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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1943
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Max and Boli Marquez are seen bulling with Bob Humphrey (center). The Latins have a word for it.
A dinner course in "How to Speak Spanish" is running at Battenfeld hall these days. Instructors are Max and "Boli" Marquez, University students from Panama, and Bob Humphrey, who recently moved into the scholarship dormitory. Humphrey has spent two summers hitch-hiking and sailing on tramp steamers to South and Latin America. The three converse closest intimately in Spanish.at $ ^{*} $
almost entirely in Spanish at the table, using English only to interpret their conversation to less crudite brethren.
Humphrey has been the victim of a wanderlust since he was 15, when he and some friends "rode the rods" to the Canadian border.
"It was cold and we got home-sick," he admits. The next two summers he spent in military camps. About his travels to the south, he is quite reticent and it is only by dint of intensive questioning that he will talk about them.
Shipped As A Seaman
In 1941 he shipped as a seaman on a tramp steamer in the Caribbean, leaving from New Orleans. The crew was "pretty tough," he says, and the boatswain stabbed the steward during a trivial argument. He and a boy from Brooklyn were the only Americans board the boat.
"Every one of the crew, except two Englishmen, was trying to become a citizen of the United States," he remarked. Conditions in American islands and on American ships are always much better and healthier than any others, even British, he revealed.
Becoming ill from ptomaine poisoning, he was put ashore in Port-au-Spain, on the British island of Trinidad, without any clothing, money, or papers. After being discharged from a hospital, he spent a month on the island waiting for his pay from the steamship company.
"When a boy calls on a girl there,
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he's well chaperoned." Humphrey admits. "You sit in the parlor and talk to her parents and brothers and sisters about the United States. That's all they want to hear about."
The only way to escape the chaperoning, he found, was to rent a bicycle and take the girl riding in the afternoon. He still writes to friends he made on the island.
toms, to Humphrey, was the evening promenade of young persons around the town square.
During that winter, spent as a sophomore in St. Joseph, Mo., junior college, Humphrey tried his hand at boxing. He won the Golden Gloves lightweight championship of northwest Missouri and sometimes on the campus he wears a jacket given him for being "champion of champions" and most popular contestant. Hitch Hilked To Movies
Last summer he and a buddy hitch-hiked to Mexico and spent almost two months in Monterrey, living in a Mexican home, speaking Spanish, and meticulously avoiding Americans. They borrowed tuxedos from Mexican boys and attended local dances and otherwise lived in a typical Mexican way.
Hitch-Hiked To Mexico
"All the girls go around one way and the boys walk around in the opposite direction. A smile here and a nod there and you can strike up an acquaintance with the most respectable girls in the community. But when you take them home you part at least a block from their home. Not until a couple is formally afflianced does the boy ever go to the girl's home."
One of the most interesting cus-
The most charming characteristic of the Mexican people is their light-heartedness, according to Humphrey. They dance and sing every evening, and everyone plays an instrument, he states.
Mexicans Are Lighthearted
This summer Humphrey plans to remain in school since he is enlisted in the marine officers' reserve, but he is regretful that he won't be able to return to Mexico.
Mexican rates of exchange are very favorable and if the American tourist stays away from tourist hotels he can live very cheaply, Humphrey says. Meals in the best Mexican restaurants cost from 15 to 20 cents, with fresh fruits the chief dishes. Money for the boys' trip was earned by working a month in a hotel in El Paso, Texas. They saved $50 apiece, which became 250 Mexican dollars when exchanged.
"Man, it was wonderful," he exclaims.
Poetry Judges Are Selected
Dr. John W. Ashton, of the department of English, Maurice Hatch, formerly of Utica, and Paul Engle, lecturer on poetry at the University of Iowa, will judge poetry submitted in the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Prize contest, recently announced Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes and Miss Rose Morgan, who are in charge of arrangements.
Each year, the judges include a member of the English department. an alumnus of the University, and a man not connected with the University who has won recognition in the field of poetry.
In addition to lecturing on poetry at the University of Iowa, Mr. Engle
Mr. Hatch received his bachelor of arts degree from the University in 1936 and his master of arts degree in 1940. He was a former member of the faculty. Mr. Hatch is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Curiosity Did It... Joy Howland to Report To New York for SPARs
Proving an added source of excitement to one who has never been outside the area of the Middle West. the order to report to Hunter College, which is situated just off Fifth Avenue in New York City gives Joy an additional reason to rejoice in the impulse of curiosity which led her to enlist in this division of the navy.
"Semper Paratus—Always Ready," better known as the SPARs, voiced its first call at the University last week when Joy Howland, College sophomore, received orders to report to New York City on March 25.
"I really don't know why I did it," she explains, "except that curiosity started me on an inquiry into the WAVEs, and one thing led to another, and—well, here I am in the SPARs."
After passing rigid physical, mental, and psychological examinations, Joy was sworn into the SPARs exactly one month after her first application was made, and following five weeks basic training at Hunter College, she hopes to be placed in the journalistic or public relations department where her university training on the Daily Kansan will prove useful.
Radiating excitement and enthusiasm, Joy reveals that she has been granted the same scholastic concessions by the University as the men who were called to the armed forces, and despite the fact that SPARs are allowed to marry into the navy, she laughingly assures her friends that nothing will prevent her return to the University to complete her education.
Required to remain in classes until Tuesday before she leaves. You plans to be at her home in Atwood until the week-end when she will return to the University and will leave from here for New York City.
Joy Enthusiastic Over SPARs
is a public leeturer on poetry for W. Colston Leigh Inc., New York. He is the author of many well-known poems among which are "Torn Earth," "Break the Heart's Anger," and "American Song."
All resident students regularly enrolled in the University are eligible to enter the contest. Three typewritten copies of each poem should be handed in to the Chancellor's office before 12:00, April 2. No contestant may submit more than one poem or a poem that has previously been published.
War Expenditures Reach New High Washington, (INS) — Two hundred and fifty million dollars a day for war.
The WPB reported today that the average rate of U.S. war expenditures reached a new high of $253, - 400,000 a day in February.
US Airmen Foresee Japanese May Produce Better Fighter Plane
By International News Service The possibility that the Japanese in the near future may deliver a better armed zero fighter upon American pilots in the Pacific was forseen today by airmen as U.S. forces continued to take heavy toll of enemy aircraft and installations on fighting fronts.
While no one outside Japanese high command knows what changes are being made, official circles in Washington have for some time been expecting a change.
The state Senate has approved an appropriation of $11,000 a year to the Board of Regents.
Senate Approves Appropriation
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