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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANS \N, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1947
Let's Be Sure Before Vetoing Miami Band Trip
AN EDITORIAL
University officials should think several times before they veto a lead trip to the Orange bowl. Right now the chances for the band look dark, but let's look at the facts.
The administration argues:
1. That a trip would cost around $15,000 too much money.
2. That the band would have no part in the half-time program.
3. That experience of other schools in bowl games indicates a band trip would not be feasible.
These may be valid arguments, but are they conclusive? We think not for the following reasons:
1. Alumni in Kansas City and Topeka are interested in a band trip to the Orange bowl, yet the University will give them no green light to raise the money. Certainly $15,000 is a lot of money if you are to discourage aid from the outside.
2. We quote from telephone conversation Saturday with the presidents of the Universities of Nebraska and Oklahoma. Said the Nebraska encalleron, "We heard a great deal of favorable comment from the West Coast when our band accompanied the team to the Rose Bowl in 1940."
2. The half-time program is only a part of Orange bowl festivities. The band with its new uniforms could make an excellent impression for the school in parades, rallies, and sideline performance at the game.
Said the Oklahoma University president, "Obviously, a band is always worthwhile at a football game. We didn't take our band to the Gator bowl last year and missed it very much. We felt the picture wasn't complete. If we were going to the Orange bowl, I think we would take the band, in fact, we would take the band, period."
The University has let it be known that it does not favor sending the band to Miami. It apparently has acted summarily without consulting enough interested persons. There is still hope for a band trip to Miami if the University administration will catch the door before it slams in the face of alumni and students who might push the venture through to success.
Jobs In Research Open To Students
Two representatives from the naval research laboratory will interview students Wednesday in Marvin hall for jobs in government research. They will talk to majors in chemistry, physics, mathematics, mining and metallurgy, and psychology; and to civil, mechanical, astronautical, chemical, petroleum and electrical engineers.
On Dec. 11 interviewers from an aluminum company will talk to students interested in engineering sales work or production engineering. They will consider any type of engineering graduate for the sales work. Industrial and chemical engineers are required for the plant work, according to information received by the office of the dean of the engineering school.
Not So Safe After All
Beloit. Wis.—(UP)—Harry Lorenz chained his boat to a tree six inches in diameter. He thought that would guarantee its safety. The thieves chopped down the tree and stole the craft.
PICTURED AT THE WHITE HOUSE, Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Hariman (right) presents the first sheet of Christmas seals of the 1947 campaign to President Truman. The Chief Executive urged wide use of the seals to aid the National Tuberculosis Association in its great work of combating the dread disease. (International Soundphoto)
'Tourists Miss Idea Of Ruins,' Professor Tells Phi Beta Kappa
The typical American tourist misses the meaning of the European ruins, ancient and recent, because of a poor historical background, Miss Mary Grant, associate professor of Latin and Greek told a Phi Beta Gamma meeting Friday.
Six students were initiated into the honor society during the meet-
Six students were ing. They are George H. Caldwell, Edward W. Colburn, James M. Parks, Laurel H. Hodgden, Robert K. Ready and Shirley A. Wellborn.
Visits Southern Europe
Professor Grant, who visited Southern Europe last summer with 24 recent college graduates, compared today's conditions there with those at the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. She described the historic sites and the students' reactions to them.
She said that one of them remarked, I know Florence is a famous city, but just what are we supposed to see here?
"Secretary of State Marshall, in a recent address, said he felt the need for a better historical background when he was working with European statesmen," she said. "He urged greater emphasis on history in the schools."
"Ivory Tower"
Professor Grant said that today's tourists probably don't go to Europe to "escape into an ivory tower" as the tourist after World War I was accused. However, the complexity of events coupled with educational neglect cause many, like one student in the tour, to say, 'I think I'll shop this morning and not go with the group. We're supposed to go to that old place where there aren't any roofs on the buildings.'
Professor Grant, who told of the trip down the beautiful Riviera into Italy pictured the many historical sites and interpreted them culturally.
"The war blackened walls and devastation of cities described by Sidonius were easy enough to visualize since we had just seen bombed out Calais."
"For the ordinary traveler history is an elusive creature. Famous sites don't group themselves conveniently and growth doesn't take place in orderly layers for easy analysis. The noise and confusion of the great cities drives out a sense of the past," she said.
Professor Grant compared the present era, both spiritually and physically, with the ancient by referring to the works of a fifth century writer named Sidonius Apollinaris.
War Blackened Walls
She also told of the changes, mostly for the worse, in the appearance of towns and places of interest since the war.
500 Attend ISADance
About 500 persons danced to the music of Charlie O'Connor's band at the semi-formal I.S.A. Christmas dance held Saturday night in the Union ballroom.
The intermission program was well-received. A Mexican hat dance was presented by Bolivar Marquez and Irene Cebula, with Jessie Estrada at the piano. The Moonmisters, winners of the recent barber shop quartet contest, sang several numbers and were brought back by the audience for an encore. Members are Dean Leslie, Dick Hartler, Bob Shotwell, and Bob Hamilton. Completing the program was a conga舞由 Bolivar Marquez and Mrs. Edith Celespo.
Special guests at the dance were the 32 foreign officers from Ft. Leavenworth. The K.U. International club entertained them with a banquet earlier in the evening.
Denver (U.P.)—W. F. Henninger, commissioner of supplies, saved the city $16,400.
Supply Commissioner Saves City Money
Heninger negotiated with the War Assets Administration for 20,000 feet of fire hose and got it for 18 cents a foot. The old price for such hose was $1 a foot.
