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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1945
Kansan photo by Bob Blank.
Chatting informally at their first meeting Wednesday are nine members of the Mitchell county club, one of the 115 Statewide Activities groups which were organized this week. From left to right are: George Betz, College sophomore; Donald Shurtz, fine arts sophomore; John Bergmann, College junior; Don Porter, chairman, College sophomore; Richard Conroy, College senior; June Porter, College freshman; Phyllis Noah, business junior; Robert Reid, engineering freshman; and Douglas Margreiter, pharmacy sophomore.
Sale Of Christmas Seals Reported 'Lagging A Bit'
The sale of Christmas seals from booths in the Union building, Fraser and Strong halls "are lagging a bit." reported Margo A. Taylor, chairman of the campus drive. Total sales are 2,000 seals.
"The campus drive was originally scheduled to last until Friday," Miss Taylor said. "But we are installing boxes at book stores, restaurants and other stores in Lawrence. The boxes will be labeled, 'Buy Seals With Your Change,' and they will remain in the stores until Wednesday, Dec. 21."
The University sales are conducted by the Douglas County Tuberculosis association. The money will be used for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, and for health education.
The National Tuberculosis association has listed the following true-false questions. How many can you answer?
TB is a disease a person is born with.
Working hard in a damp, dirty place is what gives persons TB. Older persons can forget about
TB; only young persons have it
It's easy to know when one has
been hurt.
Why treat TB? Persons who have it are "goners" anyhow.
One can tell which persons have TB just by looking at them.
Each of the above questions is false. Here are true statements concerning the questions:
No child has TB when he is born.
TB can occur on any job or in any place where someone who has TB is spreading the germs to other persons.
Anybody can have TB, at any age. Our chance of having TB during our most valuable working or student years is many times greater than of having it when we are children.
In the early stages TB doesn't make us sick.
Persons who have early TB look fine, and feel fine. It takes an X-ray to determine whether TB has damaged their lungs.
When TB is found early and treated quickly, it almost always can be cured.
Unitarians Sponsor Talk On Norway
Dr. O. Myking Mehus will speak on "Norway and the Present Crisis" at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Pine room of the Union. Dr. Mehus is sponsored by the Unitarian Liberal fellowship.
Dr. Mehus visited Norway the past summer and will discuss social legislation by the labor government, including socialized medicine, government ownership of public utilities, recent national elections and the Norwegians' attitude toward Russia. For the past six years he has been the chief of education and vocational rehabilitation, Veterans' administration at Kansas City, Mo.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Music Debate Recital Sunday
Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary music sorority, will present its annual fall recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Strong auditorium. The theme of the program will be "A Musical Debate" consisting of three sections or questions.
Members of the sorority will perform musically the arguments of each side of the questions.
Part one of the debate is entitled "Consonance versus Dissonance." A brass quartet and a group of madrigel singers will express "close" harmony. Two piano solos and a woodwind ensemble will tell the modern harmony side of the argument.
Part two will contain two numbers from grand opera and a chorus number from light opera. Part three, "Classic versus Popular," has a piano and a vocal solo.
"College Daze," Student Union activities' humorous musical production, will be staged May 2, 3, 4, and 5.
'College Daze' Will Be In May
Edith Malott, College senior, is producer and Jerome Maudl, education junior, is musical director.
UN Scheduled To Ignore Pleas Of Nationalists
Lake Success, N.Y., Dec. 2—(U.P.) The United Nations' top political committee was slated today to adopt an American-designed "hands off" policy on China, despite redoubled Nationalist pleas for tougher action.
The appeal of Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, Nationalist delegate, for a ban on diplomatic recognition of the communists and imposition of "moral sanctions" did not appear to have made any noticeable dent in the majority favoring "brushoff" tactics on the China case.
The Soviet block, contending that the credentials of the "Kuoimintang" delegation no longer are valid, has refused to join the debate and has sent only third-rung delegates to sit in and listen. Yugoslavia, following its former Cominform partners in this instance, has announced it will not vote on the question.
The special political committee wrestling with the Palestine problem continued debate on the Arab refugee problem while awaiting a sub-committee report recommending that the U.N. reaffirm the 2-year-old partition provision for permanent international control of Jerusalem.
In a meeting Thursday night, the sub-group backed strict internationalization in the face of a new warning by Israel that the U.N. would not be able to take over control of an "unwilling population."
Before the vote on the China question, Great Britain planned to answer Mr. Tsiang's blunt-worded criticism of their reported intention to recognize the Communists within the next few months. The Nationalist delegate, with startling directness, told Great Britain:
1. To respect the political independence of China and to be guided by the principles of the charter in their relations with China.
The American formula for a new style "open door" in China, co-sponsored by Australia, Mexico, Pakistan, and the Philippines, would call on all nations:
"It is unimaginable that any freedom-loving people could deliberately choose to jeopardize the whole future of China for the sum of one billion dollars." The figure represents Great Britain's investment in China.
"2. To respect the right of the people of China now and in the future to choose freely their political institutions and to maintain a government independent of foreign control;
4. To refrain from (A) Seeking to acquire spheres of influence or to create foreign-controlled regimes within the territory of special rights or privileges within the territory of China."
