TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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KU Student Cycling In Europe Is Tagged By Reds
By MELVA LUTZ
Listening to Communist leaders rave about the "destructive Marshall plan" and having a Communist badge pinned on her blouse were only two of the events experienced by Charlene List, fine arts sophomore, when she bicycled through Europe the past summer.
Accompanied by her brother and $ \textcircled{2} $
companied by her brother and another couple, Charlene stayed in hostels whenever possible. Under the international hostelling program, each country maintains supervised lodgings where foreign youths hiking or bicycling through the country may board and room at low rates.
"As we were pedalling into Nice, France, one Sunday morning, we heard loud clapping and yelling," Charlene said. "We discovered that the Communists were holding a rally, and before I could utter a word, they had pinned a Communist badge on me. The badge was inscribed with "The Youth of the World Bans the Atomic Bomb."
Two Swiss children told the four that the Communist leaders were shouting:
"The Marshall plan is disrupting your economic system and they are just trying to get your trade."
The leaders also said that the Communists were thick in the United States and that the United States would be overtaken in two years.
Charlene believed that most of the French people attended the rally out of curiosity since they could sing very few of the Communist songs. The French papers said that 10,000 attended the rolly, but Charlene said there "couldn't have been more than 6,000."
While in England, Charlene had traffic troubles. She rammed her bicycle into two buses in a busy London street.
"I was afraid to use the hand brake on my English bicycle," she explained.
"I was riding through the London traffic one other day and I came to an intersection," she said, "The bobby (policeman) that I didn't
CHARLENE LIST
have any experience, so he stopped the traffic from all directions to let me pass."
Leaving England, the four with their bicycles boarded a ship and went to the Hook of Holland. There they found everybody riding bicycles.
"Even 70-year-old couples were riding bicycles and holding each other's arm, just like they would do if they were walking down the street. Small children, not even as tall as the handle bars and the seat were riding girls' bicycles," she exclaimed.
When the four arrived in Bastogne, Belgium, they couldn't get a hotel room because they had run short of Belgium money.
"We decided to go out and sleep in the monument dedicated to American soldiers who fought and died in the 'Battle of the Bulge.'" she said. "However, when we got inside the monument someone turned on the lights, so we went a block away and slept in an oat field. It rained on us that night, but we were so tired we didn't move."
At Monte Carlo, France, Charlene visited the famed gambling cassino.
"The men had to wear shirts and ties to go into the cassino," she said. "But girls could wear anything and they did—even shorts!"
Charlene rode 80 miles in one day when she bicycled down the side of the Alb mountains into Italy.
"As we rode along between Genoa and Nice, we stopped every day and swam in the Mediterranean. The bikini baths suits the French girls wore at the beach were terrific." Charlene said in a tone of astonishment as she illustrated the size of the bathing suits with her hands. They looked to be about the size of a lady's handkerchief.
"We spent a week in Paris shopping and having a hilarious time," she said laughingly. "We went to the Follies Bergers and had lots of French wine," she added.
Charlene's trip covered 24,000 miles,1,500 miles of which she bicycled. She arrived home in Leavenworth, Sept. 13 and left for school Sept. 15.
"A trip like this is worth at least a year in school." Charlene said.
Independents To Give Sadie Hawkins Dance
Frank Allen star of station WREN's "Night Watchman" show, will appear at the Independent Students' association Sadie Hawkins dance from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the Union ballroom.
Sadie Hawkins will chase Li'l Abner down Jayhawk drive in front of Watkins library at 1:50 p.m. Friday to remind students of the dance. James McConnell, assistant track coach, will start the race in which 25 women and 25 men will participate.
American Girl Aids Wounded In Korea
Prizes will be awarded "Saturday for the best Sadie Hawkins and Li'l Abner costumes. Women are to play "host" for this vice-versa dance. Admission is free to I.S.A. members and 50 cents a person for non-members.
Pusan, Korea (U.P.)—A young American woman who is pretty enough to be a cover girl reported the past week on her work as "personal representative of American womanhood in Korea."
At least that's the way brown-haired, blue-eyed Margaret O'Bid of Chicago and San Francisco, sees her job as the only American Red Cross attache to a Swedish field hospital here—and probably the only unmarried civilian American woman at present in Korea.
