University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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APRIL, 1936 257 Mourning becomes election P. S. G. L. and Mrs. Pachacamac are holding their Spring carnival by BARBARA BRAMWELL MRS. PACHACAMAC and PSGL are with us again after a brief and welcome respite. We wish we could avoid presenting them in another play (and we know you wish it even more) but the truth is that they are so very much in evidence around here these spring days that a drammer of the O ' Neill length hardly suffices to reveal their activ- ities. If you have an ice-pack and an as- pirin handy, however (recipe can also be used to good effect the morning after election), then settle down to the tale of woe. Mrs. Pachacamac is rigged up in a brand new spring platform which she wears jauntily, trying to make people notice it. Her outfit really doesn ' t be- come her very well as it is so different from her usual platforms and is copied from P S G L ' s last spring model. She retains her individuality in the ornaments, however, several rather dark schemes trimming the inside of her sleeve. PSGL wears his last year ' s platform. His adherence to the same garment is quite monotonous as it is such a loud outfit but, surprisingly enough, it still fits, though he has grown so big in the last year. Perhaps this is because he hasn ' t really used it at all in his office and, too, because it was originally con- structed on such broad lines that he has plenty of room to grow into it in fact, he probably never will fill out the promises. ELECTION is a much sought-after per- son she has all the boys running for her. We won ' t bother you with her until the last act. ACT I The annual log-rolling race is about to begin. Mrs. Pachacamac and PSGL are standing on the bank of the river. The air is damp and foggy. This facilitates conversation between them as they seem to talk best in a wet atmosphere. Mrs. Pack How nice and bright your logs look, PSGL. They ' re so red. PSGL I was hoping nobody would no- tice that. Mrs. Pach Were you, really? Now, fancy that. You ' re getting less inde- pendent every day. PSGL Well I ' ll get along all right in the race. Mrs. Pach I hear you are losing your nurse. PSGL I think I ' m big enough now to get along without him. Mrs. Pach You do look awfully healthy. My you ' re so Brown this season. PSGL I should be. After five seasons of the Quentin sun. Mrs. Pach I don ' t think you ' ll get along so well in the race this year. You see my logs are all done over. Mrs. Pach But the machine is just the same. PSGL Perhaps. But it does look differ- ent to a casual observer. PSGL Voter you say? Mrs. Pach (Peevishly) You know per- fectly well what I said. Don ' t try to be upstage with me and try any of that new Dutch talk on me. PSGL Everybody else likes it Mrs. Pach You just think that because of the song and dance your old Nurse has been handing you about Dutch dating being popular in foreign uni- versities. PSGL Sour grapes, Mrs. Pachacamac. You ' re mad because you didn ' t think of it first. It ' s going to help me win the race. ACT II Mrs. Pachacamac is looking over her logs. She counts them over carefully to be sure they are fixed. Suddenly she stops dismayed. One is badly split. Mrs. Pac h (Unhappily) My Phi Delt log! Split! PSGL (From a distance as he speaks to one of his workers) and fit that Rob- ertson into my head-log it ' s a good chunk I swiped from Mrs. Pachacamac. Mrs. Pach (Censored). ACT HI A point a little farther up the river. The logs have been rolled into position, bumping together with many sharp cracks. PSGL is examining a basket he carries. Mrs. Pach (Strolling over to PSGL) What are you doing? PSGL I have to look over my pro- visions. Airs. Pach You do have a big basket- ful there. But then I might have known you ' d slip in a few extra Pro- visions at the last minute PSGL Yes, I thought maybe I ' d better just in case you won Mrs. Pach (Sadly) Yes, I did the same thing last year but it didn ' t do me a bit of good. My office was cramped anyway when I lost. PSGL The prize is larger than ever this year. Mrs. Pach So I ' ve heard. (Chuckling) That saying, The fruits of victory, certainly applies to this race, doesn ' t it? PSGL (Grumbling) I don ' t see what you ' re laughing about. The prize in this race is the same every year plums. They ' re plenty good enough for me. Mrs. Pach (Quickly) Oh dear me, yes, especially when they ' re those plums of the famous political variety. PSGL (Self- righteously) I ' m not going to sell mine when I win as well, par- don me, but as I ' ve heard you used to do with the plums when you used to win. Mrs. Pach Goodness gracious! Where did you ever get that false impression ? Why (She hesitates but superstition is too strong for her and she crosses her fingers carefully as she makes the next statement). I ' ve always passed the plums around among the deserving boys. And that ' s what I ' m going to do with the plums you used to win. PSGL You mean you win. Mrs. Pach I mean u hen I win. PSGL You mean . Mrs. Pach (Pulling his hair viciously) I mean when. (It is beginning to look like a pretty fair fight when suddenly the Polkinghorn blows, denoting that the race is getting under way. This has a soothing effect on PSGL as this is his own personal instrument and he knows it can play a long scale of double votes.) PSGL (Pacifyingly) The race is going to be tough enough. Let ' s stop fight- ing now ! ACT IV The race. PSGL and Mrs. Pachacamac are doing some frenzied log rolling. There is so much mud in the air that we can ' t see a thing. But we know there ' s a lot going on under cover. ACT V The race is over and PSGL and Mrs. Pachacamac are glaring at each other amidst the cheers and catcalls of an as- sembled crowd of on-lookers. ELECTION, (Continued on page 3181

