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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SEPTEMBER 23,1946
University DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave, New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawn addition $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawn Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawn, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
The Coming Line
Contending crowders shout the frequent damn,
And all is bustle, squeeze, row, jabbering and jam.
James Smith "The Theatre."
Look behind you, brother! Is that a line you see? Be glad that there are so many who aren't in front of you!
This year will be unusual in many ways: the largest enrollment, the biggest classes, the best gate receipts. But the unusual will soon become the usual and the usual will be the long wait for little.
Sold out! will soon became the cry. Students will see only half the home basketball games in an arrangement that will enable 4300-seat Hoch auditorium to house part, at least, of the 8000 students expected.
Students, who huddled lonely but comfortably on the west side of the almost deserted stadium for many years, will watch their football games this season from the sunny side as sport editors predict that Memorial stadium, the largest in the Big Six conference, will have capacity crowds.
Efforts have been made to meet the situation. The University administration has faced problem after problem: housing, eating facilities, classes, teaching staffs. The housing problem is on the way to being solved—with inevitable inconveniences.
The Memorial Union cafeteria has enlarged its facilities in an effort to supply the students with reasonably priced meals, converting the ball room into an auxiliary cafeteria capable of seating 500. It plans to serve, when fully under way, 21 meals a week, including 4000 noon meals a day.
The Watkins Memorial hospital has a staff of six doctors, one less than before the war. The student body, only half as numerous as pre-war years, filled one-third of the available hospital beds on the average and reached a maximum of two-thirds. An epidemic this year would probably strain the facilities of the hospital to the breaking point.
There may well be a tendency to let down as soon as the present semester gets into full swing. Such things as sanitary standards and university services may well drop to new lows in the bustle and the jam. It is up to the University administration to see that that does not happen.
Eight thousand students have come to this University expecting to receive an education unmarried by hurry and overcrowding and at the same time participate fully in those extracurricular activities that fill in and round out as well as add pleasure to college education. As long as time, energy, and financial resources last nothing should be left undone to make that experience as full as it is possible to make it.
It should not be the students who are made to suffer for the unprecedented crowds at educational institutions. They have paid the price of admission—many of them in more ways than one—let the program be as good as possible!
This year should not be summed up: Never have so many waited so long for so little!
Give 'Jobs With Future' To Vets, General Asks
Chicago. " (UP)—The nation's employers have a "moral obligation" not only to rehire veterans, but to place them in jobs with a future, Maj. Gen. G. B. Erskine said today.
Erskine, head of the Retraining and Reemployment administration, told industry representatives at the international personnel conference of the National Association of Personnel Directors that their responsibilities did not end with taking a veteran back at his old job.
General Erskine demanded that employers take steps—over and above those required by law—to place veterans in suitable jobs.
He listed six specific ways in which management and labor could aid veterans in finding new employment:
ONE. Employers should establish in-plant training programs to help veterans assume the competitive level of workers who received promotions while they were in service.
TWO. Veterans should be allowed senority and other credit for time spent in service and in hospitalization or vocational training necessitated by service-connected disabilities.
THREE. Employers should grant leaves of absence for veterans wishing to take advantage of educational or vocational benefits of the G.J. bill.
FOUR. Veterans should be given preference for job openings with regard to collective bargaining agreements.
FIVE. Newly-hired veterans who have served a probationary period should be allowed seniority credit for service time, at least for the purposes of job retention.
SIX. Training received by veterans in military service should be accredited toward shortening their time as apprentices.
"Our economy must include a place for physically handicapped workers," General Erskine said. "We must not allow them to be relegated to 'standing room only' at our economic arena."
General Erskine estimated that there were 250,000 disabled veterans ready and able to go to work but that two out of every three who applied for jobs with the U.S. employment service were not placed.
The general cited the lack of suitable and uniform second injury fund legislation as one of the major obstacles blocking employment of disabled workers. He said many employers were reluctant to hire handicapped persons because they did not wish to be liable for permanent total incapacity incurred by an employee who previously had been partially disabled and thus was not covered by workmen's compensation laws.
Negro Actor Dons White Paint, Plays Role 'Because He Fits'
Boston. (UP)—Negro actor Canada Lee will put on white makeup here tonight in probably the first attempt of a Negro to portray a white character on the American stage.
The precedent will be set in the play, "The Duchess of Malfi," starring Miss Elisabeth Bergner at the Shubert theater. A spokesman for producer Paul Czinner said it had not been determined what type of paint and lotions would be used for Mr. Lee's transformation.
Mr. Czinner chose Mr. Lee for a part in the play when it became necessary to replace McKay Morris, a white actor who had been first choice for the role. It was said to be the first time in theatrical history a producer had selected the man he considered the best actor for a role regardless of color.
Music Hath Charms To Soothe The Savage Student's Breast
Austin, Tex. (UP)—A sound truck playing popular music entertained lines of registering students on the University of Texas campus.
The music was hit upon as a way to halt the restlessness that was developing over delays in registering that officials predict will be the largest enrollment in the university's 63 years.
The next few semesters seem destined to be open season on superlatives. Most overused, we predict, will be: biggest, largest, and best.
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