Cloudy and probably unsettled tonight and tomorrow.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
Today is just like day after a holiday.
VOL. XXVIII
Selection of Jury Proceeds Slowly in Bennett Tria
Defense Counsel in Bridge Murder Case Quizzes Talesmen Care-fulll
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931
LIFE PENALTY SOUGHT
Kansas Citi. Feb. 23—(UP) Defense attorneys today questioned with painstaking care prospective jurors in the trial of Michael R. Bean charged with the murder of her husband over a bridge game. Senator Bernett, an associate senator, and one of the attorneys for Mrs. Bennett, took an active part in the examination of the prospective jurors.
The prosecution said it will not seek the death penalty for Mrs. Bennett for the shooting of her husband, John G. Hennick. The judge ruled ever, the jury could impose death penalty if it waf fit, even if not specifically requested by the prosecuting attorney.
Many of the talesman they did not remember reading of the killing of Bennett in September, 1929. All said they had not formed an opinion in the case. Attorneys predicted during the trial that all of the 47 will be completed before night.
From the list of 47, the defense will strike off 20 names by challenge and the prosecution will be forced to compose the jury for the trial. All witnesses were excused by Judge Reno.
Kansas City, Mo. Feb 23—(UIP)
A game of finger that followed a bridge game incident, Mrs. Myrtle Bennett scheduled to be told to trial here today.
Prosecutor James R. Page was expected to seek light imprisonment and be sentenced to five years' hard labor, her husband, B. G. Bennett, Sept 30, 1928, because he failed to make a court order.
The case will find the accused woman surrounded by a brilliant array of knives and a former United States aviation from Missouri. Reed already has won half a dozen minor skirmishes with the prosecution, obtaining one continuation affidavit.
Star Witness
Page, in pleading for conviction, or a first degree murder charge, was exonerated by the testimony of Charles Hoffman, who with his wife, opposed the Bennett case, and was sentenced to slaying. Bennett was killed in the expensive apartment he maintained or rented.
Hoffman, brought forward at the preliminary hearing for Mrs. Ramsay to testify that attracted nation-wide attention testified at that time that she saw Mrs. Ramsay testify.
Anticipated Trouble
Mrs. Hoffman had left the apartment before the shooting, but her husband, fearing trouble, had remained.
"I said Bennett slap his wife," he said in answer to Pagliaro's questions. "I wasn't going to curry it up, but our cur would strike his wife before his firing." I said, my Mrs. Bennett firing a gun.
The quarrel which preceded the shooting occurred, the prosecution will take his case forward. Mr. his wife had raised him sharply to four spades, and he had gone set one trick
Defense attorneys are expected to introduce evidence calculated to show that a single quarrel, but of years of bad feeling, which had increased in prosecution.
The intimate family life of Bennett, who was a super-salamander for a French perfume company, probably will be brought into evidence. After her arrest she increased in income from $200 a month to $35,000 a year had robbed her of her loving husband. This story she probably will repeat at the trial.
Unsettled Weather Probable
Kansas City, Feb. 23 — (UP) - Cloudy and probably unattended weather is scheduled for Kansas City tonight and will not be available until later, son, assistant weather observer. Temperatures will remain above freezing for most of the day, but he will be general although not heavy. Kansas, western Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and New Mexico too.
Undergoes Appenductomy
Halen Russell, who is enrolled in the School of Fine Arts, underwent an appointment with the University of California at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She is getting along well, attendants said.
May Operate on Mrs. Wheeler
Dr. R. H. Wheeler, professor of psychology, was absent from his classes today. Doctor Wheeler took his class to Kansas City where it is expected will have to remain for an operation.
ROCK-CHALK PILE SYMBOLIZES KANSAS UNIVERSITY TRADITION
Cairn Built in 1926 by Sachem and Student Council Is Not Finished Yet.
By Robert Whiteman
B3 Robert Whitenan
It is third in his series of articles dealing with the University and its traditions. The first two concerned the Rock-Chalk movement and the "Rock-Chalk" yield, respectively.
