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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 24, 1951
Chinese Are Peace Lovers Lecturer Says
Throughout the centuries the Chinese nation has been a peace-lowing nation, Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, visiting professor of humanities, said at the sixth lecture in the Ursume in Asia series Tuesday.
They are a home loving people with a sense of humor and have never made trouble in their own country, Dr. Chakravarty said, or in areas where they have settled in other nations, he said.
During its dynasties, China's influence grew and Chinese culture spread through Central Asia. Beginning with the first dynasty in 1766 B.C., the monarchial system remained unbroken until the first republic was established in 1911.
"It was Sun Yat Sen, first president of the republic, who was partly responsible for the coming of Communism to China," Dr. Chakravarty explained. Anxious to make China a true democracy and to see all nations live together in peace, Sun Yat Sen sought advice from Russians, Americans and other foreigners whom he brought to China.
Until very recently, Mao Tse-Tung, present Chinese Communist leader, had never been to Russia. Neither would he allow his "people's party" to be identified with the Communist party." Dr. Chakravarty said.
"But things have changed," the speaker added. "Only we must help China to evolve her form of culture once more and exert her assimilative genius."
Lieutenant For Months But Didn't Know It
Rockland, Mass. — (U.P.)—Charlet J. Jankowski of Rockland, who re- enlisted in the Army as a sergeant, was a first lieutenant for nine months before he found out about it.
Jankowski held a commission in World War II but when he rejoined the Army, he went in as a sergeant. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean war, Jankowski applied for a commission.
Carillon Program Announced Today
LORD HALIFAX arrives on Queen Elizabeth to tour the United States in his capacity as committee member for awards of commonwealth fund scholarships. He is former
British ambassador to U.S.
The weekly programs of the Memorial Campanile have been announced for today and Sunday.
The program at 7 p.m. today will include:
Prelude—Cello Suite No. 4 (J. S.
Bach), Traumareu (Schumann), The Camptown Races (Foster), Le Rosier
(Rousseau), Waltz in A flat
(Brahms), Sarabande for carillon
(Loos), Selections from Hansel and
Gretel (Humperdink), and Crimson
and the Blue.
The program at 3 p.m. Sunday will include:
Prelude No. 8 in A minor for carillon (Van den Gheyn), The Sandman, and Gigue (Couperin), Hail to the Lord's Appointed, Lord, Speak to Me, Lift up our Hearts, O King of Kings, Glory to the King of Angels, Chanson Triste (Tschalikowsky), Fantasia on Ite Messa est, for carillon (Van den Broeck), and Crimson and the Blue.
England's Henry VIII accumulated a hoard of silverplate valued at $10,000,000.
French Dream Up Method To Salmonize Live Trout
Paris—(U.P.)—The Russians claim they invented anything from sheostering and footpowder to the atomic bomb. So far, they can't make a royal salmon from a plain lake trout, however.
The French can, rapidly cheaply.
"A teaspoonful of the stuff's enough to salmonize 10 pounds of Live trout.
After years of patient research Louis Page, a prominent member o. the French Academy of Science, and Pierre Besse, "master pisciculturist," claim they have mastered the trick
In a learned report submitted to the Academy of Sciences, the two men proclaim they can change the looks of a laker by feeding him a home-made drug that makes his flesh rosy and makes him taste like a salmon.
"The color varies with the food the fish eat. Those eating crabfish, fresh-water shrimp and other crustaceans get a pink-colored flesh. Those who swallow just anything have a white tasteless flesh."
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Besse said he had isolated 12 spring salmon and four rainbow
"If the method is adopted it will revolutionize angling" the men said. "All you need to do is to take a leisurely walk along a fast-running Brook or a sleepy lake and assess the number of trout living there" Besse said poetically.
"Then you take boiled lobster shells and grind them into fine powder. Dissolve the powder in chloroform and distill the liquid. Knead the residue with chopped beefsteak.
"Four months after the treatment started my fish donned a brilliantly colored robe with heavy dark stripes over the back, the belly and fins a glistening red."
"The non-dieting salmon and trout have dirty-cloudy, darkcolored scales. It's a deception to look upon their orange-yellowish, whitish-grey bellies and fins."
trout and put them on his lobstershell diet. His diary reveals in near-verse form:
The academicians—their official title is "Immortals"—nodded gravely in agreement and gave the Page-Besse method their blessing.
Despite Clouded History Of Jayhawk Few Will Deny Bird's Existence
In some ways the Kansas Jayhawk is like Santa Claus. No one knows positively where he originated and no one has ever seen him. Yet only persons of little imagination will deny he exists.
