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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6.
Christmas Trees Will Burn Forest Service Cautions
Washington—(UP)—If you want to keep from burning the house down Christmas, give your balsam a douse from the tap in the kitchen sink.
That's official from the United States forest service.
The Forest Products laboratory on the subject and concluded that good old plain water does more to keep a Christmas tree from getting dry, and therefore flame-happy, than a lot of things on the market.
A lot of folks like to pretty up a tree with fire-retardant coatings. This costs a little money and is a lot of trouble, but the service has a home formula. One plan produces a transparent, colorless coating. The second, with about the same ingredients give a tree that cream-colored look, which you can tint with suitable dyes.
Here's what you do:
that you do.
First buy in the that has been chopped down recently.
Not only will the chances of a fire starting be lessened, but the tree will stay fresh and green a lot longer and the needles won't fall and mess up the place.
Then cut off the end of the trunk diagonally at least an inch above the original cut end. Stand the tree in water at once and keep the water level above the cut part as long as the tree is in the house. Or, you can "plant" the tree in a bucket of sand and poor water over the sand.
For this you use sodium silicate, some china clay and water. Two coats are recommended and can be applied either by dipping or spraying.
But even with this coating, the forest service recommends that you still sink the bottom of the tree in
t Madison, Wis., did a lot of research
a tub of water—just to be sure.
The patent bureau of the Department of Commerce has okayed a number of products for coating trees and for "fire-proof" tinsels and other decorations.
The standard people recognize two hazards around Christmas time. The trees, of course, and electrical toys
The bureau, by the way, has some suggestions of its own for a sale, as well as a merry Christmas.
Many of these have been tested in the laboratories at the national bureau of standards.
trees, or course, and electrical toys. One of the dangers in the toy department are those playthings which require a transformer. This latter gadget should be entirely enclosed in an iron or insulating case, and should have a circuit breaker which will prevent an excessive current in the toys or transformer.
And when it comes to trimming the tree, the bureau of standards warns against celluloid, cotton, paper or other such materials that burn easily. Flake asbestos and powdered mica make a substance that looks like snow and won't burn like cotton, which can cause a serious flash fire.
Also, have a look at the wiring on the lights. The insulation should be thick enough so that the current won't come breaking through to set fire to something.
Hollywood - (UP) - Movie stories are getting so deep that nobody expects a mere actor to be able to get them across. They count on his whiskers to help tell the story.
To Tell If Your Movie Hero Is A Cad Or A Gentleman, Look At His Whiskers
This saves you listening to the dialogue. If a man has sideburns, you know right away he's the menace. If the beard is straggly, it's obvious the guy is seeing bad days. $ \textcircled{4} $
Naturally, as the story progresses, you can expect the beard to change. Gregory Peck wears seven different beards in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Great Sinner."
"I'm supposed to be gambling my way down the road to perdition," Mr. Peck explained. "My beard changes with every stop."
"It illustrates that I've suffered and emerged a man of the world," he said.
When the story arrives at a happy ending, Mr. Peck shaves. He faces the final fade-out with a small Vandyke and mustache.
Everybody else in "The Great Sinner" wear whiskers of some sort, except Melyn Dauglas. He, the message, has those sideburns.
Mr. Peck wore a beard in "Keys of the Kingdom," which was supposed to illustrate that he was too busy to shave. In "Duel in the Sun," he said, his thick whiskers were supposed to prove he was virile.
One of the Oriental potentates has a philosopher's beard. That also is type casting.
Walter Huston wears a curly beard and a sharply-angled waxed mustache. That lets you know he's an egistist and vain about his looks,
Frank Morgan goes through the picture with a straggly, ill-kept beaver.
He is the old professor who loses everything at the gambling tables—wealth, honor and pride—everything except his whiskers.
Sheriff's Pants Stolen
Weatherford, Texas — (UP)
Parker County Sheriff John Young lost his pants. They were included among clothing taken from a cleaning establishment broken into here.
