THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. XXIV
Faculty Petition Demands Silencing of Fraser Organ
Instructors Want Practice Abolished During Hours of Classroom Sessions
No organ practice will be carried on in Fraser hall between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30 on weekdays if it is scheduled among the instructors gains the desired results. A second provision in the petition asks that no organ be installed in Fraser after the present instructor's authority instructors signed the petition.
A detailed survey was made throughout the universities which had sent catalogs here, and it was found that:
Four gave no music courses: Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
Eight gave courses in organ, but in some auditorium, or music hall where other classes are not held. Arkansas: West Virginia, Illinois, Wyoming.
Twenty-three gave music courses but no organ courses.
Four gave courses, but practice places were not mentioned: Colorado, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Mexico.
One has an organ in a hall in which classes are held. This school is Virginia.
Seventeen Study Organ
There are 17 persons taking organ lessons on the campus, and the total number of students that are taking courses in Fraser on these same days are: Monday, 2,885; Tuesday, 2,225; Wednesday, 2,585; Thursday, 2,225; Friday, 2,885. These figures were compiled on the basis of those students attending and excluding organ students, study conferences, and personal conferences.
Dean R. A. Schwiegler, acting dean of the School of Education, said that when the organ was going at full blast during last semester, the officers stopped and went on per cent. Also, that when volume was applied to the organ the sheeting coiling in his office rattled until it wore out the nerves of those having to work in the room. He also said that the organ was still working with 25 students learning on the organ against one thousand attempting to learn English, French and German.
Glenbard Shares Statuttee
H. C. Lehman, assistant professor in education at McKinley College, can forget of concentration one can forget the organ. Although most students are learning to concentrate, most of them have not mastered the art. The organ hinders the attempt to concentrate. Moreover, attempts to ignore a distracting influence are accompanied by excessive expenditure of energy. Such an expandent, leavens both teacher and student in an extended condition."
Dean D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said that the concessions made by the School of Fine Arts was crippling the department in its work in organ instruction, but that they were very willing to do this if it would help the situation. Three hours had been cut down to two hours in the morning and one in the afternoon.
To get the reaction of some of the students with classes in Fraser, some twenty were asked their opinion on the question and it was unanimous that the organ was a big hindrance to their work.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley and that through the new schedule for this semester had been working out a great deal better and that he hoped the organ would soon be moved from Fraser.
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Dr. H. Heilson, assistant professor in the department of psychology, will talk on "The Gestalt Psychology," Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 4:00 in the women's rest room in central Administration building. Those who will attend are graduates in Education and the faculty of the School of Education.
Doctor Helson Will Lecture
Chaplain Evan A. Edwards spoke before the Lawrence Mineralian Alliance today at 11 a.m. on "Some Things About Students." The meeting was held at the Chamber of Commerce building, where he talked before his new work at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.
Women's Debate Will Be at High School Building
The debate which was scheduled for tomorrow night between the University women's debate team and the team from K. S. A. C will be given at the Lawrence high school instead of in the building, as was formerly announced.
The sorority sing which is scheduled for the same date in Administration building is the reason for the change, according to E. C. Behler, assistant professor in the department of speech.
Student activity tickets admit to the debate, according to Beuhler.
Illen Requests Report on Academic Progress of University Athletes
Director Sends Grade Blank to Faculty to Help Check Eligibility Lists
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, director of physical education and athletics, has written letters to the members of the athletic council asking for enclosed open buckles which will be furnished at the end of the fifth, ninth and thirteenth week, giving an eligibility retest.
"The requirement for young men who compete is exceptionally high when it considered that a great many of them have been "dents." We doctor Aloon in his letter.
Doctor Allen says that the department of physical education is interested in the academic progress of the young people, and also in the eligibility of students. To make academic progress, they will not be eligible to compete in athletics.
The reports are merely an indication by the faculty member as to the progress and eligibility of the student. Recently, letters were sent to the organized houses of the Hill, asking that they employ athletes whenever possible, because many of them were compelled to work their way through school. A critical report of this policy given in the Kansas of last evening.
