FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1948
PAVCH
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Warming Centers' To Open Come Winter In Berlin
Berlin—(UP)—Social life in blockaded Berlin this winter will revolve around unused restaurants, barracks, refugee camps, and air raid shelters. There Berliners will find reading material, cultural programs, sewing classes, and entertainment.
They will also find warmth. To accommodate Germans fleeing their
They will also find warm- cold homes, around 300 "warming centers" will be opened as soon as winter arrives. These buildings where people may go to keep warm, were set up in the severe winters of two years ago to combat the cold that German health officials estimated took more than 250 lives in Berlin.
Because of the Soviet blockade, Berliners, as well as Allied residents of the city, will not receive as much coal as they did last winter.
"Berliners will not freeze to death," said Wilmer Frostad, chief of the American public welfare branch in Berlin military government. "They will just freeze."
The exact amount of coal and wood Berliners will receive this winter has not yet been set, but Froistad expressed the opinion that the coal ration would be from 30 to 50 per cent less than last year. To offset this cut, Froistad, a former Red Cross official in California and the state of Washington, said that the centers would not only be increased but would open earlier than last year. He called the centers "social centers in a half frozen city . . . islands of warmth surrounded by cold."
The only hitch in the plan to reestablish the warming centers is the electricity shortage. Because Russia has cut off power to western sectors, Germans in western Berlin get only four hours of electricity daily—two hours in the day and two at night.
Unless special power allotments are given the centers, they will have to close down at nightfall when they die; their men might be greatest, Froisted said.
He said that in addition to heat the center would provide books and magazines, games for children, occasional entertainment and cultural programs in an effort to make them real community centers.
Fruit Trees Work Overtime Producing Second Yield
Ligonier, Pa.—(UP)—An apple and a cherry tree in the Ligonier valley near this community are working overtime—producing their second crop of fruit this season. Tree experts say many trees bloom twice in one year, but few have been known to grow two crops in the same season.
Flax Crop Brings $26,000,
And That's Not Hay
Watford City, N. D.—(UF)—Five combines harvested a crop valued at $26,000 on a 2270-acre flax field owned by Einar and Didrich Broderson near here. The field yielded an average of between 17 and 18 bushels per acre. It was the Broderson brothers' first attempt at flax raising.
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WCTU 'Deplores' Texan's Actions
Austin, Nov. 5—(UP)—Participation by Texas University's president and dean of women in a college stunt, to raise campus funds for charity, was condemned as "deplorable" today by the Austin chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance union.
The executive committee of the chapter of the W.C.T.U., Thursday, adopted a resolution stating:
"We deplore the incident of the president of the university and of the dean of women, accompanying a group of students to a bonky-tonk for a stunt, for a joke, for charity, or for other purposes."
The incident grew out of a campaign to raise funds at the university for world student relief, cancer research, books for China, and the University's Y.M.C.A.
The services of the president, together with other school officials and student leaders, were "auctioned off" as part of the fund-raising campaign. The university president had "a date" with the dean of women, and as part of the stunt, appeared with her at a tavern on Tuesday night in the company of two other student participants.
The Texas state W.C.T.U. president declined Thursday to accept an offer to appear at the same tavern for 30 minutes. It was announced that students had pledged contributions of $361.52 to the charity fund—if the W.C.T.U. officer would put in an appearance at the tavern.
Marketing Group Hears Nelson Discuss Research
Dr. Edward G. Nelson, associate professor of economics, and Jack Wickert, assistant professor of marketing, spoke Wednesday, before the Kansas City chapter of the American Marketing association in the Hotel President.
"Methods and Objectives of Case Research as Related to the University and Business Communities," was Dr. Nelson's topi. Mr.Wickert spoke on "Preparation of Cases on Advertising Effective for Clients in Divergent Fields of Business."
Sounds Like A Good Assignment
Recently in his Fundamentals of Geography lecture period, Dr. W. M. Kollmorgen, chairman of the department of geography, was explaining certain "sure" ways to perdict weather.
He said that blonde girls could predict weather, as their hair would not comb correctly if a storm was approaching.
From the back of the room a voice asked if. Dr. Kollmorgen could prove this statement.
He replied. "No, I can't prove it, but maybe you can. Find yourself a good blonde and work on it."
Semantics Appeals To All, Club Told
General semantics appeals to the housewife as well as the academic person, S. I. Hayakawa told the General Semantics club Wednesday night.
Robert L. Read, founder of the General Semantics club in Pasadena, Calif., spoke briefly to the group on the introduction of general semantics in Pasadena.
Dr. Hayakawa is a visiting professor at Kansas City university. He is a lecturer and author on general semantics, and is the author of "Language in Action."
Dr. Hayakawa defined plans and movies as "organized sequences of symbolic experience." We experience semantic reactions from movies, plays, and literature. General semantics appeals to persons in all walks of life. Policemen are being taught courses in it.
Union Will Sponsor Jitterbug Contest
The Memorial Union will sponsor a jitterbug contest in the Kansas room, Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. The contest is open to all students in the University, Harry Koons, committee — member announced. Prizes will be awarded to the winners.
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Hindus Worship The Snakes Which Very Often Kill Them
Bombay—(UP)—In India—land of strange and striking contrasts and rigid religious taboos—snakes, revered and worshipped by million of Hindus, cause the death of 50,000 persons every year, according to an expert source.
The death toll is heaviest among field laborers engaged in planting rice or other crops or cutting grass for their cattle.
In Malabar, South India, where snake worship is most prevalent, the snake is looked upon as the incarnation of God. Malabaris consider it sacrilegious, therefore, to cause the slightest harm or injury to a snake. In the gardens and compounds of their houses, snakes are allowed to nest and breed.
In homes in Malabar a room is kept apart for snakes that may wish to dwell there. Milk and other foods are offered the snakes who nest in these rooms. Some of them are deadly poison carriers while others are non-poisonous. But be they deadly or not, members of the household will not molest them for fear of incurring the wrath of the gods.
The dreaded cobra—whose sting means almost certain death for a human—is held in the highest regard among Hindu snake worshipers.
GL's who served in India during the war will recall the strolling Indian snake-charmer, blowing his reed instrument made out of gourd,
two wicker baskets containing snakes swinging from his shoulders.
A nod of encouragement and the snake-man will exhibit his wares. To the wailing notes of his reeds cobras slide out of their baskets, spread their hoods, rear their bodies and sway rhythmically to the time the "master" plays.
Crowds of gaping children and grown-ups look on. The melody ends, the snakes slither back into their baskets, the show is over and the snake charmer brings you back to reality with the cry, "Backsheesh, sahib."
South Indian snake worshippers believe that members of a household will never be needy as long as snakes make their abode there. They also believe that snakes disappear from a home the moment the owner runs into a spell of misfortune.
The ricksha used in the Orient today was invented by U.S. Marine Jonathan Goble, who visited Japan in 1854 with Commodore Perry.
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