University Dally Kansan
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Memphis Bans Blues Movie
Memphis, Tenn.—(UP)—The movie, "A Song Is Born," got on Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford's black list today as a "rough, bawdy, noisy picture."
What's more, said the man whose word is law as to what's right for Memphians to see on the screen, the film has no segregation.
Not only is it all those things, Mr. Binford said, but added that "Yi wrongly portrays New Orleans as the birthplace of the blues instead of Memphis.
"Frankly, the picture has a gambling scene," Mr. Binford said. "It shows a rough, rowdy bunch of musicians of both colors. It is supposed to be about the birth of jazz music in New Orleans. There is no segregation."
Now in its sixth week on Broadway, the picture was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and stars Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
G. W. Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering, spoke to the group recently on the purpose and advantages of the registration of engineers. He told the society of the legal requirements for practicing tool engineering in Kansas and contrasted them with the requirements of other states.
A field trip to the Santa Fe shops in Topeka will be taken Saturday, by the K.U. chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers. The engineers decided also to include a side visit to the state capital building in the trip.
Tool Engineers To Take Field Trip
Ralph E. Andrea showed and explained color pictures of Luzon and Leyte.
No Porch, No Car- In Jail, No Bail
New York, N. Y. —(UP)—John Avellino was awakened by a noise outside his Brooklyn home and looked out the bedroom window.
"There goes the front porch," he said.
Diamante Mazzucco looked out.
No front porch.
Fred Meyer, next door, looked out his window. No front porch.
Two policemen arrested John Jarvis, 16, who was driving the car they were chasing at 70 miles an hour when it knocked off the three front porches and crashed into a tree.
About that time Leonard Zuckerman told police that he had just locked out toward the curb where he had parked his car. No automobile.
Jarvis was in jail today. No bail.
Official Bulletin
Dec. 6, 1948
I. S.A. council. house representatives, 5 today, 16 Fraser.
All second semester College sophomores, including pre-business education students, who anticipate transferring to the School of Education at the beginning of the spring semester should make appointments this week for conferences with education adviser, 120 Fraser.
Special meeting of B'nai J'hudah fraternity, 6 tonight, 102 Frank Strong.
Jewish Student union, 7:30 tonight, Pine room, Union. Important Kansan board, 4 today, 107 Journalism.
Mathematical colloquium. 5 today, 203 Frank Strong. Professor Ling of physics department. "W.K. B. Approximation Method in Quantum Mechanics."
R. N. club, 8 tenon, Castle Tea room. All graduate nurses.
The following are to appear in traffic court, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Green hall; Robert Krueger, Vern D. Montgomery, Maurice Murphy, Charles F. Thomas, and Harold Lee Turner.
Freshman Y.W.C.A. meeting to elect cabinet, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Henley.
United World Federalists, 4 tomorrow. Myers hall. National convention results.
U. N.E.S.C.O. council will be after-dinner guests of International Relations club, 7:15 p.m. tomorrow, Kansas room, Union. U.N.E.S.C.O. business will follow L.R.C. debate of Marshall plan.
Reservations for luncheon or banquet by Thursday noon for I.S.A. convention Saturday. Phone 837.
Combined staff meetings, I.W.S. I.S.A. and Independents, 7 p.m. Thursday, Pine room, Union.
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International Relations club, dinner meeting, 6:15 tomorrow. Ed Stollenwerck and Ernest Friesen, after dinner debate on Marshall plan.
Mortar Board, 8:30 p.m. Thursday
Miller hall.
A. W.S. Senate, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Corbin.
Y.W.C.A. cabinet meeting, 4 p.m.
Friday, Corbin.
Unitarian Liberal club, Sunday.
Pine room, Union.
Dresden Speaks At AIEE Smoker
Max Dreeden, associate professor of physics, in an informal talk at the A.I.E.E. smoker recently, stressed the importance of cooperation between physicists and engineers.
