FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
★ Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir:
12. Judging from the lead editorial in the University Daily Kansan Nov.
12, the Kansan must be of the opinion that we students are pleasure-loving individuals who do not realize the responsibility of this war.
On the contrary, we realize the responsibility involved in the war, but we realize that gasoline rationing will befall us Dec. 1, that the Christmas vacation has been "cut to the bone," and, regardless of what statements are issued now, that train and bus transportation will probably be rationed around Christmas to assure all men in the armed forces transportation. That would mean but one thing to the majority of us—Christmas atop Mt. Oread, as well as Thanksgiving here.
The "cutting Friday" issue cannot be resolved into a category by itself. It should be considered in the larger classification of vacations. If the University administration would produce some valid reason for shortening Christmas vacation to four days, when the other schools have more, we would understand the need for classes Friday. If the University administration would assure us that we would have time to get home and back Christmas, we would not object to missing Thanksgiving dinner at home.
We are soldiers on the education front. The armed forces need college men for officers, the country will need educated men and women after the war, and we are seeing that those needs are fulfilled. Surely our morale merits some consideration.
Name Withheld.
CHURCH NOTES
Thanksgiving turkey is on the menu for the annual Youth Program banquet sponsored by the Lutheran Student association at 6 o'clock Sunday at the church. This year's banquet includes University students and men of the Navy. Tickets sell for 35c.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will be the main speaker; both he and Mrs. Malott are to be<sup>c</sup>
he and Mrs. Malott are to be special guests. Toastmistress Doris Larson will start the program which will consist of informal toasts and group singing.
Robert Kloeper is president of L.S.A., and Dr. Mary Lawson and Mrs. Magda Jensen are advisors.
First Baptist Church Howard E. Koelb, pastor Charles Thomas, minister
Charles Thomas, minister to students
9:45 a.m. University discussion
9:45 a.m. University discussion class, Virginia Tieman, president.
11:10 a.m. Worship service; Helen Ruth Macev, solist.
5:00-7:30 p.m. Youth fellowship banquet in church parlors. Stan Burkett, toastmaster.
Unitarian Church
Unharran Church
Leona C. Handler, director
Jeon Pattie, flutist
9:30 a.m. Junior church
11 a.m. Morning service. Address: "The Challenge of Modern Science to Religion," Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon.
5:30 p.m. Open house and supper followed by play readings and folk games.
Friday 7:45 p.m. Community recreation. Folk dancing and group and table games.
St. John Catholic Church Father Cowell O'Neal
Masses on Sunday are at 5:30, 8 and 10 a.m.
Novena to Our Lady of Victory for those in the armed forces each Thursday at 7:45 p.m.
The Rev. E.J. Weisenberg, S.J., is the adviser to the Catholic students He is in room 415, Watson Library, each Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m.
First Christian Church Harold G. Barr, minister Royal Humbert, associate minister
9:30 a. m. University class taught by Mrs. Barr.
10:45 a.m. Worship and communion Sermon "In Everything Give Thanks" Offertory "A Song of Thanksgiving," (Allison) by Joe M. Williams.
5:30 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Fellowship hour for all young people. Social in 5:30 to 6:30. Forum program in 7:30 with Prof. John Ise speaking on "The Economic Bases of a Just and Durable Peace."
7:30 p. m. Evening worship. Sermon: "Wash Your Face."
Plymouth Congregational Church
C. Fosberg Hughes, minister
Alice Moncrieff, music director
9:45 a. m. Church school.
11 a. m. Morning worship with sermon by the minister, "The Roots of Thanksgiving."
5. 30 p. m. High school society.
7 p.m. Fireside Forum at the parsonage, 1100 Ohio street. Rev. Hughes will read a paper: "My Life and Thought." College age young people are invited to attend.
Westminster Hall (Presbyterian)
Friday, Nov. 20, Interest Group meeting, 7 to 8 p.m. at Westminster hall. Vern Hekhuis will lead the discussion "Will Science and Religion Overlap?"
Sunday, Nov. 22, Forum. 7:30 p.m.
m. Miss Betty Lou Parkinson, Topea
m. is coming to take charge of the
Thanksgiving praise service. Suzanne Schmidt has charge of the special musical numbers to be given.
Tuesday, Nov. 24. Phi Chi Delta meeting. 6:45 to 7:45 p. m. Mrs. Frank E. Willey will review part of the book "Chinatown Quest." Worship service by Dorothy Crockatt.
Friday, Nov. 27, Interest Group meeting, 7 to 8 p.m. Speaker Dr. J. L. Howe will relate some of his experiences with the Society for the Friendless, in prisons.
Edwin F. Price, minister to students 9:45 a. m. Student classes conducted by Dr. Forrest C. Allen and Rev. Edwin F. Price.
Propagation Experiments Increase Due to War
First Methodist Church and Wesle Foundation
10:50 a. m. Morning worship. Sermon by the minister. Wesleyan Chorus choir directed by Miss Meri-bah Moore.
O. E. Allison, minister
Hundred of crysanthemums, bronze yellow and white, are the sign of Thanksgiving in the University greenhouse. Some of the crysanthemums have been grown in a black cloth house. They bloom as much as six weeks earlier than they normally would, because, according to R. C. Hinz, florist, covering them makes the 'mums think the days are getting shorter. After Christmas crysanthemums may again be made to grow out of season by giving them longer, electrically-lighted days.
Edwin F. Price, minister to students
6 p. m. Wesley Foundation Fellowship. Following the fellowship period and lunch, Prof. George R. Rinehart, journalism department, will discuss "A Christian Interpretation of the News."
After the Thanksgiving 'mum rush,
Mr. Hinz will have to speed up his poinsettas.
