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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941.
A Man-Hater Marries
There is nothing consistent about a woman except her inconsistency. Two years ago Marian Phillips Almdale, a University of Michigan freshman, attracted wide attention through her published list of "Eighty-three Reasons Why I Hate Men." Yesterday she disclosed that she and her husband are expecting a baby.
Not only has she violated all her own principles regarding love, men, and marriage, but she has done it in whirlwind fashion with little time to reflect upon the eighty-three reasons she once set forth.
Doubtless this once vehement man-hater was sincere in her statements at the time she made them. But that was before she met Einar Almdale. She eloped with him in 1939, following a whirlwind courtship.
Apparently the stronger a woman's resolutions against love and marriage, the harder she falls when she does meet The Man.
Recently a Middle Western professor warned that the United States is very likely to become a nation of bachelors and old maids. He based his pessimistic observations upon the high demands of co-eds in the men they want to marry. But, like Mrs. Almdale, he forgot the human element and the strong affinity women have for romance, moonlight, perfume, and men.
A woman may adopt man-hating resolutions, but she doesn't mean them. They are usually just a protection against being perpetually in a state of single blessedness. Most men are susceptible to the unusual and any woman who has nerve enough to say that men are of no importance to her except as copy for publication is enough of an oddity to pique their interest. The upshot of such a procedure is that the man asks the all important question, and the woman trips gaily to the altar.
Mrs. Almdale will no doubt have a good lesson to give her daughters on "how to get your man and make him think he's doing the getting."
Mr. Dies' Committee is Criticized:
Mr. Dies' Committee is Criticized:—
In 1931, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York headed a committee to investigate un-American activities. In 1934 Representative Dickstein headed the committee, which was taken over in 1938 by Mr. Dies and titled the Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities in the United States.
The Committee has been widely criticized. R. L. Strout, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, says the Dies group publicizes "hearsay evidence." The members have been criticized for the methods they use to secure evidence because they don't give the accused a chance to reply. President Roosevelt attacked the Committee on that ground. In fighting the recent appropriation to continue the committee, Representative Dickstein charged that "110 Fascist organizations in this country have the keys to the backdoor of the Dies Committee."
In discussing the Dies Committee, Raymond Clapper says, "The Dies Committee has a chance to make distinct in the public mind the difference between alien communism and liberal democracy. Instead, it is smearing liberal democracy with the communist label."
The principal criticism of the Committee results from the indefiniteness of its conclusions. Dies has declared that the Ism group
contains six million persons. The questions arise as to what Ism, what basis for the charge, and what persons. Recently $150,000 has been appropriated to continue investigations which have resulted in little beyond befuddling the public mind. Present indications do not foster the belief that this $150,000 will produce any more enlightenment than the $250,000 spent in the preceding two years.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Thursday, Feb. 27, 1941 No. 95
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on the day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for the Sunday issue.
A. I.M.E.; Dr. Stephenson will speak on "What is the Matter with the A.I.M.E." at the regular meeting of the local student chapter of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers at 4:30 this afternoon in room 101, Haworth Hall—Oren C. Baptist, president.
DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY: The first meeting and beginning of tryouts will be at 4:30 this afternoon in Green Hall. Tryouts will continue at 7:30 this evening, tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 and tomorrow evening at 7:30—Shirley Jane Ruble.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 at Mrs. Mercedes Cole, 1011 Indiana Street. One of the highlights of the meeting will be the discussion of "Union Now" by Clarence Streit led by James Hamilton. Everybody welcome!-Emile Weiss, secretary.
EMPLOYMENT FOR KU, WOMEN: Will all students who want part time work for the current semester please file class schedules in the Women's Employment Office, 220 Frank Strong Hall, at once! There are jobs, but we need class schedules—Marie Miller, director, Women's Employment Bureau.
K. U. TOWN MEETING: K.U. Town Meeting with Town Hall of the Air will be held in the Main Lounge of the Union building this evening at 8:30. The topic of discussion is How Should the Movies Aid National Defense? Mr. Henry Haldemann-Julius will lead the discussion.-Keith Spalding, Union Activities Committee.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. Ralph I Canuteson.
QUILL CLUB: Feoh rune of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 this evening in the Kansas Room—Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
Y. M.-Y.W. MEMBERS: Mr. Claude Nelson, head of the Y.M.C.A. in Rome, Italy, and world-wide traveler and lecturer, will speak at the assembly tomorrow afternoon in the Kansas Room. His subject will be "College Students Behind Barbed Wire."—Keith Martin.
