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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 17,1946
Army Plane Crashes on West Coast
Out of gasoline, this army B-17 Flying Fortress this week, killing two army fliers and severely injuring plummeted into a mountain slope near San Francisco six others. The wreck happened on Mt. Tamalpais.
Senate Plans Teen-Age Draft
Washington, (UP)—A new senate drive to draft teen-aged boys was touched off today by President Trumon's order for conscription of childless men 20 through 29 years of age.
Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley announced that he will ask the senate to take up a teenage draft bill early next week.
The senate military affairs committee scheduled a meeting Tuesday to plan support for legislation authorizing conscription of the 18- and 19-year olds, including 80,000 students already found fit for service.
Teen-agers were exempted from the draft in the recent stop-gap extension of selective service until July 1. The new proposals would draft them after that date, and take the pressure off older men.
The senate previously has gone on record in favor of teen-age conscription for a limited time. The house would not agree.
President Truman, in a stinging robuke to congress, late yesterday stopped up the maximum draft age from 26 to 29 in an effort to save the "near wreckage" of the selective service system and make up for the loss of the teen-agers.
Mr. Truman told a news conference that he had signed the emergency draft extension reluctantly and only because "conditions would be worse without it." He pointed out that the act kept intact the draft machinery and preserved the veterans' reemployment rights.
The president said he had been informed by Lewis M. Hershey, selective service director, that the teen-age ban would reduce men under 28 who could be inducted each month from 35,000 to approximately 5,000.
Most men in the 26-through-29 category already have seen armed service or have been deferred on physical or occupational grounds.
Selective service said the president's raising the draft age will increase available manpower by only about 13,000 men, with perhaps one-half of these unit for induction. The 20 through 25-year class, it was estimated, would yield about 59,600 additional eligible draftees.
Officials Recover Haddam's Band Instruments in Idaho
Washington, Kan—Ed Peterson, sheriff, and H. N. Hyland, county attorney, Washington county, last week recovered 24 band instruments stolen from the Haddam High school building in February.
They drove to Pocatella, Idaho, where the thief had been arrested for another crime.
Life Can Be Beautiful and Fun With a Box,a Paint Brush,a Wire
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, but if he'd had more artistic sense, he might have appreciated the wall.
Speaking to the KU. Dames Wednesday in the Union, Arvid Jacobson, design professor, suggested that walls be painted such colors as red and coral making a long room appear shorter, and cool colors as blue to widen a room.
He told shortages forced him to make "ersatz" furniture from orange crates, joining the crates, stapling leather on the shelves, and covering the outside with a lunch cloth or wallpaper. He explained that a bookcase built on this order would cost approximately $1.10.
Mr. Jacobson advocated taking a small, wooden, inverted salad bowl and attaching strips of wood to the base, drawing wire through the wood to attach a bulb and lamp shade, making a substitute lamp.
He displayed slides of his Washington apartment, where he used peach, ivory, and blue-green to lighten the room color. He explained that dark colors on a high ceiling make it appear lower, and light colors on a low ceiling make it look higher. For room distinction, he advised using fiber board Venetian blinds, if your stay's temporary, and having the bed spreads match drapes.
Several persons wanted to know what to do with fire places in the summer. He said that putting tall plants in the fire place were decorative, but added that screens defeated
To make a room lighter, Mr. Jacobson suggested using colors that reflect the light, like yellow, green, and orange, and shunning reds—colors that absorb the light.
"Everybody wants to know what's behind the screen, so you might as well be really honest and try not to hide it from everybody," he replied.
the purpose.
In concluding, he suggested sewing several shag rups together and making one large rug to accent a room. For large, single rooms he advocated building partitions and painting the walls various light colors.
'No Place Like Home, Costa Rican Says
"You don't appreciate your home country until you get out of it," Jose Portuguez, engineering junior, who has been away from his native Costa Rica for three years, told Latin club members at Henley house Wednesday night.
A movie, "Americans All," was shown at the meeting.
"We are proud that Costa Rica has more teachers than soldiers and more schools than police stations. We are known in Europe and in the Americas because we have no army, no navy, and no air corps," the Costa Rican student continued. "Although many of the other Central American countries have dictatorships, Costa Rica has kept its democracy."
"One of our first presidents, Mauro Fernandes, became interested in Costa Rican education. He taught us to live in a democratic way. The rest of the presidents have followed this tradition."
Island Is Born in the Pacific
Smoke and lava still are erupting from a volcano which has formed a new island in the Pacific ocean, about 50 miles south of Japan.
Business School Graduate Saves Professors From Horrors of Scrawled, Illegible Papers
Faculty members may not know it, but Miss Martha Bone, of 1000 Mississippi street is saving some professional eye-straining and perhaps a few choice side-comments by taking a collection of scrawled, half-legible sheets of paper and converting them into a spick-and-span, typewritten thesis or term paper.
Miss Bone was graduated from the School of Education in 1929, and returned to Lawrence recently after working in the offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the War Production Board.
