Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan Tue.day, Sept. 25, 1951 Topeka, Ks. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
49th Year No. S
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STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Vets' Checks May Be Late In Arriving
Students who are receiving training under the G. I. Bill should make certain they have funds of their own to tide the mover until Nov. 15, since their subsistence checks may be late in coming, according to the Veterans Administration.
The VA is trying to keep delays to a minimum by suspending administrative procedures that are not related to the job of getting veterans into training, but some checks are bound to be late this year.
Students can help by not writing to the VA about delays since replies to their letters take time that otherwise could be spent in processing subsistence checks.
The VA office listed three reasons for the delays in getting subsistence checks to students:
checks to students.
A reduction in the number of VA office personnel who handle papers of G. L students.
2. The large number of veterans enrolled under the G.I. Bill.
3. A rush of last minute applications for training that came in just ahead of the deadline for starting training, July 25.
English Accountant To Visit University
Bruce W. Sutherland, secretary of the Nottingham Chartered Accountants' society of England, will arrive here Thursday to visit the School of Business, Dean Leonard H. Axe announced today.
Mr. Sutherland will confer with Dr. John G. Blocker, head of the accounting department, and other members of the School of Business on the teaching of accounting on the under-graduate level. He plans to remain here about 10 days.
Mr. Sutherland is coming to K.U. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he has been leading similar discussions.
More than 30 uniformed high school bands attended the Kansas- Texas Christian game to take part in pre-game and half-time activities.
Upsurge In Asia Lecture Tonight
"Integral Asia; the positive basis of Asian unity," will be Dr. Amiya Chakravarty's topic tonight at the second lecture of the Upsurge in Asia series.
cussion.
Students wishing to get credit in the "Upsurge in Asia" course should enroll with their deans as soon as possible and attend the second class meeting tonight.
The one-hour lecture will begin at 7 o'clock in Fraser theater and will be followed by an hour of discussion.
16 Army ROTC Seniors Cited
Sixteen senior Army R.O.T.C. students have been designated by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and R.O.T.C. Col. Edward F. Kumpe as Distinguished Military Students to compete for direct appointments as second lieutenants in the regular Army.
the students and schools: College, Chapin D. Clark, Kendrick C. Davidson, James K. Garr, James E. Irby, David M. Mohliner, Roger L. Tuttle; Engineering, Jerry D. Armstrong, Richard L. Bradley, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., Ivan L. Pfsalter, Business, John N. Ivie, Keith S. Kelly, Kenneth P. Ochs, Robert W. Shinn; Law, Olaf C. Anderson, Jr. and Hillel Samich, Jr.
The Student Union bookstore is now paying rebates on period nine, the period from Jan. 1 to June 30. As in previous years the rebate is 15 per cent of cash sales. It amounts to $20,969.29.
Book Store To Pay $21,000 Rebate
The cadets are selected by the Army and receive their commissions after graduation in exactly the same status as the cadets from West Point.
amounts Students may claim their rebate by presenting hte rebate slips at the bookstore or by sending them in by mail. Usually about 85 % of the rebates are claimed.
Rebate slips are good for a five year period. Those unclaimed after that period are used to purchase equipment for the Union, such as the console radio in the Union lounge.
KU Is Just The Right Size Says Dr. Chakravarty
"To find one's self in the heart of America. . . gives the basic view of American democracy." This is the opinion of Dr. Amiya Chakravarthy, former instructor of English literature at the University of Calcutta, India and now a member of the English staff of the University.
Referring to himself as a "rowing scholar trying to get a glimpse of each civilization from the angle peculiar to the locale," Dr. Chakravarty was also impressed by the cosmopolitan representation on the campus.
Interviewed to discover his opinions of Kansas university and University students as well as the Middle West, the one-time adviser to India's United Nations delegation and native of India said that K.U. is just the right size. Large enough for fine museums and libraries. Small enough for warm relationship between student and faculty.
It was this same "warm hospitality" that deeply impressed him. "Here," he said, "I have found frank, forthcoming and informal people."
"Here in the landlocked center of the country I find signs of cosmopolitan interest. There is the typical flowering of Kansas culture and at the same time a cosmopolitan growth."
The diminutive instructor of the newly-offered "Upsurge in Asia" course and "Trends in poetry since
He said he was greatly inspired by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's faith in the future of K.U. and his deep human interest. "We live in a world where you cannot separate movements," he said.
Dr. Chakravarty, who has travelled, studied, and taught in Asia, Europe and the United States, strikes one who is talking to him as a keenly interested human being; keenly interested in the welfare of his fellow man.
1800' also said he was very pleased with the way in which students are taking a rising interest in far distant countries. He said that here the humanities are more than just an academic course; they are living human interest.
Rudyard Kipling would do well to rephrase his "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet."
Dr. Chakravarty would say the world is too small for such a philosophy.
University Chemists Seek To Perfect Black Gold Under Military Grant
KC Artist's Work Displayed
Water-color and oil paintings by Miss Janet Turner, a Kansas City artist, are featured this month at the Museum of Art.
Another feature is a painting by John Falter which appeared on the cover of the Sept. 24 "Saturday Evening Post."
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Miss Turner's exhibit consists of 12 paintings of such varied subjects as palentics, calves, leaves, bulls, chickens, growing corn, a shipwreck, and a building under construction.
Miss Turner studied art under Thomas H. Benton at the Kansas City Art institute. She has won 26 prizes and awards in competitive exhibitions. She is now an assistant professor at Stephen F. Austin State college, Nacogdoches, Texas.
Mr. Falter's humorous "Post" cover portrays a newspaper carrier boy delivering the Atchison Globe. He has missed the porches of his customers who have come out in their vards to pick up the paper.
