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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MAY 3.1948
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.
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 week. Subscribed to Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class after Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Patricia Penney
Management Editor Marcela Anderson
Telegraph Editor Jane Anderson
City Editor Marian Thomson
Society Editor Martina Jewell
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief  LeMoine Frederick
Editorial Associate  John Conard
Ast. Telegraph Editors
Birie M. Hamilton Grace Mullenberg
Bowie M. Hamilton
Business Manager...Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager...Anne Scott
Ass. City Clerk
Marcella Stewart  Reverdy Mullins, Jr
Eleanor Thompson Assistant (for classified)
But when the hour set for the meeting arrived a quorum was not present. Finally, after the 8:30 deadline on meetings set by the present council, enough members did arrive to hold a meeting.
Circulation Manager
Promotion Manager
Patricia Manley
Anne Young
Politicians Get Off Base
Through the maze that so often accompanies political activity, this much is apparent. Part of the business of the meeting was to install a new member into the council as interfraternity representative. Independents claimed that that representative was being installed at this time so that he could be eligible for election as A.S.C. president in the coming election, and that the vacancy was made on the council expressly for that purpose. To block his installation, they decided not to attend the meeting and thus keep the council from acting.
The scene was the Pine room of the Union and the event was the AU-Student Council meeting.
But what does matter to the Daily Kansan and to all students on the Hill is that parties have begun playing politics with the student council now in office. It is on that point that we register our objection.
Our parties are a vital part of student government and we certainly don't wish to stifle their activities, but they should know where to draw the line. The present council is in office to serve the entire student body and it should be allowed to do just that without hindrances from individual groups. Electioneering and party political activity are fine, but they have no place in the meetings and business of the council.
It matters not to the Daily Kansan who was primarily at fault in this bit of political horse-play. In fact, we are inclined to believe it was six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
We have disagreements with the University administration, too, but this is one time when the students have made the mistake. What would your reaction be, if you were chancellor, and the students asked for more self-government after pulling a peanut-politician trick like this?
It doesn't add up very well for K.U. students eternally to holler their heads off about "not enough freedom in student government" and then to have the very groups that should be most interested in that student government come up with a stunt like this one.
Again we say, "more power to K.U.'s political parties," BUT don't interfere with the duly chosen student governing body to gain individual party ends.
We think that Thomas Huxley had education pegged about right when he said that the result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
The "marines have landed" returned to the news today, with the "invasion" of Alcatraz prison by a detachment of marines. Their job was to quell an uprising of convicts, and apparently they did their work well. Thank goodness one part of our armed forces remains ready to perform its duties.
'Jerk' By Definition
With forthright disregard for the purists, Charles Earle Funk, bachelor of science, doctor of letters, has decided to accolade the word "jerk" by including it in the next edition of the Funk and Wagnalls dictionary,—but there is a thudding anticlimax.
Where is the man's ear? A jerk is not merely unpopular; he is unpopular with overtones.
A drip, for instance, is unpopular because he is deficient socially; an ick because he is deficient musically; a dope, because he is deficient mentally. But a jerk manages triumphantly to combine all those deficiencies.
"Jerk" the lexicon will read: "An unpopular person."
A jerk is a spiller of knee-balanced buffets, an unhep stumbler over feet on the dance floor, a buyer of Brooklyn bridges—all at the same time.
Whatsamatter, Dr. Funk? —St. Louis Star Times
This may not be new but we still think it is one of the best descriptions of the "isms." Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government gives you some milk. Nazism: If you have two cows, the government shoots you and keeps the cows. Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.
We agree with the Cleveland Press. What this world needs is more open minds and fewer open mouths.
Horace points out that the University got along without students last year, it got along without books this year, and it will probably have to get along without professors next year.
Well, who's next? Tommy Manville and his eighth wife have separated.
