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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 1. 1946
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, $4.20 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every six months, year except Saturday and Sundays. University, and examination periods. Entered the second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., date of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor  REBECCA VALLEYTE
Balickup Editor  WILLIAM HAAGE
Telegraph Editors
ANDERSON CHARLES R005
EDITORIAL STAFF
JANE ANDERSON, CHARLES RIMMEL
Roseman    BILLIE MARIE HAMILTON
Sports Editor    BILL SIMS
Society Editor    CATERNIE ORSOG
Photography Editor    DIXIE WILLIAM
Assistant Manager  MAYA THOMASON
Assst. Society Editor    MAIRA JEWETT
Staff Cartoonist    RICHARD BIBLER
Editor-in-Chief ... MARY MORRILLI
Editorial Associates
CHARLES FELLIOT, LEOMONE FRIEDERICK
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Manager ... ANNE SCOTT
Asst. Adv. Manager ... ELINOR THOMPSON
Business Manager ... NANCY TOMLISON
A Tactician Retires
Most veterans, when they receive their little yellow bird and the chapel's handshake, betake themselves to the nearest bar, railroad station or clothing store.
But one seasoned campaigner, who has been in action since 1942, merely waved a casually affectionate farewell to servicemen and ex-servicemen everywhere, and slipped back into the ink bottle from whence she was born.
She is the voluptuous Miss Lace, heroine of cartoonist Milton Caniff's "Male Call."
Cartoonist Caniff originally drew the comic strip "Male Call" as a fill-in for service papers back in 1942, until such time as GI artists could take over the assignments. However, curvaceous Miss Lace and her myriad of bewildered, embittered, or over-amorous servicemen friends proved so popular that Caniff just went on drawing.
For servicemen far from home, surrounded by heat or cold or boredom, Miss Lace's appearance was a morale builder, in capital letters. Lace was anything but the clear-eyed, long-limbed, fresh-scrubbed, wind-blown creature that is supposed to be the typical American girl.
She was all glamour—Chanel No. 5 and black silk undies—purely a never-never dream girl, and any serviceman who said he had a girl back home just like Lace (almost everyone did) was allowing his imagination to run riot.
In her own way, Lace was as skillful a tactician as Eisenhower on Bradley. Every soldier she met, regardless of rank, was greeted "Hi, General." Her Class "A" uniform was a slinky evening gown that was tighter than the principal character in "Lost Weekend." And a girl with Miss Lace's topography has to be a tactician.
Still, she was as adept at bringing cheer to a morose, homeisck, down-trodden private as she was in fencing but not offending a wolf in Sam's clothing. Lace was intended to be the female protagonist of the civilian-turned-soldier.
She could exchange soldier talk with the best of them, or she could make a man forget for a while all his troubles, but she never let anyone forget that Miss Lace was every sinuous inch a lady.
Best of all, the "Male Call" strip could be funny and stimulating without degenerating to the double-meaning. Lace wore far more clothing than the customary pin-up. She was neither seducer nor seduced. And when the occasion warranted, Lace could be serious. One of the most memorable cartoons of the "Male Call" series was one concerning a combat man who had returned to the States embittered against civilians. This soldier, noticing Lace dancing with a civilian, dropped a few pointed remarks about 4-F's and then proceeded to jostle the civilian. At this point, Lace drew the soldier aside to explain that the man supposedly rolling in civilian luxury was an ex-soldier who had lost his sight in combat. It is doubtful if any wartime cartoon ever drove home its point more effectively.
So, good-bye, Lace, back into the bottle, but don't get any ink on your good conduct ribbon. Nobody did any more than you to earn one."W.F.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
April 1, 1946
Notices must be typewritten and must be in Public Relations office, being strong not later than 9:30 a.m. on Friday. No phone messages accepted.
All Student Council will meet at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union.
Delta Phi Delta meeting at 4:30 today in Design department.
Ping Pong tournament: Boys' singles and girls' singles, to start April 8. Obtain entry blanks at Union Activities office. Entries must be in by April 3.
Theta Epsilon election and "backwards party" will be tomorrow evening.
Pre-Nursing club will hold its regular meeting 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the dining room of Fraser. Mrs. Marjorie Curry, army nurse corps veteran will speak.
--around the Sigma Nu house.
--around the Sigma Nu house.
Veterans who filed certificates of eligibility and entitlement at the office of the K.U. Veterans Training Service and do not receive subsistence allowance checks by April 5 are requested to report to Room 2, Frank Strong, immediately after that date.
AT THE HOSPITAL
William Smith, 511 Ohio.
William Stewart, 816 Maine.
Joan Ritter, 100 Louisiana.
Carol Graham, Jollife hall.
Patsy Morris, 1505 Ohio.
Edith Schreiber, Miller hall.
Admitted, Friday Patricia Zoller, 1145 Louisiana. Kenneth Perry, 1245 Oread. Robert McKee, 1301 West Campus
Dismissed, Friday
Letters to the Editor
Parking Troubles Growing Worse, Warns C. E. Maiden
Admitted, Saturday
Mary Jo Moxley, 1246 Oread.
Stephen Ellsworth, 1325 West Campus.
To the Daily Kansan: Ample space for parking automobiles is badly needed on the campus. This need has been caused not only by an increase in the number of students, but also by an increase in the percentage of students owning cars. Most students drive because they must—in many cases because they have been unable to find a place to live within walking distance of the school.
