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The Kentucky Kernel

ON PAGE TWO
V Present The Plight
Of The Fraternity 1 oust1

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UNIVERSITY

VOLUML XXXIII

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GuignoPs Veteran Cast Awards Granted A" Students
Banquet
Displays Good Acting At Twelfth Annual Sherwood,
Or.

By JIM WOOLD RIDGE
will probably
be tlie
legitimate
Mage
production

NUMBER. 37

RED CROSS TO
MEET TODAY TO

START DRIVE

(i'town President,
Delivers Address

Goal To lie

Per Cent
Above Last Year

WILL DISCUSS

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In Tourney
Bv Vols Of Tennessee

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last j
for
chance for many of you to see a
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some time, and those of you who
Awards to the outstanding stupastel tones shouldn't miss Guig- dents in the College of Agriculture
nol's presentation of 'Watch on the
and Home Economics and recogniRhine." which opened for a week's
The first meeting of the Campus
tion of faculty members were given
run last night at the little theatre
Red Crass will be held at 3 o'clock
at the twelfth annual
off Euclid avenue.
banquet last night at the Union this afternoon in the University
building.
As far a.s the thrill and suspense
High School auditorium to discuss
If
I iv
"hTe World We Want" was the
type ol entertainment is concerned,
f
subject of a talk which was made the Red Cross drive which began
Watch on the Rhine" doeen't ofby Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, as- for Fayette County yesterday. The
fer much, but ii you like to watch
sistant editor at the Experiment goal of the campaign will be $69,000.
good acting and general theatre
Miss Fern Babcock. secretary of
station and president of George- - j which is $24,000 or 4TI above the
technique, the current play is cer- National Student Council. NaI
town college for eight years.
tninly worth its price of admission. the
amount the county was asked to
tional Board. YWCA. will spend
Priscilla Graddy, Lexington, soph- Guicnol Dirked a veteran cast for
raise last year. Principal speaker
xlng-anr tlli! week in
omore with a 2.4 standing, was wins
ler.
Utile, and Rodes three
tl.is
ner of the Cornell award made by at the meeting will be Clinton Hargave them a chance to ex- - ton on the University and Transyl
Phi Upsilon Omicron to the sopho- - bison, head of the Fayette County
hibit acting which they enjoy, act- vania campuses. She will discuss
more having the highest standing drive.
ing which an audience enjoys also. with local officers of the YW how
during her freshman year. Myrtle
The University Red Cross will be
"Watch on the Rhine" isn't the that organization can help the colMISS KERN BABCOCK
Binkley, president of the honorary
hit type of play and it won't come
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lit ! college girls I" .suli'c home economics fraternity, present set up with the aim of reaching
lege girl solve her war problems.
c'ose to the attendance record set
every member of the faculty and
ed the award.
Miss Babcock will arrive this af- lnblciii
by "Arsenic and Old Lace" recent-l- v.
Robert Hutton, Stamping Ground, student body. Bart Peak, secretary
ternoon and her first appearance
but it will make you conscious
whose standing was 2.85 for eight of the YMCA. is chairman of the
will be before a joint meeting of all
of good production.
quarters, was given the Jonas Weil Campus Red Cross, with Dr. W. S.
the class groups of the University
The story in the play, which isnt
scholarship,
Memorial
which is
YWCA at 7 o'clock tonight in the
col
particularly important, is built on
awarded to the junior man who has Taylor, dean of the education
Music room of the Union building;
an anti-Naleader's escape from
highest scholastic standing for lege, assisting him. Patricia Snider,
the
Wednesday she will have confera.i extortion plot. The idealogical ences and meet with YW members
his entire college work. The pre- arts and sciences senior, will serve
overtone is the demonstration of
sentation was made by Dean Thom- as student chairman.
Transylvania campus; Thursday
on
the u.'ual Nazi ruthlessness and the
as Poe Cooper.
to the
Members of the faculty who have
contrast of current European and Miss Babcock will return
Dean L. J. Hurlacher introduced
University
for conferences
with
