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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950
KU Reading Laboratory Increases Students' Speed
By MARION KLIEWER
An average college student does not read faster than 300 to 350 words a minute.
Unless he works to improve this speed, it will be the same when he is graduated. This means that his reading speed is the same as when he was in the eighth grade. With some effort it is possible to read twice that fast.
Dr. Henry P. Smith, director of the University reading laboratory, today announced that the last section of speed improvement for the fall semester would begin Monday, Oct. 23. The program is intended only for those students who are already good readers, but who wish to attain a high rate of speed. Other programs are available for students whose greatest need is improved comprehension or better study methods.
"One of the main causes of slow reading is habit," says Don Moler, instructor in reading improvement. Nearly any student may improve his speed if he can be pushed along for a time, he added.
Nearly 100 students have attempted to improve their reading speed each year in the seven-week course. Some have doubled their speed; others have made improvements from 25 to 75 per cent; and others have appeared to make no improvement, Dr. Smith says.
The goal of the speed program is to force the student to break old habits of depending on word by word reading and to encourage him to get thought directly from the printed page.
A scene in a laboratory spece classroom would find 25 students intently watching a motion picture screen. Instead of an interesting movie, an occasional flash of light lasting for a fraction of a second projects a series of digits on the screen.
A regular projector is used with an attachment called a tachistoscope. Students are forced to speed their reading by steps in the recognition of digits, phrases, and paragraphs.
The tachistoscope was developed by Dr. Samuel Rensaw, an experimental psychologist at Ohio State university. During the war Dr. Rensah developed the Rensaw Reco- nization system, a method for training men to spot airplanes and warships. He has published a number of articles showing that this method also results in improved reading ability.
Beginning with the recognition of four digits, the student is forced along until he can recognize nine digits. Length of the projection will vary from 1-25 to 1-100 of a second. In a similar way phrases of three and four words are shown while the last method uses paragraph reading. In reading paragraphs a reading board which covers the reading material as the students read is adjusted to push the students into a high speed.
Solid South May Back 'Ike,' Too
Washington, Oct. 17—(U.P.)—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey says Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is Republican enough for him. But Dewey did not tell the whole story in Sunday night's television broadcast in which he endorsed Ike for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination.
The rest of the story is that Kie's Republican supporters are not likely to press him to announce his affiliation with the Republican party.
party.
Ike didn't say "yes," and didn't say "no" Monday to the Dewey endorsement. All he said was that he's happy as president of Columbia university.
Bubbling up now in the once solid south is an anti-Truman movement among powerful Democrats. They are led by James F. Byrnes who will soon be elected governor of South Carolina.
Byrnes and his southern friends would feel a lot more comfortable there if Ike did little instead of much talking about being a Republican. The longer he delays putting a political tag on himself, the easier it will be for southerners to vote for him and against Mr. Truman in 1952.
If Mr. Truman is denominated by the Democrats in 1952 the Byrnesled southernners will be looking for a place to land. They very well could land in the Eisenhower camp if he were nominated by the G.O.P.
Dewey said he didn't know whether Ike was a Republican, but he said the general's speeches proved his political philosophy to be right. They have a state's rights flavor, too.
George B. Smith To Deans' Meeting
George B. Smith, dean of School of Education. will attend the annual meeting of the American Association of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis Friday and Saturday.
Dr. Smith is vice-president of the association, which has members in 40 colleges and universities.
Former Prisoner Returns To Japan As Missionary To Former Enemies
Tokyo—(U.P)—An Ex-GI starved and tortured in a Japanese prison camp during World War II was back in Tokyo today with a list of his Japanese guards and captors—and a Bible.
Louis Zamperini, of Compton, Calif., a former Olympic star miler, arrived here last Sunday with a Youth for Christ group as a missionary.
He said he returned to seek out his captors and the persons who mistreated him and convert them to Christianity. He had 100 names on his list.
Zamperini was captured in 1943 when he ditched his plane off Oahu, Hawaii, and drifted 2,000 miles in 47 days on a life raft. A Japanese vessel picked up the pilot and his companions.
He was a prisoner for the rest of the war—two years. On one occasion the Japanese made him run against the best miler in Japan. Weak and undernourished, Zamperini won.
