U G V I T
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
SCORE OF VICE
40th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1943
NUMBER 73
Nursery Fund Drive Begins This Week
A student drive starts Tuesday to raise money for the Jayhawk Nursery, institution for underprivileged children in Rugby England. Explanation of the purpose of the drive will be given at the half of the Tuesday night basketball game with Nebraska.
After the mid-week on Wednesday a series of pictures will be shown in Fraser theater. The admission will be twenty cents, and receipts will be given to the fund. Wednesday's program will include the pictures, "Winning The Wings," "Dover," and "History of the Movies." The latter is an hour-length feature. If the turn-out is good others will be shown.
The C. V. C. is in charge of the tag day Thursday; two members from each organized house will work. Every person on the campus will be approached, and for any contribution over ten cents, the giver
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Jayhawker Will Be Out March 2
Because of printing and engraving difficulties, the Jayhawker magazine scheduled to appear this week will not be issued until Tuesday, March 2, John Conard, editor, announced yesterday.
Copy for the men's issue of the magazine was sent to the printers about two weeks ago, but labor shortages at the printers in Topeka and at the engravers in Kansas City have caused delay in completion of the magazine, Conard said.
The Dream of Washington Is With Roosevelt Today
"If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. —George Washington, Sept. 17, 1796
George Washington, the first President of the United States, was a man with a dream. He dreamed of national unity. And he made his dream come true.
Leading his ragged soldiers through the blood-stained snows and through the scarlet floods of King George's men, Washington followed his dream, fashioned it out of the raw beginnings of the colonies, and finally carved the United States of America out of the wilderness of conflicting interests.
Today, we have another President with a dream, a dream of international unity. The President dreams of freedom, the four freedoms, and peace. May he have the perseverance, the courage, and the faith to make them come true.
Moore, Palmer To Give Recital
Two members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, Miss Meribah Moore and Robert Palmer, will present a joint recital Monday night at 8 o'clock in Fraser hall. At that time Mr. Palmer will offer his two latest works, both composed within the last year.
The program will begin as Miss Moore sings four numbers
Hesse Is Texas Museum Curator
Dr. Claude Hibbard, curator of the museum of vertebrate paleontology at Dyche museum, has received word that Curtis J. Hesse, former student at the University, has been made curator of the museum at the Agriculture and Mechanical College, College Station, Texas.
Alumni Seek Totem Pole
By MATT HEUERTZ
Interest in the Totem Pole, erected 50 years ago by the class of '93, is being revived this year by members of that class who plan to hold a class reunion this spring. Several members of that class are coming to the campus in a few weeks to make preparations for the reunion and to search for the pole which they believe buried under tons of charcoal in the basement of Fowler shops.
The Totem Pole was erected on June 6, 1893, as the central attraction of the Class Day celebration of commencement week. The idea came from a young man, later famous as Gen. Fred Funston, who had just returned from a trip on the Yukon river in Alaska, where he had taken special notice of totem poles and their meaning.
A telegraph pole about 40 feet long and 2 feet in diameter was brought from Kansas City, and the
services of a Lawrence contractor were secured for the carving of certain figures on the pole. It was erected on the morning of June 6 on the site where Green hall is now situated.
led "Pot Latch" which is the Indian word for toment pole raising, feasting, speech making, and general good fellowship of northern Indian tribes. Each member of the class and faculty were given Indian names for the occasion, all of which had real significance. Prof. Olin Templin was "Ko-ko-Flunk-'em-a-heap." Members of the class had such names as "Egalula-Pok-A-Chip." "Little-Hell-Of-A-Man," and "Afraid-Of-A-Squaw."
Owl Signifies Wise Seniors
At the top of the pole perched an owl, supposedly signifying the wise seniors. Below the owl was a carved image of Chancellor Snow, wearing sideburns which were chipped off later with a chisel. Next came K S U, abbreviation for Kansas State University, carved in large letters.
Below these letters was the head of a mule representing the juniors wise in the ways of passing exams. Under the mule was carved the Kansas flower, the sunflower. Next came a handsome red devil personifying the sophomores of evil repute. Then came a pair of boots and a cowboy hat representing the freshmen newly arrived from the country. At the base of the pole were the numbers '93.
