Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan
48th Year No.10
Thursday, Sept. 28, 1950
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Big Football Rally Set For Tonight
A big send-off rally for Coach J. V. Sikes' Jayhawker football team will be held at 9:45 tonight at the Union Pacific railroad station, Don Hull, head K.U. cheerleader, announced today. The players will leave at 10:09 p.m. for Denver, Colo., where they will play the University of Denver Pioneers in a non-conference game day night.
"It is our aim to make tonight's rally one of the biggest send-off football-rallies ever held for a K.U. team," Hull said. "After the way they battled Texas Christian university, we want to let Coach Sikes, his coaching staff, and players know that we're behind them 100 per cent."
A pep band will be on hand to provide music for songs and cheering. The KuKu's men pep organization, and the Jay Jane, women's pep club, will help the cheerleaders with organized cheering.
"The Lawrence Downtown Quarterback club, an organization of downtown businessmen, will attend the rally and offer its rusty voices to the K.U. cheering," Duke Kennedy, a member of the group, said today.
Tonight's send-off rally will be the first of several rallies planned for the departure and arrival of the football team on its out-of-town games this year.
Short talks will be given by Coach Sikes and his players concerning the Kansas-Denver game Friday night in the Mile High city.
The first welcome-home rally will be held at 6:55 am. Sunday when the team returns to Lawrence from Denver. Even though it is a 'little early to roll out of bed' on Sunday morning, we hope that students will help us have a successful rally," Hull said.
French Movie To Open Series
The foreign film series which was begun the past year will be resumed this year, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
The first film in this year's series is the French movie "Symphonie Pastorale," which will be shown Saturday, Oct. 14, in Hoch auditorium.
All the films will be shown on Friday nights except the first one which has been scheduled for Saturday because of the Harry James' dance.
The other films which have been selected are tentatively scheduled for: Oct. 20, "Pygmalion" (English); Nov. 3, "Day of Wrath" (Danish); Nov. 17, "Henry VIII" (English); Dec. 1, "Donna Barbara (Spanish); Jan. 12, "Seven Neesers" (German); Feb. 9, "Stoneflower" (Russian); Feb. 23, "The Informer" (English); March 2, "The Affair Blum" (German); and March 16, "Shoosehine" (Italian).
The films for this year were selected by a student-faculty committee which started the past spring to obtain them. One of the films "Seven Journeys" is new and hasn't been shown in many commercial greaters yet. Other films are classics and some are outstanding foreign films. More foreign languages are represented in the films this year.
The Chancellor pointed out that these films are an integral part of a liberal education program. Through these films, students can observe the language, customs, techniques, traditions, and history of other countries.
Students To See Football On TV
Students may watch the nation's major football games from the Union television set in the Union ballroom every Saturday afternoon when the Jayhawks are not playing at home.
Another television set, loaned to the University by Oliver B. Beaman, owner of the Beaman Radio and Television company in Lawrence, will be placed in the east end of the Union ballroom during World Series games, announced Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men. The Union set will be taken to the Hawk's Nest during the World Series. The games will start at 12:30 p.m. CST Wednesday, Oct. 4.
Cable connections for WDAF-TV have been completed and the first show over the new cable will be a telecast of Saturday's football game between the University of Notre Dame and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., direct from South Bend, Ind., starting at 1:30 p.m.
Play Tryouts Begin Today
Tryouts for the second set of Laboratory theater plays will be held in the Little theater of Green hall at 4 p.m. today and Friday. Four one act plays will be cast, which includes 12 male and 9 female characters. All members of the University are eligible to try out.
These plays will go into production immediately. Anyone who is unable to attend tryouts may see Thomas Shay in 1, Green hall. Mr. Shay said that experience is not necessary.
Clean-up Begins Of 70,000 Reds In South Korea
Tokyo, Sept. 28—(U.P.)-The battle of annihilation against some 70,000 Communist troops still in South Korea began in earnest today.
One American force had jumped to within 24 miles of the border of Communist North Korea, American Northern and Southern armies were firmly joined, and American fighter bombers were blasting fleeing Red columns from Taejon to the 38th parallel.
Sixty miles south of Osan, Yanks of the 24th division recaptured bypassed Taejon and erased their bitterest Korean defeat. Tanks and foot soldiers spread throughout the city and also took Taejon airport.
The battle for Seoul was ended in total victory for U.S. forces.
One thousand Reds made a determined stand on the outskirts of Taejon, but finally broke and fled north by train and truck, only to be caught later by bombing, strafing American fighters-bombers.
American 2nd division forces retook Chonju, 39 miles southwest of Taejon.
Northwest of Seoul, an unidentified Allied column—presumably the U.S. 187th airborne regiment—pushed five miles up the Southwest bank of the Han river to Yanggong, 24 miles south of the 38th parallel. They were in a position to strike north across the Han to the border itself, or east to cut the escape route for the Reds fleeing Seoul. Yanggong is 20 miles northwest of Seoul.
It was estimated that some 30,000 Red troops of six divisions were caught in the attack on How Seoul. The South Koreans on the mountainous eastern side of the peninsula were chasing 35,000 to 40,000 more.