American ethics. Scene of the acthe following new faculty members: agreed to serve in the drive are:
present and prospective cabinet
R. W. Pifer. assistant professor of Dr. A. E. Bigge. Mable Moores. Dr.
tion is in the aristocratic Farrelly
members of the YW.
family's country home near Washanimal husbandry, and E. S.
C. S. Waltman, Dr. Earl Young. Miss
For thirteen years Miss Babcock
ington.
instructor in poultry.
Grace Snodgrass. Dr. P. H. Edwards.
was national student secretary of
Recognition of Professor George
The agent of Europe's anti-NaDr. Alexander Capurso, Major Gerunderground
the idealistic, sensi- the YWCA in the southwest and in
Dr. Morris Scherago. head of the Roberts, retiring head of the Agron1942 joined the headquarters staff
omy department and assistant dean, ald Griffin, Professor Alfred Brauer.
tive, cultured, but physically brok
bacteriology department, spoke on
en German, is a new and difficult in New York. She feels that now "The Pasteurization of Milk" at the was made by Dean Cooper. It was Professor Fordyce Ely. Marie Bark-lemore than ever ""dents need the
role which Frank Fowler. Guignols
Dr. Lawrence Quill, Dr. Roy
third ODen class of the ciuarter Professor Roberts who planned and
nationwiae organi-Uigl- held Thursdav in the Biological laid out Kentucky's system of
Ho. 1 craftsman does very convinc- - nem OI Bacn
Moreland. Bessie Boughton, Mrs.
zation as the YWCA in helping
Alberta Server. Dr. Dana Card.
buildintr. Dr. Scheraco re- - tlllly experiment fields.
A native of Burnside, he graduHis stage mother-in-laProf. Perry West, Miss Catherine
Mrs. them chooe vocations in a war and placed Dr. R. H. Weaver, who was
rld. in finding summer originally scheduled to speak, but ated from the University and work- Owens, Charles Snout, Prof. B. E.
Farrelly, is plaved with the correct Pst-"work in war industry was unable to appear due to illness. ed for three years at the California Mclnteer, Mr. G. C. Jones. Dr. M. C.
amount of gusto most of the time or Part-tim- e
tnd a little nervously at other cr agriculture, or in assuming some Pasteurization, which is the pro- Agricultural Experiment station be- Brown, Rosalie Oakes. Prof. A. J.
'.social responsibility in their own cess
fore returning to Kentucky in 1901 Meyer, Prof. E. J. Asher, Prof. W. S.
times, by Chloe Gifford.
of purifying milk by destroying
to become assistant chemist at the Webb, and Miss Rankin Harris.
A Guignol veteran. Dorothy Dye communities.
bacteria, is
the
Experiment station.
Rodes, plays opposite Fowler, and
In two .pamphlets. "Building for the method most used in safeguard
The Red Cross needs an increased
In 1909 he was made head of the sum this year because of the unr,as almost as good in her more or Freedom Today and Tomorrow" jng mjuj today. Dr. Scherago said,
Agronomy department, which now usual -- roblems which the organizalfss standard part. Eli Popa. who and "Strategic Vocations for En- - temperature of milk to approxi-brok- e
Miss Babcock u consists simplv of raising the numbers approximately thirty mem- tion is facing. Mr. Peak stated. It
Freedom."
into the campus little theatre during
:.
o sensationally
:
is the one organization outside gov"Arsenic and discusses tnee problems, and tneir matelv 145 degrees Fahrenheit for
.
.
in
Old Lace showed just as much in place in the wartime expansion a half-hoernment agencies that travel with
and then cooling. This erts was named acting
dean of the the troops in the field. Through
nrnirram nf t li Wnt.innnl fitnrimt
till at.Bn H.n nmct mcictqn
this play
anthas cn the January, the Red Cross has given
Always popular with Guignol au- Council of the YWCA.
coIleP
germs, he explained.
dean since 1919.
direct help to 1.000.000 service men
diences, Lucille Little has another
was born in! Dr. Scherago discussed the ob- Miss Babcock. who
introduced the fol- - or
tIons that some people have
It has established
part which suits her and she also MinneapollS- - Kan., took' her' B.S.
Srets four bells. Eleanor
Crain. a oegree at Kansas State Teachers pasteurization, but with each fault ' orary agriculture fraternity: ' David 175 U. S. Army and Navy hospital
recreation rooms, and has 2.780
newcomer this season, is another on college and her M.A. at Teachers tIlat had bee" claimed, he gave his
Duncan. Roger trained workers serving with the
Cleevland.
the orchids list for the striking college. Columbia university. New reasons for disproving their theories Gish. Pete Warren
