AGE SIX
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948
"Yessir-A Fine Piece Of Land For Planting"
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A Letter From Europe
ear Editor.
This is translation of a letter I received from a young Italian who worked for various American army units in the Naples, Foggia, and Anna areas for more than two years. This lad, of only ordinary intelligence, was a cheerful individual and an industrious worker. The hope and spirit of 1944 and 1945 seem to have given way to a justifiable discontent with present existence. One would be blind not to realize that these "unthinking" people will grasp at any alternative to their present forlorn prospects. What tools they would be to try to a change irrespective of what it is, until these people have something to build around, something to look forward to, we cannot expect that indistributed peace so essential for our present existence.
he Letter
"Presently I am in Belgium because I am going around looking for some work and some luck. I am working in the coal mines, and I am having a very hard time. I must sacrifice myself so much for very poor compensation; the salaries are extremely low, and I can't give enough to buy a pair of socks, recall again and again the time when I was working for you. That as really a fine time. Now I am esperate. Would you please tell me that kind of life is this? You know better than me that we do not live only with bread, we need also some happiness. What can a man like me expect out of life today? Ever day isadder and sadder, and I have hard-had a smile on my face in the last three years. I am still wearing the pair of pants that you so slowly gave me. Unfortunately the time has eaten up this last pair and I am now in such bad condition that I am ashamed to go out public.
ants To Marry
I am willing to have a family for my own, but I can't. My financee aits for me. I have to delay every me and now it is three years that he is waiting for me. Each time I ll her that in six months we will it married. But I am not making
enough to attempt a married life. Everything here must be bought in the black market, and I can assure you that there isn't too much left at the end of the month."
J. D. Morgan
Assistant professor of economics
Introduction
Students, meet Dave Clymer, College senior, from El Dorado. He's the Daily Kansan's new editor-in-chief. That means he'll be writing most of the editors that will appear on this page the next eight weeks. He'll be busy watching and reading about international, national, and campus affairs. You can help him by letting him know what you think. Write Dave a letter when you have an idea that you know other students should hear about. Dave will do the rest. He's genial, efficient, and eager to serve you the best in editorial fare.
Host Hunts Snakes But Won't Eat 'em
Johnson, a fellow who hunts rattlers when he isn't busy checking the city's money, last month heard that a rattlesnake feast had been jokingly proposed for the cops.
"I'll provide the snakes," he said. Fried to a golden brown (the cook threw the frying pan away when he got through) they were served to two dozen policemen.
Waco, Texas — (UP) — Don't get tough with Waco cops. They're tough hombres who eat rattlesnakes for supper; at least they did the other night.
The occasion was a rattlesnake supper with City Comptroller J. Ed Johnson as host.
Student Murals To Be Painted
Johnson refused to eat his snakes, however. "I just catch 'em," he laughed. "I don't eat them."
Mural sketches by Billy Lakey, fine arts junior, and Arthur Moore, sophomore, have been chosen for the Clay Center Country club murals.
Lakey's sketch was for the overmantel position depicting the Winkler mill near Randolph on Fancy creek. Walter Johnson, fine arts sophomore, and William Kiene, education junior, placed second and third respectively in this division.
Moore sketched the Mose Yunkin house near Wakefield. Richard Bibler, fine arts sophomore, and Illa Mae Junod, fine arts senior, were runners-up. This is the second year Lakev has won the award.
Sketches were made from pictures and outline drawings of the buildings. Completed murals will be done in oils by the winning students.
Seventeen sketches were entered by students from the fine arts department. They are William E. Beeks, William Dubs, Craig Hampton, Oscar Larmer, Frederick Moynahan, Johnson, Kiene, and Lakey, fine arts sophomores, and Donald Humphrey, senior.
The entire group of sketches will be displayed in the fine arts department during Music week. Raymond J. Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, has been in charge of the painting.
