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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 8,1946
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tomorrow Is Your Day
Tomorrow is election day at K.U. Candidates have been chosen and platforms announced. The next move is up to the student body.
During the past year there has been plenty of private and public criticism of the present governing body, some of it just, and much of it unjust.
Criticism is not a bad thing if properly administered. It helps to keep our student government on its toes and helps to mirror student opinion. But that criticism should be founded on an understanding of the facts and a real interest in student affairs.
Many students who never bother to attend a student council meeting and consistently ignore the polling booths on election day, are the first to raise their voices in criticism of the handling of student affairs.
One year ago only 50 per cent of the students thought enough of their student government to go to the polls on election day.
Council members devote many hours to various student issues in an effort to serve the student body properly. Their task is made more difficult when students take only an apathetic interest in campus affairs. The election of a student council does not relieve the student body of its responsibility in University affairs. We must demonstrate an active interest in such issues as may arise from time to time. Congress leans heavily on public opinion and likewise our student government has the right to expect any active interest from the student body.
There are still those who think of their voting right only as a privilege which they can utilize or ignore at their discretion. But it is more than that. It is a duty we must fulfill in order to merit democratic government. A student who ignores his duty tomorrow has little ground to criticize student government later.
A record number of students are on the Hill today and there will be even more next fall. That increased enrollment will inevitably bring new problems to the campus. It will be up to the student council, and all students in general, to be ready to meet those problems and find their solutions. Failure to meet present and future responsibilities will mean only one thing: a loss of power and prestige of student government at the University.
Let's go to the polls tomorrow and cast at least an 80 per cent vote. Show the All-Student Council that you are solidly behind it and expect it, not only to fulfill its obligations, but to strengthen itself for the added problems ahead.
Students moving along the walk by Fraser hall recently paid little attention to a tragic event that occurred there. Spattered on the side-walk, under the feet of passers-by, was a bird's egg that apparently had fallen from a nest. It was so badly crushed that even an ornithologist would have had trouble recognizing the species of bird that had laid the egg.
Only A Bird
The reader may pause at this point to say or think "So what? There are too many birds in the world, and particularly too many on the campus. Just look at those sidewalks." Many on the campus have a grievance against birds, for one reason or another. Had this egg hatched, it might have produced a delinquent bird which would take delight in making some stone bench on the campus untenable and thereby frustrate would-be fraternizers.
It might have produced the criminal type of bird which would come down to tree-top level and damage somebody's spring hat. Just as well, perhaps, that the egg lies where it is, beyond power to do any damage to a world that has seen too much damage already.
On the other hand, from this battered egg may have emerged a herald of spring, a cheerful welcomer, a challenge to the chill last stand of winter to do its worst, spring is coming, and the birds are back, and soon it will be warm. It might have given Mrs. Jones the occasion to phone her local newspaper and tell the editor she saw the first robin, and thus Mrs. Jones would have her brief hour in the sun. It might have become the bird which sits in a tree outside of your window, and sings in the morning, "May as well get up, the sun is shining."
It is unfair for any of us to pass judgment. The simple facts are, an unborn bird is dead, and somewhere a mother and father bird miss it. That's silly, you say, birds don't mourn, they are just birds. Just birds?
Perhaps a mother bird and her offspring, circling over the Normandy battlefields, looked down on the battered villages and the human debris, and the mother bird remarked to her youngster, "Come along, and don't be too much concerned about that business down there. They are just men."—W.F.
Evidently the whistling lawyers don't agree with James Flagg, the artist, who said, "Every time I see a girl going barelegged it reminds me of a raw leg of beef from the butchers."—But then again, maybe they do. There is a meat shortage.
'Political Science Helps Students In Not One, But Every Vocation'
Jobby Lobby (VI) : Professor Stene Says
By EDWIN O. STENE (Associate Professor of Political Science)
On the whole, studies in the social sciences are not designed as training courses for particular vocations. Rather their purpose is to prepare the student by way of giving him a broad understanding of human relations and of our social, economic, and political institutions—an understanding which should be an aid in whatever vocation the graduate might enter, and which should help him to become more effective in adapting himself to the customs and the needs of his community.
