UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1948
PAGE EIGHT
'Dry' Kansas Towns To Vote On Retailing
Topeca, March 28—(U.P.)—Citizens in 22 of the 30 Kansas towns that voted "dry" in November will go to the polls April 5 to decide whether retail liquor stores will be permitted in their communities under the new wet law.
Sterling will hold an election on the issue May 10 and three other towns, Osage City, Marion and Harper, will beat the May 15 deadline with special elections before that date.
The four remaining cities, Columbus, Cherryvale, Minneapolis, and Nickerson, will not vote before the deadline and will not have another chance to decide on the liquor question until 1951.
The towns voting April 5 are Garnett, Ft. Scott, Hiawatha, Horton, Baxter Springs, Clay Center, Winfield, Ottawa, Anthony, Newton, Bolton, Ingman, McPherson, Lindsborg, Caney, Sabeth, Norton, Osborne, Phillipsburg, Bellville, Caldwell and Yates Center.
Under the new law, cities of first or second class which voted dry in the last election may, by petition or resolution, submit the matter in a municipal election. The same procedure is provided for third class cities their wet or dry district is determined by the vote of the entire township.
Sixty other first and second class towns which voted wet are legally qualified to issue licenses to liquor stores under regulations which must be set up by July 1.
Student Tours Plans Told
Student tours of Europe and Latin America this summer will emphasize studies in art, culture, politics, architecture, and history, Donald Reeves, College sophomore and chairman of the Travel bureau, announced today.
"We have information regarding work tours, educational travel, scholarship tours, and co-operative tours." Reeves said. The tours range in cost from $300 to $700.
The University of Utrecht, at Utrecht, Netherlands, will from Friday, July 15 to Aug. 4, conduct a special instruction session entitled, "The Future of Western Civilization: Theory and Practice."
The University of Puerto Rico, at San Juan, will hold a summer session for American students. Credits from this school are transferable.
Three scholarships for travel in Mexico will be awarded to students who could otherwise not afford to travel. These scholarships are granted on a competitive basis and are open only to persons who have done no traveling.
For further information regarding summer travel, consult the Student Travel bureau in the Union activities office. The bureau will be open each day Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Panic, Screams, Disrupt Class
The biology class was settling down to order as Dean L. C. Woodruff, associate professor of biology, ascended the platform in Frank Strong auditorium, preparatory to beginning his lecture. Suddenly from the back of the room came a loud shriek.
All heads turned toward the direction of the outtry, which was taken up by several other students in that section.
Confusion reigned for 5 minutes—at times reaching a degree of pandemonium. Girls screamed, and skirts, and stood up on the seats.
Finally a student emerged with the cause of the uproar and carried it off. It was a small, harmless and badly frightened snake. Maybe the poor thing thought the class was going to bisect it.
University Daily Kansan staff members for the remainder of this semester include, from left to right: seated, James S. Morris, assistant managing editor; John Stauffer, managing editor; John Riley, editor-in-chief; and Marvin Rowlands, assistant managing editor; standing: William E. Beck, advertising manager, and Ruth Clayton, business manager.
Germany Has Holidays, Too, But Not Exactly Like Ours
By CARLA EDDY
(Special Correspondent for the University Daily Kansan)
Berlin—This is Berlin—where nobody has a Valentine. Nobody but the Americans and British, who know what it means. The holidays and festivals are scrambled around in this country. Some of our favorites are left out completely, and a few are added.
The year comes in literally with a bang. New Year's Eve is the holiday
when the German people use fireworks. "Pouring lead" is another custom at that time. As close to midnight as jossible, you melt little lead shapes over a fire, and throw the molten lead into cold water. In the resulting forms, you can read your future. The shapes have to be kent all year.
The pre-Lenten season is a traditional festival time, especially in Cologne, but also throughout the country. It is a time for parades, floats, and costume balls. The Arts ball is one of the biggest celebrations in Berlin. For five successive evenings before Ash-Wednesday, the Arts college opens its whole building for dancing from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m. There are bands all over the place, and balconies on every floor look down upon the colorful throne in the central court.
