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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 9,1946
Kansan Comments...
Quiz Files
Overheard in the Union fountain: "Well, we're ready for finals now; finally got the quiz files straightened out and brought up to date."
Now you may think righteously,
"What a bunch of cheating lazy people there must be in his (or her) house." But they're not cheaters; they've just learned how to get along in the world. And if you don't follow their example, you're not getting all you should from college life.
But you probably think there's nothing wrong in asking the student next to you, "What kind of tests does he give?" Certainly you'd not trown on someone who looks over the semester quizzes to get an idea of what kind of test the final will be.
Maybe you don't believe in quiz files; possibly you were in on the destruction of the quiz files in some of the University dormitories last year.
When you get out in the cold, cold world, you'll not think there's anything wrong with sizing up your boss's likes and dislikes or your customer's preferences if you're in business for yourself. Why, then, should you frown on anyone's trying to "figure out" a person now?
Crib notes and copying from someone else during tests don't fall in the same category. That's sheer laziness, dependence on others. But striving to find the best, most efficient way to prepare for a test is not only sensible but it's good training. What less can a University offer?
Just One Now
Some time ago, the Daily Kansan carried a news story relating future plans for six University dormitories for women on North College hill.
An impression that definite plans are being drafted for all six buildings might have been obtained from the story. At the present,plans for only one building are being drawn—the others are still in the crystal ball stage.
Prof. George M. Beal, director of the building program, and his aides are to be complimented for their long-distant planning, and we thank Professor Beal for calling our attention to a possibly misleading news story.
Christmas Gifts
Remember that French family who was so nice to you when you were overseas or that Italian student your best boy friend wrote you about?
Chances are they'll be hungry this Christmas. So will a lot of other people in other parts of Europe. But they don't have to go hungry if you don't want them to be.
You can go over to Dean Werner's office, drop a ten-spot on his desk and tell him, "Send one of those Christmas baskets to someone in Europe for me." Then you can name someone, or tell him to designate someone over there. That's all you have to do.
The money will be wired overseas, a Christmas basket (10-in-1 rations to you ex-G.I.'s) will be taken out of a stockpile and delivered to the person you want to help. Your gift won't cut them out of the meager rations they now receive and you can have the feeling of having done something in the true spirit of Christmas—giving without thought of material reward.
Jaytalking
When young Jimmy Forbes (he won Most Bashful baby prize Thursday) goes walking with his parents, do people say, "Watch the Forbes go by?"
University students aren't as lucky as Denver students who are getting their lessons by radio because furnaces in their schools can't get enough coal. The K.U. power plant is run by natural gas.
The V.A. has ruled it now will pay for only the typing on a thesis instead of typing, illustrating, binding and microfilming. Not many complaints from veterans are expected.
Forty Colorado miners have returned to work in defiance of union orders. This undoubtedly will be hailed as another evidence of the rugged individualism of the West.
An attempt is being made to organize a Quail and Ale club. Next will be the Deer and Beer club, the Swine and Wine club and the Fin and--you get the idea.
Debate topic: "Resolved, labor should have a direct voice in the management of industry." Isn't the indirect voice strong enough?
Questions submitted to the Kansas Pharmaceutical association by students in the School of Pharmacy were answered Thursday evening at the monthly meeting of the American Pharmaceutical association.
Several officers of K.P.A. and the state board of pharmacy were present and helped answer the questions concerning pharmacy in Kansas. Among the officers of the K.P.A. were Eugene B. Cook, president; Mrs. Clara B. Miller, secretary; and Rov Jaquith, treasurer.
Pharmacy Questions Answered At Meeting
A dinner was given in the English room of the Union building before the meeting for out-of-town guests and faculty members present. About 90 people attended the affair.
Naval Instructors Fly To Great Lakes Station
Flying both ways, a party of naval science instructors including Capt. J. V. Peterson, Lt. Comdr. R. S. Bradley, and Lt. Robert Ricks recently made a two-day official visit to the Great Lakes Naval Training station. Illinois.
Letters to the Editor
Piloted by Lt. Ricks, the group left the Naval Training station, Olahe, Kan., Thursday and returned here Saturday.
Once a gold rush city of 30,000, Virginia City, Nevada, has dwindled to fewer than 500.
The Officer Answers
Who would like the job?
I am the traffic officer called Dick Tracy by some, and by others names I cannot use here. My job is a thankless one at best, and after reading pot shots people take at me from time to time in your paper, I am moved to answer one.
The latest dig I received in the Daily Kansan is almost too much, so I protest. If Mr. College Senior, as he signed himself, would take his pen in hand and try to get the students of this University to obey traffic signals and walk with traffic only, then no one will get hurt.
I am sorry to say it seems that it will take a broken leg or maybe two to teach people who step off the curb without looking to see if the officer is working traffic the same way they want to go.
People must, it seems, learn the hard way. As it is my job to see that they learn, then that what I am doing—teaching them the hard wav. Practicing penmanship is what he calls it, but they do learn when the judge dips into their pocketbook for a few bucks.
Incidentally, the motorcycle and police car used here are mine, and I only rent them to the state, so you see I don't have such a soft spot after all.
Because I have always considered the press as a worthy institution free to give constructive criticism to, but never to ridicule, our government and its leaders, I have stopped reading the Chicago Tribune.
Fellows and gals, give me a chance to do my job and I'll do my best to get you to class without someone volunteering a leg or arm. Just stop on the curb and I'll get you across without using up those few minutes you have left before class time. How about it?
The University Daily Kansar
Chester Foster Traffic Officer
Now I fear I must cease to read
Lost: One Reader
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the Daily Kansan. For the Daily Kansan is ridiculizing, instead of constructively criticizing, our government and its leaders.
I refer specifically to a small column in a recent Daily Kansan which said, in effect, that President Truman took an airplane ride home to Missouri to visit his mother; while the taxpayers paid for the trip.
Now I suppose the Daily Kansan believes that our very hard-working, honest, sincere president should not be allowed a trip home every once in a while. And I suppose, too, that the Daily Kansan does not know that the American people, through their elected representatives in congress, provide President Truman with a travel allowance to be used as he sees fit. Is our president to be ridiculed every single time he flies 'home to Missouri'? I believe not.
And when the governor of Oklahoma is referred to as a cur in the Daily Kansan, surely the standard of K.U.'s newspaper has fallen very, very low. Freedom of the press is wonderful; but just how far does that freedom go?
Ted Utschen College freshman
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