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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AARON
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 21, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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 examination periods. Subscription fee Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor  Patricia Penney
Asst. Managing Editor  Bill Haage
Makeup Editor  Charles Roos
Janitorial Editor  Jane Kroenig
City Editor  Marian Thomson
Sports Editor  Bill Sims
Society Editor  Martha Jewett
Asst. Itel-ipraphy editor
Billie M. Hainey Mullenberg
Asst. City Editors
Marcella Stewart Reverdy Mullins. Jr.
State Editor Alamada Bollier
Staff Artist Richard Bibier
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A Case Of Poor Reason
Last week the Topeka Daily Capital took occasion to criticize a group of K.U. students and a worthy University project.
We consider their remarks, as printed in an editorial May 14, to be surprising and disappointing. The editorial was not only erroneous in the facts it assumed but expressed an opinion that was narrow-minded and short-sighted.
On the evening of May 10 a group of 20 University women went to the Boys' Industrial school at Topeka to lend assistance in the school's rehabilitation program. The evening was devoted to entertainment for the boys at the school 15 years of age and older. The entire program had the complete sanction of the school authorities and the girls were accompanied by a University associate professor from the department of sociology. The project was planned to help restore confidence in those who are confined there and to combat the feeling that they are social outcasts, so they can take their places in society when they are released.
The Capital said that the girls "remained at the school from early morning until late at night." That was definitely not true.
The editorial went on to say that "there is cause for grave concern" over the project and "... If it is 'rehabilitation' to allow this at the Boys' Industrial school, it would be equally consistent to try 'rehabilitation' at the state reformatory at Hutchinson and at the state penitentiary at Lansing by staging similar dances—and few would approve of such programs."
This type of reasoning we believe to be completely erroneous. To compare the inmates of the Boys' Industrial school with the criminals confined in the state penitentiary is the height of illogic. The entire theory behind such an institution as the state industrial school is to rehabilitate young boys who have committed an offense against society, to teach them a trade, and to return them to society in a manner that they will become useful normal citizens.
A program of social entertainment we believe to be entirely within the limits of such rehabilitation efforts, as long as it is properly conducted.
The editorial in the Capital also said "... Some of the boys who are confined at the place will make good after they are released. But some of them will not, and they are not the type of individuals who can associate safely with decent girls from the University of Kansas or anywhere else."
Here the Capital seems to imply that the girls who went to the school were children. The facts are that their average age was 21 and they are all sociology students who were fully conscious of the nature of the project. They went to the school of their own volition with the sincere desire to in them and wants them to make a real success of their lives after they be of assistance by showing those confined there that society is interested leave the school.
The girls returned to Lawrence feeling that they had accomplished much good during the evening they spent there, only to have the Capital publish its sharp criticism.
The editorial said that if any more of these parties are held "the public will rightly rebel and demand an end to such spectacles." We sincerely hope that the public mind is not as narrow as that expressed in the Capital's editorial.
It is regrettable that the Capital with its wide circulation throughout Kansas should have circulated such an unwarranted criticism of members of the state university without checking on the facts and using at least a minimum amount of reason.
Rock Chalk Talk
Thanks, thanks a lot. The neat little sigus posted 'round the campus which say "Please—Please—PLEASE" (and mean keep off the grass) inspired some Joe with a college humor to attach a tin can beneath the one in front of the journalism Shack.
By JOAN HARRIS
Modest, too. A most appealing want ad in the past few issues of the Kansan was inserted by Bobby Ricks. It says, "Date for the big navy dance by campus" most eligible and available young bachelor. Must be crazy about aviators and drive a car and call 120."
Make up your mind. The most comfortable character at the UNO
conference in Hoch Saturday was Bob Bock, Delt, who sat with his shoes off through the entire procedure. That night he put them back on again and went over to the Sigma Kappa spring formal to dance for three hours with Eileen Deutchman.
Something fishy. To add that artistic touch to the Kappa formal Saturday, Nancy Hulings planned a big fishpond for the basement. All would have been fine if she hadn't gotten overly eager and put blueing in the water. The effect was artistic but killing.
