THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ? 62 5 VOL. XXIV 21 War Department Will Ask Congress for Levee Funds Increased Appropriation Necessary to Prevent Recurrence of Flood Peril Washington, May 3.—Increased appropriation for levee work to prevent recurrence of the Mississippi flood catastrophe will probably be recommended to the next congress by the war department, it was announced today by MacKenzie Co., a contractor of the army engineering. Following an inspection of the food area Major Jadwin said that approximately $150,000,000 should be spent over a 10 year period to raise the levee to five feet above the high water mark. About 80 per cent of the construction of the standard of three feet above high water mark for which Congress appropriates $10,000,000 annually. The flood crest will reach New Orleans about May 11, Judain believe, although that city will be safe with a levee leeward of two and a half feet because of the cut made at Poydras, 14 miles below the city. Baton Rouge, May 3 — Louisiana today became the battleground of the Mississippi river flood as the crest of the destructive stream spread southward. As the water were breaking through the levees thousands of men, women and children were moving to evacuate. More than a million thousands were warned to evacuate Voyelles Parish as a break in the levee is threatened at Echo. Higgins Rites Held Today Baton Rouge is turning attention from political matters to the rescue and relief of suffering. All food relief agencies are now directly directed by former Governor John Parker. Coast guard and private owned boats and the United States craft are being assembled for disaster, which apparently cannot be averted. New Orleans is apparently safe due to the artificial opening at Poydras. Back water of St. Bernard Parish is coming through a ship canal. Attempts of hundreds along the canal bank to erect a levee have been unsuccessful so far. However, the river has already been feared that from the Mississippi river and the damage will be much less. FOUR PAGES No.170 High School Students Attend Funeral Service The funeral of Sevent Hignine, A. B. '23, director of athletics at Lawne Memorial high school, was held at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev, Mr. Edward Hislop spoke of the young man and the work he had accomplished during his short life. The student body of the Memoria high school was dismissed at noon to day to attend the services. The high school faculty attended as a group The "I" club, composed of high school athletes who had been under the supervision of Mr. Higgins, attender in a body. Interment was at Oak Hill cemetry. Members of Phi Delta Theta, of which Mr. Higgins was a member, acted as pallbearers. The following men acted: Brewster Morgan, Don Moehring, Harold Schmidt, William White, Scott Anderson and Harold Hickes. John R. Barnes, principal of Memorial high school, said that there would be a special memorial assembly in the high school auditorium next Tuesday morning, at which time Chancellor E. H. Lindley will speak. Dove Debate Scheduled for 8 O'clock Tonight The widely heralded debate on the abolition of the Dove will after tonight be past history. Three members of the editorial board will cross verbal shuffles to shake up the clock in Green Hall. Regardless of the outcome of the debate, the Dove will not be abolished, was the assurance today of Prof. E. C. Bushier, who is sponsoring the affair. The debate is solely focused on campus issues and furnishing a little entertainment, he added. Many Types of Flowers Shown at Annual Exhibit UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1927 The Botany club hold its second annual spring flower exhibit Monday May 2, in room 101 Snow hall. The exhibit was open to the public, and consisted of almost all types of flowers blooming in this region at this time of the year, both wild and cultivated. The flowers were labeled with their common as well as their scientific names for the benefit of the plantar with the scientific botanical terms. Lena Anderson $c'$ 29, was chairman of the committee on arrangement which gathered the flowers and place them on exhibition. Eta Sigma Phi, Greek and Latin Fraternity, to Install K. U. Grou Petition of Local Organization Granted; Initiation to Be Friday, May 6 Xi chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary fraternity of Greek and Latin, will be installed by Miss Lillian B. Lawyer of the Latin department, Friday evening, May 6. The class will begin at the "bome of Lyndia Wood," c28. xi chapter of Eita Sigma Phi will replace the local honorary fraternity of Latin and Greek, Mu Tau Alpha. Mu Tau Alpha was organized in October, 1926, and began petitioning the national organization soon after. The petition was granted April 24. Miss Jones was appointed to the University to have the petition of Mu Tau Alpha recognized so soon. All of the members of Mu Tau Alpha will be initiated as charter members of the new chapter. They are: Raymond Bowers, unch, president; Maurine Morley, c28, vice-president; Ruth Challions, uncl, secretary; Amelia Woodward, c28, vice-president; Hilgen Salmon, c27; Mildred