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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 23.1947
'Kriegies' Form Barbed Wire Club; Remember Good Luckenwald Stew
A group of University ex-prisoners of war gathered in the Union Thursday night to swap war stories and to organize the Barbed Wire club.
They call themselves "Kriegies," a name picked up in German concentration camps. The club president, when elected, will be the "Man of Confidence," named after German authorities who dealt misery to prisoners.
No resolutions were adopted; no motions were passed. They decided to let the world roll on unmолested a few more days, while they compared notes and jogged one another's memories.
Luster Main, College sophomore, was the informal chairman. After introductions had been made, Main remarked.
"Remember that food?"
They did, and descriptions of such culinary delicacies as "Luckenwald stew" came forth.
Recipe: All ingredients must meet wartime German standards. Take the moon ration of potatoes (the size of a golfball) and the ration of bread (one-sixth of a loaf). Cut the bread into cakes and peel the potatoes. Now eat the peelings.
Take the afternoon ration of tea (also good for shaving); dump it in with the potatoes and bread. Pray. Then stew the mixture. If the bread dissolves into a palatable, thick paste, the whole thing makes pretty fair soup, the club members agree.
Charter members of the Barbed Wire club are Main, acting chairman; Kenneth Rhodes and Lawrence Burrcaster, College freshmen; Joseph Holly, graduate student; Walter Herman, education senior; Herman Lindsay, engineering junior; Samuel Mueller, college sophomore; A Robb, College sophomore; Ivan Bloom, business senior; and Jay Moleley, engineering freshman.
The group's time totals more than 100 months spent in concentration camps.
The next meeting of the club will be a smoker at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Fine room of the Union. All ex-prizeors of war, of any theater, are eligible for membership, the chairman said.
New KU Chess Club Meets In Union Today
With dues at 10 cents a week, the new K.U. Chess club is under way. The club will meet tonight in the Union ballroom.
First president of the club is Wimberly Perry, College senior; secretary-treasurer, Richard Sevier, College freshman. Other charter members of the clubs are Walter Hoffmann Kay L. Hockett, Jr., Walter Billian, Wallace W. Austin, Mendale D. Marsh and Ray Sparks.
The club, sponsored by D. G. Samuels, assistant professor of Romance languages, plans to form a team which will represent the University in inter-collegiate competition.
Choir To Broadcast March 12 On KFKU
The Modern Choir, directed by Havorth White, will present three 15-minute programs over KKU this semester. The first broadcast will be given Maren 12, with other broadcasts on April 9 and May 7.
The tentative program as arranged by White, will feature the currently popular "Jelousie." Other songs on the initial program will be Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and "Begin the Beguine."
Grand Rapids, Mich. (UP)—Roy Brown told police the 16-year-old car he purchased two months ago was stolen, but he doesn't know how. He said he hadn't been able to get it started for six weeks.
Highways Slick But Still Open
Highways to Lawrence were generally slick but not blocked at 1:30 p. m. today, according to the highway patrol. Buses and trains are running on schedule and have not yet been affected by the snow.
Relax! These ministers here for Religious Emphasis week aren't trying to convert the whole student body. They're here to help you make religion a living, practical factor in everyday living.
Jones Challenges Student Minds
That's what the Rev. Henry D. Jones, president of the Professional League of Civil Rights and director of the Community house in Detroit, said.
"Respecting the intelligence and knowledge of the modern college student, we are challenging his mind to a genuine, modern religious approach," the Rev. Mr. Jones explained.
"The University Christian mission brings speakers of all types and varieties of skill," he said. "We are specialists, competent to conduct classes in our fields, and we believe that in these fields we are practicing the religious way of ilfe."
The goal of Religious Emphasis week is to influence people in all walks of life to dedicate their skills to this principle: "We are a people living in one world, worshiping one God. In Christ, we are united in a common brotherhood." he emphasized.
"We want to create a world of justice and brotherhood in which the individual can live as he should," he said. "Sometimes we may have to attack social pressures and ideas that will not allow the individual to live a good life. Otherwise, the thing we are demanding is that the individual withdraw from society to live his life of good.
"We don't want you to become monks, either."
