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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1947
Married Students Buy Homes, Youngberg Says
Many married students bought homes in Lawrence this year, Irvin Youngberg, University housing director, said today. He believes real estate purchases, new construction, renting for a place, are important for the increase in rental notices.
Mr. Youngberg said that he thought many G.L.'s who bought property this year have rented extra students to obtain needed income.
The University housing office had listings Tuesday which offered for rent two apartments, a four-room house, 63 double rooms, 29 single rooms, 38 double rooms, each for one extra student, all men, and room for girls. 22 rooms and two apartments were advertised in the classified columns of the University Daily Kansan during the past seven days.
The greatly - expanded campus housing program, with 18 dormitories and Sunnyside project in operation, provides homes for approximately 1,000 students and 186 families. Youngberg said that 120 members of the University teaching staff, or about 25 per cent of the full time instructors, live at the Sunnyside project. He emphasized that 53 new faculty families have entered the project units since last spring without moving or doubling-up original tenants.
Four apartments have been listed with the housing office since Thursday, said Mrs. Leonard Diehl, secretary. Vacancy listings for apartments, whenever received, are given applicants on a first-come-first-served basis, as the demand far exceeds the supply.
A large roaming house which began operation this year at 916 Kentucky street, keeping 15 students, is an example of Lawrence cooperation which Mr. Youngberg praised. Another house at 1218 Mississippi street which last year had 10 students now houses 24 men.
Monchorsia hall and Lambda Chi house are home to students who until this year hunted other accommodations. The J. L. Constant residence, 1120 West 11th street, newly purchased by Phi Kappa fraternity, will provide quarters for 40 to 50 men.
The housing office is situated in the office of the dean of women in Frank Strong hall. Mrs. Diehl is operating the office on a half-day Basis 8 a.m. to noon.
You'll Be Glad To Hear That Petting' Is Only Natural
If you "pet" and worry about it, don't.
It's the "natural thing," according to Dr. Robert G. Foster, visiting professor of Marriage and Family Relations, who spoke at a coffee and forum committee meeting Wednesday.
The next meeting of the committee will be held Oct. 21.
"I have been asked if there was too much of it on at the University. There is no more of it here than anywhere else," Dr. Foster said.
"Going steady" all through college is usually a mistake, he added.
"Generally the more persons you have dated, the sounder basis you have for mate selection. A shy person is more apt to go with only one person. It is more easier to disclose a new friend than to meet someone new. It starts in high school when relations between sexes are uncertain."
Don't Date At All
Many w o m e n especially go through school without dating at all. Dr. Foster said. This is the reason, he explained, is enough about dating, he explained.
"Girls are often taught that any display of interest on their part is highly improper. They should not be on the prowl, but should show interest in the subject. They might try to be where the can be dated."
The satisfaction of a basis need is the reason for attraction of the sexes, Dr. Krueger (1984) with the following
"To analyze love does not destroy romance and moonlight. I love you
means that the need for praise or companionship and so forth has been met."
The desirable qualities of a perfect mate are influenced by friends, parents, and experiences, he said. There is no scientific method for choosing.
"The idea that opposites attract is a fallacy. Studies of happy marriages show that generally there is a similarity of background, likes, desires, and outlooks."
The age of marriage does not have too much bearing on the subject. Dr.Foster declared.
Opposities Don't Attract
"Age is cultural now. Although the pioneer men married girls of 16 and 17, our modern life has set the age at about 22 to 25 for men and 19 to 23 for women. Statistics have proved that it is better for a man to be as old or older than his wife. A man approaching middle age is more satisfied with a woman younger than himself."
Marriage should not be rushed into, he warned. Dating for at least a year is the best policy.
Extension Taught 4,401 Last Year
University Extension classes in 27 cities outside the permanent extension centers at Kansas City and Wichita enrolled 2,500 students last year, F. T. Stockton, dean of Extension, said today.
In four years Extension has increased 2,000 per cent. Total enrollment last year was 4,401 with 136 classes in 29 cities. For the ten-year period before that, 182 students enrolled in 215 with an average of 13 classes. In the three intervening years, enrollments were 558, 1,376 and 2,338.
Ten per cent of the enrollees were financed by the G.I. bill of rights. Twenty-one per cent or 939 were enrolled for college credit. Another 157 earned graduate credit. The remainder studied for personal satisfaction or professional or vocational advancement.
