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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 23, 1951
London Overlooked Fighting As Korean War Correspondent
St. Louis—(U.P.) The modern Korean war correspondent is a strange contrast to famed Jack London, who covered the Korean conflict between the Japanese and Russians in 1904.
The author-reporter's communiques to United States newspapers, a scanning of some old issues showed, read more like the Sunday society pages than an account of mass killings.
London filled his dispatches with wholesome chit-chat about himself and high life in Korea's inner precincts, which seemed to be generally enjoyable except for a few itinerant fleas in his underwear.
Some of his work is being displayed by Lee Hess, operator of a private museum here. Hess uncovered the fragile clippings in an old mansion he is restoring.
One issue is dated April 17, 1904. Present-day newspaper readers who get an account of an air strike or an infantry battle within a few short hours after it occurs would be interested to know that London's dispatch in the paper was written nearly five weeks before.
London apparently had plenty of time to recount his carryings on in the town of Sunan, where he took over a deserted house to wait permission to go over to the Russian side.
His account of receiving guests in his underwear disclosed the presence of Manyougi, "my Korean factotum."
Besides acting as official exterminator, Manyougi did odd jobs like hustling up some hot water for London's daily shave.
Shaving, he wrote, was his "star performance" before the ogled Sunan inhabitants, who covered London as thoroughly as he covered them.
"I no longer live a private life," he wrote. "All my functions, from eating to sleeping, are performed in public."
London, labeled in accompanying photographs as his newspaper's "commissioner" to the war in the Orient, apparently took his unofficial officialdom to heart. He rode roughshod over the local citizenry while taking photographs with his 1904 version of a Brownie.
Some of his native subjects—the poor wight I pitch on for my victim"—had to be overpowered before getting in front of the lens.
Readers of today's fast-moving war stories can almost hear bombs bursting in air. For comparison, the bit of action as related by London:
"In the middle of the day, when the sun tempers the bite of the wind which sweeps down from across Siberia, it is my custom to go for a ride."
That sounds like lots of fun, but how was the war getting on? The reader's guess was as good as Jack London's.
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Psychologists Guide Industry On Job Fitness
Chicago-(U.P.)-Will a big, robust fellow make a better shop foreman than a little guy with a long nose, shifty eyes and a limp handshake?
Drs. Roy A. Doty and Vernon G. Schaefer, industrial psychologists who are hired by big companies to determine such things, said in an interview that the odds are with the big man, but the little guy shouldn't be sold short.
They said there are no tricks or shortcuts in determining employee qualification. They don't agree with some bosses who think they can "spot" a good man on sight.
Relatively new on the American business scene, industrial psychologists assist with the employee placement problems of a growing number of firms.
Doty and Schaefer also believe that what benefits the company benefits the employee.
The psychologists feel that the job of finding out who can do what requires a great deal more mental exploration than the average boss has time or tools for.
As an example, they told of a foreman in a St. Louis plant who, tests determined, couldn't think fast enough to make proper decisions. This so upset the foreman that he developed psychosomatic backaches.
"The man thought he was going to die, so great was the pressure of the job," Schaefer said. "But when he was given a less responsible job, his health improved and so did his value to the company. Strangely, he had been on the job 23 years."
Foremen who aren't suited to their jobs can disrupt entire plants, said Saidchaefer.
"Not long ago we got a report that the men in one department of a plant were practically up in arms because of the way a foreman had been treating them," he said. "We found out he was a walking bundle of conflicts and several times had threatened to kill his wife. This man is no longer a foreman."
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Panhellenic Begins Flood Relief Work
Thirteen members of Panhellenic council started their cleanup project in North Lawrence Oct. 13. Other sororites will complete their flood relief work before Thanksgiving.
Eleven members of Sigma Kappa worked in the home of C. H. Mayhugh, 326 Perry. The women worked all morning cleaning one room of the house. They plan to finish their work Nov. 3.
Panhellenic council will help nearly 120 families instead of putting up Homecoming house decorations. The $50 each house would have spent for decorations will be used to buy cleaning materials and
to provide a relief fund for Lawrence families.
Need New Alloys For Jets
Schenectady, N. Y. — (U.P.) Researchers will have to develop new alloys before the United States can reach its production goal of 216,000 jet engines in 1953, according to a General Electric Company scientist. James D. Nisbet, in a speech before metallurgy professors from 28 universities, said the goal is impossible with the present supply of strategic materials.
May Publish Profits Made By Big League Baseball
Washington—(U.P.)House baseball investigators are tentatively planning to disclose how much profit there is in big league baseball, it was revealed Thursday.
But big league attorneys have urged the staff of the House monopoly subcommittee not to publish the profit and loss statements of each club on grounds it is private information.
Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests
This little gee-gee was all at sea. It was enough to upset his equine-imity. He'd been reading about those rush-rush cigarette tests the quick sniff, the fast puff. "Hardly the scientific approach," he said in his confusion But then he realized that one test is an equine of a different pigmentation—a thorough conclusive test of cigarette mildness.
It's the sensible test...the 30-Day Camel Mildness Test, which simply asks you to try Camels as your steady smoke-on a day-after-day basis. No snap judgments! Once you've tried Camels for 30 days in your "T-Zone" (T for Throat, T for Taste), you'll see why...
After all the Mildness Tests, Camel leads all other brands by billions