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MERRY CHRISTMAS
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941
39TH YEAR
K.U. Red Cross Total Rises
NUMBER 64
said.
Faculty returns for the Red Cross at noon today were $240, Proi. E. C. Buehler, chairman of the drive, reported. "The faculty drive is conducted on an honor system. We ask them to contribute as much as possible, making it unnecessary for the committee to resort to the customary and inconveniencing nuisance of a door-to-door canvass," Professor Buehler
Faculty members who have not yet contributed are asked to do so before Christmas. Checks may be post-dated.
The committee in charge of the student drive will meet with Buehler at 3:30 this afternoon to set up the necessary organization for the campaign to immediately follow the Christmas holidays.
Fred Robertson heads the committee, with membership including Dick Oliver, publicity; Joy Miller, I.S.A.; Earl Clark, Men's organized houses; Barbara Koch, women's organized houses; and Genevieve Harman, Jay Janes.
Buehler emphasized that this is the first time the United States has called for help, and the call being made through the Red Cross.
Mrs. Marie Wilkins, wife of Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice, will sing in the semi-finals of the "Auditions of the Air" program over NBC in New York at 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. The ultimate winner will receive a Metropolitan Opera contract and a cash award of $1,000.
Kansan Sends Winners Trippin'
"Japan or no Japan, war or no wan, Rose Bowl game or no Rose Bowl game-I'm going to California," Kenneth Ketchum. University Daily Kansan Excursion Contest winner, happily exclaimed today. He won with a 39.313 vote total.
Ketchum Leaves For Cal
At the time of the contest it was decided that the winner in the men's division would be awarded a trip to the Rose Bowl game. War conditions have caused the Rose Bowl game to be moved to Durham, North Carolina, but Ketchum prefers California, with or without the game.
After a hasty packing of cloth-
ing, all summer-weight, a toothbrush,
and pencil and autograph book,
Ketahum left for his big va-
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Songs, Maps, Movies to Plug K.U. Over State
Cards containing familiar K.U. songs and a map called "Kansas, Crossroad of a Continent" are the newest material available in the alumni office for use by County Clubs.
The song cards contain the "Alma Mater," "Tm a Jayhawk," and other University songs. The map was prepared by the state highway commission and has full color pictures of places of interest in the state.
Four movies about University life are available and they have all been booked by clubs for future use "Far Above The Golden Valley" and "The 75th Anniversary at K.U." are both 25-minute films in full color. "Homecom-
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NEXT KANSAN OUT JAN.6
Today's issue of the University Daily Kansan is the last one of the present year. The staff wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The next issue following the Christmas recess will be Jan. 6.
--with a desire for greatness, this little 61 in Cygnus with a right ascension of 21 hours 2 minutes, declination 32.2, apparent visual magnitude .0002, direct parallax .229, and distance in light years 111,968.2.
Kollender to Shine
As Head Chef
At ROTC Barbeque
With officers and local citizens as guests, the men of the R.O.T.C. will gather tonight in the Community building for their annual barbecue, for which the well-known chef, Sgt. William Kollender, has spent the day cooking and preparing. The chow line will form at 6:30 p.m. sharp, and all men are requested to be in uniform.
Rehire Hurt Schedule Set
The Athletic Board approved the scheduling of a ninth game for the 1942 football season, which will include two new grid opponents, Denver U. at Denver and T.C.U. at Fort Worth, in its meeting in the Memorial Union building last night.
The board also renewed for eighteen months the contract with Vic Hurt, assistant football coach. Hurt's 3-year contract expires July 1, 1942. The new contract signed by Hurt will end simultaneously with the expiration of Gwinn Henry's five-year contract.
No action was taken on any other coaches at the meeting, but Karl Klooz, board secretary, said another meeting would be held soon to consider re-employment of other members of the athletic staff.
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Bartlett Ready For Sun Valley
A deep blanket of powdered snow covering gentle slopes,skiers sweeping down Sawtooth Mountain, sleighs, dog sleds, and cutters scooting down the toboggan run on Baldy Mountain — that's Sun Valley. America's foremost all-year sports center, at Ketchum, Idaho.
Enjoying the Christmas holidays at this exclusive resort will be the University Daily Kansan's Excursion contest winner, who totaled 31.027 votes, Miriam Bartlett, Pi Beta Phi.
Miss Bartlett plans to leave her hometown, Wichita, Monday night, arriving in Salina at 1 a.m., from where she will be on a Union Pa-
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There's More to Astronomy Than Meets a Shepherd's Eye
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Success Story of the Star of Bethlehem
BY JOY MILLER
(Editor's Note: Dear Children—The Kansan takes pleasure in giving you this little bedtime story to read on Christmas Eve just before you snuggle down to dream about the visits of Santa Claus and visions of sugar plums. Merry Christmas!)
For years he whirled in his own orbit—a celestial Casper Hilquetoast with the inward fires of a Napoleon. He burned
This is the story of a little star who wanted to be a big blaze in the universe.
He was a shy little star, too. Whenever Venus" path came close to his, he would retrograde with a coy toss of his major axis and admire the brazen but beautiful planet from a devout distance.
The little star mused about many
things as he swirled alone through space, for he was so shy that he didn't make friends easily. One of his favorite subjects for mediation was the green Earth. For some inexplicable reason it fascinated him. He would gyrate for hours, mind in the clouds, imagining adventures on the Earth.
One day he was so intent upon his dreaming that he revolved straight past the accustomed curve in his orbit (this is permissible because it happened in the year 4 B.C. and Newton's Law of Gravitation was not propounded until the eighteenth century).
He swished on and on thinking of the emerald oblate spheriod, until "Grrrrrrh!" he was face to face with Ursa Major, the belligerent Big Bear.
Now the Big Bear is never congenial, but when awakened from his winter hibernation by a blundering whirligig which couldn't even boast a Latin name, only a number—well, he was furious.
He bared his frothing fangs and rushed at the cowering little star,
standing petrified in space. What would have happened to that little star if the Star-Maker hadn't arrived at that moment, would have made for unhappy conjecturing.
But the Star-Maker soothed the raging Bear back to slumber, and led the shivering little star to his office. The little star stopped shaking and began to appreciate his situation. It was not every star who got to sit in the presence of the Star-Maker. Perhaps his dreams—but hold on, he cautioned himself,
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