THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Daily Kansan Will Celebrate 30th Birthday
Editor's Note: The University Daily Kansan will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary as a daily newspaper this Friday.
Fifty-five years ago the man who established the University Kansan as a regular newspaper arrived on the Campus. This was Dr. E. M. Hopkins, now retired professor of English, who was to establish several departments in the University. The bureau of correspondence, the department of public speaking and debate, and the department of journalism owe their beginnings to him.
About 1891 Dean F. W. Blackman suggested that the University might well offer a course in journalism, and he asked Professor Hopkins if he were willing to initiate it. During the first semester of 1891-92 such a course was offered, perhaps the first of its kind in the country.
As the idea of having the paper run by one man was not satisfactory to the college public, a Kansas University Publishing Association was formed. Under this new management, the editors were elected in a manner similar to the present election of a P.S.G.L. or a Pachacamac candidate.
This was before colleges had begun to consider giving courses in journalism. The newspaper men of that time didn't believe in teaching such a subject. According to them the only way one could become a good newspaper man was to "eat ink and sleep on the composing stone."
After the semester this course was discontinued because of the small enrollment. Not till about 1900 did the University of Missouri offer what was probably the first regular course in journalism given in the United States.
In 1902 Chancellor Frank Strong called a conference. He invited Henry Allen, editor of the Ottawa Herald, and Ewing Herbert from Hiawatha, Kan., two of the leading newspaper men in the state for the purpose of talking over the advisability of offering a course in journalism. These men were so favorably inclined toward it that the Chancellor decided to institute the new course. He turned the class over to Professor Hopkins as a course in the department of English. The course began in the fall of 1903 and has continued ever since.
The second semester of 1903-04 the class didn't fare very well, for only three students enrolled. Three persons weren't enough to put out the Kansas so Professor Hopkins called for volunteers from the freshman rhetoric class. Fifteen students responded among whom were Jerome Beatty, well-known magazine writer, and Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star. Outstanding editors were invited to speak before the class. Among them were Walter Williams of the University of Missouri, B. B. Herbert from Chicago, and Albert Read, cartoonist on the Topeka Capital, and Charles M. Harger, editor of the Abilene Reflector.
The Kansan was reorganized on a basis analogous to the pattern of the Yale News, Harvard Crimson, and the Princetonian. Jesse Kayser was the first editor of the reorganized Kansan and the man who really put it on its feet. He is now editor of the Chickasha Star in Oklahoma.
Wasted to Buy Defense Bonds
Chillicothe, Mo.—(UP)—It was a noble gesture, but nevertheless on the unlawful side.
A Livingston county schoolboy told police that he wanted to buy defense bonds with the $100 he was trying to get from worthless checks.
Convinced of his sincerity, officers sent him home with an admonition not to "carry your patriotism too far."
Juniors in V-7 To Return After Summer Training
Juniors enrolled in the Naval Reserve V-7 program will not be ordered to their 30-day active service training period next summer provided they are in attendance at the University during the summer, according to the latest report by the Navy department.
Those junior students in the V-7 who do not attend summer school, however, will be called for the 30-day period during the summer months as was originally planned. After the month's training, V-7 men will be returned to inactive duty until they are graduated in 1943.
Men who do not intend to enroll in summer school will be given adequate notice as to when and where they will report for the 30-day training, Naval Reserve officers have announced.
British Officer To Give Pointers On Civilian Defense
Kansas City, Mo. —(UP)—Firsthand information on how Great Britain overcomes civilian defense problems will be extended by Col. Rex L. Benson, military attache of the British embassy, in an address before a national defense conference banquet here Jan. 17.
At the meeting of national officers and 48 state commanders of the veterans of Foreign Wars, Colonel Benson will elaborate on measures taken by Britain in support of the government's war efforts.
The Colonel for many weeks has been closely connected with the activities of the British war mission which arrives in the United States with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Farm Bureau Honors Chemists
Burlington, Vt.  Ut.-(UP)—Although Dean Joseph L. Hills of Vermont's Agricultural school is not a farmer, he was awarded the American Farm Bureau Federation Medal for distinguished service. A chemist, Hills has produced more than 100 practical agricultural aids.
Students Burton for Lunch
Farm Bureau Honors Chemist
Bergen, N. Y. — (UP)— Since the Bergen High School's Economics Department inaugurated a system of exchanging a full meal for a few potatoes or other farm produce, 50 per cent of the students remaining on campus at the noon recess have become regular "customers."
Granite, Okla. —(UP)— Dr. J. B. Landsden recently received a 100-year-old stethoscope from Tennessee relatives. It was made by hand labor of cedar, being eight inches long and funnel shaped. Landsden said heartbeats can be heard clearly with the instrument.
Ancient Stethoscope Usable
Criminal Mind Is Ingenious; 2 Million Crimes
Washington—(UP) —The Census bureau estimates 2,000,000 major crimes are committed annually in the United States. There are arrests in less than one-fourth of the major crimes.
The bureau's criminal - judicial statistics show that about 400,000 persons are arrested and charged with major crimes annually. An estimated 140,000 stand trial; 110,-000 are convicted, and about 75,-000 serve prison terms. The statistics cover murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, burglary, larceny and automobile theft.