He said that engineers must make their minds so flexible as to be receptive to new methods and techniques and be able to apply them to their work.
In periods of drought, alfalfa often sends its roots as much as 17 feet below the surface of the soil to reach moisture.
Little Man On Campus
"I understand he was just about to graduate—and the veteran's office made him take a vocational aptitude test."
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
UP Feature Writers Can Make Mistakes But They Better Not Be About Texas
Washington—(UP)—The eyes of Texas are upon me, and darn me every eye has a dagger aimed my way.
Next time I write about any in-fringement of a Texas copyright, you may be sure I'll get a lawyer first—or practice up on my six-shooting.
off with the allegation that "Eyes of Texas" is a theft, too. It is, so far as the music is concerned.
It's all on account of a story I wrote. It was supposed to be made about the Washington, D.C., pro football team's theme song, "Hail to Redskins." I said it was a steal from a lot of other tunes. It is. 7 made the mistake of starting the yarn $ \textcircled{4} $ off with theAlligator that th
What I should not have said, though, is that the song is the gist anthem. It is not. Or that anybody wearing a 10 gallon hat or a $6\frac{1}{2}$ gallon one ever claimed the music was original.
The Longview News-Journal came out with a scorching editorial. It suggested that had I looked at page 114 of the Texas Almanac I would have learned that the state song is "Texas, Our Texas."
I got a few letters of complaint but no avalanche.
That ought to teach me a lesson. I've made a little good-natured fun of the California sunshine, the Florida rain, the Minnesota snow, and the dustbowl of Kansas.
The News-Journal editorial writer also guessed that I'm probably wearing a red face. He's a good guesser.
Another slap came from radio station WFAA. The announcer called me a "furriner."
The song, he said, correctly, belongs to the University of Texas.
The station referred the curious to Mr. Ed Nunnally of San Angelo, the "man who copyrighted the song."
Mr. Nunnally said sure, like I said, the music had something to do with "I've Been Working on the Railroad," and "I've Been Working on the Levee."
"But." Mr. Numnally continued, "Those tunes were hardly known until John Lang Sinclair, the beloved author of 'Eyes of Texas' wrote the immortal words" in 1903.
Mr. Sinclair composed it for a minstrel show playing in Austin.
Upton. In 1936, after a long dreadnought and scrap, the words were copyrighted in the name of the Student's Association of the University of Texas.
they were, too. It was an alligator.
It Took Four To Catch Him
Granbury, Texas—(UP) — Four fisherman thought they were seeing things when one of them hooked a five-foot one-inch catch. And
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Oops! It's Not Really A Holiday
Business School day will not a three day "holiday" as report in the University Daily Kan Dec. 2. While termed a "holiday students enrolled in the School Business will be required to attend classes except on the last day wh the traditional ball game between business seniors and faculty played, and the picnic and day held.
In the past, students have not allowed a half day off. No off word has been received that practice will be changed this year.
The Business School associate with the approval of Dean Leonar H. Axe of the School of Business decided to lengthen the occasion three days this year for an expedition of business machines, lecture by prominent businessmen, an school projects.
Patience Pops After So Long
Topeka, Kan.—(UP)—G. E. Va lette's patience popped today.
he popped today.
First it was his cows, then he
tame ducks. Now it was his dog
Mr. Vallette exploded into actio
"So-called sportsmen," as the farmer out near Shawnee lake term them, got two of his cows wolf gunfire. He chased away so boys taking potsatts on his tatar ducks from the edge of his pond. An errant bullion.
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head two days ago.
And this morning Mr. found one of his four prize spaniels caught in a trap. "Wild"
"His leg was crushed," he said. "I looked around, found traps and then spied a fellow ting 'em."
Hot footing it to the courthy the farmer charged the man "hunting without permission wounding a domestic animal; warrant was issued for arrest of man named in the complaint.
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