UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943
Officer Chances Good In ROTC, Alfrey Says
A majority of the new career officers for the army will come from the Reserve Officers Training corps program, Col. John Alfrey, commandant of the University R.O.T.C. unit, said Tuesday.
"The army requires about 2,000 officers each year, and West Point supplies approximately 700," Colonel Alfrey said. "Only a few men are in Officers' Candidate school, so men the R.O.T.C. have a chance to get regular commissions," he added.
The army designates certain students as "distinguished military students," Colonel Alfrey explained. This means that their grades are among the top one-third of their class, that they have been recommended by the dean of their school, and that they have demonstrated unusual qualities and abilities as leaders. These men may, on application, receive direct appointments to regular commissions when they are graduated, Colonel Alfrey explained.
"A recommendation for legislation to make a program for career officers' training similar to the navy's is before congress now, but nothing definite has been done about it," Colonel Alfrey said.
Other graduates may ask for active duty for two years, he said. During the first year, known as the competitive tour, the men are given varied assignments designed to broaden their training. The army may assign them to regular commissions.
3,500 Voters Are Students
Potential voter strength in Lawrence is at least 3,500 higher for the Tuesday. Nov. 2 general election than it was for the August primaries, it was estimated today by Harold Fisher, city clerk.
Registration books for the coming election were closed Oct. 22 with a total of 12,606 names on the rolls. Mr.Fisher said this would be cut to approximately 11,600 when duplications are removed.
The record registration has grown rapidly during the past few weeks as hundreds of students placed their names on the books. An estimated 3,500 students are registered.
Heaviest registration in the city came from the second and third wards where most of the students live. The first precinct of the third ward, in which the University is located, showed the largest number of eligible voters.
Alumnus Visits Campus
Dr. John M. Porter, '21, Concordia, visited the campus Tuesday. Dr. Potter received his doctor of medicine degree from Harvard in 1926. Richard F. Porter, a son, is a senior in the College.
Invite Russia To Reconsider Veto
Paris, Oct. 27—(UP)—The Big Three Western foreign ministers today indirectly invited Russia to accept, outside the United Nations, the formula for settlement of the Berlin crisis which Soviet U. N. delegate Andrei Vishinsky vetored Monday.
In an unusual communique issued after a conference of more than an hour at the French foreign office the Western diplomats announced they were willing to "be guided by the principles" embodied in the security council resolution which Mr. Vishinsky rejected.
Geology Sets New Courses
U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and French Foreign Minister Robert Sehman issued the communique which seemed to amount to an invitation to Russia to reconsider.
Life Interviews KU Art Instructor For Possible Color Feature on Work
Five new courses and a change in requirements for geology majors have been approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean Paul B. Lawson announced today.
In the future all geology majors will be required to take the summer field course. It has been optional for degree candidates.
Students declaring candidacy for the bachelor of science degree in geology after Jan. 1, 1949, will follow a set sequence of geology courses. Actual courses taken will remain the same but the sequence will be more uniform than when the options were in effect.
A new course in stratigraphic paleontology will be required of a geology degree candidate. Dr. A. G. Fisher will teach the first class next semester.
Three other new courses will be offered the second semester. Advanced Sedimentary Petrography three hours, taught by Prof. H. A. Ireland; Geologic Graphics, one hour, taught by Prof. R. C. Moore; and Advanced Historical Geology three hours, taught by Professor Moore.
Concert To Be In Hoch Sunday
Edouard Nies-Berger, organist of the New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, will present recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
His program will include compositions from all periods of organ literature. The concert is sponsored by the University Concert course and will be free to the public.
Herbert L. Fink, instructor in drawing and painting, was interviewed by Life magazine recently for a tentative feature which is to include full color reproductions of his work.
Mr. Nies-Berger's music training was received in Strasbourg, France, Milan, Salzburg, Austria, and Vienna. He has been organist for the New York Philharmonic since 1943, and before that appeared as conductor of symphony orchestras and oratorio societies. He was head of the organ department at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Md., for four years.
The 27-year-old artist, a combat veteran of the 346th infantry, and wearer of the Purple Heart, came to the University this fall from the Rhode Island School of Design.
An exhibition of the work of Mr. Fink will be shown in Spooner- Thayer museum when the gallery is opened Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Commenting on the University Fine Arts school, Mr. Fink said, "An art school should give the student a chance to learn the tools of his trade and to evaluate himself. The art department here gives the latitude necessary to fulfill these requirements."
Mr. Fink's Painting, "Boy-in-Motion," was chosen this past year as one of four best from a nation-wide selection of 113 prize pictures from 25 of the country's best art schools. A reproduction of this painting appeared in Time magazine Aug. 26.
A NEW DRIVE which will extend east to Louisiana street is being laid in front of Battenfeld hall. The drive is expected to be open for use in about two weeks, C. G. Bayles, superintendent of building and grounds, said today. Photo by Sam Jones.
19 Students,19 Answers To 'Why Did You Come To KU?'
"Why did you choose the University of Kansas?"
This question was asked some of the students who came to the University from 48 states and 36 foreign countries. From 19 students, from scattered spots on the globe, interviewers received 19 different answers.
One woman said she came to the University to get her M.R.S. degree.
$^{1}$ she would not give her name. $\textcircled{4}$
Here are some other answers to the question, "why did you choose KU."?
Max Wilbur, Carthage, Mo., "This is near home and is one of the better engineering universities that I investigated."
George Wooten, Wilmington, Del., "i was here in 1944 in the navy V-12 program and came back to pick up the credits."
Juan Aguerri, Jr., Managua, Nicaragua, "I came here because I think the University has one of the best schools in the nation in business administration."
