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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
Even Greek Cinderella Will Appear In Revue
Cinderella, the fraternity call-boy, a drafttee, and the Kansas pioneer are the subjects four K.U. fraternities will use in skits to be presented in the Rock Chalk revue in Hoch auditorium at 7:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Four sororities and four fraternities will be represented in the second annual presentation of the revue, which is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A.
"The Children's Hour," a comedy adaptation of the Cinderella story, will be presented by Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. The setting for the skit is a sorority house at K.U. The skit is written and directed by James Brunson, journalism senior.
Beta Theta Pi will present "Life of a Call-Boy, or Bedlam in the Eunks." The skit depicts the duties of a freshman who has to wake up every one in a fraternity house at various hours. It is directed by Richard Hackney, journalism junior.
Jack Ward, College junior, will direct "And They Sang as They Came West" for Phil Delta Theta fraternity. The skit is based on the singing spirit of the Kansas pioneer from 1850 to 1860.
The Phi Gamma Delta jazz combo, the Delta Delta Delta quartet, and singer Dale Moore were selected by the executive board of the revue to present entertainment between the acts.
Allen Thomas, business junior, has been appointed master-of-ceremonies for the revue.
The eight skis, which will compete for two 36-inch traveling trophies, were picked from 26 skis submitted by KU. organized houses.
Tickets for the revenue are now on sale in all organized houses, the Union building, Strong hall, Watson library, and Fraser hall.
Home Nursing Course Starts
A training course for home nursing instructors will begin Monday, March 12. Fourteen faculty wives are enrolled in the course.
The class will meet six hours a day for five days. After completing 30 hours of intensive training the entrollees will serve as instructors for home nursing courses. Limited enrollments in the course are being accepted.
The instructor's course will be taught by a Red Cross executive from St. Louis.
Home nursing classes taught by faculty wives completing the course will begin Monday, March 19. This program of training laymen to care for the sick and injured is designed to meet the increasing shortage of trained medical personnel.
Showdown Set For Draft Bill
Washington (U.P.)—Senate backers of the 18-year-old draft bill were confident today of knocking down additional amendments which they claimed would cripple it.
A showdown vote on the draft bill is likely tomorrow. Final passage was foreshadowed by the test votes which the administration forces won yesterday.
An effort to lower the draft age from 19 to $18^{1/2}$, instead of 18, was beaten by a 55 to 31 vote yesterday. Today the two major barriers to final passage were amendments to strip the universal military training features from it, and to place either four or two year limitations on the program.
In other congressional developments:
R. F.C.: White House associates were reported split over whether Donald S. Dawson should testify voluntarily in the senate's R.F.C. inquiry. Dawson is personnel adviser to President Truman, and his wife supervises Reconstruction Finance Corp. files. Testimony before a senate banking subcommittee revealed that he was a "complimentary" Miami at the Saxony hotel in Miami Beach four times. The hotel had a $1,500,000 R.F.C. loan at the time.
**Traops:** A Republican bloc was ready to ask that the house be given a voice in approving assignment of American troops to western Europe.
Communism: Rep. Harold H. Velde (R., Ill.), a member of the house un-American Activities committee, said a witness has been found who may "turn state's evidence" and talk freely about Communism in Hollywood.
Commission Reports Employment Bias
Topeka (U.P.)—Evidence of discrimination was reported to the governor and the state legislature today by a Kansas commission against employment discrimination.
C. V. Beck, commission chairman, said discrimination was practiced by employers and labor unions in the state. He said the discrimination is apparently confined to that against race, color and national origin.
There was no evidence of religious discrimination reported by the commission. Neither were there any recommendations pointed out in the commission's report.
State Legislators To Tour Campus On Wednesday
The ways and means committees of the Kansas house and senate will visit the University Wednesday.
The legislators will tour the campus inspecting the three new scholarship halls, the campanile, and the fieldhouse and science hall sites. The group is expected to number about 60 persons, including the wives of the committee members.
R. Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry, will show research projects of the University to those members who are interested in this phase of work. E. R. Hall, professor of zoology, will conduct another group through the museum of natural history. Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts will show the legislators a fine arts display on the third floor of Strong hall.