"3. To respect existing treaties relating to China;
More than 70 University students from Kansas City, Mo., met Wednesday in the education room of Watson library to make plans for boosting K.U. in their high schools. Shown above are a portion of the group as they listened to instructions given by Henry R. Wurst, College freshman and chairman of the club. Wurst is standing at the extreme right. Students in the foreground are from Southwest High school.
Kansan photo by Bob Blank
New Vitamin Protects Against Atomic Radiation
Lakeland, Fla., Dec. 2—(U.R.)-Isolation of "vitamin P," which affers protection against atomic radiation and can be produced cheaply from citrus waste, was announced here today by two scientists.
Students To See Half Of Games
Students again will see only half of KU's home basketball games this winter. The Jayhawks athletic department announced today that all holders of identification cards must make a choice of two sets of tickets for the 8-game 1949-1950 Hoch auditorium slate. Students will not be required to purchase any additional basketball tickets as was the case last year, the department said.
Campus Assumes Festive Appearance
Set number 1 has been designated as Purdue, Iowa State, Nebraska, and Kansas State. Set number 2 carries Omaha, Drake, Missouri, Colorado.
Earl Falkenstein athletic business manager, said he saw little encouragement for the public being able to purchase tickets this winter, although if space permits at game time they will be sold.
the athletic office will start distribution of ducats next Monday and those desiring them must make a choice before Saturday, Dec. 10, the day Kansas opens at home against Purdue.
Schmidt Will Sing Sunday
Reinhold Schmidt, associate professor of voice, will sing the bass role in Handel's "Messiah" at Hot Springs, Ark., Sunday. The oratorio will be presented by the Hot Springs Choral club.
The campus is beginning to take on a festive appearance due to the installation of Christmas decorations by buildings and grounds workmen. Colored lights on the shrubbery in front of Strong hall, lights on the Natural History museum, and lights which form a cross in the windows in back of Watson library make up the exterior decoration scheme.
"We think it is the largest tree the University has ever had," Ray Ottinger, instructor in design, said. "It may not be possible to balance the tree on the revolving stand due to its height."
If the tree is balanced on the revolving stand, the lights will connect with electric current through a device that works with two rollers riding in two circular copper tracts.
Students of the design department have strung 36 quarts of popcorn to decorate the tree. Cranberries, dolls, and other old-fashioned decorations will be placed on the tree by faculty members of the design department.
A 22-foot Christmas tree is being set up in the rotunda of Strong hall today under the supervision of the design department.
A 12-foot white Christmas tree with colored lights and ornaments will be decorated at 4 p.m. today in the main lounge of the Union. It will be further lighted by colored spot lights. The main lounge will be deci-
The tree was selected from a farm about four miles west of Lawrence. Lee Robinson, owner of the farm, sold the cedar tree to the University at a special price of $5.
orated by wreathes and ropes of green spruce hung in the arches through the middle of the room.
In the bookstore spruce ropes have been strung above the counters. A small Christmas scene with candle figures, has been placed on a center table.
Emphasis this year will be on outside decorations. A 16-foot green tree with colored lights will be placed in the northwest corner of the terrace. On each side of it along the north and west walls will be three "candy canes" ranging in height from 6 to 10 feet. Members of Union activities will place a large "Merry Christmas" sign over the entrance to the Union. On either side of it will be a 10-foot candy cane.
The Palm room will have a 9-foot white tree decorated with colored lights. Green wreathes will be hung in the ballroom.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff and Dr. James B. Redd, of Florida Southern college's bio-research laboratory, said that after three years of work they now have a large quantity of the vitamin on hand for clinical tests.
They will offer detailed information on the production in a paper to be delivered Saturday at the 14th annual meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences at Deland. Sokoloff and Redd reported the results of experiments on 50 rats which were given varying doses of the vitamin and then subjected to nedr-lethal amounts of X-ray radiation. Twenty of the rats received no vitamin P at all, and 80 per cent of these died from extensive bleeding in two to three weeks. Another group received a relatively small amount of the vitamin for 10 days; of these, 40 per cent died from the effects of radiation. A third group was given large doses of the vitamin for 30 days. All but 10 per cent of these lived.
The scientists said vitamin P has been known as a factor in correcting the functions of small blood vessels. Radiation from the atom bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused changes in the chemical structure of such vessels, making them fragile and leading to excessive bleeding.
Sokoloff and Redd said that they sought to produce vitamin P in large quantities to find out if it would protect animals against a near-lethal dose of radiation. They suggested that "many medical problems associated with increased fragility of the capillary system might find a new solution" in the light of their experiment.
They suggested that the vitamin might be useful in treating cases of high blood pressure where injury to the capillary system of the kidney is the main factor. "But this therapy should be of long duration and the vitamin compound should be given in much larger doses than as been prescribed up to now," they said.
Students To Take NROTC Test
Approximately 170 Kansas high school students will take preliminary aptitude tests for the N.R.O.T.C. Saturday
J. Counts Powell, assistant professor of education, said the same tests will be given simultaneously at Concordia, Dodge City, Hutchinson, Kansas city, Liberal, Syracuse, Topeka, Wichita, and in the Military Science building at the University. Mr. Powell is in charge of the testing.
These aptitude tests will determine whether the students may become eligible for membership in the N. R.O.T.C. program at the University for the fall term of 1950.