UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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DECEMBER 11. 1946
Veterans Make Profs Wake Up To Facts Of Life
Cleveland. (UP)—With the nation's colleges and universities registering the largest number of students in their histories, educators are finding lack of space not the only consideration.
"Teachers have had to throw their old lecture notes out the window," said M. B. Tolar, mathematics department head at Fenn college. "We've had to acquire a whole new body of knowledge to keep apace of the widely-traveled and experienced G.I."
A student-veteran at Western Reserve university recently told a professor at the end of a lecture, "That was the stupidest lecture I've ever heard."
A college official substantiated the story. He said, "With veterans comprising about 85 per cent of our registration, the performance of teachers is being challenged for the first time by their students."
School officials characterize it as "the best thing that ever happened to education." It makes their work more interesting, they say. The student-veteran in composition classes is able to substitute experience for imagination, an English professor said.
They draw on their own experiences about "Flying the Hump," "The Black Market in France," or "Habits of the Burmese."
This ability of veteran-students was noted in other courses, such as mathematics, where former air corps navigators taught their teachers a few short cuts.
Richard McClelland, 22-year-old senior at Reserve and former air corps lieutenant, may be a typical veteran-student. He sums up the veterans case this way: "The G.I. wants to make up the years he lost in the service. He hasn't time to listen to a lot of pointless words coming out of some professor. We want him to lay it on the line."
Campus activities and politics also have undergone an overhauling. Student consensus is that fraternities aren't going to control campus politics any longer. The veteran-students in fraternities have bolted the bloe. They've become independent and don't care who's elected as long as he's a good man for the job.
McClland said the veteran-student is not a pre-rah "rah-rah guy." "He is still interested in athletics, as he was in service, and in other college activities, but he won't let them interfere with his studies."
"In bull sessions, the men talk about politics and world problems. They talk about peace, but they don't know any more than anybody else about how to get it. One thing they're certain of—they won't go back in the army and they have a very low opinion of professional military men."
Many Cleveland educators are convinced a revision of curricula is needed. They believe greater emphasis is to be placed on liberal arts courses—the so-called humanities—which are calculated to equip people with the understanding needed in present times.
Man Bites Ex-Wife
Dallas. (UP)—A divorced couple who live next door to each other apparently were on good terms—until last night.
Today the ex-missus made a complaint to local police. On a date, she said, her former spouse had bitten her. That, it seems, wasn't included in the divorce settlement.
More Laurels For Lewis
Greenville, S. C. (UP)—Here's another "man of the year" nomination for coal mine head John L. Lewis.
The Greenville city smoke batement officer today termed the United Mine Workers' president "the outstanding figure of the nation in the field of smoke elimination."
Labor Holiday For Lewis
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (UP)—A contract giving employees days off with pay to observe the birthday anniversary of United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis and district 50 president John Kmetz have been signed with two nearby manufacturing plants, it was disclosed today.
'Hope Is Answer To Curbing Crime'
Alany, N. Y. (UP)—Lewis E. Lawes, former warden of New York State's famous Sing Sing Prison, has a one-word answer to the problems of curbing juvenile delinquency and rehabilitating criminals.
"Hope" is Lawes' word.
"Give a man hope and you won't have a criminal. By the same token, give a boy hope and you won't have the makings of a criminal," he believes.
The ex-warden likes to point to the thousands of prisoners and parolees who turned out a "tremendous" amount of war products, and the 150,000 prisoners who saw combat service.
"These men had an incentive in war-patriotism. Give the prisoner something worthwhile to do in peace, and rehabilitation follows. As for juvenile delinquency, the same principle applies. If a boy has something worthwhile, and something he enjoys doing, he won't be in trouble," Lawes said.
Mr. Lawes credits his own successful career to never losing "faith in man." Even at the most trying moments, he said, "some good trait eventually showed up that restored my faith in humanity."
Groceries Delivered To Door Right In The Store
Port Clinton, O. (UP)—Consumers here don't have to go out to market any more—the groceries are brought right to their doors, thanks to Jack Varley's mobile grocery store. The operator bought a large bus, converted it into a store-on-wheels, and added a set of musical horns to announce his arrival in a consumer area.
