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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 15,1948
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 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 days occur on September 17, 1916, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor  Patricia Penney
Management Editor  Martha D. Anderson
Telegraph Editor  Jane Anderson
City Editor  Marian Thomson
Bulletin Editor  Bill Larsen
Society Editor  Martha Jewett
Asst. Telegraph Editors
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief  LeMoyne Frederick
Editorial Associate  John Conard
BUSINESS STAFF
Asst. Telegraph Editors
Billie M. Hamilton Face Mullenberg
Business Manager.. Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager.. Anne Scott
Eleanor Thompson
Assistant (for classified)
Marcolia Stewart Reverdy Mullins, Jr.
*Assistant (for classified)* Patricia Manley
Circulation Manager Edwin Ham
Promotion Manager Anne Young
Side-Stepping The Issue
On May 7 the Cardinal Guild, Iowa State's student governing body, voted not to back the issue of Negro participation in Big-Six competition and turned down a proposal to circulate a petition among Iowa State students to determine their opinions on the matter.
Their reasons, as printed in the Iowa State Daily Student, were that student opinion was not needed on this issue and that it would be of no consequence in any action which conference officials may take.
The reasons given by the Guild for this action we believe to be wholly inadequate and appear to be only an effort on their part to side-step the question.
We cannot agree with their reasoning. The opinion of students in the Big-Six schools definitely is needed on this question, and those opinions should be weighed heavily in any decision made by the conference athletic committee.
Each year several hundred students from the six conference schools take part in athletic contests as representatives of their respective student bodies. Those contests are of great interest to the majority of students at all schools. It naturally follows that their opinions should be considered in determining how the athletic program is run and who is allowed to participate.
The present "gentlemen's agreement" is not in keeping with our principles of liberal democratic education. Few will deny that our sports program has a real and important place in college life. As such it should be open to all who wish to participate, subject only to two restrictions; the present explicitly stated eligibility rules and the individual's own ability.
KU., Kansas State, and Nebraska students have expressed themselves in favor of abolishing the present discriminatory agreement. Before last week's action at Iowa State, the student paper at that school had strongly advocated a similar stand and the athletic department at that school had gone on record favoring a "revision" of the agreement in question.
When the members of the conference athletic committee meet at the end of this week in Lincoln, Neb., they should remember that they are representing not only their respective school administrations and athletic departments, but also the students at their schools.
It is their obligation to take into close consideration the opinions of those students in reaching their decisions.
The Job Isn't Finished
Senator Capper's reply to the A.S.C. telegram regarding O.P.A. was disappointing.
Not that we expected him to agree with the opinions expressed by the council, but the reason he gave for discontinuance of the O.P.A. we consider rather weak.
Senator Capper's objections to price control seem to rest on the fact that it is a bureaucratic control and he is against bureaucratic government.
We will agree with him that bureaucratic government that affects our national economy is not in keeping with the spirit of our society. But that is only half of the story.
The O.P.A. was brought into power to handle a particular situation which could be handled only by control administered by such a bureau. Few quarreled with its needs then, and it is only common sense that it should continue until its job is finished. To object to it merely on the basis that it is a powerful bureau and that we don't like such bureaus is short-sighted without determining whether it is still a necessary factor in our economy.
Many who assume that relaxation of controls will bring production up to demand more quickly, neglect the labor factor. When controls are lifted, prices are sure to rise and thereby increase the cost of living. Organized labor has already served notice that if this happens, unions will demand higher wages and if they don't get them they will refuse to work. If the higher wages are granted, we will take one more big step up the spiral of inflation. If they are not granted, labor will strike, production will be stifled, and uncontrolled prices will continue to rise on the relatively scarce supply of consumer products.
Rather than throw the O.P.A. out or weaken it so that it can't do its job properly, it seems we can stave off inflation more effectively by making price control more efficient and by giving the O.P.A. the support and personnel it needs to keep our economy from running away during this critical reconversion period.
Evidently all popular books don't make good movies. Film production of "Forever Amber" has ceased in Hollywood because it doesn't "measure up to standards." That announcement came a week after the Book Industry Committee revealed that readers of "Forever Amber" ran a close second to the number of Bible readers for 1945.
1946 Carruth Poetry Contest Christmas Pageant
Second Prize
Christmas Eve, 1944—I'm a sort of shepherd tonight;
My flock is Headquarters Company, one hundred twenty men;
Sleep well, comrades, your shepherd is cold and weary. But he watches his post in the usual military manner.
A cold wind wailing across the Ardennes forests, Drives snow whipped powder-fine against my helmet, Makes tiny, tinkling, tinny sounds when it hits, I could imagine it was church bells, if I wanted.
But I don't. I only want these two long hours to end;
Then crawl into the hayloft and go back to sleep.
I certainly would like to go to Liege tomorrow.
Should do something — after all, it's Christmas.
Why do I stand guard each Christmas Eve? Last year it was Oran, and it was raining. This year it's Belgium, and it is snowing. What next year? China, and a sandstorm?
But why count in years. It's foolish. Count by days, or count by parts of days. Or count by nothing. Only stand and wait. I'll wake some morning and find it's all over.
Wonder if I can go to Liege tomorrow;
Get a drink or two — between buzz-bombs.
They tell me parts of town are flattened.
I hope that Henri's bar is still intact.
There is a sound—a truck or tank or shell, listen;
No, it's none of them, it is something else,
A cold, harsh, metallic, inhuman chuckling,
Pilotless, monstrous buzz-bomb, headed toward Liege.
I can see the flickering light of the exhaust now, There is your star, shepherd, coming out of the east; Overhead now, passing on through the scattered clouds Gone, no, there it is, fading in the distance.
