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UNIVERSITY DAILY MAGAZINE, INFORMATION, HARDWARE
The Editorial Page-
Firetrap Schools
You'd think that Lawrence, a university town, would have a better public school system than the average Kansas community.
Ever seen the Lawrence Junior high school buildings?
They're old, dark, and unsafe. They leak, they're firetraps, and they have no playground. Children must cross the streets to get from one class to another. They're also right next to the business district hardly an ideal location for a public school.
Townspeople will go to the polls tomorrow to vote on a bond issue for a new high school. If it is approved, the junior high will be moved to the present high school, which is an excellent building.
Unless all eligible University students go to the polls and vote for the bond issue, it may be defeated. Some citizens maintain that an appropriation to repair the present building is all that is necessary. Go look at that tottering edifice and ask yourself whether or not such a step would be anything other than temporary relief.
Hundreds of K. U. students flocked to the ballot boxes last fall when the issue was a legal drink. Let's all vote again tomorrow when the issue will be education.
It's not just a matter of raising taxes and spending some money. It's a matter of decent facilities for the education of the city's children. Jim Scott
The Two D's
This is an editorial about two d's. Chiefly it's about the derby, but it's also about democracy. The two go hand in hand.
We don't mean the Kentucky Derby or the famous Derby (pronounced Darby) in England. We mean the derby, the "iron hat," the bowler, the piece of headgear. Lately it has fallen into disrepute in the United States, but personally we have always been in favor of the derby.
Not only is it practical, but this country needs good he-man hats. The derby stands up to winter as no other hat can. The best soft hat will bow before the wind and rain. The bowler laughs at everything the weather offers. It is an umbrella and coal fire all in one.
Of course, the artist hates its homely, useful outline. But artists are a limited breed and think only in terms of isolated lines. They do not consider the entire ensemble.
Women, if the boy friend has a weakness of feature the bowler will hide it. On the other hand, if he is a strong, square-jawed individual, there is nothing like the derby to give him the proper setting. Regardless of the color, the derby is tried and true in many ways. This noble, unaffected hat will see men through most social occasions.
But the derby is a guarantee, too, that people wearing them will enjoy democracy and peace. Look at history. The bowler and revolution cannot exist side by side. Revolutions always occur in non-derby countries. Look at Russia.
The derby is a leveler in our otherwise unequal social system. Under that proud, round, honest brim all men are equal. Under it Acheson and Vishinsky would see each other man to man. Under the "iron hat," men can meet, talk, and agree, recognizing each other on their merit stripped of social affectations.
Let's bring back the derby. When we have it let's guard it carefully as the greatest democratizer in history.
Doug Jennings.
14-1 A Great Gift digitn a(a-T
Dear Editor
Dear Editor:
The alumni, students, faculty, and friends of the University of Kansas have given a great carillon and campanile in commemoration of the Jayhawkers of World War II. This will not be only a memorial to the men and women of Kansas, it will be a gift to the students, faculty, and all those connected with the University in the future.
One of the greatest things about the carilion is that its music cannot be canned in an auditorium. There shall never be differences as to who shall have the best seats. The concerts will be free and open to everyone who can hear, regardless or race or social standing. It is the music of the people, and no man can look down his nose and say that he can appreciate it more than his neighbor.
Now that we are about to decide on our bell founder, let us accept this great gift with pride, for there are few schools which can boast a real carillon, and only eight instruments in this country will equal its size and possibilities. Each individual bell is a chord of music
in itself. Carillon music is not like that of n chime, and it is so different from any electronic or pneumatic substitute as to be virtually incomparable.
There are a lot of things about Kansas and it's great University that many people do not know. When I go home this summer, and Easterners say, "I thought Kansas was nothing but a great prairie." I shall say, "No! The campus at the University of Kansas is an equal in beauty to many of the largest schools in the East. The University of Kansas has one of the best natural history museums in that part of the country. It has the largest reflector telescope within a radius of 500 miles. It has a fine band, a great ball team, and will someday boast one of the world's largest carillons. Kansas is even more than the wheat farmer's state and the breadbasket of the nation."
Let's be proud of our school and this great gift which some day will ring out the spirit of Kansas and our Rock Chalk Alma Mater from the crest of Mt. Oread over the valley of the Kaw and Wakarusa.
George H. Tappan, College junior
AIEE Elects New Officers
Certain types of beetles were mummified in ancient times because they were thought to be sacred, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Donald E. Huffman, engineering junior, will be chairman of the University chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for the next school year.
Other officers elected are Emmett G. Green, vice-chairman; Bruce R. Chadwick, secretary; and Donald D. McMurray, treasurer. All are engineering juniors.
Class representatives elected for the chapter are David J. Stewart, engineering senior, senior representative; and Norman L. Bell, engineering sophomore, junior representative.
E. B. Phillips, professor of electrical engineering, was elected counselor for the chapter.
The need for measuring the changes in living organisms was described by Joseph A. Hull, engineering senior, in a paper entitled "Application of Electronic Measurement Technique as Applied to Physiological Problems." The electrocardiograph, used to diagnose heart disease, is an example of such application.
Billy H. Hamilton, engineering senior, outlined the use of amplifiers in the measurement process in his paper "Magnetic Amplifiers." Amplifiers are used to increase the electric potential given off by the organism. The potential operates the recording device.
Music Sorority Initiates 15
Xi chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon honorary music sorority, recently initiated 15 women.
They are Marybeth Ree, education senior; Gwendolynne Jones, fine arts senior; Paula Reade, education junior; Joan Sanders, education junior; and Verla Steffey fine arts sophomore.
Fine arts freshmen initiated were Betty E. Brown, Patricia Frazer, Phyllis Glass, Patricia Glotzbach, Marilyn Lind, Althea Ween, Mary Swanson, Lila Tessendorf, Doris Wertz, and Delores Wunsch.
Following the initiation ceremonies, Miss Katherine Mulky, music theory instructor and a member of Xi chapter, spoke to the group Jacqueline Stoops and Twila Wagner presented two novelty numbers. A short skit was given by the initiates.
Notes For K-Book. Must Be Registered by Fridlay
organizations which want dates
put in the 1945-50 K-Book must
mark them on the calendar in the
office, 29 Frank
Strong, by Friday.
There are four closed dates: Oct. 29, junior class dance; Jan. 7, sophomore class dance; Feb. 25, freshman class dance; and April 1, senior class dance.
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Vacuum Cleaner Harvests Oysters
Altron, Ohio —U.(P).— A new method of harvesting oysters with a giant "vacuum cleaner" rig that sweeps clean the bottom of the sea has been developed by a New Haven oyster grower in co-operation with B.F. Goodrich engineers.
92-Year-Old Carpenter Gets Travel Itch
The suction equipment not only loads about 1,000 bushels of oysters an hour, but catches at the same time thousands of destructive oyster drills, a boring snail which is one of the principal enemies of the shellfish.
Pittsburgh—(U.P.)—William (Dad) McClintock has the old itch again, and besides he needs a vacation. So the 92-year-old carpenter plans to pack up and drive to California and back.
This will be his fourth automobile trip to the west coast in the past 29-odd years. His last transcontinental sojourn was made in 1938 when he was 81.
McClintogk gets such a kick out of carpentry that he has no plans to retire. He has six children, 20 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
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