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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1950
The Editors Report -
IT'S JOLLY GOOD FUN
But Too Expensive
by Billie Stover
The KuKu's, members of the men's pep organization, are asking the All Student council for $200 for next year's expenses. The 1949-50 appropriation for the KuKu's was $110, but they want $30 more next year to buy some cards to hold up at football games.
Of course, the KuKu's spent about $60 for the cards alone the past year, according to the new president. But those were inferior cards. Many of them were ruined by rain or were lost. The next cards will be superior cards. The club will take care of them, the KuKu president told the A.S.C.
The KuKu's are planning a magnificent card section that will include cards for students outside the club as well as members. All that holds them up now is for the A.S.C. to hand over the money. This detail will probably be taken care of at the next council meeting. We hope K.U. football fans appreciate the expensive spelling bees put on next year by the KuKu's.
FOR ARM-CHAIR STRATEGISTS Cold-War Chessmen
by Lew Sciortino
At last the propaganda-minded Russians can lay undisputed claim to a new invention—a modified set of chessmen. These chessmen symbolize the conflict between Communism and capitalism.
What an ideal May Day gift this set of chessmen would make from one thoughtful Fellow-traveler to another. How much more inspiring this would be to a budding Communist than dull Canasta or deadly bridge. And if a Fellow-traveler had an especially close friend he might even give the friend a set that had each chessman personally autographed by Stalin himself.
The capitalistic king is depicted as a skeleton wrapped inermine and medieval armor. His anemic-looking queen stands with one breast lewdly exposed, holding a cornucopia from which pours money. The capitalistic pawns are weary-facedcowering workers bound by triple strands of chains.
On the Communist side, the king is an excellent example of the red-blooded Russian "super-worker." His muscles bulge and in his powerful hand he grasps a hoe. The robust queen wears a colorful peasant dress and a satisfied smile. The pawns happily swing their sickles.
The only hitch to the whole thing is that in the rules of chess it is still possible for either player to come out winner. With the new chessmen, it is obvious that only one side can win. So, it is now up to the inventive mind of the Russians to revise the rules so that the capitalist always lose.
SENATOR'S SOLILOQUY:
What Can I Tell 'Em?
by Bill Stratton
Haven't been doing much to please the voters lately. I guess I'd better get to work on something. I've got to make them remember my name so they'll know me when I run for re-election.
Say, here's something on the front page. Secretary of the Exterior Pleggins admits that he used to go to school with Forum Tomato. Well, I'll be! Pleggins must be a Communist! I'd better write that down and call a press conference.
I've got to get something big, something sensational. Where's the evening paper? Maybe I can get some ideas from it. Oh, here it is... hmm.
Let's see. . . I'll tell the newspapers that one of our top cabinet men is a "card carrying Communist." But I won't tell them who it is. While they beat their brains out trying to figure out who it is, I'll be digging for some evidence. Must be something I can get on Pleggins. . .
Ha... here's something else I might be able to use. The wife of Al Stewed, movie actor, gave birth to a boy last night. By George, I happen to know they've only been married eight months and twenty-nine days. All those movie actors are the same! They all lead immoral lives. Something's got to be done about them. I know what! I'll introduce a bill that will require all movie actors to be morally pure. That'll fix them!
Now, let's see what's on the next page. . well, of all things! The U.S.S. Mudscow broke loose from its moorings in San Francisco and tore up three piers. Those blundering idiots—they don't even know how to tie up a boat! I'll have a Senate investigating committee on their necks or my name isn't. . Somebody will go to trial if it's the last thing I do.
Well, let's see. . . I think I have enough to tell the newspapers. I'll call Pleggins a communist-by-george, tell how I'll raise the movie actors' morals, and accuse the Navy "brass" of criminal negligence.
Brother, if that don't get me some publicity, I don't know what will!! !!
Should Have Stayed In Bed
An Investment That Paid Off
Shubert, Neb.—(U.P.)—Fireman T. A. Hillary raided for the fire truck when the alarm sounded, but he fell, dislocating his shoulder and cutting a bad burg in his knee. Then he discovered it was a false alarm.
Owosso, Mich.—(U.P.)—Scott Rundell still uses the rifle he bought in 1899 for $11.50. Notches on the stock of the gun represent 60 deer, three bears, and a wildcat bagged during the gun's 50 years' service.
TODAY'S MAIL
Joyless
Sir:
The parting with $3.40 recently prodded this Scotch mind to think the following thoughts. The division of students into classes—freshman, sophomore, junior, senior—for any purpose other than keeping records is an arbitrary one.