Hartford, Conn.—(UF)—It takes all kinds of people to make a world—and all kinds of burglarst to make an underworld.
Insurance adjustors, looking over the files for 1941, found that the criminal mind contained an amazing amount of ingenuity, brazenness, resourcefulness, and a sprinkling of plain dumbness.
Here are a few outstanding examples:
A thief using a frosted lemon cake and a candle lured more than 500 pet trout from the private pool of a Schenectady, N. Y., banker. The fish, accustomed to eat out of the banker's hand, gobbled up the cake crumbs scattered on the surface of the pool by the unsportsmanlike rogue. Then, by candle-light, he scooped them into a net and departed.
A persistent thief stole the wash of Mrs. Lorus Jackson off her line at Salt Lake City. Not satisfied with this, he returned two weeks later and carted away her washing machine.
And bold, indeed, was the burglar who attended a testimonial banquet given by detectives and police chiefs for a New Jersey sheriff. Before the evening was over, the uninvited guest made off with the sheriff's presents—two large silver candle sticks.
A burglar with a yearning for sweets admitted to Detroit police he robbed 13 confectionary stores. In one of them he spent three hours mixing banana splits, sundaees and fancy drinks to satisfy his sweet tooth.
In the residential district at St. Paul, Minn., a man was seen prying up three sections of a cement sidewalk and loading them into his car. Police overtook him.
The smartest burglar of the year was the prowler at Newton, Mass., who always took along a rubber bone to appease the family watch dog while he went about his work without fear of interruption.
He was required to replace the sections.
"Sure, I took the sidewalk," he admitted, "I didn't know anybody owned it."
Bus. Biggest Haul
Biggest haul of the year was a 26-passenger bus, stolen from a parking place in Jersey City and found abandoned a few hours later in Newark. Police suspected someone was in a big hurry to make the trip.
Not so, however, in the case of a daring young man at Syracuse, N. Y., who stole a smaller bus. He drove it about the city for three
hours collecting fares before he abandoned the vehicle.
Another car thief made off with a Washington, D. C., mailman's cart—but obligingly delivered all of his mail.
The clumsiest robbers were those who stole 32 cans of vanilla beans, worth more than $15,000, from a consignment arriving in New York from the Netherlands East Indies. They tried to sell the beans to a detective for $8,000.
No Profit on These Jobs
For disappointment, it would be hard to match the chagrin of the Philadelphia robber who stole two unlabeled bottles — one, containing rat poison and the other roach powder. And the Salt Lake City gent who made off with 15 drawings of a cemetery, and the Indianapolis burglar whose loot totaled 11 cents, and who left behind his shirt, cold chisel and jimmy.
Police are still wondering why an energetic Denver thief spent an entire night ripping 42 pipes out of a theater organ.
In Chicago authorities discovered a band of thieves who built up a $100,000 a year racket selling flowers snatched from graves. Obituary notices in the newspapers guided their activities.
Two armed robbers in Farmsville, Va., furnished the year's most spectacular getaway. After robbing a street workman of $510 they hopped aboard a 10-ton steam roller and evaded capture.
'Wood Flour'
Snatched From Air
A University of Washington professor's dust-elimination invention literally has snatched a valuable wood by-product out of thin air.
Professor Frederick K. Kirsten, school of aeronautical engineering, has disclosed how his application of the principle of centrifugal force to dust-laden air has resulted in a process by which fine wood dust—"wood flour"—can be reclaimed for use in plastics.
The machine takes dust out of the air by setting it in whirling motion at terrific speed. The dust is thrown out by centrifugal force while the clean air is taken off at the center.
He said wood flour sells for about $35 a ton.
Smaller units soon will be in production, he said, for use as dust filters on automobile carburetors.
Club Owners Prepare Storm For Holdouts
New York —(UP)— There is a low rumble of thunder in the distance and the storm may break at any time. Once it cuts loose, either the New York Yankee baseball club or Jolting Joe DiMaggio is going to be thoroughly drenched.
Which is a figurative way of saying that almost any day now the Yankees will mail a 1942 contract to their famed fielder and that the chance are even young Giuseppe will peek at the manuscript warily, wipe it clean of fingerprints and pass it back to the postman as quickly as he swings a bat.
For the thunder won't be just a rumble then. It will roll in great waves and will be illuminated by plenty of lightning. Arguments will rage long and loud and such phrases as "war morale" and "national emergency" will be tossed like hand grenades from both sides of the fence.
When that happens, break out the ear muffs.
In some 24 hours DiMaggio will emerge as a hero or a bum, for he is the unhappy ball player upon whom will focus the entire problem of what to do about hold-outs in wartime—and how to do it. The battle may be bitter, with no punches barred, but it isn't likely DiMaggio will lose.
The club owners currently are sermonizing that all players had better sign up at once, either with them or with the army. They have piously beaten their breasts, loudly announced they stand ready to aid the cause and then pontificated that hold-outs will be thrown out by the public if the boys refuse to sign up.
Now they are attempting to influence opinion before the bargaining begins. They have concentrated on DiMaggio as a target and have said he is indeed lucky to be able to play ball at all when Ted Williams, Bobby Feller and Hank Greenberg are working for peanuts in the services.
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