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NUMBER 123
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY. APRIL 3.1945
42nd YEAR
Snook Asks Chancellor to Postpone Meeting With Council; Rescind Motion to Check Budget With Poll
Chancellor Deane W. Malott's visit to the All Student Council has been postponed at the request of Persis Snook, president, who told the chancellor that she felt it advisable for further business to be cleared up by the council before he came.
The motion to check the University budget, which controls salaries, against the teacher evaluation poll, made last week, was rescinded at the special meeting of the council last night. Dean Henry Werner reported to the council that a great deal of com-
he had been caused taking faculty members by the resolution to check salaries against popularity. Dean Werner said that some faculty members he interviewed felt that the resolution was all right, while others thought it was an administrative duty to check it against salaries, and still others felt that "it is none of the council's business."
Would Hate to See It Go to Board
Prof. Hilden Gibson, discussing the advisability of sending a copy of the evaluation of faculty members to the Board of Regents for consideration in setting up the budget, said, "There are many teachers who are not popular, but who are of great value to the University in other aspects such as research they conduct and the prestige connected with them. I would hate to see the poll go to the Board. It is extremely important, but it is not everything, in determining salaries of faculty members."
Dean Werner added that students' reaction to their instructors should be taken into account, but that it must not be considered the last word. "Roughly," said Dean Werner, "it should hold only about 30 per cent weight in final analysis." Free Heads Committee
Marge Free has been appointed head of the Freshman Week committee, with Elizabeth Baker, Eugenia Hepworth, and Don Cousins as members. The committee will draw up plans for a more detailed freshman orientation at the beginning of each year.
Fingers Are Brushes In Newly-Found Art Shown by Originator
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Miss Shaw discovered that there was a psychological reaction to finger painting when the children could express themselves in this individual way. Malajusted children were helped when they discovered that they could paint their troubles away and control them.
How she discovered the art of finger painting was revealed by Ruth Shaw, originator, in her talk to students of occupational therapy Thursday and students of design Friday.
Miss Shaw originated finger painting in a school for children in Florence, Italy. She was teaching at the school when a little Italian prince hurt his finger and asked to have medicine put on it. When she came back later in the day she found that the boy had smeared the medicine all over everything, and was having a wonderful time. This led to her discovery of finger painting, for the other children at the school wanted to smear things too.
Psychological Reaction Results
Persis Snook
Seventh K.U. Alumni Promoted to General
Col. John B. Franks, QMC of Leavenworth, was recommended by President Roosevelt to be given temporary promotion to the rank of brigadier general, according to word received by Fred Ellsworth.
Col. Franks, a former student in '13, will be the seventh K.U. graduate to receive the promotion to general. Ewart Plank, former student in '18, stationed with the headquarters of the advanced section of communication zone in the European theater of operations, was the last K.U. graduate to receive this appointment.
Other former students who hold the rank of general are Major General Emis C. Whitehead, 20, second in command of air forces in the Southwest Pacific; Brig. General Julius C. Holmes, a former student in '23, now assistant secretary of state; Brig. General Ward H. Maris, a former student in '14, in charge of artillery in the 95th division; Brig.
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Unlucky Break Sometimes Luck In Disguise
They say it happens just once in a lifetime, when Fate smiles on a person, instead of frowning.
Everett Stith, now makeup man and linetype operator for the Daily Kansan, was an air corps mechanic in the last war stationed at Coblenz, Germany, where the Yanks have returned. All his work was done on the ground, so finally a congenial pilot agreed to take him up for an airplane ride.
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"Contact!" the flier shouted, and they were ready to bump down the runway. It would be a thrill for a man who had worked so long on flying machines, yet rarely flown.
But an interruption occurs. A captain bustles up to shout in the pilot's ear.
"Thought you were going to take me up for a ride."
Plans for Stunt Night Revive Memories of Early Musical Hits
The officer outranks both the pilot and Mr. Stith. What can a guy do?
Tentative plans for a forthcoming All-University Stunt Night, bring to mind the not too dim past when it was an annual occasion. The original amateur acts, Major Bowes' type of show was sponsored by the W.S.G.A. at the turn of the century, and it was in 1919 that the musical comedy idea was first hatched. The "Follies" they called it, and, according to old reviews, it "had the stuff."
"OK, captain, hop in. Sorry, Stith,
maybe some other day."
Something made him turn and watch the takeoff. With the motor purring, faster the plane sped, up if swooped, but--variety show which gave everyone on the campus, with the incination and an inkling of talent, to turn actor, dancer, or vocalist. "Spring Swing" proved to be such a success that it played for four nights in Fraser theater and later at the Granada theater downtown.
