Page 6 University Daily Kansan Friday. May 20. 1955
2 Business Juniors Receive Scholarships
Bobby Allen Lay and Donald A. Johnston were announced today as recipients of William. Wiedemann scholarships in the School of Business for 1953-56. Both are juniors in the school and will receive $100 each.
Both Johnston and Lay hold regular Naval ROTC scholarships and have been financing the additional costs of their education themselves.
Ley is majoring in industrial management He is a member of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military society.
Johnston is majoring in person- nel management. He has been first place winner for two years in the
Extension Group Names Pearson
Gerald Pearson of the extension staff has been appointed to the newly-created committee on extension classes of the National University Extension association. He is director of the Extension Class bureau at KU.
Four other KU extension chiefs were given national committee assignments at the annual meeting attended by representatives of 78 schools at Pennsylvania State university. Miss Ruth Kenney is a committee member of the Division of Correspondence Study and was appointed chairman of a new subcommittee on Limitations on Credit Acceptance
Guy V. Keeler serves on the Lectures and Concerts committee, E. A. McFarland on the committee for conferences and Institutes, and Fred Montgomery on the Audio-Visual Aids committee. They head their respective bureause here.
KU Student Faces Larceny Charge
Lee Orland Mesenhimer, engineering junior, is charged with taking telephone sub sets and other electrical parts from buildings on the campus.
He is now undergoing observation at Watkins hospital in connection with his arrest May 14 for petty larceny.
Preliminary hearing is set for May 25 at Municipal court.
Joe G. Skillman, campus police chief, said that the articles found in Mesenhimer's room were mostly electrical equipment. The articles were taken from the Student Union, Dyche museum, and departments of the School of Engineering, he said.
Wright Named to Committee
Dr. Herbert F. Wright, professor of psychology, has accepted appointment to a test evaluation committee of the Educational Testing service, a national service with headquarters in Princeton, N.J.
entertainment division of the intramurals speech contest and is active in the University Players. He is a member of the Kansas Relays committee and Scabbard and Blade.
Paper-Bound Books Form Cheap Library
Back in the 15th century, in the days of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of movable type, books were scarce and a prize to be treasured by those who were fortunate to own one.
By ALTON DAVIES
When one considers that books had to be hand copied in those days it is apparent why they were so scarce. Today they are turned out by the thousands, but the interest they arouse is not so great. Newspapers, magazines, movies, and television have tended to draw readers away from them. But they own newspapers with these other media, books are still a large source of entertainment and information—and they are still expensive.
Many persons who would like to have a library of their own feel they just can't afford it. The "Book-of-the-Month" clubs are too expensive and individual copies of books cost far too much for the average reader to be able to buy all the books that he would like to have.
An answer has been found for this problem. A comparatively new idea, that of paper-bound books, is catching on. These books are complete and unabridged, and are being offered at a low cost.
Both classical and contemporary works are available in the paper-bound editions. Such books as Homer's "Odyssey," Machiavelli's "The Prince," Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Bell" and James Patterson's "Bernadette," and Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with The Wind" are available in this inexpensive series.
The Student Union book store has several shelves of paper-bound books on history, religion, science, philosophy, and psychology. There are novels such as "Kings Row," and "Madame Bovary," and books on almost any person, faith, or ideology that a reader could want to know about.
The modern bookstore is a far cry from the shop of the "book copier" of five centuries ago. No longer are books a scarcity, nor need they be ex-
library doesn't have to be a dream—not in the days of the modern library!
John Thornberry, chairman for the 1955 Greater Kansas City Science Fair, will be the speaker for the banquet and initiation meeting tonight of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific research society.
Thornberry to Speak At Sigma Xi Dinner
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Mr. Thornberry is a producer of television shows in Kansas City.
Guests of the KU chapter, the first Sigma Xi unit established west of the Mississippi river, will include several winners of the Kansas City Science Fair.