Dinner will be held in the Union building at 5:30 p.m. Following the dinner, the committee members will attend the K.U.-Iowa State game in Hoch auditorium.
At 4.55 p.m. the committee will assemble in Strong auditorium to hear a welcoming address by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Science Hunts For Cold Cure
New York (U.P.)—The sneeze and sniffle season is here and science has more weapons than ever before to combat any threatened epidemic of respiratory ailments.
Health authorities cautiously predict that no serious outbreak of influenza, such as swept parts of England, will occur in the United States.
However, should the flu "bug" get started, science has half a dozen germ killing drugs that can go into action to avoid secondary complications which usually are worse than the original trouble.
The new drugs now available include penicillin, streptomycin, chloromycetin, aureomycin, bacitracin and terramycin, in addition to the many varieties of sulpha drugs.
None was available in the 'disastrous influenza epidemic of 1918, and thousands of persons died—mostly from pneumonia. Today, there are any number of drugs that knock out pneumonia.
Scientists are trying to find a "cure" for the common cold, but the common cold, like influenza, is caused by a virus and while some of the new drugs have anti-virus activity, none of them actually kills the virus. Once a drug is found that will kill a virus, then the answer not only to the common cold, but to polio may be found.
the last U. S. Public Health figures show that the country had 6,101 cases of influenza reported in the week ending Feb. 24.
Virgil Thomson Praises KU Fine Arts School
Faculty and students in the School of Fine Arts are temporarily basking in the glowing praise given by one of the nation's leading music critics.
Virgil Thomson, music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, visited K.U. for two days last month. In the Feb. 25 issue of the Herald Tribune he devoted a column to the state of music he found in the "middle states." Of K.U. he wrote:
This morning the mercury had fallen to 16 degrees at Goodland, Weatherman Tom Arnold reported the cold front hovering between Topeka and Kansas City with another cold area south of Wichita.
Cold Weather Is Prediction
By UNITED PRESS
New temperature drops were forecast for northern and western counties this afternoon with much colder weather expected tonight.
The high-readings were accompanied by strong southerly winds which reached a velocity of as much as 50 miles an hour in some sections. Dust storms were reported in some western counties.
The lower temperatures were in sharp contrast to the spring-like weather of Monday, when tempera-
tures into the 70's over most of the state.
Mr. Arnold said most of the rain and snow which accompanied the cold weather in northern states earlier this week will bypass Kansas, however. He said light snow may fall in the northwest portion of the state Wednesday.
The cold will moderate by Wednesday, Mr. Arnold said. The temperature range today will be from 20 in the northwest to 60 in the southeast, but readings tonight will range from 10 in the northwest to 25 in the southeast.
Temperatures began to nosedive in Kansas today as the edge of a cold front moved into the state.
Phyllis McFarland, fine arts junior,
were elected president of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority. Feb. 28.
Sigma Alpha Iota Elects Officers
Other officers elected were: Carolee Eberhart, fine arts junior, vicepresident; Jeannine Neihart, fine arts junior, recording secretary; Janice Horn, educational junior, corresponding secretary; Lois Bradfield, fine arts junior, treasurer.
Marian Heckins, fine arts sophomore, chaplain; Mary Lee Haury, fine arts sophomore, social chairman; Carolyn Lacey, fine arts sophomore, project chairman; Betty Thies, fine arts sophomore, program chairman; Grace Endacot, fine arts sophomore, editor.
"At the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, all the music techniques are practiced with expertise by a large student body and a faculty of over fifty. But particularly impressive to your correspondent was the work being done by the composition students of Prof. Laurel Anderson (head of the organ and music theory department). Not at any other American institution has he encountered music writing of that maturity and sophistication
"Several of the student works in large form seemed to him in every way the equal of the best professional work by young composers we hear in Tanglewood, at the Composers' Forum and in the downtown New York concerts.
"And it was ever so delightful to observe how a great seriousness pervades it all, a deep and tender poetry as of the Kansas plains, a sweetness and a nobility of thought that are rarer in the Seaboard cities than one might wish. The University of Kansas, of course, has been a major musical center for over half a century. Its present high standards and general effectiveness are not a mushroom growth."
