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University Daily Kansart
Thursday, Jan. 3, 1952
Extension Library Offers Many Services To Students
By LORENA BARLOW
"How I wish I had known about this service." is one of the most frequent remarks Mrs. Virginia Maddox hears. She is the director of the University Extension library.
Although the library does not serve University students, it will provide them with many sources of information after graduation. "Today we send out approximately 5,000 loans each year and answer many other inquiries and requests by letter," Mrs. Maddox said.
Annually an average of 500 towns and communities located in all of the counties of Kansas and in a number of other states are served by the library.
The service is designed to supplement community library facilities through loans of educational materials not obtainable locally.
The development of the library service began in 1909 with the loan of books and package libraries of periodical clippings and pamphlets. In 1913 this service was organized within the University Extension division as the bureau of general information.
The unit by which the majority of requests is answered is called a package library. It is a collection of reference materials dealing with a single subject. Usually it is composed of a dozen or two magazine clippings, several pamphlets or bulletins, and possibly a book or two.
Program planning aids are also available from the library service. It has materials which are helpful in planning programs either for the entire year or for special occasions.
Each request is considered an individual reference problem. Each package library is assembled with consideration for the particular interests and needs of the borrower.
Complete programs are not outlined for an individual group, but special attention is given to each group's particular need, as they had been made known, in preparing their package of aids.
The loan collection of art prints consists of approximately 3,500 reproductions. They are mainly color prints of famous paintings and representative works of prominent painters of various nations and periods.
perlons. The average size of the mounted
prints is 11 by 14 inches. A package library of reference material may accompany a loan of art prints. An art subject package may also include a few prints to be used as illustrations.
The drama loan collection contains some 6.000 plays, texts on dramatic and theatrical techniques and supplementary entertainment materials. They are all selected from the offerings of major play publishers.
Another service offered by the Extension library is the reading program for children. It has grown from the conviction that reading for pleasure is an essential element in the life-long process of education.
Books from the University library may be sent on Extension loan whenever they are not needed by resident students and faculty. Certain volumes and collections have a restricted circulation because they are unusually valuable or are not replaceable.
Plays may be borrowed for reading purposes only. Production copies must be ordered directly from the publisher, who must also be consulted concerning royalties.
Book loans may consist of specifically requested titles or of a selection by the reference staff dealing with a given subject.
The program is designed to stimulate the reading of good books by children in elementary school. Through it local communities may extend their efforts to bring more good books to the children of Kansas.
The program furnishes a simple working plan to stimulate reading by affording a means of recognizing the accomplishment. An attractive certificate, signed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, is awarded to each child fulfilling the requirements.
Mrs. Maddox said she will be happy to talk with any student concerning the library and its services
Kansas Dust Bowl Farms In Beef Production Again
Elkhart—(U.P.)-Fifteen years ago, farmers in what was then a wasteland of Morton county sold their land for $4 an acre and moved from the dust-blown area.
Today 110,000 acres along the Cimarron river in that county is pasture land and this year it will produce about a million extra pounds of beef.
The pasture is owned by the soil conservation service of the federal government. The service started work to reclaim the land in 1936, buying the land from farmers who broke in the drought and dust-bowl years.
Lewis Essay Contest Open To KU Students
The service poured pasture grass seeds into the depleted, sandy soil. By 1434, a small part of the area was ready for grazing and farmers and ranchers in the region formed the Morton County grazing association.
Any farmer in the county can belong to the organization. It's a cooperative system, with everybody interested benefiting from the government grass.
This last year 60,000 acres were grazed. Another 20,000 acres will be ready next year. Cattleman figure that more than 6,000 head of stock grazed on the 60,000 acres this year and gained a million pounds of beef.
In 1943 there were 475 head of cattle on the pasture that was opened for the first time.
Stockman pay $1.75 a month per head for use of the government grass. The government's fee is $1. The other 75 cents goes to the association to defray its expenses.
One fourth of each dollar paid the government returns to the county in lieu of taxes. That means about $10,000 for the county treasury this year.
All regularly enrolled students at the University may enter the annual Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Memorial Essay contest which is open now.
When it's roundup time on the pasture each fall, about 100 cowboys join forces to rope the different brands and separate the calves.
In preparing the book, Dr. Hall studied weasels in the wild state and preserved specimens in zoological collections of more than 100 universities and museums in North and Central America and in Europe.
The land worth $4 an acre 15 years ago now is figured from $30 to $100.
The first place winner will receive $100, the second best essay writer will receive $75 and the third place winner will receive $50.
Questions about American weasels were answered recently for members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Philadelphia. Supplying the answers was Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the Museum of Natural History.
Most of the book is technical. Chapters relate to paleontology, skeleton and teeth, seasonal changes in color of fur, geographic distribution and speciation, technical accounts of four species and 68 subspecies, and habits of weasels.
Hall Speaks At Science Meeting
The general theme of the essays is "The Application of the Teachings of Jesus to the Practical Affairs and Relations of Life—Individual, Social or Political," but each essay must deal with a single definite subject, or a single phase of life.
Essays must be not less than 3,000 nor move than 10,000 words in length. They must be typewritten and double spaced, have a table of contents, footnotes giving reference to authorities cited, and bibliography.
The museum has also released a 488-page book by Dr. Hall giving findings in a quarter century of research on weasels.
All essays should be turned in to the Chancellor's office not later than May 1, 1952, and be in a sealed envelope superscribed with the exact title of the essay and the writer's assumed name and containing the contestant's real name.
The memorial was established at the University in 1911, in memory of Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former K.U. student, by her husband, Prof George Edward Patrick, a member of the University faculty from 1874 to 1883.
