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UNIVERSITY, DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951
Draft Now Main Topic In Student Gab Fests
By GEORGE HESS
The ordinary subjects of conversation among college men, in order of importance, probably run something like this:
1. Girls. 2. Off-color stories. 3. Girls, 4. Beer. 5. Girls. 6. Studies.
1. Girls, 2. On-camp.
Or rather they did run something like the above until the advent of THE DRAFT. Things have changed now. In the Union the boys gather in worried little knots and compare classifications. Books, heretofore considered minor annoyances to be consulted only for the lack of something better to do, are actually being read. The formerly unpopular basic R.O.T.C. has increased its enrollment nearly 100 per cent this semester—it can provide a draft exemption.
Conversation in general centers largely around THE DRAFT. "I'm really hurting," one young man from western Kansas was heard to remark the other day. "I went home last summer and organized a Young Democrats' club," he said. "and last fall a number of Democrats got elected in that area for the first time in umplem years. My draft board members are all Republicans. Every time I meet one of them on the street at home, he gives me a fishy stare and says, 'Why aren't you in the army?'"
While they take draft matters seriously enough, K.U. men joke about it much as a man about to have a tooth pulled grins at the dentist when he produces the forceps. A fraternity man who returned late from vacation found his room draped with streamers of mourning black. Under a big bow of black ribbon on his bed was a notice to report for his pre-induction physical examination.
Many graduating seniors are wondering what their chances are for avoiding service until they can get jobs in essential industry. The new regulation giving them 30 days after graduation to find such a job would solve the problem except that there just aren't enough essential jobs to go around.
Many students decided to enlist in the branch of service of their choice rather than risk being drafted itno a less desirable branch. The air force and navy are offering direct reserve officer commissions to some, but there are not enough of those to go around either.
tone As a whole, the draft situation is causing considerable consternation among today's college men. It has
caused a renewed interest in studies, grades, and higher learning in general, but it is doubtful whether these indirect benefits compensate, in the opinion of the men concerned, for the worries of indecision.
Announcements of seven "international scholarships for world understanding" have been received by Prof. J. A. Burzle, professor of German.
Foreign Study Grants Offered
Recent graduates and college students who have completed their sophomore year or have received a corresponding education are eligible for the grants, which are handled by the Nansen Fund, Inc., 826 Niels Esperson Bldg., Houston 2, Texas.
One William Clayton scholarship of $400 is available for an American student to study at the University of Edinburgh summer session.
Two Maurice Schlumberger scholarships of 100 thousand French francs each, for American students to study at the Institut de Touraine summer school in Tours, France, are available.
Two Marcel Schlumberger scholarships of 200 thousand French francs each, and two Mrs. Conrad Schlumberger scholarships of 175 thousand French francs each, for American students to study one year at the University of Paris have also been announced.
also been ammended.
The purpose of the scholarships is to promote world understanding. Students will be required to follow a course of study which will give maximum results in gaining an understanding of the people and the country where they are studying.
where Emphasis will center on contemporary life, political, economic and social conditions, and background studies in history and civilization. No scholarships will be awarded for technical and specialized training or studies.
Chinese May Be Preparing One Last Big Offensive
(By United Press Foreign News Editor)
There is a growing belief that the Chinese Communists are getting ready to throw one more big offensive at the United Nations army.
If it succeeds in its opening' phases, they will pour everything they have into an attempt to overrun Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's lines and drive the U.N. troops into the sea. If it fails, the Chinese Reds may take another look at their hand to decide whether they want to stay in the war.
Mao Tze-Tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist party, has never hesitated to change his course abruptly when he finds himself in a blind alley. He knows when to retreat and when to compromise.
There isn't much profit in it for them right now. They are suffering a punishing casualty rate and getting no closer to their objective, which is to take over all of Korea and turn it into a Communist satellite.
Nor has he ever been bound hand and foot to the theories of Karl Marx, Lenin or Stalin. In the past he has changed the rules to suit himself. That part of Communist doctrine which he thinks is good for China he uses; that part which isn't good he rejects.
good job, yeah.
If Mao throws his big punch and it fails, there are three courses open to him;
to
1. He can drop his chilly attitude toward the United Nations and agree to a compromise which will get him out of his trouble in Korea, The U.
2. He can let his troops gradually flow back into China and leave the North Koreans to stew in their own juice. Mao never has formally declared war on anybody and he maintains the fiction that his soldiers are all volunteers who rushed into the Korean war because they were convinced Gen. Douglas MacArthur was about to invade China.
N. already has set up the machinery for negotiations between Red China and the anti-Communist coalition—the Committee on good offices. All it needs to go to work is a nod from Mao. But so far he has given them no encouragement.
There would not be an announcement that the Chinese were pulling out. The army would just melt away and Mao would keep up the pretense his troops were volunteers who suddenly decided to go home and plant the spring rice crop.
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3. Mao would lay it on the line to
Regional Civil Defense Groups To Meet March 19-29
Regional civil defense meetings will be held at the five state schools and Dodge City Junior college Monday, March 19 through Friday, March 29.
Local civil defense directors, mayors, high school principals, and superintendents will be invited to
Stalin. Either the Russians would have to get into the war or the Chinese Reds would get out. He would have some powerful arguments on his side. Communism's future in Asia depends to a considerable extent on the outcome in Korea.
hear state officials explain Kansas civil defense plans.
They will be given information on how to plan local defense programs. Social welfare, transportation, agriculture, communication, public health, and fire prevention will be discussed.
Manhattan; Wednesday, March 23,
Kansas State Teachers college, Ft.
Hays, and Thursday, March 29,
Dodge City Junior college, Dodge
City.
The scheduled meetings are Monday, March 19, Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg; Tuesday, March 20, University of Kansas; Wednesday, March 21, Kansas State Teachers college, Emporia; Tuesday, March 27, Kansas State college.
--eagerness can be over-done! He's alluding, of course, to all these quick-trick cigarette tests—the ones that ask you to decide on cigarette mildness after just one puff, one sniff, one inhale or one exhale! When the
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