UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948
Democrats Meet At KU Saturday
University students will have an opportunity to observe politics in action by attending the Democratic meetings at the University Saturday.
Mr. Smathers, a lawyer, served with the marines in the Pacific and was the first veteran to win a seat in Congress. When he was 28 years old, he was the youngest federal district attorney in the United States. He was the main speaker at the national convention of the Young Democrats in Cleveland in 1947.
The intercollegiate council of Kansas Young Democrats will meet at 1 p.m. to elect officers. Paul Barker, chairman will preside at a meeting of the Young Democrats of the second congressional district at 3 p.m. The executive committee of the group will meet at 4 p.m. to fill the unexpired term of Bill Warren, Wichita, who has resigned. All meetings will be in the Union.
meetings will win.
The feature of the days activities will be the address by George A. Smathers, a member of the house of representatives from Florida, at the banquet at 6:45 p.m. in the Kansas room. He will speak on the Democratic policies and problems in the coming election.
1847. Tickets for the banquet will be on sale Thursday in the lobby of the Union. The sale of tickets on the campus is limited to 75 and the price is $2.
Among those who will attend are Carl V. Rice, national Democratic committeeman; Georgia Neese Clark, national Democratic committeewoman; and Anne Laughlin, Kansas author and formerly with U.N.R.R.A.
Class schedules for the summer session will be available within a few days at all department offices, George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, said today.
Summer Session Schedules Will Be Available Soon
The catalogs contain a list of classes, instructors, credit hours, and room numbers.
Deadline Changed In Poetry Contest
the deadline for the William Herbert Carruth poetry contest has been postponed until April 16, Ray B. Worc, Jr., associate professor of English and contest chairman, announced today.
Barnard College
Prizes totaling $175 will be awarded for the three poems selected by the judges. Any student may enter the contest. Judges will be four members of the English department and two practicing poets. All entries should be turned in to the English office, 201 Fraser. Three copies of each poem must be submitted under a pen name. The contestant's real name should be enclosed in a sealed envelope accompanying the manuscript, Mr. West said.
'New Law Will Be Steadying Effect
The Taft-Hartley law leaves much to be desired but it should be a stabilizing influence in labor-management relations, Frank Pitt, associate professor of law, told members of management groups and representatives of the Kansas Bar association March 26 at Coffeyville.
Professor Pitt spoke on "The Law Nobody Knows" at the first of a series of three lectures conducted by the University Extension at the request of southeastern Kansas industries. George H. Kinney, executive vice-president of the industrial council of Kansas City, acted as moderator.
"For the first time, the rights of the public in a labor dispute are recognized and protected, even though much remains to be done in the public's behalf." Professor Pitt said.
Geologists To Get Shots
The speaker gave a brief history of the labor law and analyzed the national emergency provisions which relate to the current coal, meat-packing, and atomic energy labor disputes.
All persons in the geology department going on summer field trips may now be inoculated for typhoid and spotted fever from 8 a. m. to noon and from 2 to 5 p. m. at Watkins hospital.
- Official Bulletin -
March 31,1948
Archery club practice, 4 to 6 p.m today.
K. U. Dames, 8 tonight, Lindley auditorium.
All committees, Student Union Activities, 7 tonight, following rooms in Fraser: secretarial, 205; service, 206; entertainment, 209; announcements, 210; decorations, 213; publicity, 306; library, 307; public liaison, 308; coffees and forums, 309; clubs and organizations, 310; intramural, 311; posters, 305; social, 312
Correction: Russian club April 7 instead of today.
Square Dance club. 7 tonight,
recreation room, Union.
I.S.A. midweek, 7:30 to 9 tonight,
Kansas room, Union.
Independents, men's political party, 7 tonight, Memorial Union recreation room.
Mortar Board, Miss Meguiar's, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Wear Mortar Board jacket.
Reticiting A.W.S. Senate, 4 p.m. to
morrow, office of Dean of Women.
Episcopal College club to conduct Order of Morning Prayer at worship service, 7 a.m. tomorrow, Danforth chapel.
University Women's club tea, 3 p.m. tomorrow, Myers hall.
Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Pine room, Union.
Deutscher Verein wird sich Donnerstag um 4:30 in 402 Fraser versammeln.
Pre-Nursing club, 4 p.m. tomorrow, Fraser dining room. Miss Bleam, pediatrics supervisor, Kansas City, speaker.
Four-No Bridge club, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Union ballroom. All interested invited. Members may pick up membership cards at hostess' desk.
A.V.C. birthday banquet, 6:30 p.m.
tomorrow, Kansas room, Union.
John Ise, speaker.
Armaniyan meeting, 7 p.m. tomorrow, East room, Union.
College freshmen and sophomores should consult their advisers this week. Names and office hours of advisers are posted on College bulletin board opposite 229 Frank Strong.
—Assistant Dean Gilbert Ulmer Alpha Phi Omega informal dance, 9 to 12 p.m. Friday, Castle Tea room, members, pledges and guests.
Christian Science lecture, 8 p.m. tomorrow, Frank Strong auditorium, by Miss E. F. Heywood of London, England.
inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship meeting Friday night with Wheaton College Quartette in charge. No meeting tonight.
English proficiency examination,
1 p.m. April 10. Registration, April
5, 6, and 7. Students in College, 229
Frank Strong. Students in School of
Education, 103 Fraser.
Newly - elected and retiring A.W.S. Senates, 9:30 a.m. Saturday,
Pine room.
General Semantics club meeting, April 6, 7:30 p.m., room 111, Frank Strong. Members requested to return borrowed material. No meeting this week.
Napoleon May Have Brewed Coffee, But Does KU Own The Correct Pot?
Quill club, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow,
Union building.
Napoleon is quoted as having said that "an army travels on its stomach." Apparently the "little general" believed what he said.
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Spooner-Thayer museum has a shiny brass coffee pot which Napoleon may have used to brew coffee to warm his blood during the campaigns in the blizzards of northern Russia 136 years ago. But if he did, the event should be recorded as a miracle. $ \textcircled{4} $
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Although the pot's glorious past has not been officially verified, Frank E. Melvin, associate professor of history, believes Napoleon had the pot during his disastrous 1812 Russian campaign. But as yet no one has traced the history of the coffee container from Napoleon's time to its first appearance at the University with the Thayer collection of art in 1917.
The fact that the pot was salvaged after Napoleon's defeat at Moscow is ironic, as the emperor lost a quarter of a million men on this campaign. The campaign is described by one historian as "a nightmare of horror for hunger and frost declimated the ragged troops as Napoleon slowly retreated from Moscow while Cossacks rode out of the blizzards to cut down the stragglers."
Salvaging Pot Is Miracle
According to Mrs. W. W. Warner, curator of the museum, the history behind the pot is a legend handed down through the years and based on the original display card which read "Napoleon's pot." Files Don't Verify Story
"I'm sorry Mr. Melvin was disillusioned." Mrs. Warner said, "but our files don't verify the story."
in 1840, 19 years after Napoleon's death.
Mrs. Warner bases her argument on a reply received from the magazine, Antique, stating that the pot is recorded in Thomas Webster's "Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy" as "Parker's patent steam fountain coffee maker." Parker's coffee maker was first manufactured
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(As Elwood P. Dowd) In The Pulitzer Prize Winning Play
BROCK PEMBERTON
by MARY CHASE
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Directed by Paul Foley as originally directed by Antoinette Perry.
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