Meeting Ended by Fight
Discussion of Washington Law Causes Dispute
(United Press)
Washington, Feb. 15,—A free for all fight today broke up a meeting of a sub-committee of the house District of Columbia committee inquiring into the advisibility of enacting a Sunday blue law for Washington,
After a heated exclamation, Representative Blinton, Democrat, Texas, grabbed Representative Bloom, Democrat, New York, by the throat and numerous spectators interceded causing a general melee.
Blanton accused Bloom of opposing the Sunday closing law because he represented moving picture house.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927
"That is a deliberate falsehood," Bloom shouted at Blinton and the Texan run around the committee table and seized Bloom by the throat.
Mu Tau Alpha Entertains
Valentine Program to Be Given This Evening
Mu Tuau Alpha, Greek and Latin society, has planned a belated Valentine party at the home of Dr. A.T. Watson for this evening at 7:30.
E. C. Dent, secretary of the bureau of visual education of the extension division, will go to Kansas City Wednesday for an interview with members of the Bureau of Education in arranging for additional feature films to be distributed through the
The decorations will be appropriate to the valentine idea as will the refreshments and games. There will be a large display of members of the club, planned by Maurine Morley, c28, and Lillian Lawer in instructor in Latin and Greek Twa Shoemaker, c27, will read an account of the lives of "Story of Cupid and Psyche," and a report on "Roman Beltion Custom" will be given by Selma Higdon, c27. An account of Roman and Greece love stories will also be given by Lydia Wool c28.
The recent warm weather has put the diamond fever into the Oklahoma Aggie camp. A call for varmity shots by Coach J. F. Mauletchut last Monday.
Overs Describes Finding New Tribe in African Jungle
hancellor Announces Lis of New Mortar Board Appointments at Convocation
"The most interesting experience I had in my explorations of Central Africa, was the discovery of an entirely new trilobe," said Bishop Walter Henry Owens, bishop of Lilianne, Africa, who students this morning at conventation.
Their city, Bishop Overs said, was composed of mud but surrounded by a mud wall and a deep ditch. The population was about thirty thousand.
"These people had never seen a white man, and on my approach to their largest city, the inhabitants all had been driven and ran away into the mines."
"All the people fed the save him chief," said Bishop Overs, "I made my first contact with him, and through him reached the other people. I saw a man who was telling the tribe were those of offering human sacrifice, beheading people on suspicion when a crime was committed, and practicing polygamy. The girls were bought and sold like ordinary women, and gave the life of a draigner and a slave."
Customs Changed in Year
According to Bishop Owens, it was one thing to discover a people, and quite another to do something for them. But in one year, he had the satisfaction of seeing courts installed, slaves set free, and the church discontinued.
Students who have not received their grades from the office of the registrar yet and who desire to get them may do so any time Wednesday, according to information from the registrar's office. The grades will be written on a computer that must give his name and the school in which he is enrolled.
Bishop Overs told of his entrance into the forests which had no sign of roads, by a narrow path and low tunnel made by animals through the thickest tropical jungles, and of his horse, who ran across the Amazon river, which was on the shoulders of his carrier. He spoke alone of his first attempt at sleeping out of doors in the African night, while respite was provided for him, and all creeping things came forth.
Wednesday is the last time this week that grades will be given out. Only a small percentage of the students do not have their grades and they are urged to get them Wednesday.
Bishop Overs, who is now assistant to Bishop James A. Wise of the Kansas diocese, was attending the convention of this diocese in Topeka, and made the trip to Lawrence this morning accompanied by Chaplain Evan A. Edwards of the local Episcopal church.
Students May Receive Grades Wednesday Only
Overs in Africa Seven Years
Overs in Africa Seven Years
Bishop Owens returned to America in 1925 after spending seven years doing missionary work among the natives of Liberia. Liberia is an independent state on the Gold Coast of Africa and is under the protectorate of the United States. The bishop had previous experience in this region as an explorer for the British government.