However, there are a number of specific vocational goals for which students in political science may prepare themselves. A certain amount of work in the field is essential to the teaching of social sciences in high schools; and a substantial number of majors in political science continue with graduate work preparatory to college teaching or certain types of government service. An optional major in public administration, and an interdepartmental major in personnel administration, are designed especially for those students who wish to enter the public service.
Opportunities in the federal service will be somewhat limited for graduating students of 1946, because a retrenchment is under way in many wartime governmental agencies. In the other branches of the government preferences will be given to war veterans and to war service employees whose positions are a bo lish ed. Nevertheless, there will be a few openings for new employees, and especially for college graduates with good academic records and training in certain branches of the social sciences.
State and local employment services will probably increase during the next few months, primarily because work will be resumed in fields where wartime retrenchment was necessary. Up
to the present, the state and local services, other than teaching, have provided relatively little promise for college graduates in the social sciences. There is evidence, however, of an increasing demand for trained assistants in personnel administration, in government planning and research, and to some extent in informational writing. Graduates who have prepared for positions in personnel administration may also find several opportunities with private business.
Veterans, who are entitled to preference in civil service ratings and appointments, may find it especially desirable to prepare for and seek employment in the public service. Such preparation should ordinarily include at least a few courses in political science, and it might often take the form of a major in that department.
Watch Those Vitamins, Spray Kills Tree Worms That Way
That white solution on the campus trees isn't a milkman's mistake. It's a palatable lead arsenate solution that the Building and Grounds men have prepared for a small green pest called the "inch" worm.
The "inch" worm attacks the leaves of the trees. If it is not checked in the first year of it's cycle, the worm will strip the trees of their leaves.
The power spray being used has a pressure of 400 pounds, enough to reach the tallest tree on the campus. The tent is attached to the tendon of Buildings and Grounds.
Buildings and Grounds also is investigating chemicals to clean up the dandelions, bindweed, and chickweed on the campus lawns. The chemicals overfeed the plants causing them to burst open and die, Mr. Bayles explained.
"It's like taking too many vitam-ins," he declared.
Doctors Appointed
Topeka. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoepek has reappointed two men to four-year terms on the state board of medical registration and examination. They were Drs. G. R. Dean, McPherson, and C. E. Joss, Topeka.
Rock Chalk
By BUNNY LAWLER
Ott and Fretwell, that is. At the Chi O pledge meeting the other night, Phyllis Fretwell, new this semester, was required to name each active. Phyl did right well until she came to Margaret Ot. She had the right idea, but the wrong pronunciation, when she said, "Margaret Oat."
"You're wrong, Fratwell," several actives cried gleefully, as they ran for the tar and feathers, Phyllis patiently replied, "I beg your pardon, but my name's Fretwell."
Four - wheeled personality. We thought walk-out days were over, but that is not quite the case with Gamma Phi and Sig Alph pledges. They staged one Monday night and one Sig Alph freshman asked Bill (everything-happens-to-me) Daugherty if he could borrow his car. "Sure," said Bill who didn't know they didn't intend to bring it back very soon.
But then it came time for Bill to pick up his date—and no car. It turned out all right since his date had a car but the frantic phone calls were a trifle embarrassing.
Now you see me, now you don't. Bud Wharton and Jim Tilson are becoming quite adept at pulling a disappearing act.
Guests at the Phi Psi house Saturday night greeted Bud and Jim, evidently coming in from an early show about 9:30, dressed in sweaters and slacks. The boys went upstairs perhaps to study, or to sleep, no one gage it much thought. However, said guests were quite amazed to encounter Bud and Jim again come out of the Pi Phi house at 12:30, dressed in suits and with dates in tow. The boys choose not to explain
U.S.S. Missouri Is Home
Aboard U.S.S. Missouri. (UP)—The battleship Missouri churned toward home today after completing her good-will tour of seven Mediterranean area ports.
The souvenir-laden battle wagon will stop at Norfolk, Va., on Thursday. After spending two days refueling there, she will head to sea again to participate in Atlantic fleet maneuvers.
'Cast Thy Bread Upon The Waters...'
From the St. Louis Star-Times