Mr. Falter often returns to his home town, Atchison, from Pennsylvania to do "Post" covers.
On a table near the Falter painting are copies of the museum's latest register. It describes the recent acquisitions of the museum.
Vote To Restore Livestock Quotas
Washington—(U.P.) — The Senate banking committee voted today to restore government quotas on livestock slaughtering but to forbid meat price rollbacks.
The actions came as the committee sped efforts to amend the new economic controls law along the lines demanded by President Truman. The President has said that livestock slaughtering quotas must be restored to prevent a black market.
Chances of congressional approval seemed slim.
Dean Burton Marvin and Prof. Elmer F. Beth of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information attended the Kansas City Press club reception and dinner last night for Harold E. Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania.
The committee acted after receiving a memorandum from Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle saying that cattle slaughtering quotas are the "key" to all price controls. He said that meat costs amount to 10 per cent of the average family budget and comprise one-third of all food costs.
The restriction against further meat price rollbacks was added because the government still has a little margin left under the authority of the present law.
J-School Professors Attend Stassen Dinner
Drew Pearson, Washington columnist, was scheduled to attend the dinner in Hotel Phillips, but he was too ill to make the trip.
Saturday and Sunday, Professor Beth was in Topeka attending the annual meeting of the Kansas Daily Advertising association.
Locksley hall will have an hour dance from 7 to 8 p.m. with McCook hall.
Locksley, McCook Hour Dance
University chemists are starting a quest that parallels the medieval alchemists' attempts to turn lead and other base metals into gold.
Only now the work is with black gold, the wonderful collection of hydrocarbons that man takes from the earth and which keeps his machines rolling in peace and in war.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy today told of the project, which is being sponsored by the Army Ordnance department. Its rather forbidding title is "Study of the synthesis and properties of pure hydrocarbons in the lubricating oil molecular weight range."
"Another way to say it is 'How to get high grade lubricating oil from ordinary oil,' Chancellor Murphy said.
Dr. Ray Q. Brewster and Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professors of chemistry, will direct the study. The Army Ordnance department has
Arts School Wins Prizes
First prizes for the best collection of design and crafts and for the best collection of paintings at the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka were won by the School of Fine Arts.
The department of design won the design and crafts division. The winning entries are now on display in the third floor west wing of Strong hall.
The department of drawing and painting is showing the prize painting collection in the east wing of the third floor of Strong hall.
Students whose work is included in the drawing and painting exhibit are: Jean Almon, Harry Crain, Barbara Langdon, Jeanne Esch, Don Jensen, Kay Peters, Don Louthian, Ann Southwick, Margaret Collins, William Gillette, Marion Clyma, Paul Penny, Edward Nichols, Ann Harms, and Mrs. Ada Storer.
Chancellor Murphy Will Speak At YMCA
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will make his first speech before a student organization at 7:30 p.m Thursday when he addresses the YMCA.
The meeting will be in the ballroom of the Memorial Union and is open to persons interested in becoming members of the YMCA.
Students To See KU-TCU Pictures
Motion pictures of the Jayhawkers' 27-13 football victory over Texas Christian will be shown to the student body at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium. Wayne Replogle, assistant football coach, will narrate the film.
made $5,165 available for the first year of the project.
Actually the research will be fundamental rather than applied in nature, Dr. Brewster said. "Our object is to learn the relationship between molecular structure and lubricating properties."
Dr. VanderWerf added that a cheap, almost magic process of transforming crank case drainings into premium grade oil was probably far beyond the scope of the K.U. project. But the work here may become one of the foundation stones for building a method for making scarce petroleum products do more work.
Chemically several kinds of oil may be the same. That is, they have the same number of hydrogen and carbon and other atoms in the molecule, which is the smallest single unit of the oil. But their performance properties may differ. The arrangement of the atoms in a molecule of good oil is believed to differ from the arrangement in a molecule of mediocre oil.
Dr. VanderWerf gave the parallel of a single room with five pieces of furniture. One arrangement of the furniture may make for poor livability. Yet without changing the contents of the room, a rearrangement of the five pieces of furniture can step up living efficiency many times.
The K.U. researchers will first seek the molecular patterns of good oil. Then they'll try to learn if there is some way of re-arranging the atoms of poor oil so they will make a molecule of good oil.
The chief research assistant during the fall semester will be Irvin Wesley Elliott, graduate student. He is a candidate for the doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry next spring. Another research assistant will be named for the second semester.
This grant is the first K.U. has ever received from the Army Ordnance department. However it is believed that Army Ordnance will place several more here in the near future.
Auditions for radio announcers on University radio and KFKU will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Announcer Tryouts Scheduled Thursday
Any University man who is interested in becoming a radio announcer is invited to participate in the auditions. The positions offer opportunity to develop announcing talent and obtain experience which may lead to a professional radio career.
Auditions will be in the University radio studios located in the EES. building east of Marvin hall.
Early Arrivals May Eat At Stadium; Concession Opens 11 a.m. Saturday
A major change in the handling of concessions will be evident Saturday at Memorial stadium.
Early arrivals at football games will be able to eat at the stadium. A new stand outside the stadium will open at 11 a.m. on football days.
Other changes have been taking place about the stadium. Novelty stands will be set up under the umbrellas formerly used on the Union terrace to add color to the outside of the stadium. A new concession stand has been added on the west side of the stadium.
This new stand can be approached from four sides and will serve four times as many people as before. The student concession stand has been enlarged and improved.
No longer will the concession stands run out of coffee. A frozen concentrate will be used which can be simply thawed, poured into a vat and mixed.
The new concessions department is under the management of Kevan Remick, who manages the concessions in the Union. More than 200 persons are employed by the department at each game. More help is needed to run the concessions.