Legislative Council Plans Anniversary
Toppea (U.P.)P.-The Kansas legislative council will hold an anniversary dinner March 12 in observance of its 18th year of existence.
Six members of the research and legal staff of the Japanese Imperial diet will be special guests.
The Japanese delegation will be in Topeka to study the operation of the legislative council.
C. C. Kilker, manager of the Kansas chamber of commerce, said as many members of the first council as possible will be at the dinner.
Kansas adopted the legislative council system of study when Gov. Alf Landon signed a bill into law on March 13, 1933.
Since then more than 20 states have adopted the plan.
International Club To Sponsor Dance
The International club's first annual dance will be held Friday in the Union ballroom. Gene Hall and his orchestra will play for the informal dance from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Tickets at $1.50 each may be purchased from members of the club or by calling Younis Dabbagh, publicity chairman, at 2719J. Students and faculty are invited.
KU Students Give Blood Transfusions To Bedbugs
Bv JOHN CORPORON
As a general rule, most Entomology 50 students are rather startled when their professor tells them, "Now, take the bedbug and put him on your arm. If he's hungry, he'll find your blood. If not, he may just run up and down your arm." As a matter of fact, most of them recoil at the thought.
But, no matter how distasteful it may be, the students grin and bare them—their arms, that is.
Rearing bedbugs is the method used by Dean Paul B. Lawson in letting his students observe the life cycle and feeding habits of the housewives' unwelcome guests. He gives each of his students three adult bedbugs housed in a glass vial with a cotton plug.
And the students soon master the first lesson in "How Not To Be Squeamish While Handling Bedbugs." Before taking them home, they are taught to feed the little "beasties." It's simple. You place one on your arm. If he makes like Seabiscuit, he isn't hungry. But if
Naturally enough, he would prefer breakfast in bed. But the students aren't advised to sleep with the bedbugs, no matter how close their relationship may become. The "beasties" keep alive by drinking the blood of their hosts. That's where most students would like to draw the line.
he digs right in for his "vittles" with little or no encouragement, he's stricty from hunger.
Dean Lawson points out that the experiments show the similarity in living conditions of man and other forms of life.
When the old county jail was cleaned up, a source of Entomology
50's bedbug supply for many years fell by the wayside.
Now the students are sent to poultry houses to find the bugs. But this isn't always a fruitful source. If the chicken coops have been sprayed, few bedbugs are present. Then the students have to start from scratch and find them where they will.
Any warm-blooded animal will pitch in, and people are amused by this.
To ready his victim for a light lunch, the bedbug plunges his drill-like mandibles into his host's skin. When he has penetrated far enough south, he lowers a tube into the main course and starts a suction pump. Needless to say, he's in a sort of hemolithin heaven.
While feeding, the gluttonous bedbug turns a deep red around the folds in the body wall. It isn't that he's embarrassed by his sponging
There is no danger of contracting disease from the bedbugs, Dean Lawson informs his students. The tropics are usually the only place where the bedbug is a menace to health.
off the host. It's just the blood—the student's blood—shining through. During the project, the bedbugs are fed about once a week.
Occasionally, however, a student finds that he is allergic to the bed-bug. In that case, large red welts appear on his arm after the feeding. But the welts aren't serious. They'll go away in time.
It's the principle of the thing that has most students in a dither.
"Who," they ask in a peeved.
Bedbugs, as you may or may not know, are oval shaped and flat and are about 3-16 of an inch long. And they don't eat much.
though meek, voice, "ever heard of playin' nursaidma to a bedbug?"
But they do. As Mrs. Bedbug lays her eggs, the student records the event and carefully transfers the eggs to other vials. He then records all stages of the bedbugs life cycle through the final molt. It has no similarity to a Kinsey report.
Once a girl living in Corbin hall put her live specimens in a clothes closet where the temperature was high and fairly constant. Her charges went through the entire cycle—from bedbug to egg to bedbug—in about 40 days. It usually takes two monies to complete the cycle.
That is, if your particular bedbug isn't on a diet. Or if he doesn't escape from his vial domicile in your landlady's nicest upstairs bedroom. It's really quite remarkable how hard it is to find a lost bedbug. Also, how angry a landlady becomes when she finds out about it.