Norman Tucker, 608 Kentucky.
Nolene Stiller, Miller hall.
Glenda Luehring, 1339 West Campus.
Sufficient parking facilities would provide much needed relief for the parking situation at concerts and basketball games at Hoch auditorium.
Dismissed, Saturday
Ida Bieber, 1329 Vermont.
Thomas Collier, PT 10.
Helen Doolittle, Louisiana.
R伯特 McKee, 1301 West Campus.
Jake Fresen, 940 Massachusetts.
Louis Johnson, Sunflower.
The parking problem would make an excellent project to be included in the war memorial now being considered.
'Rank Not Important In Veterans Club'-P
Parking space in certain sections of the campus streets should be retained for people parking for half in hour or less.
The campus streets are jammed with cars all during school hours. It's a waste of time for a student to look around for a place to park his car. There are just too many automobiles for parking spaces on the campus at present.
The present situation is bad, but will be worse when the fall term begins. It's very apparent that someone soon to take care of this need.
C. E. MAIDEN Engineering freshman
To the Daily Kansan: In reply to the letter published last week concerning the officers of the Jayhawk Veterans.
Rank Not Important
In Veterans Club"—Parmelee
Admitted, Sunday
William Swanson, PT 9.
Dismissed, Sunday
William Stewart, 816 Maine.
May I say that until the picture of the meeting and the accompanying write-up were published in the Kansas City Star a few weeks ago I did not know that my fellow officers were all ex-officers while in service.
Modern cement making is an art which was lost for ages, but rediscovered in the middle of the eighteenth century by the famous Scottish engineer, Smeaton, who built the first Eddystone lighthouse.
The subject of prior rank was never brought up at any time before, during, or after the election.
At our organization meeting last October all persons present introduced themselves to a small group. The first person, an office vice were mentioned but not rank
Rock Chalk Talk
Whatever a person was while in service is of no interest now. It was pure coincidence that all ex-officiers were elected to office in the Jayhawk
By MARILYN STEINERT
A likely story. When Bob Masey, Sigma Nu, asked D.G. Gwen Goerz for a date Saturday night she replied, "Well, I had planned to go home this weekend, but I think I should stay here and study anyway—so it's a date!"
Man who came for dinner—lunch and breakfast. The Alpha O's, especially Mary Sedlock, are just crazy about Charles Theroff, 1332 Louisiana—but when you see a person 18 out of 24 hours. . . . To assume a resigned tone and quote Mother Klinkenberg." I put him out with the cat and let him in with the milk bottles."
Go slow, boy. Jim Hover, TKE,
has the idea that mankind is racing
to its doom—and he wants to keep
out of the mmd dash. Sure way seems
to be his "Jackson," archaic horse-
less carriage with a right hand steer-
wheel and four kerosene lamps
for head and tail lights.
The Jackson has its moments, though. Last week it made 14th street in the same time it took two TKE's to walk it. However, the boys walked slow.
Greetings. Grass grows greenest
Pays $361 To Rescue Girlhood Memory
Kansas City. (UP)—A memory cost Mrs. Earl Newcomer $261.
As a girl in pignails, she walked along in front of the old Wyandotte court, matching a stick along 300-foot-long fence in rafters of the front building.
Veterans. There is nothing in the regulations which would bar an exEM from holding office. In fact all members are eligible for any office.
So Mrs. Newcomer paid $361 for it and the couple moved to her Lake Lautena wanna home.
The city decided to widen the street and decreed the 50-year-old picket fence would have to go.
With three bottle caps. Dave Thompson, SAE, runs a contest each week for the pledges just "to keep them on their toes." For the first week Dave had the boys write on "Why I think Thompson is a fine man." Subject this week: "Why I think Thompson is a fair and just man."
GEORGE PARMLEE
Ex-secretary, Jayhawk Veterans
If the person writing the letter referred to wants some EM in office, all he has to do is nominate his man or woman at the next election.
Why? Well, because the Nu's have revived their old custom of greeting visitors with a refreshing bucket of water. The other day Dick Parsen and Bob Dougherty took Rae Betlach and Georgia Westmoreland, Delta Gamma's, up the walk for a coke. A greeting was in order and the DG's got it—both buckets full. The girls left thoroughly refreshed.
When Leroy comes marching back again. The V-12's were drilling under the direction of Leroy Robison student ensign platoon leader, Intending to move the platoon to the left, Leroy found that he had moved it too far so he gave out with the very military, "Back up!--back!" How about an about face, forward march next time, Mac?
Pratt County Will Have First Fair in 25 Years
Pratt. (UP) — Pratt county this summer will have its first fair in more than a quarter of a century, it was announced today.
Chamber of Commerce officials said they had arranged for use of a plot of ground just east of the city, on Aug. 15, 16 and 17.
The old Pratt county fair was dissolved in 1920 and its ground sold to George Lemon. Lemon converted it into a park which he donated to the city six years ago.
Seattle (UP)—A nervous and bewildered navy pharmacist mate delivered his first baby last night aboard a storm-tossed tanker 1,209 miles at sea on radioed instructions from a medical officer aboard a coast guard cutter racing to aid him.
The baby, a bouncing seven pound,
four-ounce girl, was delivered by
Pleasantmire Mate Jerry Bradbury,
Clemens Tx., aboard the U.S.S.
Puente Hills.
Stop Him Now or Never