There stands on the side of the highest point of Mt. Oread, overlooking the stadium and pointing toward Corbion College and its North College hall, a pile of rock known as the "Rock Chalk Pile." This "Pile" is a symbol of Kansas University tradition, history and ideals, as a record of fulfillment by her famous
At various times during the history of the University, there have broken out movements for the advancement of a new school, or traditional traditions, resulting in commemorations of various sorts. The years following World War saw a Ku'sa new school, the University of KU "K.U. First" in a vast program of "KU. Loyalty." As a result of this renewed interest in KU. spirit, a huge letter from North College Hill, out of rock secured from the ruins of the first building of the University which stood upon it.
Cairn Replaces K
However, when Corbin hall was built in a few years, this letter "K" was destroyed by workmen, who were ignorant of the significance of its meant-
Relays Committee Begins Organization Plans Today
Freshman Tryouts Will Be Discussed: Seven
in Group
Plan for organization of the general committee and the date for fredman graduation. Plan for meeting of the student representatives to the Kansai relay afternoon at the University.
The committee which includes seven students; one senior, two juniors, and our sophomores, will select six freshmen from the tryouts to work with the nine seniors for the ninth annual rally carnival which will be held in Lawrence April 18.
The group will announce in a few days the date when freshmen may try out and the requirements for membership of the committee.
The annual high school track met which takes place the day before the Kansas relay has been discontinue wanting to a ruling by the North Centrals of Colleges and Universities, with which the University will comply.
Members of the student committees include: Don Seals, senior member; Eileen McFarland, junior member; Ky Kan, and Fred Spoh, Whitchy uni member; George Theis, Wichia; Gordon Sloan, Holton; John Sleep, Whitby; Charles Coordia, cordiaphore members.
FIVE STUDENTS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL; TWO ENTER
Five students were released from the student hospice during the weekend after their last visit, and Mr. McKinney, Vivian Milburn, Margaret Boumont, Natalie Nines, and Andrew Schoenberg.
Only two students were admitted and both of them are suffering from light cases of influenza. They are Doran Grose and Robert Ryberg.
ECRETARY OF EXTENSION BUREAU GOES TO DETROI
Elsworth C. Deut, secretary of the bureau of visual instruction of the extension department, is in Detroit that works on a new curriculum at National Academy of Visual Instruction and the Department of Supervision for the Association. Mr. Dent, who is secretary-treasurer of the Academy of Visual Instruction, is attending both meet-
Dean Raymond A. Schweyer was expected to attend the meeting of the National Education association, but he was unable to be present.
C. L. Landrum, professor of bacteriology, has written an article on "The Movement of the Sperm," which is to be published in the Current Science magazine. This is the first record of its kind in existence and is the result of a careful study by Mr. Perfetto all of his observations in the University's laboratories.
Stands by Crinkled Shin
Landrum Has Article Published
Eureka, Calif. Feb. 23—(UP) —The Standard Oil tanker. Eiljum Selegendo messaged shortly before noon that it was standing by the Lumetone, number 1806, of the distress center after it hiatus is propeller and was being bulleted by high seas.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
a Rock Chalk File—on our campus built from Oread's native "Rock Chalk" as the first buildings were came to permanent expression of Kanaus spirit.
ing. With the destroying of the "K", feeling aeose that there was no permanent tribute to Kansas spirit existed on the campus, such as existed on
The building of cairns or piles of commemorative stones as popular rallying centers antedates all history. A carriage from the ancient settlement to Palestine from their Egyptian bondage, they had to build such a cairn, the meaning of whose stones they were, and so on to generation forever. Like landmark, cairns stand upon the world's high places, from China's mountain sanctuary to Courtoinwestward back to the Mediterranean, that the originators of the K.U.cain, thought of such a "Rock Chalk Pile" when deciding upon a monument to the original settlement on the campus.
Idea Conceived in 1926
The idea of the cairn was conceived under the influence of "Pe" Spierl's *Speerl*. In 1920, Frank E. Melvin Strong, but it was not a reality until the spring of 1925, when Sochem and J. R. C. H. Weller laid aid of Prof. Frank E. Melvin of the history department started the camper trail.
