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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 14, 1946
KFKU Launches New Series With Request Program
KFKU will launch its new series of programs with the Symphonic Record, a request program for students, at 9:30 tonight, according to Miss Milded Seaman, KFKU program director. Tonight's Record will feature Tchaikowsky's Sixth Symphony but students may make requests for the remainder of the series.
Maude Ellsworth will present "Art by Radio" at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and the School of Fine Arts will give a musical program from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday. Students performing will be Curtis Glover, vocalist from the Meribah Moore studio; Marcus Hahn, flutist; and Jack Moehlenkamp, pianist.
At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday there will be a program of recorded music followed at 2:45 by the Consumer's Guide. Evening Musicale will be from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Edward Utley, School of Fine Arts senior, will play the Hammond organ in Danforth chapel during the 2:30 program Thursday and at 2:45 p.m. Prof. John E. Hankins, English department, will give the introductory talk of the new book review program. Prof. Jan Chiapusso, School of Fine Arts, will be at the piano from 9:30 until 10 p.m.
Prof. Robert Calderwood, speech department, will go on the air with the first of the series, "Children's Literature," at 2:30 p.m. Friday, followed at 2:45 by a program of recorded music. Friday evening's usual Sports Parade will be replaced by a special K. U. Homecoming broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p.m.
Y.M. Hears Lawson Nominates Officers
Sandwiching his points between lively anecdotes of early K. U. days, Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, spoke at the freshman Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday, in Myers hall on "college, a time for decision."
"Decide now," the dean said, "to form the habit of completing any job you undertake. Be dependable Dependability is the queen of all virtues."
Moving pictures of the 1942 world series, and highlights of the 1942 football games, were also shown.
After the speech and pictures, nomination of freshman officers was held. No date has been set for the election. Nominees for president are Robert Thayer, who was in charge of the meeting, and Hardy Scheuer-man; vice-president, Richard Hess, Arthur Johnson, and Theodore Beavers; secretary-treasurer, Robert Davis, John Eberhart, Orin Wright, George Shelton, and George Campbell.
Home Ec Club Will Initiate New Members In November
Initiation of new members, a stuffed toy project and a towel and silver display will be features of the November meeting of the Home Economics club.
Ho-L-Pai. Chinese student from Kansas State college will speak at the February meeting.
'We Can't Live Down Atom Bomb'-Thomas
"America will never live down the dropping of the atom bomb. We should have tried psychological warfare first," Bruce Thomas, free lance war correspondent, told an audience of students, faculty members, and Lawrence residents Friday night.
Thomas, eye-witness of the atom bombing of Bikini atoll, spoke for an hour and half, and held a question and answer session for another hour.
"The war of tomorrow," Thomas predicted, "won't be from one to five years. It will be measured in minutes."
Here Are Four 1946 Homecoming Queen Candidates
Shown above are four candidates for the 1946 Homecoming Queen left to right, the aspirants for the queen post or Gwendolyn Harger, Alpha who will reign over activities Saturday afternoon when the Jayhawkers Delta Pi; Georgia Lee Westmoreland, Delta Gamma; Emily Burgert, Tempwill take the field against the University of Nebraska in the Crimson lin hall; and Billie Marie Hamilton, Wright place. and Blue's first Big Six encounter in Memorial Stadium. Reading from
The next field trip will probably be in two weeks, Dr. L. R. Laudon, sponsor of* the club, said.
Twenty-six members of the Geology club returned to Lawrence Sunday afternoon after their first weekend field trip of the year made near Booneville, Mo., studying geological formations.
Geology Club Completes Field Trip To Missouri
Stilwell Ashes Into Pacific
San Francisco. (UP)—The ashes of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma, will be scattered over the Pacific ocean Wednesday after simple, private funeral services at his Carmel, Calif., home.
Stilwell, 63, sixth army commander known as "Vinegar Joe," died quietly in his sleep Saturday at Letterman general hospital. He had failed to survive an operation for a liver condition 10 days before.
A C-47 plane piloted by Maj. Emmett J. Theisen, Detroit, who carried Stilwell over the China-Burma-India "hump" more than 50 times during the war, will leave San Francisco with the ashes March 19.
Sunnyside Carpenters Return To Work
A temporary walkout Friday of carpenters working on the Sunnyside housing project was the result of a misunderstanding of the prevailing wage scales, Leonard H. Axe, assistant to the Chancellor, has announced.
Through an error in the prevailing wage scale document, the carpenters believed they should receive $1.50 an hour instead of $1.25 which they are now paid, Mr. Axe said.
"The wage document in May actually listed the wage for carpenters on the project at $1.57 an hour," he said, "but this was corrected to read $1.25 an hour in the document released in July."
The carpenters returned to work today.
One hundred fifty couples, the smallest number to attend the Varsities this year, danced to the music of Bob Douglas and his orchestra at Saturday night's all school varsity. Larry McSpadden, dance manager, stated today.
Student Attendance Lags At Varsity
Evening entertainment for the largest Homecoming crowd in K.U. history will be highlighted by the Varsity Saturday. Charles Steeper and his orchestra will play in the Military Science building from 9 p.m. to midnight. Charles Marsh will present the floor show.
Homecoming With Football, Rallies, Queens Is One Of K.U.'s More Recent Traditions
When Homecoming festivities get under way this weekend, the event will mark another year in one of KU.'s more recently founded traditions.
