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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANS.N. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Classes end Thursday, and finals are over a week from Thursday, but some students might as well stay around for an extra week or two. These students are rooming in private homes and paying rent on a nine months basis, although they spend only eight and a half months in school.
Unfair Rent Practice
There are certainly no complaints about paying rent during short vacations within the school year, but it hardly seems logical to make payments for two weeks after school is out. Such cases are easily found in Lawrence, however.
The argument is sometimes heard that school is figured on a nine months basis, that organized houses pay on a nine months basis and that students in private homes should do the same. But the Housing office assures us that any organized house figuring on a nine months basis takes into account the fact that school doesn't actually last that long, and this factor is taken into consideration when figuring the amount of rent for the school year.
The University Housing office, as well as the dean of men and dean of women, agree that in private homes the payment of room rent "should terminate when the student leaves the home."
In practice, this means that the student paying rent by the month should shorten the amount of his payment to cover only that portion of the ninth month that he will be in school.
Any landlord charging students rent on a full nine months basis is taking advantage of his roomers. The University does not agree with such a plan, and common sense shows it to be an unfair practice.
This may seem like a rather small point, but it means an expense of from seven to fifteen dollars for every person involved. And for most students, every dollar is worth saving.
Ralph Hememway
- Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
Merci, KU
The following letter contains excerpts from one received from a directress of a school in Orleans, France. This school was one of several to which CARE vegetable seed packages were sent in the recent CARE campaign. Others, including several in the romance language department, have helped by sending bundles to the school. This is in reality an answer to the questions many students have asked about the recipients of the seeds.
Dale W. Fields, Chairman of CARE
Dear Friends.
It is to all of you that this letter is addressed, to all of you who have so kindly united to send us three boxes of seeds, after having sent us clothing and food!
All the little girls whose papas have gardens have taken packets, delighted, one or two packets of seeds. I divided the peas and beans into several packages, and I have many thanks to send your school. As soon as our "vegetables from America" grow, I shall write to you. In my school yard I have planted flowers in two little gardens. We are going to follow their growth with such joy.
Now, I am going to give you as many details of my school as possible. It is a public primary school (corresponds roughly to our elementary or grammar schools administered by the government, not private agencies. It has 242 pupils and six teachers. I am the directress, but I teach a class also, and I have 38 pupils from 12 to 14 years of age who are preparing for the Certificate of Primary studies.
Among these 242 little girls, I have about 50 children from unfortunate families whom you have helped to aid. Twelve little girls come from an orphanage who are likewise indigent. The others are children of workmen, employees, and shopkeepers. I am proud to say that my school has a good reputation, that my little girls work with all their hearts to be good pupils, and that people remark upon their good behavior. It is they who point out to me sometimes the elderly ones
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needing help, the children who suffer, and they say too, "our good friends in America have sent us the packages."
I am going to send you some sketches that the children have drawn for you as their thanks to the students at the University. I shall also try to send your school some photos of the children and the school. The new part of the school has been newly stuccoed. It was destroyed by a shell in 1944.
So many Americans come to France that I hope some day for the coming of one of you. How happy I should be then to show you around Orleans. We are taking courage again! Already a reconstructed block of buildings is inhabited; other constructions are going up little by little, in our valley of the Loire.
To all those who have contributed to the purchase of the seeds, will you, dear friend, express our affectionate thanks? How can we be of service to you?
We heartily applauded Mr. Salome, mayor of Wichita, so affable, so simple in manner. (Mayor Salome has just returned from Orleans, the town adopted by citizens in Wichita.) All the inhabitants of Orleans were won by his cordiality and if I had not known that Kansas is as large as France. I should have gone to him so that he might have carried to you all our friendship.
May the war be no more than a bad memory! May peace flourish again! We must, must we not, aid each other to insure this necessary peace. We have suffered so much. But confidence reigns, and we have faith in the peoples of the earth! Faith in America! How I should like to say all this to you if you come to us some day.
Popsickle Bandit Caught
A scholarship for summer study in occupational therapy has been awarded to Patricia Laurencelle, instructor in design. It is one of 12 national scholarships for advanced work given by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
With all my good thoughts,
Mile, Y. Thiercelin,
Directrice de l'Ecole de filles,
36 Rue du Bourdonn Blanc,
Orleans (Loire), France
Memphis, Tenn.—(U.R.)—Minutes after a grocery store owner reported a $100 robbery police nabbed the culprit. The victim had identified the robber as "sucking on a popsicle, and escaping on a bicycle."
Scholarship To Laurencelle
Since infantile paralysis is a neuromuscular disease, the course will concern principles of occupational therapy as applied to neuromuscular disability.
The course will be given at the University of Southern California June 20 through July 16. It will integrate occupational therapy with the treatment of polio victims and carry graduate credit toward a master's degree. U.S.C. is the only school in the nation offering a graduate degree in occupational therapy.
This is the first money spent by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the education of occupational therapists," Miss Laurencelle said. "It will cover tuition, board, and room, travel expense and incidentals," she added.
Scroggy Heads Pi Sigma Alpha
Dorothy J. Scroggy is the new president of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity. She was elected at the last meeting of the organization May 20.
Twenty-five new members were welcomed into the fraternity with formal initiation ceremonies. They are Lewis A. Bayles, Robert L. Bock, Arthur J. Cook, H. H. Holt, and Harold E. Horn, graduate student; Phillip J. Carlson, Robert H. Chesyk, John L. Eberhardt, Howard W. Hallman, Joyce A. Harkleroad, and Theodore M. Utschen, College juniors.
Other officers elected are Stanley Kelley, Jr., College senior, vicepresident; Howard W. Hallman, College junior, secretary; and Francis Heller, assistant professor of political science, treasurer.
Rose C. Ebener, assistant instructor of history; Francis Heller, assistant professor of political science; and John H. Hope, special student.
Herbert R. Diteiter, Marilee Frame, Omar D. Gregory, Jay V. Grimm, H. L. Jones, Virginia Joseph, Stanley Kelley, Wilbur B. Noble, James D. Petersen, Dorothy J. Scroggy, Dan C. Stark, and Joan J. William, College seniors.
If the farmer gave away his milk, it would cost the consumer 12 cents a quart delivered to the door, federal experts estimate.
Students may pick up their copies of the third issue of the Jayhawker at the Student Union Book store, Dean Miller, business manager, said.
Third Jayhawker Now On Sale
"Any student having previously signed up for four issues and the cover but who hasn't paid, may do so today." Miller said. "We will only be able to satisfy those who have signed up; no others will get a chance to buy the yearbook at this late date.
"Students who have received the first two issues will need to present their Jayhawker cards to get the magazine."
Book Store Employees
Attend Picnic Wednesday
Employees of the Student Union Book store held a picnic in Clinton park for their families and friends. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Earl Abrahamson, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Caldwell and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Chesky, Mr. and Mrs. William Fowler, Miss Vera Hodges and Paul Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Odgers, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pederson, Mr and Mrs. Richard Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. David Shoffner, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Woolley and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Zimmerman.
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