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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950
No Draft Changes Yet, Says Hitt
"No new developments concerning the drafting of college men have reached my office." James K. Hitt, registrar, said Tuesday. "We have formed policies toward men who are called into service by the reserves or who enlist, however."
Many inquiries have been made at the registrar's office concerning the advisability of leaving college and joining a branch of the service to avoid being drafted into the army. Mr. Hitt said. The main question was whether men who drop to join the armed forces will receive full credit for work completed this semester.
An advisory meeting was held Monday afternoon to settle this issue. It was decided that men who are called, against their wishes, by a reserve unit may take final examinations early and receive full credit. A man who leaves college to volunteer, however, will receive only partial credit in each course, based on the amount of work completed at the time of withdrawal.
"Most men who contemplate volunteering wish to enter the air force, navy or marine corps." Mr. Hitt said. "If a man has received orders from his draft board to report for physical examination, he cannot volunteer for another branch of the service but must report for his army physical. We do not advise enlistment at the present time, because present laws should allow most men to complete this semester, at least, before being drafted."
No college men have been drafted from K.U. yet, he sai.di and only a few reservists have been called. Most reservists, with the exception of those having critical military skills, have been given postponements until the end of this semester or later.
Until the present draft laws are changed, Mr. Hitt emphasized, a student who receives a call for induction is still entitled to a postponement of indefinite length. He should contact the registrar's office immediately upon receiving notice to report for induction. Then a letter advising his draft board of his college status may be sent. If such a letter is received by the board, they are required by law to give the man a postponement.
"It is unlikely that the laws can be changed until congress reconvenes in January," Mr. Hitt said. "Therefore, I would advise college men of draft age to remain in school. They probably will get to finish this semester.
"And I would advise, in lieu of anything definite concerning a change in present laws, that they plan to enter school next semester, too. It would be foolish to drop out at the end of this semester and drift aimlessly, perhaps until spring, while awaiting induction."
The University Daily Kansan will be informed immediately of any change in existing draft regulations, received by his office, Mr. Hitt said, so that the student body may be accurately informed at once. The staff at the registrar's office will gladly answer any personal questions a man may have about his draft status.
Spanish Club Christmas Party To Be Held Without The Traditional Tree
There will be one Christmas party at the University without a Christmas tree in the room.
The party is the annual Spanish club party and the substitute for the Christmas tree is a large basket called a "pinata." The basket is filled with candy and cookies and is carried around the room at the end of the dance. In the kitchen, you get the sweets from the basket hanging above their heads.
The "pinata" is the emblem of Christmas in many Latin countries although it is gradually being replaced by the Christmas tree, especially in Spain.
Also featured at the party will be the singing of Christmas songs and the reading of the Christmas story, all in Spanish.
The Christmas customs of Spain, Bolivia, Peru, and Costa Rica will be explained by Domingo Ricart, assistant professor of Romance languages; Antonio Mettewie, engineering junior; Antonio Pun Kay, business junior; and Alfonso Torres, College senior, respectively.
The Christmas party will be in 113
Strong hall at 7:30 p.m. today.
Fraser theater will be rocking and rolling at 8 tonight, as the first presentation of the Kaufman and Hart comedy, "You Can't Take It With You," begins. Sound-effects girl Beverly Dodds, education senior, will shoot a 32 calibar revolver filled with blanks, light firecrackers, and shoot toy torpedoes.
Comedy Tonight Will Rock Fraser
A large blacksmake will lunge at the actors and audience from within its glass enclosed cage, and, as a finale, one of the actors will light a 3-foot-long monster firecracker.
Harold Harvey, director of play, said, "The audience doesn't need to worry, everything will be perfectly safe, I hope."
AWS Reviews Major Projects
Associated Women students senate members discussed special projects of the A.W.S. house at a meeting Tuesday.
Patsy Cameron, College senior, outlined the tentative program for the Leadership Workshop to be held Tuesday, Feb. 6, Thursday, Feb. 8, and Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Doris Kendall, College junior, reported that A.W.S. is $55.06 short of its goal of a $2,000 capital for the A.W.S. Memorial Scholarship fund and urged houses to contribute. The scholarship is in memory of five University women whose college careers were cut off short by death.
