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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23.1949
As The Kansan Sees It
"Was it rough? I just wish he'd give a test over some of the corny iokes he tells."
We Should Live So Long
Do you feel like a bowling pin or a sitting duck every time you cross a street on the campus? Wonder who is to blame.
It is true that student pedestrains pay almost no attention to the signals of the traffic officer at the intersection of Mississippi and Jayhawk drive. You can't blame the officer for getting that "what's the use" feeling.
But, on the other hand, the one-track mind of the officer directing traffic is often enough to try the patience of the most law abiding pedestrian. All the officer seems to worry about is seeing that the automobiles don't have to wait for anything. The poor student who has to seury across the campus in 10
minutes to a class, should have some consideration.
The walking lanes which were painted on the street in several key crossing spots seemed to have some psychological effect in slowing traffic. A fellow did not have to wish he had paid up his life insurance every time he crossed the street. Here's hoping these lanes will be given a new coat of paint this spring.
The solution to the problem is even simpler, however, yet it will never be achieved. If we would just consider the rights of the other fellow, whether we are behind the wheel of a 1949 convertible or hobbling along on last year's wedgies, we will live longer and be happier doing it.
- Letters To The Editor -
Legislators Want To Hear From Us
Dear Editor
Dear Editor:
A building program which is greatly needed by the University of Kansas is now being considered by the legislature of this state. Those of us who attended the recent hearing of the senate ways and means committee concerning the proposed K.U. field house are convinced our legislators are anxious to hear how the students feel about these building proposals.
We urge every person who is interested in the future of this University to do something about getting an expression of that interest before members of the legislature and in the newspapers, if possible. This is something about which many of us have been talking. Now let's do something about it.
Dorothy Scroggy
Patrick Thiessen
Louise Lambert
Claude Houchin
Editor's note: We had something like this in mind on March 7 when we put out a special 12-page "buildings edition" of the University Daily Kansan. Copies of this edition were sent to members of
We intend to continue in the future to do everything possible to push this program and any other in the interest of the University.
the legislature for their information.
University
Daily Kansan
Chalk Talk
On St. Patrick's day an engineering student called his friend for not wearing something green.
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The friend replied, "Have you ever heard of G.L. shorts?"
One fraternity requires its pledges know when, where, and by whom, certain other fraternities were founded. One pledge had particular difficulty with the founders.
Editor-In-Chief ... Anne Murphy
Managing Editor ... Bill P. Mayer
Managing Editor ... Marcia Walters
Asst. Man. Editor ... Richard D. Barton
City Editor ... Nora Temple
Asst. Manager Editor ... Marvin Rowlins
Sports Editor ... Marvin Rowlins
Asst. Sports Editor ... Darell Norris
Asst. Sports Editor ... Nori Norris
Tel. Editor ... Larry Funk
Tel. Editor ... Russell Oleson
Asst. Tel. Editor ... Russell Oleson
Society Editor ... Namii Rededd
Asst. Soc. Ed. ... Virginia Frost
On his examination paper, he gave the Wright brothers credit for founding a fraternity. Guess he figured they may have been the first, but they were not the last to be up in the air.
When the housemothers visited the museum of art recently, they did not learn much about art but they surely caught up on their visiting with other housemothers.
New Welder Stops Video Interference
The fears of the prohibitionists apparently are unfounded. We haven't heard of one serenade featuring "Sweet Adeline."
Business Manager    Don Welch
Manager        Charles B. McKinney
Nat'l Adv. Mgr     Bob Boltoh
Circulation Mgr.   Dean Knuth
Illinois      William H. Irwin
Promotion Mgr.  Ira Gissen
Chicago — (U.P.) The Federal Communications commission has approved the first high frequency welder that doesn't interfere with radio and televisions stations.
Radio stations in some industrial areas were getting interference from nearby factories which used a war-developed arc welder. The trouble first was felt in Los Angeles.
The FCC set April 30 as a deadline for manufacturing the offending arc welding equipment unless some way was found to end the interference.
