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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950
The Editors Report —
Dr. Allen's Dream House by Robert Leonard
One Vote For
Our new fieldhouse has caused much comment. Everyone has voiced his opinion on its size, shape, design, and location. Yet after much bickering, these details were ironed out. However, one detail remains. What will we name the new fieldhouse?
Now—we have a man that certainly deserves all the credit that has been bestowed on him during his 32 years at K.U. He is very much alive. He still wins championships. He won one this year.
In 1948, Dr. Allen wrote his third book entitled "Phog Allen's Sports Stories," a stream of yarns and anecdotes concerning many of the famous figures in sport. His first two volumes, "My Basketball Bible" and "Better Basketball" were used as cage text books everywhere.
Important things and places are usually named after persons who have left their imprint on this world. For example, we hear of the William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery, Johns Hopkins university, and the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information. This is all well and good. But these persons are dead. They never saw or enjoyed something dedicated to them.
In the name of all good sense, let's make it Allen fieldhouse.
We have here at the University a man who has done much for K.U. basketball. Perhaps you have heard of him—his name is Allen, Dr. F. C. Allen. Some persons call him the dean of American basketball coaches. Dr. Allen hasn't limited himself to building title winners at Mt. Oread. He was one of the founders of the National Basketball Coaches' association and for many years served on the National Rules committee. He was instrumental in founding the N.C.A.A. tournament, the first of which was held in 1938.
We Took A Look and
We can't go along with Willie Stark's method of getting things done. Yet his philosophy that "out of evil comes good" has a great deal of truth in it.
Saw That It Was Good
ye Ed
World War II—as it was numbered—was the most evil of man's wars to date. Yet out of that evil comes good. Our attention was called to this fact when we saw the story headed "Colleges Train 2 Million Under Two GI Laws." The story was mostly statistics. Statistics are cold things. They never tell the true story of human effort and suffering.
The GI Bill—as the Public Laws 16 and 346 are commonly lumped together—was hailed with great lamenting by educators over the country. In the action of Congress trying to help rehabilitate returning veterans, the educators saw only bad.
"Veterans, they cried, "will take advantage of the Bill to get a paid vacation at the country's expense."
Businessmen and other big-hearted persons took up the wall. "We'll be taxed to death while vets featherbed along in college." Few were willing to recall that perhaps the veterans had earned the right to featherbed it a while. Sure, they had seen newsreels of blasted Marines on the beaches of Tarawa, had watched Kamikazes hurtle into battleships, had looked at the dead in the hedge-rows of France, but . . .
It took a while for the truth to sink in that veterans wanted an education. The majority of them weren't interested in featherbedding. GI Joe and Jane wanted to make up for lost time. They didn't even stop to change clothes but headed for the campus in their olive drab.
Before long, another sort of wailing was heard on campuses. This time it was the youngsters. They were complaining that "veterans study too much. They make us work too hard trying to keep up with them." By now, educators, nad other well-wishers had swung around, were using "earnest Edward" to scare the high school graduates into studying.
"College today," they said, "is no longer a country club. The hard-working veterans have changed that."
The business men too liked the set-up. The depression that usually follows a war had not materialized. Colleges with their overflowing enrollments had absorbed the surplus labor force. Prices stayed up in the super-sonic range. Merchants welcomed the little men from the Hills.
From the veteran's viewpoint, what has the GI Bill done for them? First, of course, it has given them an education; a chance to learn useful skills and knowledge that make them worth a lot more to their country than they were before the war. It has been estimated that a college graduate has 87 to 1 odds of succeeding over the non-college man. Even if you concede odds of five to one, it's easy to see how much good "the bid for the votes of returning servicemen by opportunity-grabbing politicians" has done.
From the viewpoint of the veteran who otherwise would never have been able to go to college, the Bill was a chance to "make something of himself." This veteran recognized that opportunity was knocking. And he opened the door. Now, for the most part, he's gone through that door. Never again will that door be closed. There will be too many keeping it open.
This is what we saw, looking deeper into a dull recitation of government statistics. What do you see?
Today's Mail Discomforting?
Sir:
At the Upstream dinner it was remarked that general education must be considered apart from professional education, since the latter was well standardized by the accepted technical experts. What might be inferred from this observation?
Are we to have two classes of educated people: super-trade-school graduate scientists or business managers blind to the wider problems of economic and political society, and in sharp contrast to a motley herd of philosophers, dreamers and discussers who—unable to earn a living—must be supported by some kind of public relief?
