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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 17,1947
The Great Decision
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
Kansan Comments.
Painting Jimmy
The recent painting of the "Uncle Jimmy" Green statue which was characterized by Dean Henry Werner as "kid stuff" probably would have been dubbed the same thing by Uncle Jimmy, himself.
But with fewer misgivings.
The "Prince of Sports," as Dean James Woods Green was known to K.U. students at the turn of the century, was "the living embodiment of school spirit at all athletic rallies" according to alumni old enough to know.
Not only, it seems, did Uncle Jimmy never miss a game or a rally, but he could always be reached for a highly quotable "prophecy" on the outcome of major football contests with Missouri and Nebraska. He even gave annual banquets for football players.
The story is told that in 1892 while the K.U. team was en route to Lincoln for a game, Uncle Jimmy spent the entire trip massaging the injured ankle of the Jayhawker fullback. Records show that he frequently went to other out-of-town games as well as to all the home games. He always had a reserved seat somewhere near the 50-yard line.
The statue was unveiled in 1924 and was the work of sculptor Daniel Chester French. The student alongside Uncle Jimmy was once scheduled by the memorial committee to wear a sweater without a jacket, a "K" high in the center of his chest, and golf socks.
Since becoming a permanent fixture on the campus, Uncle Jimmy and his student-friend have survived the ravages of paint, snow, paint, hail, paint, rain, and paint.
"Uncle Jimmy was the friend of the student from first to last," an alumnus once said of him. More than once the venerable dean saved a student from the disgrace of expulsion for such things as "gambling
and lesser offenses."
The man who teft his name with the K.U. School of Law often chafed and fretted because he thought "the old time pep is leaving the institution." If it was, the fault did not lie with Uncle Jimmy. He spoke one night to a group of freshman law students on the subject, "Beware of the Freshman Girls."
We, like Dean Werner, feel that vandalism is "kid stuff," but we also wonder if Uncle Jimmy wouldn't have ventured a sly wink and grinned to himself had he seen his bronze likeness fairly dripping with some of that "old time pep."
—Contributed by William Smith
Trash Collection
Why not trash cans?
So one worker dedicates his life to going around with a stick spiking up little bits of trash. He can never hope to have the grounds clean because as fast as he clears up one spot another is junky.
About the only place students have to dispose of candy wrappers, tissue handkerchiefs, and flunked quizzes, is on the campus. And that means all over the campus. There aren't even many public waste baskets in the buildings.
A few bright containers adorned with Jayhawks would not detract from campus beauty; and they might make a less-cluttered look at the base of the shrubbery.
The Kansas senate has passed the bill requiring a three-day wait on marriages, which the house of representatives already has approved. Apparently the feeling is nuptial.
There is only a little more than one ounce of calcium in 20 gallons of sea water, but out of this low concentration shellfish build their shells.
Co-op Tax Misleads
Dear Editor---against it. Then if some other member of the family enters with a healthy push, the man of the house gets a lump on the back of his head and loses a full inch of epidermis.
The pending legislation in the Kansas senate is designed to undermine and eventually destroy the system of co-operative. Taxation is a minor item camouflaging the attempt to impose organically injurious restrictions on co-ops.
The Kansas legislative report on co-operatives states that there is a very definite possibility that the state of Kansas actually is receiving more income when the liability is on the patron than if the liability were on the co-operative corporation.
The key to an understanding of the set-up of co-operatives is found in the basic principles:
ONE, Open membership.
TWO. One member, one vote.
THREE. Patronage dividends on purchases.
By a ruling of the Bureau of Internal Revenue all patronage refunds are considered taxable to the patron, regardless of whether these refunds are in cash, shares of stock, notes, or other similar instruments. The fact that co-operatives are owned and controlled by the people invalidates and makes ridiculous all charges of monopoly.
Wesley Elliott College Senior
Face the facts. It is the atavistic spirit of avarice that motivates the attacks on co-operatives. If the coops have an advantage over private business it is not due to tax exemption, but that by their very nature they offer an economic advantage to the "little guy."
The Kansas legislature has introduced a bill to tax 6.4 cents a gallon on soft drinks. With the beer tax and the no-liquor-stamp law, farmers soon won't have any more trouble getting rain than any other liquid.
It May Not Be Any Country Club, But Sunflower Is An Education
Do you ever wonder how the other half lives?
By PHYLLIS HODGKINS
The other 600, actually. We mean the married veteran students living at Sunflower Village.
It's no country club, but it's not bad. First there is the problem of space. You are relegated to a two, three, or four room apartment depending on the size of your family. If you're a couple, you get two rooms—not soo small, although navy vets claim there is more room in a submarine. The only method by which you can be promoted to three rooms is by adding a number to the population figures. Since there is a biological factor of some months here, most couples remain resigned to two rooms. However, once you got started there is no limit to the possibilities. "A room for every kid" is the Sunflower motto.
Next comes the stove—a large coal space heater which plants itself firmly in the center of the bedroom—or living room, providing you saw far enough in advance to produce the first child and thus acquire a living room.
Many colorful names have been applied by various veterans to the stove, but the most descriptive is simply "Monster." Monster is a baffling creature. You never can be sure how he will behave. Sometimes he is most cooperative, rumbling and almost purring with pleasure when you pile coal in him. At other times he burps, hiccups, and when he is extremely annoyed, sneezes with a poof that sends soot billowings out his top.
He has moods which simply cannot be explained. Possibly it's a psychological reaction. Monster was built to heat a barracks area for 16 men, and it must be humiliating for him to be called upon to heat an apartment for two persons.
The icebox is commonly called Irving (why, no one knows). Irving is a pleasant piece of furniture but he is perverse about one thing; he lets his pan run over when you forget to empty it. Then you come home from a 4 p.m. class to find a flood flavored with butter, onions, or cheese sloshing over the floor.
As far as we know, Monster and Irving have caused no veteran casualties. Less can be said for shaving. The mirror in the bathroom hangs directly opposite the door. To shave, therefore, you must close the door and stand with your back
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The main problem is transportation. The buses run, of course; but it's better to know a friend who knows a friend who has a car. The veterans have it easier than their wives; they can always stand out on the highway looking wistful. If you have library work to do, and if you're not a genius who can finish four hours' work in two, you bring both lunch and dinner and pray you won't miss the last bus.
But seriously, and best of all, you learn what it means to get a college education. If you don't know after enduring all this, you've been wasting your time, brother!
All in all, it's not a bad life. If you do nothing else, you develop character. You learn restraint—eventually you exhaust your vocabulary with Monster. You learn perseverance with Irving. You learn caution in shaving.
Bomb Is No Secret KU Professor Thinks
The scientists agreed that we cannot hope to keep the secret more than five years. They termed secrecy an "ostrich" defense.
We have no defense and no secrets. These are the problems of the atomic bomb, three professors decided at a roundtable discussion over KFKU Thursday night.
The participants were Dr. David Hume, assistant chemistry professor; Dr. Frank Hoecker, associate physics professor, and Dr. Ethan Allen, chairman of the political science department.
"There is no defense that we know anything about, and one bomb is effective." Dr. Hoecker said.
Dr. Hume said, "All detection and deflection devices are wishful thinking."
Dr. Hoecker, who was at Bikini, and Dr. Hume, at the Oak Ridge project, described the basic principles and the effects of the bomb.
Dr. Allen stressed the great responsibilities that citizens should feel toward the bomb. The group will continue discussions of the problem next Thursday.
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