Hammon, c29; Maxine Witt, c29; Lydia Wood, c29; Elizabeth Docksterk, c29; Mrs. Thelma Roach Wilson, uncr; Mrs. Mary T. Smith, gr; kennCornell, c27; Carl Neismeyer, c27; Charles Seitz, c29; William Bell, gr.; Austin Van der Sliep, c28; Lester Jones, c22; and Warren Haas, The faculty members of the chapter who will be charter members are Dr. A. T. Walker, Prof. M. W. Sterling, and Miss Mary Grant. Miss Lilliam B. Lawyer is a member of Epsilon chapter at the University of town. Dr. A. M. Wilcox and Miss Hannah Oliver will be honorary mem- Eia Sigma Phi was founded at the University of Chicago in 1914 as an undergraduate classical club. In the early years, the club had 13 chapters at present. El Ateneo Tests Tonight Second and Last Tryout Set for This Semester Tryouts for El Ateneo will be held tonight, May 3 in east administration building. This is the second and last tryout which will be held this semester. The method of trying out is varied, as it depends entirely upon the person who wishes to enter the club. The only restriction is that the person trying out is that he demonstrates that he can use Spanish orally. A committee composed of five or six members decides on the persons that the club wishes to take in. Two faculty members and three graduate students usually make up the committee. It has been the custom in the pass for the students to write an original paper and either read it or memorize it. Sometimes several students go together and prepare a play which they give before the committee. It was not known how many students expected to try out tonight. Correspondence Secretary Leaves Miss Harriet Stevenon, A. B. '18, who has been secretary of the bureau of state, to take over division, for a number of years, left last night for Colorado for an extended vacation. Because of ill health, Misa Stevenon has found it necessary to give up her work as secretary of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Kenney Hospital, 100 has been appointed to take Miss Stevenson's place. Buth Bryant, Kansas City, Mo., was a guest at the Delta Zeta house, Saturday. Correspondence Secretary Leroy Present Campaign by Negroes Urges Higher Education Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Broadcasts Program at KFKU Station Tonight The eighth annual "Go to High School, Go to College" campaign, conducted this week by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, is going in full swing. Speakers at all the negro churches of the city Sunday and at mass meetings held in the principal state, began the work this week. Speakers Sent to Kansas City Thursday, speakers will be sent to the University of Kansas and the years schools of Kansas City to make personal appeals to those students about to be graduated and to stress the in- crease and the necessity of higher edu- cation. Tonight the local chapter will broadcast a program over the University of Kansas radio station KFKU. Wednesday, speakers will be invited to speak in front of the city, especially those whose members are parents. The purpose is to urge parents to give their children the highest education that they can possibly afford, so that they may live in a secure life and face the complex problems of life. Representatives of the local chapter will be sent to the homes of those graduates, who seem to have made in plans for further education, for the purpose of stimulating their ambitions and offering encouragement to them and their parents. These representatives by their conversations and their personalities will try to influence the parents and the visited families to realize the value of higher training. Chancellor Gives Comment The movement has received the endorsement of many educators, said John E. Marsh, president and pagnin. Chancellor E. H. Lindley, in referring to the movement, said, "The opportunity for public education has done much for the colored race in our country." The program has been particularly successful, enabling the boys and girls to master useful trades which are of service to the community in which they reside. A number of young men and women have become part of such universities. Such capable young people deserve these opportunities. We therefore wish them success in their appeal to their more ambitious brothers and sisters. Education is the main road should be an open highway. Program is broadcast The program to be broadcast over KFKU tonight, beginning at 7:30, is as follows: 1. Penner's Synergistic Popular Selection "The Purpose and Methods of the "Go To College Campaign"; John D. Bell Negrit Spirituals; Antjeck Jackson The lecture is illustrated Free to the public. See $D_{10}$ IV, Musical Readings, Lilian and Florence Webster. a. I know the Lord's Laid His hand on me J. Harold Brown Those who heard doctor Sutton on his African trip a few years ago voted it one of their favorite adventures, even better. Phi Delta Phi, national law fraternity, hold a founders' day banquet, Saturday evening at the Colonial tea room to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the organization. The guest of honor was Elmer F. Powell, LL. B. 1895. Mr. Powell delivered an address on the subpad "Looking for the future," followed by a talk by Dr. W. L. Burdick, vice president of the faculty. a. Mah Lil' Bit Sister, b. Polly Worthington On of the most interesting addresses of the year will be given by Dr. R. L. Sutton, of Kansas City, eminent physician and famous big game hunter, on his hunting expedition-India-Cuba at Fraser hall, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. b. Fair Warning. V. Emotionalizations. a. Sundown. Marie Lillard. Hepkirk E. H. Lindley. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TIGERS IN INDIA Esther Liebig, ed'27, spent the week-end in Kansas City, Mo., visiting friends. --of the Negrin." John A. Hodge, Principal, Summer high school, Kansas City, Kan. City, State V. Piano selections. Marse Lillard. H. Impromptu in F et Matte Rothschild. *********************** Law Fraternity Has Banquet Wire Flashes United Press --of the school year that we thought it best to combine with the regular var. of the year, the biggest thing of the year," continued Mary. The date is set for May 7. Hollywood, Calif., May 3. Buddy Rogers has the male lead in Mary Pickford's new picture, "My Best Girl," based on a story by Kathleen Norris, the United Artists have an nounced. Vickersburg, Minn., May 3.—The protecting levee at Rolling Fork broke today, according to information received by the United States engineer's office here. Muddy flood waters were reported rolling over the town which is far up the sunflower region, flowing through business sections to the depth of four feet. No loss of life has been caused but cattle were drowned by the hundreds. This town of 5,000 persons situated in the heart of the delta area had valiantly batted the flood for ten days. Negroes have been kept on the point of guns until Sunday. Efforts of the Red Cross were protested. Austin, Texas, May 3.—Officials who have investigated at. Burgor, Panhandle oil town, today asked Govor Moore for quo warranto proceedings to cust certain city officials and Hutchinson county officers. Mayor Miller of Borger has handed Moody his resignation. Los Angeles, Calif., May 3.—The bulk of the personal belongings of Radulph Valentino have all been sold. More Laboratory Study Would Diminish Flood Losses, Says Engineer John R. Freeman Holds Belie That One Levee Break Might Be Fatal Providence, R. L., May 2- Several hundred dollars spent in a laboratory study of floods would prevent millions of dollars loss, John R. Precman, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Mechanical Engineers, said recently in commenting on the Mississippi floods. "The Federal Government and the States have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to solve the Mississippi's problems, but it is still possible for one break in a levee to cause floods. He has fortified land as the sun shines on, with a loss of $25,000,000 almost overnight," said Mr. Freeman, who accompanied President Roosevelt on his official inspection of the completed Panama Canal in the capacity of expert adviser. He was also consulting government officials on flood and river problems in that country. "The experiments by Froude on towing ship models in a long laboratory tank were at the very foundation of progress in the design of naval and merchant vessels. They have shown that similar improvements in the art of training trains to maintain navigable channels without frequent expensive dredging and in making them carry their floods to the sea more safely," may, say the laboratory staff. "A week's work with a model, in which changes of shape and position can be readily made, at a total cost of a few hundred dollars, may tell more than six months' effort and $10,000 spent on an experimental dike or groyne in the field. Coefficients of the relation between model and full size origin have been established for the variants have been determined on the model, one can go ahead with great confidence in the field. Several pieces of toy railroad track, a signal tower, crossings and other pieces, amounting to $30 in value, disappeared during the Engineers' Day Exposition. These were part of a borrowed exhibit and their return is greatly desired by the department, Prof. F. A. A. Wheeler, who will receive the will be given for any information leading to the recovery of this property. Toy Train Is Stolen Dent Returns from Conference Ellaworth C. Dent, secretary of the bureau of visual instruction of the extension division, has just returned from the eight annual meeting of the National Association of Visual Theaters, Chapel Hill, N.C. C. During the convention, various problems of visual instruction work in connection with university extension service were discussed. Dent Returns from Conference Senior Cake Walk Will Be Combined With Next Varsity Informal Party Not Limited to Seniors; All Stags Admitted May 7 at F. A. U. "We are planning on making the senior cake walk one of the best class parties of the year," said Hill Immer, e271, one of the hosts to many fraternity and sorority parties scheduled for all the remaining Friday nights. "Special decorations and entertainments will feature the cake-walk vari- tions, and we will charge the decorations