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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950
Fraser Hall Gets Soaking Wet While Fire Bells Ring
Psychologists Will Study Young Cripples
University of Kansas scientists will launch a continuing study of the psychological adjustment problems faced by crippled children, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today.
Dr. Roger Barker, chairman of the department of psychology, will direct the research, which will be financed by two New York City foundations. The Association for the Aid of Clipped Children is giving $6,900 and the Carnegie Corporation's grant is $5,500.
Both foundations have tentatively indicated support for at least three years.
The research personnel for the study have not been selected. Herbert Wright, professor of Psychology, who has worked with Dr. Barker on other research studies involving children, will be co-director. Actual investigations will probably not be started until 1951.
"In recent years there has developed a keen realization that many problems of physically handicapped people are psychological," Dr. Barker said. "The psychological problems can be crippling just as is the physical disability."
Now in his fourth year at K.U.
Dr. Barker has assembled a faculty with experts on problems of the physically handicapped. Dr. Barker was the co-author of a study, now accepted as standard, on problems of adjustment to social handicaps and illness.
Fritz Heider, professor of psychology, is an authority of the psychological problems of the deaf. Martin Scheerer, professor of psychology, has studied the problems resulting from brain injuries.
Civil Service To Give Exams
Clerk - stenographer, c l e r k - typist, and clerk civil service examinations will be given at Liberty Memorial High school Saturday. Dec. 9.
Application forms may be secured at the Chancellor's office, 223 Strong hall.
The forms must be returned to the Topeka office by Wednesday.
Students May Get Basketball Tickets
Students are requested to call at the University athletic office in Robinson gym to select one of two sets of home basketball games, Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, said today.
Set number one includes games with Creighton university; Springfield college, Missouri; Kauas State; and Iowa State. Set number two includes games with Utah State, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma A. and M., and Oklahoma.
Design Faculty Receives Honors
five members of the design faculty have had works accepted for exhibitions now in progress or have been mentioned in a nationally circulated publication.
Emily Genauer, art critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, in an article "Everday Objects Can Be Fine Art," names three K.U. teachers as outstanding craftsmen. They are Sheldon Carey, associate professor; Carlyle H. Smith, assistant professor; and Donald Kane, instructor. The article is in the December issue of House Beautiful.
Professor Carey has two pieces now showing in the 15th National Ceramic show at Syracuse, N.Y. John Parks, instructor, had three etchings accepted for exhibit by the Chicago Etching society. An oil painting by Ray Ottinger, assistant professor, is in the Mid-American show at the Nelson galleries, Kansas City, Mo.
Allied Line Collapses Under Red Counterattack
Tokyo—(U.P.)The center of the Allied north Korean line collapsed today under a savage counter-offensive by 20,000 Chinese Communists. A 9th corps spokesman said nothing was known of the fate of two Allied divisions in their path.
"We can only assume the 2nd corps disintegrated," the spokesman said.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's whole "end the war" offensive hung in the balance as result of the breakthrough which threatened at least four other United Nations divisions encircled and attacked 12 to 19 Korean civilians by counter-attacking Chinese and North Korean Communists in the past 48 hours.
The collapse came in the 22-mile sector between Tokchon and Oe-
chang, where 8th army commander Lt. Gen. Walton W. Walker had ordered the R.O.K. 7th and 8th divisions to hold at "all costs."
It exposed the U.S. 2nd division on the South Korean west flank and endangered the entire line held by the U.S. 24th and 25th divisions and the R.O.K. 1st division.
Graduate Reserves May Attend Ball
R. O.T.C. students and graduates of University R.O.T.C. still in attendance at the University may attend the Military Ball which is to be held Dec. 1, 1950 at the Military Science building.
This is contrary to previous Daily Kansas reports which said that all reserve officers could attend the Ball. Only those who are in the R.O.T.C. units at the University and those,who are graduates of the University R.O.T.C. program and are still attending the University are eligible to attend the Ball.
Group Plans Exam Centers
Examination centers for correspondence students will be set up to provide more rigid, adequate, and proper supervision of examinations. This was decided at the conference of state extension workers the past week.
Miss Ruth Kenney, University correspondence study director, was named a member of the planning committee for the centers. Frank T. Stockton, dean of the University Extension; Miss Kenney; Gerald L. Pearson, director of extension classes; and Clyde Babb, extension representative, attended the conference at Pittsburg. Five Kansas state colleges were represented.
Three main questions were considered during the general discussion meetings. They included the urging of applicants to complete courses for their teaching certificates before the last week, a frequent revision of courses and lesson materials to keep them up-to-date, and the problem of an inefficient examination procedure.
WEATHER
Fair and mild today. Partly cloudy tomorrow. High both days 45 to 50. Low tonight 30 to 35.
Former Chancellor Was A Bicycle Fan In'90's
Marion Kliower
A University chancellor once drove his bicycle down the sidewalk on 14th street with his feet placed on the fork and his coat tails flying in the wind.
About 1895 Chancellor Francis H. Snow used his safety bicycle to commute between his office on the campus and his residence in Carruth hall or to make business trips to town. Students and faculty members would shudder as they saw the chancellor racing down the street.
A few years earlier, about 1893, the high-wheel bicycle had been popular. You were considered a hero if you could master a high-wheeler. And only "sissies" rode the new-fangled safety bicycle which was coming into vogue when Chancellor Snow drove it.
