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LAWRENCE. KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942
Brush, Razak Finish Designs Of K.U. Plane
Completion this week of designs for a new type airplane is a vital part of the program in aeronautical engineering on the Hill, as training for young men in the country's war activities is being rushed.
E. E. Brush, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, and Kenneth Razak, instructor in aero-nautical engineering, have just completed the preliminary plans for a new two-motored light plane, which they have named "K.U. No. 1." The plane, which may be made either primarily as an instrument flight trainer, but is also, Brush pointed out, the answer to a private plane owner's prayer, because it is powered with two 80 horsepower engines, and can fly on either one.
Although enrollment in the University this semester shows a decrease from last semester, course enrollment in the department of journalism has increased 10 percent, Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the department, said today.
Specifications call for exceptionally high performance, with a top speed of 160 miles per hour, and a landing speed of around 40 miles per hour. It is equipped with a retractable tricycle landing gear. Razak is now engaged in constructing a wind tunnel to test models of the plane. Brush is being assisted by three seniors in the department who are helping with stress analysis and structural design of the plane, as class projects.
Shack Enrollment Increases
Dr. Frank Nelson, recently with the American legation in Norway, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Fraser theater. His subject will be "I Saw Norway Fight Back."
Diplomat Nelson To Speak On War in Norway
It was during his stay in Norway, while he was visiting professor of American literature at the University of Oslo, that Norway was invaded by the Germans.
Dr. Nelson continued his teaching for some time after the invasion and then took up duties with the American legation at Oslo. He was about to return to America when the Germans arrested him and imprisoned him in a Gestapo jail in Oslo. Secretary Hull was finally able to obtain his release after seven months.
Dr. Nelson is now on a lecture tour with the Norwegian lecture bureau, which is sponsored by the Norwegian legation in Washington, D.C.
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KUInvaded
Debate Tigers Tonight
Students of the University of Missouri and of this University will meet in a dinner debate at 6:30 tonight at a regular meeting of the Co-op Club, a Lawrence civic organization, to argue the subject of whether a young man graduating from college has a fair opportunity under our present economic system.
Speakers from Missouri will be Nellie Latimer and Seymour Topping. Lois Ann Lehman and John Waggoner will represent Kansas.
Affirmative side of the question will be taken by the Missouri team; Kansas will take the negative.
League of Nations On Grill Tonight At 'World At War'
H. B. Chubb, associate professor of history, will lecture tonight to the third meeting of the World at War class, beginning on-the-dot at 7:30 p.m. in Fraser theater.
Professor Chubb will speak on "The League of Nations: A Record of Successes and Failures."
No Official Note On Summer Camp
At this time the U.S. Army must guard against giving out information indiscriminately, Col. James S. Dusenbury stressed.
In his lecture Chubb will discuss primarily the past experiences of the League of Nations with view to the possible lessons to the planning of the peace at the conclusion of the present war.
Those attending the lecture are asked to be on time. After the first lecture in the series was interrupted throughout by latecomers entering the auditorium.
Although the Associated Press ran a story several days ago saying that there would be no 6-week camp period for advanced R.O.T.C. students this summer, officers of the local R.O. T.C. unit have released no statement regarding the summer camp situation.
not as war-conscious as persons on both coasts," Dusenbury continued. His son is an air raid warden in Bridgeport, Conn. "Nevertheless, everyone must realize what we are up against," he concluded.
During past summers advanced R.O.T.C. students who had completed their junior year in the University and were ready for their senior year have spent six weeks in camp.
"Persons in the Middle West are
Any transfers of officers and all Army training plans, as well as movements of troops, are military secrets, he said.
"Now is the time to educa on the effects of war," Dusenba in the University should understand the government's position on matters of vital information, and should see why many government activities must be clouded by secrecy.
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Highlighting the combined concert of the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs Monday night in Hoch auditorium will be the musical skit written especially for the program by Jack Laffer, graduate of '38 and, at present, announcer for WJR, Detroit.
The skit is entitled "Joe College" and is set in the living room of a men's boarding house here on the Hill.
Men's Glee Club members taking part in the skit as the students will be Robert Schober, Deane Tack, Charles Avey, John Hayne, D on Mitchell, Scott Harvey, Willard Harris, Gerald McDonald, David Hax and Warren Williams. A chorus composed of the remainder of the Glee Club will also take part.
