UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942
NUMBER 28
40TH YEAR
Faculty Members Address Four KSTA Sessions
Thirteen University of Kansas faculty members will deliver speeches and lead discussion groups at four different sessions of the Kansas State Teachers Association which convenes today in Topeka, Wichita, Salina, Hays, Dodge City, and Coffeeville and will last through Saturday.
Miss Maude Ellsworth, president of KSTA, and instructor in public school art methods, will speak before the general session at Topeka tomorrow morning, and will address the Wichita convention in the evening.
Other University speakers at the Topeka convention will include Dr. Raymond Wheeler, professor of Psychology, who will address the Junior High School session tomorrow on "What Makes Johnny Go." Principal Neal M. Wherry of Lawrence Memorial High School will speak to the rural and third class city high schools on "Has the Teacher Time for Guidance?" Miss Beulah Morrison, professor of psychology, will talk to the kindergarten-primary group on "The Young Child's Growing Curiosity."
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, will be toastmaster at the dinner-meeting at 5:30 in the Jayhawk Hotel. Bolivar Marquez, exchange student at the University, will entertain guests with card tricks; and Alice Joyce Hensroth, Topeka High School student, will play several accordian numbers during the dinner.
Ray Pierson, alumni president, will
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In an attempt to aid in keeping up morale of former students, the CVC announced that $32 gained from the sale of scrap metal obtained in the recent drive, will be used to send University Daily Kansans to men in the armed forces.
CVC Sends Kansans to Soldiers
The coupons printed below are to be cut out and filled with any former KU student's name, address, and date of graduation. Any student desiring to send a Kansan to a friend in the service should fill out these coupons and place them in boxes which will be provided for them in Watson library and at the Pumpkin Prom Saturday night. More than sixty subscriptions can be sent.
CVC members will meet at 4:30 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater to consider the possibility of providing a nursery in Myers hall for children of women who work at the Sunflower Ordinance Works.
A five-man band was formed for Sunday afternoon entertainment. Vic Miller played piano; Eldred L Balzer, clarinet; and Eugene Kane, drums. Kane was also elected cadet company officer by the commissioned officers of the battalion. Joe Brown was on the cadet council and was a member of the glee club which acted
By performing in a student fair for a week. American soldiers stationed in Iceland helped raise $15, 500 for a new dormitory at the University of Iceland.
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The squadron was graduated on Navy Day followed by an afternoon parade before the entire regiment and an air show from the aviation base at Oakland. and the Jayhawkers are now being sent to three different bases. Activities of the Jayhawkers while in the pre-flight school included participation in musical and governmental organizations.
Graduation Separates Jayhawker Air Squadron
The Jayhawk Squadron has been broken up by the graduation of its members from the Navy Pre-flight School at St. Mary's College, Calif., according to a letter received by Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, from Keith Spalding, who was graduated in 1942.
Field in California, and Paco, Wash.
The graduating cadets were split into four groups, and were assigned to one of the four primary bases located at Los Alamitos, Livermore, and Moffett $ \textcircled{4} $
With only a light vote registered in the freshman women's election by noon today, WSGA council members working at the polls in the basement of Frank Strong hall were expecting the heavy balloting to come later in the afternoon. Contrary to information given in the K-Book, the election polls were open from 9 to 11 in the morning and from 3 to 5 in the afternoon.
Few Women Register In Council Election
Due to Peggy Blackburn's withdrawal as candidate as secretary, only six women were entered in the election. Patty Sloan, who was running for vice-president, filled the vacancy caused by the withdrawal and opposed Sue Schwartz in the race for secretary.
Pitching Just Plain Hay At Next Game
Old MacDonald, his wife and their hired hand, Hank, will turn the football field into a corn field at the half of Saturday's game with Washington University of St. Louis. After they get through with the chores, Mac and Hank will choose up sides among the band members for a corn husking contest. Then Mac and his wife will pair off for a square dance in which band members will also take part.
Down On The Farm
"Down On The Farm," as the drill has been named, will open with a fanfale of "The Farmer in the Dell" ending in an off-key blast. The band will move onto the field to a medley of "The Farmer in The Dell." "The Old Gray Mare" and "Old MacDonald Had A Farm." While the last piece is being played the first formation, Old MacDonald's barn, will be built. Mac and Hank pitchforks in hand, in overalls, bandanas, and straw hats, will show up. Then, with MacDonald directing them, they'll pitch hay into the barn loft.
