TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Paris Forecasts Shorter Skirts Will Distinguish New-New Look
By UNITED PRESS
More excitement than usual is in the air concerning the February spring fashion openings.
Everybody is tired of the "new look." Skirts already are jacked up to 13 inches from the floor by most chic Parisians, and everybody's asking, "What will the new-new look be?"
The first few weeks in February will tell. Designers in spring showings in Paris characteristically launch daring ideas, sometimes several new trends, and following the world's reactions, they hew and whittle to consolidate the new fall line by August.
Designs are such closely guarded secrets, that it is impossible to check the rumors. However, here is some news which may help:
1. Skirts, from all counts, will be shorter than ever this season, ranging from just-below-the-knee in same instances to a slightly longer than mid-calf length for afternoons and evenings.
Word has spread that Christian Dior is planning a complete change, if not away from his pinched-in waists, then in skirt cuts and jacket lengths.
2. Colors will see a complete revolution. For the last ten years, women have concentrated on the blue side of the spectrum with purples, pinks, blue-greens, blue pinky and blacks, and reds, judging from their collections. Paris is whirling the spectrum around to the orange side.
You will see brilliant orange, chrome yellows, vermillion, rusty browns and warm terra cotta, apple green and pale sky blue with yellow the secondary color in it, instead of red. Pink and purple look as if they'll be forgotten this year.
3. Milliners will show lots of straw, especially a lovely supple Italian weave, in their spring showings. Hats are brimmed, often with many layers, crowns are small and head-hugging. Hats are lap-sided this year as never before.
Hat designers here prefer that you say "asymmetrical" instead of top-sided, because they maintain that even if the hat comes down on one side and leaves the other almost bare, the crown will sit snugly and straight on the back of the head.
Great scallop brims will whorl around the head, leaving the left half of the head bare, and swooping down over the right ear into a kind f "profile hat."
The "down in front" look in hats, characterized by the face-framing and cloche and flower pot types, will be continued, with wider looping brims and parts of the crown left bare on one side to show the hair.
Time Brings All Things
4. According to one expert, shoulders will remain unpadded and sloping, and, he says, look for back interest in the coming showings.
Biloxi, Miss.—(U.P.) — Highway 90 motorists watched incredulously when an airplane glided to a landing on the roadway, taxied to a service station to buy fuel and took off again.
Weddings And Engagements
Sigma Kappa Announces Double Pinning
Sigma Kappa announced recently the double pimming of Miss Joanne Alton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Albert, Kansas City, Mo., to Mr. Arthur Riordan, son of Mrs. A. M. Riordan, St. Marys, and Miss Dorothy Baldwin, daughter of Mr. Fred Baldwin, Leavenworth, to Mr. Clifford Delude, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Delude, Leavenworth
Both men are members of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity. Miss Alton and Miss Baldwin received orchid corsages. Chocolates were passed by Misses Mary Lou Brewer and Joyce Stehley who wore corsages of, Japanese iris. Mrs. Mary Youngman, Sigma Kappa housemother, and Mrs. Virginia Brammer, Sigma Phi Epsilon housemother, received gardenia corsages.
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Eastwood-Anderson Engagement
Miller hall announced recently the engagement of Miss Dorothy Eastwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Eastwood of Independence, Mo., to Mr. Robert Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Anderson of Marseilles, Ill.
Miss Eastwood is a journalism junior. Mr. Anderson is a sophomore at Graceland college, Lamoni Ill.
NROTC Has New Hawkwatch Society
"Hawkwatch society" is the name of the University's newest club. It was decided on by a steering committee for the proposed midshipmen's club, which is to promote social, recreational, and educational activities for N.R.O.T.C. students, Lt.D. R. Teener, has announced.
The steering committee drew up a constitution for the new organization and will submit it for approval at the first meeting of the club, to be held Thursday, March 10. Copies of the constitution will be mimeographed and distributed to the midshipmen soon so they can study it before ratifying it, Lieutenant Teenner said.
Get Another Hunk Of Hemp, Yuki, We Got A Lot More Guys To Hang
The committee also approved plans for a tutoring session to be held in the Military Science building. The sessions are for midshipmen who are having difficulty with any of their school work.
Tokyo—(U.P.)—There have been changes in the kinds of games Japanese children are playing these days.
The game is of recent origin, the idea coming from the hanging at Sugamo prison here of Hideki Tojo and six others.
The name of the game dates back to the last day that the international military tribunal for the Far East was in session. As the defendants stood in the dock, the tribunal president read the sentences. Some of the Japanese war criminals got prison terms and some were sentenced to "Ko-shu-kei"—"death by hanging."
Of course, they still go in for flying kites that look like fish, dragons and lots of Oriental things. But that's not the thing that really rings the bell with Nipponese youth now. Best of all, they like "Ko-shu-kei."
That's Japanese and it means "death by hanging."
Two dirty-nosed kids around eight years old were throwing a rice-straw rope over a cherry tree limb. A third boy about the same age was wandering guard over a child around five.
Tension was applied to the rope and suddenly the prisoner began to gurgle and gargle in the best Hollywood fashion. Then just as quickly, he took the noose from around his neck and laughed just to let everyone know he was all right. It was someone else's turn to be hanged.
"We're playing death by hanging," replied one of the "ropemen." And without further ado, he slipped a noose over the head of the boy under guard.
So far the only trouble has been a few rope burns—no fatalities. In fact, "playing war" and "shooting Americans" are as out of vogue as last year's license plates. You just aren't one of the boys if you haven't been hanged.