At home, he was given up for dead. He is in possession of his own death certificate, signed by President Roosevelt.
Zamperini said today he left Japan in 1945 with hatred in his heart against his captors. Then, last year,
"There is such a change in my life that I feel I have a duty to perform." Zamperini told his friends. "That duty is to return to Japan and tell them of the saving power of Jesus Christ.
"For now I believe it is Christ or Communism for the nations, Christ or Atomic annihilation for the world. Our only remedy for these threats is Christ for the individual."
Zamperini is the second former war prisoner to return to Japan as a missionary. The first was former Sgt. Jacob De Shazer, who was a crewmember in Lt. Gen. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle's first raid over Tokyo.
he was converted during a Billy Graham revival meeting in Los Angeles. His wife persuaded him to attend.
Queen's Identity To Be Secret Until NU Game
The identity of the homecoming queen will not be announced until half-time of the Kansas-Nebraska homecoming football game, Don Wilson, chairman of the queen selection committee, said today.
The judges will meet the seven contest finalists, Sunday, Oct. 22 at a dinner in the Kansas room of the Union. Their secret ballots for the queen will be given to Mr. Wilson who will announce the winner at the football game. The names of the judges will also be kept secret to prevent "influencing" by students. The calendar of homecoming
The calendar of homecoming events is as follows:
HOMECOMING CALENDAR
9:45 a.m—Student rally. Fowler grove.
4:00 p.m.—Registration opens Union.
5:30 p.m.-Reunion dinner, football team of 1920. Union.
7:15 p.m.—Basketball game, Hoch auditorium, Varsity against freshmen. Fifty cents admission.
9:30 a.m.—Registration opens, Memorial Union.
8:30 p.m. - Jayhawk folies, Hoch
auditorium.
Saturday
morning school
10:00-noon-Coffee hour, Union
lounge. Faculty members will act
as hosts.
10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.-Showing of movie, "Your University" in Pine room of Union.
10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.-Cafeteria service. Union.
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.-Budge buffet luncheon, Hawk's Nest,
Union.
2:00 p.m.—Football game, Kansas vs. Nebraska. Crowning of queen between halves.
between hives. After game Open house for alumni, parents of students, and friends in Union.
9:00 p.m. to midnight—Dance
union ballroom, Gene Hall's band.
AWS To Fill Two Vacancies
Elections to fill two freshman representative vacancies on the Associated Women Students Senate will be held Wednesday, Nov. 1. One Greek and one independent woman will be elected.
Candidates will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Pine room to hear an explanation of A.W.S. to be given by Marie Schumacher, president; Marjorie Crane, vice-president; and Frances Barnhardt, chairman of elections.
Petitions for women in organized houses will be sent out today. Freshman women living in unorganized houses and private homes may attend a Coke party from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Union ballroom where petitions will be available. All petitions must be turned in to the dean of women's office by 5 p.m. Thursday.
The elections committee will select three Greek and three independent freshman women from the 15 women and put their names on the ballot. The elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1. All freshman women are members of A.W.S. and therefore eligible to vote.
A quiz on the information given in the talks will be given to all candidates at 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Pine room. The 15 freshmen with the highest scores on the test will meet the elections committee at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in the home of Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women.
Polls will be in Fraser and Strong halls.
WEATHER
KANASAS—Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warner northwest tonight. Moderate southerly winds. Low tonight 55-60; high Wednesday 85-90.
Knowledge Of Television Helps Foreign Student
Some knowledge of television and a choice of three jobs helped Erwin David, engineering sophomore, to decide to settle in Lawrence.
Erwin, whose parents live in Hong-
land, was born in Cologne,
Germany, March 4, 1928 to James
to United States 15 months ago
with $50 in his pocket and is now
working toward a degree in electrical engineering.
"When I landed in Hoboken, N.J., July 28, 1949, I had to pay $8 head tax, and $7 customs duties on some parcels I brought with me to give to my relatives here in America," David said.
"I was allowed to buy a ticket to any place in the United States with Dutch money, so I bought a railroad ticket to San Francisco." This he traded for a round trip ticket to Kansas City via bus. He had originally planned to return to New York by way of Chicago after he visited his aunt, in Kansas City, Mo.
