AGE SIX
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1941
The Kansan Comments-vol.38 Wednesday, Jan.15, 1941 No.71
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DROP THE HANDKERCHIEF
"Coughs," the poster points out, "spread olds." It's a good poster, and represents a lot of ingenuity and painstaking effort by the rtist.
It pictures a young fellow in the midst of a acking cough, and in one hand he has one of these modern little paper hankies, generally ernamed a "disposable tissue."
The manufacturers of these paper hankies o to great lengths to tell the public how many different little chores their product does for the up-to-date man and woman. All through the ales talk runs the phrase, "they're disposable."
As far as a cold is concerned, the manufacturers can't find enough flowery words to describe the work these little tissues do. No more nauseating handkerchief-washing, no more having to carry a half-dozen handkerchiefs when a cold threatens. Just carry a supply of "disposable tissues" and use them once before disposing of them.
Disposable—how that word is accepted by the public! In waste baskets, behind radiators, under chairs, and on the street, people, surreptitiously, or openly and in ignorance, dispose of those little hankies.
It's a good poster, but it has made necessary further education of the cold-catching public. By disposable, the manufacturers should mean that the germ-carrying disposable tissues should be burned, and not tossed carelessly aside to keep the cold epidemic flourishing.
MUSIC ALA B.M.I.
The average K.U. student is not a very patient fellow. Ever since the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers withdrew into its huff, taking most of America's popular music with it, he has been forced to content himself with a mere pittance of some 200,000 tunes presented by rival group. Broadcast Music, Incorporated.
This deplorable state of affairs will continue until A.S.C.A.P.either agrees to let its songs go on the radio at a per-program arrangement, or forces the networks to hand over a percentage of their gross income for its music.
Two weeks of solid B.M.I. music, is making many an ardent air-wave fan a little restless. One student, when asked what he thought of current radio music, replied with simple eloquence, "Hell, it's awful!"
Other remarks: "I think the whole thing's silly. The public is suffering for a private squabble."
"I like it for a change, but not for long."
"I like it for a change, but not for long." "Too monotonous."
"With a few exceptions, the music is old and repetitious to the point of boredom."
"A.S.C.A.P. is cutting its own throat, and I'm glad to see it."
Faculty members were a little less vociferous. Dean Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts: "The contest is bringing out much of the older music that could very well be listened to again."
Professor Miessner of the education department: "B.M.I. music is like olives and caviar we'll probably like it well enough when we get used to it."
K. O. Kuersteiner, professor of violin and orchestra: "A dearth of popular music has brought out popular versions of old masterpieces. Even these bad versions may have a healthy effect on music in general."
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Russell Wiley, associate professor of band, pretty well summed up the situation: "Music is for the public, not the pawn of monopolies. It is unfortunate when a commercial quarrel can keep good music from the people."
About the time we began to feel this MAD-CAP radio squabble wasn't so bad because we didn't have to listen to "You Got Me This Way" any more, along come three dizzy dames in a swing murder of "Beautiful Dreamer."
A misty moisty morning When cloudy was the weather, I chanced to meet a young man Dressed all in leather. Smart fellow.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet on Friday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at Myrs hall. Photographs of European cities will be projected. Dues will be collected from the old members and new members will be initiated.-Emile Weiss, secretary.
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be an Alpha Phi Omega meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room. Members please note change of meeting time. —Barrett Silk, secretary.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOW-SHIPS: Students interested in applying for graduate scholarships and fellowships for 1941-42 may obtain information and application blanks at the Graduate Office, 225 Frank Strong Hall. Announcements of grants available at other institutions are also on file at the Graduate Office—E.B. Stouffer, Dean.
NEWMAN CLUB; The Newman Club will hold its monthly Corporate Communion at the 9:30 Mass on Sunday. Breakfast will be served in the Parish Hall after Mass. The regular business meeting will be held. Anyone wishing to make reservations for the breakfast call or see one of the officers—Joseph A. Zishka.