The National Cylinder Gas Co. here developed a welder with a new tube-type oscillator and modified torch which stays on an assigned frequency and was approved by the FCC.
Fraternity Finds Women Contrary In Election
Pullman, Wash. —(U.P.)—A Washington State college fraternity has established definite proof that women are contrary.
George Goldsberry was backed by his Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers in the annual contest to elect a snow king.
But in their campaign, the college boys told the co-eds not to vote for Goldsberry.
"Vote against Goldsberry! Vote for anyone else! All the sororites are solidly against Goldsberry," the campaign slogans pleaded.
L. R. Lind, associate professor of Latin, spoke in Manhattan to German teachers of the Kansas Modern Language association March 19. His subject was, "My Life and Languages". He was invited to speak by Dr. Fritz Moore, head of the department of languages at Kansas State.
Lind Visits K-State
Macon, Ga. — (U,P)— Abe Crosby, Jr., amateur fisherman, expects to make $5,000 this year selling worms to fellow anglers. Sixteen-year-old Crosby, known locally as the boy earthworm king, hopes to sell 1,000,000 of his red wrigglers during 1949.
Sells Worms For $5,000
Throw Away The 'Elevators,' Geoffrey, We Found A Gal Who's Short Enough
Hollywood—(U.P.)—A girl is assured of steady employment in Hollywood if she's shorter than the male stars.
Ray's Standard Service Station 9th and Indiana
More dashing heroes than you'd think wear elevator heels. Some of them do their love scenes standing on chairs. A girl like Veronica Lake who looks smaller than they do is always in demand.
Miss Lake weighs less than 100 pounds and stands 5 feet 2. It's hard for Mickey to run for everybody, but it's short enough for everybody else in town.
"Tall girls are more interesting to look at," opined Miss Lake. "But they sure have trouble getting jobs. They're leading man to match their stature."
Put a leading man next to Miss Lake, and he begins to look and feel like Paul Bunvan.
"Men can say what they want, but they don't like to be dwarfed by their girl friends," Miss Lake said. "Just masculine vanity. I don't think they mind if their girl is bigger than they are mentally."
There's a big business, she pointed out, in elevator shoes so he can be taller than she is. Nobody advertises night school classes so he can be smarter than she is.
Miss Lake's petiteness is strikingly 'apparent in" Slattery's Hurricane" in which 20th Century-Fox has teamed her with Richard Widmark, 6 feet, and John Russell, 6 feet 4 inches.
"Tall girls get a lot of attention from men—they're mighty imposing looking," Miss Lake said. "They get a lot of admiration, but I don't envy them.
In spite of her fragile appearance, Miss Lake has little difficulty in whitting both Mr. Widmark and Mr. Russell down to her size.
"Who wants to be admired—from afar?"
Experience Didn't Teach Her
St. Louis —(U.P.)— Mrs. Blanche Malvicine, 63, returned home from the hospital to recuperate from burns received when her bed caught fire while she was smoking. Several days later firemen were called again to extinguish a fire in her bed and Mrs. Malvicine went back to the hospital.
Sprinkling DDT on snow and ice in Arctic areas is a new method of killing mosquitoes in the spring.
University High Has 40 At Festival
Forty students from the University High school, Gerald M. Carney, assistant professor of music education, and Kenneth B. Tebow, assistant instructor of music education, attended the annual Tri-county music festival at Tonganoxide, March 19.
Betty Cobb, violin and piano; Margaret Lapimer, soprano and Janetine Cox, piano and violin, were soloists for the University High school group.
school group
The University High school band mit
and chorus played under the direct
tim of Mr. Tehow
Other schools taking part in the festival were Tonganoxie, Jarbalo, Lansing, Easton, and Basehor.
E. Thayer Gaston, professor of music education, directed the program.
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Engineering Banquet
Union Bldg.- March 31 - 6:30 p.m. Honoring Graduating Seniors
$1.50 per person
Ticket Sale in Marvin Hall
All engineering students urged to attend