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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943
Don't Let Jukeboxes Drive You Nuts; The Union Music Room Has Good Discs
Tired of the nerve-jolting variety of jukebox music? Visit the Union music room.
In quiet, congenial surroundings you may listen to your choice of the best in music. And, it is a popular place. Mrs. Jean Mowers, director, says that "from 75 to 100 students visit the music room daily."
Says Britain Used US Aid Improperly
Denver, March 23 — (UP) — Rep Anton J. Johnson (R-III) charged today that Grent Britain recently Russia 500 locomotives manufactured in part with American funds sent as aid to Britain.
Rep. Johnson, member of a congressional agricultural committee meeting here, said he was unfamiliar with details of the British shipment, which he said he learned about from a "reputable fellow congressman." He said there is "no doubt in my mind" the report was true.
Rep. Johnson said the facts recently were verified by the state department. The shipment "undoubtedly" was made, he said, with the knowledge and sanction of the British government.
Freshman Place First
In Ottawa Music Contest
Elizabeth Schoowe, fine arts freshman, placed first in piano with her playing of Schumann's "Viennese Carnival" in a music contest at Ottawa March 19. The contest was sponsored by the Womens Federated Music club.
Lyle Clark Wolfrom, fine arts freshman, placed first in cello.
To Enforce Parking Rules
University parking regulations will remain in effect only on Jayhawk drive during the Easter vacation, it was announced today by the Parking office. Regulations will apply during the regular hours.
"Some students," she said, "come to increase their knowledge and appreciation of the classics. Others come just to find peace in music." She also said that some students find that the music room is a good place to study.
The Union music room was made possible by a gift from the Carnegie Foundation in 1939. It started with a library of 650 recordings and now has more than 1,000. More than $100 has been spent for recordings this year.
Mrs. Mowers said several additions have been made to the library recently. Included are Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, recorded by the Boston Symphony orchestra; Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 in G minor with Ania Dorfmann, pianist, and the London Symphony orchestra; Brahms' concerto in D major, with Jascha Heifetz, violinist, and the Boston Symphony orchestra; and Beethoven's "Lenore" Overture No. 3 and "Prometheus" with Arture Toscani conducting the N. B. S. Symphony orchestra.
Two Andre Kostelanetz albums have been added to the library. They contain such arrangements as "Song of India," "Flamingo," "Fire Dance," and "Yours is My Heart Alone."
Classical Club Sees Slides
Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Classical club Monday.
Professor Grant showed slides of the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, both of which were decoration eruption of the volcano Nesvuyi.
Refreshments were served following the meeting.
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The Associated Women Students senate is selling picture postcards showing scenes of the campus and buildings.
AWS Senate To Sell Postcards Of Campus
The University photographic reau is making the cards. Postcards can be bought for five cents each from any A. W. S. representative. When more postcards are available, they will be sold in the Union.
Anti-Freeze Party To Abolish Taxes
Berkeley, Cal., March 23—(UP) A group of University of California students, poking fun at other student demonstrations, today formed the 33rd, or Anti-Freeze party.
The platform calls for abolishing California's drought, taxes, and Stanford university. It also asks that the Fort Knox gold hoard be opened to souvenir hunters.
Fishel Will Speak At Farm Meeting
Water resources and irrigation possibilities will be the subject of a talk to be given by V. C. Fishel, engineer in charge of the U. S. Geological Survey, to the annual Five-State Farm Forum meeting in Liberal tomorrow.
The talk will concern studies made by the ground water division of the survey on the availability of ground water for irrigation in Kansas.
The forum is made up of representatives from Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.
Phone Co. Wants Engineers
Electrical and mechanical engineering seniors will be interviewed by job consultants from the Southwestern Bell Telephone company March 30 and 31.
Arrangements for interviews are made in the office of the dean of the School of Engineering.
4000 Years Ago You Could Purchase 1 Sheep And 4 Lambs For Only $4
A clay tablet "meat bill" more than 4000 years old is the newest addition to Wilcox classical museum on the second floor of Fraser hall.
The tablet is now on display in a showcase of ancient writings in the museum. Miss Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin, has also placed on display examples of the papyrus plant. parchment paper, a cast of ancient Egyptian heiroglyphic in- $ \textcircled{4} $
scriptions, and bone styl used to write, on wax, tablets.
The tablet was presented to the museum by Miss Josephine Burnham, professor emeritus of English. It was found in the ruins of Drehem, a suburb of Nippur on the Euphrates river in Iraq. Since there was a receiving station at Nippur for the Temple of Bel, the lambs were probably used for sacrifice.
This very durable Babylonian clay tablet presents a bill for "one fat sheep, three ewe lambs, and one milk-fed lamb, killed for market and delivered on the 27th day of the month" at a price equal to $4. It is dated about 2350 B. C. and is inscribed with cuneiform writing.
The Babylonians wrote with a stylus on tablets of moist elay and then baked them. Such tablets were almost imperishable and were used for legal contracts and papers.
This tablet, approximately an inch square, is a little smaller than usual, according to the information given Miss Burnham. It resembles a small pink cushion peppered with wedge-like marks, known as cuneiform writing.
Lincoln Society Asks Help Of University Organizations
To promote cultural relationship among races, the Lincoln society of Brown university, Providence, R. I., is interested in exchanging ideas with similar organizations at the University of Kansas.
The organization is working to advance the economic and social standing of minority racial groups. It hopes to organize in colleges and Universities throughout the country, so that common purposes can make the organization an effective unit.
Says Colleges Try To Curtail Learning
Chicago, March 23—(UP) A prominent educator charged today that colleges themselves have tried to restrict education in the belief that too much learning for too many people would be dangerous.
Alonzo F. Myers, president of the national education association's department of high education, said that "we have been engaged in trying to keep education a scarce commodity."
Mr. Myers blamed the colleges, universities, professors, and college graduates themselves for spreading the idea of holding back learning.
"When an individual succeeds in getting an education and a training that will give him a good living and an assured social position," Mr. Myers said, "too often he immediately joins with others in his craft or profession to make sure that not enough others will be able to secure education and training to threaten his uniquely favored position."
Mr. Myers charged that "our higher institutions, too, have been a party to this conspiracy to restrict the benefits of education."
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