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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 11, 1954
—Kansan photo by Frank Jennings
FACE LIFTING—Final examination study will be contending with noise furnished by workmen who are removing the dark finish on the library woodwork. The natural oak will be finished in clear varnish. All of this work near the end of the semester has brought a great amount of complaint from students using the library to study for finals.
Sorority Puts $300 Toward Physical Therapy Aid Fund
An initial gift of $300 from the Alpha Chi Omega Educational Foundation fund for a women's scholarship at the University was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The scholarship, which may be put on an annual basis, will first be awarded this spring to a woman ready to enter her senior year in physical therapy at the KU Medical center in Kansas City, Kans.
A national project of the sorority is aid to cerebral palsy victims. Training of physical therapy personnel is a step in that direction and the recipient of the award must agree to practice the profession of physical therapy for at least one year after graduation.
"We are personally pleased with this recognition of the importance of physical therapy and of the shortage of trained personnel in this field." Dr. Murphy said.
The University Endowment association will administer the scholarship. Applications will be taken early in the spring semester.
The sorority's Educational foundation was established in 1951 to further higher education among deserving women at KU. Any member of the KU chapter of the sorority becomes a life member by making an established minimum contribution. There are now 75 life members, of whom 23 reside in Greater Kansas City.
Officers of the foundation are Mrs. Robert C. Matchette, 7405 El Monte, Prairie Village, president; Mrs. Alan C. Martinek, 8131 Valley View drive, Overland Park, vice president; Mrs. Aaron A. Wilson Jr., 2513 W. 76th place, Kansas City, Mo., secretary, and Mrs. William R. Hogan, 6807 Roe, Prairie Village, treasurer.
Parchment diplomas awarded at commencements cost U.S. high schools and colleges more than a million dollars annually.
6,500 Taking Courses In KU Extension
University extension, the "world wide classroom" of the University, now offers 184 courses to about 6,500 students. Miss Ruth Kenney, director of the bureau of correspondence study, says.
The new correspondence course catalog lists 132 courses in 26 academic departments in which university credit may be earned. There are 44 high school credit courses in 10 academic fields.
Eight courses are described as "continuation." These are primarily for adults with special fields of interest they wish to cultivate but who have no need for academic credits.
Hallmark Hall of Fame Presents Story of Mary White Editorial
More than half the correspondence students who may be found on every continent, are taking college-level courses. "But an increasing number of adults are taking university courses by mail for pleasure and are not taking the final examination for credit." Mis Kenney said, "An Evanston University City, Mo., who has earned seventy degrees. He enjoyed geology course so much that he has been recommending it to his friends."
Strange as it may seem, an appreciable number of Kansas high school students are taking correspondence work and doing it in their own classrooms during school hours. When the school finds it impossible to obtain a teacher for a subject with a small enrollment, the stu-
The story of the editorial, "Mary White," by William Allen White, was presented last night on the Hallmark Hall of Fame radio program. The story was entitled "Kansas Editor."
By BILL SLAMIN
Lionel Bartymore, narrated the program on CBS-radio from Hollywood. Mr. Barrymore described the editorial as "the most beautiful, yet most tragic ever written by William Allen White."
The story of Mary White's death was originally intended to be an obituary. It was changed to an editorial when Mr. White learned that the Associated Press had misinterpreted the cause of his daughter's death.
The editorial was written by Mr. White with the help of his wife, Sallie. It is the story of the life and the circumstances surrounding the death of their daughter, Mary White.
The AP dispatch reported that she was killed as a result of a fall from a horse. Mr. White vigorously denied this report, saying that "horses might fall around her, from under her, and on top of her, but Mary White never fell from a horse."
The editorial was written on May 17, 1921, some 26 years after Mr. White wrote his first editorial for the Emporia Gazette in 1895.
Sallie White impressed on Mr White the importance of writing about Mary as she really was in life. Mrs. White wanted Mary described as being "no goody, goody girl. She had a quick temper, but she never nursed a gripe more than five minutes in her life. She was a full of faults as an old shoe."
Mary White was 16 years old when she died. "Sixteen is a magical, a wonderful and somehow an unforgettable age," Mrs. White said
Mary White died as a result of a blow on the head received from a low branch on a tree while she was riding her horse.
Her funeral was said to have been the kind of funeral that she would have wanted. Her favorite
music was played, and her friends and classmates sang the Lord's Prayer for her. There were no flowers except for the red roses that her brother's classmates had sent from Harvard.
"When Mary White was being buried, a ray of sunshine streamed through a break in a dark cloudy sky and fell on her casket," Mr. White said.
The editorial "Mary White" has been published in 23 different books for high school and college use. It also has been published by many newspapers in this country and abroad.
Mr. White said that if his daughter's memory would ever be immortal it would be because of the editorial. He also believed that if he ever acquired any fame as a journalist it would be because he had written the "Mary White" editorial.
Mr. White's only other child, W. L. White, is editor of the Emporia Gazette. He is author of the books, "They were Expendable," "Journey for Margaret" and others.
U.S. Superiority In Air Stressed
Paris — (U,P)— Gen. Alfred M Gruenther, Allied supreme commander, said today that Russia has "no answer" at the present time to the Allied long range atom-bomb-carrying air power.
Allied planes, particularly the new United States B-47 jet bomber, could cause "great damage" in the Soviet rear and make any Russian attack "very costly". Gruenther said.
"The air power available in the United States Strategic Air force—which would be available to Allied Supreme headquarters here in case of war—consists of planes to which there is no answer on the Soviet side at this time," Gen. Gruenther said.
The ace up the Allied sleeve, Gen. Gruenter said, is mainly the B-47. It flies so fast and so high that Soviet interceptor defenses would be ineffective and moreover it can launch its atom bombs with "considerable accuracy," he said.
The build-up of Allied air power is partly responsible for an estimate by leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty organization that "peril of war is less imminent than at any time since NATO was organized" four years ago. Gen. Gruenther said.
The Allied general spoke at a lunction of the correspondents acceded.
He reviewed Western defenses especially since President Eisenhower, his predecessor as supreme commander, came here to organize the Western fighting forces against a possible Communist attack.
At that time, Gen. Guenther said, the Allies had almost no effective air force.
A Midwest rubber company has announced development of a chemical for controlling quack grass—a hard-to-kill weed that has cut into the profits of farmers throughout the northern United States. The chemical is sprayed on the grass when it has four inches or more of leaf growth.
dents are taught by the "post office" teacher from Mount Oread.
West Indies Water Colors Now Shown
An exhibition of ten water colors will be held in the Architectural library, third floor Marvin hall, January 11-20. They are the work of Frank Hamilton, engineering senior.
While working for the five year architectural degree Hamilton finds time to do water colors, play on the baseball team, and has done professional work for several architectural firms.
The pictures are of subjects from the West Indies made from first hand sketching trips to this region during the past two summers. The pictures are typical native scenes of Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and the Windward islands.
A year ago the Department of Architecture exhibited some of Hamilton's work. His paintings have been shown and he has won prizes in several West Coast exhibits.
UN Conference Speaker Named
Dr. Joseph H. Taggart, professor of economics at Rutgers university and government economic consultant, will be a featured speaker at the sixth annual United Nations conference here Jan. 25-26. Dr. Taggart would speak on "Collective Security" at the morning session Jan. 26.
Since the war Dr. Taggart has often been engaged in economic analysis of the problems of defensive military alliances of the Western world.
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