Matsuyoshi Arashiro, Kalaheo Kauai, T. H., "The University of Hawaiia limits its student body because of a lack of facilities. I wanted to go to school so I came to the United States. I chose this University because there is not as much racial prejudice here as there is on the West coast. I also have friends in Kansas City."
E. A. Nelson, Pleasanton, Calif.
"I was living at Sunflower and attending a radio school in Kansas City. Since I was close, I decided to continue my education here."
Jan Coulter, Kansas City, Mo., "I came here because of the music school. It is one of the best."
Nancy Cole, Rahway, N. J., "My father and mother and my relatives attended here so I followed tradition."
Clarence Warren, Muskogee, Okla. "I came here because there was no choice of schools for me in Oklahoma."
Nehemiah Kronenberg, Tei-Aviv,
Israel, "My English instructor in
Palestine recommended the school.
She thought that I should get acquainted with the people of the Middle West."
Victor Manuel Pineiro, Puerto Rico. "I have a scholarship from the government of Puerto Rico and was accepted by this University. So far I like the school."
Humberto Trujillo, Bogota, Colombia, "A Mr. Arthur Garson, who taught me in high school and is now with the veterans administration at Kansas City university, helped find a position for me here."
Mary Lee Newton, Pensacola, Fla.
"My father is in the Army and is stationed in Kansas, so here I am"
David Lloyd, Raytown, Mo., "I chose K.U. because it is rated as one of best electrical engineering schools in the nation."
Delmar Vonad, Sylvan Grove, Kan., "I think the University is one of the best schools in Kansas for a 'physical education major.'"
Michiko Yamasaki, T.H., "I have some friends who are attending a
junior college in Kansas City so came here."
Gene McKee, Richland, Ga., "I received my discharge from the service in Kansas City and since I planned to study engineering, I came over to look the University over. I'm still here."
Arieh Rivlin, Petah-Tiava, Israel "I chose K.U. over a larger university on the coast because I think students receive more attention in a smaller school. Also it is a little cheaper."
Jane Hardison, Midland, Texas. "I came here because the University has an excellent School of Journalism."
To Support 'Murphy Plan'
The "Murphy plan" to make available more doctors for rural Kansas was voted full support by the Kansas Society for Mental Hygiene at the annual meeting held in Topeka Monday night.
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, explained the program that he has advocated in the plan. He emphasized the need for complete medical equipment in all communities and for refresher courses for graduate doctors.
The group also heard Lt. Gov. F. L. Hagaman, who spoke on the proposed psychiatric hospital to be integrated as a part of the University medical center. This phase of the plan is most strongly advocated by the society.
The society also voted to support the proposed legislative appropriation of four million dollars.
Veterans Receive Insurance Notice
A notice is being sent to veterans whose national service life insurance term policies started expiring on or after Oct. 8, Sherwin L. Derby, director of the Veterans administration office in Lawrence, said today.
This notice is sent two months before the expiration date of the origiçy holder time to convert his terminal policies. This will give the polplan, or he may renew his term insurance to a permanent N.S.L.I. insurance for another five-year period. Renewals may be made without a physical examination, but at a higher premium rate.
University Gets Memorial Fund For Pharmacy
Establishment of a $1,000 Dean Lucius Elmer Sayre Memorial loan fund for pharmacy students was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Irvin Youngberg, secretary of the Endowment association, said the loan fund would be made available at low interest rates to junior, senior, and graduate students in pharmacy.
L. D. Havenhaven, former dean of the School of Pharmacy, presented the fund to the Endowment association. The funds consists of gifts solicited from former students and associates of Dean Savre.
Dean Sayre, who died in 1925,
headed the School of Pharmacy
from its beginning in 1891 until his
death. Professor Havenhill then
succeeded him and held the dean-
ship until 1940.
Dean Sayre was national president of the American Pharmaceutical association for 1919-20.
At the time of his death, the Kansas City Star credited Dean Se with making possible the corn products refining industry. In 1913 he proved that corn oil, then comparatively useless, was good for cooking purposes.
"The movie shows the operation of American capital in a foreign country, what the odds were when the companies went in, and what the companies are doing for Arabia to justify their being there," Mr. Weinaug added.
The pay for members of the Kansas legislature was written into the constitution 89 years ago. Pay for the biennial trip to Topeka was set at $3 a day—reasonably good pay in 1559—for a maximum of 50 legislative days.
Topeka, Oct. 27—(UP)—The people of Kansas will decide at the ballot box next Tuesday whether their state lawmakers will remain the poorest paid in the United States.
A technical movie of oil drilling operations in Saudi Arabia will be shown at a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metalurgical Engineers at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Lindley auditorium.
Every attempt since then to change the legislative salary scale in Kansas has met defeat. The half dozen failures to fit the lawmakers' stipend to the current cost of living occurred in 1890, 1902, 1908, 1910, 1926, and 1930.
Salary Raise Up To Voters
One of the three constitutions amendments Kansans are upon this year, the proposition is to set the salaries at $5 a day for legislative days, with a ceiling payment of $300 for a regular session, $150 for a special session. In addition, an expense allowance of up to $7 for each calendar day would be permitted, with no limit to the number of days of the session for which expenses could be drawn.
Everyone is invited, Charles F. Weinaug, chairman of the department of petroleum engineering said
The last previous try to get the senators and representatives a raise found only 29 per cent of the voters marking "yes."
AIME To See Oil Movie Thursday
"For those interested in photo raphy, the picture will be well seeing."
Library Gets Book By Grad
"Mathias Gish of White Oak" bk J. I. Hamaker, '93, has been received at Watson library. The book was published in 1940. Mr. Hamaker is now at Randolph-Macon college Lynchburg, Va.