From the Magazine Rack
Wednesday, March 1. 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Australia Calls Help Wanted: Women
While much of the worries about the population explosion, Australia still woos immigrants—especially women.
In direct contrast to the United States, where there are nearly two million more women than men, the vast island continent has a similar surplus of males. Among some 10,330,000 Australians, men outnumber women by about one per cent.
STATISTICALLY THE DIFFERENCE MAY NOT SEEM large. But in terms of home and marriage it means that many thousands of men, particularly those in remote frontier areas, must live alone, like it or not.
Australia has welcomed almost a million and a half immigrants since World War II. All are carefully screened. Close to half came from the British Commonwealth, the rest mostly from continental Europe. Among the relatively few from the United States are former GI's who took a liking to the country—and the girls.
IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES KEEP THE INCOMING stream flowing by such inducements as travel and housing subsidies, jobs and pioneering opportunities. "Good-neighbor" councils have been set up to help the new arrivals make friends and take an active part in community affairs.
In return, the immigrants contribute essential industrial skills, farming experience, and valuable technical and professional knowledge.
EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN AUSTRALIA'S DISTAFF SIDE have not always worked out so well. Proxy marriages arranged between strangers often failed when bride or bridegroom did not live up to glamorous photographs or glittering promises.
More successful has been the program encouraging established immigrants to send back to the Old Country for fiancées and wives. In recent years, too, the Government has begun inviting suitable girls to come over and make their own way as clerks, secretaries, teachers, or nurses. A few enter careers as physicians or business executives.
FOR THE HUSBAND-HUNTING WOMAN, AUSTRALIA IS a land of glorious opportunity. Where else, exult feminine visitors from men-short cities of eastern United States, can a girl come away from an afternoon tea party with a calendar full of dates for luncheons, dinners, dancing, and tennis?
The new Australians are helping to develop long-untapped resources in a nation roughly the size of the United States. They are building great hydroelectric dams, working on railroads, in mines, in tropical cane fields, on sheep farms, and in multiplying industries. Without immigrants, the spectacular increases in the output of steel, textiles, automobiles, and other major products would not have been possible.
A UNITED NATIONS ASSORTMENT OF CITIZENS ALSO has transformed Australia's once thoroughly British way of life. Restaurant menus that offered only beef, mutton, Irish stew, and kidney beans now feature such foreign specialties as enchiladas, pizzas, and onion soup; shishkebab, sauerkraut, and borsch.
The cosmopolitan flavor is spicing literature, art, and music. Even Australian slang, old-line residents remark, is now being spoken with Dutch, Polish, French, and Greek accents.
(From the National Geographic Society News Bulletin)
Rebels on the Right
The truth would seem to be that the young college generations of America may be at the beginning of another big swing, this time away from the state-welfarist political ideas that have dominated campus arguments since F.D.R. first tilted his cigaret holder at a rakish angle and said, "My friends." . . . The "new" radicalism—a radicalism which looks with favor on more freedom and responsibility for individuals and more power over taxes and spending for local political units—is already on the attack in the college communities. . . .
MUCH OF THE stir on the campuses is due to a mushrooming national organization called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. . . The I.S.I. which is considering changing its name to get the word "conservative" into its running title, is educational in its aims, and does not itself take part in political campaigning. But the students who have been affected by its principles have translated them into political action. Last winter, when the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was being attacked by university presidents because it required a loyalty oath from students availing themselves of government tuition subsidies, undergraduates responded by forming a National Student Committee for the Loyalty Oath...
Talking to the young right-wingers at one of their functions is an illuminating experience. Their responses to recent history are quite uncomplicated. They don't relish looking forward to a life in which their paychecks are destined to be hacked into by growing charges for a "social security" which they are sure will be paid in monstrously inflated coin some forty-five years later. They don't want to become "veterans of future wars," and they are sure the best way of staying out of the American Legions of the future is to keep Soviet Russia in its place right now.
(From an article by John Chamberlain excerpted from the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 1960.)
Three Exhibits At Union Show
A lace exhibit, an antique stein exhibit and a shell collection are currently on display in the main lounge of the Union Building.
The lace exhibit shows various examples of lacework. It also illustrates the intricate method used in the tatting of lace. The display is owned by Mrs. Hampton Shirer of Topeka. It will be on exhibit until Mar. 15.
The antique stein display will be shown until Friday. The steins are made of delftware, a ceramic pottery made in Holland. They are a valuable private collection loaned by Bill Bishop of Topeka.
