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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
BANK OF MADRID
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951
Senator From Oregon Likes Good Old American Warbling
Washington (U.P.)—Sen. Wayne Lyman Morse wouldn't dare compete with a canary in a songfest—but he thinks that warbling is the finest thing that ever came into the American parlor.
The Republican from Oregon stood up in the senate the other day, gave his celebrated moustache a couple of turn-arounds, and unburdened himself. He admitted that he couldn't even come up with a decent note on Sweet Adeline.
Yet he said in a nice oratory tenor that what he likes, next to his wife, his equally lovely daughters, and a profitable stable of show horses, is a good song.
The senator was sounding off in off-key about the current contest to select a song for Washington, D.C. The contest is over and before many days the Simon Distributing Corp. will announce the winner—with $2,500 in prizes, come and take, according to the verses and music written.
The idea was to get a catchy ditty for the capital—something we've never had.
Every other place has a tune but the poor voteless people of Washington. Maryland has "Maryland. My Maryland" and "Texas has all those eyes upon it." "On Wisconsin" and "California, Here I Come." Some are official: others not.
"There is a great personal feeling in my remarks because I happen to be one of those few who is denied the joy of singing."
"Perhaps it is because of this handicap that I have learned, through listening to the singing of others, the great value of music as a tonic for the soul—as a cultural balance for the home and the nation."
`Margaret Bathed Here' May Become Commonplace Phrase Of Tired Gl's
The senator from Oregon, spoke on behalf of a resolution asking for a song for Washington. It was offered by Sen. Olin D. Johnston, South Carolina Democrat, who likes nothing better than to knock heads with the boys in a spot of barbershop harmony.
Senator Morse picked up the baton. Addressing Veep Alen W. Barkley, who strikes a mean chord himself, the senator said:
Washington (U.P.)—Somewhere today a tired G.I. may be washing away training camp grime in Margaret Truman's old bathtub.
During the renovation of the White House, most of the old plumbing fixtures have been removed and installed in other government structures, particularly in barracks.
The person who dunks in a former $ ^{*} $
The person who dunks in a former White House tub, however, never will know upon what famous enamel he is sitting, because the disposition of the White House bathroom fixtures is a deep, dark secret.
A woman in the Midwest recently wrote to the White House, asking to buy the tub used by Gen. U. S. Grant when he was president. The commission on renovation of the executive mansion replied gravely that Grant's bathtub disappeared years ago.
Most of the White House scrap—much of it dating back to 1792 when the original construction started—is available for sale to souvenir collectors. All sales are handled through a mail order office for the commission set up at Ft. Myer, Va., under Capt. James V. Little.
So far, Little's small office has received 40,000 applications for
pieces of the White House. The souvenirs are sold only on a cash-inadvance basis. Purchasers may obtain from Little's office a list of the 13 categories of scrap for sale, make their selection, then mail in the money. The prices are set just high enough to cover cost of packing and mailing.
No hardware—such as doorknobs, hinges and keys—is for sale because most of it is being reused in the renovation. This has disappointed many people who wanted to point to their front doors and say, "Old Andrew Jackson himself grasped that knob many times."
The renovation job is moving on schedule and officials in charge believe the Truman family will be back in its official residence by Christmas.
Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
College Bookstore? You say you have enough second hand text of my 1945 edition to meet student demands? Well, send a truck over— My REQUIRED text next semester is my 1952 edition."
Senator Morse then pulled the cork on his emotions. He said he wasn't talking particularly about marching songs, like the stirring marine ditty.
"Perhaps in a similar emotion," he said, "the honorable Andrew Fletcher said in 1703:
The senator, seeing a lot of votes and old friends in the pews down there, agreed. They had a fast rehearsal and Wayne opened his yap It was a good thing he did.
"Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes the laws."
Senator Morse has, on occasion, been embarrassed over his monotone, or tone-deafness. Once he appeared as a guest in Portland, Orc., and was invited to sit in with a church male chorus.
The choir master detected something unmelodic in the tenor section and gave the senator a whisper.
"Move your lips, but don't let anything come out."
The senator from Oregon lipmoved, but remained mute. Everything went fine.
school orchestra. Amy, 15, is not on the piano and also plays the bull fiddle in the school orchestra. Nancy, 19, former Cherry Blossom princess, ear sing, but at the University of Oregon she's better in the ballet.
Fortunately, his fine houseful of daughters has not inherited Wayne's unmusical talents, Judith, 16, plays the fiddle in her high
Senator Morse is rightly proud of his brood. When it comes to yodeling, he wishes he could do half as well.
The Shadbush tree, or "service" as mountain dwellers call it. is found in the Great Smokies at such divergent elevations as 900 feet and 6,400 feet.
No Problem For Marine Dads To Reactivate
New York (U.P.)—Reactivation is no problem at all for the marine corps fathers' association, an organization of 350 men whose sons were marines in World War II.
were hired in World War II. While their sons, those who came back, were getting back into civilian clothes, the fathers went right on donning marine overseas caps twice each month for the association's meetings.
"We just decided there were certain things to be done for the boys, and nobody could it better than the fathers," Julius J. Kielson, the club's founder, said. He called the first club meeting in 1943, after his own marine son was killed in the Pacific.
"About half our members lost their sons in the war," said Dr. George Prussin, Brooklyn dentist who is one of the charter members. "We've never skipped a meeting."
The list of fathers' projects reads like the combined records of a social service agency and a loan company.
"We loaned a marine veteran in Connecticut $200 to fix up his house." Putnam recalled. "He paid us back $15 a month until he was within about $60 of finishing, so we just gave him the rest for Christmas."
Maybe it's just a frantic request from a family for help in getting a son home from Korea to see his sisel mother. That happened a few weeks ago, and the critically ill mother Mrs. Jane Grant, now has her 19-year-old marine corporal son, sitting by her bed in a Brooklyn hospital The marine fathers have a grateful letter from the mother's physician
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"Ask him to tell you about our welfare fund, he started it." Dr. Prussin said, pointing toward the third club member who was sitting in the dentist's office to talk about the club.
"We've got close to $13,000 out now, loaned to marines and marine veterans," Wilkins K. Putnam said. The men loan the money in sums from $25 to $300, without interest, and with repayment entirely up to the marine.
Sometimes the money isn't paid.
Two years ago the men voted to send $200 to a North Carolina taxi driver, a former marine, who couldn't meet the mortgage payments on his home. They haven't heard from him since.
"Someday we'd like to find people with money to build a memorial building for marines in Manhattan, a club the boys could use when they get in town," Kielson said. "But that's a long way off."
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Birds Don't Always Flock Together, And Neither Do Certain KU Courses
Birds of a feather may flock to-
together, but there's always some stray who goes flying off to settle in an unlikely place.
The University has classes dealing with related subjects fairly well centralized into the same buildings but here are some oddities without a home.
You can take courses in Ethics, Price and Income, Money and Banking, and Economics 90 in Snow hall. Lindley hall has courses in General Biology, and Accounting II.
bology and the Occupation of Science
Or how about International Trade
in Haworth hall and American Economic Development in Bailey Chemical laboratories?
Fundamentals of Speech is taught in the Journalism building. Statistical Methods is offered at both Mann vin and Fraser halls.
Many students spend class time in the Union building but some home economics students legitimately spend two hours each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at the Union studying "Institutional Management II.