Socially Speaking
Lambda Chi Initiates
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity announced recently the initiation of the following men: Clark E. Akers, Atchison; Charles J. Bether, South Haven; Gerald L. Boyd, Western Springs; Ill.; Dale C. Corder, Denison; George B. Fraser, Hawi, T. H.; Emerson M. Harris, Yates Center; Robert E. Howerton, Hutchinson; John R. Jones, Great Bend; Bradley F. Keith, Hiwatha; Graydon D. Luthey, Topeka; James R. Owen, Green; and Parke H. Woodard, Jr., Lawrence.
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Miller-Battenfeld Exchange Dinner Miller hall and Battenfeld hall held an exchange dinner Feb. 16 followed by an hour dance at Miller hall.
Tri Chi Skating Party
Tri Chi fraternity held a skating party Feb. 18. Guests present were: Jeannine Masek, Dorothy Lear, Eleanor Brown, Faye Wilkinson, Julia Schnabel, Barbara Smith, Shirley Smith, Evelyn Devin, Wendale McAlaster, and Mr. and Mrs Bob Burwell. Chaperones were: Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, the Rev and Mrs. G. R. Norris, Joan McCamish, and Per-Hugo Sijgoen
Jewish Student Union Mixer
The Jewish Student Union held a mixer at the Community building Feb. 18. It was to acquaint new students with older members of J.SU.
Delta Tau Delta Tea Dance
Delta Tau Delta entertained the pledge class of Delta Delta Delta with a tea dance Feb. 19.
Physical Therapy Elects Larson
Brebcca Larson, College senior, was recently elected president of the Physical Therapy club. She succeeds Bob Langbehn who has withdrawn from school.
Other new officers are Anne Hunter, College junior, vice-president; Mary Heick, College junior, secretary; Virginia Ray, College junior, treasurer; Janeva Porter, special student, social chairman; and Dorothy Hamilton, College junior, program chairman.
The club will meet again at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in the physical therapy clinic in Watkins hospital. Miss Anita Matthews of the Kansas Crippled Children's commission, will speak about the work the commission is doing with occupational therapy.
Five Are Pledged To Phi Chi Theta
They were Pat Williams and Estelle Wilson, business juniors; Helen Brink, education senior; and Patricia Mohores and Jo Elder; College sophomores.
Five women were pledged to Phi Chi Theta, business women's professional fraternity, recently.
After pledging service, plans were discussed for a spring formal and ar- rangements were made for a father's day dinner to be held March 10.
Lorraine Rumsey, business senior; and Mabel Conderman and Joann Webster, College juniors will be pledged at the next meeting.
Road Cuts Down Alums
St. Louis, Mo.-(U.P.)-Students at Washington university have long complained about the dangers of crossing nearby Millbrook road. One summed it up in a letter to the university student publication. "Crossing this boulevard," the letter said, "represents an obstacle to any student desiring to become an alumnus of Washington U."
Robinson Has Appendectomy
Jack L. Robinson, College sophomore, underwent an emergency appendedency at Watkins Memorial hospital Sunday night.
Since statehood all governors of Oklahoma have been Democrats.
Gold And Cobalt Potential Life Savers In Curing Leukemia And Tissue Ills
Oak Ridge, Tenn.—(U.P.)—Gold and cobalt, one a precious metal, the other plentiful, hold equal interest of scientists trying to use atomic fission to save human lives.
Gold, when it has been made radioactive by exposure to the uranium chain reaction pile here, may again prove to be the world's most sought after metal.
Cobalt wire, made radioactive by the same process, may give every country doctor a weapon for the fight on cancer.
Neither malady has a known cure at present. Leukemia is cancer of the blood stream. Hodgkin's disease produces an enlargement of the lymphoid tissue, spleen, liver, and sometimes kidneys.
Dr. Paul F. Hahn, director of the cancer research laboratories at Meharry Medical college in Nashville, near here, has been experimenting with radio active drug in treating leukemia and hodgkin's disease.
Radioactive gold is placed beneath the skin in order that the rays it throws off may penetrate the diseased parts.
"The amount of radiation to which tissues may be subjected is far greater than can be administered by deep therapy x-ray without undue slouching or breakdown of the tissue," Dr. Hahn said.
Is this a college course of an experimental station?
Thus cry students in Psychology I when they learn that they are required to serve as subjects for courses conducted by graduate students during the semester.
Guinea Pigs Or Students?
As explained by David E. Meister, assistant instructor of psychology, these experiments are a regular part of the laboratory work for students in Psychology I. This system of experimentation is now being used in several colleges.
But it's not as bad as it sounds. Instead of being lowly "guinea pigs" for the instructors, the students take part in finding different reactions to experiments in basic psychology and personal examinations.
Only a few of the 65 graduate students in psychology use the beginning students for help in conducting experiments. Each student assists in only one experiment during the term, but even so, not all of those enrolled in Psychology I take tests or undergo observation.
But a few students still believe they are mere "guinea pigs."
Air express service was started on a commercial basis Sept. 1, 1927.
Gold "does not offer any promise of a cure," Dr. Hahn emphasized, but "it represents a very satisfactory means of obtaining relief."
Radioactivite gold loses half of its power in 2.7 days, and consequently cannot be sent far from an atomic laboratory where it is produced.
Cobalt wire, on the other hand, has a half-life time of 5.3 years. This isn't very much compared to the 3,500 years that it takes radium to lose half of its strength. But the cobalt can be cut into radioactive needles only two-fifths of an inch long at a price that could put them in thousands of places which now cannot afford expensive radium.
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