Haughaboo, S. C. Hop- ne of the ehief objections oppon- armed forces. The Red Cross has
e mount
of poise she showed. York. Slie has attended European
Holland
Walter
Thomas.
also aided thousands of people in
y- Knight Aldrich. who plays the role conferences of the World's Student
Thrasher, Sam D. Weakley, and Europe and Asia with relief supd
of the extortionist, is as good an Christian Federation in England dirt' milk k masked by being
James Welsti.
plies.
eurized. To this argument. Dr.
antagonist as Don Irvine was in
Switzerland.
Johnnie Frazer. herdsman at the
Josephine,
The Kernel will announce later
Arsenic."
the maid,
might not necessarilv contain dis-- j farm- - was introduced by James how students can contribute to the
was played by Aune Duke Wooda honorary member of
- s'rauss
ease germs while the cleanest lookRed Cross.
ford with a lot of force.
.
...
ing milk may be polluted with poi- - '
Rounding out the cast were a trio
cnferred upon men who have given
sonous bacteria.
of juveniles
Bruce Glenn. Jimmie
Other points that were discussed outstanding assistance and whose
Glenn, and Louise Hill
who like
Bill Embry. Lexington, was elect- - at length bv Dr. Scherago were the se'Ilcei merlt recognition,
the stage and who have plenty of
oT its kind
Uu
ed president of the Freshman Cub number of diseases that can be
nerve and ability.
'
or
The set was again designed by at a recent meeting. He succeeds transmitted either directly
Ec council.
James
the
Clay Lancaster and was again ex- D. O. Bure. Lebanon, who served directly from cows to human beings Crowley, president of the council,
through milk, and the different dis- ceptional for little theatre.
rved as toastmaster.
last quarter. June Hubbard. Cov- eases that can be transferred by
Committees in charge of the ban-o- r
ington, was elected secretary and man through the handling of cows
;quet were: program. Dean Hor- millc
treasurer of the club.
lacher, Jim Strauss, Jim Crowley;
j
publicity. Roy Hunt, Eloise Bennett,
The following conuniuees were
Chester Theiss; room arrangements.
chosen: Program. Claudine Gibson,
Myrtle Binkley, Amelia Mason;
chairman, and Harry Conrad, sec- x
printing of programs, Ray Russell.
Joe Ford.:
Because of interference with oth- iretarj; membership,
in
'Insanity and Intelligence
Dr. J. Huntley Dupre. professor of
er scheduled events on Tuesday af- chairman, and Jean Crabb. secre- Tw ins," the topic of the last open
ternoons, the weekly Sweater Swings tary; social. Brewster Phelps, chair- - history, will discuss "The Isms" be- class to be held this quarter, will
will be held from 3:30 to 5 pjn. on man. and Dick Dillon, secretary; for a meeting of the YW Economics
be discussed the second hour this
publicity. Howard Morgan, chair - committee at 5:30 Thursday after - Will
Wednesdays in the future, it was
morning in Room 112 of Neville
man. and Audrey Danks. secretary, noon in the Y lounge.
announced by Jeannette Graves,
hall by Prof. Edward Newbury of
chairman of the House committee.
The annual banquet of the Uni- the Psychology department.
The first of these sessions will be
Heredity and its influence on inversity band, originally scheduled
held tomorrow in the Bluegrass room
for Thursday night, will be held sanity or intelligence in twuis will
building.
of the Union
instead tonight in the Bluegrass form the basis of the discussion and
Hosts and hostesses will be aproom of the Union building. The Professor Newbury will point out
pointed to be present at tomorrow's
change was necessitated because of how the study of twins has aided
Sweater Session "to keep things
ELLINGTON FIELD. Texas, Feb-'- several members Hiving for the in determining this question.
moving along smoothly."
Lucy
Pyrn and Frances Timberlake are 27 Ellington Field officers today near just off stt.i n Unable to in- - armed forces tomorrow.
Various family relationships such
recalled lour
lormer nict ,urtl)er damage because be- recently
elected as twins have been studied and
Doris Smith,
in charge of arrangements
Aviation Cadets who trained here cause all tlR.ir Domt)s were gone: sponsor of "The Best Band in Dix-- ! compared by psychologists. Profestwo bombardiers, one navigator, tht Ame,.icans new- awav from the ie." will be formally presented dur- - sor Newbury will explain, who have
"
I
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K.... nil Kru... smouldering snip.
""
ing t:ie evening, ana ouistanauig been able to determine to some exon the
