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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Just What We Needed
Cool heads prevailed at the senior class meeting, and with foresight and great erudition a decision was reached. It was not an easy decision.
Faced with choosing among equally delightful gifts—an information booth, an ink fountain, clocks, or furnishings for a room in the Union addition—the committee by deliberate and august procedure settled for the information booth.
The University needs an information booth about as urgently as it needs several strategically placed hog wallows. On more careful consideration however, the hog wallows, if properly constructed, might be of more benefit to the school. But, it is to be an information booth.
What kind of an information booth? What kind of information? Will the booth be on stilts or will it be of rathskeller-type construction? Will it remain at one place or will it roam the campus under the apt guidance of Buildings and Grounds? Will students be able to get information concerning important tests and finals, or will they merely be able to learn how much wool a full-grown moth can masticate in a week?
We can see now a perplexed visitor driving up and down the campus (not knowing one building from another) and finally stopping to ask a campus policeman if he would kindly direct voice shaking with emotion. "There!" the policeman will say, "I know where it is, but you'll have to go to the information booth and they will tell you." "Where is it?" the driver will ask, his voice shaking with emotion. "There!" the policemen will say, quivering with pride, and will point a weatherbeaten finger toward fully half the campus. The motorist will doff his golf cap and take the first road to the valley.
No one knows, or at least no one admits knowing. The thought of a full-fledged information booth on the campus stirs up many wild fancies of the imagination.
Even so, the choice of an information booth was probably more suitable than an ink fountain. Just the words, ink fountain, conjure up some horrible monster squatting in the corner of the Union and gayly spraying ink at people with no regerd for age or sex. Students will, in the course of events, protest when the red ink runs dry, and some will shower the campus with handbills campaigning vigorously for a new chartreuse ink.
The suggestion of clocks raises many questions too numerous to enumerate. The idea of outfitting a room in the new addition to the Union with furniture seems to have been the only sound concept of the lot. It was no doubt rejected on grounds of being too bizarre.
But we must resign ourselves to the committee's selection, and content ourselves by feeling that the booth will be of some value during Music Camp, at the beginning of semesters, and during Homecoming. Maybe we could even grow fond of the little "$3,700 monster" if it could be used to dispense hot dogs and hamburgers when no one wanted information. —W.F.S.
Knights In Gabardine
It seems that to be courteous in these days brands one as being a craven, pusillanimous knave among one's friends and acquaintances. Can it be true that we American men who place our women on a marble pedestal have unleashed a jack-hammer on our own weakened pillar?
Now women want more equal rights; they want to be treated as the equal of man in all situations. It is our contention that if courtesy, given in due time and in proper amounts, was allowed to flourish this strife would be resolved.
Women can be convinced of the folly of their desires by courtesy. Gallant treatment of the fair sex will convince them that they need these little pleasantries in order to live a comfortable life. By using this honorable approach men could hardly be accused of undermining women's drive for equal rights. Isn't it only fair that they be helped to this goal through courtesy?
Courtesy is the only answer to this crucial problem. Our advice to men is "be over-solicitous of women's health, compliment them on their womanly grace, treat them as if they were made of fragile china." We are sure that if men follow these instructions they will find their relationship with the opposite sex much more pleasant.
Women want equal rights because they are becoming convinced that they are not the frail, flower-like creatures which men know them to be. If we are not careful the dear things will soon realize that the majority of them have constitutions like plow-horses and the stamina of six-day bicycle racers.
If this procedure fails there is but one alternative—suicide. Anything is better than fixing your own meals. —Robert Day.
One hundred and two students will take naval training cruises this summer, and they will no doubt be thoroughly indoctrinated in that new naval technique, mud-bank dodging.
Rodney Nipnap says that because he has a good sense of direction, he's afraid they'll put him on the Missouri.
'Small Things'
Sixty students auditioned for College Daze, and if that's not enough there are 8,000 more who would fit the bill.
Jayhawker Wants Senior Pictures
Senior pictures for the Jayhawk magazine are being taken at the O'Byron studio for $3 which covers the cost of engraving, photography, and printing. Seniors must have the pictures taken by Saturday, April 1. Marian Rippeau, Jayhawk editor, urges all seniors to pick up subscriptions of Jayhawkers as the supply is limited.
Quill Club Contest Closes March 20
The Quill club is sponsoring a creative writing contest which closes Monday, March 20.
Manuscripts may consist of short stories, essays, plays, or poetry. Prizes are being offered for winning selections in both prose and poetry.
Any student interested in creative writing may enter the contest. They must turn in two typewritten copies of the manuscript to either Jane Schmidt, president of the club, or Thomas G. Sturgeon, instructor in English, 211 Fraser. Manuscripts may be submitted for membership in Quill club.
Prize winning stories and poems will be published in Trend, Quill club magazine. There is a prize of $10 offered for the best writings.
Anatomy Student To Speak Monday
Roy R. Peterson, graduate student in anatomy, will talk before the University academy of medicine in the children's pavilion at 8 p. m. Monday, Feb. 27 at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.
The topic is "The Permeability of Certain Drugs and Hormones Through the Placenta of the Guinea Pig. It is in connection with a body's ability to in reproductive failure in mammals or C. Young, professor of anatomy.
Peterson is a graduate student in Dr. Young's endocrine laboratories
Dean Smith Meets With AASA In East
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, left Tuesday for Atlantic City, N. J., where he will attend a convention of the American Association of School Administrators.
Ernest E. Bayles and Kenneth Anderson, professors of education, will also attend the convention. Professor Bayles left Wednesday and will travel to New York before going to Atlantic City.
While in the East, Dean Smith will meet with K. U. alumni living in the northern New Jersey-New York City area. He will return Friday, March 3.
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500 Billion Matches Used By Americans Yearly
Got a match? We use 500 billion matches yearly and over a billion per day.
Americans use 125 million wooden matches every day. Experts estimate that the lumber used in such matches would build 175 six-room houses a week. Book matches, a popular advertising medium, consumes more than 34,500 ton of paper-board stock a day. The average American strikes 14 matches a day, but he spends only about 6 cents for his monthly supply.
Because of its mass production and advertising methods, the American match is the safest, cheapest and most dependable match in the world. Rich and poor use matches with little regard to their cost. Once only rich men could afford them.
Following the invention of the friction match in 1827 by an Englishman, John Walker, matches came on the market bearing the names, "lucifer," "parlor," and "flamer." All either contained or were meant to be struck against phosphorus, which is deadly. These matches often exploded in the user's face.
In 1911 William A. Fairbairn developed a substitute formula for the raw phosphorus that had endangered match strikers. The new compound was nonpoisonous and more resistant to moisture.
During World War II a water-resistant match, which was covered with a waterproof covering, was developed for servicemen fighting in swamps, oceans, or rain-filled foxholes. By the spring of 1946, 10 million all-weather matches a day were being sent overseas.
Since the war Canadian scientists have exhibited a match that produces heat but no light. Because it lacks a flame, it cannot be blown out. The development of an "everlasting" match has been reported in the United States. It is 3 inches long and produces 80 lightings, of 4 seconds each, to an inch.
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Group Sees Spanish Slides
Colored slides of Spanish architecture were shown to members of Sigma Delta Pi at a recent meeting. Domingo Ricart, assistant professor of Romance languages, lectured on the architecture of Spain and showed the slides.
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