University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWSAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Liquor Bill Only Needs Carlson's Name
Topcka. March 3—(U.P.)-Kansans may be able to drink liquor legally in their homes and private clubs Saturday night for the first time in 68 years.
A bill legalizing the sale, possession and consumption of liquor needed only to be signed by Gov. Frank Carlson and to be published in the official state paper.
It was passed by both the senate and house of representatives late Wednesday after almost two months of legislative wrangling.
Carlson's administration was behind the bill all the way and he was expected to sign it into law tomorrow. Publication of the new statute, a mere routine, probably will take place Saturday or Monday.
Administration spokesmen believe it will take until May or June to set up the necessary licensing and taxing machinery to permit package sales of liquor as legalized under the new law.
The legislature found an administration-authored liquor-control bill waiting when it convened in January. The senate okayed it but the house tacked on several amendments that the upper group rejected. As a result, the bill went into a joint conference committee which reported yesterday.
With those hurdles cleared, Kansans immediately will be able to purchase up to one case of liquor outside the state and bring it home.
The house passed the revamped bill 75 to 48, and the senate approved it 28 to 12.
Seniors May Order 'Pix'
Seniors may now order their pictures for the graduation issue of the Jayhawker magazine. The deadline for senior picture orders will be Saturday, April 9.
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Pictures will be taken by the Graham studio, 211 West Eighth street, but must be paid for at the Jayhawker office in the Union before the studio will take them. The cost of each picture will be $3.25. Students who have a 3 by 4 inch glossy print, may present them at the Jayhawker office and pay only $2.25
Dean Miller, business manager of the Jayhawker, warned students who want copies of the graduation issue to order them immediately. No orders will be taken after April 9.
"When ordering pictures the senior should list all the groups he belongs to and the activities in which he has worked. He should make sure that his name and address are correct," Miller added.
Readers Control Press, Telfel Says
The real work of the American press is to give information, Emil L. Telelfel, assistant professor of journalism, told students and members of the Coffee and Forums committee Wednesday.
Many newspapers do not serve the purpose intended for the press because most readers will accept serious news only in terms of conflict. Mr. Telfel said.
"The only way to have a great press is to have intelligent readers," he said.
Dr. F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, will be the next speaker at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in the Pine room of the Union.
Even Mule May Have 'T'-Zone
Two of man's quirks of personality may possibly be explained scientifically. In lecturing to a class in elementary biology, Lawrence C. Woodruff, dean of men, stated that the cells of the tobacco plant, the mule, and humans all contain 48 chromosomes.
"That may account for the mullish tendencies of certain humans and for some persons' affinity for tobacco." He added, however, that conclusive proof had not yet been presented.
Clinic Expands Reading Course
Two sections of the remedial reading courses will be offered to University students beginning Monday, March 14, Dr. H. P. Smith, director of the reading and study laboratory of the educational clinic, announced.
"Students interested in taking the remedial reading courses should come in about a week early for diagnosis," Dr. Smith said. The laboratory is located in 18 Fraser hall.
The six-weeks courses have three definite aims: they are designed to increase the student's comprehension, speed, and study skills,
"Few students read near their potential capacity." Dr. Smith explained, "The biggest problem we encounter is comprehension. After that we try to improve their reading speed."
"These course have no credits and no prerequisites. Although they are listed as six-weeks courses, any student may take the course again if he feels it will improve his learning powers," Dr. Smith said.
Assistant instructors of the clinic are Mrs. Ida French, Donald Miller, Merle Covell, and Walter Smith, all graduate students.
West To Direct Creative Writing Summer Course
The second annual Kansas Writers conference, an intensive two-weeks creative writing workshop, will be held at KU. Wednesday, June 8, to Tuesday, June 21.
Ray B. West, associate professor of English, will again be the conference director. Miss Frances Grinstead, assistant professor of journalism and novelist, will assist him.
"The conference leaders, who will be announced later, are novelists, short story writers, poets, editors, or publishers." Professor West said.
Some of the leaders who participated in the first conference conducted in 1948 were:
Katherine Anne Porter, novelist and short story writer; John Frederick Nimms, editor of Poetry magazine; Allen Tate, poet; Caroline Gorden, novelist and short story writer; Erskine Caldwell, novelist; and Louise Bonino, childrens' editor for Random House.
Each conference member will have the privilege of submitting a manuscript which will be referred to one of the leaders for evaluation and criticism. Personal conferences will be arranged between the leaders and members. One hour of undergraduate or graduate credit may be earned for the course.
More than 90 persons from 15 states registered for the workshop last year and another hundred participated on a part-time basis. Groups from nearby cities also came for one or more of the evening lectures given by conference leaders.
Little Man On Campus
WEATHER
Kansas: Partly cloudy and warmer today, high near 50. Low tonight near 32. Fair and warmer tomorrow. High in the middle 50's.
By Bibler
"What seems to be your trouble here at the University, Miss Flambeau? Your sorority tells me you are the only senior who hasn't been pinned or engaged yet."