Sketches of the Yunkin house were entered by Bibler, Esther Black and Helen Dietzel, fine arts senior; Mary Enger, Patricia Moser, Wayne Wilson, Junod and Moore, sophomores.
Meet To Change Sweepstakes Plan
Proposed changes in the intramural sweepstakes plan will be voted on at a meeting of men's intramural managers at 4 p.m. today in 201 Robinson.
Managers met and discussed changes at a meeting March 19 but reached no decision. All managers are expected to attend, Don Powell, intramural director, said.
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For many years penicillin, the miracle drug, could be produced only in small quantities and was unstable in solution, Dr. Chester S. Keefer told about 200 doctors and University students here Wednesday morning.
R. T. Kingman, 47, is the author of an article, "Guerilla Raid," which will appear in the May issue of Ranch Romances. The issue goes on sale today. The magazine is published in New York City. Mr. Kingman was city editor of the University Daily Kansan during his senior year at the University. He is now working for the Kansas City Kansan.
Miracle Drug Came Slowly
Dr. Keefer, professor of medicine at the University of Boston, spoke on "Anti-Bacterial Agents from Microbes." He appeared on the Porter lecture program which is presented by the School of Medicine.
Not until 1942, was enough penicillin manufactured to treat a single individual, Dr. Keefer said. But enough was produced in 1943 to treat the armed forces, and now the drug has become available to everyone.
Dr. Keefer spoke at the University Medical center Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Therapy Graduates Find Good Positions
Doris Klindt, '48, has accepted a job in the occupational therapy department at the University of Iowa Psychopathic hospital. Iowa City.
Nancie Greenman, assistant professor of design, has announced the employment of the following graduates in occupational therapy:
Mary Jeanne Johnson, '48, has taken a position in the occupational therapy department of the Veterans' administration. Wichita.
Nancy Lou Stephan Cope, '48, work with the occupational therapy department at Colorado State hospital. Pueblo.
Former Instructor Visits
Miss Clara Hatton, former design instructor, who is now teaching at Colorado A. and M., is visiting the design department. She taught at the University from 1926 to 1935.
A newly-developed "midjet" dental X-ray tube was operated steadily in Westinghouse laboratories for 1,000 hours—the equivalent of two decades of normal usage in a dentist's office.
Baptist Rally Tomorrow
More than 16 Baptist churches in the Kansas River Valley association will send delegates to the Baptist Youth Fellowship rally at the First Baptist church, Lawrence, tomorrow and Sunday.
Theme of the two-day rally will be, "I'd Rather Have Jesus". The main business will be election of officers and discussion of the "Heifers for Europe Relief" project.
David Yu, a Chinese student at the Central Baptist Theological seminary in Kansas City, Kan., will be the principal speaker at a banquet tomorrow. His topic will be "Life in China and the Present Situation."
Helen Stringham, vice-president of the Kansas River Valley association, is in charge of the meeting. Dale W. Fields, president of the Baptist student group, will act as toastmaster at the banquet.
Dr. Andrew B. Martin, president of Ottawa university, will speak on, "What Can I Believe?" at 5:00 p.m., Sunday at the First Baptist church.
Managers' School Will Be Held Here
A city managers' school will be held April 22,23,and 24 at the University, the bureau of government research has announced.
Clarence E. Ridley, executive director of the International City Managers' association, will be here the first day to teach classes. E.O. Stene, associate professor of political science, and Hugo Wall, head of the political science department at Wichita university, will teach classes all three days. Professor Stone will use the "case method" in conducting his classes.
Invitations have been sent to practiccing city managers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado.
A study is being made of city managers' schools which were held at the Universities of Maine and Florida, the only schools of this type in the United States. The experience of these schools will be incorporated into the one to be held here.
Emphasis will be placed upon staff functions and overhead management problems rather than on line activities.
Carman Is Vice-President
J. Neal Carman, Romance language professor, was elected first vice-president of the Kansas Modern Language association at a recent meeting in Emporia.
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