**Husking Contest**
The second formation will be a cornstalk to the tune of "The Happy Farmer." It's about this time that Mac and Hank begin their husking contest. Then the band will construct a formation of Mac's old gray mare, "Huldy," to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare," "Huldy" is a tempermental beast, and she goes into a rampage to the accompaniment of the "William Tell Overature." There is a sad ending, "Huldy" dies. Chopin's "Funeral March" accompanies her last rites.
In order to forget their grief, Mac and Ma throw a big barn dance; and the band forms two big squares so that there can be square dancing to the farmers' favorites of "Turkey In The Straw" and "The Irish Washerwoman." Mac's good spirits are sufficiently restored for the band to march off playing "The Happy Farmer."
Wartime Training
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Lawson Speaks
Careful planning of school training by the students themselves was urged by Dean Paul B. Lawson as he discussed the subject of "Liberal Arts in Wartime" over station KFKU Tuesday evening.
"To many people, there seems to be a definite conflict between the type of college training demanded of students today in order to win the war, and the type demanded to meet successfully the postwar problems," observed Dean Lawson. The special need today is for engineers, while tomorrow this same need will be felt for social engineers.
In the opinion of Dean Lawson, it is the business of educators to make
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Forums Broadcast ★★★ Bull Sessions
First of a series of six radio bullsees will get underway at 9:30 tonight over KFKU with the University Forums Board discussing the problem, "How Good Is Our Morale?"
Speakers on the program are Betty Lee Kalis, Chad Case, Colleen Poorman, and Art Nelson, all members of the Forums Board panel. John Waggoner will preside over the half-hour discussion.
Purpose of the discussion is to allow students to present their opinion of the war. Each Thursday night for the next six weeks, representatives selected from the 15 members of the Forums panel will discuss a phase of the series' theme, "The Nation at War."
Observatory Open House Plans Are Indefinite
Panel members have asked that listeners comment on the broadcasts so that the members will know what students want to hear. Comments, criticisms, or questions are sent to Merrill Peterson, chairman of the Forums Board.
Plans for an "open house" at the Observatory, similar to those of preceding years, are still indefinite. N.W. Storer, associate professor of physics, said yesterday. The physics department is very busy this year, he said, and he hasn't had time to make arrangements.
If held, the open house will be during the moon's first quarter, still two weeks off.
Porter Lecturer Tells of Japan's Power in China
China is an ideal location for the person or persons interested in studying the effect of disease on general welfare, the effect of a family on society, the effect of the economic state on health, or the effect of invasion by a ruthless military power, Dr. Irvine McQuarrie, annual Porter lecturer, told an audience of approximately five hundred students and faculty members yesterday in Fraser theater.
Dr. McQuarrie has worked the past two years with the Union Medical college at Peking, China, on leave from his position as head of the department of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He was the 12th annual lecturer of the series.
Traditions Unite China
Speaking of his experience in China, Dr. McQuarrie said he was impressed by their practices and traditions. The respect they show for elders and the solidarity of the family is, he believes, the stabilizing influence that has kept China together in spite of many years of changing governments and fighting.
Infant mortality in China is very high. Dr. McQuarrie said. In Minnesota only 34 of every 1000 babies die, but in some districts of China 250 of every 300 die.
Using slides to illustrate his talk, Dr. McQuarrie told of the many
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An Arabian Atmosphere For Pumpkin Prom
Shades of Arabian Nights will be seen on the stage of Hoch auditorium Saturday night when Penny Ashcraft dances at the order of Sultan Glen Lessenden as part of the Pumpkin Prom's musical variety show.
The sultan, surrounded by his harem (Campus Queens chosen from organized houses several weeks ago) decides that
Politicians Elect Freshman Officers
Fresman organizations of PSGL and Pachacamac. men's political parties, elected four class officers in meetings Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
Ray Thayer was selected as president of the freshman class by PSGL in their meeting in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building Tuesday night. Bob Lundy is the freshman PSGL representative on the Men's Student Council.
Wallace Bradshaw was elected Pachamac's freshman representative to the MSC at a meeting at the Sigma Chi fraternity house last night. John Harrison, was named as treasurer of the freshman class.
he needs a little entertainment and starts Miss Ashcraft onto a dancing jag which lasts until she does three numbers.
Music for her dancing will be furnished by Danny Bachmann and his orchestra and the Modern Choir. The harem scene will open the stage show which will begin about 9:30 Saturday night.
"Strip Polka" Routine
Next on the program will be a little improvising by Bachmann's orchestra on the "Strip Polka" in which Melvin Zack at the piano is expected to swing out with some of rhythm's jamming. Don Cousins, Jim Holyfield, and Bob Canatsey, sax men, and Ray Hodges and Bachmann on trombones will also be featured in the jam session.
Another dancing scene, this time on the theme of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" will follow.
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