SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
d t p c o r p a i p m i l o p r o n L u x e v t a m
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY,AUGUST 17,1943
VOLUME XXXI
New Class OfTechnicians Beqins Soon
North American Aviation, Inc., and the Boeing Airplane Co. will sponsor a third training period of twelve weeks for women to become aeronautical technicians, at the University of Kansas beginning the last week in August, Prof. H: S. Stillwell, chairman of the department of aeronautical engineering, has announced. The second training period, in which nearly 200 young women from nine states are studying while in the employ of these aircraft companies, will be completed the last week in August.
George Trombold, personnel manager for the Wichita division of Boeing and Ross M. Willhite, of the production training section of North American's branch at Kansas City, were in Lawrence recently inspecting the progress of the program now being given and completing arrangements for training the next group of women. Both Trombold and Willhite were unreserved in expressing their approval of the training program.
The training is sponsored by the two companies upon whose payrolls the women are listed while they are in residence at the University, and is administered by the School of Engineering and Architecture. The whole setup is under the supervision of the Engineering Science Manage-
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Quarter Million Entertained Through Bureau
Approximately one quarter of a million people in Kansas and in border towns of Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, and Arkansas, attended entertainment functions last year set up by the Bureau of Lectures and Lecture Courses at the University, the annual report released here recently indicated. Scope of the entertainment ranged all the way from magicians and marionette shows to lectures on the denizens of the Yucatan jungles.
Director of this vast store of entertainment features is Guy V. Keeler, assistant director of the University Extension Division in charge of lecture courses. On the wall in front of Keeler's desk is a map of Kansas and adjacent states, filled with colored pins. Each color represents a different type of entertainment features and at some of the major points on the map—Tulsa and Wichita for instance—as many as 16 pins are fastened. A total of 1,103 programs in 393 different communities were given last year, the report shows.
Among the features provided by the Bureau in last year's entertainment schedule were dramatic pro (continued to page four)
New Library Hours
Watson Library will be open on Friday nights until 10 p.m., a government requirement for the men of the A-12's, according to Charles Baker, director of the University libraries. Other library hours will be as usual, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 10 p.m. except on Saturday when the library closes at 5 p.m.
Last ISA Dance On August 21
The last ISA three-hour dance of the summer has been announced for Saturday, August 21, in the Union Building. The dance will begin at 9 p.m., and will end at 12 o'clock with Dick Todd and his records furnishing the music. Because of the hot weather, both the Main Lounge and the Men's Lounge will be used.
Two extra features have been added to the evening's entertainment, stated John Sells, ISA president. Several surprise numbers will be presented during intermission and the second added feature is a free coke with each ticket to the dance, he said.
All ISA members will be admitted to the dance free. Admission price for non-members is twenty-five cents each.
Three Staff Members From S.D.State
Three new members of the University faculty hail from South Dakota State College at Brookings, S.D—and two of them have the same last name. Clare Johnson, professor of English, and Emory E. Johnson, professor of civil engineering, recently joined the University staff, and last week Prof. Gordon A. Wise accepted a teaching position with the mathematics department. He was formerly a graduate student at the University of Kansas.
Another faculty member from Brookings is Thomas C. Ryther, director of the University Press, who came to the University from South Dakota State College three years ago.
South Dakota State College has also received three of its faculty members from the University of Kansas in recent years. They are Miss Katherine Klein, professor of education and psychology and graduate of the University in 1926; Dr. Raymond E. Reinhart, who received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University in 1933 and has been head of the physics department at Brookings since 1934; and Maynard Fox, who has been associated with the South Dakota State College English department for the past few years.
Prof. Edna Hill of the home economics department left Monday night for her home in Warren, N.H., where she plans to spend about three weeks.
Miss Hill on Vacation
NUMBER 25
Pressman on Vacation
J. E. Barnes, pressman for the Kansan for 23 years, is taking his vacation now.
Big Future Seen For Chemists By Vander Werf
By Catharine Brown
"Chemists are willing to agree that this may be a physicist's war but they insist that what follows will be a chemist's peace," argues Dr. Calvin Vander Werf, assistant professor of chemistry.
Revolutionary designs will be permitted on cars using high octane gas, he believes. (Example: cars will average 50 miles to the gallon with engines equipped to use the high octane gasolines.) Glassware and glass products, and foods (new kinds, uses and preparations) are also promising fields, he stated.
He believes in a great future for the chemist who will be able to pursue fields such as: pharmaceutics, plastics, synthetics, and high octane gasoline for both planes and cars.
Dr. Vander Werf said that it will be a long time before the field of chemistry will be flooded with excess workers because so few stu-
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13 Hoodoo Goes Back 2,000 Years
By Maxine Crawford
Just ask PT-6 if Friday the 13th isn't an unlucky day. At least when a fire drill at 2:30 a.m. broke into their deep and peaceful slumbers, even you would have to admit the day wasn't starting out very well.