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256 THE JAYHAWKER Two thousand track and field stars will participate in Kansas ' great sport carnival by JOE COCHRANE ON April 18 of this year, approxi- mately 600 athletes will invade the campus and the Kansas Memorial Sta- dium to take part in that great annual sport event the Kansas Relays. This event always draws the best athletes in this BREAKING THE TAPE FOR K. U. section of the country and many records are set and broken here. It affords an opportunity for high class competition to the picked track and field stars of uni- versities, colleges, and junior colleges throughout the United States. Early in 1922, officials of the Univer- sity of Kansas, feeling the need for an athletic get-together, invited members of the surrounding schools to come to Mount Oread and participate in a track meet. The invitations were accepted and people attended the 1st annual Kansas Relays. The splendid response in the past years to the Relays by coaches and ath- letes in widely scattered states has con- vinced the Kansas management that there is a definite place and real need for this event, which has grown through the years into a national institution. Almost ideal climatic conditions have usually prevailed during the Kansas Relays of the past thirteen years and there is every chance that there will be pleas- ant weather conditions prevailing on April 18 in Memorial Stadium. This year the Kansas Relays hold spe- cial significance. The meet has been se- lected by the Amateur Athletic Union as a tryout for the Olympic team to rep- resent the United States at Berlin next summer. To allow those who enter to take part in Olympic events, some of those used in the international games have been added to the regular program. These include the 3,000 meter steeple- chase, the 400 meter hurdles, and the hop, step, and jump. The 1500 meter run and the Missouri Valley Decathlon, other Olympic events, are regularly on the program. The decathlon is expected to draw a very large entry list due to the fact that only this one and the one to be held at the Penn Relays will be considered as tryouts by the A. A. U. Those men who enter these specific events need not be members of any school but they must be in good standing with the A. A. U. If the men are successful in these trial meets, they are eligible to the Olympic tryouts to be held this summer under the direction of the A. A. U. Here will be run off the regular events and the men who place in the first three positions will be eligible to make the trip to Germany with the team. Glenn Cunningham, the great Kansas flyer, will probably run in the 1500 meter event. Glenn has been having a rather unsuc- cessful indoor season this winter but many believe he is pointing toward the Olympics so a good race will probably be run. Harold Manning of the Wichita Ath- letic Club, who has held several A. A. U. championships in the distance runs, has made known his intention to run in the 3,000 meter steeplechase and Glen Dawson of the Skelly Athletic Club in Tulsa, the boy ' who defeated Cunning- I Continued on page 321 )

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258 THE JAYHAWKER Presidential possibility A K. U. Alumnus, and a loyal Kansan, Alf M. Landon makes strong bid for presidency by HARRY O ' RILEY rhas been our good fortune in the past that in every national crisis a leader has come forth from ranks about whom the people rallied, and upon whom they placed full responsibility to keep safe their individual freedom, to support their national institutions, and keep the ship of state following the lanes of demo- cratic principles upon which our nation was founded. In the present flux of na- tional affairs the eyes of American citizens are turning to Alf M. Landon, Governor of Kansas, as the man who is best quali- fied to lead them out of their present difficulties. Kansas ' confident, calm, and genuinely competent governor, Alfred Mossman Landon, was born in a Methodist parson- age of the village of West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 1887. His father was an independent oil producer who started in Pennsylvania and moved on with the oil frontier to a small new settlement across the Alleghenies. . His mother, Anne Mossman, is a descendent of a solid Pennsylvania Dutch family which long and thriftily had tilled the soil of that state. The Landon family had been in this country as long as the Moss- man, although it traced itself back to English and Scotch origins. That sturdy and thrifty blood in him explains his easy manner, his thriftiness and his good natured adaption to circumstances when the matter is trivial. He had ancestors of both strains in the Revolutionary war. He grew up in the oil field of Ohio, and at- tended elementary school in the same state. Alf Landon in his youth developed a taste for fishing, hunting, and riding which he never has lost. He graduated from Marietta Academy at the head of his class. When he was fourteen, his father transferred his interest to the new fields of Kansas and settled in Independ- ence. John M. Landon, tall, aquiline of feature, with a quiet air of simple dis- tinction, lives in the Governor ' s Mansion ALF LANDON ADDRESSING THE WORLD GOVERNOR LANDON WITH HIS FATHER with his son. John Landon chose to have his son educated in the state of his adoption. At seventeen years of age he enrolled in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas University. His first year in college he excelled in History, German and Physical Geography. He took the weighty vows of Phi Gamma Delta on October 15, 1904. In 1906 he represented them at their na- tional convention, and in October of the same year, this promising young law student was made president of the Kansas chapter of the fraternity. He introduced in the fraternity a budget system which has saved them considerable money. Alfred Landon developed an ambition to be a lawyer, and entered the School of Law in his second year at the univer- sity, proving to be a diligent law student. He excelled in practice courts and was interested in common law, codes, insur- ance, and criminal law. On June 10, 1908, it was all over; he received his L. L. B. degree, and was admitted to the bar of Kansas. While in law school he was a devoted friend of Uncle Jimmy Green, beloved dean of the law school. Here is a coincidence: Senator Borah of Idaho, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, also graduated from Uncle Jimmy Green ' s law school. Landon ' s classmates remember him as a sprightly and sociable boy, and a leader among students. For outside organizations aside from the social fraternity he