3. To stimulate K.U. activity and personal responsibility.
The reasons for the "File" were set forth in a letter written to Arto Puttam, Chief Sachem, by Professor Melvin. These were:
2. To cultivate K.U. loyalty and a rea "internal credit".
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1 To visualize KU, history and emaples on relation thereto;
"The desire for the project became university-wide when inspiration came from the history and biography of the academy. It also brought the scouts, Morgan, White, Slisson, and other alumni," says "The Rock Chalk Pile," a pamphlet published by Sachem. Stories of the vital influence of the trainee programs brought to the campus, Harvard and its Harvard Yard, the Yale Fence, the Oxford Martyr Monument, the giant old boulder that lies in front of one of the many campus museums. Lincoln students rally, the Missouri college, California's rock "C" on the side if a hill, and stories of other means.
lousi students rally, the Missouri ounces. Mountain rock "C" on the sidelines of a cultural rally, mutual mental rallying places were brought to the campus, with the result that there was a desire for a traditional rallying event in campus such as was had at other schools.
Melvin Starts the Work
The actual work on such a project, came at the suggestion of Professor Melvin to members of Sichuan during the last few days of the first semester of the school year 1923-28, and the Palm Pilot File became a really true thing.
By the middle of April the project was well under way, so a joint masters program and the faculty to determine the collection of events that should be conducted by the faculty is planned for the pilot; the uses and methods of insuring the fulfillment of the plan in the
The construction of the pile began on once, the money being furnished for it. A small boat was cast on oil and the rocks taken from the old rocky islands of the ocean, the remaining rocks of the old island were taken and one was found which was suitable for engraving. The inscription was printed.
The result of the meeting was to give Sachem full charge and authority to do as it saw fit. The site agreed upon was on the slope above the Memorial Staircase.
The date (1839) indicates the date on which the corner stone of what eventually became the first building on the campus of the University was laid. The building was built in 1840 and late years in which the building was used for class room purposes.
The pile was formally dedicated on May 7, 1928, by Dr. Frank Strong, Merlin Smith, Miss Hannah Oliver, and George Leis, who was the first student enrolled in the class. Mrs. Leis also held at this time and the freshmen voluntarily appeared in their caps.
A committee was appointed which met before school was out in the spring and then returned to school, which was to be added to the pile at the beginning of school the next fall. The first batch of students whose shaft was erected and the bronze table was mounted upon it with the folio-
Music Over KFKU Tonight
NORTH COLLEGE
Rock Chalk Cairn Dedicated
Vision of the Founders
The University of Kansas and Three
(1839)
1866-1917
Who Helped Faithfully
Professor Kuersteiner and Miss Peabod to Present Program From 7 to 7:30
Prof. Karl Kuersteiner and Miss Irene Peabody, assistant professor of voice, will present a program of violin and cello in this evening at KFKU from 7 to 7:30.
"Aagio Movement from the Concert in D. Major" (Brahms), "Walks in A. Nervousness" (Brahms), "Necteria" (D'Ambrosia) and "Rondo Brillante" (Barilegh) by Professor Kurt
The program will consist of "Sontana in A Mayer" -AJegro Fible'i (Brabuns) and "The Art of a Man" -Mario Beethoven (Beethoven) by Prof. Kuiperaten accompanied by Roy Underwood; "Vision" (Sgombat) and "How's My Boy" (Sgombat) by Roy Underwood, accompanied by Mr. Underwood.
All-Night Drinking Party Results in Two Deaths
Kansas City, Kansas. Feb. 23—(UP) -Dyton Thomas, 40, of Kansas City, Kan., shot men to death here early afternoon after a drinking party with one of the victims.
