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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1947
In its decision to repeal the ban on Thursday poultry eating, the president's Citizens' Food committee shifted its grain conservation appeal to the producers themselves.
Pass The Chicken
Charles Luckman, chairman of the grain conservation drive, based his poultryless Thursday plan on the simple but effective argument that when we don't eat chicken we discourage grain consumption by the poultry industry.
The poultrymen said that the best way to save grain on chicken farms was to kill the fowl that were fattening on the grain. But they pointed out that the farmer is reluctant to sell his chickens on a lowering market and argued that the ban was forcing thousands of farmers to keep non-producing birds on the farms to consume precious grain.
What everyone failed to mention was the most important point of all—that it's customary to sow after you reap. As chickens are sold for market, the farmer automatically replenishes his flock. Thus it would be more baby chicks to replace the slaughtered fowl and more grain to feed the baby chicks.
Vital Point Overlooked
In the Friday decision to end the ban the government did what has proven largely successful in relation to other industries—appeal to the producers instead of to the public. The new program gets at the core of the problem by asking for a reduction in the production of baby chicks. Reduce Poultry Population
Poultryless Thursdays had been under fire from the National Poultry Producers' association, which had put all its eggs in the argument that live chickens eat more grain than dead ones.
In this way the whole poultry population will be cut down, which should have been the aim in the first place.
Poultrymen Opposed Ban
The nation's farm organizations have pledged adherence to the new plan. They may comply and they may not. But in any case it should be more effective than the old appeal to the general public.
The men who threatened to grow beards to combat the trend toward longer skirts are only covering up more of the issue.
Dear Editor
Bad Refereeing
Dear Editor,
Being a by-stander in the game played recently between the Bounders and the Dine-A-Mite teams, I should like to say I have never seen such injustice. I happen to know that the Dine-A-Mite team is composed mostly of fraternity men.
Also I happen to know that the referees are fraternity, men. The thing that was obvious to me was that the referees called the plays in favor of their fraternity brothers.
How were the referees picked and why did they reverse their decisions? I think this situation needs a little investigation.
Jim Johnson, College freshman.
This is what Don Powell, director of University intramurals, said in regard to this letter:
ONE—There are numerous older fraternity men participating with Independent teams and we have no way to check their past affiliations. When officials are assigned to games, it is often possible that the officials may be of the same fraternity as men playing the game. It has always been our policy to guard against this as much as possible.
THREE—The intramural department considers this letter of little importance in that the Bounders protested the game and the Intramural board upheld their protest, agreeing to replay the game at a future date.
TWO—An investigation was made of this game and it was agreed that mistakes were made which had an equal bearing on both teams.
Intramural Reply
FOUR—It is felt that officials could and would do a much better job if the spectators showed as fine an example of sportsmanship as the players on the field.
Extension History
"Oscar! Get the Dentyne Chewing Gum—it's a date!"
"I'm 'way ahead of you, Pal—I asked for Dentyne Chewing Gum while you were still talking over the phone. Show me any date who doesn't fall for that clean-tasting, long-lasting Dentyne flavor! Dentyne's got everything. It even helps keep teeth white, too!"
The title, Extension Division of the University of Kansas, has recently been changed to the University of Kansas Extension.
Dentyne Gum—Made Only by Adams
This little bit of ceremony marks the 39th anniversary of the foundation in 1909 of the service as a special unit of the University.
The new name of the office is not really "new". The first "University extension" was founded in 1891. Its purpose was to give the people of Kansas opportunity to hear lectures by faculty members on informational and cultural topics.
In 1909 the University extension was given the position of a separately functioning unit. From that year the service has grown until it now includes extension classes, lectures and lecture courses, visual instruction, extension library service, plays and reading service, correspondence work, postgraduate courses, and an extensive slide and film library.
The University extension offered, as early as 1919, a lantern slide and motion picture service to all Kansas schools. Now these films are handled by the visual education branch of the extension. This department sends out annually 15,000 reels of educational films which are seen by more than 3,500,000 persons.
Special classes have been held for every group imaginable. Classes were given for firemen, steel workers, court reporters, paroled convicts, and driving instruction for women. One class was held to train for naturalization the foreign wives of returning G.I.'s.
many as 5,000 package libraries have been mailed in one year to 105 counties in Kansas. These collections of books are sent to small communities which have no library facilities.
Packaged library service is another function of the extension. As
The University extension supplies at least 1,800 lecture, concert, and entertainment programs annually. This service is available to all, on request.
During World War II, the University extension helped 700 former students to continue their education while in the armed forces. The extension courses went 'to Burma, the Philippines, North Africa, Australia, and to every corner of the globe where a Jayhawker was located.
The correspondence courses of the extension are perhaps one of the most valuable of available services. Through this aid, many thousands have completed graduation requirements, or continued their higher education.
—Alan J. Stewart
From the beginning in 1891 until now, the University extension has grown from a small lecture bureau serving Kansas, to an expanded program which is being used in 44 states and by more than 1,000,000 people.
Now that Pittsburgh's smoky air is to be cleared, what site will be dubbed the "Smoky City"? Lake Success, where all the fireworks and bombshells explode regularly, would be the logical choice.
$8 Pays Way To Meeting
Ned Linegar, executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A., lists three ways University students can attend the North American Student Conference on Christian Frontiers, Dec. 27 to Jan. 1.
The conference will meet at the University, and more than 2500 students from all over Canada and the United States are expected to attend. Mr. Linegar said.
Mr. Linegar said, "Students living in Lawrence may attend by paying a fee of $8. The University may send as many delegates as it wants this way."
He explained that some part-time workers will be needed at the conference. They will not have to pay any fee, but will receive no pay for their work. Persons wishing to work may call Mrs. Alfred at Henley house
"Anyone that is in Lawrence and wishes to come to the morning or evening sessions is welcome.
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