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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1950
Poor Fish Hasn't A Chance When OT's Start Fly-Tying
A fish may think he's smart when he tells a red object from a blue one or distinguishes a spider from a fly. But students in one course in the University learn how to fool the fish.
It might not be a spider, or a fly, which the fish thinks he sees, but a shiny replica of one of these insects made in the course in fish-fly tying.
Fly-tying is one phase of a handcrafts course taught in the design department by Miss Nancie Greenman, assistant professor of design. It is required of all occupational therapy students, but others may take it.
"O. T." majors learn that this craft teaches coordination and strengthens wrists and fingers. It is a simple craft, like knitting, crocheting and basketry, which are part of the same semester course. The students learn these crafts so they may teach them to hospital patients. Fly-tying has more appeal to men than some of the other crafts.
The supplies for the course are simple; a small vise, some silk thread, chenille floss, hooks, a variety of fur and feathers, and a flying manual. After making a few flies the person may be as creative as he wishes. He uses only the basic pattern and tries different combinations of feathers, hair and tinsel to make a realistic-looking insect.
To make a fly, a grasshopper, a moth, or a spider, whichever appeals to the workers' fancy and the fish's eye is a process of sometimes twenty minutes for a simple insects to an hour and twenty minutes for the more intricate ones.
First, a hook is clamped in the vise and wrapped with the thread. Then the thread is rubbed with beeswax to make it waterproof. Next the body of the insect is built up of wool, cotton, fur or hair and fastened to the hook with the thread, tied in half-hitch knots. At no time is the thread cut, since this would cause the insect to unravel when it touched the water.
If the insect is to have wings, tiny pieces of feathers are attached. The legs of the insect are made from feathers bound with thread. A small part of a peacock feather makes a perfect spider's leg.
Silver or gold tinsel may be wrapped around the body as an eyecatcher for the fish. Then the fly is ready for the rod and reel—and the fish.
the fish.
There are thousands of established fish with such names as Champ's Special, Green Ghost, Mary Pickford, Arctic Vamp, Professor, and Mickey Finn. Many are also named for their originators.
originations. Young can be turned into an interesting and profitable hobby, according to many of the students who take it. One girl made four files in the course and gave them to her father, an avid fisherman. She found that if she had the time to make more files she would have a large market for them among her father's friends.
IVCF Speaker Tells Of God's Guidance
Christians have the possibility of knowing God through Christ, Miss Jane Hollingsworth, women's secretary of Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship told members Thursday.
Christ was sent to man to reveal what is right and to set the Christian living standard, Miss Hollingsworth said. The righteousness of God can be man's through Christ
God can tell Persons to whom the standards of God have not been revealed are dependent upon their consciences for guidance. God reveals himself, Miss Hollingsworth commented, in many ways. The righteous and pure in heart will see God.
Miss Hollingsworth is visiting campuses in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. She will aid in personal Bible study and leadership of Bible discussions. Miss Hollingsworth spoke at the I.V.C.F. state conference at Kansas State college recently.
Prowling Cat Trees Fox
Wilmette. III—(U,P).—A prowling tom cat didn't give a gray狐 a chance to use his touted wilen, wison a duel of claw and fang and chased him up a tree, where a policeman saved the neighborhoods' sleep by shooting the fox and chasing away the cat.
Senate Now Has Younger Solons
Washington — (U.P.) The United States senate is getting younger.
The average age of the current senator is 57 years and about two months, a United Press survey shows.
Two years ago the average was just over 58.
Republicans are younger than Democrats in the present senate with an average age of 56.5 to 57.5 for the Democrats.
But although the current crop is a shade younger on the average, the age span from the oldest to the youngest is one of the senate's widest in history-51 years.
It goes all the way from the veteran Sen. Theodore Francis Green, (D, R.I.), the oldest member who is a spry 82, to Sen. Russell B. Long (D, La.) who was 31 the past Nov. 3.
Senator Long, son of Louisiana's late Kingfish, Huey P. Long, was elected to the senate Nov. 2, 1948, one day before he reached his 30th birthday.
The senate has three members under 40 and only two over 80. Besides Senator Long, the "youngsters" include Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, (D., Minn.), who is 38, and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) who will be 40 Nov. 14.
Sen. Kenneth McKellar (D, Tenn.) president pro tempore, is second to Senator Green in age at 80.