Coach Phog Allen had a .938 won lost percentage at Warrenburg Teachers college in the seven year he was basketball coach there.
The memorial is maintained out of funds put into the hands of the Chancellor of the University a few months before Professor Patrick's death, which occurred in 1916.
Mattie Crumrine, assistant professor of romance languages; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history, are the members of the Lewis Memorial committee.
Analysis Given On Agriculture
A 202-page analysis of agriculture and its contribution of the "Economic Development of Southwestern Kansas" has been released by the Bureau of Business Research of the University. The study titled "Agriculture" is Part V of the larger study named above.
The text, dealing with one of the most crucial sections of the economy of southwestern Kansas, is liberally illustrated and clarified with charts and tables.
The authors are Dr. Robert S. Eckley and W. James Foreman, Dr. Eckley, now industrial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, was formerly assistant professor of economics at the University. Mr. Foreman was a research assistant in the KU Bureau of Business Research and is now research assistant in agricultural economics at the University of Illinois.
"This work is presented with the hope that it will provide both agriculturists and businessmen with a tool for forming judgments about agricultural policies advantageous to themselves and the area." Prof. Paul Malone, director of the KU bureau, said.
Newcastle, Australia—(U.P.)—Crew members of the Norwegian ship Templar claim the ghost of a headless Nazi soldier walks the decks at night.
Copies of "Agriculture" may be obtained upon request from the Bureau of Business Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Sailors Claim Ghost Walks Decks At Night
They said the uninformed ghost has been seen in the sick bay and forecastle. It speaks to them in the dead of night, then turns and marches away.
News Roundup
Bo'sun Johansin said: "I heard a German voice and then a headless soldier in a green German uniform walked into the sick bay from the bathroom."
Johansen said the ghost was that of one of the Germans who died aboard the ship during the war. The ship had been seized by the Germans.
Russia Asks Security Council To Snap Truce Talk Deadlock
Paris—(U.P.)—Russia proposed today that a United Nations Security council meeting be called immediately to attempt to break the deadlock in the Korean armistice talks.
The surprise proposal also would call on top-level delegates—perhaps foreign ministers—to survey all phases of the cold war to determine if tension could be eased.
The resolution was submitted before the UN General Assembly's main political committee under a special UN charter provision authorizing "periodic" security council meetings attended by high government officials and specially-designed delegates.
Big Task Faces HST And Reform Program
Washington—(U.P.)—Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means committee predicted today that President Truman's reform plan for the Internal Revenue bureau will run into "much opposition" in congress.
The North Carolina Democrat, who appointed the subcommittee which has been exposing nationwide tax scandals, told a reporter he "buckles" whether the reorganization proposals will go through.
Despite the rumblings of opposition from Capitol Hill, internal revenue commissioner John B. Dunlap said he is confident that congress will not block the reorganization plan just to keep from losing "patronage." The present 64 collectors of internal revenue, who would be eliminated by the proposed overhaul, are political appointees in whose selection congressmen usually have a big voice.
Washington—(U.P.)—The State department today dismissed Josef Stalin's unprecedented New Year's message to the Japanese as a "propaganda flop."
The White House at the same time disclosed that President Truman declined an invitation to send a similar message.
State department officials said his declaration of "deep sympathy" for Japan falls very flat while Russia continues to demand the Emperor's death, fails to account for 300,000 Japanese war prisoners, and occupies two Japanese islands.
Indo-China Seen As Next Battleground
Stalin's Japan Message Termed 'Flop'
Washington—(U.P.)The United States is seriously concerned over the danger of an early Chinese Communist attack on Indo-China, government officials revealed today.
The ominous situation in Southeast Asia is scheduled for top level review here in the next few days in the global strategy talks between President Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The United States at this time is unwilling to say exactly what it would do if the Chinese Reds send "volunteers" into the three associated states of Indo-China or commit formal aggression with Red troops. A precedent for armed United Nations resistance was set when North Korea invaded South Korea 18 months ago.
Captain Still With Floundering Ship
London—(U.P.)—Capt. Henrik Kurt Carlsen clung to his floundering freighter "Flying Enterprise" today while an American destroyer stood by to save him if the ship sinks and a British tug raced through boiling seas to aid.
The Flying Enterprise is listing as much as 80 degrees as it wallows in heavy seas, and its decks at times are nearly vertical.
Kansas City, Kan.—(U.P.) The episode of the microphones planted beneath the desk of a Democratic police judge, allegedly by an employee of the state's Republican attorney general, developed added ramifications today.
Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fatzer said he would seek Supreme Court ouster of Police Judge J. Earl Thomas.
Meanwhile, the chief of the Kansas City, Kan., police department, Earl Swarner, indicated two city detectives who lay in wait in Thomas' office after the judge discovered the microphones Sunday acted without his knowledge.
Propaganda War Has New Commander
Washington—(U.P.)—Dr. Raymond B. Allen took over Wednesday as director of the National Psychological Strategy board, with the goal of defeating Russia in the world-wide battle for men's minds.
Allen, former president of the University of Washington, succeeded Gordon Gray, one-time army secretary. He faced the task of winning a propaganda fight in which the Kremlin spent about $1,400,000,000 last year, compared to $200,000,000 by the United States.
1951 Kansas Traffic Toll Highest
Topeka—U.P.—The traffic death toll in Kansas during 1951 shattered all records, the Kansas Highway commission reported today.
Incomplete figures showed that 595 persons were killed during the year. The previous record number of deaths occurred in 1936 when 588 persons were killed.
During 1950 there were 534 traffic fatalities.