m combat aerial action
lunior and senior bandsmen wiU be tent the influence of heredity and
xhe olh,.r (wt Ellinulon exes
South Pacific front.
Aloert E Weinberg. 22. of 4633 awarded UK band keys.
3nvironment in the cases studied.
Men who have given three years These have included types of
lwo OI the lour men, all of whom Drexel Blvd.. Chicago. 111., and Lt.
received training at Ellington be- - Richard H. Dennis. 20. of 1829 of faithful service will receive sil- -;
serious enough to refore winning their silver wings and Rosemont Road. East Cleveland. ver keys, while those with four quire confinement.
commissions, were members of the Ohio, were bombardier and pilot. years to their credit will receive
Protestor Newbury will also excrew of a United States heavy respectively, on aircraft credited by gold ones, according to C. V. Ma- -i plain
that measuring intellectual
bomber that blasted a 6,000-to- n
War Department with shooting gurean. director of the University jericrmances and spotting mental
the
transport to a standstill down three Jap planes in ditTer- - band.
)urMioii: What are yu planning Japanese
disorders among twins found in the
battle on Feb- - enl parts of the South Pacific tlie- Those men who will be awarded xipulation. gives the modern stut
do with yonr civilian clothes!"! a
ruary 12 off Cape Orford in the ater.
the gold keys are Jack Godhelff dent of psychology experiments
nhm yo enirr the Army?
Solomon Iiland.
"I recall all lour men very well. Bunny Boone, and Marshall Smith. ready-mad- e
by nature, for covering
(. ulrnian
C. tlement. Engineer- They are: Lt. William A. Woods, and remember them as the cour- - Juniors to be presented with silver influence
of heredity and environ-nen- t.
ing. junior: Will tliem to my kid 21. Louisa, Ky., the bombardier, and ageous type capable of such an ac- - keys are George Langstaff, Newell
:rothcr.
Lt. Hyman Orman, 26, 5528 Drexel complithineiil." said Lt. Hurry Lo- - Hadden. Robert Cundiff. Arthur
This lecture is part of the course
ea- - McFarland.
tmcago, m, uie navigator.
Jr.. Abbett Cull, and
Jo l laie. Commerce, gradu-a'- Ave.. Woods, the son of Mr. and gall, fcJlinglon commandant o!
entitled Genetic Psychology.
Lt.
dets. upon learning of the feats of William Lamasters.
I'm wearing out my Uist pair
Mrs. William T. Woods, of Route 4, the Ellington trainees
Guests of honor at the banquet
of civilian pants right now.
Louisa, was a student at the Uni- "All were serious, hard workers will be Elmer G. Sulzer. and Mrs.
ItolK-r-t
Mrycr, Arts and Sciences, versity of Kentucky before enter- - who realized they had a job to do C. V. Mugurean.
J.nnor: Give them all to Dad and ing the Army Air Forces as an und were out to do it. At this field.
Aviation Cadet on July 17. 1941. they were model cadets respected
kt liim wear them if lie can.
Three of the samples on exWhile in college, he was aclve in und liked by all who had dealings
hibit ui the Music room of the
llarnld Pace, Arts and Sciences, R.O.T.C. work for two years.
with them."
Freshman club will meet with the
Union building last week in
freshman: I'm not gouig to do any- Tlie battle, which took place
from Hying in - Junior-SeniOther officers
YM group at 7 p.m.
wiUi mine
tiling
connection with a Textile diswhile the huge plane Was on armed slructors who tutored Lt. Dennis in today in the Social room of the
resulted in heavy advanced
flying until Union building for a discussion on
play were taken from the room,
harlr li Rhodes Commerce. reeonnaisance.
damage being inflicted on the en- - he received his wings here, to "What Do You Want In Life?"
according to Rebecca Van Metlunior: Sell them for the best price
tiny transport. Lt. Woods reported classroom teachers who instructed
will
Bart Peak. YM secretarv
Oflered.
er.
If they are returned at
lie aropueu uls uoinus in tne lace the others m the fundamentals ol lead the discussion and also give a
once by mail or in person, no
fire preflight bombardier and navigator report on the area YMCA meeting
iHinald Morgan. Arts and Sci- of considerable
charges will be pressed
were equally high in their ' which he attended in Atlanta. Oa..
ences, lieshmaii: Send tliem back and saw at kutt one bomb score work
me
either a direct hi' or extremely praises of the group
;,
o
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Ecklar, Spicer Are Nominees
Iu Today's YWCA. Election
Being Conducted In Union
New Officers
To Be Installed

