C PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS NOVEMBER 15,1946 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 Editorial Board 20 Mad- dale Avenue, 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, University holidays, and exams. Mail to: Lawrence Post Office, matter Sept. 17, 1910; at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Bill Hage Asst. Managing Editor Charles Roos Makeup Editor Michael Cohen Asst. Editor Billie Marie Hamilton City Editor Marcella Stewart Asst. City Editor Marian Minor Sports Editors John Riess Sports Editors Nancy Jack Men's Intramusls William Conboy Asst. Telegraph Editors, Edward Swain, Edward Swain Society Editor ... Alverna Niedens Staff Artist ... Richard Bibler Staff Photographers, Robert Line, James Mason EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief...James Gunn Editorial Assoc...Alamada Bollier BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... Mel Adams Advertising Manager ... Ruth Clayton Assst. Adv. Manager .. Helen Steinkirchner National Adm. Manager .. Louise Schiesser Classification Manager ... Bob Bonebrake Civilization Manager ... John Beach Ascst. Circ. Mgr. Just Musin' No one has yet mentioned the classic occurrence of the football season—Ray Evans coming out to flip the coin at the beginning of Oklahoma A. and M. game and a few minutes later running to the Kansas side of the field to face the entire A. and M. eleven alone. The whole standy rose and cheered for the Jayhawker captain who was to make both touchdowns in the upset that put down the Aggies 14 to 13. *** Sally Rand's recent appearance in a Los Angeles court climaxes a series of court presentations over the years that have finally admittedly become command performances. ** With most controls off, prices are beginning to fluctuate like the thermometer, hesitating between the still little-diminished demand and little-increased supply and the buyer's hunch that prices are going down soon. The situation has as its theme song the recent hit: "It's Going to Depend on the Way that the Wind Blows Tonight." --- And another amusing bit that may have passed unnoticed—after the Daily Kansan review of the play "Beggar on Horseback," which wished that the lead, Charles Mc-Arthur, were played by Cary Grant, McArthur came into the first scene with the exclamation: "Who did you expect—Gary Grant?" Twenty years ago-Three thousand students dressed in cast-off trousers, orange and purple bloomers, and other miscellany for their annual hobo day. A convocation feature was the Charleston dance. The log shelterts constructed at bus stops along Jayhawk drive remind old timers of stone shelters on Missi sippi street behind Green hall and in back of Fowler shops in the days when trolley cars made the trip up the hill every 15 minutes. The next day Missouri defeated Kansas 15-0, and University officials thought it "the height of optimism" that after all this students wanted to go home a day early for Thanksgiving. (From the Daily Kansan files.) Indians Now Permit Divorce (Editor's note--Dina Daruvalla, KU, student from India, wrote this article on the divorce situation in her community at our request. You will find it below as Dina wrote it, unchanged. Although Dina studied the English language in her Indian schools, she spoke it very little until she came to the United States recently. We think you will agree with us that she has an amazing command of the American idiom.) The Parsees are the smallest minority community in India. They are about 100,000, and most of them live in the city of Bombay. They are of Persian decent and are the followers of the great Persian prophet and philosopher. Zoroaster. August, 1938, was an epoch-making date in their history, for a guy named Tefina introduced the Divorce Bill. Before that time divorce was practically taboo, it was spoken of in hushed undertones, and even the boldest trembled at the very idea of it. There was a terrible hue and cry raised against this measure by the Panchayat, i. e. the council of elders, who are intrusted with the welfare of the community. They have great power and influence but for once this bunch of Methuselahs, who are opposed to any kind of change and are immensely distrustful and jealous of the younger generation, whom they call decadent and degenerate, were not successful. Before 1938 one came across the word "divorce" only in American movie magazines. Lafaïrice de cour of Charles Chaplin and others was perused with great interest, and everybody longed to be in the land of liberty, where you could change your better half as you do clothes. But we can have the same variety in marriage now, and I no longer envy Chaplin and Henry VIII of England, who had seven wives. As soon as the above mentioned bill was passed there were about 80 divorces, and there are about 10 to 20 of them every year. This is quite a big proportion compared to our population. If you want separation from your husband you can give one of these reasons: incompatability, mental cruelty, drunkenness, etc., but it's not quite so easy as in America, where you can get rid of your man by saying that you don't like his green shirt or his snoring. There are a few similarities between the Americans and the Parsees. Our language is streamlined and liberally sprinkled with slang like yours. We are loquacious, friendly, and believe in the Epicurean philosophy of life. We are terribly fond of movies and ice cream like you, and lastly we both care a twopence for "what God has joined together let no man put asunder." Indianapolis. (UP) — The meat supply here was not helped any when $10,000 worth of meat went up in flames at a packing plant. In addition, 320 lockers of meat were destroyed by a fire in New Richmond. Phillips, Me. (UP)—Curtis Lawrence has caught 17 bears in his traps in the past 10 months. One weighed over 400 pounds. Good Bear Hunting Fire Devours Meat COURT HOUSE LUNCH Meals - Short Orders Sandwiches Open 5:30-12:30 DRAKE'S FOR DELICIOUS BAKES 907 Mass. Phone 61 A new constitution for the I. S. A. will be discussed at a meeting in Dean Werner's office at 4 p.m. today. New Constitution Discussed For ISA Lorraine Carpenter, I. S. A. president, said the new document was necessary because of the consolidation of all independent student groups into the I. S. A. last spring. The new constitution will substantially follow the old one, but the method of representation may be changed from delegates by classes to delegates from precincts. A mass meeting of all independent students is being planned Nov. 25 to ratify it. Dog Can't Forget Combat Lessons Sulphur, Okla. (UP)—Human beings are not alone in their ability to forget the war and their wartime alertness. A Dobermann pinsher dog which served with the marine corps has been out of service two years but he still walks on the gunside of his master and he still scrapes the ground on his stomach when someone yells "Down." The dog known as "Tom" has a purple heart for a gun wound. He was wounded with the marines when they landed at Guadalcanal in 1942. When Tom was a young dog, his master volunteered him for military duty. He served two and a half years. When he left the service, he had to be taught to forget what he was trained to do—be suspicious of everyone, stalk Japs and protect "one man." But Tom learned his military needs so well it has been tough for him to forget. He has "war nerves". He quivers when he hears gunfire or thunder. The dog's citation says he was wounded in the line of duty in August, 1942 and that he spotted enemy planes before troops some times; that he was on almost constant guard duty, and that as a patrol scout he often routed Japs from foxholes. When his master is around, Tom is seemingly gentle and can be pitted. But he never shuts his eyes when a stranger strokes him. He is tense when he sees strangers approach and seems to prefer persons with gentle voices—women, that is. Police Act As Alarm Clock Redlands, Cal. (UP)—Police here are doubling for an alarm clock on the request of a mother who asked that they get her son out of bed in the morning in time for school. She complained that her boy didn't want to go to work nor to school. His main occupation, she said, was sleeping. RANKIN Drug Store 1101 MASS. 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