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On The Campus--of gravel for soil-less agriculture. Cut flowers will be grown in the beds without soil, but a chemical solution will be pumped into the beds four times each day. East of these beds, Prof. Worthy Horr is cultivating tomato plants, which grow 14 feet high and produce clusters containing from 13 to 17 tomatoes. This unusual production is gained by the use of aireated soil, a process by which the roots of the plants are given air.
University Greenhouses Give Preview To Spring
If you have the mid-winter depressions, why not try a preview of spring for a cure-all. The best future view of spring you can find on the University Campus at present is down in the greenhouses back of Fowler Shops.
The department of buildings and grounds has some 25,000 plants in the two 30 by 60 feet greenhouses and in two smaller houses. The small trees and shrubs are set in two nurseries, and cold houses are being built to get the early plants outside. of gravel for soil
Unless you're a botanist, or at least a semi-pro, you won't understand all the big names and flower talk that Jim Reiter, University florist, reels off to you, but you can see for yourself that the 100 varieties of flowers, foliage plants, and vines, are nothing short of beauty extraordinary. These are the plants and flowers that are used in the displays in central Frank Strong hall and in decorating the Memorial Union building, the auditorium, and offices on the campus.
If you walk through the first greenhouse past the beds of blooming snapdragons and red and white carnations, you'll find yourself in the Botany experiment house. Here all the flowers are grown that students in the department of botany use in laboratory courses and professors carry on their individual experiments with fungus growths, etc. Just now they are putting in beds
In addition to supplying cut flowers and plants, the University greenhouses furnish all cuttings of flowers and shrubs which are planted on the campus and grounds of the University hospital in Kansas City.
The geranium beds of wide spread fame will not be replaced on the campus this year although there are more than 3,000 geranium plants in the greenhouses at present. A large sundial, 24 feet in diameter, is the only flower bed planned for the campus this spring. Geraniums are propagated in the greenhouses, and are frequently exchanged with other florists for varieties of plants which the University does not have.
In the east greenhouse, pride and joy of the department of buildings and grounds, you'll find in one corner a collection of plants called stars, hen and chickens, and swords. But don't be misled; everyone of them is a member of the cactus family, and there are 60 varieties in all.
In the opposite corner, you'll find black mollies, red swords, white clouds, and siamese fighters. These are the tropical fish which demand a constant water temperature of 60 degrees.
Among the plants the specialist can find cyclamen from Switzerland, lilies from Japan, tulips from Holland, and passion flowers, Norfolk Island pines, and green tea plants which Mrs. Malott brought from Hawaii last summer.
As soon as spring decides to stay, construction will begin on the University conservatory. The structure will be 35 to 65 feet and will house oriental plants including palms, passion flowers, banana plants, and rubber trees.
If you've never visited the greenhouses, then don't miss the conservatory. It's going to be one of THE places to go to this spring.
ROCK CHALK TALK
The Sigma Chi's are just now going through what most fraternities and sororites have already suffered—a reasonable facsimile of hell week.
Yesterday pledge Dave Jewell was overheard phoning his mother (he's a town boy) for various queer articles including an onion and a knife in his second dresser drawer at home. "I've got to have them by two minutes after 12 o'clock," he said.
By HEIDI VIETS
Last night Rocky Stone's car took a strange trip. He parked it by the Kappa house and went in to get his date, Nancy Prather. When he came out, the car was gone.
It was found parked in front of the Theta house. Cause of the transfer is not known, or at least not mentioned. But it was definitely not Yehudi.
Milton Wallace has a new method for catching mice. The other day one of the little creatures scampered along the Kappa Sig hall right into a coke bottle. Wallace picked up the bottle, trapped the mouse. Now he expects the world to beat a path to his door.
The grapevine says that yesterday Zibby Peair's sister wired Don Wysong a double dip ice cream cone from Kansas City.
Who has seen "Gone With the Wind" six times? Jean Sellers, who saw it in Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Trinidad, Colo.; Boulder, Colo.; Kansas City, Mo., twice; and Lawrence.
Other nominations for the same endurance honor might be Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
John Anderson fell asleep during the showing of a map film in R.O.T.C. the other day. Sergeant H. E. Roy walked to the rear of the room, tapped him on the shoulder, muttered something. He woke up calmly and quietly, demonstrating the steel nerves of the army.
Guests extraordinary at Watkins hall Sunday were Kay Thompson and Marshall Butler. As agreed, they prepared dinner for Dorothy Harkness and Doris Larson while the women stood by and gave advice.
Butler suffered a finger wound from peeling potatoes, and Thompson burned himself in two places. But dinner was served on time.