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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1942
Blackout Coming Soon Operators Prepare
BY GERALD DICK
Warning to University women:
Don't accept any dates for Monday
night, Dec. 14.
Further advice: If you've already contracted for a date that night, cook up some excuse to break it. If this seems impossible, at least be sure that your date for the evening has you in before 10 o'clock.
Why all this precaution? On that night, at the stroke of 10 p.m., Mt. Oread will become enveloped in darkness. All artificial lights will be switched off—the only sources of illumination will be the moon and the stars.
There probably will be very few textbooks on the Hill opened on the right of the Halt. Most of the organized houses will surely take advantage of the many opportunities for parties which this event offers.
The occasion is the Hill's first blackout of this war, which will be held as a part of a test blackout of the ten-state area comprising the seventh defense region scheduled for that night. Kansas is included in this region.
First of all, the evening might be started off with a before-the-blackout party, lasting until the lights are switched off at ten. Then will come the big party of the night—the blackout session. This party will have a time limit of 20 minutes, and may be spent in playing thrilling games like blind man's buff and singing, preferably such songs as "When the Lights Go On Again All Over" the World$^{d}$ and "Prake the Lord and Pass the Electrician."
The climax to the evening will be an after-the-blackout party. There is no time limit on this last fling. It will last as long as the participants can hold out. An appropriate number recommended for group singing during this session is "Lead Kindly Light."
Varsity Basketball Practice Canceled Until Next Week
Because of Dr. Forrest C. Allen's temporary absence, varsity basketball practice has been discontinued until tomorrow. Dr. F. C. Allen, athletic director, along with Henry Shenk, assistant professor; R. R. Strait, instructor; Miss Ruth Hoover, women's athletic director; Miss Joie Staplen, assistant professor; and Miss Jean Bliss, instructor, left Thursday afternoon for Lincoln, where they are attending a three day physical conditioning institute.
The representatives from KU are sectional or area representatives and are taking the three day courses in training so that they can bring back to the University the ideas that the government maintains and is attempting to promote in its nation-wide program of physical conditioning.
University women will be confronted with the most difficult of all problems on that evening, it appears. They might have to choose between the blackout party inside and a more exclusive party of the two-person variety somewhere outside the house.
If people of the United States were correctly informed as to the nature and content of Chinese food, they would not speak so derisively of it according to Mou Hui King, engineering junior, who addressed the Newcomers Club at the home of Mrs. J. J. Jakocky, 1120 West 11th street, Thursday afternoon.
King Explains Food Of Chinese To Club
Birdnest soup is comparable in cleanliness to candle honey, for the bird is a secretion of a swallow and the nest is necessarily one untreated, for the bird desolence it after its use he said. King said the cost of a nest is prohibitive to many because of the difficulty in obtaining it. It is a common belief in China that one's life is lost for every nest that is procured from the rocky crises of the mountains.
The 100-year-old eggs that Americans read so much about are in reality 50-day eggs, and are not the decayed substance that one would expect, King advised. Explaining the processes of preparation, he said that a lime paste was wrapped around each egg and that the eggs were sealed in a jar. At the end of 90 days the white of the egg has changed to a transparent brown jelly-like substance and the yolk changes to green. The food may be eaten without cooking and is a real delicacy, King said.
King also explained some of the customs of the Chinese. He said of the Chinese language, that differences in the various dialects are so great that Chinese students on the campus who come from northern and souther China find it necessary to converse in English in order to understand each other.
Plans were made at the meeting to have a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Denne W. Maliott, to which husbands of the club members will be invited. The date has not been set.
CVC Officers' Meeting Tomorrow
For Thanksgiving---
CVC officers and platoon sergeants have been asked by Major Jill Peck to meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
For Thanksgiving---- We Have Delicious Pumpkin Pies and Tasty Doughnuts. Remember — It's Always
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Plan To Begin Annual Carruth Poetry Contest
The annual Carruth Poetry Contest will be announced shortly by the English department. The contest, supported by a fund begun in 1926 by New York alumni of the University in the memory of William Herbert Carruth, brings back a picture of the man who did so much to keep alive the spirit of art and literature in the hearts of Kansas students.
William Herbert Carruth graduated from the University in 1880. He studied the German language abroad for a time. After taking his doctor of philosophy degree at Harvard, he came here as a professor of German. For 33 years thereafter he was associated with the University, as head of the department of German languages and as vice-chancellor.
In 1513 Cerruth left the University to take the chair of comparative literature at Stanford University. He died in December, 1924.
Cancun was his name, a notecop poem with several books of poetry to librarians. "It's most lamentous poem was" "In It! Given Tomorrow."
The Cornish Poly Contest has been contested annually since 1927. It is open to all resident students regularly enrolled in the University. Poems can be of any length and clear, affection, but each contestant is allowed to submit only one poem which cannot have been previously published. Last year the prizes were $60 for the best poem, $40 for the next best, and $20 for the third best. The prizes for this year have not yet been announced.
It has been customary to select as judges one ember of the department of English, one notable alumnus of the University, and one prominent man of letters. Such poets as Vachel Lindsey, Willia Rose Benet, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Nathan, Robinson Jeffers, and Robert Frost have served as judges in the past.
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AUSTRIAN ROYALIST----
gaged in the work of finding homes and helping the thousands of refugees from his homeland. He has visited every state in the Union and has lectured in numerous principal cities. His lectures are based on first hand information of the growing revolt in Central Europe. He has been an outspoken foe of Hitlerism since 1933, has made his position clear in his many public appearances.
High On Nazi Purge List
Otto of Autria had been very active in the politics of Austria and Hungary since 1933. The Monarchist movement in both countries has always supported him. He is high on Hitler's purge list, and he has been condemned to death by the German Gestapo. The group of which he was the leader in Central Europe has been known for its unreconcilable opposition to any type of appeasement. He has been rewarded for his efforts by a strong personal popularity in Austria, where he has received honorary citizenship in half the towns.
Since Pearl Harbor, Otto of Austria has resided in Washington. He works for representation of American national interests. His lecture in addition to the growing revolution,
ary movement in Europe. will deal with the necessity for a well-planned, post-war program.
His Imperial Highness will meet with members and guests of the International Relations club from 4 to 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building, for an informal discussion of international affairs, Mary Cheney, president of the organization, announced.
Is Little Moron Outdated?
A contributor to the Indiana Daily Student of Indiana University predicts that the "little moron" stories are on the way out, that like all fads they've outlived their popularity. Now, we can wonder what will be the next fad.
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ALL THIS — AND GRABLE TOO!
"Springtime in the Rockies" means singtime and swingtime, too, when a gay gang of performers like Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Harry James and His Music Makers and Cesar Romero go on the lookout for love and laughs. It's rollicking romance when Betty and John, Carmen and Cesar go rolling under the mountain moon at an idyllic retreat, paced by the music of Harry James and his jumping trumpet. The 20th Century-Fox Technicolor film, featuring Charlotte Greenwood and Edward Everett Horton, arrives Today for 5 days at the Gramada Theatre.