All this bicycle lore is the result of the discovery of a bicycle fork on the University campus. Workmen found a fork with handle bars and a hand brake near Battenfeld hall while digging a ditch for a power line.
Edward Wellhausen, shipping and receiving clerk at Watson library, used to ride a high-wheeler. He bought it for about $25 and sold it for 25 cents to a rag-man.
The rusted relic has a fork with enough clearance for a four-foot wheel and handle bars about two feet long. A brake lever on the handle bars and a brake shoe which was applied to the wheel are the other features which can be identified.
He said there was nothing much wrong with the high-wheeler except the broken noses and smashed faces it caused through the frequent spills. The high-wheeler was propelled like a youngster's tricycle is today. There was no chain and sprooket, but instead the pedals on the front wheel were the source of locomotion.
Chancellor Snow Idling.
The only way to stop when going at a good speed, Mr. Wellhausen said, was to apply the brake.
"If you were going a good clip and suddenly hit a hole or stone, the bike would pitch a person over the front wheel." he said.
Mr. Wellhausen said the high-wheelers were "in their height around 1892 and 1893."
"Each Sunday hundreds of people would make tours of 20 and 25 miles into the country. Women rode bicycles just as much as men. News-papers would print maps for the convenience of bicycle tourists."
Mr. Wellhausen recalled a race in 1893 in Forest park in St. Louis. The hill was like Mt. Oread, he said.
"The experienced drivers rode past me like I was standing still, and they were at the top of the hill before I knew it." he said.
Costumes for riding in those days included the divided women's skirts and the short-legged pants with long stockings for men, Mr. Wellhausen explained.
Robert Rankin, early resident said that he owned the first high-wheel bicycle in Lawrence. He bought the bicycle in Washington, D.C., where he was living at the time and wanted to Lawrence. He then planned to move not get the price he wanted and shipped it to Lawrence in 1882.
Mr. Rankin said that Washington had about 40 miles of pavement, making it possible to have many bicycle exhibitions and races.
"In Lawrence the roads were either too rough or too muddy and so I went back to the pony after rid-ing a bicycle for one summer," he said.
Lawrence people driving teams of horses in the streets disliked the bicycles. The cyclist wanted to stay in the "beaten path," Mr. Rankin explained, and the teamster refused to turn to the side of the road.
"I foxed people by putting a little bell on the high-m-wheeler which frightened the horses and then I the right-of-way." Mr. Rankin said.
The seat was above the front wheel about five feet from the ground. The back wheel was about one foot in diameter. Above the back wheel was a little step one foot above the ground. After you had scooted enough to gain sufficient momentum, you climbed onto the seat and pedaled away.
Bill Blevins has one of these high-wheelers in his bicycle shop in Lawrence which he believes was built about 1880. He has been offered $100 for it. In the past 10 years, he has driven it in most of the local Christmas parades.
A broken plug in the automatic fire sprinkler system caused a flood in Fraser hall Friday. Fraser theater received the most damage.
Water ran down the halls and stairs in the building, and inundated the basement. Janitors,building and grounds employees, faculty members and students hauled boxes and other items from the path of the water.
Janitors managed to shut off the sprinkler system, but the water ran from floor to floor until the basement was flooded.
At first, the building was believed to be on fire, because the sprinkler system is connected to an automatic fire bell.
In Fraser theater, streams of water spouted from the ceiling and drenched hundreds of seats in the balcony and main floor. Torrents of water spilled down the aisles toward the stage.
William Conroy, second year law, ran through the spray and pulled a camera projector in the theater balcony to a dry area. Water poured down until the big pipes were empty.
Damage was extensive, but use of the hall was not interrupted.
In classrooms, water streamed from the lights in the rooms. Water rippled through the halls and persons in the building tried to clear things from the path of the water.
Children's Art Book Written By Professor
A series of eight art books for children written by Miss Maud ELLworth, associate professor of education, are currently being published.
Titled "Growing With Art" six of the series have already been printed and books seven and eight will be out by the first of the year. A teacher's manual will accompany the books.
"The Growing With Art' series is a practical demonstration of the modern method of teaching art to children. This is done by developing creative ability through exercises in water coloring, finger painting, sculpturing, work with colored paper, and other creative work." Miss Ellsworth said.
Books seven and eight which are for junior high students are presented in a more adult form emphasizing the theme that art is something for everyone, she said. Home decoration and a study of art principals are developed in the eighth book.
Photographs of Lawrence children illustrate the series. All of the drawings, paintings, and handicrafts illustrating the books were done by Lawrence children.
Two reproductions of famous paintings representing both modern work and old masters, are included in each book. Also included are photographs of famous sculpture.
"The reproductions of paintings are of different types so that children can get acquainted with both old and new art." Miss Ellsworth said.
Some of the books are already in use, Miss Ellsworth said and the company expects to get an adoption of the books in several states, including Kansas.
Local Families Feed Foreign Students
About 25 foreign students at K.U.
ate Thanksgiving dinner in private
homes, David Riggs, Y.M.C.A. secretary,
estimated today.
Mary Crews, College sophomore and Gerald Peterson, education senior, headed Y.W. and Y.M.C.A. committees which arranged for the students to eat the holiday meal with faculty members and various townspeople of Lawrence.