1949
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
Bv STELLA GABRIELSON
"I suppose this will mean a weekend campus."
Lawrence Factory Makes Organs For 45 States
The only organ factory in Kansas, the only organ factory west o Louis is at Sixth and New Hampshire streets, Lawrence.
Upon the recommendation of the late Carl Pryor, professor of music, who was in search of an organ for the Lawrence Masonic edge, the Reuter organ company moved here in 1920 from Trenton. Considered fourth in size.
II. Considered fourth in size among the nation's 12 factories, he company employs 100 men who turn out about 65 organs a year.
The organs, which are sold in 45 out of the 48 states, are custom built and transported by truck to their destination. The Reuter company now has enough orders to fill for the next two years, since all organ factories were shut down for three years during the war and only in the last few months have they been able to obtain the necessary quotas of tin.
Reuter's largest organ was made the Music Conservatory at the
The Music Conservatory at the University of North Carolina and contained 5,000 pipes. However, the company also constructs organs with two pipes. Ninety-five per cent of the instruments go to churches mile mortuaries and private homes is the remaining 5 per cent.
"Heinz has nothing on organ building for variety," said John Selig, manager of the Reuter plant. In addition to the "diapason," a pure organ one, an organ can imitate strings, woodwinds, brass and even English horns, he related.
Not only does the organ business val Heinz in producing a variety of gins, but also in the materials of instruction. Tin, lead and zinc are used in the metal pipes while the electrical contacts are made from copper, phosphor bronze, and stering silver. Wood, which may be ink, maple, birch, mahogany, poplar, magnolia, and principally California sugar Pine, is used in all parts of the organ, even the pipes. The wood lay come from anywhere in the world, the tin from Bolvia and lambin for the air valves from England. "When the organ reaches the voice" it is in its most critical phase." J. Selig explained. The layman forms his opinion of the organ from one-third of it, the pipes. It is ooiler's" job to tune the pipes and necessary that he have a good ear.
Daphniss is the worst enemy of an organ, but temperature has little eupon the modern organ, Mr. said. A good organ will last 50 years, he explained.
Horowitz Addresses YM Cabinet Meeting
A short talk on "Group Dynamics" was given by Milton Horowitz, assistant professor of psychology, at a short meeting of the Y.M.C.A. cabinet Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Horowitz said committees can work effectively if there is a correct relationship between the chairman and his committee members. The element of leadership and organization can be strengthened with closer contact between the chairman and his committee.
The annual Y. M. C. A. Halloween Hop will be in the Union on Friday, Oct. 28. Everyone is invited and the admission price will be 30 cents.
Memphis-(U.R.)-The Rev: Richard B. Gibbs, pastor of First Unitarian church, believes in giving sermons a "human touch along with the heavy stuff." Titles of some of his latest sermons:
Pastor Won't Let Kids Miss Sunday Comics
"Dagwood Bumstead — All-American, Father?"
Bionde: Mrs. America
"The Kids- Quiz or Deadend?"
"Blondie—Mrs. America?"
Thomas Schocken, assistant professor of architecture, has returned from Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended meetings of the American Society of Planning Officials and American Institute of Planners.
CourseAdded For Architects
During the three days of meetings, Professor Schocken participated in discussions on slum clearance projects, national planning proposals, the Housing Act of 1949, land policy discussions, and training problems for planners.
Professor Schocken pointed out that the architecture department has added an architecture planning option to its curricula. The course is new to the department this year. The first three years of the program are identical with the regular architecture course, but the remaining two years follow a different curriculum.
"Anyone who goes into that profession has very good employment opportunities," Schocken said. "It is one of the most promising professions there are."
Before coming to the University for the fall term in 1948, Professor Schocken worked with the city planning commission of Detroit, Mich.; and the past summer he worked with the city planning commission of Kansas City, Mo.
Proctor Puppets To Be Presented
Three showings of the Proctor puppets will be held Friday at Liberty Memorial High school. The appearance is sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of the American Association of University Women.
Two performances of the show by Mr. and Mrs. Romaine Proctor, Springfield, Ill., and company, noted puppeteers, will be especially for children. The third showing is for adults, although they may attend any of the plays.
"Little Red Riding Hood" will be shown at 10:30 a.m. and "Rumplestilskin" will be at 1:15 p.m. The adult shows will be at 2:45 p.m. They are: "The Three Wishes," "Tombstone Ballets," and "Circus." A demonstration of the mechanics of puppets will follow that performance.
Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children.
Wichita, Kan., — (U.P.) — Aircraft plant workers and suburban public transportation riders will pay slightly higher bus fares under a transportation hike approved by the Wichita city commission.
Wichita Bus Rates Up
Tokens on aircraft plant line busses will sell three for 25 cents instead of two for 15 cents under the new fare plan. Suburban rates will be increased from 15 cents to 20 cents with tokens two for 35 cents or six for a dollar.
Memphis, Tenn. — (U.P.)—A friend of Mrs. Vernon Hardin has found some use for a husband on wash day. The husband sits on top of the washing machine to keep the contraption from vibrating off its foundation.
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Liquor From An Old Barrel Not As Good - To Chemists
Washington—(U.P).Your old Uncle Sam is up to his top hat in barrels, trying to decide what liquor can age in a used barrel.
At the moment, the question is being argued out at a complicated hearing going on before the alcohol tax unit.
The nub of the issue is whether liquor which has been stored two years in a used barrel and two
One of the witnesses at the hearing was short, dark and stocky Dr. A. J. Leibmann, research man for a distillery.
The balding scientist didn't act like a man of science. He got right down to earth.
The nub of the issue is whete years in a used barrel and two years in a new one should count as four-year-old whisky. Under present regulations, only the time the liquor has spent in the new barrel is counted.
What a man smells and tastes, he said, goes beyond the chemists and physicists.
Dr. Liebmann reverted to scientific talk for a couple hundred paragraphs. Then, he came down to earth again. He said, in plain language that the man who takes a drink now and then does his own testing—through his nose and his own tongue.
The whisky people, across the years, from George Washington who had a still in Paris County. Who had a stain in that way. Why make good whisky is to put it in a new charred oak barrels and let 'er set.
The complicated contention now is that what is wrong with putting a lot of whisky in one barrel, then dumping it after awhile into another barrel? No matter how old either barrel is?
That is—getting, even more complicated—if the whisky happened to
be dumped into a new barrel in the first place.
Dr. Liebmann was warming up to his subject and at the same time kicking back at the government.
He said that a government chemist had made an analysis of whiskies—some aged in new charred barrels and some stored in used barrels.
"This strikingly demonstrated," the doctor said, "the deficit resulting from storage in the practically exhausted barrel, a deficit which cannot be made by belated and abbreviated storage in new barrels for a short time."
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