April Fool's day is the same idea here as at home. Easter is still Easter, with four days of vacation for business people. May day used to correspond to our Labor day, except that it was more restless, with the left wing inciting the workers to demonstrate. The Nazis turned it into a general celebration. And just now its significance depends upon whether you are in the East or West side of the fence.
Ascension day—40 days after Easter—is a legal holiday all over Germany. Strangely enough, in Berlin is used to be a great night for wild stag parties. Women preferred to stay off the streets that evening. Whitsuntide is a weekend for jaunts into the country, and in Southern Germany people tell me, they wear white for the first time in the season.
A harvest day something like Thanksgiving is on the calendars for the first Sunday in October. But it is not nearly so elaborately celebrated as in the turkey-and-football country. The third Sunday in November is the equivalent of our Memorial day—the Sunday of the dead, it's called.
On Dec. 5 Saint Nikolaus comes to the homes of little children and leaves a present in their shoes. This has nothing to do with Christmas, however. On Christmas Eve after the candles on the fire tree are lighted
Last year I told a class of 12-year-old school children about Valentine's day. This year on Feb. 14 I sent them a heart-shaped box, with a piece of chocolate inside for each one. They remembered the day, all right. No sooner had they partaken
-Germans spurn electric lights on trees—the children wait with bated breath for a sound at the door. Santa Claus comes with a big sack. The good children receive toys, and the bad ones—are there any?—are put into the sack and carried off. The next two days are both called Christmas, with everyone paying calls and enjoying the holiday.
Study Oleo Bill Today
Topcka, March 28—(U,P)—A bill to ban yellow oleo in Kansas came under the scrutiny today of a state senate committee—with assistance from the public.
Chairman Elmer Euwer's senate federal and state affairs committee held a public hearing on the controversial measure.
The house of representatives the past week voted its approval of prohibiting sale or restaurant use of oleomargarine colored yellow in semblance of butter.
Supporters of the lower chamber bill castigated that practice and termed the colored spread a product of deceit.
Professor Pritchard cited figures from a Fortune magazine survey which predicted the number of unemployed would be between three and four million by the summer of 1949. He said, however, that these figures have been reached already
But later messages from housewives and other consumers began pouring into the governor's office in opposition to the bill.
So the senate committee opened its doors to the public to hear more about sentiment on the measure.
"It would be for the good of the country if large monopolies were to be broken up by law," he added. The size should be reduced to one which would be most advantageous for the maximum efficiency as found by economic studies.
One said, "I was very glad about the chocolate. If you had seen our happy faces, you would have had your fun. Your little Valentine, Ingrid."
than they sat down to draw pictures and write their thanks in painstaking English.
"The removal of monopolies might be one solution to this increasing problem." Professor Pritchard said.
It was upon this Fortune survey of university professors that Professor Pritchard based his opinion for the continued rise in unemployment.
Students Can Air Ideas On Union
George M. Beal, professor of architecture and member of the hear student suggestions regarding the building addition to the Union operating committee, will Union at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the English room of the Union.
Ogden S. Jones, chairman of the Union operating committee, said that this conference was proposed and accepted during the Student-Faculty conference held recently
New UDK Staff Begins Today
University Daily Kansan staff members who will issue the paper for the remainder of the semester were announced today by Ruth Clayton, business manager, and John Stauffer, managing editor.
Advertising manager, Bill Beck, senior; national advertising manager, Ira Gissen, senior; circulation manager, Charles Foster, junior; classified manager, Carol Buhler, junior; promotion manager, Bob Bolitho, junior.
Miss Clayton has chosen the following persons for the business staff:
News staff selected by John Stauffer, managing editor, includes:
"Students should advise their proctors which night they will take the examination," Mrs. Louise Cochran, assistant director of the course, said. "Rooms, in which the preliminary examinations will be given, will be posted on the bulletin board in the Western Civilization office, Frank Strong hall, annex C."
City editor, Gerald Fetterolf, senior; assistant city editors, James Scott, senior; Bob Roter, and Ruth Keller, juniors; sports editor, Darell Norris, senior; assistant sports editors, Oren Wright, College sophomore, and Douglas Jennings, junior; telegraph editor, Russell Oleson, junior; assistant telegraph editors, Kay Dyer, and Robert Newman, juniors; society editors, Mary Jane Horton, senior, and Norma Hunsinger, junior.
