UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE EIGHT THURSDAY, JANUARY 12. 1950 KU Students Have Choice Of Newspapers, Magazines Among University students' more frequent complaints are those of not having enough fiction to read, a lack of material relating to their courses, and a lack of home town news. Anyone faced with the latter two of these dilemmas should drop into the periodical room of Watson library where 2,224 magazines and newspapers await his use. This room, on the main floor and the east side of the library, contains materials for everyone's tastes. The magazines—2,022 of them—range from such mass-circulation ones as Life and the Saturday Evening Post to the sportsman's Field & Stream, the craftsman's Popular mechanics, or the more serious Atlantic Monthly or Harper's. Class journals, trade publications, and technical magazines are kept in cabinet shelves on four sides of the room. Besides the more popular magazines the group contains those relating to business, economics, history, languages, literature, music, and sociology. For the newspaper reader two large racks contain 36 leading papers from all parts of the nation. For the home-town news from Kansas a student may consult a special cabinet in which 166 Kansas newspapers are kept. If his home-town paper is one of the few which aren't there, he'll find a paper from a nearby town with which he may be acquainted. The magazines come from two sources. Of these,1,901 are subscribed for and 121 are gifts. Thirty-six of the newspapers are subscribed to while the Kansas papers—ranging between those from Americus to Wilson are donated. Who decides what periodicals will be taken? Miss Priscilla Tjaden, periodical librarian, explained that it depends on what sort of publication they are. "If the subscriptions come out of any department's funds, the heads of that department will decide what will be taken." Periodicals dealing with history, literature, economics, business, music, sociology, and languages come under this. "If the subscriptions come out of the periodical fund," continued Miss Tjaden, "the head librarian usually decides what will be taken." What students usually disregard is the amount of work done by Miss Tjaden and her five student assistants. Besides keeping the periodical room in order they must see that all the students have parental libraries, as, for instance, seeing that the engineering periodicals get to the engineer's library. The librarians check on these many departmental libraries, assemble back issues, and prepare them for binding. If any issues are missing or defaced, they order new copies; if any errors must see that the volumes reach the reserve desk. All of this is done as quickly as possible. "We also have to keep track of subscriptions. Miss Tjaden contime, we don't get papers on time, we write the publishers to check on them." Another problem is that of replacing magazine covers for periodicals stolen from the racks. “There are three covers which we cannot keep on the racks,” she lamented. Whenever we put out Harper’s newspapers in the Socio-American, and the Catholic World that takes covers and all. Therefore, anyone who wishes to read these must check them out from the desk.” Also kept at the desk are such "popular" magazines as Time, Consumer Research, Consumer Report, and Reader's Digest. These may be locked in anyone, but, like the other periodicals, may not be taken from the room. "Some of the rules which students often forget are that no one is supposed to study textbooks in the periodical room. It is reserved for reading magazines and newspapers. Also, the magazines may not be checked out from the room." Even instructors may not check out periodicals, she explained, although in special cases permission might be granted by the head librarian. Teacher Injures Pupil Rutland.Vt. — (U.P.) — Richard Flanders, 10. didn't show up for school, but his teacher, Mrs.Cora Johnson, knew why. Her automobile had struck and injured him while he was walking along a street. Americans Need New Wallpaper Chicago, —(U.P)—A Viennese-born artist says Americans are "hungry for beauty" but they are thwarted when the seek beauty in their work-day lives. They are spending more and more time at home in an effort to escape, said James Seeman, a mural painter with an urge to "create a whole new atmosphere" in the average home. "What does the average person see in the course of a day?" Ugly buildings, railroad and streetcar tracks, smoky skies—things that assault the senses," Mr. Seeman said. The average person seeks refuge in his home except when he can get away for a vacation. But for years, the atmosphere around most homes has been drab and uninteresting, Mr. Seeman said. Now Americans can get away from their uninteresting everyday surroundings in their own homes. "Think of eating breakfast in the atmosphere of San Francisco's Fisherman's wharf, or overlooking the coastline of France," he suggested. Mr. Seeman has painted those scenes on wallpaper from photographs and actual trips he made to those places. He also has painted on "paper murals" the New Orleans French quarter at a national scene, the