Before Henninger started negotiating with the WAA, Denver fire department officials had slashed their budget to include only 10,000 feet of hose. Through Heninger's work they got 29,000 feet they surely needed and saved, enough money to pay the officials' salary for the next six years.
Ten Will Get You Five
Grand Rapids, Mich., — (UF)—Morrie Oudersluys, an army veteran, finally received the balance of his terminal leave pay. It was five cents, out he can't spend it. It costs a dime to cash an out of town check.
Sauer Will Speak In 4 Kansas Cities
Football coach George Sauer will speak in four Kansas cities in the next three days before the Jayhawkers resume practice Thursday for the Orange bowl game with Georgia Tech.
Mr. Sauer speaks at Stafford Monday night, Russell Tuesday, noon, Smith Center Tuesday night, and Delphos Wednesday night. He was the speaker Saturday night at the Turner high school football dinner in Kansas City, Mo.
Write A Slogan, See Bowl Game
"Write a slogan for the team—and win two all-expense trips to the Orange Bowl game," is the kickoff line of the Orange Bowl Contest which opened on the campus this morning.
Aloha Delta Sigma Sponsors
Sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fraternity, the profits of the contest will be turned into a student fund for the purchase into a student fund. While details on the plaque have not been worked out, it has been proposed that it be installed in the gym or at the stadium.
Contest entrants pay a 50 cent entry fee, write a snappy slogan for the team to take to Florida, and place it in a contest box at one of the booths located in Frank Strong hall, Marvin hall, and the Memorial Union.
Judged By Faculty
The contest winner will be judged by a faculty member-tickets are designed so that numbers alone will identify the entrant-the winner will be announced in the University Daily Kansan, Friday, Dec.19.
The prize, two all-expense Orange Bowl trips, includes train fare on the special train from Kansas City, all meals on the train, three nights hotel expenses in Miami, and tickets to the game. Meals in Miami are not included in the prize.
Young G.O.P.'s Vote 'No Stand
Young Republicans from nearly every county in the state voted to take no stand on the wet and dry issue in Kansas Saturday in Salina.
An ex-infantry sergeant, C. C. Linley, from Cimarron was chosen state chairman over an ex-major, J. W. Putman, from Emporia. Al Becker of Kansas City was unanimously elected national committeeman.
Robert I. Nicholson, Poola lawyer and keynote speaker at the meeting declared, "The wet or dry question was conceived, considered, campaigned, and submitted to the voters on the promise that it is a matter to be decided by each individual."
The group also approved these resolutions:
Repeal of the gag provision in the constitution of the Young Republicans club, and the writing of a new constitution in one year. Aid to foreign countries by commodities to those who are not Communist dominated. A law requiring a test for drivers in the state. Retirement program for state, county, and municipal employees. Improvement of the state mental hospitals. A fair employment practices act to prevent discriminations because of race.
Mrs. Mary Belle Groom of Lawrence was elected national committee-woman.
Chancellor in Kansas City
Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Dr. John Frye, executive director of the State Geological survey, are in Kansas City today attending the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the Midwest Research institute.
Tribute Is Paid To Summerfield
Tribute to the memory of Solon E. Summerfield, '99, founder of the Summerfield scholarships, was paid in Danforth chapel Sunday afternoon in a memorial service honoring the former New York hosiery manufacturer, and benefactor. Mr. Summerfield was 70 years old when he died last September.
Malott Talks
The chapel was crowded with faculty members, students, and friends of Mr. Summerfield. Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Irving Hill, local banker, Prof. Hilden Gibson, a former Summerfield scholar, and Thad Marsh, Eudora, who now holds a scholarship, were the speakers.
Chancellor Malott told the audience that Mr. Summerfield had amassed a fortune, but in prosperity was mindful of those without that same quality.
Prof. Hilden Gibson said that receive and hold a Summer scholarship became an honor as high as any that could be attained during a collegiate career. "It was the badge of admission to a peculiar group with an esprit de corps and standard of its own."
Tells Of Summerfield
Iving Hill, local banker, and treasurer of the K.U. endowment association, related his acquaintanceship with Mr. Summerfield since 1929, the year the scholarships were founded. Mr. Summerfield donated over $330,000 to the scholarships during the past 18 years, but requested that no praise be given him because of his gifts, said Mr. Hill.
Thad Marsh, a present Summer-field scholar, said that "we here dedicate ourselves to the proud ideals which gave us that name. With such a humble dedication, with such directness of purpose, we shall in our turn, bestow upon his name the gift of enduring life."
Competing against 26 universities, K.U. debaters received a rating of excellent at the University of Iowa debate tournament Friday and Saturday.
Debaters Get An 'Excellent'
The affirmative team of Edward Stollenwerck and Kenneth Bensley was undefeated. The negative team of Ben Foster and Hal Frieden was rated excellent. The debate question was Resolved, that a federal world government should be established.
Stollenwerck won a superior rating in the extempore speaking contest while Beasley received an excellent rating in public speaking.
"The tournament was one of the roughest that Kansas has ever attended," said Richard Shiefelbusch, instructor of speech, who accompanied the team on the trip. Among the teams in the tourney were the United States Military academy, Notre Dame, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Purdue, and Marquette.
Maybe MU Needed Stop-Gap, Harry
President Truman, a Missouriian was disappointed when the Jayhawkers defeated the Missouri Tigers by a score of 20 to 14, Sgt. John P. Joiola reports.
Joila, printing instructor at Haskell institute and winner of the recent Kansas national guard recruiting contest, won a six-day trip to Washington, D.C. He learned of the President's displeasure during a tour of the White House when he asked the President how he liked the Kansas-Missouri score.
"I didn't like it," President Truman replied. "I wish the score had remained 14 to 13, with Missouri ahead."