SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939
Five Projects In Industrial Work Approved
NUMBER 8
Research Fellowship Committee To Assign Special Projects to Advanced Students
In an effort to solve some of the industrial problems of the state, the research fellowship committee of the University of Kansas has approved five major projects to be studied by mature students working with close faculty cooperation.
The projects, each of which will be assigned to a student holding a research fellowship, will be financed by the $5,000 granted for 1939-40 by the last legislature to carry on work of developing Kansas industrially. Committee Work Independently
While the research fellowship committee is working independently of the Kansas Industrial Development Commission appointed recently by Governor Payne Ratner, close contact is being maintained with the commission, Dean E. B. Stouffer of the graduate school, who is chairman of the committee here, has met with R. A. Clymer, secretary of the commission, and the latter approved the projects, it was said.
1. The economics of ceramics, wherein a study of the development and the location of plants for the production of brick, pottery, and chinaware, with particular reference to raw materials, markets, and transportation, will be made.
The first problems to be studied by the university committee are described as follows:
2. Freight rates as they effect the industrial development of Kansas. This will be a general study of the railroad, truck, water and air rates as they affect the competitive position of Kansas industrially. After a general picture is reported, specimen can be given to a number of industries, particularly those which are now developed in a small way in Kansas.
way in Missouri Study Coal Utilization
Study Coal Utilization
3. Efficiency of the utilization of coal. This will be a study of the efficiency of burning Kansas coal in medium sized installation, using the test boiler and equipment furnished by the research committee of the coal operators of the district.
4. The production of electrolytic chlorine from salt deposits using natural gas for a power source. This problem will investigate the possibility of the location of a plant in Kansas which could compete effectively with outside sources in the production of the large amount of chlorine and allied compounds used in the state.
5. Reactions between chlorine and hydrocarbons. This study of chemical processes which will use raw materials of Kansas and, in particular, the chlorine produced by the electrolysis of salt including such problems as the chlorination of waste gas of waste petroleum for the production of non-flammable and other solvents, the burning of the waste gases in gas and oil fields in chlorine to produce hydrochloric acid and carbon black, and the production of unsaturated hydrocarbon from clorinated products to produce rubber-like substances.
One And Five Assigned
Research workers already have been assigned projects one and five. Edward V. Kruger, of ElDorado, who graduated from the School of Business here this year, has started to work on the study of the ceramics industry. He is visiting various brick and pottery plants in the state. DeLoss Winkler, of Atchison, who for the past year has been an assistant instructor in chemistry, is working on the problem of reactions be-
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Eskimos Are--trapper." Mountain sheep, reindeer, and caribou, fish from the river, wild berries, and greens furnish him with the essentials of his diet. Each summer he takes his family on a trip to the coast—less than a day's journey by dog team, or about seven hours by river boat—to fish for whale and seal.
Alaskan Village Is Home Of Two Summer Students
By Frieda Cowles, c'40
In a land where dog teams are used instead of automobile, and airplanes ski over the hard-packed snow to gather speed before whirring into the air, Mr. and Mrs. Neville McMillan live in the Eskimo village of Noatak, Alaska.
Working through the Department of Indian Affairs, Mr. McMillan operates the commercial radio station KTKN; Mrs. McMillan teaches the elementary grades in a government school for Eskimo children. Both are enrolled in the University Summer Session and will return to Alaska in August.
Noatak stands at the foot of spruce-timbered mountains, on the bank of the river from which it takes its name. In the winter, dog teams and sleds provide a means of travel in and out of the village; in the summer, boats go up and down the Naotak river, and all the year round there are planes to bring in passengers, mail, and supplies.
"Fisher, Hunter, Trapper"
Mr. McMillan characterized the Eskimo as a "fisher, a hunter, and a
★ Around 250 Enjoy Music
By Ensemble, Quartette;
Plan Another Monday
Informal Mixer Well Attended
Summer school students who attended the informal mixer at the Union Building Monday night found entertainment, punch, and enthusiastic dancers, estimated to number around 250.
A dance ensemble composed of the members of the Midwestern Music Camp, led by Allen Nipper of Topeka, played a fine selection of numbers throughout the evening. This was the first public performance of the musicians, and their music was received enthusiastically. A "swing" quartette composed of Tom Morgan, Warren Edmondson, John Coleman, and Fenlon Durand sang a group of songs.
The next "open house" for students will be held Monday night, at 7,00 o'clock. More entertainment is being planned by Dr. Forrest C. Allen's class in Community Recreation. A girl's swing trio from Emporia, Kansas, will be here for an added attraction, and the band camp members will again be featured during the evening.
A large crowd is expected again this Monday night, as all facilities which help to make up a perfect hour of dancing have been arranged for so the students may enjoy themselves and get acquainted.
Students who attended the last mixer found the ballroom quite comfortable due to large fans which had been secured. The fountain in the sub-basement was open to those who cared for drinks and refreshments during the dance.
"In Defense of Democracy" is the subject to be discussed Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church school by Prof. H. B. Chubb, of the Department of Political Science.
Fifth Of Church Series Sunday
---Catalog Conscious
Mercury runs up the scale from 40 degrees below in the winter to 80 degrees in the summer months. "We wear parkas and mukluks (fur boots)," Mrs. McMillan said. "They are warmer, lighter, and more comfortable than coats and shoes."
School is held from 9 to 4 o'clock in the frame schoolhouse wherein three teachers instruct 106 Eskimo children in homemaking, native arts and crafts, wood and metal work, and in the fundamental subjects. Then
NOTICE
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The following part-time positions are still available. If interested and qualified, please apply in the office of the Dean of the School of Education not later than July 21. The positions are as follows:
1. Part-time English teaching position. Oread Training School.
2. Part-time social science teaching position in Oread Training School.
- 3. Part-time typewriting teaching position in Oread Training School.