The class day exercises were cal-
For several years following this occasion, commencement exercises were held around the pole and class fights took place near it. As the story goes, a class grudge was once carried too far, and one night the pole was broken in two parts. Some say that a group of over zealous vandals toted the cannon that used to stand in front of the court house to the campus, filled it with scrap iron and black powder, and blew the pole down and the gun to bits. Others are of the opinion that a cable was used to pull it down.
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Miss Moore sings four numbers, "Perpieta" from "Il Floridore" (Stradella), "Let Me Wander Not Unseen" from "L'Allegro" (Handel), "Noel" (Nerini), and "Fantoches" (Debussy).
Stringed Trio Is Used
The second or adagio movement of Mr. Palmer's "Second Trio for Strings" will then be played by James Lerch, violin, Eugene Niniger, viola, and Glenn Royer, cello.
Miss Moore's second group of numbers consists of "Wild Geese" (Buchanan), "When I Bring to You Colored Toys" (Carpenter), "A Piper" (Head), "The Pasture" (Naginski) and "At the Well" (Hageman).
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Lt. Buhl Will Show Films To Reserves
Exclusive Navy films, "The Battle of Midway" and "The Battle of Coral Sea," will be shown members of the Naval Reserve by Lt. A. H. Buhl of the Naval Training Station in the auditorium of Marvin hall at 7:30 tomorrow night.
Lt. Buhl said that the pictures contained excellent shots of the Navy in action and that all members of the Reserve would benefit by seeing them.
The meeting tomorrow night will take the place of the regular Wednesday meeting.
Red Cross Blood Unit To Be Here in March
Registration for contributions of blood to the Red Cross blood bank will begin about March 29, Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service and chairman of the Douglas County Red Cross blood donor's committee, has announced.
Persons in good health betwe eligible to contribute. Minors must present a written permit from their parents.
The blood contributed will be sent to the army and navy for treating war-injured men and women.
Persons in good health between the ages of 18 and 60 are eligible to contribute. Minors $ ^{2} $
Each pint of blood is processed to make one unit of dried plasma. The blood is shipped daily in special refrigerators to processing plants. The plant serving this area is in North Chicago, Ill.
Dried Plasma Injected.
The blood plasma is separated by
centrifuging and frozen and rapidly dehydrated. Each unit of dried plasma is packed in a tin container with a bottle of distilled water and the necessary equipment for injection into the recipient.
Upon arriving at its destination the dried plasma can be injected into the patient in a short time. Only distilled water must be added to the plasma before the injection.
The Red Cross has a quota of 40-000,000 pints of blood plasma to collect in 1943.
Jobs Cease If Women Don't Apply
If University women will not apply for student employment open for the remainder of the term, the jobs available will cease to be sources of student employment in the future, Miss Marie Miller, secretary of the Women's Emploment Bureau said today.
Women may apply at Miss Miller's office, 104 Fraser hall, tomorrow or Tuesday. They should bring copies of their class schedules.
Dr. Ashton To Speak on Ballots
The Home Economics club will meet at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon in Fraser hall, Miss Lucille Aust,
of the Home Economics department,
has announced. Dr. John W. Ashton,
professor of English, will speak on the subject, "English Ballots."
Debaters in Semi-finals Nelson Speaks on Air
Arthur Nelson, College senior from Lawrence, has been selected as one of 36 debaters from colleges and universities throughout the nation to compete in the semi-finals of the second annual series of national intercollegiate radio prize debates.
The series of debates is sponsored by the American Economic Foundation cooperating with the Blue Network. The foundation sponsors "Wake Up, America!" program, a radio forum program broadcast every Sunday afternoon.
The semi-final debate in which Nelson will participate will be broadcast over the Blue Network from radio station WREN in Lawrence on Tuesday, March 2, from 6:15 to 7:00 p. m.
Nelson will take the negative, teaming with Paul Clark of Colorado University. The affirmative will be taken by Mary Alice Donahoe of Mt. St. Scholastica college, Atchison, Kansas, and James Lee Gibson of Iowa State college. The question is, "Should American youth support the re-establishment after the war of competitive enterprise as our dominant economic system?"
One of Nine Debates
The debate to be conducted here is one of nine similar sectional debates now under way. In each the best speaker of the competing four will receive a prize of $50. The best opposing speaker will receive a $25 prize.
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