Jobby Lobby (IV): Dean Swarthout Says
'Kansas Calls For Well-Trained Public School Music Supervisors'
By D. M. SWARTHOUT (Dean, School of Fine Arts)
The call in Kansas and neighboring states for well-trained music supervisors and directors in the field of public school music remains urgent, as it has for the past several years.
not yet ready to take up their former positions or new ones until they have taken advantage of the present opportunities for additional study through refresher courses, or work towards a degree. Because of this, it seems evident that a shortage in music teachers, especially in men supervisors, is likely to continue for yet some time to come.
Salaries have been greatly increased during the past five years.
Even well before the beginning of the war, practically every graduate from the School of Fine Arts in school music who desired a position was placed. The call to military service of so many young men in charge of music administration in the schools brought about an acute shortage in music teachers, especially among those usually entrusted with the direction of the bands and orchestras over the country. While much of this work was taken over by young women, who in many cases stepped into the breach and did exceedingly well, yet the arrangement was in most instances considered an emergency one. With the return of the men from the service, much of this work in the larger instrumental groups is again being turned back to the men supervisors, with the voice and choral direction being largely in the hands of the women supervisors in music. In the smaller communities, however, the music supervisors will usually be in complete charge of both choral
The four-year bachelor of music education course at K.U. is, as constituted at present, a strong and comprehensive one. It is of interest to note that in the past several years, the number of K.U. students placed by the University teacher placement bureau in positions in schools in this part of the country, has been larger in the field of music than any of the other teaching fields. Likewise the requests made to the bureau for teachers has been greatest for teachers in music.
Colleges and universities maintaining music schools or departments have also felt the lack of capable men musicians for additions to their faculties and a recent survey by one of the prominent teacher placement bureaus of the midwest showed a strong call for well trained performer teacher musicians, especially those with at least a masters degree. The predominance of women in the field of music has made it possible to carry on the work in music over the country during the war with less adjustment necessary than was the case in other professional fields.
Because of the liberal government aid to servicemen, many of the returning veterans who previously were doing music supervision in the public schools are
OFFICIAL BULLETIN May 3.1946
"Western Civilization as a Whole" will be the subject of a Western Civilization forum at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Little Theater, Green hall.
P. S.G.L. Senate members meet at 7 p.m. Monday at Battenfeld hall.
Pan-American dance will be given by the University Art club tonight in the Kansas room of the Union. Open to all students.
K. U. Young Democrats club will hold a meeting at 7 tonight in the Men's Lounge of the Union.
Attention Sunflower K.U. Dames— If you are coming to the picnic Saturday, contact your president, Mrs. R. P. Hagen, 8 Aqueduct today. There have been recent changes in plans.
Representatives from three large
By TINA FOTOPOLOUS
Good serve. Bonnie-Stock sper the better part of Wednesday afternoon in the ping-pong room of the Union looking for a ping-pong ball that she had lost. She was becoming resigned to the fruitlessness of her search when someone, noticed a bulge in the hem of her shirt. That's where she found the ball. Good serve.
Poetry corner. Thirty days,hath September, April, June, and my father, for speeding-Jean Moore.
Another one of those calls. Elaine Carlson found a note to call 595 and ask for Buck on the call board at Hopkins Hall, Monday night. She called and a masculine voice said there was no Buck there. According to reliable sources, 595 is the number of the Elks club.
Society note. "Swede" Erickson, of Club 10, is now an engaged man, so the boys at his house honored him with a shower Tuesday night. Beside gifts that ranged from door knobs and baby spoons to safety pins, Swede received a real shower. Glub, glub.
A different objection. We understand that a group of air-minded students have an individual objection to the memorial project. They maintain the campanile will get in their way when they zoom the Hill.
K-State Scholarships
Manhattan. (UP)—Six $200 scholarships for high school seniors being graduated this year will be offered by the institute of citizenship at Kansas State college, Dr. Robert A. Walker, director, announced today.
Awards will be made on the basis of the applicants' high school records, both scholastic and extracurricular, he said.
national concerns will be at the University for employment interviews during the week beginning Monday. Anyone interested should contact Mr. Pinet, business placement bureau, room 212, Frank Strong, before 10 a.m. Monday.
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