TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Troops Replace Tourists On Swiss Ski Runs
Zurich.—(UP)—The famous Swiss winter resorts—spots that used to ring with laughter and a babel of foreign tongues—are melancholy places now.
The foreigners who used to spend most freely, the English, American and Dutch, can no longer reach Switzerland, and the handful of princesses, counts and baronesses still able to take Swiss vacations spend most of their time mourning the good old laws, drinking cocktails in half-empty bars, dancing dejectedly
on luxurious floors they once complained were too crowded. Once in a while they ski.
Three of the most frequented Swiss resorts are St. Moritz, Davos and Muerren. Of the three, St. Morizt is the most forlorn. It used to be inhabited almost solely by rich and famous foreigners and the Swiss are persuaded to go there now, with difficulty.
The majority of St. Moritz's deluxe hotels are closed and those that are open, like the famous Palace, are almost empty. Its master of ceremonies, Billy Reardon, once a celebrated American dancer, is one of the saddest men in town. He will show you his albums full of pictures of bygone parties and celebrities while mournfully reminiscing.
"Gala" Nights Popular
The Cresta bob-sled run, which was used in the last Olympic Games, was not in use during the early part of the winter, and the dangerous Skeleton run, whose contenders were mainly Americans, is now used as a shortcut for small boys on ordinary sleds who wish to get from St. Moritz to Celerina.
Davos is a bit more lively, for it is one of the best ski fields in Switzerland. Even the Swiss patronize it. But the superb runs are empty compared with a few years ago, and the serenn funicular, whose cars are marked "25 persons up, 20 down," is lucky to have ten passengers in either direction.
There, too, hotels are closed and half-empty. One of the best bands in Europe, Teddy Stauffer's, plays to a half dozen dancers on week days in the biggest hotel, the Belvedere. But on "gala nights" the place is crowded with English, Germans, Swiss, Italians and French almost as though it were peace time.
Many of the guests seen in these resorts now are refugees, citizens of countries which are now over-run by hostile armies. They ski and drink and hope that the war will end soon, and wait. It is a boring existence.
Ski Tumulus
- Ski Troops Use Runs
In Davos, too, white-overalled ski troops vied with civilians for the use of the runs, though the unfortunate soldiers had to climb the mountains on foot while their competitors rode the funiculars.
In Muerren, site of the world-famous Kandahar Ski Run and favorite stamping ground of English students, things are little better. The biggest hotels are closed. However, the ski lift here is crowded, for the skiers who really wants to do some sliding frequent this spot. It is more difficult than St. Moritz and has no easy runs as has Davos. It contains no hotspots and, unless one skis there is little to do. Celebrities avoid it like a plague.
X Food is better in the mountains than in the towns below. It is also often possible to obtain rationed articles of food and clothing or soap without benfit of coupons. This is partly because the peasants turn in their coupons to the stores for a consideration, and the stores "lend" them to guests who lack them.
Bayles Is Co-Author of Book on Better Living
"Biology For Better Living" has recently been published by Ernest E. Bayles, associate professor of education and instructor in the theory and practice of teaching here at the University.
Professor Bayles wrote the book in co-authorship with R. Will Burnett, assistant professor of education at Stanford University and director of science curriculum at Menlo (Calif.) school and junior college. Burnett is a University graduate.
College Gets Collection of Rare Bibles
State College, Pa. — (UP) — A collection of Bibles and other religious books at Pennsylvania State College has been augmented by the addition of 94 volumes of rare religious works.
The new addition, comprising a collection secured from the estate of the late Charles S. Plumb, Ohio State University professor, includes six Bibles published before the year 1501.
Three of the Bibles of the collection were printed before Columbus discovered America, while 18 came off the press before the birth of Shakespeare, college library officials said.
The collection is considered one of the outstanding of its kind in the country. The newly acquired Plumb collection was presented to the library by Claude G. Aikens of State College in memory of his father, Charles T. Aikens, president of Susquehanna University for 22 years.