Jobby Lobby (VIII):
'Art Students Needed In Every Business'
By MARJORIE WHITNEY
(Associate Professor of Design)
(Associate Professor of Design)
The prospect for positions for students who have trained themselves in any one of the many fields of art and occupational therapy is excellent. These fields of art include creative design, art teaching, advertising, ceramics and the many other allied fields.
The increase in demand for occupational therapists has come about because of the necessary establishment of occupational therapy departments in veteran hospitals and to the increased interest in the value of this treatment in general hospitals. A conservative estimate would be that the occupational therapy schools of present can fill only one tenth of the demand for girls in their profession.
Art teaching is also a profession in which the demand for teachers can not be filled. Not only are there many fine opportunities in this state but recently Detroit, Mich. asked if the University of Kansas could furnish them 30 art teachers. The same is true throughout the country. The demand can not be filled.
In the advertising profession a student has the opportunity of selecting work from a wide field including display work, fashion illustration, layout work, lettering, packaging, letterhead, poster, etc. Artists for these jobs are in constant demand in the large cities; opportunities are limited in small towns. The reconversion period has developed jobs in this field because of the increase in advertising new and revised products. Each manufacturer is attempting to present his product to the public in the finest form possible. This makes use of the artist in not only redesigning but in packaging, display and advertising.
For a similar reason the creative design field will also experience a definite "boom" that will reflect directly in the increased employment of creative designers. This is a tremendous field that covers manufactured articles from furniture to the printing of dress fabrics. A strong indication of the need for creative designers is indicated by the number of designs that are purchased from the students in the design department each year by prominent manufacturers and studios in New York and on the West Coast.
Every modern business demands the services of trained artists, and the demand increases yearly.
Phi Delta Kappa Initiates 24 Men
Phi Delta Kappa, national honorary education fraternity, held its annual spring initiation banquet in the Union on Friday. Twenty-four men were initiated into the organization during a ceremony preceding the dinner.
Letters to the Editor
The initiates are Henry Streater.
Robert Briggs, Joseph Clewinger,
Francis Allbaugh, Wayne Jones,
Harry Nelson, Charles Hansford,
William Russell, Floyd Hanson,
James Mizee, Ralph Dugan, Donald
Harder, and Donald Powell.
Irven Hayden, Jr., Stephen Stover, Horace Edmonds, Samuel Brick, James Tharp, Ernest Weaver, Marcus Hahn, James Hammer, William Atwell, William Howard, and Guss Grimm.
Officers for next year are Gordon Wiseman, president; William Fisher, vice-president; Joseph Holly, secretary-treasurer; and E. E. Bayles, education professor; sponsor.
More than a million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor day, April 10, 1872. The observance later became national, with dates varying in different states.
Two Coeds Offer Challenge To Williams and Connell
To the Daily Kansan: In the May 15 issue of the Daily Kansan, we read with amusement two junior boys' criticism of the dress of the average girl on the K.U. campus.
We were amused because we really don't think the two vets who expressed their dislike for college girls' dress had any right whatever to do it.
After all, aren't they seen every day in ragged flying jackets, far more filthy than anything we ever wear, and which they say they are too proud to have washed?
Don't they wear horrid grey,
green, brown, and pink get-ups
thrown together from their already
threadbare, uniforms?
They have everything handed to them on a silver platter. The government is buying their education (whether they deserve it or not), they have all books furnished, housing is no inconvenience, and in short they have the best of everything.
And what are the "mannerisms" they speak of. Would they have the college woman a drinking, swearing, revolting image of the ones they had in every port and at every army town?
After all, a girl gets awfully tired of hearing her escort make little "war remarks" every time he sees an airplane or a man in uniform. We assume these little gestures of dry humor are designed to show, modestly of course, that deep down underneath he is really not such a hero, any more than we are. Apparently the war is going to last verbally until the last veteran is married and will commence to see reason under a woman's tutelage.
We would like to see if these men who have "come back from a grown-up world" have the ability and courage to speak on the subject at a round table discussion against two admittedly inexperienced college girls.
We sincerely believe they might do something about their own mannersism. When it comes to common politeness, we believe these high and mighty returned heroes could take a few lessons.