The closing three numbers of the concert program will be sung by the combined Men's and Women's Glee Clubs. They will sing the trio of three of the most familiar K. U. songs, "I'm a Jayhawk" "Onward Kansas," and "Alma Mater."
Fireside Forum To Dine and Dance
Give Research Exam To Student Pilots
The Fireside Forum, Congregational student organization, will sponsor a supper and dance at the church from 9 to 12 following the basketball game with Oklahoma A. and M. Friday night, Miss Ruth Mason, secretary of the church, announced today.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will be the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the forum at 7 o'clock Sunday evening at the church. His subject will be "Careers in a Crisis." This will be the third in a series of talks sponsored by the Forum.
Local tests were directed by A. H Turney, professor of education, with the help of Edward E. Brush, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, and Kenneth Razak, instructor of mechanical engineering. The exams were highly specialized. One of the examinations resembled the University psychological entrance examination.
Students in the primary Civil Pilot Training course were given a series of five examinations Tuesday night in Marvin hall in cooperation with the American Research Council and the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
The American Research Council has entered into a contract with the C.A.A. to determine a better way of selecting and training pilots. The research tests were prepared to be given to student pilots throughout the country by Dr. J. W. Dumlap of the University of Rochester.
Rare Bird a Sleepy-Head Dyche Gets Owl
Everyone knows that owls sleep in the daytime, but it's real news when someone finds one that sleeps both day and night.
George Rinker, college junior and bird enthusiast, while on a bird study course field trip not long ago, saw a fairly rare saw-whet owl perched in a tree above him. This was at 10 o'clock in the morning. Not having a gun with him, Rinker left the bird
and travassed the seven and one-half miles back to Lawrence.
He returned to the spot beneath the tree at 2:30 that afternoon, gun in hand, and wishing that he might see the owl again.
There, directly above him, and in exactly the same position, sat the owl.
Rinker stated that he would "almost swear" that the bird hadn't moved a fraction of a feather since that morning.
After shooting the owl and bringing it back to Dyche museum, where Rinker spends a great deal of his time, he inquired into the rarity of his kill and found that this was only the fifth instance that one of the birds had been found in the state of Kansas.
The first saw-whet owl reported in the state was in 1886, in Douglas county; the second was in 1923 in Donian county; the third was in Douglas county in 1940; the fourth was also found in this county but the date was not recorded; and the
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Forum Weighs U.S.-Britain Agreement
Chancellor Deane W. Malott served as moderator, with John Waggoner taking the affirmative side, and Merrill Peterson, the negative. The program was sponsored by Forums board.
Whether the eight points of the Atlantic charter are sufficient means to establish world peace is still undecided, but at least the students and faculty who attended the first Forums discussion broadcast over KF-KU's weekly program, "America in Crisis," last night in the Men's lounge of the Memorial Union building, have new ideas about the charter and its implications.
Presenting the European plans for reconstruction, Waggoner stressed the need for world federation and a solution to the three problems which would face the world after the war: debt, depression, and war.
Sets Out Principles
Waggoner opened his case by stating that the charter, drawn up by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in mid-ocean Aug. 14, 1941, was far from being a set of procedures, and that it was a mere set of principles on which the United States and Great Britain should base their hopes "for a better future of the world."
Points four, five, and eight, which deal with economic advancement and disarmament, Waggoner considers vague, but clutches at the idea of a world organization in which there are political as well as economic means for sound post-war reconstruction. Waggoner quoted Anthony Eden's two fundamental principles of no nation's aggressing or being in economic jeopardy, and stated that in Russia and England there is a merging of ideologies.
Discuss World Federation
Merrill Peterson, speaker for the negative side of the question, challenged the efficacy of the Atlantic charter by an analogy to Wilson's 14
Proficiency Exam Set For Feb.28
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The Junior proficiency examination will be offered for the first time this semester at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28.
Juniors and seniors in the College who have not already passed the examination should register in Dean Paul B. Lawson's office, room 229 Frank Strong hall, from Monday to Wednesday next week. No one who has not registered will be permitted to take the examination.
To be eligible for graduation, a student must have 24 resident hours in the University after passing the examination.