Lt. Gen. Walter H. Walker, 8th Army commander, predicted that all the entrapped Reds would be killed or captured.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; occasional showers southeast, extreme east and extreme south portions. Cooler west and north tonight, not quite so cool northwest Friday. Low tonight 40-45 degrees northwest to 55-60 degrees southeast; high Friday middle 60 degrees to lower 70 degrees.
Dr.DavidsonNamed Assistant Dean
DR. ARTHUR W. DAVIDSON
The appointment of Dr. Arthur Davidson as assistant dean of the Graduate school was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Dr. Davidson has been on the University staff for 29 years.
Civil Service Exams Oct.14
State civil service examinations will be given at Liberty Memorial High school Saturday, Oct. 14, in 37 classes.
Charles S. Manley, acting director of the department of civil service, stated that clerk stenographer I and II are in greatest demand at the present time.
Accepted applicants will fill vacancies at the University of Kansas and other state departments and institutions.
University students may secure application blanks in the Chancellor's office, 223 Strong hall, or they may write to the Kansas department of education. Topeka. Completed applications must be mailed to Topeka by Oct. 4.
An acceptance notice will designate the time of the test.
No Yangtze River, Dr. Lee Says
Do you think that chow mein and chop suey are Chinese dishes? Are you under the impression that there is such a river as the Yangtze? These and many more questions are answered daily in the lectures of Orient Lee, professor of history.
Dr. Lee is teaching courses in southeast Asia, history of Chinese civilization and Chinese art at the University. His lectures are crammed with legend, lore, and history. The scheduled assignment might be on the Ming dynasty but the talk will inevitably roam from Chinese food to the origin of the Chinese people.
"Text books are an obstacle in teaching Chinese history," he said. The book that Dr. Lee was going to use this term was out of print and there was no other book available. To overcome this barrier, he is now in the process of writing a text book. This will be the 16th book that he has published. Dr. Lee has written twelve books in Chinese, two in French and one booklet in English.
purpose of making maps. He stopped at a village near the river and asked the people its name. Due to a misunderstanding, the people gave him the name of the town, which was Yangtze. The river went down in history as the Yangtze, while in China it is called the Long river.
Dr. Lee first came to the United States in 1946 to teach at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Va., and at Brooklyn college, Brooklyn, N.Y. He remained there two years and then went back to China. He returned again to teach in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri colleges.
Concerning Chinese food, Dr. Lee says that chow mein is a dish native of his country but it is not like our American version. In China, chow mein is a dish of fried noodles. Chop suey originated in San Francisco during the gold rush days. The story is told that two hungry miners stopped at the door of a Chinese home and asked for food. The host had nothing to offer but a few scraps of leftovers cooked together. This was the origin of the dish; chop means all kinds and suey means all things.
DR. ORIENT LEE
Another story Dr. Lee tells is of the naming of the Yangtze river. A geographer came to China for the
Dean J. H. Nelson of the Graduate school said that Dr. Davidson would be in charge of promoting and negotiating contracts for fundamental research between the University and sponsors. During the past four years such contracts have amounted to several hundreds of thousands of dollars. He will also assist Dean Nelson in normal administrative matters.
Dr. Davidson has been a member of the K.U. chemistry faculty since 1921, when he obtained the Ph.D. degree from Columbia university, New York, N.Y. He has been a full professor since 1937. He will continue to devote part of his time to teaching.
Dr. Davidson the past year received high recognition as an authority on inorganic chemistry when he was appointed an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical society. He is the first K.U. teacher to fill that position.
The steady growth of the Graduate school to the rank of third among K.U.'s 10 schools with a record enrollment of 913, and the appointment of Dean Nelson as chairman of the all-University budget committee made necessary the filling of the assistant deanship, vacant the past four years.
Many of the administrative functions performed by E. B. Stouffer, dean of the University, prior to his retirement the past summer, have been assigned to Dean Nelson and the Graduate school.
A Cappella Choir Elects
Willard Straight, fine arts senior,
has been elected president of the
A Cappella choir. Other officers and
committee members also have been
elected for the coming school year
D. M. Swarthout, director of the
choir, announced today.
Vesting committee members are:
Betty Schoewe, fine arts senior;
Verla Steffey, education senior;
Margaret Ceverly, College senior;
and Allane West, fine arts junior.
Other officers and committee members are: Don George, secretary; Joyce Friesen, fine arts junior, treasurer; George Peacock, business senior, Ralph Ross, fine arts sophomore, Herbert Skillman, pharmacy, junior, and Alan Stewart, librarians.
On the social committee are: Carolyn Oliver, College sophomore; Natalie Logan, education junior; Alberta James, College junior; Robert Hein, College sophomore; Marshall Johnson, and Ariane Hadley, fine arts sophomores; and Vera Smoots.
Assistant directors are: Clayton Krehbiel and Jeanne Aldridge. Willard Straight will be pianist for the group.
Former Student Appointed To Park Valley Faculty
Delta Warren Gier, who attended the University during the summer sessions of 1948 and 1949, has been appointed assistant professor of chemistry and dean of men at Park college, Parkville, Mo.
Gier was graduated from Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg. During World War II he was a navy electronics technician. He is one of eight brothers and a sister, all of whom are teachers.