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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1950
Comment
Here Come the Bands
From tomorrow morning until late Saturday night, the campus of our University is going to resemble a huge parade ground, which is just about what it will be in fact. The second annual Mid-Western Band Festival, attracting high school students from five states, will be a fitting climax to one of the most successful Music Weeks ever held in Lawrence.
Tomorrow the prize musicians from the many schools will compete in the individual solo contests. Friday, the high school band contest will open, and on Saturday night the outstanding feature of the week, a concert by the massed Festival ensemble, placed pieces, will be presented in the Auditorium.
Much credit is due to the organized houses and those Lawrence citizens, who are housing the visitors, and to the business men and University band members who have handled arrangements for the festival. Thorough planning and last spring's experience should make the event a colorful success.
However, it should be remembered that this is not a festival merely for high school students but for all the University members. Upon their reception here, these potential collegians will form their impression of the University. The school is on display for the musicians, just as the musicians are on display for the school. Here come the bands! Let's give them a hand!
A super-explosive can be made from corn. Corn and hell used to be considered opposites in Kansas. But they are becoming synonyms now.
-Wichita Eagle.
The Dioramas, at Last
Tomorrow for the first time, the dioramans which were made financially possible by an anonymous gift from a friend of the University will be exhibited to the public. They will be among the new attractions featured in Dyche Museum, when it is opened again.
Dioramas—scenes made by the combination of painting and sculpturing, vividly portray prehistoric life on the plains of Kansas millions of years ago, and give the layman a better understanding and conception of the life on this continent before it was inhabited by man.
Besides the educational value, the scenes will satisfy the curiosity and at the same time appeal to the aesthetic sense of the general public—that is, those with great beautiful things in nature and enjoying their beauty.
This the first time any specimens or exhibits have been opened to the public since the Museum was closed on Nov. 30, 1932, because the floors of the building were unsafe. The reconstruction was begun with funds appropriated by the state legislature and a grant under the PWA. When an additional appropriation of $47,000 is provided, the Museum will be permanently responded to the public as one of the best natural history museums west of the Mississippi river, completely modern in every detail.
The Kansan has conducted an extensive campaign this winter advocating the completion of the improvement and is pleased that the Museum will be open to visitors during the Band Festival. The Kansan further pledges to continue this campaign in the hope that it will result in final action.
A Woman's Vocabulary
Some brilliant young person in West Virginia decided that there were six words in a woman's vocabulary, five adjectives and one verb. The adjectives were: Gorgeous, Ideal, Marvelous, Magnificent, and Exquisite. Read along the first letter of each word and you get the verb.
Is there some girl—a prize might be offered—who can classify as tersely and more exactly a man's vocabularly than this does a woman's?
Constantly harping on the menace through specially prepared publicity probably is an effective thing, but little real progress will be made until arrests begin and punishment is meted out to those who drive recklessly. The man or boy who passes other cars on curves, who plunges from side roads without taking the precaution to stop, look or listen, or who discloses an innumerable other ways that he is contemptuous of the rights or safety of others, will not be deterred by advice, counsel, threats, or pleading. Stronger methods are required.
An Efficient Highway Patrol?
An efficient state highway patrol would go a long way toward accomplishing results. If a patrolman were near to witness a flagrant infraction of the rules of the highway, and would run the offender down and cause his arrest, the problem would begin to dissolve. The fines collected from such a procedure would help pay for the extra men needed to carry it out.
Why not an efficient state highway patrol. Most people would be glad to pay a few more cents on their taxes to really decrease the number of automobile accidents resulting in injury and death each year. The total has reached an appalling figure in the United States.
Si.ncerity
David Hume, the great agnostic, states the Daisy O'Collegan, formed the habit at a certain period in his life of going each Sunday to hear an orthodox minister. His friends, catching up this supposed "inconsistency" in his life, tweaked him about it, and he came back with this remark:
"I don't believe everything he says, but he does, and once a week I like to hear a man who believes what he says."
Sincerity is a trait that is to be desired above most others. It is often the one that means the difference between truth and falsehood, faith and distrust, admiration and disrespect. In the lives of students, it is desirable because most of us are still in the formative period, because it is in itself because it because it enables its possessor to become more adept at communicating the eyes of faculty members and other students.
We may not believe what others want us to believe; we may not subscribe to the most popular religious beliefs; and we may not belong to the controlling political party; but we can be sincere in what we do believe.
