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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950
Whitewashing Isn't Public Relations Job, Hicks Says
Sarge Emerges Top Dog At Law-Engineering Feud
By FRANCIS J. KELLEY
There was bedlam on the banks of Potter lake Tuesday as the engineers and lawyers staged their annual tug-of-war.
Complete with a dogfight, a "sea-going" observer, a drenched referee, and the roar of cheering onlookers, the contest was exciting if abrupt.
During the lengthy preliminaries before the big pull, a dog called Sarge, a golden retriever, stole the show with his swimming feats. Many times Sarge swam vallantly to the middle of the lake and back after bits of wood or a used beer bottle. Each time he returned to the bank he received a round of applause—and scattered the onlookers by shaking himself dry.
Finally, another dog decided to stop Sarge's fun. A fight developed. The squabble ended when their owners decided to call it "no contest." Sarge went back to his swimming while the other dog was bodily restrained from getting into the act.
After a long wait, the lawyers and engineers finally organized for their contest. The lawyers got on one side of the lake and the engineers took the other. The lake was surrounded with onlooking students and faculty.
From the west side came a little rubber liferaft with the reefee in it. He shipped water all the way to the middle of the lake to get the tug of war started.
From the east side, an unidentified "Fuck Finn, Jr." suddenly appeared on a raft of boards, poling himself to a vantage point in the middle. Another energetic observer, perched high in the fork of a tree, laughed so hard he almost fell into the lake.
The cheering spectators were somewhat disappointed. Most of them were bewildered by the suddenness of the finish. And even more of them went away asking each other, "Who won?"
Finally, the referee emptied the water from his megaphone and believed the starting signals. The shack was taken up in the rope and the annual tug of war started. The west side team surged into the lead and never lost it. The members of the losing east side team were slowly dragged into the slimy water. As suddenly as it began, the pull between the lawyers and engineers was over.
Looking back over the entire contest it would seem that Sarge was the top dog at the long pull of Potter lake though the lawyers had won.
KU Stargazers Also Study
When the average student lifts his head late at night to look into the sky he either has a romantic interest in the moon or he is wondering whether the weather will ruin a planned picnic. Thoughts of atmospheric heat waves or high-altitude clouds seldom occur to him.
To the K.U. astronomy student though, these heat waves or clouds are disastrous. For when they are present, astronomical phenomena such as the ice-cap on Mars, the mountains of the moon, and the rings of Saturn will be impossible to see or greatly distorted.
These students of the stars regularly brave the chilly winds atop Lindley hall to study the stars and planets. There, with the aid of $15-000 worth of equipment, including a six-inch refracting type telescope, the universe becomes as familiar to them as the streets in their home town.
The study of astronomy at KU was begun by the physics department shortly before the turn of the century. At that time there was no observatory and the stars were studied from a point south of Blake hall. The first observatory was built on the site which is now Hoch auditorium.
In 1926, under the supervision of Densmore Alter, present director of the Griffith Planetarium in Los Angeles, the observatory was moved to the area east of Lindley hall. The
Lawyers Give Bust Back To Engineers
Campus police stood near the Jimmy Green statue in front of Green hall to protect it from roving engineers who wanted to paint it.
Following the engineers' defeat in a tug of war with the lawyers Tuesday unorganized groups of engineers made a futile attempt to rescue the "Bust of Marvin", by assaults on Green hall.
"In order to save the engineer's pride, a mass of lawyers presented the 'Bust of Marvin,' bronze statue of the first dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, to T. De Witt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, this morning." Robert Bingham, third year law student, sai
Veterans should tali on the copy of their origin papers when making a loan or a GI loan from a lender
department was moved to its present location in Lindlev in 1944.
Now under the direction of Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, the study of astronomy has become more popular, partly because the observatory is opened to the public whenever planets and other phenomena are visible. Over 900 students have been enrolled in astronomy courses in the past 11 years.
A 27-inch reflecting telescope will be added to the present equipment this summer. This instrument is more useful in the Midwest, Dr. Storer says.