Kansas Is Hardly The Type But KU Has Mountaineers
"If climbing the 14th street hill seems like tough going, you should try some real mountain climbing," say two University students, David Gag-Hardo. College junior, and Donald Schaake, engineering freshman.
These two fellows have discovered that other K.U. students share their feelings. They have found a number of amateur Kansas climbers who have had experience in scaling some America's highest peaks.
These climbers have organized a new club, the K.U. Mountaineers, to encourage interest in mountain sports, particularly the climbing field.
Davis Is Sponosr
On the University of Iowa campus, an organization known as the Iowa Mountaineers offers such trips as part of an extensive program. The Iowa group is now the most influential center at the university, having grown to membershipive members in 1940 to almost 500 active members now.
Prof. W.W. Davis of the history department, the Mountaineers' sponsor, is well qualified since he is a member of the Swiss Alpine club. His last year of actual climbing was 1899, the year he took a European tour and spent several weeks in the Swiss Alps.
The Mountaineers are planning monthly meetings at which noted lecturers and films pertaining to climbing and other mountain sports
Will Show Technique Films
The Mountaineers are aware that Kansas plains offer no practical application for their sport. However, the group is hoping to expand so that eventually a year's program will include two-week outings in Colorado, Wyoming, or Mexican ranges during Christmas holidays and summer months.
At the first meeting of the club at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Union, Professor Davis will speak about "Mountaineering in the Swiss Alps" and he will show slides. Gagliardio and Schaake, as instigators and charter members of the club, are hoping for a large turn-out of all present, past, and prospective mountain climbers.
K. U.'s Mountainaires are not execting such magnificent results this first year, but it is a bright star they are aiming for in coming years.
will be featured. Schaake, who was stationed at Camp Carson, Colo., with the army mountain troops, hopes to secure some U.S. army training films, several in technicolor, for those who might be interested in learning correct and safe climbing techniques.
Activity Books Available In Frank Strong Rotunda
Activity books may be picked up in the rotunda of Frank Strong all this week, Karl Klooz, bursar, said today.
Students should present their receipts at the tables set up in the rotunda between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Bedell Wins Prize For News Coverage
Hortense Bedell, College junior, has been awarded first prize of $25 for coverage of University news in the Augusta Gazette last year, announced Fred Ellsworth, sponsor of State-wide activities.
Carolyn Nigg, College senior, who wrote for the Whitewater Independent won the second prize and Jeanne C. Smith, Education junior, was awarded third prize for her articles in the Neodesha Sun.
Prizes were awarded on the basis
of sales of items printed in home
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Noble Melencamp, College sophomore has been appointed chairman of the committee for this year.
Oil Man Says We Must Help Europe
"It is the responsibility of American statesmen and business men to see that the people of the world have an opportunity to feed themselves," H. R. Maulsby, regional director of Socony Vacuum Oil company told the Society for the Advancement of Management Tuesday.
He said that neither religion, education, nor politics could save the world.
"American democracy and its inherent system of free enterprise is the most important needs of millions of suffering and discontented people are satisfied."
Mr. Mausley told the society that business men should have a welfare as well as a profit motive and that they must be taught to respect the rights of individuals instead of operating solely for profits.
First Seminar Scheduled For Tomorrow Afternoon
The University chapter of the Society for Advancement of Man-agement will hold the first in a series of four senior seminars at 4 p.m. tomorrow. The seminar will be in the English room.
J. Alden Trovillo, associate professor of industrial management, and F. James Johnson, associate director of the University business placement bureau, will lead the discussion...
Author Loses To Merry-Go-Round
The merry-go-round wouldn't break down so Joseph Stanley "The History of Rome Hanks" will leave his home in Junction City.
Mr. Hanks, "27, will move to Seaside, Ore, in two months because of a merry-go-around across the town from his down town apartment.
Officials say that the merry-go-round has been operating on reduced scale because of seasonal factors.
Mitchell Offers Short Tax Form
Wiley Mitchell, instructor in the School of Business, suggests adoption of a short form return in filing personal income tax for the state. The suggestion appears in a report released by the bureau of business research recently.
The revisions suggested would cut the time for preparation of most returns to five minutes. The short form would be similar to one provided by the federal government in 1944.
