PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS JANUARY 10,1947 Kansan Comments. The wave of hotel fires in December prompted many cities to take another look at their fire inspection laws and enforcement and many cities found their ordinances lacking. Fire Rules Chicago, where last June's La Salle hotel fire killed 61, waited only nine days after the Atlanta Winecoff hotel fire in December to pass an ordinance which requires all Chicago hotels to put walls and doors on elevator shafts and stairways of such thickness and material that they will stop passage of fire for one hour. Hotels must make the change by July 1. Three days after the Winecote disaster, St. Louis ordered 17 hotels to show why their permits should not be revoked for failure to comply with fire prevention regulations. Detroit had a fire prevention ordinance against which a restraining order had been issued. The ordinance, which required all multiple dwellings of more than two stories to have fireproof stairways with adequate fire doors, was ruled within police jurisdiction just four days after the Atlanta fire. It goes into effect immediately. San Diego sentenced a man to 44 days in jail for starting a hotel fire by smoking in bed. Indianapolis passed a measure banning smoking in stores. Milwaukee ordered the city auditorium to cease locking doors during performances and to ban smoking in its corridors. Many other cities and states are preparing to go to legislative bodies this month to tighten up fire control measures. K. U. too may profit from the Winecoff disaster. Most fire exits are plainly marked, but some are not. Watson library has only the front entrance and an unmarked freight entrance through which students could evacuate the building should fire strike. Several other buildings, regardless of the number of fire extinguishers already provided, are potential death traps. There is little need to condemn the buildings. In the first place, they'd be hard to replace; and in the second place, they're probably as safe as the majority of buildings in the state. Semi-annual inspections by the state fire marshal have kept the buildings in pretty fair shape. One aspect, however, has been neglected. In many fires in public buildings, lives have been lost because those in the burning building didn't know where the exits were because they all crowded to one or two exits and failed to use the others. It would be a very wise idea if, at the first of every semester, instructions on which exit is to be used by each classroom were posted prominently on the board. If each student saw in each class for a solid week the route he should take in case of fire, the possible jamming of one exit would be avoided. Advertisements for the Saturday night Slobbivian Stomp at times have stated the price is one rasbitnick and at other times two rasbitnicks a couple. The manager of the dance says rasbitnicks have been fluctuating on the international exchange recently, but the price has been stabilized at two American bucks a couple. Only a few minutes would be necessary to set up such a plan a few minutes which later might save a few lives. Dear Editor--every way. As a deep skin cleanser, TEN-O-SIX refreshes while lifting out grime. As an antiseptic, Ten-O-Six helps keep the skin free from surface blems - makes it satin smooth. Even father will look just a little glamorous when he uses this skin-awakener after shaving. Surround your family table with complexions bright as silver dollars. The sturdiest male will like the tingle and aplaud its fragrance. The tenderest skin will be quickly helped by its gentle healing properties. Buy Bonne Bell's TEN-O-SIX at $1 for the $2 size. Editor's Note: Every "Letter to the Editor" must be signed. The name will be withheld from publication upon request, but the editor must know who wrote it. All letters must be limited to 250 words. Among the pleasanties of the Christmas season was the acclaim given to the dean of the School of Fine Arts by one of the local civic groups. The accolade was two-fold; for the excellence of the annual seasonal vespers, and for the high level of the concert series. With the first praise few are likely to disagree. With the latter, however, the demurrers may reach a sizable number if the sotoo voce grousing about the quality of concerts this year serves as a criterion. Here in this scholastic year of 1946-47 with the University enrollment at an all-time peak (that naturally means more money with which to hire artists) the concert numbers range from second-rate through negligible to downright shabby. The Dupre recital, as anyone who was there well knows, was an egocentric display of numbers by the organist himself with almost no representation from the great literature of music for that instrument. The Icelandic Singers provided a pleasant and rather empty evening in the realm of pure music. ( Their subsequent debut in New York was covered by the Times as a news item, hands-across-the-sea, rather than a straight musical event.) Now comes Isaac Stern, an accomplished and laudable player, but certainly no Heifetz or Szigeti. Still to arrive are the Metropolitan ensemble, made up of four of the lesser and most over-worked talents from the Met, a pianist whom almost no one has heard of, and Gladys Swarthout, who must be considered by the fine arts school as the piece de resistance since the price for her recital is suped up over those for the others. Now anyone who makes the slightest pretension of knowing music realizes that the lovely Miss Swarthout's deviation from pitch is almost as fabulous as her exquisite taste in clothes. Earlier in the season when a tired little opera company was imminent, there appeared over the signature of the dean of the School of Fine Arts this phrase—and we quote “the masterpiece of all time”—in plugging "Hansel and Gretel." To those who recall a few minor operas by Wagner, Verdi, not to mention Puccini this overstated case must smack both of crass money-grubbing and intellectual dishonesty. University instructor So in this year of the 9,000 the concert series presents shopworn talents and dull little packaged goods without a single Traubel, Rubenstein, Menuhin, Melehoir (M-G-M has him, of course), Landowska, Teyte or Anderson. And don't bother to tell us that the auditorium is never filled for a concert. If a few authentic talents were presented, perhaps it would be. Member of the Kansas Press Assn., National Editorial Assn. Island New York, President of the Collegegate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service at Madison Ave. New York City. Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The University Daily Kansan (Editor's note — The series is spending all the money it receives; would you suggest the series cost more or should the number of concerts be reduced? Of course, people have enjoyed the concerts, but anyone is entitled to an opinion on public performances.) Managing Editor Charles Roos Asst. Managing Editor Jane Anderson Makeup Editor Billie Marie Hamilton Business Manager Bill Donovian Advertising Manager Margery Handy Circulation Manager John McCormick Graph Editor Edward W. Swain Graph Ed. R. T. Klingman City Editor R. T. Kingman Jerald Hamilton, fine arts junior, and Victor Reinking, College junior, have been named to receive the John Curry Battenfeld award for the 1948 spring semester. This award is made each semester to the most outstanding residents of Battenfeld hall on the basis of scholarship and contribution to the house. Award Winners Named Jaytalking --every way. 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No one is so exasperating as the eager beaver who finishes a term paper early, then during class asks questions about requirements for the t.p. in such a way that the professor requires every student to do as said e.b. has done. The main difference between professors and sword-swallowers is that the sword-swallower makes a living shoving things down his own throat. One Western Kansas editor brags that he kept a New Year's resolution for a solid year. He resolved that he wouldn't quit smoking all during the year and not once did he falter in his resolution. A poor Chinese fisherman caught a fish with $3,000 worth of diamond rings in its stomach. No one seems to have expressed sympathy for the fish which one minute was a live rich fish and the next moment a dead poor fish. A young Scotch sailor, who admitted drinking 30 shots of whiskey and half a case of beer, was released by an English police court when he blamed his love on whiskey on the teachings of American sailors. 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