University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, May 6, 1947
44th Year No. 134
Lawrence Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Five To Attend Health Meeting In New York
Five members of the University faculty will attend the third national conference on Health in Colleges May 7 to 10 in New York.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University health service, is chairman of the planning committee.
Others to attend the conference are Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau; Dr. A. H. Turney, director of the guidance bureau; Dr. A. B. Anderson, professor of speech; and Dr. Beatrice Lysius, physician at Watkins hospital.
The conference will be divided into six sections to discuss all aspects of college health. The sections are institutional aspects, health and physical education and sports, healthful living, and special problems.
The sections will be divided into 19 committees for the discussions. University staff members and their committees are: Dr. Elbel, health of veterans; Dr. Turney, objectives, guidance, and recreation; Miss Anderson, handicapped students; Dr Lins, staff, services, and records.
Contest Deadline Is Tomorrow
Deadline for entries in the contest for the William Allen White 500 award in creative writing is noon Wednesday.
Manuscripts may be a novel, a volume of short stories, a full-length play or a volume of short plays, a book of essays, a biography a collection of poems, or a cultural interpretive study of contemporary society.
Copies must be turned in to J. H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate School; Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the School of Journalism; and Rav West, associate professor of English.
Slides To Be Shown At Y Picnic-Rally
Colored slides of Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park will be shown at a picnic at 5 p.m. today at the Potters' Lake picnic area. The picnic, sponsored by the Y.M.-C.A. and W.Y.C.A. is part of a special rally to plan the student-faculty conference to be held at Estes Park, Colorado in June.
Any University student wishing to
at the YMU co-office may register at
the YMU Office.
The conference will be led by Mr. and Mrs. VanderWerf. The cost of the trip is $32 for 10 days, plus transportation.
Police Court Fines Richard Cray $15
Richard Cray, business junior, was fined $15 Tuesday in police court when he pleaded guilty to charges of speeding and passing two stop signs. Cray was arrested Saturday by a motorcycle patrolman.
Three $10 fines were levied on motorists arrested for speeding. A total of $16 in fines and forfeits was collected for violations of parking regulations.
Professor West To Edit Anthologies For Publisher
Ray West, associate professor of English at the University, has been commissioned by a publishing house to edit two anthologies. "The Anthology of American Literary Criticism" and the "Anthology of Western Cities."
This is Joan Joseph, College sophomore, who is one of the candidates for the Jayhawker queen contest. The winner will be chosen by Milton Caniff, creator of the Steve Canyon comic strip, and announced in the commencement issue of the Jayhawker magazine. Miss Joseph is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and she comes from Whitewater.
'GI Payments Not Enough'
Washington—(UP) - G e n. Omar Bradley, veterans administrator, said today it is "perfectly clear" that veterans' subsistence allowances for educational training fail to cover living costs. But he took no position on a score of proposals to liberalize benefits.
General Bradley told a senate labor subcommittee that congress, not the Veterans administrator, should establish policy on payments to veterans under the G. I. bill of rights. He warned against making the payments too attractive.
Present legislation granting federal aid to $65 a month to single veterans_and $90 monthly to ex-G. I.'s with dependents provides that lesser sums should be paid when the veteran receives private compensation from employers with part-time programs.
He said that if the full amounts were paid to all trainees veterans would be encouraged to regard the allowances as a "bonus." Some would quit full time college programs for the higher return permitted on-the-job trainees.
Sylvia Zaremba To Give Recital Wednesday
Sylvia Zaremba, outstanding 15-year-old pianist, will "present a recital at 8:20 Wednesday night in Fraser theater. A feature of the Young American Artist concerts, the program is another event of the Music Week festival.
She is a young Polish-American piano prodigy who played in public before she was six years old. At 12 she was soloist with the Philadelphia Symphony. Several weeks ago she played Chonin's E Minor Concerto' w/ York Philharmonic. Recently in Detroit she was the featured soloist at a convention of the National Federation of Music clubs.
The Young American Artist concerts were introduced by Dean D.M. Swarbout a number of years ago as a feature of the Music Week festival. Such brilliant young artists as Fredell Lack, Evelyn Swarthow, and Sidney Foster have appeared here and have since gained steadily in national recognition.
There are no reserved seats for the concert. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the School of Fine Arts office, the Bell Music company, and the Round Corner drug store.
Scarab Club Goes On 'Sketch Hike'
The annual "Sketch Hike" of Scarab, architectural Caternity, was attended by 26 faculty and student members at Lone Star lake Saturday.
The hike, discontinued during the war, has been an annual highlight of Scarab since 1921. The event this year is the first since 1941.
Lawrence Davis, instructor in engineering drawing, and Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of watercolor and painting, create watercolor landscape sketches.
During the afternoon refreshments were served, and a softball game was played.
Prof. N. W. Storer To Speak
"The Origin of the Earth" will be the subject of a talk by N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, to members of the Geology club at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 402 Lindley hall.
This is Gloria Hill who is one of the finalists competing for the title of K.U.'s Copper Calhoon for the commencement issue of the Jayhawker magazine. The winner will be chosen by Milton Caniff, nationally known artist. Miss Hall is a College sophomore from Freeport, Ill., and a member of Delta Gamma social sorority.
Friesen Is 'Governor'
Topeka—(UP)—Ernest Friesen, College freshman, ruled the Kansas state house as "Governor for the day" when the officers of the Kansas Boys' state took over Monday.
Anti-closed shop legislation, a stand the Kansas legislature shied away from in its recent session, was strongly advocated by a mock legislation session.
