UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE TWO
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950
Fraser Hall Finished After 78 Years Use
Fraser hall, oldest building at the University, took 78 years to gets its full growth.
In 1872 Chancellor John Fraser told an assembly. "The new building is ready, so we will now go over and take possession." Actually it took a decade of spasmodic legislative appropriations to finish up what was then the nation's largest educational building. Lawrence citizens had provided a $100,000 bond issue to build the basic structure.
But left unfinished was the sixth floor south tower room. For nearly 78 years the room had only rough stone walls. There was no light or heat. The room represented considerable unused space, for its finished counterpart in the north tower offered the utmost in privacy and a commanding view to the strong-legged English instructors who have offices there.
This summer the second half of a complete remodeling of Fraser hall was completed. Now the School of Education is using the south tower
room for offices. In the future it may become the Thurnau memorial reading room for the Germanic languages department, occupant of the floors below.
The two-summer rejuvenation has included redecoration and refinishing from the basement through the three main floors and three tower stories. New flooring, painting, new acoustic ceilings and new light fixtures were among the projects.
Comparatively untouched by crippling infirmities of old age, Fraser hall is still perhaps K.U.'s busiest building. It houses the School of Education, university extension and the departments of English, home economics, Latin and Greek, and Germanic languages. Its theater seating about 700 is also heavily used.
Jobs And Wages Go Up As Labor Supply Dwindles
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York—(U.P.)—Hanny job hunting days are here again.
New York- (U.P.)- Happy job hunting days are here again.
Big companies are hunting for $15,000-a-year executives and girls right out of a typing course are saying, "I want a job for $50 a week."
That's how Suzanne Mathias, partner in a Manhattan employment agency, knows the pendulum is swinging back toward the working girls' market.
"It almost impossible to find a girl who'll take a job at $40 a week now," she said. "Six months ago, although they weren't exactly crying for them, the girls would take the job at that figure."
But things aren't yet as tough for employers as they were during the war years, Miss Mathias hastened to add.
The labor-scarce war years, when companies had to hire inexperienced and often unqualified people, are too fresh in most memories. Miss Mathias figures, to foster an open-handed feeling toward beginners.
"Companies are still being choosy about the men they hire for those executive jobs," she said. "And a girl still has to prove she has something to offer before an employer will hire her at $50 or more a week."
"Those days when an employer would say, 'Just send me anybody, so long as she breathes and is warm,' aren't back with us. But if job applicants keep holding out for higher salaries and our old clients keep calling up to fill jobs they haven't filled for years, then something's got to give," she said, intimating that the employer was the one most likely to surrender.
She talks to about 30 job applicants a day in a crowded office of the job center. About half of them are young women from 20 to 26 years old.
"It was just getting to the place where girls realized that a nice steady job, even though the salary was small, was better than holding
University Daily Kansan
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, (in Lawrence add $1.00 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kans. every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and weekends. Estimated imminent periods Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans. under act of March 3, 1879.
EXPERT WATCH REPAIR
Electronically Timed Guaranteed Satisfaction 1 Week or Less Service
WOLFSON'S 743 Mass.
out for 'the perfect job,'" she said sadly, "and then—boom—the war, and right away we start back the other direction."
Richard H. Capps, graduate student, was selected the outstanding senior physics student last spring. Capps was a Summerfield scholar and is now an assistant instructor of physics.
Graduate Student Honored In Physics
The award was the first of its kind given in physics and will be continued in the future. It will be presented once a year to the senior majoring in physics who has the highest scholastic average. The choice is made by the staff of the physics department.
Capps is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics fraternity. He came to the University from Wichita and at present plans to work for his doctor of philosophy degree.
Veterans desiring to renew G.I. term insurance must fill out an application and submit it with a premium.
Report Issued On School For Law Officers
Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Government Research Bureau at the University, has recently issued a report of the fourth annual Kansas Peace Officers Training school held June 26 through June 30 in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
The meeting was attended by 78 representatives of law enforcement agencies from all over the state. It consisted of lectures, demonstrations, and panel discussions on all phases of law enforcement. Practical demonstrations were given by F.B.I. men on such subjects as how to stop a car, remove its occupants, and how to transport criminals.
The meeting was designed to provide a means of learning new techniques and studying old ones.
Several prominent men were present to lecture on special fields. Attorney General Harold R. Fatzter spoke on "Law Enforcement in Kansas." Judge Phillip B. Gilliam, juvenile court judge in Denver, Colo., lectured on juvenile delinquency, and Dr. Karl Menninger of the Meninger Clinic in Topeka gave his views on "Psychiatry and Law Enforcement."
Copies of the report may be purchased for $1.00 in the Bureau office. Only nine of the original 600 copies are left.
Sour Owl Gets New Plumage
Plans for a bigger and better Sour Owl, campus humor magazine, was the main topic at the first meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
At Thursday's meeting it was decided that the magazine would contain more pictures and pages and still be sold at the same price. Willard Doores, instructor in journalism, will be the new advisor to the magazine, Edward Chapin, president announced.
Francis Kelley, journalism senior, was voted to represent the chapter at the annual national Sigma Delta Chi convention Nov. 9, 10. and 11 in Miami, Fla.
Sets of post cards bearing Bibler cartoons will soon be on sale. It is planned to have 12 cartoons in a set which will sell for 25 cents.
The ancient Egyptians worshiped cats and even built temples in their honor. When a favored cat died its body was often mumified. Placed in a prayer-decorated coffin, it was sometimes buried in the tombs of princes or princesses.
901 Mass. St.
Phone 636
You've never tasted CANDY like this!
pound----1.35
WEAVER'S—MAIN FLOOR
Vanderbilt Center
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
In Nashville, Tennessee, there is always a friendly gathering of Vanderbilt University students at the Vanderbilt Center on the campus. And as in universities everywhere, ice-cold Coca-Cola helps make these get-togethers something to remember. As a refreshing pause from the study grind, or on a Saturday night date—Coke belongs.
Ask for it either way... both trade-marks mean the same thing
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY KANSAS CITY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.
© 1950, The Coca-Cola Company
Patronize the Advertisers in the University Daily Kansan.
A NEW SERVICE IN LAWRENCE
HERTZ DRIVE-UR-SELF SYSTEM, Lic.
Rent A New Car
- DRIVE IT YOURSELF
- Rent By Hour. Day, Week, or Month
You'd Be Surprised How Little It Costs.
- GAS OIL AND INSURANCE FURNISHED
Buddy Gallagher Motors
Phone 3701
634 Mass. St.