UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
AGE EIGHT
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1947
1,500 Welcome Friendship Train In Rain Friday
Throbbing tom-toms, Indian war chants, blaring bands, and a chilled crowd of about 1,500 welcomed the Southwest Friendship train at the Santa Fe station Friday.
Two carloads of wheat, contributed by the citizens of Douglas, Leavenworth, Jefferson and Franklin counties, awaited engine 103, which is carrying the food on the first lap of a journey to Europe. Of the $8,488 total raised in the four counties to buy wheat, University students and faculty members gave more than $600.
The crowd, composed mainly of high school and grade school students and their parents, listened to speeches by Gov. Frank Carlson and columnist Drew Pearson, originator of the Friendship train idea. The crowd cheered when both men predicted a Kansas victory in the Homecoming football game. Three Trains In Europe
Mr. Pearson told University Daily Kansas reporters that "there will be three friendship trains to distribute the food on the other side (Europe). Newsreels will be shown the peoples of Europe to prove that this food is actually from the people of the United States.
United States. "The food will be transferred to two ships when it reaches the East Coast. One will sail on Dec. 1, the other on Dec. 15. Some of it will reach Europe by Christmas."
A basket of multi-colored corn was presented to Governor Carlson by Franklin Jim and Mable Leading Fox, Haskell students. Speaking first in their native Pawnee and then in English, they said "Indians all over America join in sending food to Europe." Other Haskell students in tribal costumes sang and beat tomtoms during the ceremony.
Kansas Gives Most Grain
In his talk Governor Carlson reported that Kansas had contributed more cars of grain than any other state. He thanked the citizens of Kansas "on this eve of Thanksgiving for making the drive a success in Kansas."
Nicola Guilli and Jean Beliard, Italian and French representatives, expressed their countries gratitude to the people of the United States for their generosity.
After Belliard said that he had never seen so many pretty girls as in Kansas, high school girls flocked around the smiling Frenchman for autographs. Mr. Pearson was also surrounded by well wishers and autograph seekers. Both signed until the train left at 4:55 p.m.
Claudio Arrau, internationally famous pianist, will play here December 3 as the second regular attraction on the University Concert series.
Claudio Arrau Here In Concert Dec. 3
His talents so impressed the Chilean government that it undertook to finance his musical education. He was sent to Europe when he was seven to study under Martin Krause, famous teacher who had been a pupil of Liszt. The government subsidy continued for ten years.
Arrau, who is 43 years old, is described as being as handsome as he is serious. He was born in Chillan, a city in southern Chile. When he was five years old, he gave his first recital in Santiago.
Mr. Arrau first came to the United States in 1941. Before then he had appeared in all the principal cities of England and the continent.
Heart Attack Fatal To Football Spectator
David Franklin, 47, of Independence, Mo., died Saturday at Memorial stadium of a heart attack.
Franklin collapsed as he was leaving the stadium immediately after the game. A foreman at the Ford Motor co., in Kansas City, Mo., Franklin had attended the game with his nephew, Clarence Franklin, a sophomore at Missouri university.
Polish Exchange Student Covered Most Of Europe
Siberia for two years, Warsaw during the Nazi blitz of Poland, and the Italian campaign were all covered during the travels of Edmund Kostka, Polish exchange student, who spoke recently.
Kostka was sent as a laborer to Siberia when he went to the Russian zone after the fall of Warsaw to the invading Germans in 1939. The war between the Nazis and Russia gave him a chance to join a Polish corps, and to participate in the Italian
The cost of living is still costing and veterans are still gripping.
Living Costs Bring Gripes
A survey conducted by the college news bureau and the department of journalism at Kansas State college showed that living costs for the single male student there averages $82.08 monthly. Married couples spend $152.30 and unmarried women students average $70.03 as their monthly expenditure.
The married couple spends about $70 for food and about $39 for rent. Their remaining cost-of-living items compare with those of the single man.
The un-married male student spends about $40 a month for food, $12 for rent, $10 for clothes, $5 for cleaning and laundry, and $12 for recreation and amusement. The balance of the monthly expenditure is used for car upkeep, doctor bills, and other miscellaneous costs.
Women seem to eat less than the men since their monthly food bill averages $37.50. However, their rent runs higher, averaging $14. The women also spend $6 for amusement, which is less than one half the amount spent by men.
Students belonging to fraternities or sororities had a slightly higher cost of living average than independents.
The cost of living survey, given to approximately 600 students, was in the form of questionnaires. Veterans answered 78 per cent of the questionnaires filled in by male students. The present subsistence allowance for veterans attending school is $65 a month for single men; $90 a month for married men.
campaign with American and British troops.
Speaking slowly, he deliberately felt for the right word in not-too-familiar English. He said that he had started to learn English while herding sheep in Siberia.
A master of arts degree by the end of next summer is his goal. He studied at the University of Rome while on leave from the army in Italy.
Wants MA Degree
His banishment to Siberia did not have the usual political aspect, he said. Workers were needed and were picked at random from the Polish residents of the Russian zone.
The natives of the region into which they were sent were extremely helpful in settling the deportees. Sod houses were built, and all was done to make things as nice as possible, he said.
Most of the work was done with machinery, whose operators were well paid. Even the newcomers received the prevailing wage. Weather And Diet Bad
The drawbacks to the situation were the weather and the diet, said Kostka.
The winters are severe, he said with temperatures of 50 degrees below zero centigrade. The cold is intensified by the high winds that blow the snow into a blinding mass. The chances of getting lost and freezing to death in a Siberian blizzard are very good.
At the outbreak of hostilities between the Soviet Unin and Germany, the Polish deportees were given the opportunity to join their countrymen in their own army. The speaker traveled to the Southern part of Russia where he joined the unit with which he participated in the Italian campaign. Using British equipment, it fought at Cassino and in other major battles.
