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O F THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
The Hutchinson station KIMV-FM radio tower will soon be moved to the University, by the Costelow company of Topeka, at a cost of $22.800.
Radio Tower Moving Contract Let By State
The state awarded the moving contract to the Topeka company after the recent presentation of the tower to the University by J. P. Harris, Hutchinson News-Herald publisher and operator of the FM station until it ceased operation about a month ago.
The University will make arrangements to move the studio equipment and the part of the transmitting equipment which is not including in the moving contract.
The 514-foot tower will be dismantled and moved to Lawrence in section where it will be erected on high ground just north of Pioneer cemetery southwest of the campus.
The operation permit from the Federal Communications commission for which the University has applied allows FM operation only, but there is a possibility of eventually using the equipment for AM and television transmission.
The part KFKU, the University's AM station, will play when the new power is installed is undecided.
It is necessary to place FM tower on high ground because, unlike AM radio waves, the waves do not follow the earth's curvature. The Civil Aeronautics authority, always concerned with tall objects, has given temporary approval on the location of the tower and it is believed they will consent to the project officially
Wins Prize In Art Show
John G. Armstrong, instructor in drawing and painting, received a $100 prize for a painting in the Missouri Valley painting show at the Mulvane museum at Washburn University. Monday. The show was opened to the public Tuesday.
His painting, "Landscape in Normandy," won one of the three cash awards in the show. He is the only Kansas entrant to receive a cash prize. Ray Ottinger, assistant professor of design had an oil painting
his and Armstrong's paintings will be on exhibition during October.
A movie, "Flight Plan for the Future," will be shown by the United States air force at 3,4,and 5 p.m. Thursday in 104 Military Science building.
Air Force Movie Set For Thursday
Capt. Robert R. Council, in charge of the aviation cadet selection team on duty in the youth of the Union, invited "young men interested in an air force career" to see the movie. However, it is open to anyone who wants to attend, he added. "The movie takes three aviation cadets through flight training and into their jobs as air force officers after graduation." Captain Council said.
WEATHER
Kansas—Clear tonight and Thursday. Slightly cooler west and north-central tonight; low 42 northwest to 52 southeast. Slightly cooler Thursday; high 75 west and north to 78 southeast.
Book Checked Out After 51 Years
It's been 51 years, but "South Africa: It's History, Heroes, and Wars" has finally been checked out of Watkins library for the first time since the library received it in 1899.
Dale W. Fields, journalism senior, needed some material about the Boer war for his classwork in British Empire. He looked through the card index and thought this book "would fill the bill."
"Perhaps it will be another 51 years before someone will use it again." Fields chuckled.
Modern Dance To Pledge Four
Tau Sigma, modern dance club,
accepted Barbara Greenberg, graduate student; Anite Andreen, College senior; Lynette Oberg, fine arts senior; and Carolyn Critser, College sophomore, as pledges after try-outs Tuesday night. Pledging services will be held at the next meeting at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, in Robinson gymnasium.
Club members discussed the possibility of creating group numbers for University functions, sponsoring a square dance followed by an interpretation in modern dance, and a lecture demonstration of modern dance for any interested department.
The club has 16 pledges and 24 actives but needs more men. Applicants should have a semester or its equivalent of modern dance. The try-out includes creating a dance pattern since all dances for Tau Sigma presentations are original.
Fencing Club Plans Bouts With Kansas State Group
Plans for fencing bouts between the University and Kansas State college were discussed at the fencing club meeting Tuesday night.
Gordon Jarchow, engineering senior and retiring president, extends an invitation to all students interested in fencing to attend the meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 in 101 Robinson. New officers will be elected.
The appearance of Harry James and his orchestra in Hoch auditorium Friday will be the first big name dance band here since Duke Ellington was here on Jan. 19, 1948. Student Union activities officers said today.
“Arrangements for getting Harry James were begun in August,” said Margaret Granger, president of Student Union activities. “It was hoped to get the orchestra for homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 28; however plans were made for Friday as he will be on a tour in this area,” she added.
Duke Ellington attracted more than 1,200 persons in 1948. Other big name bands in recent years have been Spike Jones on Oct. 4, 1949, attended by more than 3,200 persons. The Norman Granz orchestra on Oct. 31, 1947, had an attendance of more than 1,500 persons. The Jones and Granz bands did not play for dances.
James Band Is First Since Ellington In '48
Harold Swartz, business office accountant, said that the floor in Hoch auditorium can accommodate from 900 to 1,000 couples. Spectators may watch from the balcony.
The band plays chiefly "sweet" music, but has plenty of "hot." too. It has strings, trombones, trumpets, rhythm instruments, and reeds.
The Trumpet Blitz will play several old numbers including "You Made Me Love You." "Ciri Biri Bin," "Tve Heard That Song Before," and "I'm Beginning to See the Light."
Jimmy Kennedy, comedian musician, will entertain during the intermission. Mr. Kennedy joined the band this fall.
Tickets are on sale in front of Watson library and in the Student Union activities office until Friday evening. Before the dance which begins at 8:30 p.m., tickets will be on sale in Hoch auditorium.
Apples Won't Hatch
Rv RICHARD HUNTER
Audience Of 120 Enjoys First Laboratory Plays
An audience of about 120 saw the first set of laboratory plays in the Little Theater of Green hall Tuesday and agreed with the director, Thomas Shay, that the players can't guarantee a professional performance but can guarantee 25 cents worth of entertainment.
