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Don't Forget Mother
Miss Kansas has accepted an invitation to "look Hollywood over" for a week. She is a 18-year-old lass from Wichita who took fourth place in the 1948 Miss America contest.
Since showing up so well in Atlantic City, Miss Kansas has been besieged by motion picture producers waving folded money in her face. So far she has turned down all offers. The curvaceous young lady decided to stay at her home with her job as a modeling instructress and take advantage of a $2,000 scholarship to study dramatics at Wichita university.
When she returned from her triumphs in the East, Miss Kansas said she wasn't interested in Hollywood, mainly because of the wishes of her boy friend who is a sophomore at Northwestern university. But the lure of gold and Howard Hughes' persuading voice finally won out and she is on her way to California for "further talks" about a $400 a week contract and film assignment without a screen test.
For some time now, Kansas has been losing her best talent to other parts of the nation. Doctors, lawyers, writers, and teachers have been deserting their home state for the greener pastures of foreign places. Now we may have to add Kansas beauty to the list of lost wealth.
Kansas has its advantages, but it is doubtful if wheat fields, prohibition, and dirt farmers will stand much chance against the appeal of Hollywood's bright lights, sunshine, and fortune. The only hope for the state is this young college lad who seems to have a certain amount of appeal. But how can a mere sophomore compete with the glamour and wealth of a Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, or Tyrone Power?
Of course, there is mother. Miss Kansas may be from Wichita but she isn't so dumb. Mother is making the trip to Hollywood with her. And who can imagine anyone slick enough to fool a Kansas mother with a beautiful daughter? —J.LR.
More Teachers
According to the national security board there is a shortage of trained professional men which is playing havoc with the rearmament and European recovery programs as well as the entire civilian economy.
Engineers of all types including those in metallurgy, aeronautics, mining, and petroleum are in short supply. Doctors, dentists, and nurses also are hard to find. But the greatest shortage exists among teachers, especially in the primary and secondary grades.
This should come as good news to college students who are expecting to be graduated within the next couple of years. Unless some drastic blowup occurs in the national economy, the problem of finding a job should not be very difficult.
In the fields of medicine and engineering the present shortage should not be too hard to remedy. Expansion of medical education facilities will take time, but there is no shortage of young men desiring to enter the medical profession. The same is true in engineering. Colleges are overflowing with the greatest crop of prospective bridge builders in the history of the nation.
In teachers the country faces a different sort of problem. Current facilities for education probably are sufficient to meet the nation's demands. The main difficulty is trying to get young men and women to become teachers.
Recently the medical profession has come up with the "Murphy Plan" for training more doctors and especially to relieve the shortage of physicians in rural areas in Kansas. This program calls for the spending of a large amount of money to make rural medicine more attractive to young doctors. The shortage of competent teachers is no less important to the welfare of Kansas than the dangers of inadequate medical facilities.
If future generations of Kansans are to receive the high quality of education which they deserve, the state must do something immediately to make teaching a more attractive profession. The University can help in this problem just as it has in the formation of the Murphy Plan. With the help of various state departments and other interested organizations, the School of Education should be able to come up with a workable plan to put before the 1949 legislature. All that is required is an awareness of the problem and a desire to do something about it. J.LR.
Students are being offered a course in how to pass quizzes. Next on the list is one for instructors on how to make them out.
Cite Main Needs For Democrats
The three main requisites for a Democratic victory in the coming congressional campaign for Kansas second district are a good candidate, a good organization, and a high total vote, according to John Conard, instructor in political science. Mr. Conard made this comment at a meeting of the Young Democrats club in the Union Tuesday night.
The meeting was devoted to planning the kick-off in the congressional campaign for this district, which will be in the Community building Tuesday night, Oct. 5. At that time the Democratic candidate will make his opening speech. Plans also were made for the organization of a Douglas County Young Democrats club, to take place after the rally.
Mr. Conard was elected faculty advisor for the University Young Democrats club, and two new officers were elected, Elizabeth Gilman as vice-president and Nancy Wilkins as secretary.
Gerry, N. Y.—(UP)—Frank Lyon looked twice and blinked when he saw an apple tree, loaded with nearly ripe fall fruit, sprouting blossoms. The tree's strange behavior was believed to be the result of a grafting job done years ago by a former tenant.
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Philadelphia — (UP) — Charles White, former high school track star, won another race—this time in bare feet and pajamas. White, former miler at a local high school, lashed downstairs after his wife heard a prowler in the house, white and the intruder sprinted along the street, but the suspect was collared after a half-mile run.
St. Louis—(UP)—For more than two years Mrs. Bertha Elles kept accumulating money in a purse on her dresser, intending to take it to the bank when she got around to it. A thief, however, beat her to it, getting away with $980 when Mrs. Ellis left the house for 15 minutes.
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Nutrition Might Affect Heart Disease
Evaston, I.—(UP)—Northwestern university's new $1,000,000 institute of human nutrition plans to find out what diet has to do with heart disease.
Dr. Tom Spies, who will head the institute, said the relation of nutrition to certain common diseases would be a key project.
"During the next few years we hope to begin intensive studies directed toward understanding the nature of heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, leukemia and tumors," he said.
Agency Campaigns For Age
New York—(UP)—The Federation Employment Service, a non-secretarian non-profit organization, has opened a campaign to persuade employers to hire older workers. Its slogan is: "Experience, loyalty, skill come with age."
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