Sputtering, flickering, no light, the sound is gone. Then, a splash of gray light on the horizon, And a sullen rumble, rolling across the hilltops. I've seen it before. I know what's happened in Liege.
Christmas Eve, and the smell of powder in the air. Tumbled bricks, tumbled homes, and in the street The dead lie twisted, until someone comes along To dignify their passing with a blanket or a sheet.
A special Christmas pageant for you, shepherd,
All the ingredients—the star, the bells, the manger,
Now, what more can you ask for, shepherd?
I'd just like to know—where are the Wise Men?
WILLIAM J. FEENEY College Senior.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Student Religious Council will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Myers Hall. Danforth contributions should be brought to this meeting.
May 15,1946
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Jayhawk chapter Kansas Veterans' association important meeting 7 p.m. Thursday in Frank Strong auditorium.
Sociology club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in room 110. Fraser hall. Miss Dorothy Eintert will speak on the Group Work Program at the Southern school in Topeka. A special invitation is extended to members of the Psychology club and all others interested in sociology or psychology.
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Prof. Alfred Seelye will speak at a special OPA meeting sponsored by AVC at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas room of the Union. His subject will be, "What the End of OPA. Would Mean to Students on the Hill."
Tau Sigma practices for tonight are scheduled as follows: 7 p.m., Cowboy Ballad; 7:30 p.m., The Secret; 7:50 p.m., Shostakovich; 8:10 p.m., Golliwogg's; 8:35 p.m., Baba Yaga, 8:50 p.m., Primitive Ritual.
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K.U. Dames will meet at 8 tonight in the Men's Lounge of the Union.
Arvid Jacobson will talk on interior
decorating. The officers will meet at 7:30.
YMCA election of officers for the coming year will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas room of the Union. The following nominees will be introduced and voted upon by the membership. For president: Art Partridge and Dean Smith; for vice-president: Dale Runner, Wesley Elliott, and Clifford Reynolds; secretary-treasurer: Wilbur Noble, Hartwell Jewell, and Donald Pomeroy. Only members of the Y may vote on candidates, but an opportunity will be provided for students to become members of the Y before the meeting.
--try out should notify Lois Thompson, phone 980 as soon as possible. Practice sessions will be held at 4:30 in the Kansas room the following days: Thursday, May 17; Monday, May 20, and Wednesday, May 22. Any students interested should apply.
All 'students now in school who plan to enroll in the summer session or the fall semester are urged to sign up at the Registrar's office, room 122, Frank Rendall hall, during the month of May so as to guarantee themselves a place in the University under the priority system. To avoid congestion, students should appear at the Registrar's office according to the following schedule: (Letters are initial letters of students' last names.)
May 15-18—E, B. Z, O, G, W
May 20-25—F, P, A, Y, U, V, C, K
May 27-June 1—J, M, X, I, L, T, R
Cheerleading will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the west wing of the Union ballroom. Persons wishing to
Letters to the Editor
Senior Expresses 'Disgust'
With K.U.'s Voting Procedure
To the Daily Kansan: I would like to express my utter disgust at the manner in which Thursday's election was conducted. There was no such thing as a secret ballot. The ballot booths were not private in any sense and were insufficient in number.
Persons who were supposedly there to assist not only seemed reluctant to give information, but were actually guilty of misinforming voters as to the manner of marking the ballots. After each person had voted, their ballots were taken by the "assistants" who preceded to read each one, often making comments upon them.
The voting polls were disorderly and there were entirely too many persons milling around who were neither voters nor workers at the voting tables.
If the elections cannot be conducted so that the vote is fair and secret, why not just have a show of hands? At least no one could vote more than twice that way.
JEAN MACFARLANE College Senior amod sto
Two Juniors Agree. With Flagg's Criticism of Girls
Frankly the desire to have a date with a woman does not stem from her ability to play football or converse on great topics. Normally enough, we like to go out with a woman who is easily recognizable as such and wears high heels and a pretty dress, and above all with a frank and open mind who doesn't think she is just about the finest person on the campus. Is that asking too much?
To the Daily Kansan: This letter will have no effect on the attitude of girls on the Hill, however, that is beside the point. It is the function of any newspaper to sample public opinion on topics of interest or concern in its locale, and it is to this end that this letter is written.
Recently the Kansan published an article written by the prominent artist, James Montgomery Flagg, wherein he decries the dress and mannerism of the modern girl. We are heartily in accord with Mr. Flagg. It is a point which has been gnawing at us since our advent here, and Mr. Flagg has now crystallized that vague discontent for us.
Judging by casual impressions garnered in the Union, between classes, on the street and just about everywhere, our concensus as veterans is that University girls, by their revolting outfits of bobby-sox, blue jeans, filthy fiddle shoes, and baggy sweaters, along with descending attitude, are naive children playing at being worldly.
After coming back from a grown-up world, so to speak, this is all pretty discouraging. And to top it all off, the girls wonder why so many of the boys spend their weekends in Kansas City or Topeka.
We admit that the "teen age" is the six or seven years period between childhood and adult womanhood, between blissful ignorance and grown-up responsibility. But when does the transition start?
And to those of you who say, "Well, if you don't like it you know where you can go," we say only. "We have been there and find, briefly, that we like it much better."
I cannot see that going to class in a moldy sweatshirt, sneakers, and a purple handanna would gain'ine much, but that is nearly the male equivalent of the present female attire at this University.
Possibly we have said too much, but an occasional airing never hurts the closet.
Dare we hope for a microscopic improvement?
EVAN S. CONNELL
College Junior
GLENN WILLIAMS
College Junior