Dayton Thomas of Kansas City, Kansas, Gives Up to Police
to Police
The victims were Joe Carnody, 27, and John McNally, 27, both of Kassas县 Carmody county, carved Carmody forced to the curb the automobile in which he and McNally were returning home after a night of robbery. He held him and he shot him in the head. Meanwhile, Thomas claimed, McNally's men's sex. Thomas and he jerped on the running board, stragged with McNally for possession of the wheel, and
Kansas Representatives Attend Meetings in Kansas City
ings in Kansas City
Engine Club Hears Wallace
S. W. Wallace, executive secretary a
spoke before a luncheon meeting of the
Engineering club of Kansas City this
moon at the Hotel President's
Early Boyer of the School of Engineering and
Architecture represented K. U. at the
Mr. Wallace will speak again this evening before a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the Kansas City Athletic club. Seven faculty are planning to attend this meeting. Among those going will be D. C. Jackson, professor of electrical engineering, E. D. Hoy, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, A. R. Paul, e21, and Hoadson Sattus, e31.
Plays Havoc With Shoals
Senate Decides to Reconsider Confer
Washington, Feb. 23—(UP)—A few minutes after the senate had agreed to the conference report on Muscle Shoals, a statewide unimposed consent to reconsider the issue.
There was no record vote when the upper house adopted the report previously adopted by the house. There were two objections to Vice-President Curtis and Speaker Nicholas Lengworth, before the measure, an attempt to solve the 10-year-old controversy, would have gone to the White House where many expected it.
The senate acted in 15 seconds after months of delay. There was no debate.
Washington, Feb. 23- (UP)—President Hoover in connection with his study of the veterans loan bill, is conducting a survey to determine the amount of distress world war II has announced today at the White House.
In Congress Today
HOOVER CONDUCTS SURVEY
Should this happen, senate backers of the measure said they would not attempt to override the veto as are their peers. The measure is available for the necessary two-thirds.
Mr. Hoover expects to have the results of this investigation in time to send his results on the bill to congress by the end of the year he believed certain he will veto the bill.
TO DETERMINE DISTRESS
The senate considers Muscle Shoel bill. Glass committee renews inquiry into federal reserve and related banking practices.
House hours address on George Washington by Representative Back, Rep. Johnson by Representative Back, Rep. committee bills including Wagner measure for federal aid to students to set up classrooms at the university; calendar bills at night session. Ways and means committee considers
Kansas Will Help Federal Agencies Detect Criminals
Senate Bill Provides Tha Fingerprints of Felony Suspects Be Takey
UNIVERSITY TO ASSIST
Taken
Topek, Feb. 23—(UP)—A bill providing for co-location with federal authorities in identification of a felon in the state Senate. The bill provides that every sheerf and police department upon arrest of any person on a felony charge, form a joint detention facility. Copies of the detention agreements are furnished the department of justice for use of educational authorities. The state board of health, the University of Kansas and other agencies are required to make an effort to aid in criminal identification.
A bill was introduced in the house today to permit commissioners in any county to purchase the management of real estate every year. At present, such commissioners hold four years. This law would stand except where the commissioners of any county fell conditions called for a re-charter.
Paintings to Manhattan
The collection of water color paints by Bigger Sanders which has been exhibited at the Spooner-Thayer museum since the early part of 2016, the centennial event in Manhattan will be displayed in the department of design in the Kansas State Agri-Care Center.
Birger Sandzen's Water Colors Here Until March 1
Miss Minnie Moodie, curator of the museum, believes that the display is important and comes to come to see it during these last few days that it will be in Law.
Bigger Sanden who is by birth Secandianaviana, not having come to America in years and his lives a Lindsay of New York, the Faculty of the school of Fine Arts
of Bethany College for 30 years.
Professor Sandzan has taken awards in the east and is represented in many of the museums of this and other countries including the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.; Institute of Art, Washington; National Graphic Collection of France, Biblioheque Nationale, Paris; and Lund Museum, Sweden.
Tense Situation in Bombay
Violence Renewed as Kandhi Peace Negotiations Are Awaited
Bombay, India, Feb. 23-(UP)-Independence movement created a foundation that resulted in the result of the Mahatma Gandhi's peace negotiations at New Delhi were
Police elashed with a mab and women volunteers who invaded the corporate district, city cathers or city farmers from meeting to vote a farewell to Lord Irwin, former vice-caretier, in Manhattan.