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Dorothy Jack Ecklar and Carolyn
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Spicer. arts and sciences juniors
from Lexington, are the nominees
for president in today's YWCA election, which is being held until 8:30
p.m. at the counter opposite the Information desk in trw Union building.
Helen Harrison and Virginia Lipscomb, also from Lexington, have
been nominated for the office of
Wanda Scrivner and
Elizabeth Faulkner, both from Lexington, for secretary: and Virginia
Baskett. Casper. Wyo.. and Eloise
Bennett. Wllliamstown. for treasurer.
Installation of the new officer.;
CAROLYN SPH'KR
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take place early in the next
m quarter, according
DOROTHY JACK ECKLAR
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to Miss Rosalie
exsecretary.
nesiili-n- t
HM.'.I Oakes, YWCAthe new YW She
. . . will iontfctf fm thr iifliir of
in lnlti
cabinet
plained that
rlriliun. being held in tlie I'mmi building.
members would be chosen before the
end of the quarter, and would be
installed with the new officers.
The cabinet is made up of the
committee heads of the YW and
includes chairmen of the following
committees: worship, social service,
social, public relations, publicity,
By BETTY JANE PlOri
library, campus service,
Yet another reminder of the finale for the program, and as en- economics and labor, and memberchanges that are coming to the Uni- core the group played another pa- ship!. Also on the cabinet are a
versity was delivered yesterday af- triotic selection. "Hail America."
freshman advisor, sophomore comternoon as the "Best Band in Dixie"
mission representative, and junior-senimade what will probably be their
president.
last formal appearance for the duration.
Considerably reduced in number
the band appeared on the Sunday
afternoon Musicale program in a
concert of the music of our Allies
and featuring Jean Lowery. cornet-i- st
from Tennessee State College,
as soloist.
Miss Lowery. a former student of
C. V. Magurean. director of the band,
PITKIN LLLB . . . will meel at
played as her solo Rossini's
noon tomorrow in the Maxwell
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Though not a difficult
Street Presbyterian church.
Dr. Helen Constance White, pres
selection, the number did give Miss
ident of the American Association D UK Y I LI B . . .
Lowery opportunity to demonstrate
tonight in the
will meet at 7
good breath control and clarity of of University Women and Professor
of English at the University of Wis- Dairy building.
tone.
The work of the band was most consin, will speak at a general conoutstanding in a group of Russian vocation to be held at 11 o'clock JOINT MEETING . . .
. . of aU YWCA
clas groups at
including
numbers
the "Danse Friday, in Memorial hall.
Dr. White received her A B. and 7 o'clcck tonight in the Music roori
by G. Lubomirsky. ExOrientale"
citement mounted as the music1 a as M.A. degrees from Radcliffe col- of the Union building to hear Miss
turned to "Cortege Du Sardar" lege. Cambridge. Mass. While teach- Fern Babcock. secretary of th
from the "Caucasian Sketches." by ing at the University of Wisconsin National Student Council.
Ippolitow-IwanoThe weird twang she received her Ph.D. from that THURSDAY . . .
of the oboe and the strange beat institution in 1924. She was granted
. . YWCA
members are urged to
of the music were most effective in a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1928-2- 9
with Mis
summer of 1930. and is schedule conferences
and the
this number. Third of the Russian
Fern Babcock at the YW office, in
pro- -'
compositions was Reinhold Gliere's the only woman holding a full
Union building
"Russian Sailors' Dance" from "The fessorship in the College of Letters the
and Science of the University of PRVOR PRE MED SOCIETY .
Red Poppy."
Colorful also were the South Wisconsin.
. . will meet
at 7:30 o.m. ThursShe has made travel her avocation day night In room 313. Biological
American numbers. "Aguero
by Franco, and "II Guarany and the inspiration for her books. Sciences building.
During her extensive travels, she
Overture" by Gomez.
The full concert band including has visited England. Holland. Ger- LAMP AND CROSS . . .
. . will hold an uutialion ineelin?
cello, harp, bassoon, and oboe was many. Switzerland, and France.
Among her publications are "A at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in room 23'j
used in the March Troyene from
the Opera "The Taking of Troy." Watch in the Night." "Not Built of the Union building
by Hector Berlioz. Tlie scurrying With Hands." "To the End of the
CNION NOTES
notes of Strauss' "Perpetuum Mo- World." "The Mysticism of William
bile" provided an interesting varia- Blake." "English Devotional Liter- TODAY
ature: Prose
tion in the program.
Freshman club Junior - Senior
and "The
Sousa's popular march. "Stars and Metaphysical Poets: A Study in Re- group. Social room. 7 p m.
Stripes Forever." provided a fitting ligious Experience."
Joint meeting YW groups.

