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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1940
The Editorial Page-
Are You Ready?
University women are faced with the reality that they cannot all marry wealthy young men. Some of the men they marry will become well-to-do as the years go by. Others may only become moderately "well off" as this world goes.
At any rate they may have to do without a maid and a cook for a few years before the man of their dreams can afford those things.
Now the chief reason a man comes to the University is to provide himself with an education that will enable him to earn a living after he graduates. While doing that he picks up some incidental knowledge about Plato and Rousseau, but his primary aim is to gain information and practice that will put him a little bit ahead of the man who didn't come to college.
A good many women are at the University with much the same idea—to prepare for a job. (They always seem to call it a career when talking about a woman.) Others come for a liberal education that will make them more intelligent and cultured. While here they generally meet a young man that becomes their husband.
Since most of the men are seriously preparing themselves for the work ahead of them, why shouldn't it be as necessary for the young woman to prepare herself for her role as the housewife?
The University would do a great service to the human race and the happiness of the young couples leaving it if every woman who is graduated is required to take a course in cooking and one in sewing. Such a requirement would go a long way to get that young woman ready for the life that she will have to live for the next few years. Too few of them are ready.—M.LR.
'Small Things'
It is yet undecided where the new fieldhouse will be built, and one practical soul suggests that it be placed near the stadium to be used as a parking lot during football games.
A K.U. instructor who claims to hate athletics in any form, says that when he is chancellor, he will abolish football, put a roof over the stadium, and convert it into a gigantic bar.
Panic was rife after the Dyche hall fire when it was rumored that a large number of standard examinations were destroyed, thus rendering a great many quiz files useless.
The "Spinster Soliloquy"
Laws don't like me—
Doctors do.
What is the reason why
This is true?
I'm kind to the lawyers and
Give them A—
A pre-medic says, "No
Theme today"
If he turns one in—
He may get a C—
And yet pre-medics
Are fond of me.
The laws are bright and
A young doc's dumb;
He never can seem to
Make things hum.
Yet I can't say much to
A young pre-law,
While a medic and I can
Sit and jaw,
For an hour or more, de
Lightedly!
What may the cause of this
Difference be?
I've thought it all out, and
The reason, of course, is
I've had more operations than
I've had divorces.
—HRH, of Starboam
—H.R.H. of Starbeams
The treasury department says that there is $183.18 in circulation today for every man, woman and child in America. The sophomore wolf says he's got his 18 cents, but wants to know where he goes to get the rest.
Posters Advertise KU InHigh Schools
The first Statewide Activities poster board has left Lawrence on its way to 18 high schools in Eastern and Southern Kansas.
The purpose of the boards, which will eventually reach all sections of the state, is to familiarize high school students with K.U. Pictured on the boards are athletic and administrative heads of the University and several scenes on the campus.
Cities on the initial route are: Otawa, Garnett, Iola, Humboldt Chautauqua, Charlottetown, Coffeville, Caney, Sedan, Cedarvale, Arkansas City, Winfield, Wellington, Newton, Cottonwood Falls, Osage City, and Burlingame.
US Blood-Giving Record Awarded To Kansas Town
Claffin, — (U.P.)—Claffin now holds the national record for blood-giving.
A total of 156 pints of blood were donated by as many residents in only one day. The blood is sent to the Wichita blood center and used in all hospitals in the area. Ft. Riley held the previous record of 155 pints in one day.
Art Museum Holds Exhibit
Modern interior decorating is the subject of the latest display in the Museum of Art. The exhibit, which is planned to show new modes with both old and new materials, will be on display until Wednesday, Dec. 21.
Exhibited in the north gallery is furniture of both modern and antique style. Dr. John Maxon, director of the museum, said the purpose is to contrast new furniture and the contemporary trends. Included in the display is an Eanes chair of bent plywood, which is a copy of Libyan campaign chairs used by officers in Libya.
Contrast is shown by antiques with new fabrics and finish. Oriental rugs, and early 19th century paintings on plaster can be easily demonstrated the variance in styles.
Paintings of Herbert Fink and Dwight Burnham, instructors in drawings and paintings, can be seen on the walls. Ceramics of Sheldon Carey, associate professor in design, also are used in the exhibit.
In the center gallery is an exhibit of modern and historic clothing. Four dresses, which were designed by students in the home economics department, are exhibited. Around the wall are sketches of the dresses and the historic costumes from which the designs were inspired.
Much of the material is displayed by the Modern Center in Kansas City, Mo., and the Miller Furniture store in Lawrence.
This display was arranged by Patsy Harris and Bonnie Cunningham Arrowsmith, both of whom graduated in 1949, and Marilyn Swenson, College senior.
Kansas Unemployment Is Up
Topeka,—(U.P.)—Kansas unemployment was up slightly in October, but still below the national average, John Morrison, director of the state employment security division, has announced.
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This Big Business General Runs Air Force His Way
Scott Air Force Base, Belleville III.—(U.P.)—The air training command clicks from the top down.
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
The guy who makes it click is handsome, affable, Major General Robert W. Harper. I don't use the word "guy" with any disrespect for two-star rank, because Bob Harper considers himself one of the boys—and he is.
You could tell that when he took the rostrum at headquarters here to open a public information conference attended by officers from the 17 air bases in the command.
The 49-year-old general runs the biggest business in the air force in a most unorthodox manner. He figures he can get more out of his men with a friendly smile and a warm handshake than with a scowl and a slapping down—not that the general can't get rough when the occasion demands. He certainly can, and does.
Bob is a constant source of amazement and often bewilderment to me. Hardly a day goes by that he does not shock some rank in Washington.
He doesn't like the word "channels."
"I'm not even sure I know what the word means," he says.
He's probably the greatest cutter of red tape in the world. He can write a letter, with multiple copies, when there is a telephone handy.
"If I have to go through a dozen different sources to get a simple job done—I'd just as soon forget about the job," he says.
When the general had his headquarters at Barksdale Air base in Shreveport, La., he found the routine of getting a memo to Washington unthinkable. It went like this—if you like channels. He'd write a letter addressed to the capital. It would have to go to a base in Tex.-based oilless it would rest in some cubbyhole weeks or days. Then it would come back to Barksdale to an office the general could see out of his window.
It might sit there for awhile longer before it ever went on its way to Washington. All by airmail, of course.
He scissored through all that nonsense by picking up the phone. Like as not he would shock some general out of his swivel by informally opening the conversation with:
"This is Bob Harper in Barksdale. I've got a little matter here that won't wait for the mails. Let's settle this over the phone."
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The general's door is always open. When I dropped in on him expecting to have to do a lot of heel clicking he waved me past a couple of aides and waved me to an overstuffed chair.
"Call me Bob," he said. "Everybody else does. And what's your nickname?"
That is not to say that the 1,000 officers, airmen and civilians on the staff here do not follow the order of service discipline. There is as much yes sirring in his command as there is also more informality than anywhere else. After the correct salute, more often than not the bars are down.
On the surface, the entire operation seems technically precise and simple. Actually, the air force training is the most nerve-shattering of all of our force operations. But with Bob at the controls the operation is simple.
You may get the idea that the general sold me a bill of goods. He did.
Torn Tickets Cost Money
Chattanooga, —(U.P.)—Richard ML Wright III toore up 40 traffic tickets over a six-months period. He paid $1 fine for each of them.
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