SENATE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE TO SEE GAMI
A crowd of nearly fifty-five senators and their wives are expected to be present for the evening's night. This will include the senate ways and means committee and most of the senate members.
It has been requested that anyone with a ticket that is not going to be issued for the game, the censor's office, the alumni office, or the athletic office for use of the legitima-
They will arrive here at 5:30 this afternoon. A dinner will be held 'or them in the Union building.
Coast Guard Gets Rum Runners
Newport, R. L. Feb. 23—(UP) Coast guard bombarded three allied runners off the southern coast of New England today.
Werner Is Improved
Henry, Werner, men's student adviser, who has been ill with the flu for the past few days, is reported to be feeling much better.
Lent Group to Meet
A YWCA. Lent study group will
once a month use a house in Hercules
house on the campus of Mineh
ership of Mineh Elisit Joe Williams. This
group will continue through the dura-
ration.
Over $3,000 has been earned by students working at football games on Prince Edward Island and is ordered to an announcement by the student employment bureau of Prince Edward Island.
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TAU SIGMA TO HOLD LAST
RECITAL REHEARSAL TONIGH
Dress rehearsal for the entire Tau Sigma recital which is to be given in morning and Wednesday under the balcony. The event was held in Fraser theater yesterday. Everything is in readiness for the show. Lighting effects were tried out yesterday and the orchestra rehearsed with them. Dress rehearsal dresser will be held tonight.
Tickets are on sale in Green hall and will remain on sale there both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two Executed for Killing Pennsylvania Officer
of the State
Electrocution of Woman Is First in History of the State
Western Pententery, Rock View Folsom (UP)—The brief criminal case of Kyle Dague ended in a bane, stack room day, where they were enforced in Pennsylvania. The governor of Pennsylvania claimed their lives for the murder of Corporal Grady Paul of Folsom.
The death of Mrs. Schroeder and his son James came to a sort of petty robbery as the shooting of Paul on a lonely road on the two were coming back from robbing
Relatives will claim the bodies of the two tomorrow and take them to West Africa. Mr. Kunjie began their criminal careers when the not be accident after he almost drowned.
Promptly at 7 a.m., Mrs. Schneider came from the death cell, passed through her chest, the execution room and was electrocuted at 7:45 a.m. Dague followed eight minutes later. A five-female woman ever had been electrocuted in Pennsylvania. Forty-two years ago a
$75,000 in Scholastic Fund
Lancaster, Ca. — (NSPA) According
to the U.S. Constitution,
Henry II *Apple*, Franklin and Martha
College is to become a center of culture
relations between the United States and
Canada.
American College to Exchange Profes sorship with German Schools
At the last meeting of the Board of Truttee it was announced that Frank McMullen was awarded a traditional background, has been awarded the Schurz Memorial Award.
The money will be given to establish a German professorship with the understanding that a similar amount be given to a different institution have announced that conditions indicate that friends of the school will subscribe the required amount. It is hoped that work may start as early as two months, but plan so far are only tentative.
Plans call for an exchange of German students and German professors from the university to the college and the university of Germany. Considerable research work will be undertaken in exchange of publications and many of the most important of them will be delivered.
When the foundation plans were announced colleges and universities of the United States $75,000 fund. Among those bids were Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Chicago, Fordham and Harvard Marshall was chosen, according to Dr Apple, because of its traditional background Franklin College was founded Franklin College was the first president of Marshall College was the late Frederick Rauch, who was the first chairman of the institute to establish the institution. All through the history of the two schools and later influence of the Western cultural influence has been felt.
PHILANTHROPIST SPONSORS NEW EDUCATIONAL SCHEMI
University, Miss. — (NSFA) - Mississippi is again to benefit by the general support of students doing much more for education in the state. This time he is giving Mississippi a $500,000 grant to pay his penny-a-day plan which is shortly to be inaugurated through most of the states.