A Harvard professor says: "It is egregious obscurantism to postulate that syncopation in harmonization has an immoral connotation."
The Indiana Daily Student translates the sentences as: "Jazz won't hurt your morals." And we'll take their word for it. Ohio State Lantern.
Note for Europe: Come to peace or go to pieces.-Daily Texan.
Kansas' New School
The state of Kansas has a new school. It is the University of Kanses nursery school having between 100 and 4000 children enrolled.
A new type of baby talk has hit the campus. There are few who have not heard it and few who can not speak it to some extent. One never expects a day to pass any more without hearing or saying "Oble in a meadle in a iddy waddy boo" or "Dy doden a denny in de dum dot."
Can it be spring that is responsible, or should we blame it on the high susceptibility of collegian minds to the talk of their babyhood? Can you tell us?
Campus Opinion
Artic is in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor. The opinions expressed may be different, longer or shorter than content to suit the edition. Contributions
Editor, Daily Kansan:
It strikes me with considerable force that a lot of those congenital kickers could be in better business. Especially I refer to those human trivia who keep mourning pituitously in these columns for more or better water in the drinking fountains. Where do they think they are, in an educational institution or a watering place? Or in a pat? Where would this country be if their fortowers, a paf, actually have forefathers, raised a big row every time they went out to the well behind the schoolhouse to draw a bucket of water?
The ordinary student doesn't have to have cannel blood in his veins to struggle through a year on this torrid hilltop. If Lincoln had complained about the qual-ble condition, he might have been a bail supporter all his life. I don't mind these persons, but I do know that I could be confined for thinking my thoughts whenever I read their rentals.
H. G.H.
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No.149
Vol. 33
E. H. Lindley, Chancellor.
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION. All an-university convention will be held this morning at ten o'clock in the University auditorium. Paul Gardner will speak on "The Artist Sees Differently."
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting of the Jay Janes this afternoon at 4:30 in Room 119, Fraser hall. Beulah Pinneo, President.
KU KU'S: There will be an important Ku Ku meeting tonight at 10:30 in the Union building. All members be present. Eugene Buchanan, Secretary.
PT MI EPSLON: Miss Helen Welch will present a paper at a meeting Thursday afternoon, May 7 at four o'clock. There will be an election of new members.
QUACK CLUE: There will be a meeting and election of officers at 8:15 this evening.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi will meet at 4:30 today in the Green Room, Fraser hall. If possible, bring dues for next year. Alfred C. Ames, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cercle Francais so se urmi-mercred a qui heures et dans laaille in 306 Fraser. Tous ceux qui parent francais sont invites. Bub Brush, francais.
Ruth Brandt, secretaire.
Gilbert Ulmer, Director.
Rachel Kiene, President.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAMS; The match between the men's and women's rifle teams has been postponed a week. The match will be held Thursday, May 14 instead of tomorrow. Barbara Kirchhoff.
Roland Hayes, Who Sings Here Tonight. Got His Start Working in an Iron Foundry
Because his boss was a lover of music and knew good voices when he heard them a 15-year-old negro boy in a Chaconnao, Term., foundry was encouraged to sing at his work of handling pig and scrap iron. The chances are that Roldan Heyes would have articulated by his voice anyway but that founder chose by his encouragement probably helped that recognition a bit.
A wonderful story of triumph over the most unpromising circumstances behind Roland Hayes, no agent who, when he comes to Lawrence tonight, comes as one of the greatest contestants produced by this country or any other.
He was born on a humble Georgia farm and at eight or nine he was guiding in a show hitened to the best draught man. I widowed nother could afford-an-ox.
As a foundry worker, Hayden had no thought of vocation. Study due to family necessity on the old farm in Georgia he had barely learned to read and write in the limited time he could be spared from work, making a dollar a day in his family who was help enough to his family, and further "bookarm." He got it from a teacher who instructed him after school hours.
The singing process of the lad attracted the attention of the pastor of the church, and he chanted through whose efforts he joined the chant night he was given music-reading lessons by the organist, who also taught him about anthem parts with an accompaniment.