Two Proposals
Mr. Mitchell presents two alternative proposals. The first develops a table of tax liabilities with automatic standard deductions and exemptions based on present Kansas law. The second would bring state provisions to parallel federal law.
The taxpayers would fill in blanks in a simple statement, giving gross taxable income and number of dependents. A glance at the prepared table would disclose the amount of tax due.
Forms To Be Optional
Both proposals would retain the option of using the long form for those with large charitable contributions, medical expense or interest payments.
Governor Frank Carlson wrote a preface to the report commending suggestions suggested some legislative and administrative difficulties might be encountered.
Prof. Leslie Waters, director of the bureau of business research, said that he knew of no state that had adopted the short form return, and that Kansas had the opportunity to take the leadership in progressive legislation.
You Can Acquire Reading Speed At KU Laboratory
News Of The World
If you'd like to build up your reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary, the staff of the University reading laboratory is ready to help you.
Several new techniques for aiding the student with his academic problems will be given practical application this fall. But Dr. Smith points out that students must learn methods with which Dr. Nash had been experimenting.
The students who enroll for the first classes on Oct. 13 will have the chance to learn some of the best methods of answering the essay type quiz, as well as the objective examination. A program for improving library skills is planned. Students may receive assistance in the budgeting of time and planning reviews. General reading tests for speed and comprehension will be given every Tuesday and Saturday and may be taken by any student. There is no fee for any of the services.
A native Kansan, Dr. Smith received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State Teachers college at Emporia, and his doctorate from Arkansas University, before going to Syracuse university he taught at Arizona State Teachers college
Dr. Henry P. Smith, director of the laboratory, arrived at the University this fall to assume the duties of the late Prof. Bert Nash. Dr. Smith came from Syracuse university, where he was a member of the staff of the School of Education for the past three years.
The average enrollment for the clinic is 300 a semester, Dr. Smith said. Classes are limited to 15 students each and meet two or three hours a week. The last class will be about two weeks before the final examinations.
Since the reading laboratory is continually broadening its scope, Dr Smith feels that the name of the service should more nearly describe its functions. The courses are being referred to as an academic methods program. However, the emphasis will remain on reading improvement.
Dr. Smith urges any student who feels that he could benefit from the program to contact Joseph Holly, 18 Fraser hall.
Restaurants and dining rooms had plenty of meat on the menus, but in many cases it was listed because they had large supplies on hand when the campaign was announced last Sunday.
No Poultry For Tomorrow
Washington. ..(UP)—Government spokesmen predicted today that the first "poultryless Thursday" would be more successful than the first "meatless Tuesday" because house-keepers will need extra days to readjust their menus.
Many meat markets reported that they sold about as much meat as usual during the first meatless day later than the first Truman's food saving program.
A survey of retail meat markets across the nation showed that few of them had noticed any effects of the program.
Distillers Don't Like 60-Day Liquor 'Holiday'
Washington—(UP)—A majority of the nation's whiskey distillers have decided to lodge an angry protest against President Truman's demand for 60-day honor "holiday" to free grain for Europe, it was learned today.
Railroads Increase Rates
Washington. —(UP)—The Interstate Commerce commission has granted the nation's railroads freight and passenger rate increases that will cost the public about $127,000,-000 by the end of the year. The commission authorized a country-wide emergency jump of 10 per cent in freight rates, effective on three days' notice.
First Democrat Governor Of Kansas Dies At 81
Kansas City.—(UP)—George H. Hodges, the first Democratic governor of Kansas, died Tuesday night, a few hours after being stricken with a heart attack.
He was 81.
Hodges was elected the first Democratic governor of Kansas in 1912. While serving in the state senate he introduced the Hodges hard surface road law, the first such measure enacted in Kansas.
Where To Pick Up Your University Daily Kansan
Watson library, sidewalk box.
Marvin hall, sidewalk box.
Dyche museum, sidewalk box.
Frank Strong hall, 2 boxes,
center and east.
Memoria! Union, 2 boxes, job-
back desk
by and book store.
Snow hall, box in entrance.
Fraser hall, on hall table.
Sunflower, drug store.
Please try to take from the same box every day. Copies at 2:55 p.m. distribution are intended for those leaving the campus then.