Botany Sleuth Afield
Chicago (UP)—The Chicago Natural History museum's fifth botanical expedition to Central America is under way. Paul C. Standley has left for Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua and will spend nearly all of next year along the Pacific slope of those countries making compre-ensive collections of their flora.
New Car Resales In Washington Make Easy Money-But It's Legal
B FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. (UP)—Somebody is crazy and I fear it is the local soda jerk, who wants to sell a second-hand 1946 model six-cylinder Ford coupe which he has driven 4,000 miles for—hold on tight to the seat cushions—$2,200 cash. This motor car actually is worth, according to the used car blue book $1,177
"Now they're getting delivery," he said, "and of course they are taking every car they ordered. A man who ordered two cars can sell one and the other costs him nothing. A man with six new cars, and there are plenty of them, is rich."
All he wants is $4,885. Make it $3,000 even and he might even supply the license plates and a bottle of Scotch.
In the capital today are more new automobiles for sale, almost, than old ones. One philanthropist will let his Cadillac go for not quite three times what it cost him. He'll throw in a radiator full of fresh anti-freeze.
My man said he seemed to detect that most of the fools already had been parted from their money. A few more weeks and a few more new cars, he said, and the easy-money boys may be holding bargain sales. He said he thought I ought to make my Studebaker last a while longer. I think I will.
He said that many citizens ordered two cars and three and sometimes half a dozen last year, intending to take the one that arrived first and cancel the rest.
I drive a Studebaker Commander, myself. When I bought it five years ago the list price was $975. The list price today is $1,520. The delivered price, without deliveries, in Washington is $1,801, but I know where I can get one this afternoon. The man will sell it to me for $3,500.
When it wears out, I'm going to buy a 1934 model horse.
I have checked the situation with one of America's leading automobile dealers, however, and he's gasping, too. He's resisting the temptation to make a fortune.
The only trouble seems to be that the Wallingfords can't get together on what their automobiles are worth. New Chrysler can be bought for $4,500, $3,500, $3,250, and $3,000 cash. A Plymouth two-door sedan costs $2,500 one place, while a four-door Plymouth down the street is $2,200.
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'The Voice' Sways And Becomes 'The Body'
Hollywood. (UP)—Instead of The Voice, Frank Sinatra might well be called The Body, his song writers say, because he uses his swaying to sell his songs.
Sammy Cahn and Jules Styne, the words and music behind The Voice, maintain that Sinatra is the greatest "body singer" ever to croon for an audience.
"He keeps time to the music and personalizes the words with his body," they said. "Women squeal and swoon because it gives each one the feeling Frankie is singing to her personally."
Cahn and Styne, who have written tunes for Sinatra for nearly five years, are composing the musical score for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "It Happened in Brooklyn," with songs for Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford.
"Frank is always carried away by a tune," they revealed. "He forgets everything about him while he sings. The stage could burn right out from under him and he would not know it."
The composers of such hit tunes as "I've Heard That Song Before," "I Don't Want to Walk Without You," and "The Things We Did Last Summer" have known Sinatra since 1941 and "point" many of their numbers at him.
Contrary to popular opinion, Sinatra rarely clutches the microphone while he sings, his song writers said. And he never leans on it.
From Cold To Hot
Dallas, Texas. (UP)—Two burglars who broke into a Dallas ice house got a hot reception.
Police arrived just as they rolled the company safe to the front door.
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Aeronautics Equipment Will Be Moved To Hangar
An all-steel hangar, to be used by the aeronautics department, is being constructed at the Lawrence City Airport, according to J. O. Jones, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture. Equipment and planes, now being stored under the University stadium, will be moved to the hangar in a few weeks.
Space Platform Possible
Measuring 40 by 100 feet, the fireproof building is being erected under the direction of the state architect.
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El Paso. (UP)—Dr. Wernher von Braun, 34-year-old top German scientist who is responsible for development of the Nazi V-2 bomb, believed today that a space platform 5,000 miles above the earth was "technically and theoretically" possible.
He said that the platform, to be used as a refueling station to the moon was a definite possibility within the next 10 years.
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