The alternative conclusion would be to lengthen the period of training for business executives, engineers and scientists to include the essentials of general education, as these essentials are developed. At present the medias and lawyers usually get four-year liberal arts degrees before four more years of specialization. Yet in this technological world of ours the scientists, engineers and business experts really have a more profound influence upon our lives than do physicians and attorneys.
It may be necessary to resign ourselves to training periods in the schools of business and engineering of five, six or perhaps eight years. Discomforting? Yes, but doesn't the atomic age force us to seek broader horizons?
Alexander Dewey Engineering Senior
Mexico Ranks Second In Film Production
Mexico City—(U.P.)-Mexico was second only to the United States in film production in 1949, the official Mexican Film Commission reported.
The commission reported Mexico was the only country which enjoyed an expanding movie industry. Reasons cited were lower costs and a growing Mexican audience, coupled with more demand abroad for films in Spanish.
Postman Stops On This One
Memphis, Tenn. (U.P.)—Misaddressed postcards or letters rarely stop the postal service. A letter carrier, Stanley H. Kamke, reports one that did—a postcard addressed simply: "Better Known as John, Rural Rt., Memphis, Tenn."
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Editor-in-Chief ... James Morris
Managing Editor ... Doris Greenbank
Asst. Man. Editors ... Norma Hunsinger
Asst. Man. Editors ... Kay O'Connor
John Hein
Ralph Hemewen
City Editor ... Edward Chapin
Feature Editor ... Francis Kelley
Photograph Editor ... Frances Mae
Asst. City Editors ... Nelson Ober
Robert Sigman
Marilyn Marks
Elaine Elevg
Editorial Assets ... Pete Nemer
John Bannigan
Sports Editor ... Richard Dilsaver
Asst. Sports Editors ... Bob Leonard
Royal Seldon
Arthur McCulligan
Mona Millinkin
Society Editor .. Faye Wilkinson
Asst. Society Editors ... Billie Stover
Emily Stewart
Business Mgr. .. Jim Shriver
Advertising Mgr. .. Charles Reimer
Circulation Mgr. .. Yvonne Josserman
Formal Mgr. .. Forrest Layne
Classified Adv. Mgr. .. Lee Dey
Promotion Mgr. .. John Wiedeman
By Bibler
"I would like a job teaching psychology. This is my wife—need any further recommendations?"
'Small Things'
A recent Kansan headline announced, "SAM Hears Suit Makers." We presume that now he won't make the pants too long.
by Keith Leslie
A board back east has been appointed to nominate candidates for a hall of fame for outstanding achievement in accounting. Our friend, the student union junior, would like to make it known that he has made many contributions to the science of making fool-proof crib notes whenever they hand out honors along that line.
Another Kansan headline proclaimed, "Truffles, Long A European Delicacy, To Appear in U.S.A." We predict, however, that they will never replace the French-fried neolite served piping hot with axle-grease gravy at one of the prominent Lawrence cafeterias where we have been known to eat.
Your lovable sun.
A LETTER HOME
Glad to hear that Pa and the dog are fine. You know I told you some of the girls down here at school are cutting their hair short. Whenever I look at some of them, it puts me in mind of old Duke that time we bobbed his tail and run him with the buggy at the county fair. I think he looked a lot prettier, though, and I know there ain't a one of these girls what can run near as fast.
Dear Ma:
Thanks to John Riley, editor in chief a year ago, we have at last gotten a look at the ASC constitution. We're fascinated by the "Rules Governing Student Affairs." Point four is "There shall be no professional entertainers at student parties, which include rushing parties. This rule shall not be interpreted to exclude entertainers employed regularly with orchestras hired for dances." Is there a lawyer in the house?
City fathers in Hamlin, Germany, are looking for another Pied Piper to pipe out the rats which have infested the city. Any fine arts majors specializing in Advanced Flute and thinking ahead about summer work are hereby notified.
Point six also caught our fancy. "Students going out of town and returning the same night are expected to observe the rules of the AWS concerning the closing hour." The moral here seems to be: don't come back the same night.
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary and professional fraternity for women journalists, will present its annual Ladies-of-the-Press breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday. It will be in the Kansas room. Mrs. Ed Abels of the Lawrence Outlook will speak.
Theta Sigs To Hold Annual Breakfast
Newpaper women from the Lawrence papers and Lawrence alumnae have been invited. Miss Lois Lauer, alumnae adviser from Topeka, Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, founder of the local chapter and Mrs. L. N. Flint, wife of professor emeritus L. N. Flint, former head of the department of
journalism, have also been invited. The organization was founded forty-one years ago. The month of April is set aside as Matrix Milestone month. The chapter's Mass dinner will be May 5.