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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 19,1946
The University Daily Kansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Avon Ave., New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add 1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. Subscription permission entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Charles Roos
Asst. Managing Ed.. Jane Anderson
Biller Education ... Billie Biller
Telegraph Editor .. Edward W. Swain
Asst. Telegraph Ed.. Marcela Stewart
City Editor .. R. T. Kingman
Reverend Minnies
Sports Editor .. John Finch
Men's Intramurals .. William Coboy
Women's Sports .. William Coboy
Elinor Browne
Staff Artist .. Richard Bibler
Staff Photographers, Robert Line, James
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Bill Haage
BUSINESS STAFF
Bill Donovan ... Business Manager
Margery Handy ... Advertising Manager
Helen Steinkirchner ... Asst. Adv. Mgr.
Bryce Lyon ... Mgr.
Rene Jeeves ... Classified Adv. Mgr.
John McCormick ... Circulation Mgr.
John Beach ... Promotion Mgr.
Just one game away from a tie for the Big Six title!
Unbelievable
Had anyone suggested last year that the Kansas Jayhawkers would be in this kind of position, he would have been laughed out of the bull session. Now the laugh's heard again, but it's a jubilant laugh from Kansas fans.
That a winning football team is good advertising for a university and a good morale-builder for students, no one will deny.
Regardless of whether the Kansas eleven wins at Columbia Thanksgiving day (we think they will), Coach George Sauer and his 40-odd football players deserve a lot of thanks for restoring Kansas to its imposing pre-depression stature as a university that's good both scholastically and athletically.
John L. Lewis is riding for a fall. Tomorrow his United Mine Workers are to lay off work unless the government which now is operating the coal mines agrees to Mr. Lewis's new demands.
Humpty-Dump?
Whether Mr. Lewis and his miners have any legitimate complaints against working conditions and pay is beside the point. The point is that six months ago the U.M.W. agreed not to strike for new demands as long as the government controlled the mines.
John L. and his boys haven't caused the nation any trouble for some time now, and they seem to be ready to get into another argument.
Add another K-State privilege. Aggie students will start their Thanksgiving vacations a half-day earlier than the Jayhawkers. Consequently, they will be able to meet trains and get home in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
There's an old Chinese proverb that "the who strikes the first blow has lost the argument." Strikes definitely are a blow, and it looks as if Mr. Lewis will lose not only the argument but also his battle.
A feminine columnist of the "Chicago Tribune" warns that the way clothes look depends on the foundation over which each garment is worn. The ladies say that this is "old stuff."
Letters to Editor
--and for a Carefree Thanksgiving Vacation.
To The Daily Kansan: The idea seems fairly prevalent among KU.'s veterans and the veterans' organization that their gold button of discharge is a one-way ticket to a life time handout, as evidenced by the Kansan's article of Nov. 15th. This article in question is the culmination of a series of interviews and opinions that have appeared in the Kansan ever since early this year.
The K.U. veteran seems to have forgotten, or chooses to ignore, that he can work to augment his government subsistence money. He seems to have allowed himself, because of the lavish program of veterans aid, to become bait for the disgrace of World War I veterans, the "bonus army."
I admit that some are kept from working by family ties, physical reasons, or a bevy of other circumstances. However, the veteran not handicapped by such things should, before raising his cry of "gimme," look around him at his fellow students who are not subsidized by $65 or $90 a month; his fellow students who want an education so badly that they devote as much as five or six hours a day to outside work in order to augment a small donation from home, or to completely support their school life.
Being one of those forced by circumstances to work his way through school, I have no sympathy for "whiner" or "gimme boy" hoping to capitalize on his army discharge.
It's time the American veteran grows up and learns, again, to stand on his own feet.
A 19-Year-Old Non-Veteran
To the Daily Kansan: Rumors in musical circles had it as early as last Wednesday that the new Varsity dance manager to replace Larry McSpadden has already been chosen but that his name will not be formally announced until after the Tuesday meeting of the A.S.C. social committee.
If those rumors are based on fact, it will be nothing new to campus politics. Glance around you to some of the "big men (or women) on the campus." How many of them got their positions not because of what they know but who they know?
Is the position of Varsity dance manager going to be filled in the same manner? Will the "darling" of some special group with lots of "pull" be appointed to this important job. Or is there a chance for an unprejudiced member of the student body to be appointed? Let's bring this appointment out in the open and keep it on the up and up.
Not a B.M. (or W.) O.C.
Jaytalking---
An Indiana judge last week sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing a church choir soprano. Had the woman sung like some of the sopranos we know, the judge would have quashed the case.
KU. may not be the "Country Club of the Midwest," but it sounds suspicious that Kansas State had to come here to get a band to play at its own Homecoming dance.
Humphrey Bogart should sue. At the same time he was playing in "The Big Sleep" at one theater, down the street another theater was advertising Bugs Bunny in "The Big Snooze."
Medical science must be wonderful. Of the three football players reported on the K.U. sick list every week, two usually start on Saturday and the third often scores.
The Veterans' Administration in Washington reports that fewer veterans are applying for membership in the 52-20 club. If the situation on government checks is comparable to that here, it may be assumed those not making applications have starved.
All At Once,'Firemen' Had No Fire Truck
No Buckets, No Extinguishers
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When they arrived they discovered they had no gasoline with which to run the pump motor. Half the crew went in search of gasoline and the remaining "firemen" started to fight the blaze with extinguishers. The extinguishers were out of chemicals.
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The Kansas State "Skonk the Jayhawk" campaign, which filled the campus sky last week, was converted by Kansas into Chanel No. 5.
The end of a K.U. student's prayer—and please let the guy sitting in front of me have the right answers in our next zoology quiz."
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