the completion of his term, in January, 1889, he returned to Atchison and resumed active editorial control of the Champion. Less than a year later he was stricken with his fatal illness, and died Oct. 23, 1895, at 60 years, of pneumonia. After 22 years. At the request he was buried in the unmarked of a Union soldier.
Active in State's Struggles
Of his 50 years of life, more than 31 were spent in Kansas, where he took an intensely active part in the state's early struggles. When he went to Atchison, Missouri was a stronghold for the pro-slavery cause. He took up the battle for freedom through his newspaper, and made it a power, not only in Kansas, but in other states in those formative days.
A portrait of Governor Martin has been added to the collection in the "Hall of Fame" on the walls of the classroom of the University Daily Kansan.
Aeronautics Club Meets Tonight The K.U. Aeronautics club will hold a regular meeting tonight at 7:30 in Marvin hall.