University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 17, 1948
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Post Offices Add Extra Help For Holidays
Extra men, hours, and trucks have been added to the regular post office routine so that there will be no delay in handling Christmas mail.
Post office business is booming.
"The University post office has sold between 7,000 and 3,000 $1/2-cent stamps on Tuesday, and at least as many $3-cent stamps," said R. C. Abraham, superintendent. "Our postage meter matchine and a pair of our scales have been sent to the Chamber of Commerce wrapping station, but we are still keeping up with the rush."
By Bibler
Topcka, Dec. 17—(UP)—Arguments that Kansas' bone dry antiliquor law is unconstitutional because of the popular vote for repeal in the November election reached the state supreme court today.
The University post office will remain open until 5 p.m. Saturday for the benefit of students.
The Lawrence post office made 56.- 900 cancellations Wednesday.
"The voltage of mail is increasing each day now, and we expect to reach a peak of 63,000 to 65,000 cancellations a day before the rush is over," said Roger Williams, Lawrence postmaster. "Extra mail carriers are being added as they are needed, so there will be no delay in mail delivery."
The post office has borrowed three trucks from Company H of the 137th infantry, local national guard unit, to help carry the extra mail.
Wet Issue To High Court
The high court called two cases.
First to be heard at the morning court session was an application for habeas corpus in behalf of Richard Manning of Abilene. Pleading not guilty to bone dry violation, Mr. Manning was held in lieu of $500 bond. His attorney claimed E. F. Davis, sheriff, was keeping Mr. Manning jailed without the right to do so, that the bone dry law under which he was arrested is now invalid.
Opposing contention was that the Nov. 2 action left the bone dry law
uses the legislature, if it desires, to rub out the bone dry statute and enact a liquor control law.
John R. Sacks and Chester W. Spencer, engineering seniors, were initiated Wednesday into the Kan- City chapter of the American Society for Metals.
The second case was an appeal from the Riley county district court in behalf of J. E. Springer and Dorothy M. Springer, his wife. Mr. Springer was found guilty by Judge Edgar Bennett of violating an injunction against keeping liquor at his Zeandale farm home. The appeal is on the grounds that the bone dry law was voided in the Nov. 2 voting. The injunction was put into effect after the election.
Two Engineers Initiated Into Kansas City Society
Kansas—Fair east, nearly cloudy west today. Increasing cloudiness tonight and tomorrow with occasional light rain west. Warner west today.
WEATHER
The society devotes its activities to uses and treatments of metals.
Little Man On Campus
"Professor Snarf tells me he's had nothing but straight 'A' students for the past two years!"
Dyche Life-Zone Panorama One Of World's Largest
Mountain sheep and goats from Alaska and the Rocky Mountains are shown looking out over a valley. A small stream runs out of the mountains into a beaver pond.
The panorama of North American mammals on the main floor of Dyche museum is one of the largest continuous exhibits of its kind in the world. Over 200 mammals have been mounted and placed in surroundings that characterize their "life-zones" from the Arctic to northern Mexico.
From there the scene shifts to the great plains as they were a century
The first specimens were mounted for the museum in the 1880's. They were on exhibit in old Snow hall until the museum was built in 1901.
The exhibit starts on the right of the entrance and shows walrus seals, muskox, polar bears, and Greenland caribou in their "lifezones" in the Arctic.
Until 1939 the walls of the 550 foot exhibit were bare. An oil painting was then begun by S. T. Dickenson, staff artist for the museum, that was to be a blended background for each of the animal groups. The painting, which covers about eleven thousand square feet, was finished in 13 months. Mr. Dickenson said that he made no preliminary sketch for the project because it was just a matter of blending the painting with the animal groups.
The specimens for the museum were obtained from Greenland, Alaska, Canada, the Rocky mountain region, the Great plains, and the Pacific coast. Professor Lewis L. Dyche, after whom the museum is named, secured some of the specimens when he helped rescue Robert E. Perry in 1895.
Real vegetation in the panorama has been preserved by chemical treatment. The birch trees in the moose exhibit were brought from Minnesota. Other trees are made of concrete with bark fastened to them.
The last addition to the panorama, a black bear, was made in 1841. Klaus Abegg, a former museum technician and taxidermist, went to Yellowstone national park and picked the bear that he wanted for the exhibit. A park ranger shot the bear.
Yule Theme For KFKU
A Christmas play, traditional reading of Dickens' "Christmas Carol" and the annual festival will highlight Christmas activities on KFKU, Miss Mildred Seaman, program director, said today.
A special broadcast of the annual festival will be given from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Jack Robinson and Dan Barrie will announce the show.
The play, "A Crib at Christmas," is based on an Italian crib in the University Museum of Art. Barrie will play the part of John Maxon, curator, and other members of the cast will be Phyllis Semisch, Josephine Skeleton, Jack Robinson, Bob Cristmas, Jearl Nunleee, L. E. Stollenwerck, and Alan Coomes, a pupil of Courtney school. Anna Mae Nunleee will script and produce the play which will be broadcast at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 22.
ago, alive with bison, antelope, and wolves.
Robert Calderwood, associate professor of speech, will read "Christmas Carol" at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday Dec. 23. Other regularly scheduled programs during the week will feature Christmas music, Miss Seaman said.