With its aid, K.U. astronomers are preparing for the biggest thing in astronomy that has happened for some time. August 21, 2017, there will be a total eclipse of the sun. The first since 1878, students of astronomy are eagerly awaiting it—but they are not holding their breath.
The objective of public relations is not to whitewash a firm's policies that are detrimental to public interest. Rather, the public relations man should recognize such policies and show management why they will harm the organization as well as the public.
This was pointed out by Joseph W. Hicks, Chicago public relations consultant from Chicago, when he spoke before the annual School of Business convocation at 11 a.m. today in Fraser theater.
"Before our age of communications and intensified industrial development, people's business and personal contacts were pretty well limited to their local communities." Mr. Hicks pointed out. "When misunderstandings arose, they could simply sit down and talk things over, or come to blows, if they preferred." The technical era changed all that and people found themselves doing business with strangers on the other side of the globe. Employers with thousands of employees found they could know only a few individually.
"A specialist was needed who could feel the public pulse, interpret it to management and, in turn, get management's side of the question back to the public in acceptable terms." Mr. Hicks said. "That specialist became known as the public relations counsellor."
Any company, to maintain good community relations, must do more than operate within the requirements of the law, pay its taxes, and conform to wage and hour laws and other regulations governing treatment of employees, he said. It must be known as an honest and fair organization and prove itself to be sincerely concerned with the welfare and success of its employees.
"It is impossible to divorce employee relations from public relations because employees are a part of the public and because employees in their discussions with their families and friends can be the company's best or worst ambassadors," he emphasized.
A public relations man can counsel management on public relations and industrial relations policies, problems and programs; prepare and distribute news articles; and plan, design, write and distribute institutional books, pamphlets, and brochures, Mr. Hicks said.
Beginning today and ending Tuesday, May 23, students in the Editing II course will run the desk of the University Daily Kansas. Two of them will be responsible for turning out the paper each day, although the managing editor is still the executive head.
Editing Students To Run Kansan
The students run the desk as part of their examination for the course. William S. Chapman and Robert P. Sigman, journalism seniors, are the executives for today's issue.
Summer And Rush Week Counselors Are Chosen
The old and new presidents of Pan-
Hellenic, Associated Women students,
and other A.W.S. members have
chosen summer counselors and rush
week counselors for next year.
After reading applications that were sent in for counseling jobs and interviewing the women who applied, Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Grace Gwinner, education senior; Lorraine Ross, College junior; Erdis McCarty and Marie Schumacher, education juniors, and Jerry Hesse, College freshman, selected the following women to be summer counselors:
Blanche Brown and Patricia Cameron, College juniors; Janice Broads-
word, Mary Fischer, Jane Koelzer,
and Edris McCarty, education juniors;
Virginia Brown, fine arts junior;
Carol Krehbiel, Mona Millikan,
Evelyn Milennil, Suzanne Springer,
 and Helene Steinbuchel, College sophomores; Frances Barnhart, and Ada Watson, education sophomores; Joyce Friesen, Patsy Harris, and Doris Wertz, fine arts sophomores; Loretta Cooley, Joan Culver, Harriet Flood, Fiona Floyd, Gertha Harper, Ada Hatfield, Joan Lambert, Virginia Mackey, Cynthia McKee, June Porter, Mary Roney, and Annaliese Schierner, College freshmen; and Ann Wagner, education freshman.
Present Need For Doctors Far Exceeds The Supply
As usual, this year's demand for doctors of medicine far exceeds the supply.
The ratio of hospital internships and the graduates to fill them is "two to one roughly," Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, said.
Paradoxically, there are only half as many Kansas hospitals approved by the A.M.A. as students in the School of Medicine. The seven Kansas hospitals approved for internship by the American Medical Association are in Kansas City; Bethany, Providence, and St. Margaret's hospitals, and the University of Kansas Medical Center; and in Wichita; St. Francis, Wesley, and Wichita hospitals.
