THURSDAY, MARCH 2. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NINE
KU Student Sees Walled City, Hitler Hideout
Jack Schlagel, center, poses with natives in French Morocco, Africa, while vacationing there last summer. Two men at the right are wearing robes and turbans. The man at the left is wearing American-style suit and tie with a red fez and sandals.
BY CHARLES PRICE
Egyptian dancers, hypnotic music, and dark winding streets in an Arabian city may sound like an excerpt from the "Arabian Nights" to most students, but to Jack Schlagel, engineering senior, it was an actual experience.
Situated 150 miles south of Casablanca, in sandy French Morocco, Africa, is Marrakech, one of the most interesting cities Jack has ever visited. He was the fifth white person to visit this walled city since World War II. Warned against entering, since few foreigners are allowed to enter the city, Jack thought it was a chance of a life time and didn't want to pass it up.
"It is a city out of the past," Jack explained. "It was like being projected back 200 years. The old native village was built in 800 and the new city in 1300."
The streets are narrow and wind- and have been thatched over to eliminate the burning sun, consequently they are dark day and night. In the evening, Arabs ride in from the desert to the city square where they sit, smoke, and play drums. The music is soporific and capable of sending one into a trance which may last for hours, he said.
No cameras are allowed in the city since the people are very superstitious. Smilingly, Jack said that it didn't make much difference since all of the women were heavily veiled.
The natives are ardent believers in black magic. According to the belief, all one has to do to "eliminate" his antagonist is to stick a sharp object into an image or outline of his enemy.
This is but one of the many intriguing places that Schlagel, 24-year-old Kappa Sigma, from Kansas City, Mo., encountered while on an "extended vacation" last
summer that lasted from June, 1948 to January.
This vacation that "through a turn of fate" extended through most of the winter, started last summer when Jack sailed from New York as third mate on a Turkish tramp steamer. He paid his way by the "work-a-way" plan.
"It was my chance to something that everyone wants to do," he said. Three months later, however, Jack was in Oran, Algeria, out of a job. The shipping company was bank- france and he paid $140,000 French francs in the piece. The Morgan had broken down in the Mediterranean, just off the coast of Spain.
Jack encountered little difficulty with passports, transportation, or finance in getting from one country
to another. In four months he
visited 12 countries of Northern
Africa and Western Europe on about
$400.
From Algeria, Jack went to French Morocco where he spent 10 days in fanciful Marrakech, sipping hot mint tea and sightseeing. From here his trip continued to Spanish Morocco.
In Spain, Jack witnessed bullfights and Spanish dancing. "It's impossible to compare dancing and sports in the United States with those of Spain since there is such a difference," he said.
Jack toured France, Switzerland and Germany where he visited Berchtesgaden, Hitler's wartime retreat. "It is one of the most beautiful places in Germany with its steep mountains and vertical cliffs," Jack remarked.
When asked how he communicated with so many foreigners, Jack answered, "With my limited knowledge of foreign languages and their knowledge of English, I got along fine."
Being a little better than average on skis, Jack could not resist the temptation of the German mountains.
"There isn't much of a campus at the University of Heidelberg since the buildings are dispersed throughout the city." Jack explained.
"People are very friendly towards Americans but rather hostile towards the Russians. The Russians know this, consequently are suspicious of everyone."
"In Vienna, I was greatly impressed by the music in their restaurants and wine cellars. Here I first saw Russian troops and was fascinated by their smart uniform. Even a private first class looks like a general.
From Austria he toured through Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. There after obtaining "work-a-way" passage on a United States cargo ship, Jack decided that it was time to continue his metallurgy studies at the University.
Pinball Playing Attacked As Disease By Psychologists
But Jack isn't here to stay. After graduation in January, he plans to go to South America as a mining engineer.
Seattle, Wash.—(U.P.)Two university professors agree that pinball playing can become habit forming, just like drinking liquor or biting fingernails.
er. Strother doesn't believe that outlawing pinball machines is the solution.
Dr. Hubert S. Ripley, head of the university's psychiatry department, agreed that pinball playing can become an addiction. But he worked with Professor Strother on whether the devices should be banned.
"The solution is to make them (the pinball addicts) aware that the system of maladjustment then, most available facilities for treatment."
"At times having easy access may tend to intensify a drive that evists." Dr. Ripley said. "We have certain prohibitions that tend to control some human drives. If outlets for these drives are stopped, the individual may seek more constructive outlets."
Dr. C. R. Strother, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Washington, said "just as with alcohol" some people can indulge occasionally and casually in pinball playing without becoming addicted, "but other persons develop what amounts to addiction."
But Professor Strother contended:
"It's a matter of knowing individ-
ual problems, and then workin
ing out a solution for each indi-
vidual."
"ridd" literally means ten thouand.
"Psychological analysis of emotional needs and conflicts that make them susceptible is necessary," he said. He added that some form of psychotherapeutic treatment also is needed that will solve mental problems, or "satisfy their needs in a more constructive social fashion."
"In many cases, compulsion to play pinball machines and to gamble is as much of a disease as alcoholism," the teacher explained.
State Officials Are Puzzled When Birds Nest On Capitol
Dr. Strother doesn't advocate a "pinball anonymous" organization for players who can't resist poking nickels in pinball devices, but he says many such cases need treatment.
Speedster Set For Worst
Topcka,—U.(R.)—Kansans were suffering from bird trouble Tuesday when a bunch of starlings were seen roosting on the state capitol building. Building custodians tried in vain to get rid of the birds before taking the issue into executive council
the governor, secretary of state, attorney general and three other state officials met, to ask for public suggestions.
The problem comes increasingly acute with the approach of spring weather, for then workers plan to resume an $18,000 sand-blast cleaning job on the big sandstone building. But they want to solve the bird problem before then.
Los Angeles—(U.P) —After James Coleman, 26, was sentenced to five days in jail for driving 75 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone. Clarke E. Stephens, municipal judge, asked him what he had in a large bundle he was clutching.
Chicago—(U.P.)The favorite reading of condemned killers in Cook County jail is poetry. The other male prisoners prefer books dealing with the wide open spaces of the west and about life in prison. Women prisoners prefer love stories.
Doomed Men Like Poetry
The forewarned Coleman answered:
"I brought along my old clothes,
your honor, so I'd be prepared."
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