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Before introducing the speaker of the morning, Chancellor Lindley spoke a few words of appreciation and greeting to Chaplain Edwards, on the campus, where he will be the University, for the service he has rendered them in the 16 years of his residence here. "We love him, and give him up with deep regret," said the university's president. Edwards is leaving Lawrence soon to take up his work in Norman, Okla.
Gamma Phi Beta announces the pledging of Evelyn Hitchcock, c29 Cherryvale.
The new members of Torch chapter of Mortar Board were announced by the Chancellor. "These women have been very talented in ship, personality, and unseafish service," he said. The list includes: Dorothy Luxton, Earlier Settle, Moyne Rice, Mary Sisson, Pauline Smith, William Brown, John Avery, Mary Jane Crum, and Dee Gaeier.
Wire Flashes
Portsmouth, England, Feb. 15—The cruiser Yarmouth sailed for China today with 450 sailors aboard in addition to the crew.
United Press
San Pedro, Calif., Feb. 15—An explosion and fire in the chemistry laboratory of the San Pedro high school wrecked an entire section of the structure and caused serious injuries to six students. The students were removed to the San Pedro hospital from burns about the hands and face.
Washington, Feb. 15.—President Coolidge sees no immediate need of landing American marines at Shanghai, but the United States has an American lives and property at Shanghai are in no greater jeopardy than they have been for several years. The U.S. policy is to maintain ships and marine in vicinity of necessity.
Chemist Should Decide
Moral Codes, Says
Dean R. A. Schwegler
Eating Green Apples Immoral as Well as Intemperance, Speaker Declares
"Eating green apples is immoral as well as drinking alcohol," declared Dr. Raymond A. Schwegier, dean of the School of Education, in a lecture for parents at the Kansas City, Mo., Y. W. C., A. Monday afternoon, "Let the biochemist divide the moral code its laboratory," he went on to say.
"We have been experimenting thousands of years on the one moral question of telling lies." he said. "We know we do not want you to do we do not know all those in know."
"We can improve things greatly if we put in practice what we have learned. It is immoral to put anything in the body that will shorten the life or warp and detract from its health." We can put into the body anything which will lengthen one's days or catch one's experiences.
"No matter what Volstead or any other probabilist says about alcohol the test decides whether alcohol is helpful or harmful to man. The biochemist reports that alcohol acts as a solvent of the nerve tissue and causes an inflammatory effect on the whole physical system therefore franking alcohol is immoral."
At a meeting of the freshman class of the Medical school, held Friday in Dyce museum, Harold Metz was elected president; David Parker, vice president; and Thomas Hawthorne, secretary and treasurer.
"Pathologists say that a small boy never recoveries from the pennity nature exacts from the eating habits of the extremely eating green apples is immoral."
Kansan Board Appoints
Eight vacancies on the Kanase Board were filled at a meeting of the Kanase board appointment committee. Those elected to the board were: Helen Tatum, c$28; Paul Porter, c$28; Jack Stuckenberg, c$28; William Griffin f$28; c$28; Ladine Carpenter, c$28; Cleral Robert Mintree, c$28; and Anale Gaskill, c$28.
Selections Based on Services to the Kansan
The Kansan Board is the directive board of the University Daily Kansan and it is from this body that students are taken to paper a paper is selected. Any student who is taking work in the department and has junior or senior standing is eligible. Elections, however, are generally made on the basis of auctions of the record of service to the Kansan. These are determined partly by grades but mostly by actual newsroom and reporting work for the student paper.
The appointment committee is composed of the faculty of the department and of an equal number of students who are serving or who have served most recently in certain major positions on the editorial staff.
The regular payroll will be open for signature until Friday evening, Feb. 18.
--in Singing Festival
Preliminary Work Starts in Building Final Stadium Unit
Company Ereets Savwil in Order to Expedite Construction of Forms
Preliminary construction work of surveying, grading, and excavating has begun on the last unit of Memorial Avenue by the Construction Company, of Kansas City, Mo., which holds the contract for the work, has moved equipment on the new stadium site and is preparing to carry out the construction forward rapidly.
First location stakes have been driven, marking out the limits of the field. The equipment are being stored under the west stadium. A large gasoline shovel is doing the rough work of excavating, which was started yesterday on the field.
