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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1950
KU Alumni To Visit Campus For Commencement Reunions
Green and white parasols, red scarves, and silver bells will distinguish alumni attending their class reunions from students during Commencement activities.
Appearance of the umbrellas on the University campus will indicate that members of the class of 1900 have returned to renew acquaintances and enjoy themselves at the 50th anniversary of their Commencement day.
Members of the class of 1925 will wear scarlet scarves and silver bells lettered MCMXXV.
According to Roy Dietrich, chairman of reunion activities for the class of 1910, 40th anniversary celebrators will be conspicuous by the "amount of fun we're having. We are going to never won't be alive for our 50th anniversary; we are going to go all out this time," Mr. Dietrich quipped.
Members of the Gold Medal club, alumni who were graduated more than 50 years ago, will meet at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, in the West dining room of the Union, President
of the club is Irving Hill, '96.
Mrs. Anna More Fruin, who was graduated 69-years ago, will journey more than 1200 miles from her home in Gloe, Arizona because she wants to attend one more Commencement.
The class of 1940 will commemorate their 10th anniversary with a dinner at the Hotel Eldridge. Harry also earlier, Hays, is president of the class.
Mr. Ellsworth pointed out that it was the 1925 graduates that first wanted a campanile at the University. "They left their class funds for the erection of what they called "chines". Mr. Ellsworth said. The group is now collecting money with which to buy shrubs and other plants for landscaping the Memorial drive.
Ingenuity Helped KU Union Solve Its Problems In 30's
PATRICIA JANSEN
When the student looked up at the blue canopy hanging from the ceiling of the Union ballroom and saw that it was peppered with tiny holes, he shook his head helplessly. All the sacrifice that had gone into the purchasing of yards and yards of material to hide the bare beams and bricks in the unfinished ballroom had been wasted.
"It's ruined! It's ruined!" he be-maoned.
Then one imaginative student suggested: "Why not leave it. We will call it a blue sky with stars shining through. Now doesn't that sound romantic?"
Back in the money-pinching days of the thirties when this incident happened, the struggling students did not lose the collegiate spirit of humor. It was during these trying days that the Union building became so important in the lives of those attending the University.
Today when students pass through the spacious lounge or attend a banquet in the sedate Kansas room, they do not realize that once students did not enjoy the comfortable surrounding that the Union now offers.
During the early years of the depression only the shell of the building was complete. The lounge was scantily furnished, as were the cafeteria and the recreation rooms. On the second and third floors many of the rooms were just as the builder had left them. In some places the walls had not been plastered and the brick exterior of the building was left exposed. The only stairway above the main floor was a rickety wooden one.
But despite the unattractiveness of the Union, the building meant much to the students. Each Wednesday night the Mid-week Varsities, sponsored by the Union, were held in the ballroom. Here several hundred students would come each week to dance to the music of a Hill band. Through the 10 cent admission fines that were paid by the stags, just enough money was raised each
The success of the Mid-week Varsities was threatened one day by a law student. He went to the dance stag, paid his 10 cent fine, and then decided to sue the Union for damages. He claimed that his membership in the Student Union entitled him to come to the dance free whether or not he brought a date.
week to pay for the orchestra.
The suit against the University and the Union created quite a stir on the campus. For several days the University Daily Kansan carried stories on the latest developments in the case. Finally the Union decided to remove the 10 cent fine and the suit was dropped. The Varsities continued to be the most important social function on the Hill during the depression.
In other ways the Union was important to the students. Many ran their budget so close that they could not afford the wholesome meals necessary to maintain their health. The Union operating board decided that the Union sponsor 10 cent lunches, skillfully planned by a dietician. Some of the Union workers volunteered their time to make these lunches a success.
Another problem on the campus was that of housing. Here again the Union played its part. An unfinished corner on the top floor became the home of two struggling students, an architect and a medic. For nearly two years they made their home in the garret-like corner that is now known as the English room.
Throughout the depression years the Union maintained its policy of being a real home for all the students.
'Uke' Craze Sweeps Campus
If you have been kept awake at night by aspiring ukulele players, it's no wonder, for there are about 150 ukuleles on the Hill. Almost every house can boast a 'ukie' mansion houses have about four or five, and leading ukulele fans seem to be the Delta Gammas. They have eleven.
One-hundred instruments may not sound impressive, but when you consider that five or six persons use each ukulele, it means that we have almost 1000 ukulele players at KU. Some fraternities are even considering organizing Ukulele clubs.