Her most difficult work this spring has been in typing the rough draft of a thesis in French, but she is helped along by a background in French and Spanish. Since there are no appropriate typewriter characters, the student must add his own foreign language accent marks with pen, after the thesis is finished, she added.
The job of typing papers for students often turns out to be a headache, Miss Bone said, laughing. Such things as distinguishing a "u" from an "n" provide the most trouble.
"I never make changes in spelling and punctuation unless the student has first agreed to allow me to make corrections," she explained, "but it is hard to let an obvious mistake pass."
"If the student will take a little extra time and care in preparing his paper so it will say what he wants it to say; a better job — and a better grade — will result," she said.
O.P.A. Must Keep Control, Seelye Says
"The Office of Price Administration must keep an essence of control for at least another year," Alfred Seelye, associate professor of economics, told the American Veterans committee at a meeting in the Kansas room of the Union Wednesday.
Professor Seeley returned to the University in February after four years with the O.P.A. in Washington, where he was head of the research department of the OPA, which analyzed prices and production with regard for establishing price ceilings.
"During World War I the wholesale prices were up about 98 per cent, while such prices during the last war increased 38 per cent. If price ceilings were taken off now, the inflationary prices increase would expand greatly," he said.
The price of food products went up during the war because the Farm block in Congress prevented the OPA from putting ceiling prices on farm products either raw or processed, he said. There was a great demand for agricultural materials so the prices went up rapidly.
Amendments now before Congress wish to eliminate subsidies, prohibit the OPA policy which regulates prices on reconversion items, and form a new base period for profits and prices, he said.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Valdah Harkness, 1134 Mississippi Virginia Rhoads, 1134 Mississippi Thomas K. Watkins, 1641 West Ninth.
Julianne Means, Oskaloosa
Admitted Thursday
Virginia Lee Cuddy, 1011 Indiana
Evelyn L. Leaf, 1011 Kentucky
Mary Ellen Beiderwell, 1045 West Hills.
Thomas Bailey, 1135 West Campus.
Laurence Baker. 800 Ohio.
Betty Duemcke, 1345 West Campus
Phyllis Fretwell, 1345 West Campus.
O. Harold Smith, 945 New Hampshire.
William Schettler, 1113 Kentucky Robert, Teel, 1238 Tennessee
Robert Weil, 1234 St. Nassau
Alice Fitzgerald, 1225 Oread.
Robert Teel, 1258 tennessee
Alice Fitzgerald, 1225 Oxford
Truman To Ask for New Post
Washington. (UP)—President Trump soon will ask congress to create the first new U.S. cabinet post in more than 30 years—a secretary to deal with the health, welfare and education of Americans. The new cabinet officer probably would be known as the secretary of welfare
Literary Crisis Exists Now, Maurois Says
"France and America are going through a literary crisis but the time of construction and happiness will come back," Andre Maurois, French author, told a large audience in Fraser theater Wednesday afternoon.
"French literature has remained very important to France even during these difficult years," the scholarly white-haired gentleman continued. His subject was, "From Proust to Hemingway."
Mr. Maurois was introduced as one of the few men, to influence thinkers in two countries. He writes in English about the French and in French about the English.
"The American novelists who had the greatest influence in France around 1930 were Hemingway, Falkner, Steinbeck, and Caldwell. The writings of these men who had been disillusioned by the war and the depression appealed to cynical young Frenchmen," Mr. Maurois continued.
Mr. Maurois said that; the French will come back to Proust, although they are not reading him much now. In his opinion, Proust is the most important French novelist of the 20th century.
Mr. Maurois spoke in French the French club Thursday night.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
May 17, 1946
Home Economics club formal dinner at the Hearth Thursday, May 24.
Make reservations at the home economics office before 5 p.m. Monday,
May 20. Price is $1.00.
The Christian Science organization announces a free lecture entitled, "Christian Science the Religion of Comfort and True Friendship," to be delivered by Mr. Oscar Graham Pecke, of Kansas City, Mo., at 8 p.m. Tuesday, in Frank Strong auditorium. All are invited to attend.
The Western Civilization examination will be given Saturday May 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Lindley hall. All who plan to take the examination this spring should report to the auditorium at that time.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting is postponed until Thursday May 23.
Seniors participating in the commencement exercises on June 17 must pay the diploma fee at the Business Office by May 25.
Practice sessions for cheerleading tryouts will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Kansas room Monday and Wednesday. Students interested should notice Lois Thompson, phone 980.
All student now in school who plan to enroll in the summer session or the fall semester are urged to sign up at the registrar's office, room 122, Frank Strong hall, during mnoth of May so as to guarant themselves a place in the University under the priority system. To avoid congestion, students should appear at the Registrar's office according to the following schedule: (Letters at initial letters of students' names).
W. Y.C.W. installation services have been postponed from Monday, May 20, to Sunday, May 26, at 9 a.m. in Danforth chapel. All YW members are urged to attend.
May 17-18-E, B, Z, O, G, W
May 20-25-F, P, A, Y, U, C, V, K
May 27-June 1-J, M, X, I, L, T, R
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