A complete sawmill is being erected on the site of the old tennis courts at the north end of the stadium, so that the building of the forms for the concession stand will be completed. The circular shape of the last unit of the "U" makes sawing and planning machinery necessary for rapid work. Bard saw, planers, and circular saws are to be installed. The temporary company on location is completed.
In connection with this work, the University is making improvements on the stadium field. Clay is being bauled to the field, which is being used for the athletic purposes, and the whole is receiving a new covering of soil. The soil from the slope on the northeast corner of the stadium grounds is being cut for this purpose, and the slope will be filled in with the dirt excavated in previous construction units. When the field has been fully sodded it will be rolled compactly.
Gagliardo Talks to Council
Struggle for Education Is Told by Faculty Member
"Education is a very common thing, but it was through the fights and efforts of organized labor that a common school education has been made possible for the labors of this country," and D. Gattichio, assistant professor of economics, who spoke last night before the Lawrence industrial
He continued by pointing out how labor had passed through the various stages of civilization; from slavery and serfdom to the place of the servant, of employee, and finally to the co-operative movement among labor-
"The labor press has had much to do with the labor movement in this country; it has been the one thing to educate the laborer to the value of labor; it has been the one thing to procedure," said Professor Anguilario in his address.
The Lawrence industrial council is composed of representatives from each of the trade unions in Lawrence and was formed about a year ago. It has been a time of various occasions discuss the different phases of the labor movement.
Motion Pictures Tonight
Working of League of Nations to Be Shown Free
The League of Nations at work will be shown in a motion picture tonight at 7:30 in Fraser chapel, under the auspices of the University of Y. M. C. A. Dr. Frank Strong, professor of international affairs, with the picture and who saw the picture yesterday afternoon had this to say of it:
"I regard it as being very interested in gined and giving accurate information as to the practical working of the League. These pictures are not heresy; they show actual facts, and are enough to convince any fair minded person to the going concern of the League of Nations."
There will be three reels and these reeled may be available to any group that dishes them by the non-partisan association of the League of Nations.
Delta Chi fraternity held its annual alumni "get together" and banquet during the week end. Several old grades returned and the major part of them remained to assist with initiation which took place Sunday.
Chancellor Will Address Meeting in Kansas City
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will speak in "The University" before members and guests of the Kansas City, Mo., Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon. The chamber of commerce has invited all the alumni of the University to be their guest Wednesday which will be University of Kansas day at the chamber of commerce lunchmen. Among the guests will be Sir Harry Lauder and Lady Lauder. Sir Harry will make a brief talk and sing some
Baker Radio Program Broadcast With Aid of Local Equipment
Fraternity Songs, Glee Clubs and University Band Are Main Numbers
WDAF, the broadcasting station of the Kansas City Star and Times, offered the Alumni Association of Baton Rouge a radio station for their annual radio night.
Bakir University celebrated last night its 60th anniversary with a radio program made possible through the courtesy of KFKU.
The technicians from WDAF after installing the remote control station at Bainlwil discovered that the power amplifier was out of order. In the short time remaining before the program was to be broadcast the amplifier from KFKU was borrowed and installed.
The program as arranged by Thomas A. Evans, secretary of the Baker Alumni association, received special attention over the country. The Baker glee club and their band appeared often on the program. The features of the evening were the songs of all varieties that have chapters t. Baker
Mr. Evans announced that he would send a huge piece of the University's birthday cake to every former student who wired or wrote to the University in response to their program. Mr. Evana said that last year more than seven hundred pieces of the birthday cake were sent to alumni
The K. U. Alumni Association sent its greetings and congratulations to Baker University.
Groups to Vie in Songs
All Sororities Will Participate in Singing Festival
Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical
soirée, will hold an intercorzory
singing concert in Fraser chapel to
tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Practically all the sororites have entered, according to Virginia Arnold, fa'27, who is in charge of the contest.
To compete, each sorority must sing two of the songs of the sorority and the first verse of Corruth's "Life at the camp." The sorority tempting to remake this song one of the favorites on the campus. The sororities may sing with or without a piano accompaniment. The women required to march on and off the stage.