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Dr. McFarland Shows Giant
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WEDNESDAY

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YW Book committee. Y lounge.
p.m.
Sweater Swing, Bluegrass room,
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Chi Delta Phi. Room Ji5. 7 pin.
3

By ALFRED SHIRK

"Did you see that plant go
through the post office with a man
attached?" she exclaimed breathlessly.
We hadn't, so driven by curiosity
we followed the scent; literally of
which turned out to be Amorpho-phallu- s
riversii and Dr. Frank T.
McFarland. curator of plants of the
department. comfortably
botany
situated in the journalism office
jnd surrounded bv several amazed
nature
and somewhat nauseated
lovers
Amorphophullus riversii. we learned from a respectful distance. L
the snake lily. Moreover, it is a
member of the calla lily family tmd
comes from Cochin, China. And it
is one of over forty of the plants
given Dr McFarland by a Detroit
friend.
Despite the attention showered
upon it. the lily remained modesti1-passivto the eye and offensively
active to the njse. Over tour feet
high, its physical appearance was
that of a mottled
bulb,
stalk above a
d
topped by a large
d
leaf surrounding a purple, horn- -'
like spike.
Botany students, we
were informed, would call the leaf
a
and the spike a spadix.
The dangerous-lookin- g
spike
really serves no function at all. ac-- !
cording to Dr. McFarland. who ex- landin-pos'
plained that it
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YW office. 8 p.m.

for insects." It seems that injects
are necessary, in the production of
the lily's seeu. to transfer pollen
to the pistils.
"The stupid type of insect
the
fly is the
blowfly or green-botti- e
kind attracted." added the curator,
"just as more intelligent ones go to
the oichid." These carrion insects
think the rank odor of the lily is
that ol a dead animal, he sail!, and
to deposit their eggs.
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When the tiy teaches the spike,
it walks down it oer the minute
flowers at the base, and deposits
the easis. It then sips the jiuie of
the lily, and because ol an alkaloid
substance in the liquid, becomes
intoxicated ami fall to the base of
the
On "recovering." the fly
repeats the uroces
many times,
and the contiiuuil trips to the base
of tile
aid in effecting seed
production.
Dr McFarland e.piaiiitd that he
was on his way to place the bulb
on exhibition in the cactus ruom of
the new greenhouse between Nor-- !
wood hall and the Library
There
were, he thought, quite a few ob- -j
Jec! ions to his keeping the lily in
the former building.
My offiit." he said, "is now referred to as 'the morgue.' "
The lily is. not the tallest lie has
cen. added the curator, as he has
Matched them grow to a height of!
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plant, was origina.ly
worth fifty cents, but now has a retail value of nve dollars.
Seine care is necessary for successful floweruig of the plant. The
bulbs, planted ui May. must be dug
up before front and placed ui basperiod
kets for a four- - to
They are then keoi, ui a cool, dry
place until the middle of January
when exposure to warm air
The lily on exhibition
has blossomed since January 25
Dr. McFarland said.
Tlie curator related several excentering
periences
around the
plant, and recalled one occasion
when the lily, placed in White hall,
sent Dean Edward Wicst of th"
Commerce college on a search for
dead rats.
So if you want to lake a look at a
snake lily in bloom, stop at the
greeidiouse and give your eyes a
treat. But unless you have a cold
and tati't smell anything, we advise you to stay on the opposite
side of the glass
Confidentially
well, you know
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haute ill. ii houses so conveniently totaled or
suitable io iheir needs will he available wlion
the uien return.
Hundreds of servicemen are expected on the
lampus soon lor training. The men's anil
women's dm miiories are the onlv feasible plates
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Last week the Arniv look i lie Inst large hilt'
from fraternity ranks with the tailing o
Corps Enlisted Rcscrxe. Rx the end of
Match, with i he nun in the Ainu Enlisted Reserve Corps called inio active vrviee. ii is
doubtful that anv fraternity on the- campus will
lioast more than enough men to act as oil it ers.
There is little possibiliix that ilie inactive
stains of these organizations lor the tlnraiion
will ause them to remain permanent I v in.iiiive.
The national offices will continue to fuiuiion.
The problem which presents iiscll to the tani-pu- s
Creek letteriies is the fraternity house.
Reoi ganiation alter the war will Ih- cxircme-ltlillitult for the groups who find themselves
without a house. The few soe ial clubs that own
their houses mav now Ie forced to sell them
of lack of funds. The others would find
it nceessarv to let their leases lapse and perhaps
sell or store their furniture. 1 here is small
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to supervise women stuWith the dormitories given
oxer io the serxitemen. facilities will be lacking
for housing ol women students.
One solution to the problems which would
benefit
concerned has lecn advanced
bv observers.
The I'niversiiv could rent or sublease the
buildings now otiupicd bv the fraternities as
residences lor women. In this wax the housing
problem of the I'nixersitv would !e solved, and
the men who return to the campus after their
period of service woulel have their fraierniix
homesteads xvitli which to licgin Greek-le- t tor
life anew.