The Jayhawk legend was born outside the state and perhaps even outside the country. It may have come from Ireland or somewhere in Europe. Most historians, however, think its place of birth was in Texas or Illinois.
Earlest unauthenticated report of the word "Jayhawk" comes from Texas in the 1830's, where Sam Houston's army was fighting along the Mexican border. Some of the men, it is said, referred to themselves as "Jayhawkers."
More authorities go along with the theory that the first group to adopt the name was a band of adventurers who set out from Illinois in 1849 for the gold fields of California. Why they chose the name is a mystery.
It was in the early territorial days that the Jayhawk came to Kansas and Kansans and Missourians applied the word to each other indiscriminately. At that time the word "Jayhawk" was a verb and synonymous with "thief."
"What have you been doing?" a Kansas asked him. "In Ireland." Pat said, "we have a bird we call the Jayhawk which makes its living off other birds. I guess you might say I've been 'Jayhawking'."
A story related by early settlers concerns the Irishman Pat Devlin, who in 1856 was living on the Kansas side of the border. One day he came galloping across the Missouri line, his horse loaded down with equipment which he had "liberated" from his Missouri neighbors.
Old timers maintain that Pat Devlin brought the word to Kansas but there is no absolute proof that Devlin actually existed and the library at Dublin lists no bird in Ireland called the Jayhawk.
To protect Kansans against raiding bands of Missouri border ruffians. C. B. Jennison in 1859 organized a band of men known as Jayhawks. Group headquarters were in Linn county,
Governor Robinson authorized Jennison to organize a regiment of cavalry when the Civil War broke out. These soldiers, many of whom were members of the original Jennison Jayhawks, called themselves "Independent Mounted Jayhawks." They fought so fiercely that Southerners said the men had horns and ate small children.
These Kansas Jayhawks fought so hard and well, according to report, that they helped change the connotation of the word Jayhawk from "thief and plunderer," to "Kansas" and "fighter."
Sometime in the late 1880's or early '90's, the Jayhawk came to the University. Athletic teams became
known as the Jayhawks and in 1904 the University annual adopted the name "Jayhawker."
Through the years the Jayhawk was generally thought of as some kind of bird, but until 1911 no likeness of him had appeared. Hank Maloy, a journalism student at KU in 1911, drew the ancestor of today's Jayhawk in a series of cartoons for the Kansan.
One of Maloy's original Jayhawk drawings, replete with shoes, is reproduced in this column.
While the origin of the strange bird is clouded, most Kansans will agree with Kirk Meechem, who, while secretary of the Kansas State Historical society, had this to say about the bird:
"It was a bird with a mission. It was an early bird and caught many a Missouri worm. It did not allow salt to be put on its tail."
Life Magazine Sales Double
Life magazine sales in Lawrence are more than twice as large as usual for the current issue which tells of the flood clean-up work by KU fraternity men.
A check of eight local drug stores and news shops shows that with a normal consumption of about 275 copies, almost 600 have been sold in the first half of the week alone. The largest increase reported was at Crown drug store. It has sold about 160 copies in contrast to its usual 55.
Store owners estimate that by the end of the week, total sales will have risen to at least 750 copies.
Scholarship Halls, Co-Ops Plan Flood Work For All
University scholarship halls and co-operative residences decided Tuesday night to take part in an over-all plan to clean up floodstricken North Lawrence by donating their time, effort and money in repairing the area.
The decision was reached at a meeting held in the Hawk's Nest. Representatives of Jolliffe, Battenfield, Sterling-Oliver, and Stephenhon salls and members of Panhellenic council and the Inter-Dorm Co-op attended.
Clum explained that the real aim of the meeting was to sponsor a concerted effort of Greeks and independents, men and women alike, to join in the work on the following Saturday, Nov. 3. He characterized this Saturday as merely a "starter."
Lewis Clum, business manager of the Independent Students association and a member of the group, said Tuesday that he expects at least 100 men to participate for about three hours Saturday morning. Fifteen members of Sterling-Oliver have already pledged their services.
A committee is to be sent to North Lawrence today to determine the most needy home-owners who have not already received student assistance. Clum explained that the group is to determine the truly needy and
old-aged who are desperately in need of help.
Joe Wimsatt, president of the Inter-Fraternity council, said he thought the IFC would be willing to participate, particularly the men who who did not take part in the fraternity-sponsored campaign two weeks ago.
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