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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1941.
Maloy Overhauls Bird Puts Skis On Jayhawk
With the advent of winter cold and snow, Hank Maloy, graduate of the University and former Kansan cartoonist, has found it necessary to equip the traditional Jayhawk of K. U. with skis.
Maloy, who is now on the staff of the Eureka Messenger, was the first cartoonist to put shoes on the Kansas Jayhawk. In the early 1900's, Missourians were known as Hound Dogs instead of Tigers. Maloy put brogans on the Jayhawk at this time
so that the little bird could do a better job of kicking the hound dog around.
About this time almost all persons on college campuses had taken to wearing shoes quite regularly and Maloy wasn't one to let the Jayhawk go barefoot.
Bird A Myth
The Jayhawk is really a myth, as it has no historical backing. It is neither beast, fish, nor fowl. It received its name from two birds that frequent the Missouri Valley, the blue jay, a noisy, quarrelsome bird, and the sparrow hawk, a genteel killer that when necessity demands, is a courageous and cautious fighter. The name Jayhawk originated somewhere in the home territory of these birds between Texas and Nebraska.
The name Jayhawk has been applied to an overland company of gold-seekers on their way through Nebraska to California, to Jennison's band of free-booters, to Missouri guerrilla bands, and finally in a general way to the free-soilers of Kansas.
The name Jayhawk has now been applied to all residents of Kansas and Jayhawk has become a nationally known byword. Jennison's band of fighters, followed historically by Jennison's "Jayhawk Regiment" in the Civil war, had a lot to do with the name's adhering to Kansans.
K.U. Grabs Word
The University seized the word and attached it to the earth with "rock chalk" to bring out the K.U. yell, one of the greatest lung developers of all times.
Many artists and cartoonists have tried to express the mythical bird in various totemic designs, which range all the way from a "dicky-bird" with a huge bill, wearing boots, to a disconsolate crow, or a fierce looking fighting bird. All these various conceptions of the famous Jayhawk are used at times to show moods and temperaments.
During football season the fierce looking bird is used to good advantage to show the fighting spirit of both team and student body. With Maloy's recent portrayal of the Jayhawk on skis, K.U. has another different and definitely modern portrayal of the bird to perpetuate its fame.
English Department Helps High School Grammar Classes
The department of English is engaged in a program of collaboration with 20 high schools of the state in the teaching of English composition.
High schools are invited to send groups of papers which their students have written as part of regular English assignments. The papers are then sent to a University committee. Members of the committee are Profs. J. B. Virtue, Sarah Laird and W. H. O'Dell.
Kansas Growers Hear Lawson
Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences spoke last night at the banquet for Kansas fruit growers, vegetable producers, and nurserymen at the Trinity Lutheran church.
Today is the last of a two-day meeting for the State Horticultural Society, the Kansas potato show, The Kaw Valley sweet potato growers' association, and the association of Kansas Nurserymen.
Dr. G. A. Filinger of the department of horticulture at Kansas State College, spoke at the fruit growers meeting yesterday morning.
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(continued from page one) with the stand of the state's senators and congressmen. Some members have been urging a swing to the views expressed by Wendell Willkie in the matter of aid to Britain, but Martin's strong endorsement of Senators Capper and Reed and the representatives may prove a strong factor in the final vote.
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(continued from page one) rectors held separate sessions this foremono and this afternoon will hold a joint meeting at which the rule change may be decided. Reaves Peters, conference commissioner, will meet with the directors later today to decide on dates for track and wrestling meets. Tomorrow morning Peters and the football coaches will discuss the officiating of the past season.
Gagliardo Says Defense Strikes Not Too Serious
"In a democratic country it will never be possible to reduce the number of strikes to nothing." Prof. Domenico Gagliardo told members of the Lawrence Kiwanis club at a luncheon yesterday.
Professor Gagliardo said the highly publicized defense strikes have not interfered seriously with defense production for, on a statistical basis, strikes have been few in number, and have not involved many workers.
Gagliardo noted an increase in sentiment for the pacing of restrictions on labor walkouts during the emergency and permanent restrictions requiring accountability for union funds. The latter, he said, would be in the interest of union members.
The labor bill, passed by the house Wednesday, which is designed to freeze open and closed shop arrangements in defense plants and minimize the number of defense strikes, probably will be modified before it passes the senate, he said.
Two methods are being utilized to meet the labor shortage situation. One to refurbish the skill of former craftsmen, and the other to break down highly skilled work into operations requiring less skill. The two processes have been so successful that the problem is pretty well in hand, Gagliardo believes.
If the war continues, and the need becomes great enough, Professor Gagliardo believes the large reserves of labor, comprised of women in the homes and boys and girls in school, will be used.
Bernard M. Fitzgerald, professor of evidence at Loyola University law school, is serving as special counsel with the compliance division of price administration and civilian supply at Washington.
SUNDAY
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
Charles Margaret BOYER SULLAVAN "APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE"
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(continued from page one) Hatch of Mid-Continent airlines, will preside.
S. D. Flora, meteorologist of the United States Weather bureau in Topeka, will give "Some Facts About Tornadoes" at the banquet of the two groups in the Memorial Union ballroom at 5:45 p.m.
First Convention on Hill
Doctor Wheeler, chairman of the arrangements and reception committee, said today that the public and interested students are invited to attend the meetings. This is the first time the University has been host to the seminars.
The programs are as follows:
The programs are as follows. Weather Information — "New and Old Uses," by John A. Riley, U. S. Weather bureau, Kansas City, Mo.
"Ivestigations of the Cause of Concentrated Heavy Rainfalls," by Edward J. Minser, Transcontinental and Western air, Kansas City, Mo.
"October Wet Spell in Kansas," by L. T. Pierce, U. S. Weather bureau, Kansas City, Mo.
2 p.m.
"Precipitation and Temperature Trends and their Effect on Water Supplies," George S. Knapp, Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
"Following the Annual Fluctuations of Insect Population and the Weather in Kansas," Roger C. Smith, Kansas State College.
"Adapting Farm Practices to Rainfall in the Great Plains," L. L. Zook, North Platte, Nebraska Experiment Station.
"Recent Crop Weather Literature," L. P. Reitz, Kansas State College.
"History of Climate, Its Relation to Human Behavior and a Postulate Regarding Future Trends," Kenneth Moore, University of Kansas.
Following these speeches will be the banquet at 5:45 in the Memorial Union building, with Chancellor Malott presiding as toastmaster. The address of the evening, "Some Facts About Tornadoes," will be delivered by S. D. Flora, meteorologist, U. S. Weather Bureau, Topeka.
Did We Need a Survey
Eighty-seven per cent of co-eds in a recent survey replied that sweaters and skirts are the back-bone of college wardrobes.
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