St. Louis Old New York, or an escape from the modern, and an authentic Chinese landscape. Another French design called "four seasons," has great variety, he said. The onlooker can alter his surroundings to his mood merely by turning his chair. "People who have tried it say it works wonder." Mr. Seeman said. "They say it is so refreshing, exhilarating to walk into a room that has personality and not just four drab walls." It is inexpensive, too, because while the wallpaper itself costs a little more, it requires no pictures and only the simplest furniture and rugs, he said. Mr. Seeman said he would like to go to Hawaii for his next designs. "Plain walls, as someone once noted, are the refuge of the artistically destitute," he said. He said he is convinced that plain-cored walls are fast becoming outmode- The coal reserve in Kansas will ast 200 years at the present rate of consumption. Two Geologists Receive Awards At Luncheon The first presentation of the Erasmus Haworth senior and graduate honors awards was made to two outstanding students in the field of geology by R.M. Dreyer, head of the geology department, at the election meeting of the Mount Oread Geology club Tuesday evening. Robert L. Kite, senior in geological engineering, received the senior award, and William W. Hambleton, graduate student in Geology, received the graduate award. A third award will be made at the annual luncheon of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists to an outstanding alumnus who will be selected from three alumni candidates, said Professor Dreyer. "The faculty felt that there are so many men doing excellent work that some way should be found to reward the most outstanding ones," said Professor Dreyer. "We decided on an award in the name of Dr. Eramus Haworth, one of the first graduates from KU, to become eminent in the department until 1920. The men are selected by a faculty committee which chooses one senior and one graduate student each semester. "The award also carries with it an automatic appointment as an assistant instructor but obligates the man in no way if he wishes to continue his work at another school," Professor Dreyer added. Hambleton was also elected president of the club. Thomas B. Burns, college senior, is the new vice-president, and Shirley F. Rush, graduate student, the new secretary-treasurer. Prior to the election of officers, a new name was chosen for the club. After two rounds of voting on suggestions, Mr. Martin Oread Geology club, was decided upon. One of the more humorous suggestions was "The Rock and Rye Club." Wayne Replogle, assistant football coach at K.U. and for many years a range naturalist in Yellowstone National park, was the guest speaker. He spoke on the wonders and beauties of Yellowstone park. He illustrated his lecture with a collection of colored slides made from pictures he had taken on his trips in the park. The story of Jim Bridger, a pioneer in the West, who was tagged as the "greatest liar in frontier history" by Kansans whom he told the wonders of Yellowstone, was related by Mr. Replogle. In explaining the delicate relationships that exist in nature's balance of life, Mr. Replogle said that the government has stopped killing the predatory animals. The herds of elk, deer and buffalo became more diseased and multiliped too rapidly as they had fewer natural enemies to contend with. Call K.U. 251 With Your News Term Papers and Late Assignments Piling Up? Let Us Help You . . . Royal Portable Typewriters Sheaffer Fountain Pens $3.75 up Typewriter Paper, Ribbons, Erasers, Supplies LAWRENCE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE Phone 508 735 Mass. Doctor Says He Tells Sex Of Unborn By Looking In The Mother's Eyes Frankfurt, Germany—U.P.) The births of 35 American babies are awaited here to test the validity of a German doctor's claim that he can predict an infant's sex by examining the expectant mother's eyes. Dr. Wilhelm Witzel of nearby Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg risked his theory when he examined 35 expectant mothers yesterday at the 97th army hospital in Frankfurt and predicted the sex of their expected offspring. He did not predict any multiple births. Capt. C. Donald Kuntze, New York said Dr. Witzel examined the eyes of each expectant mother for three or four minutes before making his predictions. "He seemed to be rather convinced of what he had predicted," Captain Kuntze said. Dr. Hans Naujoks, medical branch chief of Frankfurt university, said he would not "believe in Dr. Witzel's method until he has proven his abilities." "Up to the present nobody has succeeded in making accurate predictions in this field," Dr. Najuk said. "Nevertheless, I am very interested in what Dr. Witzel claims to have found." Dr. Witzel asserted that he failed "only twice" during the past two years to predict the sex of his patient's babies. He said he had worked for years "to find the method that enables me to give the right prediction." But he admitted that "most of my colleagues do the usual thing they do towards all novelties in science—they grin." 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