Miss O'Bid takes care of American wounded. In addition to distributing candy, cigarettes, magazines, books, and games, she also must attend to the personal problems of the GI—anything from writing letters to worried parents to filing divorce papers.
Canary Sings Yankee Doodle
Gary, Ind. (U.P.)—A year's training produced patriotic whistling in Mrs. John McElfresh's home. Each morning Mrs. McElfresh played a whonograph recording of "Yankee Doodle" and prompted notes from one of her 150 canaries. Now the bird readily whistles the entire air.
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Women To Get Commissions
Newcomers To Attend Dinner And Reception
Washington (U.P.)The army has offered second lieutenant commissions to women college graduates between the ages of 21 and 26.
Newcomers club members and their husbands or escorts will attend a semi-formal dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Kansas room of the Union.
The army said it will apoint 240 women by June 30, with the number apportioned on a population basis among the six army areas. Women with dependents under 18 are not eligible.
They will be honored after dinner at a reception given by the University Women's club.
Reservations can be made until Thursday by calling Mrs. Robert Eckley, 284JL, or Mrs. Blakemore Thomas, 618 W.
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Chorus Girls Size Up Politicians; Find They Always Talk About Themselves
New York—(U.P.)-Politics, from a chorus girl's point of view, can be boiled down into a simple question.
"Is he a good guy or isn't he?"
So far no confused voter has asked them, but a bevy of long-legged beauties discussed the good guy subject in their crowded dressing room at the Diamond Horseshoe night club
Political parties, pointed out Gregg Evans, a 6-foot tall blue-eyed blonde, reveal plenty.
"The trouble with most of those I've been out with is that the politician always wants to talk about himself. It gets dull."
"What man doesn't?" came a muffled voice from a red head struggling into a street dress to go out between shows.
"No," Gregg insisted, with a chorus of assent from several other interested girls, "Politicians do more talking about themselves than, say, a businessman."
Modesty, the girls decided, was a valuable trait to look for in a man who wants to be elected to public office.
"You never can tell just by the way a man looks. You've just got to talk to him and find out what he stands for," thoughtfully added Mary Lou Bentley, a serious-minded 21-year-old with inch-long eyelashes.
Also, watch out for the man with a ready flow of campaign promises.
"I went out with some politicians back home in Boston," 18-year-old Brik Tone said. "They were too eager to please. I regarded it as a bad sign. Besides, it made them uninteresting."
As for their freedom with a taxpayer's dollar, the politicians got a unanimous if unenthusiastic vote of confidence from the girls.
I've never seen a politician yet who
wouldn't have a budget included.
They all seem very budget-minded.
Phi Chi Fraternity Initiates Sixteen
Dr. S. W. Lesher, assistant professor of anatomy, and Dr. Weir Pearson, McPherson, were initiated into Phi Chi medical fraternity Saturday.
Fourteen medical school sudents were also initiated. The students include: James Warren, Wichita; Ralph MacNaughton, Wichita; Robert Manning, Wichita; Robert Banks, La Cygne; Ned Gorrell, Lawrence; Irvin Scherer, Kansas City; Ralph Comer, Kansas City, Mo.; Albert Simpson, Topeka; Reuben Burkman, Garrison; Dale Clinton, Lawrence; Milo Spurgeon, Parsons; Robert Fountain, Sabetha; Bob Matthews, Kansas City; and Don Robinson, Wichita.
The geographic center of Kansas is in Barton county, 15 miles northeast of Great Bend.
Recently pledged were James Long, Norton; Paul Kleiwer, Atchison; Dale Anderson, EdDorado; and Roy Carpenter, Wichita.
Trojan Club To Have Dances With Two Womens' Dorms
Trojan club, Independent Students' association ward for men in unorganized houses, will have a dinner-dance with Corbin hall from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas room of the Union.
Twenty Corbin women will eat with 20 ward members at 6:30 p.m. in union preceding the dance while 20 ward members will be guests at Corbin hall.
About 30 men attended an hour dance Nov. 3 for the ward given by Foster hall.
Watkins hall will entertain the Trojan club with an hour dance from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday.
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