Close behind Senators Long, Humphrey, and McCarthy in the "youth" contest are Sens. William E. Jenner (R., Ind.) and William F. Knowland (R., Cal.) in that order. Both recently turned 41.
After Senators Green and McKellar in age come Sen. Clyde R Reed, (R., Kan.), at 78 and then Sens Matthew M. Neely, (D., W. Va.) and James E. Murray, (D. Mont.) Senator Murray barely shades Sens. Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.), and Pat McCarran, (D. Nev.).
There's no such thing as an "average senator," but if there were he'd be 57 years old and the chances would be about one in three he wouldn't smoke.
Also, the odds would be almost one in four he was born in one of five states—Massachusetts, South Dakota, Alabama, Iowa, or West Virginia. Those five are the birthplaces of 22 of the 96 senators.
Only six of the 96 hit the average age of 57 with their 1949 birthdays—Sens. George D. Aiken, (R., Vt); Paul H. Douglas, (D., Ill.); Spessard L. Holland (D., Fla.). Lester C. Hunt, (D., Wyo.); Leverett Saltonstall (R., Mass.), and Kenneth S. Wherry, (R., Neb.)
Like a lot of other people, some senators are coy about their ages and don't list them in the Congressional Directory. Of the 96 incumbents, 11 left their ages out of their most recent biographical sketches in the directory.
Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of he College, was elected vice-president of the board of directors of the 'awrence Salvation Army Wednesday. Mr. Ulmer has just completed a three-var term on the board.
Incidentally, the upper chamber's only woman member, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, (R., Maine) doesn't look her 50 years.
Salvation Army Directors
Elect Ulmer Vice-President
Frank Brown, professor of applied mechanics, is also on the board, which serves as an advisory committee to the Salvation Army in Lawrence.
THOMAS O. PARISH
One of the Religious Emphasis week speakers is Rev. Thomas O. Parish. He is now minister of Central Christian Church, Kansas City, Kan.
He has attended William Jewell college, Liberty, Mo., and Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Thomas is a graduate of Central Baptist seminary, Kansas City, Kan., and Harvard Chaplain's school, Cambridge, Mass.
He served as minister in Ames, Iowa, a student center, for four years. He was a chaplain overseas for two years during World War II.
Award Student Oliver Latin Prize
The Hannah Oliver Latin prize, amounting to $15 or more, will be awarded to the undergraduate who has done the best work in Latin throughout the current scholastic year.
The prize is income from a sum contributed by former students and friends of the late Miss Oliver in honor of her 80th birthday. She taught Latin at the University for many years.
The winner of the prize must have completed at least six hours of Latin during the present school year. The winner will be announced in June.
Students of all undergraduate Latin classes are eligible.
L. R. Lind, associate professor of Latin and Greek is chairman of the committee which will award the prize. Other members are Miss Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin, Miss Winnie Lowrance, assistant professor of Latin.
Young Democrats To Boyle Dinner
Thirty members of the University Young Democrats will be in Toppea Tuesday and Wednesday, to attend the dinner and speech by William J. Boyle, chairman of the Democratic National committee.
the state.
A K.U. student and a faculty member are officers of the state-wide Young Democrats. William M. Collins, first year law student, is treasurer, and Tom Page, instructor in political science, is parliamentarian.
Paul Wolf, first year law student and president of the club, said that the two-day meeting will include a reception and dance Tuesday and a luncheon Wednesday for the Kansas Democratic Collegiate club. Malcolm Pfautz, second year law student, is president of the group which is composed of college and junior college students throughout the state.
International Club Holds 'Get-Acquainted' Party
Songs of Turkey, Italy, Spain and China were sung at a recent meeting of the International club.
Nehemiah Kronenberg, president of the club, announced that committees would be chosen to plan future club events this semester.
Tentative plans include a dinnerdance for the Allied officers at Ft. Leavenworth to be sometime in March.
Truman Asks Co-operation During Brotherhood Week
Brotherhood Week is being held this week. President Truman has asked all Americans to co-operate in the program that will bring Christians and Jews closer together.
Veterans To Get Job Counseling
World War II veterans desiring to take additional training or education in a different or unrelated course are required to take job counseling, known to the veterans administration as vocational advisement and guidance.
The Kansas City V.A. regional office said that all veterans making a change in their training course, if not in line with their previously declared vocational intention, will be scheduled for vocational advisement before being permitted to enroll in this contemplated course.