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group ol hiingrv, ilUloihed thiltlren gather

alniut a truck in the cold of Norxvax. draxvn bv
the
ol Nai officers. "We haxe
brouglii xou IoimI. Look, bread (or all. Smile,
smile anil xou will lx" gixen Iok1." I he xmiii- tlel ing t hiltlren look into the cruel exes of their
tormentor. "Smile, smile, laugh." he demands.
1 he starving little ones make feeble attempts at
laughter. Hvsierital sobs escape them as they
siii'W their thin laics into imitations l smiles.
I he oil iter passes out the bread to the grasping
hands of the thildrren as his companion takes
tliil-drepit tint s ol "the happx. laughing, well-leof Norxvax." The film tompletetl. the men
tear the bread from the trxing thiltlren ami
diixe off to rejieat the fane for a new audience.
"It's uttrrly ridiculous. M7v. " )ust told
inc he doesn't lia.'C a sliced loaf fif bread in the
store. Imagine me sl'uing bread. Il'iv the uet
thing ou know, they'll be rationing the stujj."
An iiniiMi.il tension grips the rew ol a siib- T he men sit on the floor of the ship,
. iii.il inc.
speaking as little as Ossible to conserve air.
1 hev ctaik the knutkles ol their neivous
hands
as ihev stpial athing for a draw horn a tigareiie
and dreaming of a breath of Iresh air. In the
next compariinent a group ol men hov er anxious-lover a table on which is stretched the form of
a shipmate,
suit ken with appendicitis. The
sweat oiirs off their pale faces, foreign to the
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sun's toiiih. as t hev. watch the pharmacist's mate
jieiform his first operation. The vigil lasts for
live hours.
"The iloitor sas he can't get here until late
this afternoon , he's so busy. 117 v. Johnny might
get blood Jioisoning from that cut on his finger

then."
hu e inert ham seamen from a loi edofd
tanker lie prostrate on a life raft. The hot trop-ita- l
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sun beats down on them. One raises himself on his elbow and then sits up with an ellori.
He lakes the last two squares of the emergent v
ihtMolaie rations and divides them equally
among the men. The chocolate sticks in their
throais without waier to wash it down.
".7 cokes, no candy, no nnthin.' What kind
Come on gang, if
f a Jthu r is this, anyxenyf
ue can't get anything here, we'll drive around
a llace where we can. I've got a
until ice
Ii i ai d."
A Frent h woman presents herself ai the ofliie
of a doctor, carrying her baby in her arms. I he
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child is listless from
weighed but three jiounds at birth, anil now
weighs little more. A linle watered milk is given
to her . . . loo linle.
"You know what I heard. They're going to
ration canned milk. They ought to think of our
fioor babies, anyway."
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aitatking the ihcorv
lu tit leiise ol women-i- n
of Harold I.. Itkes. who in an arlitle entitled
"Watt h Out For The Women" apjiearing in
ilie February I'll issue of trie Saturday F. vetting
I'ost siaies that "the man of tomorrow will be
liukv il a cave woman doesn't tome out ol this
vai."
that the nation is a