Emma Lou Burbank, College sophomore, explained how the new women's lounge could be reserved for couples' songs and she gave rules for its use.
Marilyn Miller, College freshman, outlined various suggestions for rules governing the freshman dormitory. The freshman dormitory committee plans to publish the regulations at a later date.
Barbara Hagan, business junior, is in charge of revising the A.W.S. constitution. Virginia Thomson, business junior, plans the monthly student-faculty coffees and will be in charge of the survey dinner to be held Friday, March 13. She emphasized that the coffees are open to all women and asked the representatives to encourage attendance.
Frances Barnhardt is supervising the Freshman Workshop to be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, in the Kansas room of the Union. University activities relying largely on women for membership will be explained by presidents of those organizations and women active in them. All freshmen women may attend.
Three Men Collect Notes At Convention
Dr. Kim Giffin, assistant professor of speech; Gene Courtney, instructor in speech; and Steve Mills, College senior, are attending a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters today in Chicago.
2,500 Trainmen Strike On US Operated Lines
... Chicago—(U.P.)About 2,500 trainmen pulled a surprise work stoppage against Chicago railroad yards today, halting most passenger and freight trains operating through the nation's biggest rail center.
Expect 170 At Banquet Today
Approximately 170 midshipmen of the University navy R.O.T.C. unit are expected to attend the Hawkwatch society banquet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Skyline club.
The work stoppage was spreading early today and it appeared that every line manned by members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen here would be affected.
The Hawkwatch society is a social and professional organization of the midshipmen.
Capt. W. R. Terrell, professor of naval science; Comdr. W. M. Dickey, associate professor of naval science; Lt. Comdr. W. A. Mann, Lt. Comdr. V. M. Dickerson, Lt. Grant Gordon and Maj. Herman Poggemeyer, Jr., U.S.M.C., assistant professors of naval science; Lt. D. B. Millar, instructor of naval science, and T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will be guests of the society.
A barbershop quartet from Topeka will entertain.
Mu Phi Plans Concert
"Brass Quartet No. 1" (Whitney) by Jeanne Peck and Frances Douglas, trumpets; Marilyn Lind, French and Mary Vain Houten, trombone.
A recital of contemporary music will be given by the K.U. chapter of Epsilon, national music sorority, 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
The program follows;
"Sonata" (W. Piston) by Jacque Cook, flute; and Martha Heck, piano. "The Black Swan" (Menotti) and "Summer Afternoon, an Idyl" (A.Worth) by Betty Rae Thomas, mezzo-soprano. "Sonatine pour deux violins" (Honegger) by Clara James and Mary Sommerville.
"Fugue for Bassoon and Clairinet" (Mulky) by Phyllis Glass, bassoon, and Martha Zeigler, clarinet; "Es Verbad" and "Serenata" (Revueltas) by Jeanne Aldridge, soprano
"Evocations" (E. Bloch) by Jacquelyn Stoops and Delores Wunsch, pianists. "Psalm 123" and "Psalm 69" (Mulky) by Joyce Rohrer, Marilyn Lind, Verla Steffey, Betty Brown, Polly Owen, Barbara Glover, vocal ensemble; and Margaret Ling, harpist.
The trainmen stopped work in defence of the fact that the lines are under government operation specifically to prevent them from striking.
They apparently were intent on forcing the government and the railroads to grant their demands for a 40-hour work week with no loss in pay from their current 48-hour week.
They feared that President Truman would declare a national emergency, possibly freezing them into the current wages and hours, unless their demands are granted immediately.
Vice-president Paul Feuchts of the Pennsylvania railroad said that 1,000 trainmen were off the job on his line alone. A Monon railroad spokesman said 2,500 trainmen were affected in the Chicago area.
Officials said the trainmen's work stoppage would halt most of the train's originating here for points east and west.