Student Loses
$100 For An Hour
Mrs. Keith E. Leslie, employee of the Union bookstore, was thankful for a stranger's honesty today when a 15-year-old girl returned a wallet containing more than $100 that Mrs. Leslie had lost a short time before.
Mrs. Leslie had cashed her pay check, and bought a few supplies in a grocery store near her home at 2112 Vermont street. She thought that she had returned the wallet to her purse and left the store. She had walked only a few feet from the entrance of the store when she discovered the wallet was missing.
She and her husband, Keith,
journalism junior, searched frantically for almost an hour before they found that Mildred Ice, Route 4, Lawrence, had returned the wallet to the grocery store manager.
State Officers Inspect Campus
Members of the house and senate ways and means committees of the state legislature, their wives and other guests, will attend the basketball game between the University of Oklahoma and the University tonight.
It is their biennial visitation to the University.
Among the group will be Gov and Mrs. Frank Carlson; their daughter, Mrs. Eunice Carlson Rolfs; and Lieut. Gov. Frank L. Hagaman. Other guests will include: Dr. L. B. Spake, a member of the board of regents; George Nettels, national K.U. alumni president; Harry W. Fisher, chairman of the national alumni committee; and Hubert Brighton, executive secretary of the board of regents.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will welcome the committee at 4 p.m. today in the lecture room of Bailey chemical laboratories.
Following this meeting the group will make a bus tour of the campus to view the housing projects and other points of interest. At 5:30 p.m. the group will be guests at a dinner in the Kansas room of the Union.
During halftime at the basketball game, the group will see a skit portraying the settlement of Oklahoma given by the Jay Janes, Ku Ku's, and the athletic department. The program will also include a number by the Sigma Chi quartet. Members of the quartet are: Robert Cooper, College sophomore; Todd Seymour, College junior; William Degen, College senior; and Roland Kamprath, College sophomore.
Union Activities To Hunt For Talent
A talent hunt sponsored by Union Activities will begin Saturday, Jeanne Peterson, chairman of the entertainment committee, said today. Auditions will be held for all types of talent, from singing to juggling. "Each student with any kind of stunt or short program routine should try out," Miss Peterson said. The tryouts are being held so that the Union Activities entertainment committee will have a file of all available talent.
"With a file, we will be able to select appropriate entertainers for each social function, and for such occasions as the intermission acts in the Palm room." Miss Peterson added.
All students with passing grades are eligible to try out. Those interested should contact Miss Peterson at the Union Activities office in the Union.
John M. Brown Speaks Tuesday At Convocation
John Mason Brown, author and associate editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, will speak to an all-student convocation in Hoch auditorium at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, March 9th.
"Audience reaction indicated that he was the best received convocation speaker that has ever spoken at the University." said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
Mr. Brown's topic, "Seeing Things," is the title of both his weekly column in the Saturday Review of Literature and a book he wrote in 1946. He addressed a special convocation at K.U. in March, 1948.
The seventh annual Inter-Fraternity council central regional conference will begin a two-day meeting at the University tomorrow.
The noted lecturer was graduated from Harvard, cum laude, in 1923. He was a dramatic critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. Mr. Brown served in the navy during World War II and was awarded the Bronze star for services during the Normandy invasion.
Mr. Brown has traveled in the United States and Europe and has taught at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the University of Montana. He has written 12 books about the theater, dramatic reviewing, and the Broadway stage.
Mr. Brown conducted "Of Men and Books" a network radio show. He and Christopher Morley appeared regularly as the American representatives on the British Broadcasting company's "Transatlantic Quiz." He has also appeared on "Information Please," and "Invitation to Learning."
Frats Plan Full Days
Delegates to the conference will register at 9 a.m. in Fraser theater. A general assembly at 10 a.m., in the theater, will open with an invocation by D. Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. secretary. Robert B. Krueger, College senior and president of the K.U. Inter-Fraternity council, Chancellor Deane W. Malott, and Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, will give welcome addresses.
Emmett J. Junge, of Lincoln, president of the grand council of Phi Delta Theta, will speak at a banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Palm room of the Union. His subject is "Good Citizenship in Our Fraternities."
A general assembly will be held in the Kansas room Saturday. Col. Ralph W. Wilson, of Lexington, Ky., Sigma Chi and National Inter-Fraternity Conference Scholarship chairman, will discuss "Fraternity Scholarship Facts and Figures."
The conference adjourns at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Senate Approves Teacher-Aid Bill
Topcka, March 3—(U.P.)—A teacher-retirement proposal was passed, and a pay hike for state district judges was approved in the senate Wednesday.
The committee of the whole approved a bill that would raise the judges' pay from $5,000 to $8,000 a year. The bill has already been approved by the house.
into the house hopper, today, went a bill that would establish minimum retirement pensions of $40 a month for teachers with 30 years service, and who are 65 years old. It passed the senate without opposition.