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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 3, 1952
Addicts Will Buy Marijuana As Long As There Is A Supply
New York—(U.P.)—Young people tempted to smoke marijuana or try heroin "just for a thrill" ought to talk to a hard-working woman detective who has spent the last seven years tracking down ruthless narcotics sellers and their helpless victims.
“四or five times are all you have to use heroin to have a habit,” said Kitty Barry, her blue eyes serious. Her nose was blue if she would if only wipe out the supply of this stuff—then the weak kids wouldn't have the temptation.
Her interest in narcotics work began then.
Kitty was the second woman on the narcotic squad when she signed up seven years ago after four years as a policewoman.
"I saw them bring in a young girl addict when I first served as a police matron 11 years ago," she said.
She's seen plenty of young girl addicts since, driven to prostitution and stealing to get money to buy narcotics. She's had to arrest young boys who stole money from their mother's purses and pawned family possessions to satisfy their terrible craving. She has never said it to a parent, but Kitty has looked at the wasted, pain-wracked body of more than one teenage addict and thought, "He'd be better off dead."
"I wish more of the stories had happy endings," she said ruefully. "There aren't many successful cures of the heroin habit."
One exception may be a pretty, young stenographer who came here from a good home in a small Pennsylvania town.
"She started going with a man who had plenty of money to spend on her," Kitty said. "At first everything was all right. Then he talked her into trying heroin. She got a habit. Then she moved in with him. Finally he got her to sell the stuff for him. That's when I arrested her a year ago."
The girl was lucky. Her boy friend went to prison, but she got a suspended sentence and a chance to start over.
"She calls me every now and then," Kitty said. "She's been off heroin for eight months now, has a job and even is going to night school."
Hers may be one of the rare happy endings, if she can forget the agony and shame she's already endured.
Jobs, friends, self respect—all go when the narcotics habit gets a firm hold. And it doesn't always strike in families forced to live in squalfed tenements where children grow up on the streets.
A month ago she walked into a sordid, smoky room that was a hangout for young addicts. The same college boy, back from the hospital only a short time, was there.
"I arrested an 18-year-old college boy on a street corner about a year ago," Kitty recalled. "His parents were fine people. They saw that he went to the federal hospital in Lexington, Ky."
"I arrested five of them, but he didn't have anything on him, so all I could do was call his family," Kitty said. "Two weeks later another detective arrested him for shoplifting.
"You can't stop them from buying it," she added grimly. "You have to stop the supply."
German Club Elects Officers
Victor Baptiste, college junior,
recently was elected president of
the German club. Other elected
officers are Gertrud Kaps, vicepresident; Ruth Elser, secretary-treasurer, and Patricia Cusic, foodchairman.
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Province President Visits Alpha C Omega
Mrs. Melvin F. Lindeman, Wichita, a province president of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, will be the guest of Phi chapter at the University from Tuesday to Friday.
A graduate of the University, Mrs. Lindeman acts as counsellor for Alpha Chi chapters on campuses in Kansas and Missouri. She is active in the work of the American Association of University Women and was formerly Kansas state chairman for Alpha Chi Omega alumnae.
While on the campus Mrs. Lindeman will attend both active and non-activist meetings to visit Miss Martha Peterson, acting dean of women at the University,
Pi Beta Phi Holds Annual Dinner Dance
Pi Beta Phi sorority held its annual dance Feb. 23. The dinner was at the chapter house and the dance at the Eldridge hotel. Music was by the Varsity crew.
The chaperones were Mrs. Dean Alt, housemother; Mrs. J. H Kreamer, Mrs. Andrew G. McKay, Mrs. Thomas H. Stuart, Mrs. C. A Thomas, Miss Vet Lear, Mrs. Bert A. Weber, and Mrs. Arthur H. Little.
Victor Weber, engineering freshman, recently was named honor initiate at a formal banquet following the initiation of 14 Acaians.
Acacia Initiates 14;
Honor Goes To Weber
Donald Ochs, Robert Beu, James Ireland, Joseph Culver, Bruce Gordon, Art Holliday, Jack Byrd, John Easten, Kenith Howard, John Prosser, Paul Bartholow, Everett Dye, Robert Brock, A. C. Cooke, Ralph Stevenson, Winton Winter, Jerry Lewis and Mahlon Ball.
Those initiated were Nelson Bachus, Abbeyville; Kenneth Beck, Emporia; Hubert Capps and Oscar Chowning, Coffeville; George Daniels, Smith Center; Charles Dick, Hutchinson; Ronald Duphorne, Sharon Springs; James Glass, Overland Park; Gary Hammer, Wichita; Bernard Jones, Ft. Scott; William Maben, Winfield; Herbert Strunk, Highland; Charles Tice, Summerfield, and Victor Weber, Concordia.
The guests were Kenn Patterson, Ronald Linsehde, Dean Wells, Joe Christy, Richard Sheldon, Frank Mornis, Phil Huffman, Kyle Bissell, Drew Penfold, Buford Bissell, Bernard Rooney, Warren Woody, Bob Rabehn and Richard Cummings.
New Chinese Fashion Designer Puts A Touch Of Orient In A Lot Of U.S. Clothes
New York —(U.P.)— The Korean war brought a few oriental touches to American fashion. Now, because of a designer named Madame Lee-Sun, you can expect many more.