The Santa Fe railroad said it ex-pected only its chief and super chief to move out west bound today. They said the streamliners would be make up and shunted through the yards by supervisory help.
About 150 trainen failed to re-
port for work on the Santa Fe.
port for work on the Santa Fe. Many travelers were expected to be caught in the city by the sudden halt in trains.
Mail was expected to be affected severely if the work stoppage were protracted. A large percentage of the nation's east-west mail passes through the yards here.
The movement of Christmas shipping also was expected to be slowed.
Sculptor To Talk On Creativity
Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, will lecture on "Creativity" at 3 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium. He will illustrate his talk with slides of his own work.
Mr. Archipenko, who was born in Kiev in the Ukraine, has been an American citizen since 1928. He has held a series of 95 large individual shows in European capitals and in the United States.
The public is invited to attend this lecture. Majors in the School of Fine Arts, will be dismissed from classes so they may attend.
Please Remove Lipstick
Erie, Pa.—(U.P.)—A clerk in a local dry cleaning establishment, Beulah Mason, says her pet peeve is men who leave lipstick in the pockets of their clothes left to be cleaned.
Same Old Sad Song As 30 KU Students Take Draft Physicals
By JOHN CORPORON
Enjoy yourself, men. It's later than you think. Proof? Ask the 30 K.U. students who took pre-induction physicals this week.
The examinations were given in a dirty, 7-story brick building in Kansas City, Mo. It's an old, sad song.
There's a war on now to make the world safe for democracy again, you know, and they are selecting we sturdy youths to defend our country's honor and prestige. By draft.
We met at 7 am. in the Douglas county courtroom—we not-so-thin thirty—and nervously awaited our first army experience. Douglas county draft board No. 18 chartered busses for the outing.
Arriving in Kansas City, we hurried to the examining station and waited two hours. A little later we were entertained with talks by an army captain and a non-commissioned officer.
"Welcome,"growled the captain "to the selective service examination station."
He assured us there would be as little time wasted as possible. He
"Don't flunk your mental exam on purpose," he cautioned. "If you're not really stupid they'll find it out later in a personal interview."
begged us to understand that everything to be done that day had a reason for being done.
We wrote our medical histories by making check marks after rather personal questions and went for our mental exam. Apparently the men had been taken from the boys, but the morons from the literate. I hope it did.
Then the non-com offered us words of wisdom.
"But please don't ask us why," he bellowed. "It was waste time."
In order that the guilleless among us might be protected, the non-com
appointed a group leader to guide us to lunch in the army mess a block away. He was to tell us when the traffic lights were in our favor. He watched the lights change from
green to amber to red and told us when to cross. We all made it. The food was lousy.
Our physical examinations were given in a long narrow room darkened by 12 tightly shaded windows. We were permitted to wear our unmentionables while a little man started drawing numbers on our chests with mercurochrome.
Another man came along and peered into our ears. That was the ear exam. It lasted 30 seconds.
Our teeth, blood pressure and lungs were then given a thorough 10-minute going out and we were ready for the foot expert.
One K.U. student told the foot inspector about having to have special shoes prescribed by a foot doctor. At a distance of $2\frac{1}{2}$ feet the inspector inspected. He suggested that the student tell the sergeants near the end of the line of his foot trouble.
Shorts and socks were allowed again. This was necessary to keep a body's morale up while physical
disabilities were discussed with the sergeants.
"Why this boy is practically dead," one sarge said. "He's got asthma, hayfever, back trouble, and a cyst. My, my, a doctor could get rich just fixing you up. Got Blue Cross? You're okay. Next!"
The student with the foot trouble also suffered from air, train and bus sickness. His trial went like this:
"Got foot trouble?" the sarge asked. "Well, well. What's wrong?"
"Army shoes will cure that it hurry," the major said. "So you get sick on trains, busses and planes? Well, well."
One of the sergeants leaned over at this point and, whispering just loudly enough for the nearest 50 men to hear, said, "About three months in a tank ought to cure that"
"All right," said the sarge, "you're okay. You'll soon be drawing army pay. See you in February."