The diet that the deportees were forced to live on was vitamin deficient, being mostly of wheat flour. Kostka said that he avoided scurvy, which claimed many of his comrades, by eating raw eggs. Joined Polish Army
After the war, he studied at the University of Rome where he applied for passage to the United States as an exchange student. The appointment sent him to this University.
He hopes to stay in this country long enough to become well acquainted with the American people. He wants to know the language, thoughts, hopes and desires of the U.S.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Pay her, Worthal, and stop making such a fuss every time you get the check!"
E. C. Quigley, director of athletics, will speak at intermission festivities at the Victory dance tonight at the Military Science building. He will represent the athletic department which is sponsoring the dance.
E. C. Quigley Will Speak
At Tonight's Dance
Speech Teachers To Meet Dec. 5
High school teachers of speech and drama will meet Dee. 5 and 6 in the Little theater of Green hall to compare methods and discuss problems with members of the University faculty.
In the past, high school teachers have held discussions at their spring speech and drama festivals, but high school students at the festival have hindered discussions.
Included on the program will be a dress rehearsal of the play, "Blithe Spirit," which will be presented Dec. 8, 9, and 10. Allen Crafton, chairman of the department of speech and drama, will discuss the play after the performance.
London—(UP)—A correspondent called the Soviet embassy today to check a report. A woman answered the telephone.
Which Script Did You Read Then, Tovarich?
University faculty members will discuss one-act plays, radio drama, original and standard oration, extemporaneous speech, informative speech, after-dinner speaking, and humorous, dramatic, and prose reading.
"He isn't here," she said.
"Who isn't there?" asked the correspondent.
"Whom did you want to talk to?" asked the woman.
The Rains Came But They Ogled Cute, Wet Coeds
Thousands of spectators lined Massachusetts street in the rain Saturday to cheer 35 floats, lighted by red flares, as they drove past in the annual Homecoming float parade.
Wearing its bright new uniforms for the first time, the University band led the paraders down a street which shone and sparkled from the rain. Carolyn Ann Campbell, the Homecoming queen, and her attendants, Martha Hutchison and Carol Harris, followed the band in a shiny yellow convertible.
The rain started to fall heavily during the parade but the spectators, most of them without umbrellas or hats, stood their ground to watch floats decorated with cute, cold, damp coeds. The crowd whistled and howled as the girls rode past, bare legs and bare shoulders exposed to rain, cold, and stares.
Lester Morgan, parade chairman, said that the crowd was the largest in years.
In the parade were fraternities, sororites, the army air forces, Haskell institute, ann the Lawrence water department.
The army air forces showed a silver airplane float, painted with signs to "Join the army." As the float paraded by, the crowd yelled, "How'd you get in there."
On their float Haskell students in feathered war bonnets beat on a tom-tom and chanted their age-old songs. The city water department float was a sanitation truck followed by a huge derrick with tiger meat on its back.
The dial telephone system now in use at the University has met a cool reception from Mrs. Mary Neustifter, supervisor of the telephone exchange.
Dials May Be Efficient, But They Lack That Personal Touch, Mary Believes
It's all rather sad to Mrs. Neustifter, this giving up personalized service.
Mary, as her "line" friends know her, believes she should be able to recognize these voices as she has listened to them since 1929, when she first started on the switchboard. One contact with the outside for Mrs. Neustifter, however, is still open; the city calls to the University are still operated manually.
"I've made a lot of speaking acquaintances over this switchboard with people I wouldn't even know on sight, and I'll sure miss handling their calls on the wire."
In addition to Mrs. Neusitier there are four other operators on the exchange, all of whom are being kept on. These include a daytime assistant, an evening operator who works from 5 to 12, the graveyard shift operator who works from midnight to 7:30, and a Sunday operator.
First, look up the K.U. number before calling. The days are gone forever when you could say, "Registrar's office, please."
As far as greater efficiency is concerned, Mrs. Neustetier believes that "plugging them in" is every bit as fast as the robot operator except when there is an overload of calls on the board.
For Long Distance, dial the figure "$" and ask the operator for Long Distance.
To call an off-campus number, dial the number "S" and when the operator answers, tell her the number you want.
Before dialing, listen for the dial tone. If you don't hear a buzzing noise, the line isn't clear and you won't get your party.
In order to secure numbers not in the directory, dial the figure "6" and ask the K.U. operator.
Here are some of the new numbers: Registrar's office, 238; Business office, 204; Chancellor's office, 201; Dean of Men, 214; Dean of Women, 212; Public relations, 216.
A new University phone direction
All numbers are of three digits.
Chicago—(UP)—The University of Michigan was selected unanimously by big nine representatives today to represent the conference in the Rese bowl football game at Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 1.
Michigan To Go To Rose Bowl
Bring Back Clothes For European Relief
The Y.W.C.A. is collecting clothing at the University for the drive sponsored by the American Friends Service committee Clothing collected will be used this winter in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, China, Japan, and the bituminous coal fields of the United States.
While you are home for Thanks-giving, if you find any old clothing which can still be worn, bring it back and drop it in one of the boxes placed on the campus by the Y.W. C.A., or take it to Henley house.
Kansas Places Fifth In Cross-Country
Robert Karnes of Kansas led Milne, but when the two hit the home stretch, Karnes made a wrong turn and had to be directed back to the path by spectators. Kansas placed fifth.
East Lansing, Mich.—(UP)—Picking his way through a swirling snow storm, Jack Milne of North Carolina university won the N.C.A.A. cross-country championship today.
Penn state came in second, Ohio Wesleyan third, and Texas fourth.