Around the Campus
The shell display will be on exhibit until Friday. The shells were gathered in the Pacific Islands by Norman D. Paschall of Topeka during his Navy career. The collection is an extensive one, occupying four cases in the south end of the Union Building.
All students are invited to see these unique displays while they are on campus.
KU faculty members have come up with suggestions for costumes to typify the spirit of the Kansas Centennial celebration.
Faculty Gives Fashion Hints
Jack Brooking, assistant director of the University Theatre, suggests checking old pictures and history books to get the proper idea for costumes.
Popular fabrics were percale, broadcloth, gingham, chambry, polished cotton and denim, she said.
Caroline Kriesel, costume director for the University Theatre, described the fashion trends of that era.
Fringes, bonnets, Leghorn hats, hoops, flats or Queen Anne pumps were very fashionable.
Over 250 fraternity and sorority members solicited $2,107.65 in a door to door drive for Heart Fund donations Sunday.
Greeks Get $2,107 For Heart Fund
The best part of the afternoon was the experience of waiting in a doorway, waiting to see what reaction you would get this time to your plea for a donation.
"I can't give you any money until I get paid, but I'll give you some at the first of the month," one individual told this reporter.
Jim Carr, Carthage, Mo., sophomore, received a $10 gift certificate from the Town Shop for making the most calls.
Another man said: "I haven't had a job for three years, but I have a dime in my pocket that you can have."
The Greek organizations participating were: Delta Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi and Gamma Phi Beta.
Refreshments were served at the Lawrence National Bank after the drive.
Free Flu Shots Can Curb Epidemic
The possibility of a major influenza outbreak on the KU campus this spring would be substantially reduced if students would take advantage of the free flu shots now being offered at Watkins Hospital, R. I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, said yesterday.
"If we could vaccinate at least 4,000 students, the danger would be less," he said. "Not more than 2,500 students are now protected against flu."
Dr. Canuteson said the flu vaccine offered at the hospital is 80-90 percent effective after a seven to fourteen day waiting period, he said.
Poetry Hour to Hear Works of Lawrence
George F. Wedge, instructor of English, will read the poetry of D. H. Lawrence at the Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
Lawrence is also the author of several novels, including "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Sons and Lovers."
Honor Roll Adds Ten
Ten names have been added to the fall semester honor roll of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Students added to the roll are Jan M. Collins, Beloit; Leila Weyeth Dale, St. Joseph, Mo. and Nancy Ann Stankiewicz, Lawrence, all seniors; Ann Hartman, Highland, Ind.; Margaret E. Innes, Warrensburg, Mo., and Neal S. McCoy, Winfield, all juniors.
Naomi G. Olson, Hinsdale, Ill.; Petra Moore, Lawrence and Edward A. Roberts, Bonner Springs, all sophomores and Glen H. Cantrell, Ulysess freshman.
To earn a place on the honor roll, the student must earn a grade-point average of 2.26 or better.
Taste the World' Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the International Club Banquet "Taste the World" go on sale tomorrow at the ticket desk in the Kansas Union.
Julia Matthews, Kent, England graduate student and secretary on International Club, said that only 400 tickets will be sold. She added that this way everyone at the banquet will get to eat every kind of food.
Tickets for non-members of International Club will cost $2.50 Members of the Club will pay $1.50 for tickets to the banquet.
The Banquet will be a seated dinner, not buffet style.
The food at the banquet is cooked by foreign students from 20 different countries. The Nations will provide an international background of native costumes for the banquet.
The Club is working on an International program to entertain at the banquet.
Debate Topic Is Insurance
Top debate teams from 21 colleges and universities will be on campus for the Heart of America Debate conference March 9-11.
The schools will debate on the proposition "That the United States Should Adopt a Program of Compulsory Health Insurance for All Citizens."
KU debaters and West Point debaters will start the session with an English style debate on "That President Kennedy's Welfare State Trend Should Be Reversed" at 8 p.m. March 8, in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The debaters' arguments will be analyzed by Earnest B. Howard, assistant executive vice president of the American Medical Association and James Brindle, director of the Social Security department of the United Auto Workers of America.
The two men will present an open forum about the debates for debaters and coaches at 7 p.m. March 9 in the Kansas Union.
The debate schedule for the conference has not been set up.
Young Republican Meet Postponed
Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior and president of the KU Young Republicans, has announced that the Young Republicans meeting scheduled for 7:30 this evening has been postponed until 7:30 p.m. Mar. 8. The meeting will be held in the Kansas Union.
He said the meeting was postponed to give the club time to mail out a schedule of meetings and activities to its members.
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Bowling Designed with the University in Mind
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