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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 1949
The Editorial Page-
America's Bard
It has been said that America has no folk literature worthy of the name. England has her Canterbury tales and legends of King Arthur; Germany has her songs of the Minnesingers and stories of the Teutonic gods; France has her heritage of the troubadours and the "Song of Roland."
We maintain that America has a folk literature. Because it is not shrouded in a haze of antiquity, it is suspect; but it is, nevertheless, a true child of American culture, and who is to say that it will not be read and revered in English classes 500 years hence?
We're talking about movie magazines. Few would deny that the accounts of the doings of movie stars are pure products of the imagination. And the things do have a sort of hypnotic, gushing style. As fairy tale reading, they are superb. We read that Lolita LaRue, currently married to her sixth mate, has found true happiness at last."Lolita," gushes the writer, "tells me that she cooks flapjacks for Bradley's breakfast every single morning."
In the current issue of a movie mag, Ava Gardner is quoted: "I've never been glamorous in all my life. I'm plain, uninteresting and dull." The statement was inspired by a photographer who had asked her to pose in a negligee. It seems that Ava didn't even own a negligee. Nothing but severe, tailored suits. If anyone had said what Ava said about herself, they would probably have been sued for libel.
Well, maybe it doesn't quite come up to Keats or Byron, but don't scoff and sneer at the movie mag story.
But to turn to the more lyrical story. The current romance of Elizabeth Taylor inspired this paragraph: "Bill took Elizabeth dancing and boating in the moonlight. Three times they went fishing at night under the enormous sky, the city lights far away and the stars brilliant above the glittering water.
We admire the old Germanic tales of the gods Wotan and Thor. Posterity may well admire the lore of the deities of our age—Lana and Cary. ___
'Small Things'
A friend of ours wants a kingy in the shape of a certain journalism professor and another in the shape of an "F" in labor economics.
Police reported an odd theft in Kansas City when a couple of sausage stuffers were stolen from a packing plant. Farmers with hogs are warned to be on the alert.
The current scandal as to whether Princess Elizabeth does or does not smoke seems rather senseless. What a killing she could make in a Lucky Strike testimonial ad.
The Agriculture department has produced an apple flavored ice cream, and our stand-patter friend wants to know what's wrong with just plain apples. ___
The sophomore wolf just wants to know if the stuff will ferment. ___
Fashion Note: "A young bride wearing a gold bracelet dangling a gold cage—inside the cage, the cork from their first bottle of honeymoon champagne, with a diamond sunk inside it." And how soon will Woolworth's introduce Budweiser caps studded with glass for us peasants? ___
Uncle Jess is unimpressed with the air force's disclosure of a guided missile "with almost human intelligence." "If humans had much intelligence in the first place," he says, "they wouldn't even be making guided missiles."
Engineers Experiment With Heat May Pump It From The Earth
Homes may be heated in the future by pumping heat from the earth into the living room. Research now underway in the University mechanical engineering department indicates that the process is highly practical.
At the present time, however; design information isn't adequate to provide for specific installations," said Prof. Harry L. Daasch, chairman of the mechanical engineering department.
"The pumping unit compares favorably in cost of operation with conventional heating equipment, and when industrial equipment has been developed it will probably be cheaper. How soon heat pumping will be used universally depends on how soon designers can incorporate research information into it and put it into mass production." Professor Daasch added. "At present, equipment and installation cost is considerably higher than conventional heating equipment."
The heat pump works like a refrigerator in reverse. It takes heat out of a low temperature medium and, by handling a relatively large quantity of that medium, transmits heat of a higher temperature to
where it is needed. Heat can be extracted from three mediums: atmospheric air, bodies of water, or the earth.
Richard J. Shea, who earned his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering during the past summer, designed and built a unit with which he heated water to 160 to 170 degrees fahrenheit, using atmospheric air as the source of heat. Edward Hansen and Richard E. Thalman, instructors in mechanical engineering, are studying heat characteristics of earth in relation to the process.
Moderate climates are best-suited to the use of heat pumping. It has been used with considerable success in California on the eastern seaboard, and in the Middle West.
Dear Sir:
Dear Editor-
Idea
If the "general education" discussed in the University senate is not to be inculturation of a number of notions into students' heads, but development of their intellectual capacities and widening of their cultural range—then, it would seem necessary that students take an active part in such a program. Intellectual development is not likely to be brought about by forcing pills of "culture" down people's throats.
During hot weather the process may be reversed and the houses cooled instead of heated.
On other campuses, the collaboration between students and faculty has been rather successful, and we trust that at K.U. there are groups that could profitly cooperate with the faculty and contribute to the development of a more significant cultural life on the hill.
A joint committee of students and faculty members—not to be one committee formally "organized" on paper only, but an "initiative group" might be a starting point.
A few students
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KU Extension Holds Restaurant School
One hundred fifty persons attended the final meeting and banquet of the second Topeka Restaurant Employees school in Topeka Sunday. The four-week school was the joint effort of University Extension, Topeka Night school, and the Topeka Restaurant association.
Webster Rickhoff, district representative of University Extension, presented certificates to those who attended the school for showing an interest in their jobs and in their own improvement.
Black Friday, Sept. 26, 1869, was the day of financial panic in Wall street.
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Conceived, M. H. —U(P) —Because John Holden was one of the steadiest customers of the Gen. Sullivan toll bridge, he was given the "honor" of paying the final 15-cent toll before the bridge was made free.
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