UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1950 Light-Hearted Kilroy Makes His Appearance In Japan Washington, D. C.—Is the elusive, irrepressible Kilroy back again on active global duty? According to a story from an American air base in Japan, this ubiquitous legendary veteran of World War II has again put in a word, if not his appearance, as Uncle Sam's Korea-bound fighters are departing for combat duty. Taking up where he left off after defeat of the Axis, the Kilroy of today had the last laugh after a wall scribbler at the Japanese embarkation base claimed to be the first there. "Sorry to spoil your little joke," went Kilroy's latest rhyming riposte. "I was here, but my pencil broke." The impudent announcement that "Kilroy was here" (always before anyone else) decorated walls and any other handy surface, from Hitler's "Eagle Nest" at lofty Berchtesgade to the depths of volcanic craters of the Pacific. One intrepid prankster scrambled several hundred feet down into a deep, sheer-walled pit near Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. With conveniently loose stones at hand, he spelled out on the polished lava floor of the crater the elouquent word "Kilroy." The Kilroy jest that lightened fighting men's spirits during World War II followed American forces all over the Eastern and Western battle theaters, notes the National Geographic society. At home, in endless variations on the theme, it went into the permanent American language. How did the redoubtable Kilroy get his start? The explanations are almost as varied as tales of the mystery warrior's exploits. Some say the saga all began in the Air Transport command of the U.S. air forces. A real Francis J. Kilroy, this version goes, had come down with influenza while stationed at a Florida airfield. On his improvement, a friend posted a bulletin-board notice, "Kilroy will be here next week," and the game was on. Another air force version makes the first Kilroy a frequently missing enlisted man whose irate commanding officer was foiled in tracing him by the Kilroy-was-here, there and everywhere technique. And still another story has the original Kilroy a G.I. sergeant in a Kansas camp. This Kilroy, after being marked absent from a special detail and having his name posted, indigently wrote a denial under his name in the now familiar phrase. A civilian account bobbed up on a postwar radio program. Its author, James J. Kilroy, explained that he had started the Kilroy legend as a wartime inspector in a Massachusetts shipyard. To avoid losing time by reinspecting already approved work, he claimed he had chalked on the ship's parts "Kilroy was here." Another guest on the same program put up as her candidate for the honor an Irish-American who was serving during the war in the Royal Air force. Her Kilroy, she stated, had crashed near Dunkirk. He had been rescued by the underground and smuggled out of the country, but his name lingered on as a promise of future liberation. Whatever the source of the play, Kilroy-isms have spread over much of the world, from Natal, Brazil, to Karachi, Pakistan. In the Aleutians and Africa, in England, Italy, Australia, the Philippines, and no one knows how many other unexpected places, the mark of Kilroy has become a symbol of the speed and scope of today's global warfare. Among the assorted spots from which some Kilroy phrase has been reported are the capitol dome in Washington, the statue of liberty, and the guinea pig battleship Pennsylvania in which the words were found after it was blasted by the atomic bomb at Bikini. Aluminum Oxide Raises Fusion Point Of Kansas Clay To Make Fire-bricks Several central Kansas counties are a source of fire-brick material. For more than ten years the State Geological survey at the University has known about the large deposits of plastic and siliceous fire clays in the Dakota formation of southwest, central, and north-central Kansas. Wednesday Official Bulletin Students enrolled in Western Civilization who have not arranged for proctorial appointment call at Western Civilization office, Strong Annex C, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Thursday. University Players who do not attend meeting 5 p.m. today. Little theater, Green hall or call Phyllis Clegg at 740, will be dropped from roll. Students interested in dramatics invited to attend University Players' meeting 5 p.m. today, Little theater, Green hall. Acting tryouts, explanation of membership. Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, 4 p.m. today, East room, Memorial Union. Jay Janes, 5 p.m. today, Pine room, Memorial Union. Students interested in joining Square Dance club attend meeting, 7:30 p.m. today, Recreation room, Memorial Union. No experience necessary. A.S.T.E. planning meeting, 7 p.m. Thursday. All members attend. KuKu's, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, first floor, Green hall. Important meeting about T.C.U. game. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, 206 Strong hall. First meeting of semester; new and former students welcome. Baptist Roundup. 8 p.m. Friday, First Baptist church, Eighth and Kentucky. New and old students welcome. Wear jeans. K. U. Westminster Fellowship Circus party, 8 p.m. Friday, Westmin - Kansas fire clays occur in large deposits that can be mined economically. The fusion point of these clays ranges up to 3100 degrees Fahrenheit. Although the best of the clays can be made into high heat duty fire-clay brick, the users of fire bricks require not only this class of bricks, but those having fusion temperatures up to 3300 degrees Fahrenheit. Kansas fire clays can be purified by the simple method of mixing the clay with water and letting the impurities settle out. After such purification the fusion temperature may be as high as 3200 degrees Fahrenheit, and bricks made from the clay are classed as super duty. The State Geological survey has purified, or beneficiated, several Kansas clays by this method, and will continue the study later this year. In addition the Geological survey is investigating the possibility of extracting aluminum oxide from the Kansas clays by a relatively inexpensive process. If varying amounts of the aluminum oxide thus made are added to the beneficiated Kansas clay the fusion point can be raised to 3300 degrees Fahrenheit, and the fire bricks made from this mixture can compete with the best. ster house, 1221 Oread. New students invited. Fire-brick manufacturers believe that the time is not far away when the clay deposits now being used will either be exhausted or too expensive to mine. When this time comes manufacturers and technologists plan to turn to deposits such as in Kansas. Lutheran Student association roundup, 8 p.m. Friday. Trinity Lutheran church, 12th and New Hampshire Games, games and fun. Three Juniors To Receive Scholarships The John Morse Memorial foundation of Chicago will award $500 scholarships to three juniors studying electrical or mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas, it was announced today by DeWitt Carr, dean of the school of engineering and architecture. Dean Carr said six juniors would be nominated Wednesday by a committee. Trustees of the foundation will select the three scholars from the six nominees. By continuing their superior work the scholars might also receive $500 for the senior year. Each year three more junior engineering students will receive $500 scholarships. Thus when the plan is in full operation the John Morse Memorial foundation will award $3,000 annually at K.U. K. U. this year was added to the small number of engineering schools holding Morse scholarships. Most of the others are nearer Chicago. The foundation was established in 1942 by Col. and Mrs. R. H. Morse in memory of their son. Colonel Morse is chairman of the board of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. 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 of Kansas campus. Resumes are university holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans. under act of March 3, 1879. 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. Put Pep In The Pocket Book—Put KANSAN Classifieds On The Job. 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