STUDENT BUILDING $ \rightarrow $ This view of the Student Union is a far cry from the Union of today. This picture taken from the files in the Alumni office, shows the Union while it was under construction
FRANK STRONG 1925—Few people would recognize Frank Strong as it looks in this picture. This side of the building, what is now the rear, was intended to be the front. The street ran beneath the porch-like structure the graduating class of 1925 is standing on.
Pittsburgh—(U.P.) a Boon for pil-
low-haters soon may come to market
thanks to a 25-year-old girl
who came up a different type of
matress.
Novelty — "People have been sleeping on the same shaped mattress for generations."
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Fat used two sales arguments in her calls on potential manufacturers.
Pat Morecell, dauhber of Adm. Ben Moreell, board chairman of Jones & Loughlin Steel Corp., likes the softness of a pillow, but not the head-sup effect. So, Pat invented a mattress with an indentation big enough to accommodate a regular pillor or a foam-rubber cushion, so that the head has a soft base but the body is perfectly horizontal.
Health "Better blood circulation is possible when the head rests level
with the mattress, and loss of hair often has been attributed to poor circulation. Perhaps there would be less baldness with my new mattress."
Most manufacturers discouraged her but recently she convinced the Sealy Mattress Co. and the Firestone Rubber Co. the idea was sound. Now, they have promised to start production in single and double bed sizes.
Her luck makes prophets of her prep school classmates who stated in a yearbook: "She's usually busy dreaming up ideas."
Meat sauces, catup, mustard, and unopened jars or cans of pickles, peanut butter and coconut do not need refrigeration. Utilize the space for additional fresh fruits and vegetables.
Kansan classifieds, bring results.
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USA Gives Japan Smiles
St. Louis, Mo. — U.J.P.) — Dolores Boeckmann, field director for the Far East Staff Service club, says the Japanese never smiled until after World War II when the Americans taught them how.
Miss Boeckmann worked with the Supreme Command Allied Powers in Tokyo, coaching Japanese women's teams entered in the Asian Olympic games in 1951.
"For days I worked with the girls from 7 in the morning until 9 or 10 at night," she said. "I tried to teach them table manners, how to meet people, how to walk, how to dress. I always told them to 'smile, smile, smile.'
"You know, the Japanese never smiled before the war, but since Americans have been there, they have learned to smile a little."
Training Olympic teams is old stuff for the tall, vivacious St. Louis girl. She is a former member and coach of the United States Women's Olympic teams.
Shinto Making Return As Japanese Religion
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Shinto, the former national religion which Japan's militarists exploited, is making a comeback.
In October, for the first time since Shinto fell into disrepute after the defeat in World War II, the Emperor sent an emissary to the autumn festival at Tokyo's Yasuku shrine, where Japan's war dead are enshrined and every subject once had to pause and bow when passing.
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida broke post-war precedent by worshiping at Yasukuni with considerable fanfare during the spring festival.
The government is resuming the practice of contributions to the unceep of shrines, spending about 200-000,000 yen this year to help repair he spectacularly colorful and tradition-steeped buildings which are Jianan's greatest tourist attractions.
There is no tendency yet, however, to reestablish Shinto as the official or compulsory religion.
Seven million faithful contributed in a successful campaign to raise 700,000,000 yen for reconstruction of the Grand Shrine at Ise, where the legendary founder of Japan, Amaterasu Omikami, is enkrived. Pil
grims to the shrine totalled 830,000 in 1947, 3,500,000 in 1952 and are breaking records this year.
The Allied occupation, in one of its first reform measures, stripped the Shinto religion of all connection with the government.
Tainted with the odor of ultrafragmentationalism and symbolizing the discredited and defeated era of aggression, Shinto was on the verge of extinction in 1946-47.
"The way of the gods," which taught respect for superiors through reverence of the Imperial family and the great figures—mostly military—of Japan's history, did not fit the anti-war, anti-authoritarian era of American "demo-kurassy."
Shinto shrines were virtually dis- serted. Lacking government funds and stripped of their vast land holdings, they fell into disrepair.
Buddhism, the passive faith which most Japanese profess but do not follow strictly, did not fill the spiritual vacuum.
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