Intermediate Plane Bridges Gap For Pilot
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio — (UP) — To bridge the huge gap between flying a single engine army trainer and a multi-engine A.A.F. service craft, the Air Corps has designed a new type of trainer called the twin-engine transition plane.
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio — (UP)
Two related types have been in service since 1941 — the multi-engine pilot-trainer, and the navigator-bombardier trainer.
The new ship is a low wing monoplane with a 40-foot wing span. It has a gross weight of 5,125 pounds, and is powered with two radial engines in the 270 horsepower class, fitted with two-blade constant speed propellers
With these new transition trainers, the prospect is considerably brighter for training pilots and crews for multi-engine planes in sufficient numbers for the air force expansion program.
Standard equipment includes a full complement of training instruments, and conventional retractable landing gear. Instructor and student pilot sit side by side. These planes have the same general performances and operation characteristics of the big war planes.
Vela Addresses Spanish Club
Dr. David Vela of Guatemala will arrive in Lawrence today from Oxford, Ohio. He is to speak to the Spanish club tomorrow afternoon in room 113 of Frank Strong hall.
Dr. Vela is a Guatemalan anthropologist and publisher of El Imparcial. He is a professor at the University of Guatemala and also a frequent commentator in the Guatemalan press on international affairs. He states that wholehearted cooperation of the Americas is needed in defense of democracy. He is also an authority on the customs and history of the Central American Indian and he intends to make a tour of the southwest before leaving the United States.
He will leave Lawrence Thursday for Santa Fe, N.M.
Announce Openings for Joyhawker Positions
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the Jayhawker magazine for next year may now be made at the Jayhawk office in the sub-basement of the Memorial Union building. Jim Surface, editor of the Jayhawker, has announced.
Surface also specified that the applications must be in by Friday. April 3.
Interested persons should consult either Surface or Duane Smith, business manager.
Earth Mounds Probably Old Gopher Homes
Seattle — (UP) — Peculiar earth mounds scattered over the Tenimo prairie near Olympia have long been believed to be the work of pre-historic people who roamed Western Washington many centuries ago.
The new theory is advanced by Victor B. Scheffer, lecturer in forestry, and Walter W. Dalquest, fellow in zoology, at the university.
Now two University of Washington scientists have discovered evidence which leads them to believe the mounds are simply "apartment houses" erected by industrious pocket gophers over thousands of years.
They theorize that a mound starts with intensive burrowing by gophers in one spot. The burrowing loosens the soil and encourages vegetation. This in turn causes other gophers to continue their activities in the same spot. Thus a series of gopher mounds are piled one on the other, making the large mound after many years.
They claim that throughout Western Washington wherever mounds are found, there also are signs of gophers.
G. W. Bradshaw, associate professor of civil engineering, will present an illustrated lecture outlining the main features of local civilian defense at the Armory, at 8:15 p.m., April 2.
Scheffer and Dalquest, however, found no gophers on the Tenimo prairie at the present time. They believe that some pestilence, or a drought, or possibly a grass fire, must have wiped out the community.
Bradshaw to Outline Local Civilian Defense
Masculine Precedent Broken
Claremont, N.H. - (UP) - Marjorie A. Charrin, town clerk of this village, is the first woman to hold the office as well as the youngest clerk in the town's history. She succeeds her father who served a four-year term.
Professor Bradshaw has recently returning from a training course in civilian defense at New York University.
A new milk-dispenser has been set up alongside the coca-cola machine at Gogebie Junior college, Ironwood, Mich.
Engineers Cancel Spring Exhibit
The School of Engineering and Architecture will not hold its annual spring exhibition this year, according to J. O. Jones, assistant dean of the School. He attributed the cause to the "uncertainties of the times."
Ninety-one naval R.O.T.C. cadets at the University of Texas will make a cruise this summer with ships of the gulf sea frontier command.
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The flight of ducks, long used to the army flying field as a game preserve, moved in and took possession of the airport, grounding army planes.
The invaders were routed when army and game officers armed with sawed-off shotguns blasted the ducks into hasty retreat. But they returned every time the watchers relaxed.
Army officials predict they'll have to remain on the alert until the flock goes north to summer grounds.
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