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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 22,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave, New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $450 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during periods year except Saturdays and Sundays. For other fees, visit the Post Office during Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., act of March 3, 1879.
The State As-sures Us
Although it may seem startling, there is really nothing unusual about the fact that the $100,000 veterinary hospital destroyed by fire at Kansas State college was not insured.
Feeling that it is big enough to stand what losses do occur, the state carries no insurance on any of its buildings. It estimates that absorbing a loss every now and then is cheaper in the long run than keeping up premiums on many hundred state structures.
Damages from fires such as the one in Manhattan Tuesday are covered by appropriations from the state legislature.
Several years ago, the Kansas State science building burned. At the next session of the legislature, money was appropriated for a new building. Similarly, when the Anatomy building burned in 1943 at the University, the legislature promptly appropriated money to remodel Haworth hall to house the anatomy department.
Kansas State will undoubtedly be covered again by the legislature, although the college will have to wait until the legislature convenes in about a year for the appropriation unless a special session should be called.
In other words, Kansas State college, the University, or any other state institution is, for all practical purposes, insured by the state itself. The legislature is morally obligated to appropriate money to cover damages.
By ruling of the attorney-general, an exception to the no-insurance rule is made of buildings which are gifts to the state. Theoretically, the state is not morally bound to replace buildings which it has not built in the first place—so institutions are permitted to cover them.
At the University, then, all dormitories which have been given to the school, Fowler shops, Spooner-Thayer museum, and so forth, are insured, while Frank Strong, Fraser, Corbin, and other state built structures are not.
Fraser hall is an example of the reasoning behind state policy on insurance. Standing for 74 years with no insurance protection, Fraser has saved the state thousands of dollars.
Visualizing many Frasers over the state, it is easy to see that unpaid premiums pile up, figuratively speaking, into a fund from which money to replace an occasional loss can be withdrawn easily.
'Dumpy' Couldn't Make the Team, So He Made Song Hits Instead
If you can't be an athlete, write music.
This was the motto of George S "Dumpy" Bowles who made a career of writing songs for his alma mater, the University of Kansas.
He came to the University with high hopes of making a name for himself in athletics, but a physical handicap punctured his balloon of athletic hopes. He did not become well known until he wrote the pep song. "I'm a Javahawk."
The song was introduced in 1920. eight years after his graduation, as a help toward raising funds for Memorial stadium. When it was published, he turned half the proceeds from royalties over to the stadium fund.
Every student enjoys singing this song should remember as he sings it that "I'm a Jayhawk" helped to build the stadium in which many K.U. football games are played.
Although he wrote the song in 1920, and it immediately won student popularity, it wasn't until 1923 that it became the official pep song of the University. The song, as "Dumpy" contained only one verse and the chorus.
The second verse about the tombstones of the Tiger, the Sooner, the Husker, and the Brave, and the Jayhawkers being the bird that made them kick the pail, was written by Duncan McKeever and Owen Welch in the fall of 1925.
The Glee club wanted to sing the song as part of their program on a concert tour, but needed another verse before they could use the song in that way. Prof. T. A. Laramore, at that time director of the Glee club, asked for students to submit verses written by McKeever in handed by Welch and McKeever was the one chosen. Although the verse is not official, it is still sung.
Bowles has written many songs for
Farm to Become Housing Site
Paola—A new residential district is being planned for the 200-acre farm just north of Paola. It is the plan of the new owners to have the greater portion of the farm plotted into lots for a modernistic residential district with drives and landscaping.
the University and many of them have become national song hits, but the one for which he will be longest remembered is, "I'm a Jayhawk."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN Friday, February 22
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, or they will Strong, not later than 8:30 am. on a message. No phone messages accepted.
The writing laboratory is open in 501 Fraser 2:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday each week. Any students in the University not enrolled in composition classes are invited to come in for help with writing problems.
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Students interested in position of editor of 1947 K.U. calendar submit application, giving qualifications and experience, to business office, Frank Strong, before noon Tuesday.
Public is invited to the Sigma Xi lecture in Fraser Theater, at 8 p.m. Monday. Dr. C. C. Speider, Professor of Anatomy, University of Virginia, will speak on "Living Cells in Action as Revealed by Fast-Motion Cine-Photomicrography."