Miss Agnes Husband, dean of women, Prof. T. A. Larrmorem, director and coach of the men's glove club, and D. M. Swarborow, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will act as judges. The groups will be judged according to selection, originality, beauty, interpretation, harmony, and voice quality.
The contest will be broadcast over KFKU, the official broadcasting station of the University, and will be open to the public.
Doctor Joseph Hill Dies Suddenly in Kansas City
Dr. Joseph H. Hill, 69, who was president of the three Kansas state normal schools from 1906 to 1913, unexpectedly died in his home in Kansas City.
All of Doctor Hill's children are graduates of the University of Kansas. Alfred G. Hill, A. B. '17, for several years was secretary of the University Alumni Association. Durham University's A. B. 20, was student reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World. Miss Ruth E. Hill, A. B. '25, also was a student reporter for the Journal-World and for several out of town newspapers. Miss Hill is at present on the staff of the United States
Coleman Brothers Killed When Train Hits Stalled Car
Two University Students Meet Death at Grade Crossing North of City
Frank L. Coleman, Jr., univ. plar,
69 years old, and his brother, George
Gerhard, were killed at 3:45 p. m., yesterday
when an eastbound Rock Island passenger
train struck their automobile at a crossing two miles north of Law-
rence.
Both Frank and George Coleman were students at the University and members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. They are survived by their parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Frank W. Coleman, a sister, Helen Coleman, a brother, Helen Coleman, a postmaster Daiselaosa and Helen Coleman in assistant postmaster.
A traveling man said he was one hundred yards behind the sturgeon in the track. The gears of the Chloe rope coupe in which the fatal accident occurred were found in intermediate. The approach to the crosswater
Students Self-Supporting
Both students were self-compete,
Frank worked in a drug store and
George was employed at the telephone
exchange in Oklahoma.
Dorothy Catherine Smith, who drove to and from school each day with the Coleman boys probably escaped death when she decided to return in Lawrence and attend her graduation. She is a Gamma Phi Beta pledge.
Car Completely Wrecked
Those who visited the scene of the accident declared that the wreckage is strewn 300 feet along the right way. The pilot of the locomotive was torn away by the impact and the train was delayed until repairs could be made. Henry Fisher, the engineer on the train, said the boys evidently saw or saw the train. He saw field and sounded his whistle at close intervals.
The accident occurred on a detour off the regular road between Lawrences and Williamstown. It was the day when Wayne A. Ridgway, August 6, 1919 when Wayne A. Ridgway, Kansas City, Kan., was killed. There are no grade crossings on the regular road between Lawrences and Willamstown. There are two on the detour.
Frank Coleman was a student in the School of Pharmacy at the University of New York, where he flowers and sympathy to the bereaved parents. The classes of the School will be dismissed Wednesday afternoon so that students may attend
Students and faculty members who wish to attend the funeral will be excused, according to Prof. F. M. Dawson, his student's adviser. The funeral will be held at 2308 tomorrow at the Methodist Church in Oakland.
Two Are Killed by Train
Car With Tonganoxie Men Hit by Rock Island Flyer
Two men were killed and one slightly injured about 11 a.m. today when the motor car in which they were driving was struck by the westbound Rock Island No. 5 Golden State University.
Jess Wolf, 60, and Joe Wickey, 50, farmers from near Tonganoxie, were killed and Allie Babcock received slight injuries.
Witnesses say that they drove around another car which had stopped to allow the train to pass and ran immediately into the path of the train.
The stationmaster of the Union Pacific station here said that there was no excuse for the accident as there is a chance it will track for a distance of two miles.
Word has been received at the alumni office of the marriage of Lelia B. Duncan, A. B. 25, to Ralph N. Carduza of Los Angeles last June when she spent the summer in Houloum and are now at home in Los Angeles.
The Rockhurst Sentinel of Rockhurst College, Kansas City, is co-operating with the school's athletic authorities to sponsor a contest for finding a name for Rockhurst athletic teams.