And "Pete" Durrell, resident of PT-2, will substantiate anybody's argument that all Fridays which come on the thirteenth should herewith be eliminated. It couldn't have been seasickness that made him fall from his bed and land in sick bay with a broken shoulder.
Yes, Friday the 13th holds a double threat. According to the Mohammedans Friday was the day when Adam was created, entered Paradise, was expelled therefrom, the day of his repentance, of his death, and it is the day of resurrection. It was long associated in the public mind with the execution of criminals sentenced to death, which usually took place on Friday and was commonly called Hangman's Day.
And the fear of 13 is at least 2,000 years old. The common theory to explain the origin of the superstition is that there were 13 present at the Last Supper, Judas being the thirteenth. The Turks so dislike and fear the number 13 that the word is almost expunged from their vocabulary.
And not to be outdone by the Turks even Chief Brummer has decided all doesn't go well on Friday the 13th. He claims he bumped into the side of the house and got his face all skinned up that way. But some of the V-12 men tell a different story. They say he fell off a couch, but from the looks of his face we wonder if either story can be true.
Still the Chief says, "You should see my knee!"
New Accountant
Eloise Knox, 1717 Illinois, startec Monday morning as the accountant for the University Kansan and the University press. She attended Strickler's Business College, and has been working in the sales tax division office of Commissioner of Revenue and Taxation in Topeka for the past four years.
A-12's Eligible To Join YMCA
A-12 students may join the YMCA and participate in all of its activities with civilian and V-12 students, according to Harry O'Kane, YMCA secretary.
"Some of the A-12's have already come into the YMCA office and asked when and if they could join," Mr. O'Kane said. "Until the program gets underway, the men have the use of the Service,Men's Club at 9th and Massachusetts."
Because of the shortage of time and labor to work on the army kitchen, Mr. O'Kane was unable to be on hand to check registrants who wished to join the YMCA as he usually does during registration. Consequently the YMCA office has to send letters to the boys, who expressed a desire to join on their church preference, cards, asking them to sign up if they care to join the Y.
N.Y. Times Carried Article on Taft Book
Prof. Robert Taft of the chemistry department and his book, "Photography and the American Scene," were mentioned in an editorial appearing in a recent issue of the New York Times in connection with a discussion of the dagerrootype.
Professor Taft's book is a history of the development of photography, dating back to 1839 when Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre originated the process of daguerrotyping. In his book, Professor Taft explains that a good daguerrotype possesses brilliance and shows detail better than any paper print, but because of its mirror-like surface, it can be seen only when held in a certain position. Other reasons why the daguerrotype has given way to modern photography are that it prints a reversed image and does not permit the making of duplicate copies.
In addition to "Photography and the American Scene," Professor Taft is also the author of "Across the Years on Mt. Oread," a history of the University of Kansas from 1866 to 1941.
All divisions, barracks, and PT's that are planning on having entries in the amateur hour program at the Servicemen's League dance next Saturday night are requested to call 2590 and tell Mrs. Robert Brooks some time this week, said Mrs. Brooks, director of the dances. The program will begin at 10:30 p.m. First, second, third, and consolation prizes will be given, she said.
Amateur Hour for Servicemen Saturday
Research Plan Established At University
The establishment of the University of Kansas Research Foundation "to promote, encourage, and aid scientific investigation and research" at the University of Kansas, was announced here yesterday by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Executive director of the Foundation will be Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson, chairman of the department of petroleum engineering at the University.
Directors of the Foundation as announced by Chancellor Malott, are Roy A. Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star; Dr. Roy Cross, president Kansas City Testing Laboratories; Kenneth Spencer, president of Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Co.; J. C. Nichols, president J. C. Nichols, Inc.; Deane Ackers, president Kansas Power and Light Co.; and Ernest Reed, former director of research, Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. Ex-officio members of the board are Oscar Stauffer, representing the State Board of Regents; Chancellor Deane W. Malott; and the acting Dean J. O. Jones, of the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University.
Purpose of the Foundation, according to the articles of incorporation, is "to promote, encourage, and aid scientific investigation and research at the University of Kansas, in all departments thereof, by members of the faculty, staff, alumni and stu-
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War-Time Minor In Journalism Is Explained
Prospective students all over the country last week received copies of an illustrated folder, printed in two colors, explaining the War Time Minor in Journalism at the University. Descriptive text about the University, information about registration and fees, and photographs of campus scenes, the Daily Kansan newsroom and pressroom, and journalism staff members were included in the 12-page publication.
To help overcome a critical shortage of journalism workers, the department of journalism is co-operating with several nation-wide organizations of publishers to create a "replacement pool of workers," according to Prof. E. F. Beth, acting chairman of the department. Through the national office of American Newspaper Publishers Association, the publishers send to the Kansas department and to several other leading schools of journalism, lists of persons interested in preparing themselves quickly for positions. The folder was prepared particularly for that group.
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