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Congressional leaders are still debating the question of how to draft indiscriminately without stripping American colleges and universities of male students. They seem to feel a strong sense of obligation to our defense needs and an even stronger sense of obligation to American parents—their constituents.
We haven't any crystal ball in which to peer and come up with all the answers, but even a casual observance would indicate that a workable draft plan is not impossible. The existing situation is one which can be boiled down to read: Should congress initiate draft legislation now which might antagonize the voter, or should it dilly-dally around until after the 1952 elections? It is questionable whether or not our defense needs can wait that long. And it's poor policy to do any unnecessary stalling which might endanger the nation.
Engible draft-age men from all walks of life would be inducted into the armed services with no regard given as to whether or not they are students. The armed services would then give a series of intelligence and occupational aptitude tests, personal interviews would be conducted, and the young men would be categorized as to ability and occupational preference. Men who could not afford a college education would receive the same treatment as those who could and who had every intention of acquiring a higher education.
After the test results have been compiled, a quota could be set up by the defense manpower commission, directing that a certain percentage of the more highly qualified young men be enrolled in colleges and universities under close military supervision. These young men would be permitted to take any courses applicable to defense needs, but would also be required to take a specified amount of basic military training while in school. At the completion of their schooling, the students would be assigned to fill defense needs as specified by the war manpower commission.
It is not unreasonable to say that a workable draft plan could be inaugurated which would draft indiscriminately, eliminating economic inequality and placing the more intelligent young men on a military student status. Such a plan would work in this manner:
The other young men inducted into the armed forces would serve in the same manner as those of the past. However, many of them would be permitted to enter colleges and universities to fill the needs of the yearly turnover created as students advanced.
We are fully aware that any such plan would immediately raise the hue and cry of "SOCIALIZED EDUCATION," but any draft plan is considered as being an emergency measure and the "Kelley plan" would not permanently endanger our educational system. The plan advocated here would merely be a stopgap measure until the need for a draft dissipated or until a permanent program of universal military training could be adopted—Francis J. Kelley.
Francis Kelley
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Now it can be told. Monday afternoon the leaders of the two campus political parties, bent on business errands, met in the newsroom of the University Daily Kansan. One of the men waved a newspaper in the face of the other and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"What do you mean stealing our campaign issues?" he demanded. "Your issues? They weren't your issues. We had those all the time."
It makes you stop and wonder, if both parties have many of the same issues, why two campus political parties are necessary.
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The man of the hour is not the man who watches the clock.
Democratic leaders are ready to make political mince-meat out of West Point's No. 1 ham, General MacArthur.
"Onward, Spirit of Kansas" is said to be relatively as difficult to sing as the "Star Spangled Banner." And, like the "Star Spangled Banner," it probably has three verses more than the public knows.
In Turkish homes, the parents don't fool around. They tell their children that the Russians are "bogey men." It even scares me.
"The defense department ordered the armed services to start using a quota system on May 1 for volunteers and draftees to insure each branch a share of the brighter recruits." Duh...
When a woman motorist holds out her hand you can be certain that she is either going to turn to the right, turn to the left, stop, wave at a friend, or knock the ashes off her cigaret.
Worry is that state of mind that leads some persons to fear every time the sun goes down that it won't come up again.
Our society pages will soon reflect that June is the month of weddings and cooings. The billing follows.
Thirty For Prof. Ewert
We do some odd things in the journalism school. Sometimes, when we are trying to perfect our news writing, we write hypothetical stories about each other.
One day last semester the Reporting II class wrote a hypothetical story about Walter E. Ewert, our instructor, being killed in an automobile crash.
Most of us in the class started the hypothetical story, "Walter E. Ewert, faculty advisor to the University Daily Kansan, was killed today—" Mr. Ewert read our stories and then pointed out to us that we shouldn't have used his name at the very first of the story. He said that he wasn't a big man and that his name wasn't important enough to start a news story. He said he should have been called simply "a faculty member." in the lead paragraph.
Last night Mr. Ewert was killed in an automobile accident. When we heard about it at the Kansan office it hit us pretty hard. It was after midnight before we forced ourselves to write the story for today's Kansan. It was the most difficult story we have ever written, but one thing was easy, we started the story with the words, "Walter E. Ewert."
You see, we think he was a pretty big man—Bob Sanford.
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(From the UDK, Mav. 9, 1941)
For the next three days University students will have a chance to receive $22 worth of free vacationing apiece, just for $1.
This fairygodmother bargain may be picked up at the Union Fountain, and consists of $22 in admission tickets to golf, dancing, movie, swimming, and horseback riding spots in the city—all for $1.
Kansas City merchants are offering the combined admissions to acquaint the student public with their recreational facilities.
Sheriff Travis Glass said today that students who have claims to the remaining articles should claim them at the sheriff's office in the county jail building.
Loot Being Claimed At County Jail
Most of the loot from the organized houses robbed by David Keith Fleagle, former University student, has been claimed.
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To Summer Job At Harvard
Alfred L. Baldwin, professor of psychology, is one of 50 visiting scholars who will teach in the 1951 summer session at Harvard university.
Dr. Baldwin will teach Development of the Child and Introduction to Quantitative Methods.
Sixty members of the Harvard faculty and the scholars from the American and European universities will compose the summer staff.
Collister Is Elected To State Guidance
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Dr. Gordon Colliser, director of the University Guidance bureau, was elected vice-president of the Kansas Guidance association at its meeting at the University April 7.
About 60 persons from Kansas schools and industries interested in guidance attended the meeting.
Dr. Colliser addressed the group on "Progress of Guidance in secondary Schools." As vice-president Dr. Colliser will help direct the activities of the guidance association for 1951-52.
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