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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 29.1943
41ST YEAR
NUMBER 45
Barnes to Give First Lecture Thursday Night
"The Crisis in World Hitsory," a lecture predicting the effect of the second World War on future civilization, will be given by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 Thursday evening. He will be the first speaker on this year's Community Lecture Course.
Called "America's best educated man" by the San Diego Sun, Mr. Barnes is an educator, author, and lecturer. He has set himself the task of translating the complex world of today to the people who inhabit it. After his book, "History and Social Intelligence," appeared the press compared him to H. G Wells.
An authority on World War I, Dr. Barnes carried this research to a broader field in his "World Politics in Modern Civilization." He has taught at Syracuse, Columbia and Clark Universities; and Amherst and Smith Colleges. When he resigned from Smith College to accept a position with the Scripps-Howard newspapers, Dr. William A. Neilson, president of Smith, said, "He displayed and employed in his work the largest range of information of any scholar I have ever known."
Dr. Barnes has studied criminology and has published the results of his findings in a recent book, "New Horizons in Criminology." He collaborated with Dr. Negley K. Teeters on it.
Activity tickets will admit students to the lecture. Tickets will be on sale for reserved and general admission at 50 and 40 cents. Servicemen will be admitted at half price.
He has been a member of the editorial staff of the Scripps-Howard newspapers for 11 years. His byline column, "The Liberal View-Point" has been read by thousands
Prof. Elliott Chosen Convention Speaker
Prof. Mabel Elliott of the sociology department will take part in the section on Criminology of the American Sociological Society annual meetings at the Hotel McAlphin in New York on Dec. 4 and 5. Professor Elliott will present a paper on "Crime and the Frontier Mores." The Criminalology section will meet at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
This program is one of 17 section meetings that will be held on the first week-end in December. Sociologists from 37 colleges and universities will participate in the proceedings with reports of their study and research. As is to be expected, the war will afford the dominant theme directly or indirectly; however, the normal peace-time interests of the profession will also be reported.
Interested individuals who are not members of the American Sociological Society or whose primary social science interest is other than sociology will be welcome and will find significant and interesting program sections, officials said.
Wings Move 330 Times a Second The wing of a fly makes 330 movements a second.
Speaker Here Dec.9 May Be Investigated
Drew Pearson, radio commentator, said Sunday evening that former presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie, would represent John Roy Carlson, author and lecturer, if he is investigated by the government on a charge of Nazi activities.
Carlson is scheduled to appear in Hoch auditorium Dec. 9 as the first lecturer of the Student Forums Board .Author of "Under Cover," an expose of fifth column activities, Carlson is said to give by lecture his experiences of four years' connection with Nazi groups while serving as an under-cover man.
Freshmen Will Vote Thursday
Freshman women will elect a representative to the All-Student Council Thursday at the poll on the first floor of Fraser, Clarence Engle, chairman of the elections committee, announced today.
Rosemary Harding of Ottawa, a first semester College freshman is the PWCL candidate, and Cynthia Smith of Baldwin, a second semester College freshman, is the candidate of the WIGS political party. Both candidates are independents.
Women must present activity books to vote, and the poll will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Engle said.
The freshman men's representative to the Council will be appointed on a political basis this year, instead of holding an election, he said.
Whenever S. T. Dickinson, painter of the background of the Dyche museum panorama, finishes working, he dips his brushes into turpentine and wipes them on a board or piece of plywood. This habit, is not unusual, but instead of filling the surface with something like a surrealistic picture, Mr. Dickinson creates a landscape.
Dickinson's First Love Landscapes
About five years ago, Mr. Dickinson, a resident of Lawrence, painted a picture while recovering from a sprained ankle he received when scaffolding broke as he was painting a house. In a state-wide art exhibition at Topeka, the picture won first prize. Modestly, Mr. Dickinson, said that his painting just happened to appeal to the judges.
Mr. Dickinson has created a fascinating scenic background in Dyche museum. The panorama was painted when the museum was restored four years ago. None of the scenery except Castle Rock in western Kansas is from actual sketches. Visitors from Colorado have marveled at the accuracy of the snow-capped mountains representing the rocky section of the West.
Coloradoans Marvel at Scene
By Wilma Thiele
Strangely enough, Mr. Dickinson had never seen Colorado before he painted the mountains. Studying different types of country in North American from colored pictures in the National Geographic and other sources, he made studied sections of the panorama by painting various small pictures. In this way he finally
New Trees and Bushes Add Beauty to Campus
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Along the Mississippi street drive to the athletic field are more than 20 sycamores and as many hackberry trees. Potter lake has seven new sycamores. The women's hockey field is trimmed with many new ash trees.
No campus habitue has missed seeing the little red trucks of the building and grounds force, loaded with trees, shovels, and spades.
The red trucks have stopped everywhere on the campus to make attractive additions to the landscape.
Twenty Sycamores Planted
The chemistry building unwittingly putting its best diplomatic foot forward, has added four Russian olive trees to its southwest corner and four to its east side, besides several pine trees.
The old ililac bushes at Frank Strong hall have been replaced by new ones. New spruce trees have been planted and a young hard maple has been set east of the center walk. Along the parking in front of the building, a new row of honey-suckles has been placed.