"When I got to Kansas City and learned that television was just getting started, I saw an opportunity for a job. I'd had some television training when I worked for Phillip's Telecommunication industries in Holland." David went to one of the wholesale dealers in Kansas City and was immediately given a choice of three jobs.
Upon the advice of a friend he chose the opening in Lawrence, "The thing that impressed me most," David said, "was after Mr. Vinton J. Vincent of Lawrence Hardware interviewed me, he gave me $100 and sent me to television school in Kansas City, and he had never seen me before. That was really wonderful."
"My father has a car, but he needs it for his business. He is a fashion
After working at Lawrence Hardware for six weeks Erwin had saved enough money to buy himself a Model A. "When I wrote to my friends in Holland and told them I owned a car, they thought the trip had gone to my head," he explained. In Holland an automobile is used only for business purposes and it is practically a realized ambition for a person to own one.
buyer. He buys ladies fashions for a chain store concern in Holland." In this country a car is a necessity. In Holland a man wouldn't think of working more than four or five miles from his home unless he had a good train connection. People use bicycles for transportation to and from work.
After he receives his degree, David hopes to work as production supervisor in factory producing electronic equipment.
ship 42 hours
David applied for the Battenfeld hall Foreign Student scholarship and was accepted. With the aid of the scholarship and the money he has saved he is able to carry 20 hours this semester. He is specializing in communications and works in the electrical engineering laboratory six hours a week.
"The distances here in America are what amaze me," David said. "In Europe we can't imagine the great distances you have in the United States."
"I didn't find any people in Lawrence who interested me so I decided to enroll in the University in order to find proper company. It was also an easy way to make some good grades." During the Spring semester of 1950 David carried eight hours at the University and worked for a radio repair shop 42 hours per week.
AWS Joint Meeting At 5 p.m. In Union
The Associated Women students house and senate will hold a joint meeting at 5 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union then will adjourn to the Kansas room for dinner.
Robert S. Eckley, assistant professor of economics, spoke on "Income in Southwestern Kansas." The preliminary results of the survey being made by the University bureau of business research were made by Clarence W. Tow, director of research of the Kansas City federal reserve bank; W. J. Foreman, agricultural economist; Jack F. McKay, University research bureau; and Paul E. Malone, director of the University business research bureau.
Women living in unorganized houses and private homes are invited to attend this meeting.
Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business, described the economic survey of southwestern Kansas at a meeting of business men and farmers from 19 counties at Garden City Monday.
The Kansas City branch of the General Electric company has asked T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering to recommend graduates to fill vacancies.
GE Requests Engineering Grads
Graduates with degrees in mechanical, electrical, metallurgical engineering, and engineering physics are eligible.
Since these positions must be filled immediately only graduates can be considered at this time. However, representatives of the company visit the University at intervals to view prospective graduate engineers.
Design Department Shows Enamelware For Homes
If you like beautiful things for the home in the way of decorative bowls, ash trays, and plates stop by the design department sometime this month and see the enamelware on display there.
> The display pieces were made by Mrs. Virginia Kobler of Topeka, who is an expert at creating original designs and doing the fine work required to finish enamelware.
Enamelware is made by the application of a coat, or sometimes several coats, of enamel on a mettpiece and then baking the piece is an oven at high temperatures.
The metal, in this case copper comes in flat sheets and is hammered into the shape of bowls and plates.
The enamel, which comes in all colors, is in hard glass-like lumps and is ground in a mortar until a fine powder is produced. The powder is either mixed with water and applied to the metal with a paint brush or sprinkled on the metal, sometimes with a salt shaker.
Sometimes several applications o different colored enamels and subsequent bakings are required before a piece is finished. When finish they are impervious to heat and water and can be used for almost any purpose without damage to the finish.
The objects are then placed in an oven and baked at temperature sometimes as high as 1700 degrees fahrenheit.
Also included in the exhibit are two of Mrs. Kobler's paintings of the designs she used on the enamelware on display. The designs, which are semi-abstract, include "Dancers and one of "Horses". Colors range from a pale blue on a small ash tray to black and green on a bowl, and dark blue and grey in a horses design on the plate.
The display was arranged to Donald Kane, design instructor, and is located on the third floor, west end, of Strong hall near the design office, 324 Strong hall.