Pictures of the Occupational Therapy club for the Jayhawk will be taken at 5:30 p.m. Monday in front of Frank Strong.
Students interested in positions as editor or business manager of K-Book submit application, giving qualifications and experience, at business office Frank Strong, before noon Tuesday. K-Book Staff should be enrolled in Summer Session at K.U.
There will be a "get acquainted" party at Westminister hall, 1221 Oread, 8 to 10 tonight. All students are welcome.
Dramatics Workshop meeting Tuesday, 103. Green Hall. Attendance required.
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The University housemother's association will meet at 2 p.m. Monday, in Myers Hall.
Rock Chalk
By JOAN HARRIS
Famous last words. It was a lecture period in bac lab the morning that Alberta Cornwell became so entranced with the words of Dr. Treeche that she didn't realize her pompadour was sizzling in a local bunsn burner. Polly Staples, her cool-headed lab partner, glanced at her D.G. sister and calmly said, "Did you know your hair is on fire, honey?"—Polly explained to Dr. Treeche later that she didn't want to cause a commotion.
Shall we dance? Hank Brown and his camera attended the midweek Wednesday. He was perched on the bandstand, searching for a photogenic curve, when somebody tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Let's have a rhumba, fella."-Hank protests that he hasn't played the violin since grade school.
Call girl — Virginia Joseph, Theta freshman, gave DU dugges time to meditate by the fire Sunday last by answering the phones in their place. As a caller remarked, it was disconcerting but pleasant.
Call boy — Since Bill Quiring, Sig Alf, abandoned the campus for Wichita this semester, he makes a practice of calling Betty Sargent, SK, for 45-minute confabs almost daily. It would have been cheaper and simpler to stay in school (his dad keeps telling him).
Tall, dark, and handsome. Mary Margaret Gaynor, Helen Mather, A. O. PiPs, and several other members of I Pan-Hellenic committee were meeting Wednesday night in Miss Martha Peterson's room, third floor, Faculty Women's club. During aull in the discussion, a fragment of conversation drifted in from the room across the hall. Miss Florence Black was saying to Miss Kathleen Doering, "He loves to have me rub his ears."
Unable to ignore this indiscreet confession, the Pan-Hell members pressed for an explanation.
But everything was in order; Miss Black rubs Jerry's ears and Jerry is a horse.
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LOST — Brown striped life-time Shaeffer's fountain pen between Fraser and Military Science building on Wednesday, Feb. 20, with Wm. R. Worwag engraved on side. Finder please leave at Kansan office. Reward.
FOUND; A man's ring on the campus.
Owner may have same by identifying and paying for this ad at the Kansan office.
NOTICE—Get acquainted offer, we will give the first hour of service free to each student or student's wife using our service for the first time. By appointment only. Rate 45c per hour. Help Yourself Laundry, 1900 ill., or phone 623.
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A-Bomb No Defense Huchins Declares
Washington. (UP) — Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago said today that the atomic bomb has made compulsory peace-time military training "the most useless of all forms of preparation for war."
"There is no defense against the atomic bomb," he told the house military affairs committee.
"This means that there is no way of preventing the destruction of the cities of the United States, except by preventing war," he said. "For nobody seriously supposes that there is a 'secret' of the atomic bomb which the United States can keep."
The committee resumed hearings today on legislation to establish a military training program for all youths of 18 years or older. Such a program has been requested by President Truman. The committee plans to conclude its hearings on the subject this week.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Admitted Thursday
Robert Bailey, 2127 Barker.
Robert E. Nigman, PT 8.
Harriett E. Connor, 1233 Louisi-
Robert Light, 1025 West Hills.
Bernice Hutchison, Sunflower.
Jack J. Buresh, PT 6.
William Bradford, 1222 Mississippi.
Geraldine Powers, 1011 Indiana.
Dismissed Thursday
Dismissed Thursday
Mary K. Johnston, 1145 Louisiana.
Neva Cranston, Miller Hall.
Mary Lou York, Corbin Hall.
Annette Schowengerdt, R. R. 3.
Robert S. Light had an appendectomy today. Condition is good.
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