The most popular song is “Has Anybody Seen My Girl”. Another favorite it is “Maybe”, which could be because it is one of the first songs in the instruction book. One song, with a rather unusual title, “We Had
This isn't the first time for the "uke" craze at KU. Back in the twenties when they were first popular, Bell Music Co. was known as the "Uke a Day Store." They averaged about one ukulele sale a day. In the thirties the ukulele bowed out to the banjo craze. Today, again, Bell's could be called the "Uke a Day Store" because they are supply-ing a demand of more than one "uke" a day to students.
a Little Party in Shreveport", is gaining in popularity.
The "uke" is everywhere, on picnics and parties. What causes a fat like this? In the words of Will Rogers. "The ukulele had this advantage; not even a trained musician could tell if you were playing it or just monkeying with it."
Gamblers Work In Cartel Form
Washington, May 23—(U.R.)- U. S. News and World Report said today the $10 billion a-year gambling racket is controlled by many separate but allied syndicates which maintain "friendly relations" to avoid bloody gang wars.
It asserted that most, if not all, of the syndicates have strong ties with political machines which provide "protection" in return for cam-police operations, vard-heeler support and sometimes "direct pay offs" to police.
In a copyrighted report, prepared for its May 26 issue, the weekly news magazine said organized gambling is not controlled by any "single" game, but by an entire arrangement under which "each ring has its own territory to work."
U. S. News and World Report said the most powerful gambling combines are centered in New York, Chicago and Cleveland. Each controls book-making, the numbers lottery, and has a big stake in slot machines, it said. All three also are reported to have important interests around Miami, Fla.
Quack Club Elects Wolfe President
Mary M. Wolfe journalism junior, was elected president of Quock club at the annual picnic breakfast Sunday, Jane Koelzer, education junior, is the swimming club's new secretary-treasurer.
Patricia Perkins, fine arts junior, was named the first Major Quack, which is the highest honor of the organization, since 1845. To gain this title a woman must be able to execute nine dives, four specified and five optional, as well as be able to complete endurance and half-mile swims, and pass the senior life-saving and speed tests.
The meeting was delayed by an accident to one of its members. Martha Hendershot, College senior, stepped on a rusty nail and had to be taken to the hospital.
Initiated as Minor Quacks, or full members, were Peggy Chambers, fine arts junior; June Porter, College freshman; and Patricia Glennon and Anne Lambert, fine arts freshmen. Those who had been pledged during the year received their formal pledging.
Colonial Governor Was No Strait-laced Puritan
Boston — (U.P.) — No strait-laced Puritan was Colonial Gov. Richard Bellingham of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Soon after his first wife's death, Bellingham married another man's fiancee, performing the wedding ceremony himself.
When prosecuted for this breach of law and decorum, he insisted on sitting as judge in his own case. He acquitted himself.
Dillwyn, Va<sub>-</sub> (U,P)—Thieves who broke into a state liquor store here were men of discriminating taste. They cleaned the store of the most expensive brand and left the remainder untouched.
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Scientific Approach Solves Dice's Roll, Student Says
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Madison, Wis., (U.P.) - A high school senior hoped that his knack with the dice would pay off with a college education.
Fred Brown, 18, who has been "potting around with dice" since he was 10, said he has solved the vexing, age-old problem of how to make the cubes come up his way.
It's a scientific approach, the student said.
The paper, entitled "The Human Mind and Mathematical Probability," won him honorable mention in competition with more than 13,500 other high school students. It also won him one definite offer of a college scholarship and tentative offers of several others.
Instead, he threw his own pair over and over again. He concentrated on the numbers, and jotted down the results. Gradually, a pattern emerged, he said, and the right spots turned up three per cent more often than they would without the accompanying brain work.
He wrote a learned paper on the subject for the Westinghouse national talent search contest.
He said his interest in dice is strictly scientific. He does not shoot craps, he said, and has no dream of piling up a college nestegy by cleaning out a lush gambling casino.
Brown claimed this system has unlimited possibilities. He has tried it out on a slot machine—the non-profit variety—and a roulette wheel He found the results far more gratifying than if he had trusted to mere luck, he said.
Volunteers contributed 1,424 hours of their time last February to patients in the VA hospital in Springfield, Missouri.
When young Brown started trying to make the flying dominoes behave, he didn't take the easy way out and get a pair of loaded cubes.
American To Be In Passion Play
Oberammergaut, Germany —U.F.) Johnny MacMahon, 6, will be the first American to take part in the historic passion play this mountain village has been staging for the past 300 years.
When the religious spectacle opens Sunday, May 21, the red-haired son of Maj. John A. MacMahon, of Boise, Idaho, will appear with a throng of children in the palm Sunday see.
Johnny, who was born in Salt Lake City, studies at a German school and speaks German as fluently as English. His father is executive officer of the military police division at the U. S. Army's European intelligence school here. "All the kids in school are in the play so Johnny got himself a part too," MacMahon, said. "He's really excited about it."
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