4. Part-time position as reader of correspondence study lessons in Education.
Applicants must have had majors in the subjects which they * wish to teach and should have * had, if possible, not less than four * or five years of successful teaching experience, and should be potential candidates for Doctor's degrees. Candidates, if successful, will be considered for appointment for three years, or until the degree has been completed.
RAYMOND A. SCHWEGLER *
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SUMMER
SESSION
Slip-Ups
by
Walt Meininger
That odor that has made the days seem longer the past week has its origin in the dump over by West Campus road. They've been burning old beat-up cadavers that the boys in the medical school are through with. Sure have been raising a stink about it.
And the high school lads are finding out about housemates. The band kids have a party every Saturday night. Last Saturday some of the boys went to get their dates at the A O Pi house, where the girls stay, only to find that they had been
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Shore Sails Sky, Simulating Side Swiped Sparrow
Schiller Shore, self-styled poet and inventor of time wasting devices, recently boon-dogged his way into the flying world. After taking lessons for 26 years, (he and the Wright brothers) started from scratch). Shore passed the government flight examinations Thursday morning with flying colors.
The inspector told Shore that the flying was a little ragged but, since he didn't want to take a chance of going up again after Shore had practiced, he gave him his credentials.
Shore is to be congratulated on this successful culmination of years of fighting to the top.
Stouffer, Klooz Make Survey Of Boys' Vocational School
E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School, and Karl Klooz, bursar, were in Topeka yesterday making a survey of the Vocational School for Boys at the request of the Board of Regents.
They will survey the Western University, and the School for the Blind, both in Kansas City, Kan.; and the School for the Deaf at Oathe, next week. These four schools were added to the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents last spring.
Housing Expert To Speak Here
★ Doctor Aronovici Features Education Forum Tuesday Night in Union Building
Dr. Carol Aronovici, an outstanding authority on housing in the United States, will be the speaker at the Education Forum at 7 o'clock, Tuesday night, in the main lounge of the Memorial Union building. He is at present a consultant at Columbia University and a special lecturer at New York University on housing problems. He will discuss the housing problem with special reference to the federal program of low cost housing and the implications of this program for Kansas.
Doctor Aronovici is a native of Rumania. He came to the United States in 1900 and became a naturalized citizen in 1906. He first did settlement and social research work in Providence, R. I., and later became secretary of the Suburb Planning Committee of Philadelphia. He was director of the Wilder Charity Foundation in St. Paul, Minn., in 1917-1919.
Doctor Aronovici has studied social conditions in more than 60 cities and has served as consultant on many city planning and housing commissions. He is the author of some six books dealing with immigration; Americanization, and housing problems. He has written many magazine articles and pamphlets and is editor of the Community Builder.
During his visit to the campus, he will be the guest of Dr. Seba Eldridge of the department of sociology with whom he is working on a project for publication.
Church Group to Roller Skate
The Union Young People's group of Lawrence churches will have a roller skating party tonight from 9:30 to 12:00 at the Rollerdrome on New Hampshire street. Tickets are available at the rink and all college students are invited.
DeRubertis Third Of Music Camp Guest Conductor
★ Kansas City Musician Expresses Pleasure at Progress of Camp; Attendance Records Broken
He has been working all week with the camp musicians and will be here for the two concerts Sunday and for the Columbia network broadcast Monday.
N. De Rubertis, director of the Kansas City Orchestral Training school, will be the guest conductor of the Mid-Western Music camp concerts this week. De Rubertis is the third guest conductor this season.
De Rubertis expressed pleasure yesterday with the performance of the young musicians and commented on the progress the camp has made since last year. He has been on the instrumental music staff at St. Mary College in Leavenworth the past four years and has had wide experience in teaching music.
From 1919 to 1926 De Rubertis served as conductor of the Kansas City Little Symphony and during this time conducted 280 concerts.
Last Sunday's concerts broke all time attendance records according to Camp Director Russell L. Wiley. Five hundred persons attended the Orchestra concert in the afternoon, and over 1000 were in attendance Sunday evening at the Band concert.
The broadcasts which are given from 1to 2 o'clock each Monday afternoon over the Columbia network have been drawing favorable comment. The biggest station on the West coast located at Los Angeles has been carrying the broadcasts and congratulatory messages have been coming in from the west coast, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Ohio, and other parts of the United States.
Theme Song.
The programs for this Sunday are:
ORCHESTRA
Mr. De Rubertis Conducting, Triumphal March from "Antar" (Second Symphony), (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Symphonic Poem "Sunrise at the Sea", (Demarest).
Mr. Lawson Conducting, Intermezzo, (Arensky); Waltz for Strings, (Volkman).
Vocal
Mixed Vocal Ensemble, "With Love My Heart Is Ringing", (Hans Hassler), "May Day Carol", (Deems Taylor), Sharil Zarker, Phyllis Burgert, Helen Simmonds, Patty Pridle, George Christman, Allan Nipper, Leslie Breidenthal; "The Lord's Prayer", (Malotte), William Brown, Soloist.
Orchestra
Mr. De Rubertis Conducting, Andante from the Violin Concerto,
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Major "Pete" Allen Made Stanford ROTC Commandant
Major Harry "Pete" Allen, brother of Dr. F. C. Allen and a former University athlete, was placed in command of the Stanford university unit of the reserve officers' training corps at Stanford Wednesday.
Major Allen, who has been associate professor of military science and tactics at Stanford, was a captain in battery F. 129th field artillery in the World War.
In the years, 1902-03 Allen was a tackle on Jayhawker football teams, and the years 1903-04 he played on the basketball and baseball teams. He has been coach of the Stanford polo teams the past two years.