That the senior class should exist as a unit is predicated on the belief that the common interests of a group of students are in some way connected with the date of their graduation. Also, a great many seniors have not spent all four years at this University.
Thomas Bruce Daniel Engineering senior.
Paying for parties held while I was attending college in another state, and buying a gift in the name of an arbitrarily selected group fails to overwhelm me with joy.
I Agree
I agree with John R. Malone's suggestion in the Kansan of April 3 that Dr. Naismith should not be forgotten in naming the new fieldhouse. Either Naismith Allen or Allen Naismith would do. But above all, let us not leave out Dr. Naismith.
Sir:
If it were not for Dr. Naismith there would be no basketball. The careers of both men speak for themselves; Dr. Naismith as the inventor and who introduced the game at K.U. and Dr. Allen as his worthy successor. Both names would bring prestige to K.U.
Mr. Malone said "Many of our students will not remember Dr. Naismith's connection with the physical education faculty." This is certainly true.
Therefore, Dr. Naismith's name should be before their eyes and so in their consciousness and on their tongues to enhance the prestige of the University as well as to insure that neither of those great men will be forgotten.
From my personal contact with Dr. Naismith when I played basketball on the first K.U. basketball team in the late '90's, I consider him one of the greatest men I ever met.
William F. Yahn, '00 Lawrence
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"Dust storms and hill politics have a lot in common—they both blow up a lotta dirt!"
The navy has offered as explanation of the flying saucer the fact that they developed a flying pancake a few years back. We presume it uses log cabin syrup in lieu of high octane.
'Small Things'
The latest week we've heard of is National Sleep week. We would like to be patriotic and observe it, but we know of three or four professors who might take a dim view of the whole thing.
by Keith Leslie
Dr. Lawson, a nephew of Dean Paul B. Lawson, was born in Pasumaliayi, South India in 1915, where his parents were American Congregational missionaries. Young Jim came to America at the age of 4, but returned to India to begin his school.
Lawson was graduated from high school in 1931 and was awarded a Summerfield scholarship to the University. After his graduation from KU, in 1935 with an AB degree, he continued at the University for a year's graduate work and earned his master's degree in 1936.
A needlework rug made by Queen Mary which recently arrived in Kansas City was reported to have "rested well" in the upper berth of a pullman. We'll bet those sheets felt a glow of pride at having such distinguished company to cover.
He returned to the U.S. in 1928 and entered high school in Lawrence. His uncle was then an entomologist at the University.
He was appointed assistant in physics at the University of Michigan, where his principal work was on the cyclotron, then being built for the physics department there. He received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1939 and was appointed research physicist at Michigan University the same year.
Here Dr. Lawson worked on many different problems, one of which was the "T-R box," a widely used device in transmitting and receiving. In 1941 he was sent to England to study the work of the British on the flying radar system for the B-18 airplane. Much of his technical findings in radar are being published in his book, "Threshold Signals In Noise."
In 1940 he was called to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he became a member of the radiation laboratory, which was destined to become the main center of radar development in the United States.
From a boyhood in one of the world's most ancient civilizations to a prominent place on the roster of those working on science's most important recent discovery, the powerful atom-smasher, is a quick summary of the career of Dr. James S. Lawson, '35, head of the nuclear investigations section of the General Electric research laboratory.
Ed. Note: This is the first in a series of articles on prominent University alumni.
PROMINENT ALUMNI:
Former Summerfield Scholar Heads Radiation Research
In 1945 Dr. Lawson accepted his present position. One of his first projects for General Electric was to plan and supervise the construction of a gamma ray spectroscope for analyzing the distribution of energy in the high-voltage X-rays.
Dr. Lawson is now working with other scientists on a machine expected to be capable eventually of yielding radiations of a billion volts of energy. Dr. Lawson lives in Schenectady, N.Y., with his wife, a University of Michigan graduate, and their three small children.
Radio Club Plans Exposition Display
Plans for a display at the Engineering exposition to be held at the University Friday through Sunday were furthered recently by members of the Amateur radio club.
The display will consist mainly of sending messages for visitors at the exposition to friends over the United States by ham radio sets. Members will also demonstrate how their sets may be used in emergency cases if other communications are not available.
A new 10-meter directive antenna was exhibited at the meeting. The antenna should enable the local radio sets to reach longer distances, James S. Heaton, vice-president of the club, said.
After Girls—Welcome
Minneapolis—(U.P.)-Welcome Sunding of the Minneapolis Veterans Administration office says he got his name because all children born before him in his family were girls.