A resolution calling for an ant- closed shop law in Kansas received almost unanimous support by the vouths.
Such a law was recommended to the youth legislature by Friesen, of Hutchinson.
Without a dissenting vote, the youths approved a resolution to admit Oklahoma A. and M. into the Big Six athletic conference.
Friesen asserted "opposition to the admission of A. and M. is based on the racial discrimination practiced at the school. Such practices are also in effect in Missouri and Oklahoma universities and they are in the Big Six."
Between Her Travels and Wagner—
Miss Traubel Makes 60 Tours a Year
The air age has certainly arrived if the journeys of Miss Helen Traubel are a measure of the popularity of air travel.
"Ive crossed half the United States and come back again in the last 72 hours," she said, "and when I awaken Tuesday morning, I'll be in Ann Arbor. Michigan."
The red-haired, green-eyed Metropolitan soprano sat at ease in a make-shift dressing room back stage in Hoch auditorium before her concert Monday. She was hurriedly autograph programs as she related the dizzy sequence of events since Friday night.
"I appeared in Dallas Friday with a Metropolitan Opera group and left after the performance for New York by plane. We were grounded in Washington, D.C., so I took a train to New York, arriving about 7:30 a.m.
"That afternoon I was scheduled for a guest appearance on Prudenttall's Family Hour radio program. I rushed to the studio, rehearsed, and then sang my three numbers on the program. At 8 that night I left by plane for Kansas City, arriving early Monday morning," she
Miss Traubel is the first American-born and American trained Wagnerian soprano in history. Her first musical study was in St. Louis, her birthplace. Then came advanced study and radio appearances in New York. She has never been outside the United States except for brief visits to Canada and South America.
said, apparently unconcerned about her rigorous schedule.
First Studied In St. Louis
"I have always hoped to go to Europe where Wagnerian music was born. If conditions are favorable, I may go abroad next year. However, there are enough mouths to feed over there right now without adding one more," she commented.
Miss Traubel first sang with the St. Louis symphony orchestra. When Walter Damrosch heard her, he wrote a special role for her in his opera The Man Without A Appearance. She made a successful debut on the Town Hall recital in 1939 and later joined the "Met."
"When I was with the St. Louis orchestra, I'd sing awhile and then
leave to study some more. I was fortunate that one of the times I was present at a performance, Walter Damrosch heard me and gave me my first start in opera.
Her Voice Right For Wagner
Her Voice Right For Wagner
"Since then I have sung only Wagnerian numbers at the Metropolitan and will do seven of Damrosch's operas there this season. When people ask me why I happened to specialize in Wagner's opera, the answer is simple. My voice indicated that it was right for his songs, since they require so much volume, and I couldn't quit after I started singing them."
Oenraad Bos, her accompanist,
has been with her since 1939 and the
two average around 60 concerts
and tours a year.
"The only drawback is that usually we never get to stay in one place long enough to do any sightseeing. I only wish we could have come earlier to see your beautiful campus during lilac time," she lamented.
Strikers To Go Back To Work On K.U. Project
Laborers who have been out on strike for the past 28 days will go back to work Wednesday on the emergency class room construction project back of Frank Strong hall.
Negotiations in Kansas City, Monday, between J. T. Constant, head of the Constant Construction company, and James Anderson, business agent for Building Trades Laborers local 1290, produced the settlement. Laborers were asking for a closed shop and a $12^{1/2}$ cent an hour raise.
The settlement, as announced by Mr. Anderson in a Lawrence union meeting Monday night, provides that 60 days from the date of settlement, the closed shop rule will go into effect on Constant Construction company projects.
Laborers will go back to work at 85 cents an hour with the provision that when the Federal Works agency approves the new contract, $97\frac{1}{2}$ cents an hour, retroactive to the time that the men go back to work will be paid. Approval of this scale is expected within 60 days according to Mr. Anderson.
"Our job has just started." Mr. Anderson said. "We will meet with every contractor in Douglas county. At the end of 60 days we hope to have them all hiring under closed hours, in a safe and safe environment and hour." He added that this will now be the prevailing wage for this area.
Earlier in the day J. T. Constant, announced that terms favorable to both contractor and laborer had been waived, but refused to state the terms.
Anderson told laborers, "We hope to have all contractors in the county organized within a few months so that this trouble won't happen again. We will treat contractors working with us well, because they are our paymasters," he said.
High Rate Of Lung Ailments In Children
Ten per cent of all children have some form of respiratory allergy which cannot be outgrown and can lead to asthma, said Dr. M. Murray Peshkin of the Columbia university college of physicians and surgeons, who spoke Monday at the University hospitals symposium.
Respiratory allergies may take the form of hay fever, or any combination of troublesome lung ailments, Dr. Peshkin said, and added that the popular belief that children will outgrow their hay fever troubles is unfounded.
Dr. Albert Stoesser, head of the allergy clinic at the University of Minnesota, said that one of the greatest misunderstandings among laymen was the belief that hay fever was seasonal. Redness of the eyelids and a watery nasal discharge, symptoms of the allment, can occur the year round.
Immunization still is the best answer to respiratory diseases, the visiting doctors believe, although two drugs have so far been successfully used in relieving respiratory discomforts.
The new drugs are not miracle cures though, Dr. Peshkin pointed out, and are usually not effective against asthma. The drugs are not an immunization for hay fever, and their use is limited to relief of respiratory pains.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy. Scattered thundershowers east today and tonight. Becoming fair Wednesday. Cooler northwest today and southwest Wednesday. Low tonight 45 to 50.