Two preliminary Western Civilization examinations will be given at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 20. The examination rooms have not been announced.
Western Civ Exams Set
"Students are not required to take the tests, but they will gain an idea of what the course demands. The tests will act as an aid so the students and proctors can see how well the reading has been understood." Mrs. Cochran explained.
Letter grades will not be given on the preliminary examination, but the student will be placed in one of several groups, depending on how he stands in relation to the rest of those taking the examination.
"Students sometimes think that the number of the group in which they are placed, can be regarded as a letter grade. This is not so. It is merely the student's relation to the rest taking the test." Mrs. Cochran warned.
Preston R. Clement, '48, is one of 15 winners of a research fellowship awarded by the General Electric company under the G.E. education fund, A. D. Marshall, secretary of the fund and assistant secretary of the company, announced recently.
Mr. Clement received a $1500 grant under the A. Coffin Fellowship and will study at Princeton university. Funds for the fellowship come from the income derived from the one million dollar
Alumnus Wins GE Fellowship
General Electric education fund.
DeGaulle Rallies French People, Emerges Strong
U. P. Foreign News Roundup
U. P. Foreign News Roundup Gen. Charles De Gaulle's rally of the French people emerged today as the strongest single party in France, but Premier Henri Queuille's middle-road government was assured of remaining in power.
Uniting behind one candidate in most districts, the government parties had captured 380 seats with only two of the 785 run-off races undecided. The De Gaullists had won 213 seats, the Communists only 20.
The five parties of the "third force" coalition scored a thumping victory in Sunday's run-off county council elections, defending both the De Gaullists of the right and the Communists of the left in a test of relative political strengths.
Sunday's elections were held to fill seats for which no candidate received a clear majority in elections the previous day. A simple plurality decided the results.
Other Foreign News:
Rome—Foreign Minister Count Carlo Forza was en route to the United States, armed with full parliamentary authorization to bring Italy into the Atlantic alliance. The Italian senate Sunday night approved participation in the treaty talks by a vote of 188 to 112. The chamber of deputies had approved the action, March 14.
Tehran-Iran announced that it had protested to the Soviet embassy against an "unprovoked" Soviet attack on an Iranian frontier post in which one Iranian was killed and two were taken prisoners.
Cairo—Princess Fawzia, beautiful sister of Egypt's King Farouk, was married to Maj. Ismail Sherine Bey, a wealthy government press officer, in a Moslem ceremony. Court circles said she did not take part in the wedding. By Moslem custom, a proxy appeared for the bride, who was divorced last November from the Shah of Iran.
London—High-ranking diplomats from 10 countries sat down to write a constitution for the Council of Europe as a first step toward a possible United States of Europe.
Nanking—The nationalist government's peace mission announced that it would fly to Peiping Thursday to begin talks with Communist leaders the next day on ending of the civil war. The delegations will be headed by Chang Ghih-Chung and No.2 Communist Gen. Chou En-Lai, both of whom participated in the ill-fated negotiations arranged by Gen. George C. Marshall in 1946.
The 'Swoose' Flies To Rest
Hamilton Field, Calif., March 28—(U.P.) The Swoose, a B-17 Flying Fortress that flew through the entire Pacific war, was on the way to its final resting place in Washington's Smithsonian Institute today.
Her door held shut with bailing wire, the Swoose creaked off the Hamilton Field runway Sunday with Gen. H. H. "Hap" Arnold, wartime chief of the army air force, saluting her.
The plane is the central character of William L. White's best seller, "Queens Die Proudly." Mr. White attended the University from 1918 to 1920 and is the son of the late William Allen White.
The Swoose was caught on the ground at Clark field, Manila, on Dec. 7, 1941. Although damaged by Japanese bombs, mechanics borrowed parts from other bits of wreckage and produced a new plane.
It was then that the mechanics dubbed it the Swoose—a half swan, half goose. Beneath a drawing of a swoose on the nose of the plane was a question: "It flies?"
For the past two and a half years, the Swowe has been sitting at an air field in Los Angeles. The city finally decided to present it to the Smithsonian.