图 PAGE FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949 Little Man On Campus By Bibler "How do you like the cafeteria since they started serving 'family style'?" History And Art Show That Cats Are Here To Stay New York—(U.P.)—The cat is here to stay. The reason was made obvious when the Cooper Union museum gave an exhibit titled "Nine Lives: The Tale of the Cat in History and Art." The exhibit traced the historical ups and downs of the cat with paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and the textile, metal and wood work of the great masters. The exhibit showed that the ancient Egyptians regarded cats as sacred and that the goddess Bast and even Isis sometimes were featured with a cat's head. Cats were often mummified and mummified mice were buried with them to provide food in the after life. Cats were so important that the death penalty was imposed on anyone who killed them. During the Renaissance, allegedly because of the German goddess Freya, the cat lost favor. Freya supposedly rode in a chariot drawn by cats. Those who worshipped Freya were persecuted and the cat became associated with witches and the devil. Came the Victorian era and the cats were in again. Coy, sweet sentimental cats appeared on Christmas and trade cards. Cat lovers included Cardina Richelieu, Pope Pius IX, Henry James, Thomas Carlyle, Theodore Roosevelt and Georges Clemenceau. The artists recorded it all very nicely. That is, until the 20th century. Then, they became vague. It appeared that they could take their cat or leave them alone. The most contemporary work was an abstract painting. It was a very abstract painting. If it had been there, I would have been removed from the exhibit. Naturally, the question— "How rates the cat of today?" — posed itself. The American Feline Society, Inc. tried to help out. "The cat is more popular than ever and its popularity gains every year," the society's president, Rob- Expert Watch REPAIR Electronically Timed Guaranteed Satisfaction 1 week or less service. WOLFSON'S 743 Mass. Baby Born With Teeth Malden. Mass.—(U.P.)—Mrs. Frances Doucette's baby son won't have to wait for his two front teeth. He had them when he was born at Malden Hospital. It sounded very impressive and quite conclusive. But somebody let the cats out of the bag, or, more likely, the cellar. They were a pair named Inky and Stinky. He turned purple at the sight. He quivered. Raising his broom like a javelin, he took aim, and fired. A custodian saw them purring and preening about the exhibit. Not everyone, you see, likes cats. 'Frog Men' Fish With Volley Ball Bait To Test Ocean And Forecast Storms La Jolla, Calif.—(U.P.)—Men in strange uniforms are walking into the ocean here almost every day, carrying fishing rods and volley balls. These men are scientists who are applying a war-time developed arctic swim suit to test the currents and waves of the ocean. Their work may But they are not fishing and they are not playing volley ball. result in the accurate forecasting of storms at sea and the cause of beach erosion, the latter one of the serious problems for all of America's shore line. The men—they are called "frog men" because of their unusual appearance—are scientists from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, part of the University of California. They are co-operating with the United States navy in a project to study ocean waves and currents and the drifting of sand. The uniform they wear was originally designed for members of U.S. armed forces demolition crews—men who went ashore to blow up enemy installations before a landing. The suits are designed to keep the men warm even in water below freezing temperature. The "frog men" stand for hours in the chilling waters. Sometimes they are in water up to their arm pits. Meanwhile, they are casting with rod and reel. Instead of using a plug or spinner, they use the volley ball. It contains enough water and mercury to make it sink just beneath the surface of the water. It weighs about 15 pounds on land, but it is zero weight in the water. They let the line out, as a fisherman does, and the ball is permitted to move with the ocean currents. Timing devices on shore make recordings of the currents, their velocity and direction. At other times, the "frog men" use sand traps to catch the sediments of the drifting sands. SENIORS! APPLICATION PHOTOS The La Jolla scientists want to determine the cause of beach erosion—why one beach may be destroyed by certain harbor installations and why another is formed. At the same time, they study the speed and direction of ocean currents and waves. Enough preliminary results have been obtained to make them believe they are close to a formula to predict ocean storms many hundreds of miles away and whether such storms will strike the mainland. The testing of beach erosion is part of the whole program to charter the bottom of the Pacific ocean. Scientists here believe that with new techniques it will soon be possible to chart better the deep submarine canyons in the Pacific, and also to obtain samples of the ocean floor that may tell science what existed there many millions of years ago. The work of studying the ocean currents and waves is not classified as secret by the navy, but the reasons for such study definitely is "top secret." NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY AWS Announces Senate Candidates Candidates for election to Associated Women students senate were announced today by Grace Gwinner, elections chairman. The election will be held Wednesday, March 23. They are: president, Grace Gwinner, education junior, and Helen Pillar, College junior; vice-president, Lorraine Raine, College sophomore, Bernice Brady, education junior, and Donna D. Munn, College junior; secretary, Jaceline Starrell, College freshman, and Beverly Jennings, College freshman; treasurer, Caroline Weigand, College sophomore, and Joanna Schrag, education freshman. Two All Student Council representatives will be elected. Those running are: Shirley Rice, College sophomore, Janice Horn, College freshman, Marie Schumacher, College sophomore, and Margaret Granger, College sophomore; Mary Lou Fischer, College sophomore, Mabel Conderman, College junior, Marilyn Lind, fine arts freshman, and Doris Kendall, College freshman. Psi Chi To Receive Gift Of Psychology Journals A series of psychology journals will be given to Psi Chi, psychology fraternity, by the American Psychological association, Kermit Phelps, assistant instructor of psychology, announced at a meeting Wednesday night. Anyone interested in psychological literature may read these journals, Mr. Phelps said. Urban Tells Of Projects Miss Frances Urban, national field director for the American Home Economics association, Washington, D.C., explained projects sponsored by her organization to members of the Home Economics club at a tea Wednesday. The American Home Economics association is helping foreign students come to the United States to study. To participate in this project, a college Home Economics club must raise $400, one-half of the transportation cost, and the rest of the transportation cost is paid from the association's permanent fund. Patronize Daily Kansan Advertisers. 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