VanderWerf Seeks Council Nomination
"The city council needs young men who will give their time generously and act vigorously." Dr. Culvin VanderWerf, associate professor of chemistry who is running for nomination for city councilman from the first ward in the Republican primary March 4, said today.
DR, CALVIN VANDERWERE
Petitioned by friends for the primary, Dr. VanderWerf believes that new young men are needed who will concern themselves with city affairs and make it their most important extracurricular activity.
'Betty Jo' Lands After 14 Hours
New York. (UP)—The army's twin-Mustang fighter plane, the Betty Jo, its gas tank nearly dry, streaked in to an "emergency" landing at La-Guardia field at 11:08 a.m. EST today, completing a non-stop flight from Honolulu.
The unofficial elapsed time for the flight, more than 5,000 miles over the Pacific ocean and along the Great Circle route across the United States, was 14 hours, 34 minutes, and the average unofficial speed was almost 350 miles per hour.
At one stage of the flight, over the Great Lakes area, it had appeared that the crew might have to give up before reaching the goal of the flight. But over Erie, Pa, the pilot checked his fuel and decided to attempt to reach LaGuardia, radioing ahead to clear the area for an "emergency" landing. Since his dwindling fuel supply would permit no circling.
Explosions Blast Palestine As Refugee Ship Is Grounded
Jerusalem. (UP) — A series of explosions rocked the harbor area of Haifa today a few hours after a refugee ship carrying 1,350 uncertified immigrants was grounded off the nearby Palestine coast.
The ship was intercepted by a British destroyer directed by a royal air force plane. It was grounded off Baf Galim, a Jewish suburb south of Haifa.
The case of the refugees was taken to the Palestine Supreme court. It ordered British officials to show cause why they should not be allowed to land.
Senate Committee Votes Against Lilienthal Successor
Washington. (UP) — The senate public works committee today voted seven to five against the nomination of Gordon R. Clapp to be chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Sen. Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn. lead the fight against Mr. Clapp, who was nominated to succeed David E. Lilienthal. Mr. Clapp was TVA General manager under Mr. Lilienthal.
Hoover Asks 475.5 Millions From U.S. To Feed Germans
Washington, (UP) — Former President Herbert Hoover was expected today to urge congressional approval of President Truman's request for an additional $350 million dollars for European relief.
He recommended that the United States and Britain each pay $475,500,-900 to feed the Germans in their occupation zones during the 18 months beginning the past Jan. 1. Repaying this money should be Germany's financial obligation he said.
Washington. (UP) — The White House said today President Truman and a party that will include the Mexican ambassador will leave Washington by plane for Kansas City at 8 a.m. (EST) Sunday.
Mr. Truman, with Brig. Gen. Wallace Crahman, White House physician, will spend Sunday afternoon with his mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, 94, who recently broke her hip in a fall.
Truman To Kansas City
Washington. (U3)—The National Labor Relations Board put into effect today a policy aimed at cutting down union raids on each other and stabilizing industrial relations. The policy is to encourage employers and unions to negotiate contracts for periods of two years instead of annually.
New Policy To Cut Strikes
Band Will Play Songs Of Big Six Tomorrow
All the Big Six school songs will be played by the University band as part of the program at the Big Six indoor track meet to tomorrow night at the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City.
Economic Adviser To Marshall Received 'Well Deserved Honor'
"The honor which has come to Dr. Edward S. Mason is certainly well deserved. He will fill his new position with distinction," Chancellor Deane W. Malott commented today on the recent appointment of the K.U. alumnus as chief economic adviser to Secretary of State George C. Marshall
A 1919 graduate of the University of Kansas and holder of the Rhodes scholarship. Dr. Mason will accompany the secretary of state to the coming Moscow conference.
'Church, Labor Must Find Goals'
Unless the church and the labor movements in America discover their common goals and ideals soon, they will be divided, submerged, and replaced by fascism. Dr. Henry D. Jones told an American Veterans committee meeting Thursday night.
"This conviction runs out of living in a tension area in times of tension." Dr. Jones, director of the Dodge Christian Community house in Detroit explained. "The forces which have divided the church and labor will continue the process unless we unite in seeking their aims of bringing abundance and the better life to the world."