Next come the smaller animals of the southern United States. Sea lions from the California coast complete the exhibit.
The exhibit can be seen in the Musium of Natural History from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Christmas Vespers Are 98th In Series
Christmas carols played from the balcony of Hoch auditorium and chime carols echoing from Dyche tower will precede the afternoon and evening School of Fine Arts Christmas vespers, Sunday. This is the 98th All-Musical vespers.
Carols will be heard from 3:40 to 4 p.m., and from 7:10 to 7:30 pm.
Truman Ready To Battle
Washington, Dec. 17—(UP)—President Truman has begun a new campaign in his war with States' Rights Democrats on a scale which would revolutionize political alignments in this country. Political observers believed it more likely that the new campaign would end in compromise.
Mr Trump told his news conference Thursday he would ask the new congress to enact the 10-point civil rights program against which much of the South rebelled this year. His statement followed by only a few hours announcement by State's Rights leaders in Birmingham, Ala., that they had just begun to fight.
Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas, chairman of a States' Rights party conference in Birmingham, put opposition to Mr. Truman on grounds that the party: "Abhors the attempt to adulterate our principles of government with Socialistic ideas or the regimentation of business or restrictions of the rights and activities of any individual."
The nub of the dispute between the States' Righters and the administration lies among the 10 civil rights proposals made by the president to congress.
Only the proposals to give federal guarantees to Negroes in the South became major political issues. States' Righters nominated Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president in protest. He took 39 electoral votes.
There has been much compromise talk since the election. Many Southern Democrats believed the dispute within the party could be adjusted on a basis of action abolishing the poll tax, outlawing lynching and adjusting racial discrimination in the armed services.
Mr. Truman said he would recommend his entire program to congress when it meets. If no action is taken in a reasonable time he will send additional messages to congress.
Owls Investigate Campus Wheels
The Owl society, honorary society of junior men, Wednesday adopted a resolution to investigate the relation between student activities and scholastic achievement.
The group wants to determine how students who take part in many campus activities compare in grade point averages with students who take part in few or no activities.
Dick Bibler, society president, outlined a plan to aid state-wide activities on the campus. In the past this group has had a representative from each county in the state write to the home newspapers of all outstanding activities of local students.
The Owl society will hold its next meeting Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949, in the "Owl hoot," a retreat whose address is known only to members. bers.
*Members of the double brass quartet who will play from the Hoch ballet are campers, musicians, shellbenders, William Cole, Rother Beth; trombones, Kenneth Geoffroy, Neill Humfeld, James Sommerville, Jerry Aberchrombie.
Inside the auditorium at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Laurel Everett Anderson, Universi-
ary organist will play the vespa in "Playing "Amazed" Pas-tourensus" (Henri Bussel).
Freddy Moreau, son of Dean and Mrs. Fred Moreau of the School of Law, and Stuart Smith, son of Dean and Mrs. George Baxter Smith of the School of Education, will light the tapers on the tableaux. During the candlighting an ensemble will play "Ave Maria" (Bach-Gounod). The ensemble members are: Waldemar Geltch, Raymond Stuhl, John Ehrlich, Margaret Ling, and Mrs. Anderson.
The 110 members of the University A Cappella choir will march to the stage singing "O Come All Ye Faithful." Their opening number will be "Children's Evening Prayer" from "Hansel and Gretel" (Humperdick).
The first tableau is entitled "Hansel and Gretel asleep in the Woods" Rosetta Snow will be Hansel and Sally Sherwood will be Gretel. The tableau is under the direction of the department of design and the department of drawing and painting.
Following the tableau, the cello choir accompanied by the University symphony orchestra will play "The Swan" (Saint Saens). The choir is composed of John Ehrlich, Martha Lee Baxter, Maurice Pollom, Shirley Foster, Carl Bilger, Merle Clayton, Lyle Wolffom, Charles Smith, Roger Chubb, Ruth Henry, Clifford Carver.
"O Rise Up Early In the Morning" (Richard Kountz) by the A Cappell choir under the direction of D. M. Swarthworn, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will precede the second tableau.
Lois Timkin will be Mary, and Mary Wilkins will be the angel in the tableau. "The Annunciation."
"Joy to the World" (Handel) will be sung by the audience. Russell L. Wiley, director, will conduct the orchestra in playing "Procession to the Holy Grail" from "Parsifal" (Wamer).
The Jay Janes are in charge of the free will offering for the Christmas vespers scholarship fund.
Nancy Messenger is to sing the soprano solo in "Three Kings" (old Catalan nativity song). The number is by the A Cappella choir. The audience will participate a second time in the program by singing "Silent Night" (Gruber).
A tableau, "The Kings In Adoration," will feature Lois Tinken as Mary, Ray Brewer, Harold Conroy, and George Burnett as kings.
Andrew Klapis is to sing a baritone solo "O Holy Night" (Adam) accompanied by Winifred Hill Gallup. The A Cappella choir will sing "Carillon Heigh Ho" (Julia Perry). The last tableau, "The Journey"
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The A Cappella choir will close the vespers by singing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Mendelsohn) as they conduct a candle-light recessional, Professor Anderson will play "Improvisation" on the organ as the audience is filing out of the auditorium.
Following the evening performance, the tableau will be shown again for the benefit of the chorus and others of the cast.