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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1942
39th YEAR
NUMBER 90
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By HEIDI VIETS
Ever since this country started observing Washington's birthday, Americans have heard of the Father of their Country as the little boy who cut down the cherry tree. If George ever did sink a hatchet into living wood, he was probably preparing it for grafting.
George Washington has been called our first country gentleman, but he was more than that. .he was a real dirt farmer, a lover of the soil. Mount Vernon, today a concession-dotted touri-
tural experiment station in this country.
George a "Putterer"
Washington, the man, was Washington, the farmer. A true picture shows him as a "scientific putterer," carefully injecting seeds into rows of little boxes, tediously keeping records with quill pen and ink made from powder, riskily buying up livestock, trying new crops, and attempting the grafting of fruit trees. All the time, even when public duty had pulled him away from home, Washington's heart was at the farm with his wheat and his little boxes. The farm was one place where he could forget those painful false teeth, which for three-fourths of his life bruised his gums and his good humor.
His agricultural ventures were many. Upon returning to spacious Mount Vernon after the Revolutionary war, he began experimenting with plaster of paris and pow-
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To Discuss War Problems Tuesday
Neal Ukena, college senior and chairman of the "America Today" commission, announced that the topics of the following discussions will be "A Christian 'Looks at War'
Students with a desire to study (if not solve) America's current problems, will have an opportunity to do just that when "Labor, Industry, and the War," the first in a series of five similar discussions, is conducted at 4:30 Tuesday in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union building.
Giving their view on the political and economic problems of the world today will be Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology; Joe Murray, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal World; and Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics. This panel discussion will be under the direction of Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College.
Glee Clubs Give Concert In Hoch Tomorrow Night
Naval Reserve Offers New Deferment Plan
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The United States Naval Reserve will enlist 80,000 college men between the ages of 17 and 19 after March 1, according to information received yesterday by Chancellor Deane W. Malott from the Navy department.
Students enlisted under this program will be allowed to continue in school for two more years, during which time they will be required to take certain courses suggested by the Navy.
After this preliminary training some of these students will be transferred to class V-7 and allowed to continue until graduation, after which they will go into training for positions as Naval officers. Others will be placed in class V-5 for Naval aviation training, and still others
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The MSC probably will act upon a plan of the committee to submit a questionnaire to the students concerning war-time activities.
In what may result in one of the most important meetings of the year, the Men's Student Council will assemble Monday night at eight o'clock in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
At that time, the recently-appointed "war-defense committee will make its report on the possibilities of promotion of war and defense activities on the Hill. The group, with Orville Wright as chairman, has been conferring and working with Chancellor Deane W. Malott and other University officials on a number of projects.
In the production, Chekhov has tried to present a balanced performance without any part overshad-
"12th Night" Chekhov Group Does In Hoch Bill Shakespeare's Play on Wednesday
The men's glee club, which will combine its talents with the
MSC Will Study Hill Defense
Michael Chekhov, actor and director of the Chekhov theater studio, brings his full production company to Hoch auditorium Wednesday to present Shakespeare's comedy, "Twelfth Night." Starting at 8:15 p.m., the performance will be the fifth version of
the play which Chekhov has produced, although it is the first presentation he has directed in English.
Michael Chekhov, actor and director of the Chekhov theater studio, brings his full production company to Hoch auditorium Wednesday to present Shakespeare's comedy, "Twelfth Night." Starting at 8:15 p.m., the performance will be the fifth version of the play which Chekhov has produced, although it is the first presentation he has directed in English.
Activity ticket holders and season ticket holders will be admitted at the door. No seats will be reserved for the performance. Single admissions to the play will go on sale at the ticket office in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 Wednesday night.
owing the remainder of the cast. Critics of the play have commented, "a triumph of dramatic art in every way" and "Mr. Chekhov loses nothing of the uproarious humor that makes the immortal Shakespearean comedy as timely today as it was at the beginning of the seventeenth century and as it will be hundreds of years from now."
women's glee club in present- ing a joint concert in Hoch an-
ditorium at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
The Men's and Women's Glee Clubs combine to serenade the University tomorrow night in their annual spring presentation. Beginning at 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium, more than 100 students, under the direction of Miss Irene Peabody and Prof. Joseph F. Wilkins, will sing a program of choral music that can be unequaled in variety—songs ranging from the classics to numbers
University students now have more than the Japs to worry about—a bevy of childhood diseases seems to be attacking the campus, and Watkins Memorial Hospital contains the proof.
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Microbes Hit Campus
John Falen, freshman engineer; and Carl Welch, college freshman, are still puffed up about their cases of mumps, and Shirley Kelly can well be proud of her case of chicken-pox—to date she has a monopoly on them.
Bill Phillips, freshman engineer, is seeing spots before his eyes not the result of eye strain, but simply a case of the measles. (Bill is the type that likes to add variety to everything, hospitals included.)
Still holding down the fort with pneumonia is Justine Peterson, college sophomore, though John Reber, college freshman, had recovered sufficiently to be dismissed from the hospital Friday.
Will Hold Dinner Meeting In Union Bldg.
The department of geology and the Geological Survey will have their monthly dinner meeting in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building Monday night at 5:45. Dr. R. M. Dreyer, assistant professor of geology and mining engineering, will present a report on "The Geophysical Investigations of the Tri-State Lead and Zinc District." Other reports will be given by various members.
of the "I'm a Jayhawk" style.
The program opens with the selection "Kermesse," from "Faust" (Gounod), sung by the combined glee clubs.
The Women's Glee Club then takes over to sing four numbers: "O Death is Cool Refreshing Night" (Brahms-Fitch); "Eapphi Ode" (Brahms-Duane); "The Message" (Brahms-Douty); and "Slumber, Beloved One" (Ravel-Douty).
The Men's Glee Club then offers "Tenebrae Factae Sunt" (Palestrina); "The Scissors-Grinder" Fitch); "Sapphi Ode" (Brahms-Jungst, "Turn Ye to Me" (Scotch folk song) as arranged by A.T.D., and closes this portion of the program with "Ay Ay, Ay" (Creole song) as arranged by Stickles.
Men Sing Folk Songs
The Women's Glee Club returns and gives a second set of four songs composed of "Ghosts of the White Birches" (Travis-Krone); "The Sleep that Flits on Baby's Eyes" (Carpenter-Teharne); "When Day is Done" (Katscher-Lawrence); and "Ants" (Skeath-Blakeslee).
The fifth part of the concert, "Modern Mode Arrangements" is to be presented by a group of women vocalists, accompanied by a group of violinists. The mode arrangement is by Thelma Lehmann.
The Men's Glee Club next puts on a musical skit entitled "Joe College," written especially for them by Jack Laffer, University graduate of '84, and announcer for WJR, Detroit. The scenes are typical of any K.U. boarding house for men.
The concert closes with a trio of songs characteristic of the University, "I'm a Jayhawk." "Onward Kansas" (also written by Jack Lafter), and the "Alma Mater."
A recent survey disclosed that chilli-beans is a regular feature on Saturday menus for 28 organized houses on the Hill.