The University of Kansas Medical
Center offers training in any of the specializations of medicine, and the other offer training in some of the particular fields.
However, the graduate is not limited to Kansas hospitals in his choice of internship. Financially intriguing are the Army, Navy and Public Health hospitals, which offer internships with pay ranging from "three to five times" that offered by the average internship, said Dean Murphy.
Although Kansas is unorthodox in not requiring a medical graduate to take a year of internship before practicing medicine, he is advised to do so. If he is thinking of entering into practice, the rural areas are far below their quota of doctors.
Robert R. Schnorr, assistant instructor in German, a native of Germany, won first prize of $50 with the poem, "The Beggar's Ocarina."
Foreign Students Win Laurels In Annual Carruth Poetry Contest
Foreign students won first and third prizes in the annual William Herbert Carruth poetry contest sponsored by the English department.
Second prize of $25 went to Carolyn Smith, fine arts freshman, whose entry was "Today I Do Not Love You."
Honorable mentions were awarded Albert Roland, graduate student from Italy, and Jane Schmidt, College junior. These consisted of books of poetry.
Neehiem Kronenberg, third year law student from Palestine, was awarded third prize of $15. His poem was entitled "Fallen Flags."
Final judges in the contest were
Beard Raising A Ticklish Problem
A hidden desire coupled with a legitimate excuse were sufficient reasons for Dick Marshall, College sophomore, to sport sideburns and a beard. Dick is one of the several Kansas Citians who are growing whiskers to help celebrate that city's Centennial.
Dick started his beard bright and early on the morning of February 10 when he heaved his trusty razor into the ash can. Since then he has trimmed it only twice. A near tragedy occurred recently, however, when he accidently whacked part of it off early one morning before he was fully awake.
he passion to grow a beard began when he was a member of the 11thorne division. The upper brass be it as the whiskers became in the chin straps of the hammets. Dick doesn't think he have managed it then anyway. he has had no trouble in he started culti-brush. He added, however, on the girls had
—Photo by Edward Chapin DICK MARSHALL
varied comments on his manly en-deavor. Some said it made him look distinguished and some said it made him look like an old man. Some said it made him look like heck, but all agreed it tickled.
When he first began to grow it he said that he had trouble getting used to it. It was some time before he became accustomed to the stares.
Dick plans to keep his chin warmer until July 5 at least. He has never had any uncomfortable itching. His only statement concerning the future was "that as soon as it gets a little longer I intend to buy a hen to nest in it so I can have fresh eggs every morning."
Business News Out Today
"The Jayhawk Business News," a semi-annual School of Business publication, will be released on Wednesday to all business students. All articles are by business students. Gene Balloun, business junior, is editor of the publication for this year.
John Holmes, professor of English at Tufts college, Medford, Mass.; Everett Rich, chairman of the English department at Emporia State Teachers college; and John E. Hankins, professor of English at the University.
Professor Hankins was chairman of the board of judges. He was assisted in the preliminary judging by Miss Dorothy Van Ghent, assistant professor of English, and Thomas G. Sturgeon, instructor in English.
PT Club To Elect Officers Next Fall
Officers of the Physical Therapy club will be elected next fall, it was decided at a meeting of the club Wednesday. The election has been tentatively set for the second week of the fall semester.
Requiring freshman and sophomore physical therapy majors to join the club and participate in certain of its activities was discussed as a possible plan for next year. It was also suggested that the Physical Therapy club, the Occupational club, the Pre-Nursing club form, central committees so they could work together, we decided that no definite plans concerning these suggestions would be made until next fall.
This was the last meeting of the club for the current semester.
Balloting Is Slow In Business School
Balloting was slow in the Business School association elections today. Only 110 had cast their votes by 11 a.m.
Poll workers thought that Eugene Balloun, candidate for president on the Commerce party ticket, was leading, and would probably win the election.
Official results of the election will be known this afternoon, after the polls close at 1 p.m., and the ballots are counted.