UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
JANUARY 13, 1947
Kansan Comments.
Boos Are Rude
Before the announcer had finished speaking about the athletic department's campaign against booing, some spectators at the Missouri game last week renewed their raucous boos. This seems to us an example of the very thing campaigners are fighting.
Booing might help show the inadequacy of an official by proving that most fans frequently saw a play differently from the way the referee saw it. But since mob psychology operates here, it is doubtful that the majority really knows what happened—they just join in whenever someone starts a boo.
Persons who want the respect of their fellows no longer whip out a six-gun when someone beats them at poker. They don't take the pleasures of life seriously enough to stump and scream when the wafter says their favorite pie is all gone. So why should they find it necessary to boo at basketball games? —A.B.
Officials are appointed by the Big Six commissioner from a list approved by coaches concerned, and the job they do is probably as good and fair as could be had. Their possible errors are no excuse for rudeness.
Fair Sex
It may not be a woman's world, but at least the fair sex is making fame and name for itself in the post war era.
For one thing, there is the revival of electing the debutante of the season, plus the fabulous parties of pre-war days. Alongside this news we find that a French ex-bearded lady has cut her throat while shaving, and two very pretty female bookies have just been arrested in New York in spite of their hideout behind a roomful of rabbits.
G. I. wives at Yale have been attending classes for their husbands and taking the lectures verbatim in shorthand, to the ire of professors and less-fortunate unmarried classmates.
Seven, Congresswomen and 178 women members of state legislatures are taking their positions on the country's political front. From some of their statements regarding labor, housing and other important questions, it sounds as if their male colleagues may meet some stubborn opposition.
Dr. Magdalene E. Kramer, Columbia University professor, told the Speech Association of America that women don't know how to talk. But George Burns observes to Gracie Allen that soon someone will be suggesting that fish don't know how to swim.
Anyway the girls are off to a fine start. It may be an interesting year, men.-A. B.
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'Classics' Are Good
I noted in the December 20 issue of the Daily Kansan a rather juvenile letter deprecating the classic repertoire of KFKU. The letter stated that this type of music appealed only to the faculty or "a few influential long hairs." I am neither a faculty member nor an "influential long hair." I am simply a lover of good music.
I do not believe that KFKU presented a program which appealed to lovers of all types of music. "Connoisseur's Corner" presented the very best in music plus sparkling commentaries by a most able master of ceremonies. It is much to my regret that this program is no longer heard.
Popular music is judged by its ability to live and to stand the tests of time. There must be some reason for these so-called "classic" remaining popular. It is because there is a continual demand for them. If these works were appreciated only by a few, they would have been forgotten long ago and never have attained their pinnacle in the music world. I'm not alone in my love of good music.
I am hoping that the new year will see a return of "Connoisseur's Corner," one of the most delightful programs I have ever heard on any radio station.
Music lover College freshman
Excess Profits
The K.U. chapter of American Veterans committee appointed a committee to investigate the numerous complaints of students about the high prices, small quantities, and poor quality of the food served at the Union cafeterias. Our purpose is not merely to criticize the Union operating committee, but to offer our findings and suggestions on this matter in a cooperative and constructive vein so that those who eat at the Union will benefit from them
There seems to be considerable evidence to support the contentions that the food service could be greatly improved. Over 186,000 meals were served during the month of November, and the profit made on many items appears to be grossly excessive; yet the cafeterias are supposed to be run (and this was confirmed by the chairman of the operating committee, Prof. Ogden Jones) on a non-profit basis, in the institutional sense.
Comparisons made between the K.U. cafeterias and several private and public ones clearly indicate that the complaints are justified. For example, privately owned cafes near the campus, having a comparatively small turnover, sell identical items at a lower price, and still make a handsome profit.
If the Union cafeterias are operated on a non-profit basis, criticisms could be met by publishing a monthly financial statement in the Daily Kansan. However, when this was suggested to Professor Jones, he said, and we quote "... . . if the figures were published, people might misinterpret them."
Since the Union is supported by the students, and is supposed to be run for them, they are entitled to know exactly how much money the Union receives, and for what purpose, and in what manner it is expended.
For K.U. chapter, AVC Kenneth E. Runyon
College students still are having trouble with the clothing shortage. A University of Illinois official has requested that parents pass on outgrown diapers to classmates whose babies don't own enough to keep themselves continually clad.
Jaytalking---
It could be that the ever-popular South American rhythms have developed because the little Latin child has to count "Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, uno, dos, tres, cuatro" instead of "one, two, three, four" in his music lessons.
Is It Safe To Give Up The Pilot Now?
Authorities Claim Only 29 British War Brides Have Been Stranded At The Landing Dock
Daniel Bishop in St. Louis Star-Times
The British papers who called them "brides of despair," were not completely informed, said some.
"As far as I'm concerned," she said, those stories in the Daily Mail and other British papers simply
One was Auburn-haired Kathleen Wood, 22, of Winchester, England, pretty enough to be a model, who was quoted in the London Daily Mail.
New York (UP)—Of the 42,000 British war brides who have arrived to join their husbands in the United States, only 29 were left stranded in New York by husbands who changed their minds, authorities said today.
Lockhart's safety device ends a railroader's greatest peril and may save many lives. It has aroused widespread interest among railroad officials.
New Invention Aids Railroaders
The trouble with the bitter British brides, said the people who know, is that they talk too much. Loud, too. Makes you think there are thousands of them.
But it isn't so, said the brides, the husbands and the Red Cross, which take care of the girls who need a round trip ticket for their matrimonial journey.
Cleveland. (UP)—An automaticpipe connector that will eliminate the need for a railroad man to crawl between cars and connect air and steam pipes has been invented by Charles Lockhart, 75 - year - old Cleveland inventor.
The automatic-pipe connector will hook-up all steam and air pipes on the train when the engineer simply pushes a button in the locomotive cab.
Lockhart, an authority on locomotives and air brakes, has been in railroading since 1895.
Nearly 1,500,000 In Y.M.
Chicago. (UP)—Total membership in the Young Men's Christian association has reached 1,411,341, an increase of nearly nine per cent over the last recorded total, General Secretary Frank A. Hathaway reported.
Mrs. Wood who has been in the United States seven months said that the Red Cross paid four dollars a day for her double-room, and that they also gave her $37 a week for food.
Mrs. Wood explained that she was marking time until her husband obtained a divorce. She expects to receive a lump sum settlement, and her lawyer advised her not to leave the country until the money was paid.
"I have written my husband many times," she explained, "but he won't reply. He told the Red Cross he didn't want me or the children."
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