Authorities differ on the date of Homecoming's first appearance on the Hill with estimates ranging from 1912 to 1915. Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism, said the year of origin was 1913.
Alfred "Scoop" Hill, alumni secretary from 1920 to 1924, was responsible for the idea according to Professor Flint, who was secretary of the alumni in 1913. That year's football game went to Nebraska, 9-0.
Another authority, Robert Taft, who compiled a history of the University, placed the date on Nov. 23, 1912, while still another gives 1915 as the probable beginning.
At any rate, the celebration was discontinued during World War I, and was revived again in 1919 to "restore the old bond between alumni and the University." The 1919 affair is generally recognized by alumni as the humble ancestor of the present-day Homecoming.
H. B. Hungerford, of the department of entomology, acted as chairman of the program committee that year. All the old-timers were invited to the 1919 celebration which was climaxed by the grid game between Missouri and Kansas.
Football games in those days were played on the McCook athletic field, and the Thanksgiving game was always reserved for Homecoming.
in that first postwar year, Doc
Chemistry Fraternity Elects
New officers for the Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry are Warren Lowen, master alchemist; Hugh Donahoe, vice-master alchemist; Jay Stewart, reporter; Dick Hoover, recorder; Carl Michaelis, treasurer; Ray Stoenner, master of ceremonies; and John Poje, alumni secretary.
Regents Meet This Week
The board of regents will meet Thursday and Friday in Topeka to consider biennial budgets for state-supported institutions.
Yak, the spirited brain-child of C. C. Carl and Robert Rowland became a permanent participant in Homecoming pep rallies. Mr. Carl and Mr. Rowland also organized the Ku Ku's in 1919 to whet student enthusiasm at games and pep rallies.
One of the most memorable Homecomings was the 1920 celebration which saw Lawrence merchants decorating their stores and which handed K.U. a 20-20 tie with the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Biggest year after the postwar revival came in 1922 with the dedication of Memorial stadium. That year, Hobo day was added to the tradition with a pre-game Hobo dance, special convocations, and pep rallies.
Hobo day died a tattered death in 1941, the year Kansas bowed to Missouri, 45 to 6. Bicycle races, float parades, and radio broadcasts have characterized past Homecomings but have not been adopted as annual features. Somewhere in the obscure history of the celebration, Thanksgiving was abandoned as Homecoming day and it now falls on a convenient date well-before the season's final football game.
In 1925, the decoration of organized houses became an integral part of the Homecoming institution with prizes offered for winning decorations. The selection of a Homecoming queen was also an important part of the tradition in its early years and has continued down to the present.
Men's Glee Club To Meet
The Men's Glee club, consisting of 140 voices, will hold its regular practice at 5 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium, announces J. F. Wilkins, professor of voice.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Will Meet
Alpha Kappa Alpha will meet at
7 tonight in the Pine room of the
Union.
Sig Ep Pledges Meet Tonight
A pledge meeting of Sigma Phi Epsilon is scheduled for 7 tonight in the Kansas room of the Union.
'Cutting Across' Doesn't Cost Grade Points
The grade point average of students in the University would hit a new low if five points were deducted for every person who walked on the grass, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary estimated today.
Rumor had it that there was a regulation forbidding anyone to cut across the grass in order to save time or to lie on the grass for restful purposes. The penalty was to be a deduction of grade points which would leave some students in a precarious position.
Further check on the rumor revealed there is no such rule.
"We haven't a regulation against it," Mr. Nichols said, "but we would appreciate it if students and faculty members would use the sidewalks instead of making short cuts across the lawns."
A check on the condition of the grass in front of Watson library revealed that the sod was beginning to show the effects of several hundred students using the premises for relaxation.
Truman On Radio Tonight At 9 P.M.
Washington. (UP) - President Truman speaks to the nation on stabilization tonight for 15 minutes beginning at 9 p.m.
He is expected to make some concessions to ease the meat shortage but to insist that government controls must not be abandoned at this time.
The meat shortage is creating a political crisis for the administration. The democratic party must fight for its control of congress in the general election three weeks from tomorrow. Shortages in general have become a powerful factor in the congressional campaign.
Short of removing price controls from meat, Mr. Truman could undertake otherwise to ease the shortage. He could authorize price increase or a bonus to move beef into the market. Slaughtering quotas be readjusted upward. Imports of canned and frozen meat could be fostered or a certificate system might be proposed to assure the raisers and feeders of cattle that they would be protected against any future increase in prices.
"I hope every business man, worker, farmer and consumer will take to his heart this sentence from the report, 'an all-out emphasis on production of finished goods and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately before us.'"
Less than two weeks ago the President approved the report of his Office of War Mobilization and Re-conversion that an "early and severe economic crash" would come if prices continue to rise. In endorsing it, the President said:
Three weeks ago Mr. Truman went on record without qualification on meat. He told his news conference meat was something he knew about. He predicted that the normal early autumn run of grass fed cattle soon would appear on the market. The Office of War Mobilization report a week later seemed to contradict the President with a statement that the meat shortage would become worse this winter.
Jay Janes To Elect 12 New Members
A Jay Jane rush tea will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas room of the Union for selection of 12 new members of the organization.
Harman Co-op, Watkins hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega and Joliffe hall will have one candidate each. Miller hall has been allotted two, and five Independents at large will be selected, Virginia Wickert, president, said today.
A minimum of 24 hours credit is required for eligibility. A ctual pledging will take place October 23.