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George M. Herman, graduate, was named winner of the annual William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry prize yesterday. Winners of the second and third prizes, respectively, were Edward B. Groff, third year graduate, and Mordecai Marcus, graduate.
Herman Named Peotry Winner
Mrs. Bernice L. Schear won the honorable mention award. Fifty dollars is given to the first place winner while $25 and $15 go to the second and third places. Mrs. Schear receives a book of her choice.
Judges for the contest were Merrrel Clubb, professor of Eng-
gineering and programmer of the college, and Paul Ingle. University of Iowa School of Letters.
Comments of the judges on the winners' poems may be obtained by calling Arvid Shulenberger, assistant professor of English.
KDGU Schedule
6:29 Sign On
6:29 Sign On
6:30 Keynotes by Carle
6:40 Campus News
6:45 Rhythm and Reason
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 University Theater Concert
8:30 Here's to Veterans
8:45 News, Weather
8:55 Sports
9:00 Career Hour
9:30 Dreamtime
10:00 Weather—sign off
KANU Schedule
1:45 Sign on—Music
1:55 News
2:00 Serenade
3:00 Symphony Hour
3:55 News
4:00 Music You Want
5:00 Keyboard Concert
5:30 Jazz Concert
5:45 Cameron Reports Sports
5:55 News
6:00 Candlelight Concert
7:00 Music from Mt. Oread*
7:30 Ways of Mankind
8:00 News
8:05 Opera Is My Hobby
9:05 A Little Night Music
9:55 News
10:00 A Little Night Music
*Programs broadcast on both
Seniors Must Pay Dues
Seniors who have not already paid the graduation fees and senior dues must do so immediately at the Business office.
"The people of the mountains have learned how to compromise and to live co-operatively." Dr. Hans Boesch, professor of geography and director of the Geographical institute at the University of Zurich, said last night. He spoke on "Life in the High Mountains of Switzerland."
Boesch Tells of Switzerland
Dr. Boesch, vice president of the International Geographical union, spoke for the University Lecture series.
"The Alpine economy," as Dr Boesch calls it, is sometimes confused with the "transhumance" of the Mediterranean people or the "nomadism" of the desert countries. The Swiss economy differs in the fact that it is a co-operative system of herd grazing and distribution of the profits during the grazing season.
Switzerland, like most European countries, has always been land-poor. The people in the high mountain valleys have extended pasture lands up the mountainsides by cutting the trees and caring for the pastures. Grain and potatoes are raised on small patches formed by terracing the mountainside.
"I have seen people planting potatoes with a step-ladder," Dr. Boesch commented.
Competition with foreign markets has ruined any hope of these people for a higher standard of living. Many of the villagers from the high mountain valleys have moved to the industrialized cities. They have carried their system of compromise and co-operation with them.
Library Director Editor of Magazine
Robert Vosper, director of the University libraries, is the issue editor for the April number of the quarterly Library Trends. The magazine, which runs about 500 pages a year, is published by the University of Illinois Library school.
The issue edited by Vosper is devoted to current acquisitions trends in American libraries.
The history of these mountain people and the mountain pasture lands is not known. Their future is not known, but their co-operative philosophy is reflected throughout the country. Economically they are poor and will remain so, but they have done much to mold Switzerland.
Dr. Boesch, an authority on geology, geography, and economic geography, has met with classes and seminar groups in geology and geography during his three day stay.
Engineering Group Elects Officers
Pi Tau Sigma, national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity has elected James Fredrickson.engineering junior, president for next year.
Prof. J. O. Jones, instructor of applied mechanics and former dean of the School of Engineering was initiated as an honorary member, while Dr. Charles R. Mischke, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was selected as faculty advisor for next year at the same meeting.
Other officers elected were Everett Garett, engineering junior, vice president; James Rauch, engineering junior, treasurer; Carl Lindsey, engineering junior, recording secretary; Victor Blankenkish, engineering junior, corresponding secretary, and Nicolus Gianakis, engineering junior, historian.
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