Examples of this division of church and labor are the statements of labor leaders regarding the insufficiency of the church and the bitterness against the growth of the C.I.O. Dr. Jones said. Encouraging signs on the part of labor unions are the lack of violence in the recent General Motors strike, and such movements as the American Federation of Labor's World Service Fund for building up industries in war-desolated areas.
Dr. Jones charged that many churches are being used to engender hate against certain racial and social groups. The danger is that forces which bring hate and ill will are those which bring in fascism.
"The way the church and labor are working together to get the Fair Employment Practices bill passed by the Michigan state legislature is an example of how the two can stand together to protect our America. This working together is my faith and religion in action."
The "Four-Flushers," a quartet from the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, will sing at the Junior Prom Saturday night instead of the Sigma Chi quartet.
Members of the group are Melvin Kettner, Frank Engle, Donald Diehl, and Howard Joseph. Norma Kennedy, Robert Minich, and Jack Moorhead are in the floor show.
Beta 'Four-Flushers' To Sing At Prom
The Junior Prom and the Senior Cakewalk will be the only dances held in the Union ballroom this semester Woodson Dryden, program chairman said. This dance is open to all University students and not just to juniors.
Students May Give Future Entertainment At Union
Organized houses may be asked to furnish entertainment at future Union-sponsored functions, according to the organization's entertainment committee chairmen.
The talent bureau, set up last semester by the entertainment committee of the Union activities, has a list of students who have registered willingness to play, sing, dance, or provide variety acts for any organization that wishes to make use of them.
Lava Flow Continues
Passo Pisciori, Sicily. (UF)—Subterranean pressure that blew two new holes in historic Mt. Etna continued to pour additional red hot lava down the slopes of the mountain today, as the lava stream towered to a height of 52 feet at its crest last night and the new openings added more weight to the stream.
Dr. Mason's appointment to the diplomatic staff climaxes a career during which he rose from the ranks of K.U. alumni to become head of the department of economics at Harvard.
Chancellor Malott, who at one time served with Dr. Mason as a member of the Harvard faculty, characterized the new chief economic adviser as "a grand fellow, able, sincere, and scholarly."
Author of "Communism, The Episode in Socialism" published in 1930, Dr. Mason received degrees of bachelor of literature at Oxford in 1923 and doctor of philosophy at Harvard in 1925.
"Ed Mason is a very capable man," John Ise, professor of economics, said of the K.U.t-trained apprentice to Secretary Marshall. "Majoring in economics while at K.U., Dr. Mason made nearly all A's, and at the same time supported himself and his mother, and played on the University basketball team.
"He has a terrific capacity for work, he's agreeable, and can be nothing but successful in anything he does."
Dr. Mason was one of eight persons injured in an airplane crash which cost 10 lives, at Botweed, Newfoundland, in 1942. He served as chief economic analyst for the office of strategic services during the war.
A varied program has been planned with a number of special features. Marshall Butler, pianist, will play the "Piano Concerto, no. 1" by Tschaikowsky. E. M. Brack, tenor, will sing "Salve Dimora," from "Faust" by Gounod, and "Serenade" by Schubert. "Hobanaera" from Bizet's "Carolina" band and the raine Mai. A French horn choir of 18 will present a special arrangement of "The Pilgrim Chorus" from "Tannhauser" by Wagner.
The first symphony orchestra ever to appear in Iola will be the University Symphony orchestra which will present a formal concert there Monday.
The main work of the program will be "Symphony no. 5 in E minor" (Tschalikowsky). The lively "Emperor's Waltz" (Strauss) and "Polka" from "The Golden Age" (Schostskovich) will also be performed.
The concert which will be held in the Memorial hall is sponsored by the Iola Music club with the support of all the civic clubs of the city. The orchestra company of 100 will leave Lawrence in three chartered buses at 3 p.m. Monday and will return after the performance.
Orchestra Gives Iola Concert
Educational and industrial life in China was described by Prof. Samuel M. Dean at a meeting of the Sociology club Thursday.
Professor Dean teaches mechanical engineering and architecture at the National Teachers college in Peking, China. He has lived there for 33 years.
Visiting Professor Tells Of Chinese Life
New methods are already being used in industry, he explained. Their three principal industries farming, cotton-growing, and ceramics, have been developed to a great extent in the last few years.
"The Chinese people are economical and hard-worked, and, if given an opportunity, can make great progress in the world of tomorrow."