and entertainment. "We have secured some of the best available talent for speciales and there will be surprises in Combined With Varsity Combined With Variety "Since the senior party is being combined with the variety it will be very informal, but the staff will be unified numbers will be admitted and this should raise the attendance to a great extent," said Inner. Ronald Jemore and his WREN orchestra will furnish the music. This band is made up of eight men and features the singing of Lloyd Snyder broadcasts every Saturday night from the local broadcast station and is known throughout the middle west for its radio music. "Doe" Miller and Lloyd Snyder have composed a number of music videos, the first time at the cake walk, according to Jctmore. The pieces are entitled "In the Springtime" and "IL." Tickets will be placed on sale in the middle of the week but the greatest success will be announced. F. A. U. hall where they party will be hold next Saturday night, May 7. The dues are not limited to seniors only but every student on the Hill may attend. The only requirement, according to Isett, is a dollar for the man who has a date and a dollar and a quarter for the man who wishes to stag the party. A record amount is expected by both managers. "There will be seniors in all of the organized houses who will have tickets for sale," according to Isett, "and it is the wish of the managers that everyone has his ticket as soon as care for the proper number." The managers are personally guar- guancing a good party to everyone who attends. It is their intention to maintain the best class, the best class party of the year. Talk Is of Primary Interest to Engineers Dean Potter Will Speak Dean A. A. Potter of the college of engineering at Purdue University will speak in the auditorium of Martin hall tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, about *This talk is primarily for students interested in engineering.* Mr. Potter is visiting the engineering schools and departments of the colleges and universities in this part of the country under the auspices of the A. S. M. E., of which he is the student secretary. A dinner in honor of Dean Potter will be held in the Thimble Theater tea room at 5:30 p. m. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the dinner is composed of Herbert Short, *22* catharsis N. Reed, L. George, Geoffrey W., *28*. Potter will leave for Manhattan immediately after the dinner. Chancellor Goes to Olathe Chancellor Lindsey gave an address at Olathe today, May 3. The Lions club of that city entertained the seniors in the high school at a dinner with students and staff. To give the main address, His subject was "The Great Adventure." ... - Date rule will be suspended * for the "Womanless Wedding" * to see given at the Orpheum * theater May 3 and 4, and for * that event only—Rose McCulloch, pres. W. S. G. A. ... Trans-Atlantic Aviators in Readiness for Flight United Denmark Curis Field, New York, May 3.—The little Ballance monomap in which Lloyd Berrand and Clarence Chamberlain hoped to fly to Paris is ready for the great adventure. The takeoff has been set for 4 a.m. on time the first day most work on which weather conditions night. Guild S. Steadman, navigation officer of the steamship Leviathan, has completed the charting of the course o avoid the relief of ice which might arm on the船 if the ship went in circular route from New York. W. A. A. Colors Form Theme of Program for Annual Banquet Sweaters and Other Awards to Be Presented During the Evening The sixth annual banquet of W. A. A. will be held May 5, according to Josephine Brown ed '28. The affair is to be a "rainbow banquet" and the rainbow idea is to be carried out in the decorations and program. Locille Pyles ed '27, has charge of the ticket sale for the banquet. All members and alumnae of W. A. A may attend the banquet. Locille Evans, ed '28, Gladys Hewlett, has charge of the decorations. Dora Geiger, c'27, and Josephine Brown, ed '28, will have charge of the program and the menu. The toasts are planned to suggest the rainbow idea and with the colors which are significant to W. A. A. The program will be: Red-for Courage, Dorothy Marie Johnson, c309 Yellow, Marie Johnson, c416 Black; for Loyalty, Helen Louise Parker, c' 29; and Purple for Royalty, Lucille Pyles, ed '27. After the banquet, the awards for the year will be made by Miss Margaret Barto of the physical education department. Pins will be presented to Ann Botsoff, ed'27 and Lucile Palley, c'27, who have earned 100 points. Stuart Simpson, ed'27 Jessie Georgie, c'28, Freda Keller, c'29, Lois Laptad, ed'27 Loretta Whitten, c'uncel; Anne Patterson, c'28 and Alice Sims, ed'28 will be awarded W. A. A. letters for having earned 500 points. Sweaters are awarded to those who have randeer 100 points. Ginny Funk, c'27 Letha Lowe, c'27 Marie Isern, c'27 and Morna Zell Wagstaff, c'28. R. O. T. C. Is Inspected Coast Artillery Officer Looks Over Local Unit The local unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps was inspected today by Col. Chas, E. Kilbourne from the office of the chief of the coast artillery in Washington, D. C. The inspection