Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Nov. 9, 1954 We Missed the Campus Chest Once Don't Forget Next Time; Others Won't We were all pretty busy cheering for the Jayhawks Saturday afternoon, when those little cartons were passed through the stands. We wanted the announcer to tell us whether a first down had been made, so we didn't pay a whole lot of attention when he said, "The KuKus are circulating cartons for contributions to the Campus Chest." And even those of us who were interested didn't have any change with us. We just hadn't thought about bringing any money for the campus chest . . . we bought cokes and popcorn, we ran out of cigarets and got a new supply, the girl next to us had a candy bar and a football program . . . but very few dimes and nickels went into those little cartons. That was at the football game though. Later this week we're going to know that there's a Campus Chest drive being held. We're going to know because we're going to be told . . . told of the quota we're asked to contribute, told how our money can be used, told where we can give our contributions. And we'll be reminded again and again by more of those little cartons, asking us to give. When this week is over we won't be able to say as we did at the game. . we didn't know about the drive, or we haven't any change. There's a lot of excitement around KU when we enter into any kind of competition. We spend large amounts of money in an effort to win, for our house, a homecoming prize. We cheer for the teams, and we're proud when we make a better record than another school. That's a goal for us, it's something we want, and if we achieve it it's something we're proud of. But there are other kinds of records beside athletics, and there are, much as we love decorations, better uses for our money. There are little children crippled with polio asking for a chance to walk again . . . a chance you can give them with those dimes. There are students just like you throughout the world . . . just like you except that they won't go to school and do the things you do, unless the World University service can help them, with your contributions. There are organizations like the Damon Runyan Cancer fund, the American Heart fund, the YMCA, YWCA, Lawrence Community Chest, and a mental health fund. . but these groups can't continue to do their work without your support. To a crippled child hoping only for a chance to walk again, that hope can become a very big thing. It can be much bigger than a pack of cigarets, a coke, or a candy bar, yet that's all he's asking you to give him. . . one quarter, or one dime. And the faith he has can be much more important than the outcome of a college football game. Yet the record of college athletics far surpasses in many students' attention the record of the Campus Chest drive. You can doubtless tell your friends how many basketball and football games KU won last year, but can you also tell them how near, or not so near, we came to the Campus Chest goal? This year's quota will be $7.693...that's roughly one dollar that this drive asks from each student. We don't want to be the ones to fall short of the goal, and we don't think you do, either. Kiewit Slams Band Garb—So What? —Amy De Yong Maybe KU's new band uniforms do resemble those of Missouri university. Maybe their midnight blue color does look like black. But who cares? Fred Kiewit, a member of the Kansas City Star staff, seems to think the University is "raiding" MU's traditional band uniforms. In an article in Sunday's Star, Mr. Kiewit takes a dim view of the new uniforms, quite convinced that KU is using "covcat" techniques. Trying very hard to be funny, Mr. Kiewit's article has only one really worthwhile statement—and that statement is a quote from Prof. Russell L. Wiley, band director: "Nobody has a corner on anything." Even then, a sarcastic parenthesis, "(an obvious reference to MU whose colors just happen to be black and gold)," was interjected in an attempt to mitigate an argument stronger than Mr. Kiewit's silly assumption. And as for the confusion of bands and uniforms that the Star writer is anticipating when the two bands meet at Columbia Saturday, Nov. 20, he'd better unravel a few dogmas and discover that there is more to differentiating bands than uniform color. For Mr. Kiewit's information, the snapper of the two With all of the IBM machines seen on the campus last weekend one would have thought the School of Business was sponsoring homecoming. black-colored bands will be KU— even if the director "could have passed nicely as an admiral in his new recital." From where we sat at the homecoming game, the band, all dressed up in midnight blue, looked better than most of us had ever seen it. Prof. Wiley's new "dingnified" uniforms were much more satisfying in a few minutes than the old ones were in eight years. So if Mr. Kiewit, or anyone else for that matter, wants to fight about stealing tradition or somebody's midnight blue, we have this—and only this—to offer: Who gives a damn? Would someone please return the Alpha Chi clock? Come on fellows--alarm clocks aren't very expensive these days. —Gene Shank Kansas City gets the A's, and mid-semester week reminds all of us that they're the only ones who do. Many types of lightweight, portable counters for uranium prospectors are sold at prices ranging from $30 to $700. In the last four years more than 10,000 counters have been sold to individual prospectors and another 25,000 to private companies, says the National Geographic Society. 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WALLACE 10 Reasons for Giving To the KU Campus Chest Morally Speaking - Everyone should do something for someone else . . . - No University student is so poverty stricken that he can't share a dollar with people who have no food, are sick, or could be even slightly rehabilitated by that dollar . . . - So many people need so desperately the money we frit away on cokes, candy, cigarettes . . . - A few sacrifices on our part can do a great deal of good . . . - We contribute only once Practically Speaking: - And we're showing our spirit and interest in the University just as surely as if we yelled at a football game. . . . - We're saved solicitations by townsees people when we say, simply, "I've contributed to the campus chest." - We feel pretty good when we realize what one small donation can do. . . - Altruism never hurt anbvod . . . - And we may be helping ourselves: the percentage of people contracting Cancer, Heart Disease, and Polio, is so high that someday some of us will be statistics. By giving our money now to keep alive the organizations fighting these maladies, we may be someday helping ourselves... It's not that KU is situated on a hill—it's just that all the surrounding territory is so low . . . "Right You Are, If You Think So." Well, maybe at Podunk U. but certainly not here! Somebody said today that the Beta homecoming decorations burned because of a short circuit in the pledge power. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS "PLEASE pass the rolls."