Returned heroes, you may consider this an open challenge. We call your bluff.
SYLVIA SMALL
College Junior
GEORGIA LEE WESTMORLAND
College Sophomore
Girls' Campus Wear Chosen For Practicality, She Says
To the Dell Kansas: 'She lovesly; She uses Pond's' but Connell and Williams don't like her, Heels, hose, and dresses seem to be what the boys want, so let me make a few comments.
First, boys, bear this question in mind: What specialty would there be in a date if the girls wore such attire everyday?
I don't believe anything will ever replace the general sweater, skirt, anklets (if you please), and saddle shoes (which have been worn in colleges for ten-odd years) for the following reasons.
Heels and hose would definitely, be out of place on the campus even if everyone wore them. Ten years ago girls in colleges wore *hose* with oxfords but the style has changed due to practicality, warmth, and more recently, war-time scarcity of rayon, silk, and nylon hosiery;
Three-inch leeels are hard on one's feet after a few short hours, not to mention everyday wear. If you married a woman who had worn heels all through her college career, you would most likely be paying doctor bills for the rest of your life.
Sweaters and skirts are by far more practical than dresses, just ask anyone who went to college ten years ago. However, I believe your point was concerning sloppiness. According to the opinions of those who know, there is more sophistication displayed in coed schools than in private women's colleges, whose prime function is to produce well-groomed young ladies.
Concerning the girls in Kansas City and Topeka, what do they wear to school on week days? Frankly I have failed to ever see a girl on this campus go out on a date who was not properly attired for the occasion. Stick around on week-ends and see for yourselves. And beside, the majority of us try to look halfway decent even at 8:30 in the morning.
I agree that jeans have their place at picnics and equitation classes only. However, women are not the owners of all those dirty saddle shoes—and how about those yellow cords and those "rare" blue jeans accompanied by scanty T-shirts displayed by the freshly discharged veteran?
OLIVIA GARVEY College Sophomore
Third Place: Post-War Problems Speech Contest
College Junior Discusses Whether Vets Should Join Fraternities
The often debated question of the worth of fraternities has recently been given a new twist. Added to the old problems concerning fraternity life is, "Should a veteran enjoy a fraternity?"
In recent years it has been a popular vogue to criticize Greek letter societies and to do everything possible to destroy them. The average G.I. has been brought up on this unjust criticism.
He has been led to believe that fraternities are "kid stuff," that they take up too much time, are too expensive and above all are snobbish and undemocratic. Although these criticisms are justified in some cases, they are, for the most part, greatly over-emphasized.
By BEN FOSTER
Fraternities are certainly not "kid stuff." Although they are for high school-age boys, their purpose is to make men of these boys.
What can they do for a veteran who has matured during his time in service? They can help to make him an even better man. If we consider the fraternity from the purely monetary standpoint, the veteran can't afford not to join.
Living in an unorganized house, as most veterans do, costs almost $65 a month for room and board alone. The house bill of the average fraternity man is about $50 a month. This not only includes room and board but also fraternity dues.
Fraternities certainly do not make too much time from school work. They require that their pledges be in study hall every week night with
the exception of Wednesday and at any time during the day when not in class. Also, in order to be initiated a pledge must have at least a C average.
The greatest criticism of the fraternity system has been that it is snobbish and undemocratic. This, to a certain extent, is true. However, much of this criticism is unwarranted and due to misunderstanding. A fraternity is no more snobbish than any other campus organization
They differ from other organizations only in that they are limited because of lack of space in their chapter houses. Any man who is interested in joining a fraternity may indicate that interest at the beginning of a school year and he will be rushed by the fraternities.
The greatest thing that a fraternity can do for a veteran is help him become re-adjusted to college life. He will be with a group of men of his own age group, many of whom are also veterans, who understand his problems and will help him with them.
A fraternity will help him regain the social graces which he may have lost during his time in service. A fraternity builds a feeling of respect and admiration for the University as no other organization can
Last of all, a fraternity can help a veteran become a greater asset to his community and country when school days are over. 11
What then is the answer to the question "Should a veteran join a fraternity?" Obviously the answer is yes.