opened at 8:30 with a review after which Colonel Kilbourne conducted a company inspection. Company C, engineer company, was dismissed following the review and the other three companies were given close order drill with Colonel Killbourne moving the movements. At 10:30 a war strength battery was used to make a sort of modifications given with the 3-inch aircraft gun and 155 mm. gun. Following this demonstration, a junior class operated the plotting room equipment and worked out dat for firing a seacost gun. The inpected officer critically examine each detail in all of the demonstrations described above of the room in regard to their duties. Colon Kilbourne then inspected the store room equipment and listened to freshman class recitation. Actual field equipment was used in the demonstration and anti-aircraft firing was done at a small airplane which runs from the roof of the southwest corner of the shops to a pole near the front of the building, assisted by L. Meyers and gives the men practical training in tracking a moving target. Next Tuesday and Wednesday the government inspection will be held an the results of this will determine whether the University of Kansas i to receive an honor school rating, prized by every R. O. 7 C units. The employment office of the University of Michigan has secured positions for 1,729 students during the last year. Richard L. Sutton Talks Wednesday About 'Big Game' Tomorrow Night's Speaker Is Close Friend of Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley In speaking of him Chancellor Lindley said, "He reminds me of President Roosevelt. So much power seems to radiate from him and he is so intensely interesting. When his lectures are finished his audience so interested that they are not willing to let him leave." Dr. Richard L. Sutton, of the faculty at Rossele, will讲座 on "Big Game Hunting" in Friar hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Doctor Sutton had a most interesting and thorough touch in hunting game and in lecturing. A trip taken from the coast to the interior of Africa and another through Asia were Doctor Sutton's two main trips. He has written a book about his trip, consisting of odes and pictures taken by himself while on the trips. Reviewers Make Comment Reviewers in speaking of his book, "An African Holiday," have said, "Many books on Africa have been written, but few authors have presented the subject in so graphic and detailed manner as doctor Dutton has done." In his other book, "Tiger Trails in Southern Asia," he speaks of the trip as a trip which was originally planned for a vacation, but which ulterely lacked durance test. Later he said that there were of course a few hardships to be met, and difficulties to be overcome, but these should only whet the appetite, and whether you are crouching up to see the dragon or to play on behalf of a tiger, or plodding along beneath a red-bot sun, trying to get within range of a big elephant, you love it all, and after you have returned to the pavements and the changing care, you will be a saint and wisher if not a happier and better man." Doctor Sutton's trip through Asia was unusually extended. He started at Yokohama, went down along the coast and from Hongkong to French Inthe-China. He then went to Singapore, stopping several places before he arrived at Calcutta. His two main stops being Calcutta being Madras and Ceylon. Shows Intense Interest His intense interest in the subject is shown when he says: "There is an old Arab saying that 'he who drinks of Africa's fountain will return to quench his thirst again,' and I fear that it is based on fact. The long, hard tricks are forgotten, the memories of painful and disagreeable incidents quickly fade, and one results from the painful primitility of a simple and primitive people, and the quiet peace of the everlasting hills." Doctor Sutton and Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley are very good friends. When Doctor Sutton returned from his African trip he presented Mrs. Lindley with a leopard skin and Chancellor Lindley with a box made from the foot of a rhinoceros which he killed. On his return from the last trip he presented her with the skin of a tiger which he also killed. The skin is remarkable. It may be seen as you encounter her in her home hanging across the stair. The skin measures about nine feet and the bullet hole, which is about an inch in diameter, is in the center of the skull. Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley are entertaining Doctor Sutton at dinner the evening of his address, Chancellor Lindley and in speaking of Doctor Sutton, "It is unusually rare that University students have a chance to hear any man so experience and so interesting." Triangle Delegates Return Tringle biograph Donald S. Taylor, e29, and Chair A. Williamson, e27, retained Sunday evening from Chicago where they were involved in the national con- ference of the Tringle fraternity. The convention was held at the Edc- water Beach hotel, April 28, 29, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klemp Jp. Leavenworth both graduates of the class of '28 were Sunday guests at the Delta Zeta house.