The purpose of the plan is to raise the sum of $8,000,000 which the presidents of Mississippi colleges and universities bring those institutions to the educational level they should reach. Every penny which is turned in to the College Co-operative association will go into the hands of someone assuring the expenses which too are almost as large as the sum raised by a money-raising campaign.
Township, Nev.—(UP)—Mrs. Koop is wondering what kind of a snake he children, agreed three and four, found in the woods near his hill, the children excitedly told mother of the big snake they had seen. When she saw it, she laughed. "Yes, it sounded like two harmonicas."
'Is Doubt a Sin? Doctor Stafford Says, 'Yes and No'
Joston Minister Defines Two Kinds of Religious Questioning in Address
80 SINGERS IN CHOIR
"It is not wrong, but right, and our condender duty, to ask questions about the answers we seek on seeking the answers until we are sure we have the right ones that kind of doubt in no other than intellectual doubt," said the Rev. Dr. Russell Henry Staffed, minister of the Old South Church, at an all-University religious service, sponsored by the Council of Religious Associations at the University.
Added impressiveness was given the services by the singing of a trumpet and the piano. Dean D. M. Swartzboro at the School of Fine Arts, Chancellor Lainley pre-
"To DoBulb a Sin?" was the theme of "Reverend Doctor Stuifker's Story," published in 1973. The phrase "yes and no," adding he conceived of two kinds of doubt—the doubt that arises from the doubt of indifference, arising from a disaffection toward rightwards reasoning.
"Failure to observe the two hinds of the Gospels has led many poets to marshal the Gospel into a battle that raises question at all is an offense against God," and Doctor Saiti兴
'Assertion is Absurd'
"This assertion is aburd because no advocates of religion, however learned, are willing to accept the truth because, unless faith can stand up under condemnation, it has no claim under censure diplomacy."
"Intellectual doubt is a wav-sation on the road to some sort of certainty. It is a pathological response; reasoning proceeds by way of question and answer. To raise a question, he asks it, and then, which we are invited to believe, is to doubt. So he who has real confidence in any proposition which he puts forth must be ready to face this is the first form of the mind's response, and unless this first step be followed, nothing will follow to a final position of certainty.
"Even if the truths of religion could be proved by laboratory tests, like the facts of science, a competent mind can understand what offers offended before subserving to them."
'In Realm of Hypothesis'
"But religion lies beyond the region laboratory tests, in the realm of bygone days, and the region religion, though well established for all practical purposes, rest upon premonition."
"That the truths of the Gospel have an overwhelming weight of probability supporting them, can indeed be shown," he said. "The real probability—that is to those who have the courage and the initiative to ask questions about it, which is the same as the truth."
"The other kind of doubt is compatible with such cloudiness of mind as the Gospel makes it tolerate. It may say, The Gospel is all nonsense, or it is it likely to say, The Gospel is true, of course, but what does it matter?" Such doubt is truly important.
Lists 'Dishonest' Doubters
"A person of this type of doubt may be one who seeks pleasure first, disregarding principles; or he may want to achieve it by getting all he can, cost what it may to his conscience and in injury of others; or it may be that he is well off with things as they are, and op-era-tion in them. Others of losers it injury himself."
"Say to such a man that the social order should be democratized, industry organized for the benefit and not for the oppression," he wrote, "provided for the unfortunate, what will be his reply? 'Don't talk to me about alrism and all these high-thrown ideas of social betterment. You fellowes are in you, and you are probably paid from Moscow."
"It was chiefly with doubters of this type that Jesus had to deal. It was only to them that he ever spoke harshly.
STATE-WIDE DRIVE AGAINST CROW INVASION TO BE MADE
Wichita, Feb. 23—(UP) "The state ofamas is organizing against the crowd attack," said the governorgame warden today advised Bert Delo, president of the Inea Wahl beginnengame warden. The state wide drive against the birds."Two many of them, are taking away Kansan!"
The forest, fish and game committees asked that every Kansan with a shot gun and ammunition kill at least one enemy in two days and then "write up" it in.