The building and grounds force has been planting and resetting at a steady pace all fall. The triangle north of Fraser hall is now decorated with three evergreens in the center. The circle in front of the Chi Omega house has five new pines. Spreading junipers and pines now decorate the curve beside Lindley hall.
Activity Tickets Admit At Basketball Games Until December 13
Students will be admitted on their activity tickets to the first basketball game, scheduled with the Herington AAB's for 7.30 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium, Earl Falkenstein, financial secretary of the athletics office, announced today.
Because of delayed planning of the basketball schedule, the reserved tickets are not ready for distribution to the students, but the athletic office hopes to have them ready for the fourth game, Dec. 13, Mr. Falkenstein said. Until that time activity tickets will be used.
Orders for reservations may be placed at the business office, and when the tickets arrive they will be distributed to the purchasers. The charge for reservations is $1 plus the activity book.
Criticize Patton Sharply
Washington, (INS) — Congressional mail revealed today that fathers of men in service are extremely critical of the action of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton in slapping an enlisted man and upraiding another.
Dramatic Workshop Will Present 'Ladies in Retirement', at 8:15 Tonight and Tomorrow in Fraser
The curtain goes up at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Fraser theater on the first performance of "Ladies in Retirement," the first Dramatic Workshop production of the year. Students holding activity tickets may exchange stubs for tickets to "Ladies in Retirement" today and tomorrow in room 5, Green hall, Prof. Allen Crafton, director, has announced. There will be no season tickets and no reserved tickets sold for plays in Fraser theater this year, he said.
8th Army Attack Forces Advance On Italian Front
(International News Service)
The long-dormant Allied line in Italy flared into sudden action today as British, New Zealand, and Indian forces of the eighth army pounded a widening breach into the Nazi local defense-line near the Adriatic sea-coast and consolidated a new bridgehead north of the Sangro river.
On the Tyrrhenian side of the battlefront where Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's United States fifth army holds the line, only patrol activity was reported, except for heavy artillery exchanges and undiminished Allied air attacks.
British ground forces in Italy launched their new offensive at dawn yesterday, following this up with a paralyzing blow to the East. An official spokesman in Algiers said that good progress was being made in the face of counterattacks by Nazi flame-throwing troops.
Gen. Montgomery preceded the attack with a withering artillery barrage. At the same time British cruisers opened up with a bombardment from the Adriatic.
Nazis Face Trap North of Gomel
(International News Service)
On the Soviet front, Red army troops raced for Minsk, capital of White Russia, and for the Polish border, sending the Nazis in unbroken retreat ahead of them, while in the sector northward of Gomel, a force of 20 German divisions numbering about 300,000 officers and men, faced entrapment and annihilation. For undisclosed reasons—probably bad weather over home bases—the RAF temporarily abandoned its destruction of Berlin.
Reports persisted that Adolf Hitler soon would order evacuation of his capital to Munich or Vienna, the latter appearing most likely.
Latest dispatches from Moscow placed Soviet forces only 15 miles from Zhoblin, on the Odessa-Leningrad railway.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported the probable sinking of a Japanese warship with a squarely placed 1-000 lb. aerial bomb while repeated aerial assaults were made against Japanese installations in the Solomons, New Britain, and New Guinea.
While "Ladies in Retirement" is not the most gory or ghostly of horror plays, critics have agreed that it has what most of them lack—a balance of atmosphere, characterization, and plot. The two grisly moments in the play are all the more grisly because the rest of it is given so lightly. "Ladies in Retirement" has been described as "a hard-hitting old-fashioned melodrama which somehow makes the newfangled ones look sick."
Bobbie Sue McCluggage, College junior, and Alice McDonnel, College senior, will appear in the roles of the two potty and penniless Creed sisters, Emily and Lousa. Shirley Wagner, College freshman, takes the part of Ellen Creed, sister of the two, who stoops to murder in order to give the girls a home.
The part of Albert Feather, a cad and petty criminal, will be taken by Ted Lehmann, College senior, Faye Gaba, College junior, wil posty Leonora Fiske, an ex-chorus girl who is strangled to death and stuffed in an oven in the play. The part of Lucy Gilham, a weak-willed, tigrant maid will be taken by Shirley Reach, College senior, and Lois Wilson, will appear as Sister Theresa, a middle-aged nun.
A second performance of the three act melodrama will be given tomorrow evening in Fraser theater.
An Air WAC recruiting "team," headed by Lt. Mark G. Treat, 25-year-old Kent University graduate and veteran of more than a year of air battles in the South Pacific will visit the campus at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, stated today.
Team of Air-WAC's To Speak on Campus
At least 7,000 members of the Women's Army Corps are at present on duty with the Army Air Forces all over the world, according to reports of the Public Relations board of the Air-WAC recruiting office in Kansas City, Kan. A demand for 46,000 more Air-WAC's has been created. It is this demand that has led the air forces to open its ranks to women.
The recruiting "team" will speak to all women who are interested in learning more about military branches open to them, Miss Miller said.
"We have their promise that those women who attend this meeting will be under no obligation to join the service," Miss Miller said. "It is with this promise in mind that we urge the young women of this University to attend the meeting."