An Oberlin College student, W. Arthur Calibou, who was an excellent student, gave the boy more advanced instruction, after hearing him sing an anthem. Encouraged by the pain, Hayes entered Fikl Un ceramist and worked his up as a special student for four years. He then went on to help up the cultural background needed by a serious concert artist, and became a star of the famous Fikl Jubilee Singers. He worked as butter and furniture tender. Fikl Jubilee Singers, he decided to settle there and study further. After two years he went back home and brought his mother North to live with him, so that he having her own home, however, he would be living in Brook living in an apartment. Roland secured a four-room house, and with this expense added to the recent railroad fare, he went broke. They had to find another place to make her a bed from packing cases, and slept on two chairs, himself.
The noted Boston vocal teacher, the late Arthur Hubbard, saw such possibilities in Hayes that he volunteered to train him, and bide his time about receiving payment.
Exploding Atoms To Pop for Chemists Thursday Night
On May 19, 1928, the listening radio world was startled to hear the sound of explosive radio-active atoms come over and speakers from radio station KFKU.
On May 7, 1956, the Chemistry club will meet at 7:30 when the same experiment will be demonstrated once again. Modern equipment will take the place of the somewhat crude apparatus that was used 10 years ago.
At that time a leyden jar was the basis for the experiment. Connected to the negative pole of the jar was a photographic needle, around which was suspended a lens with the positive pole of the jar. A hand-cranked machine charged the jar and when a radio-active substance was placed close to the brass cylinder, the dust generated by the bonding atoms, otherwise inadable, was released into an old-fashioned loud speaker.
Next Thursday Morgan Barick will repeat the demonstration with the use of the atomophone. Other demonstrations have been presented by Howard Stollberg of some chemie-lumisateur and phosphore-essent substances and a demonstration of the properties of the new "heavy" (deterium oxide), will be performed.
Dr. John Strong, who with Dr. H. P. Cady conducted the first demonstration, became widely known as the inventor of the process of aluminizing mirrors. Doctor Strong is now at the California Institute of Technology.
Virginia Forrest sings sizzling songs in "OO-LA-CONTINENTAL"
Scraping together the expenses for a song recital in the dinuitive and auditorium, Stenner hall, he song with some artistic success, but loss of money, in the early years. He met friends, losing money. It was about the same story with two recessions in a larger place, Jordan hall. But he made a little the second time. By now he felt enough sense of progress to take a desperate chance. Without any capital, he planned a recital in Boston's famous Bower House. Only $500. His name had been to be
heard of, and the house was picked. Faced by the notorious fact that he had never been a favorite reception in Europe, Hays nailed for England. He landed with barely enough money to hire a hall, and a machete made such a mark that he received no response from King George and Queen Mary. A long list of successful recitals in England followed. Next, French critics acclaimed "the Monsieur d'a drawingcard" in the United States.
On the Shin
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they reach the City. The other night, a correspondent reports, three lads from the University were seen sliding down the banisters in the foyer of the Midland theater and still later were heard shouting for the president at the Blue Hills Inn. They ended their concert with a rendition of the Alma Mater. Just remember boys, that if you go to jail in the City, all you have to do is mention the fighting Jiahackham who will be opened for you, or at least, that's what some students have said.
The Kappa's are beginning to resemble the nightly visits of members from a nearby fraternity to their windows. They were always so hard-hearted they have sallied forth to do their peeping. Even the house mother is aware of the trips and is considering action of some sort to keep the women from being in front. Stay at home, you high school boys!
FLASH: Who was the woman who leapt all night in her car in front of barbish. It is said that friends even visited her and helped her to go to ed the next morning.
A frat man golfer took his gut out to the course the other day and was almost humiliated by being defeated at his favorite pastime. Bells of them had accidentally tipped green, the girl setting a much better lie than her partner. While the girl was making a practice swing, the boy took a healthy cut at the ball and succeeded in moving it about ten feet quickly to see if he was being watched, he picked up the ball and gave it a Harcuscan to toward the green. The
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A guy with a glove is worrying the members of Professor Blechter's accounting class. His name is Alex Fielder, and he ties up the chin brush by carrying a violin case. Everyone is scared, but Alex can see the bird, can't see kien when he shaves, or whether he thinks that concert artists necessarily must be that way.
The new ciment vendors are a source of worry to some of the prods. One of them saw one of the machines the other day and without reading operating instructions strapped in a nickel. He followed the instructions and no package came forth. He asked one of the waiters how the apperature worked. He was told to put in another piece of change. Since he didn't have the required amount, he had to borrow a form from a bystander so that he would receive the payment. Then no money came out, as the innocent bystander received nothing for his invested money.
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