"American women are so used to full skirts and low-cut necklines, they have no idea how becoming a Chinese dress can be," she said. "If a woman has a good figure, one of the straight-cut dresses can do more for her than a plunging neckline."
Most of her designs, made from the luxury silks of her homeland, are for lounge wear—mandarin-cut robes and slacks topped with coolie coats. She has, however, made dozens of mandarin jackets for evening wear and a few of the dresses of her own people—reproducing the neckline and straight, slit skirt.
Madame Lee-Sun claims to be the only Chinese woman designing Chinese clothes, made in China, for the American woman.
Mme. Lee-Sun said it would be less expensive perhaps to bring the fabrics to America and make the hat, but that the result would not be the same.
"The Chinese women have been wearing that slanted neckline opening for a thousand years," she explained. "Garment fastenings—you call them frogs—are 4,000 years old. Making them is an intricate process. Your seamstresses could not do so well."
Clothing design is a brand new field for the Shanghai-born Madame Lee-Sun.
She, her husband and three sons lived in Washington from 1946 to 1949. He was a banker there.
Then, in '49, they returned to China—she to the family home at Shanghai; he to Hong Kong, where he went into the import-export business.
"When the Communists took Shanghai," she continued, "I tried to get to Hong Kong. I finally lied my way out. I told the Communists I had to get to Hong Kong to see my mother and father who were ill."
"They gave me a 60-day permit, and I never went back."
Her father is on Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek's staff on Formosa. Her brother is in the Chinese National Air Force.
"I wanted my two younger sons to have an American education," she said. "That's why I came to New York to open shop. One boy is studying piano at the Juilliard School of Music. The other has just started school."
au Sigma
presents
INTERPRETIVE DANCE SORORITY
A varied selection of solo and group dances designed to interpret music, feeling, and ideas through body movement.
Spring Dance Concert
Tuesday, March 4th
Fraser Theatre
Tickets are now on sale in the Union building and information booth for this unusual and entertaining evening.
50c
Official Bulletin
Tickets for the Tau Sigma Recital, Tuesday, may be purchased in the Women's Physical Education office. 50 cents each.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary earth science fraternity, initiation 7 p.m. Wednesday, 402 Lindley hall. Informal supper, Dine-A-Mite, Thursday night.
A. S. T. E. field trip to Brunson Instrument Co, Kansas City, Saturday. All students planning to attend, sign bulletin board in Marvin.
Chess club, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday,
111 Strong.
Campus Affairs committee, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, 222 Strong, subject: Honor System.
College Daze - final try-outs for cast 7, tonight Hawk's Nest.
Cercle Francais mardi a sept heures et demie, 113 Strong. Films faits en France par M. Vernon French.
Student Religious Council, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Myers hall. Be prepared to vote on new plan.
Air Force ROTC and Women'Rifle club practices are suspended this week for ordinance inspection. Stateswomen, 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Stateswomen, 5 p.m. Tuesday, AWS Lounge.
International Relations club, 6 p.m. Tuesday, dinner at the Hearth Tea Room. Mrs. Chase Osborn, speaker.
The English Proficiency examination will be given on March 8. Juniors or seniors in the College, Education, Journalism, Medicine, and Fine Arts will register on March 3, 4, 5 in the offices of their deans. Mrs. Calderwood will be in Fraser 211 from 9-12 and 2-4 on Tuesday, March 4; and from 9-12 on Thursday, March 6. to answer questions.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Pine room. All members and pledges attend. Interested in service work welcome.
Phi Mu Alpha, 7 p.m. Wednesday,
131 Strong. Pledges must attend.
Alpha Delta Pi Announces Appointive Offices For Year
Appointive offices for Alpha Delta Pi sorority for the coming year have recently been announced by the executive council.
They are Mary Ann Irwin, rush chairman; Joyce Driver, social chairman; Marjane Lynch, scholarship chairman; Jane Schindling, house manager; Joyce Cazier, song leader; Marilyn Hanson, libarian; Marilyn Miller, activities chairman; Kathryn Bauersfeld, intramurals chairman; Joyce Henry, decorations chairman; Jo Alice Johnson, scrapbook chairman, and Nancy Gill, skit chairman.
Alpha Epsilon Pi Installs
Desenberg As President
Milford Desenberg, college senior, was installed March 1 as master of Kappa Upsilon chapter of Alpha Tau fraternity for the spring semester.
Other officers installed were Joseph Shultz, lieutenant master; David Belzer, scribe; Eugene Hurwitz, exchequer; Sidney Gottesmann, historian, and Martin Rogoff, critic.
Alpha Delta Pi Pledges One
Alpha Delta Pi sorority announces the recent pledging of Sue Hershey, college junior from Mirmingham, Mich.
Alpha Epsilon Pi Pledges Two
and Epsilon Pi Pledges Two Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity announces the pledging of Mendel Small, college junior, and Bernard Sherman, college freshman. Both men are from Kansas City, Mo.
Acacia Entertains Pi Phi
The Acacia fraternity entertained Martha Jane Shaw, president, and Annabel Hungate, social chairman of Pi Beta Phi sorority at dinner Wednesday.
YOUR EYES
should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or prescription duplicated.
Lawrence Optical Co.
Phone 425 1025 Mass