The audience did get 25 cents worth of entertainment and at times a near professional performance. The first comedy was "Fumed Oak" by Noel Coward. The story involves a henpecked, middle class Englishman, who has an overbearing wife sniffing daughter, and a gushy mother-in-law who squabble about matters of no particular importance.
Leola Stewart, education junior, played Mrs. Gow, and progressed nicely from the overbearing wife to the cast-off wife. Miss Stewart had the most difficult role in the play and played it well.
Carolyn Oliver, College sophomore, was convincing in the role of the sniffing, spoiled teen-ager who has been pampered too much by her grandmother.
All in all, the audience enjoyed the plays and appreciated the players.
Thought' Control Law Dangerous, Says Fields
Bill Van Almen, College sophomore, played the husband, Henry Gow, and shows flashes of comedy.
Frank Leban, College freshman, plays a convincing Augustus, and Arden Angst, education junior, used her eyes and voice effectively as the girl. John White, College junior, played an aged clerk with considerable humor.
The companion play, "Augustus Does His Bit" by George Bernard Shaw, is about World War I. Augustus is a pompous but lovable English gentleman who has been made a general chiefly because no one knew what else to do with him.
The mother-in-law, played by Marjorie Fisher, education junior, was strictly a comedy part which Miss Fisher played for all it was worth.
The plot concerns a bet by a girl that she can get secret war information from General Augustus by using her feminine wiles on him.
The internal Security act could easily become a thought-control measure, J. Eldon Fields, associate professor of political science, said Tuesday in the fourth "World In Crisis" lecture.
Reading Classes Start Oct.16
The second series of remedial classes conducted by the reading laboratory will begin on Monday, Oct. 16, Dr. Henry P. Smith, associate professor of education, said today.
Dr. Smith, director of the reading laboratory, says this second set of classes in the fall semester is being held for about 90 students who have enrolled since the first classes began.
A general reading comprehension class begins Monday Oct. 16, with sections at 2 and 3 p.m. The class meets three times a week.
"This will be the last section before the second semester," he said.
On Tuesday, Oct. 31, a five-weeks study methods class begins. Sections meet twice a week at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2 p.m.
A third general comprehension class will start on Monday, Nov. 6. Sections will meet at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Arrangements for enrollment can be made any week-day at 18 Fraser hall from 3 to 5 p.m.
A seven-weeks program for improving reading speed will begin on Monday, Oct. 23. The one section will meet at 2 p.m.
Fraternity Plans Trip
Plans for a field trip to the Board of Trade building and the Federal Reserve bank in Kansas City, Mo., were discussed at a business meeting of Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary business fraternity, Tuesday.
About 20 members are expected to make the trip in private cars. This excursion is designed to give students an insight to the practical aspect of business.
Joint YMCA-YWCA Discussion Today
Plans for the Estes convention, a national Y.M.C.A. and W.Y.C.A. allmembership meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
The first student-faculty "get-acquainted" coffee sponsored by the Associated Women students will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today in the dean of women's office.
Slides describing the convention will be shown, and a skit explaining various details will be presented by students who have attended the convention.
AWS To Sponsor 'Coffee' Today
Faculty representatives from the various schools and departments of the University will be present. Representatives from sororities and dormitories will also be there to meet students.
The act, commonly known as the Communist control law, was recently passed by congress over President Truman's veto. It calls for the compulsive registration of all Communists in this country.
"Truth is more likely to be the free competition of ideas than is any official presentation of 'safe' ideas," Dr. Fields said.
"President Truman vetoed the bill because some of its parts (registration of Reds) were unworkable, it will be hard to determine just who is a Communist or what is a Communist group, and the possibilities of abuse in thought-control are very frightening." Dr. Fields said.
"Safe" ideas, Dr. Fields explained, were commented on by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, in a letter expression his views on the freedom of ideas, wrote: "Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?"
"In a free country we punish for crimes and not for thought," Dr. Fields said.
Discussing the obsolescence of nationalism, Dr. Fields presented the arguments which are given in support of an international system. He pointed out the close association of nationalism and war.
Dr. Fields listed as the four main constituents of nationalism the nation-state as the top power unit, love of the "fatherland," feeling of group kinship, and unquestioned allegiance to the authority of the established national government.
"One of the most important things about modern nationalism is that it is emotional nationalism," Dr. Fields said. "In this modern secular world, there are few, if any, other things for which men will fight and die." He cited the case of Garry Davis, the "world citizen," as an example of how a man will eventually return to his homeland despite his strong feeling for world government.
Dr. Fields said that nationalism is a compromise between economic, political, and social systems, but that originally they were thought to be separate.
"There are 78 countries in the world today claiming to be independent national states," Dr. Fields said. "Politically, they range from democracy to absolute dictatorship. Economically, they range from strict socialism of Russia to British socialism to the American system, "whatever it is." Socially, they vary in many respects.
"Britain and the Scandinavian countries are as basically democratic as America even though they have forms of socialistic governments." Dr. Fields pointed out.
Dr. Fields mentioned the possibility of a one-power empire led by the victor of the next world war or the destruction of civilization as we know it.
"One world or 78 nations—to date we have 78 nations," Dr. Fields said.
Kollmorgen Attends Research Meeting
Dr. Walter Kollmorgen, chairman of the department of geography, attended a meeting of the geography committee of the National Research council in Washington, D.C., October 6 and 7.
- The committee passes on research projects submitted to the Office of Naval Research by various geography departments in the United States.
One of the projects considered was submitted by Dr. Will Kuchler, a member of the University's geography department.