Rotary Club Hears Inter-

-esting Talks from.
Youths

Entertaining and instructive talks
were made to Rotary today by Stan
| Stockton, son of the dean, and

Richard Stutz, son of former Ro-|
|tarian John Stutz. :

Traditions of the Navy was the
|subject of Stockton, who stated
\that the U. S. navy had taken over

‘many of the traditions of the Brit-
|ish navy, and then went into detail
‘concerning the purpose and mean-
‘ing of the various articles of wear-
‘ing apparel worn by the navy.

The little -white caps worn in
{summer have been found to have
‘not only their original possibility
of being used to bail out a boat, but
‘when held under his chin by a
sailor it will serve as a life pre-
server for several hours.

Ancient customs and beliefs, with
more than a tinge of superstition ,
still cling to the salute given aft by
the seaman boarding the ship, the
placing of coins, head up, at the
base of the mast and the placing
of a coin in the mouth of one to be
buried at sea.

Dick Stutz, in speaking of. Ger-
many’s air force, illustrated his
talk with miniature planes, made to
scale and painted in true colors.
The vast difference between the
smallest and the greatest was
astounding, as was also the fact
that some of them had a ceiling of |
55,000 feet, a trifle more than ten
miles high. ;

Statistics regarding the plane
situation in 1939 and the present
_were of great interest. At the for-
‘mer date Germany, Italy and Japan |
‘ranked in one, two, three order in,
the number and efficiency of
ees while the United States

eld seventh place. Now the United
States. is far head, besides having
furnished many planes to Russia
and others of the United Nations.

Senator Robert C. Rankin spoke :
for the committee on civic pride, ;
recounting the early history of.
Lawrence, the first six years of |
-which was also the history of!
Kansas. South of the river at that
‘time, the site of Lawrence was a:
‘treeless plain, while on the north!
side there was a virgin forest of,
mighty and magnificent trees.

Senator Rankin bemoaned the
lack of parks, recalling that Law-
| rence had but 18 acres in parks, all
of which had been given to the city.
He asked for an intelligent con-
sideration of this problem after the
war, and also for the erection of a
suitable, fireproof building to house
the valuable collections of the
Douglas County Historical Society.

A number of guests were intro-
duced.