Generally, that office said, about one day is required to complete vocational counseling and at the present time advertisement appointments for veterans living in Northeastern Kansas are being made about a month in advance.
about a moratorium All veterans contemplating a change in their course must secure a supplemental certificate of eligibility through the VA. Application for this certificate should be made at least 30 days in advance. It was pointed out that a determination of the need for vocational advisement cannot be made until application for this certificate has been received by the VA.
A completed certificate of eligibility, properly endorsed by the veteran concerned and the institution in which he is to receive his training, must be received by the appropriate V.A. regional office before a veteran can be set up in training. Once he begins training, it is a veteran's responsibility to show satisfactory progress. Failure to do so may mean suspension of subsistence or interruption of training, the VA said.
Veterans in this area may secure assistance through the V.A. regional office, 1828 Walnut, Kansas City, Mo.
Tomorrow is coming to meet you at a terrific pace—about 1,037 miles an hour at the equator or about 800 miles an hour if you are in the latitude of Washington, D.C., says the National Geographic society.
The entire program is sponsored by Catholics, Jews, and Protestants so that there may be better relations among the three great faiths.
tions among "Americans can make no greater contribution to all mankind than a stand united, without a state-imposed uniformity, for the achievement of that peace and freedom for which all people everywhere pray," said President Truman in accepting the honorary chairmanship of Brotherhood Week.
The president's letter of acceptance, delivered to John L. Sullivan, former navy secretary and chairman of Brotherhood Week, affirmed that "there probably has never been a time in history when true brotherhood was so indispensable to the welfare of our ownition and to the peace and freedom of the entire world."
The president called attention to the millions of people in the world "subject to the iron rule of despots" and asserted that the American people, along with others of like devotion to human dignity, must therefore demonstrate a greater measure of fraternity and unity than ever before. "Respect for human dignity is the central issue in the world today," he said.
"America is dedicated to the conviction that all people are entitled by the gift of God to equal rights and freedoms even though they may differ in religious persuasion, in social and political views, or in racial origin. Our greatness is and will be measured by the degree of our recognition of this fundamental truth," the president said.
The coordinator organizes the joint activities of the various houses, and is the official representative of the co-operative houses in all campus affairs. Elmer Rusco, College senior, has been the coordinator the past year.
University co-operative houses will elect an Inter Co-op coo dinator after an all-membership dinner to be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Don Henry co-op.
KU Co-ops To Elect New Coordinator
The election is part of the annual K.U. Co-op week now being held at the University. The week began Sunday afternoon with open house at all campus co-ops.
K-Union, for reporters, editors, news and feature writers, copy readers, and idea men to publish the K-Union, the Student Union newspaper—Mary Lou Fischer, education junior, chairman.
Entertainment, for talent scouts and students who can direct and organize skits and acts, and audition for University talent—Win Koerper. College sophomore, chairman.
Memberships are open on the following Student Union committees:
Art, for those who are artistically inclined and have good taste and original ideas for posters, table decorations, and office decoration—James Porter, engineering junior, chairman.
Coffees and forums, for those who wish to serve as host or hostess at the monthly forums or to work as an organizer for the travel bureau and the library—Emily Stewart, journalism junior, chairman.
Announcements, for announcers, disc jockeys, script writers, and radio advertising specialists—chairman to be announced.
Student Union Committees Have Positions To Be Filled
A party for the members of Student Union activities will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Palm room of the Union. Students who are interested in joining the organization are invited to attend.
Decorations, for those who have original and clever ideas about decorations for social events.-Marcia Horn, College freshman, chairman.
Publicity, for fast clever, original thinkers who can conceive and execute publicity stunts - Joseph Ballou, business junior, chairman.
Public liaison, for those who like to make visitors feel welcome and to entertain-Virginia Thompson, College sophomore, chairman.
Secretarial, for those who like to type and to represent Student Union activities to people who visit the office-Patricia Ames, College junior, chairman.
Social, for those who wish to help organize the annual dances sponsored by the organization-Allyn Browne, College junior, chairman.
Special projects, for organizers, investigators, hosts and hostesses, and instructors-James Mann, business senior, chairman.
Sports and organizations, for sport fans, tournament organizers, and students interested in working for various organizations-John Weidiman, journalism senior, chairman.
Students interested in becoming a member of one of these committees should file an application in the Student Union office.