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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCT. 1, 1948
The Editorial Page-
Help Thy Neighbor
Do you want to hold out a helping hand to someone? You will get your chance next week. October 3 to 9 has been designated as "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week."
Perhaps you wonder why this is being called to the attention of college students and faculty members? You are not employers of anyone, handicapped or not. That is true. But it is also true that educational institutions such as K.U. have a part to play in providing a fuller life for those citizens who have to spend their lives in a competitive society with two strikes on them to start.
Think about it for awhile and you should agree that K.U. has a two-fold duty toward these people. What better place could be found for a training ground for Kansans who are physically handicapped? Also, at the University there are a lot of technical and non-technical jobs which can be filled by men and women who are not fitted for other more arduous occupations.
This is not to suggest that capable employees should be removed to make way for the handicapped. There is no need for discrimination. All these people need is to be given an opportunity. They are not asking for pity or charity.
Future replacements of University employees could be made from the ranks of the handicapped when they are qualified. Other less fortunate individuals who do not have the necessary skills to overcome their physical disabilities should be given an opportunity to attend the University tuition-free and with other assistance from funds appropriated by the state legislature or donated by private individuals. Some of you might call it charity to finance education for disabled persons, but a better word would be "decency."
What can you do? A good idea would be to get in touch with the local state employment office if you are holding down a job at the University which gives you the right to do any hiring.
If you are a student,you might have some influence in convincing the All Student Council that part of the $6,032.90 balance in the student treasury would look good in an annual scholarship fund for disabled students. —J.L.R.
Men, Women, And Grades
More than 60 per cent of 1,350 freshmen who enrolled at K.U. and other large universities this fall will drop out before commencement day rolls around four years from now, according to a recent survey by the Michigan department of public instruction. Thirty-five per cent of the freshmen will not even be around at the end of the present school year.
According to the surveyors, illness, marriage, the decline of family fortunes, and shortage of part-time work will cause a number of the withdrawals. But the greater proportion of the students will drop out because of poor grades.
The mortality rate for co-educational schools with more than 1,000 students, such as K.U., is almost double that of junior colleges and schools which are exclusively male or female. It seems the jump from high school to K.U. is too much for most of the students, while the move up to junior college is about right.
Also the sudden shock of being turned loose on the same campus, night and day, with so many men seems to detract the attention of the girls from their studies. You can imagine how hard it is for these sheltered creatures to concentrate on Plato or Adam Smith when they are in a classroom with about 40 members of the opposite sex.
Most of the young men are leaving home and the protection of mother and father for the first time. They have heard about such things as co-eds, but that doesn't seem to help. Here they are minding their own business and looking for a little knowledge when suddenly they realize they haven't opened a book for weeks.
Don't blame the University if you are one of those unfortunate who drop out because of poor grades. The grading is not too stiff, according to experts. It is all due to the immature student who has not learned to "budget his time and energies." Which means you are spending too much time chasing blondes. —J.L.R.
Slow Death Grotto Now A Playground
Seattle—(UP)—What used to be the "last mile" for children—a trip to the dental chair—now is almost fun.
So says Dr. Gerald A. McGuire editor of the Washington State Dental Journal.
No more hauling the reluctant little patient into a room where terrifying instruments are on display. They have been replaced with happy-colored wallpaper on which gambol elephants, lions and kangaroos.
The modern dentist is a student of psychology.
"He doesn't leave old picks chisels, pilers, drills or Bunsen burners lying around to impress the parent with the size of his tool box—and scare junior," Dr. Mc-Guire said.
There are 20 head of cattle per square mile in the United States.
Bugs Ignoring Dry' Tornado
Stanford, Conn.—(UP)—Certain insects, like some human beings, can get an alcholic jag, an entomologist reports.
"Some of them don't know when to stop," Dr. Bromley said. "Certain flies and moths may fly dizzily after drinking the intoxicating liquid. Yellow jackets have been known to fall over in a dead drunk. It takes several hours to shake off a good jag."
"The worst inebriates in the insect kingdom are wasps, certain butterflies and moths, flies and ants" said Dr. Stanley W. Bromley, entomoligists of the Bartlett Tree Research laboratories.
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They may get "liquored up" by feeding on sap that exudes from trees and has fermented.
More than 1.000 Wisconsin high school students have joined junior science academy clubs in the state.
Plastic Bathing Suits Solve Bare Facts Of Life
New York—(UP)—Doris_Faset, a 23-year-old blond, stole the show at the third national plastics exposition by simply putting on a plastic bathing suit, then taking it off and throwing it away.
By LEO TURNER
"It saves a a lot of time," she said. "No need of worrying about how to carry a wet suit."
Miss Faset is 5 feet, 6 inches tall. She has an all-over tan picked up in Hollywood. She's an actress.
Miss Faset also has brown eyes. She has 35 inch hips.
She won $200 first prize over 500 other contestants for the best pattern for making a use-it-once-and-throw-it-away bathing suit from plastic.
"It only takes three minutes t make my bathing suit," she said.
Snip, snip, snip went her shears.
"You can afford to have a new one every time you go swimming. It gets rid of the bare monotony on the beaches."
"You have to face the bare facts of life on a beach more than any place else."
She held up two triangles fastened together at the tops.
Then she held up a narrow strip of plastic.
"I tie the ends of one triangle around my waist (23 inches) in the back, then tie the ends of the other in front. Then I take this band of material and tie it around my bust (34 inches). Three minutes, flat," she said.
She snipped another piece of material, then stepped into an adjoining room and came back wearing a bathing suit.
Three minutes exactly.
"When you take it off." Miss Faset said, toying with the knot in the bra, "you just throw it away."
Miss Faset turned and walked back into the dressing room.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that the seat of her bathing suit bagged like a sack of potatoes.
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