QUILL CLUB: Feoh rune of the American College Quill Club will meet in the Pine room at 7:30 Thursday evening. There will be initiation. All members who have not paid their dues are to bring them—Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
THETB SIGMA PHI; There will be a meeting Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the sky parlor of the Journalism building. Pledging services will be held at this meeting—Mary Frances McAnaw, secretary.
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Archimedes First To Use Aerial Warfare
The shadow of an enemy bomber overhead. A streamlined missile whistling in its descent. An explosion. Tongues of flame. Then a mighty vessel's hulk careening to one side—a skeleton of twentieth century war.
Although the method has changed, the idea of setting fire to enemy battle ships from the air is nothing new in international warfare strategy. In fact, this system was begun about 2,200 years ago by Archimedes, a scientist of ancient Syracuse, says
D. L. Patterson, professor of history.
Archimedes, the toga-clad, non-Aryan "liberator" of the third century B.C., didn't have to depend upon munitions factories for his ball of fire from the heavens. Nevertheless, he found the incendiary method an excellent defense.
When the conquest-minded Romans planned to sweep down upon Sicily's capital in 212 B.C., Archimedes went into conference with his country's ministers to build up the "national defense." The result was a mighty lens, ground in such a way that Archimedes, standing on the wall of his city, could catch the rays of the hot Mediterranean sun and redirect these rays through his lens on the Roman ships in the harbor.
On-the-spot historians of the period uphold the stupendous feat. Livy, the great Roman recorder says that mighty Archimedes with his lens, singlehanded, destroyed that part of the Roman fleet which dared remain.
Oldsters and youngsters pause in awe before the impressive statue of Archimedes which guards the tiny, one-mile-square Syracusan harbor. Perhaps they still have faith that the words of that statue's inscription: "With this lens I have invented, I burn the Roman fleet," may work magic today.
Modern physicists contradict the possibility, saying that no lens is powerful enough to redirect the rays of light with an intensity great enough to set heavy planks of wood afire. Many Syracusans, however, believe in the feat of their historic leader to this day.
Copyrighted in 1938, the edition was privately printed and limited to 50 copies. The frontispiece, an original dry-point etching, was done by her mother.
College Sophomore Has Poems in Print
Rachel Ragle, college sophomore, has already published an anthology of verse including 20 poems and a play. The slender cloth-bound volume stenciled with cats with high-arched backs, is entitled "The Cat That Walks Alone."
ROCK CHALK TALK
When he tried rousing Deacon Anderson, the only response he got was,
"Ege, you're drunk. It's only 8:30."
Next morning he suddenly awoke, glanced at the clock, thought " . . . 6:15!" He dashed to the dorm and started shaking boys whose names were on the call list for 6 and 6:15.
Champion waker-upper at the Phi Psi house is Charles Ege. Monday night he slept inside so that he would be sure to get up at 6 o'clock to start calling.
"Your watch is stopped," Ege insisted, and finally pulled Anderson inside to prove it.
They looked at his clock. It was 3:30.
Among those who struggle to get a pull with the Chancellor, Delta Tau Delta ranks high. Arthur Stanfield, the houseman, has been dating Malott's maid.
During Christmas vacation an absent-minded professor went down Arizona way to a convention. After the meeting was over, he visited with the boys, boarded a train with them, and came home.
"Where's the car?" asked his wife.
He had forgotten that he drove it to Arizona. Since he had to stay here to teach, he decided to send his wife down to bring back the car.
Then he went to the station to get her ticket and bought a round-trip.
Attending this University gave at least one student a taste for reptiles. Recently Grace O. Wiley, former student, awoke with a start at her home in Los Angeles. A caracing car had crashed through the wall of her home, smashed cages of her private zoo, and broke down a door which fell across the bed.
She scrambled to save her collection of reptiles, and recovered $ ^{12} \mathrm {km}^{-1} $ but one, an alligator crushed in the fall.
At one time she worked at the Chicago Zoological Park, and now has her own display of lizards, snakes, and alligators.