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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOV. 7, 1949
"Well—I have your mid-semester examination papers graded—and I must say, I was rather disappointed."
The president has just kicked the United States' top naval commander down the back stairs. Nobody is too surprised. What else could be expected of a president who is an ex-army captain and who has found the public uninterested in the fact that the navy was getting the short end in the new armed forces unification program?
The Old Navy
The Editorial Page一
Yes, Admiral Denfeld went the way that the bell-bottom trousers are soon to go, and the way the entire navy has been going for the past 50 years. The navy had its glory during the Spanish American war, and more recently in World War II. But we now have the air force and the boys with the silver wings, and the B-36 to protect us.
What has caused this gradual change? Have the American people lost their old taste for the sea and their delight in the heroes it produced? Or perhaps the navy itself has actually lost some of its old romance and color to the fleeting jet plane with its faster-than-sound speed. If it has, then America's journey into the era of the "atomic age" is nearly completed.
In part, the navy has been responsible for its loss of prestige. Its recruiting posters show this. No longer do the posters offer adventure—they offer vocational training. The old ones used to show a sailor in a rickshaw with a Japanese cutie; the new ones show him learning to be a radio technician. The old navy showed the boys the world, and taught them the difference between Porto Rican rum and Japanese saki. The new navy converts them into sanitary plumbers and bespectacled engineers who twist knobs in a room filled with dials.
Science and modern technology have caught up with the navy. Gone is the three-bottle man, the wholesale lover. It is small wonder that the navy no longer inflames the imagination of the nation's youth. For the navy, purged of all its old flavors, has ceased to be a part of the popular sentiment of the people. Perhaps this is why they no longer care if the former queen of the seas is relegated to the tasks of carrying supplies and training young men to fix radios and stopped-up heads.
—Richard Tatum
We read the other day of a coed who awakens her roommates by crowing like a rooster, and we can't think of a better way to "keep the boys down on the farm"—away from college, that is.
'Small Things'
We hear that a young K.U. instructor told his class that his would be the roughest course they'd ever have, and that furthermore, those who passed could consider themselves lucky. We checked up. Yes, he was a second lieutenant once. Yes, a 90-day wonder.
The boys were playing bridge. West, a bespectacled individual, got a poor hand and mumbled something about having to study. But his next hand was good, and he recollected, "By gosh, there's a convocation tomorrow. That'll give me extra time to study. Let's finish the game."
Of course, we all realize that Professor Snarf at the top of the page is just the product of Bibler's imagination. Don't we?
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Goering Predicted Jets Would Never Be Successful
Stuttgart, Germany—(U.P.)—Ten years ago Ernst Heinkel, one Germany's top plane builders, flew the world's first jet plane and invited Air Marshal Hermann Goering to watch the test flight.
Goering, then busily building up Nazi air power for war, was unimpressed.
He told Heinkel to forget about jets because they would never be successful in combat.
Today the man whose plant turned out the first experimental jet plane which was the prototype of the aircraft that would revolutionize air travel, lives here in retirement, with most of his aircraft factories moved to Russia.
Heinkel thinks Goering and others Nazi air force officials were miffed because they had not been informed of the years of research and construction that the Heinkel works put in on the jet engine before the first test flight on Aug. 27, 1938.
It was not until two years later, when the German government received reports that both Britain and the U. S. were experimenting with jet engines, that the Nazi air ministry remembered Heinkel's successful test flight and ordered him to get on with the construction of a jet fighter plane.
Heinkel first got the idea for jet propulsion in planes when he heard of experiments made by a young assistant professor at Goettingen University, Dr. Hans Pabst von Ohain. He called von Ohain to the Heinkel plant at Rostock, now in the Soviet zone, and put him to work with a staff of 30 engineers.
In less than two years von Ohain produced the first jet usable in a plane. In another year Heinkel had installed it in a plane about the size of the "Spirit of St. Louis," in which Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic.
Goering and his assistants watched the HE 178 fly better than 500 miles an hour and then told Heinkel to forget about it.
They said its production costs were too high, that it would not stay in the air long and could not carry a heavy enough weapon load.
Four-jet planes were introduced into the German air force in 1943-44.
Heinkel, says it will not be German know-how that will make perfect jets possible.
"There are only two countries in the world which can afford modern development of air power, the U. S. and the USSR."
But the original inventor of the jet, von Ohain, went to the U. S. after the war and Heinkel said he is continuing his work on jet planes.
Miss Howard Appointed KU Clerk-Stenographer
Miss Minnie Lou Howard, 940 Kentucky street, has been appointed clerk-stenographer at the University, announced the Kansas department of civil service.
Daily Hansan
Miss Howard has been assigned to the state geological survey. She was selected from a group of applicants because of high rating on the competitive civil service examinations.
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Robert K. Sanford, College senior,
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First prize of $$ for the best cartoon
went to Patrick H. Bowers, fine arts senior. Rita F. Hartwell, fine arts junior, won the $3 second price for her caricoon.
"So many manuscripts were submitted that it was impossible to use all of them," Richard D. Barton, editor, said, however, we hope to use some of them in succeeding issues of the magazine."
Persons who would like to keep their manuscripts, may pick them up in 5 Journalism building, the office of Charles G. Pearson, faculty advisor of the magazine. Winners may receive their prizes in Mr. Pearson's office.
Moreau Leaves Hospital
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, was released from Watkins hospital Thursday. His physician reports he is doing "very well."
Dean Moreau underwent major surgery on Tuesday, Oct. 25. He will not be able to resume his duties at the University for about a week.
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