No sadder man was there in the United States Army that moment than Everett Stith, who nearly had tested his wings and flown.
"The Follies" gave way to today's annual carnival in 1936, but with characteristic enthusiasm, students took up the idea again in 1938, when they planned, wrote, staged and produced, "Spring Swing." It was a
There was an angry cough in the motor. Barely 50 feet in the air, the plane hesitated, went out of control, nose dived, and burrowed into the ground.
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They say it happens just once in a lifetime.
Before he even reached the wreck, Mr. Stith knew the answer. The pilot was only scratched, but the passenger—the captain who had taken the mechanic's seat—was crushed to death.
Lewis' Workers Force Parley Recess
Washington—(INS)—The joint coal wage parley recessed today until 3 p.m. as reports reached the conference scene that John L. Lewis' soft-coal miners failed to heed his instructions to return to their jobs under a 30-day extension of the old contract. Reports circulated that the rate of absenteeism is running anywhere from 15 to 50 per cent.
Mr. Stith hasn't even been in a plane since.
Those recent meetings and plans for a show that would include all types of entertainment and represent a good cross section of University life, are signs of the revival of that outburst of energy seven years ago, which proceeded the production of "Spring Swing."
Bitter Fighting in Ruhr Valley; Patton 155 Miles From Berlin; Yanks Sweep Over Okinawa Island
BULLETIN
London, (INS)—Russian troops have captured the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt. Premier Marshall Joseph Stalin announced today in an order of the day broadcast by the Moscow radio.
Dean Gilbert Ulmer
(International News Service)
Progress of all the American and British armies through the heart of Nazi Germany continued on all fronts today. In the American first and seventh sectors, resurging enemy fighting spirit precipitated some of the most bitter battles yet fought east of the Rhine.
Ulmer to Head Commencement Group As Chairman
Despite complete envelopment of the Ruhr valley and entrapments of German forces estimated as high as 100,000 men.
New Chairman
Dean Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been appointed new commencement chairman to replace Harold. G. Ingham, director of the extension division.
The commencement committee will meet today to discuss plans for the date of commencement. Don Alderson, vice-president and acting president of the graduating class, and Janet Sloan, secretary-treasurer of the graduating class will also attend the meeting.
Committee members include Harold G. Ingham, Margaret Anderson, Leonard Axe, Wealthy Babcock, Maude Elliott, Fred Ellsworth, E. Raymond Hall, Edna Hill, Robert McCloy, Raymond Nichols, Hermina Zipple, and E Brownne.
The committee has a difficult assignment this year in selecting the date of the commencement. Final examinations will not end until Saturday June 23. This, according to faculty members, does not give them time enough to certify grades so that the commencement can be held on Monday. Yet, the administration is aware that it will be difficult to keep parents another day beyond the convenient week-end trip.
As the allied armies battled toward Berlin Gen. Eisenhower declared that the Germans trapped in the Ruhr "were right for annihilation."
British sweeps through Naza holdout garrisons in Holland and American thrusts to points only 100 miles from Berlin, the enemy found strength to stage violent counter-attacks.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army tanks were reported to be at least within 155 miles from Berlin and only 160 miles from a junction with the Soviet First Ukrainian army on the eastern front.
Field Marshal Montgomery's forces meanwhile were thrusting steadily into the heart of Germany and had cleared the town of Rheine. The British army division slammed into the outskirts of Osnabrueck, important German city north of Muenster.
Nazis Leaving Holland
Messages from Moscow told of increased Soviet pressure toward Vienna while Nazis reported troops of the third Ukrainian army only 15 miles from the Austrian capital. An official Russian communique described the siezure only $2^{2}_{2}$ miles from Bratislava, Slovak road lane and principle city. Slash at Oklima.
In the north, Gen. Miles C. Dempsey's British second army was revealed to be 100 miles or more east of the Rhine and sweeping northward in a giant arc to cut off Nazi forces reported retiring from Holland.
Enemy attacks against the first army presumably were launched somewhere near Eisenich southwest of Kassel, while those on the seventh army front must have been aimed at recently established bridgeheads across the Rhine near Karlsruhe. The first army occupied the German city of Kassel according to the German DNB.
Germans Trapped in Ruhr
In the Far East, Maj. Gen. John R.
Hodge, commander of the 24th army
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Kansan Board Elects Five to Membership At Meeting Yesterday
Five new members of the Kansas board elected at a meeting yesterday are Carol Stuart, College senior; Virginia Van Order, College junior; Mary Turkington, College junior; Betty Jennings, College junior; and Dixie Gillisland, College sophomore; according to Dolores Suzman, president of the Board.