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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1949
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
"First, let me warn you anything you say may be held against you."
Throw Away Your Diploma, Son You'll Have To Learn To Spell Again
English has long been noted for the illogical way words are spelled. It was not until last week that anyone got around to proposing a law to correct it.
Dr. Mont Follick was the man's name and he is a 61-year-old Socialist member of the House of Commons. His bill is called "a rational system of spelling," or, in his words, "ei rashunal sistem ov speling."
Dr. Follick has spent nearly all his life trying to perfect a way to spell words the way they are pronounced. (He took time out to invent a rotating toothbrush.)
The chief opposition came on the question of whose phonetics should be used. Leader of the opposition forces, Sir Alan Herbert, pointed out the various ways "water" is pronounced.
Bitter debate split the house. There were numerous references to American pronunciation. One member grudgingly admitted that "Americans use a form of English."
"I pronounce it worter," he said.
"Some cockneys leave out the "t"
and call it wa'er. Americans call it watter."
A problem was raised for a short time as the members tried to determine how the Scotch pronounced it.
A Socialist came through with the answer: "We call it whiskey."
The bill was defeated by 87 to 84. But Dr. Follick gave hope to those who remember grade school spelling.
He announced he would insist on the appointment of a royal commission to delve into the matter. Then he posed for pictures with a card bearing the sentence, "The best uei tw un iz not tw giv in."
Douglas Jennings
You Have To Be Dead
Jacksonville, Fla. — (U.P.) If you can read this, you can't be a "mummy" in a sideshow here. A new city statute bans peep-shows of persons buried alive and except in bona fide theaters you can't be exhibited as being dead, or just lying in a casket, unless you really are dead.
Champion Heads Planning Group
William Champion, education sophomore, has been appointed chairman of the planning committee for the new industrial management award to be given by the Society for Advancement of Management.
The award, which is to encourage the advancement of industrial management, will be made at the S.A.M. banquet Wednesday, May 18. The actual type of award has not yet been determined.
Other members of the planning committee are: Charles Fry, business senior; Wayne Smith, business junior; Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension; Frank Pinet, director of the Business Placement bureau; and T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering.
Plans have been made to send letters to Chambers of Commerce over the state of Kansas asking for nominations for the award.
Men in the field of management and men contributing to maintenance or management in the Kansas and the greater Kansas City area are eligible.
One student has an agreement with his father whereby he receives each月 one dollar for every grade point he made in the previous semester.
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A fellow student, knowing that the young man always had plenty of spending money, asked, "How's the agreement with your father working?"
"I had so few grade points last semester I had to get a job to pay dad," was the reply.
When a waiter approached a student in a booth of a local coffee shop, the student who had already been served, said, "I've had it, thank you."
Overheard when two students entered the Union fountain for a coke date:
"Where do you want to sit?" the young man asked.
Editor-In-Chief ... Anne Murphy
Managing Editor ... Bill F. Mayer
Asst. Man. Editor ... Marcia Martinez
Asst. Man. Editor ... Richard D. Barton
City Editor ... Nora Temple
Asst. City Editor ... Goraleh Redeferloff
Asst. City Editor ... James Morris
Sports Editor ... Marvin Rowlands
Asst. Sports Editor ... Dan Curran
Asst. Sports Editor ... Bud Wright
Fel. Editor ... Larry Funk
Ast. Tel. Editor ... Russell Oleson
Asst. Tel. Editor ... Noami Rededoch
Society Editor ... Naomi Rededoch
Asst. Soc. Ed. ... Virginia Frost
"Shall we try a booth," his date answered.
When a student discovered mid- semester exams would precede the Easter vacation, he said:
Business Manager    Don Welch
Manager        Charles W. Chesson
Nat'l Adv. Mgr     Bob Bolitho
Circulation Mgr     Dean Knuth
William A. Williams
Promotion Mgr.    Ira Gissen
Won't it seem funny coming back from vacation without a guilty conscience."
The new underground water sprinkling system will probably accomplish what signs have never been able to do: keep the students off the grass. Either that or students will begin wearing swim suits in order to study on the lawn this spring.
In describing the scrapbook purchased by the Associated Women Students, one member said.
"It's so big the only way we'll be able to read it is to climb on and walk up and down the columns."
Australia's population is 7,710,229 the commonwealth statistician announced.
ASHVE Chapter Receives Charter
An engineering education should enable one to make money, Dr. Carl Boester, director of housing research at Purdue university, said Wednesday.
Dr. Boester was the guest speaker at a charter meeting and banquet of the University student chapter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
"Have an inquiring mind and don't be a "hand-book engineer." Dr. Boester said. "Much of a textbook is obsolete even before the ink is dry on its pages," he added.
D. M. Allen, member of the national council of the ASHVE, presented the charter. Thirty members of the Kansas City chapter took part in the ceremonies. The University chapter is sponsored by the Kansas City chapter.
Vance Elder, engineering senior is president; James L. Williams, graduate student, vice-president; and Lewis Noll, engineering senior secretary.
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LAST-DAY Robert Mitchum "OUT OF PAST"
—and
Edward Arnold "SUTTERS GOLD"
JAYHAWKER
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Hollywood's out on A Limb!
A Merry Foursome
In A Gay Romantic
Mix-up!
Photoplay's "Gold Medal Awards" and Air-Mail News
OWL SHOW SAT. NITE 11:30 5 DAYS STARTS SUNDAY Humphrey BOGART "KNOCK ON ANY DOOR"
Sociology Club To Hear Miss Cochran Today
Miss Louise Cochran, instruc-
tion in sociology, will speak to the Socia-
logy club on "The New Approach
To Racial Feelings", at 4 p.m. today in 206 Frank Strong hall.
This will be the second discussion on this subject. Hilden Gibson, associate professor of political science, spoke on' his experiences with racial problems at the last meeting of the club.
Donald Changes To Daisy
Sayre, Pa.—(U.P.)-Young Shirley Jean Keene has become prouder of her 8-month-old pet duck, Donald, but found it expedient to change the name to Daisy. Donald began laying eggs.
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