In one of the hanging trays of soil in the greenhouse he has poinsettas, half of which were grown in the soil and half in gravel into which a chemical spray is forced daily and the excess drained off. The poinsettas grown in gravel are twice the size of the others. This growing experiment is being conducted by the department of botany on several plants. Another form of propagation to speed up growing time is to grow the plants under a mist. In this atmosphere the poinsettas, as well as roses and calla lilies, bloom in twelve days whereas it would normally require three or four weeks.
Hinz Graduate of Gardneboudt
This is Mr. Hinz's first year as florist for the University. For thirty years he operated a greenhouse in Leavenworth. After he had retired, he was struck by an automobile, and his hospital expenses took all his savings. He is a graduate of the Gardenboudt in Hamburg Germany with the degree of landscape florist. He is very pleased to have any one look at his plants and willingly lays aside his huge shears to point out prize specimens. His busy days are Monday and Thursday on which he prepares forty bouquets for various departmental offices. He is responsible for the bank of flowers which blooms in the center of Frank Strong hall. 4,000 petunias go to make up the bank and a corresponding number of zinnias, asters, and snapdragons.
Bulbs from Seed
Pet project of the busy little florist at present is producing lily bulbs from seed. He has a tray full of what would look to the lay like grass. This "grass" is lily shoots which have been growing for four months. By thanksgiving the bulblets from this seed will be forced out and potted for Easter. This is the first time florists have been obliged to grow their own bulbs from seed although some experiment with seed grown lilies has been made by botanists on the West Coast. The last shipment of lily bulbs from the main source of supply, Japan, arrived just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and government authorities confiscated it at the docks in San Francisco.
Tropical Plants Thrive
One of the three glassed-in enclosures is the conservatory which is devoted solely to tropical plants. Towering over a mass of smaller vegetation in the conservatory is a huge banana tree. It will bear fruit for the first time next summer, probably about the time retail markets have ceased to carry this hard-to-get fruit. Here Mr. Hinz has constructed cages for what he hopes will develop into a University aviary. There are six pairs of parakeets, two blue, two yellow and two green, and six finches. An allotment of $10 has recently been made for the purchase of more birds. Mr. Hinz said there would be a building constructed to house these birds.
if he had to build it himself.
He isn't ambitious enough to start an aquarium from his two tanks of tropical fish just yet, but since the gold fish are also supplied by Japan, he is taking special care of them.
PRINTED WORD--in
(continued from page six)
of falsehood he has made for him-
self.
It is symbolic of the things we are fighting for that the past week has been National Book Week. Store windows up and down Massachusetts street have been filled with exhibits for each of the Lawrence schools. Sponsored by the library committee of the Parent-Teacher Council, as last year, the Week has brought home to students at the University and to citizens of Lawrence that books on every subject, for every race, for every creed, in the spirit of every philosophy—form the foundation for our freedoms and the cornerstone of our democracy.
While we have books on every subject, from every point of view, we shall be free. While we can find in books whatever we may be searching for, the truth as we see it or as someone else sees it, we shall keep our land untouched by aggression, unsullied by the foot of a foreign conqueror. While we can write or read or talk as we wish, we shall never know the bitterness of slavery. But when someone shall say read this or this, or do not read that or that—then, oh, Republic, beware!
A debate team of College freshmen, accompanied by Prof. E. C. Buehler of the department of speech, went to Wyandotte high school at Kansas City, Kan., today, to debate on the national high school debate topic before the student body.
Bill Conboy and Larry Miller will present the negative side of the debate topic, and Wallace Grimes and Jay Hines will give the affirmative. The question is: "Resolved: That permanent world federation should be established."
Freshman Debaters Argue National High School Debate Topic.
WANT ADS
"The team will debate before larger high schools which will later come here to debate," Professor Buehler explained.
LOST MONDAY: Harlequin reading glasses in bright red leather case.
Helen Ruth Macey, 1149-J. 53-38
VISIT
OREAD BARBER SHOP
Close to Brick's
1237 Oread
Sporting goods, camping equipment,
household items, general hardware
and appliances.
GREEN BROS. HARDWARE
633 Mass. Phone 631
Jewelry and Gift Shop
833 Mass. Phone 827
LOST: Black billfold containing activity book and other valuable papers. Suitable reward. Lee Sanks, 1409 R.I. Phone 238. 5J2-38
ROBERTS'
LOST: Brownie 6-20 Bulls Eye Camera.
Call Mildred Wells, 860.
Reward. 48-37
Latest Used Phonograph Records — Reasonable JOHNNY'S GRILL 1017% Mass. Phone 96
LOST: Ladies Benrus wrist watch, between Union Fountain and Ad. Keepsake. Reward. Call Mary Anne Gray. 768. 47-37
KANSAN CLASSIFIED ADS
Lock and Key Service Tennis Rackets Re-Strung Guns and Ammunition RUTTER'S SHOP 1014 Mass. Phone 319
LOST: Strand of transparent beads somewhere between third floor Fraser and East Ad Friday morning between 9:30-10:30 classes. Please call Jean Ott, phone 731.
Money Loaned on Valuables
Unredeemed guns, clothing, for sale
WOLFSON'S
743 Mass. Phone 675
K.U.66
Plain Shampoo and Wave 65c
Oil Shampoo and Wave 80c
Permanent Waves $2.50 and up
Seymour Beauty Shop
1346 Ohio St. Phone 100
FOR PIPES Look at the ELDRIDGE PHARMACY First.
Wester Collegiate Dictionaries
$3.50 up
KEELER'S BOOK STORE Phone 33 939 Mass.
Junior Smartness
100% Wool Jersey
DRESSES
at
SWOPE'S 943 Mass.
0