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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 29,
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associate Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 428
Washington Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20005
Mail absorption: $2 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the six year except Saturday and Sundays. University holidays and examination days. Mail pass matter Sept. 17, 910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
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Management Editor...REBECCA VALLEETTE
Management Editor...PATRICIA PRINCE
Management Editor...BRIAN RIVERA
Telegraph Editors
ANDESON, CHARLES ROOS
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JANE ANDERSON, CHARLES
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 Society Editor CATHERINE OGRGON
 Photography Editor MARLEN THOMSON
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 Staff Cartoonist RICHARD BIBLER
Editor-in-Chief ... MARY MORRILL
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CHARLES ELEWITT, LEMONYNE FREDERICK
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When You Understand
As a result of the many embittered discussions involving the memorial drive, those of us at the University think not of a memorial but of a heated campus controversy when the scenic parkway and campanile are mentioned.
We forget that in some minds there is neither a bitterness for the project nor a paralyzing fear that others will not accept it—but rather the calm satisfaction of knowing that an appropriate memorial is being planned for those to whom a memorial is due.
We forget—until the shallow issues of our battle are unintentionally interrupted by a mind in which the real issues of war and sacrifice have been painfully distilled.
Direct, simple, the following letter, accompanied by $10 provided just such an interruption, calmly piercing to the depths of the memorial cause, and, while it is remembered, putting to shame those who fight without feeling against the "folly" of a beautiful drive.
"I stopped off in Lawrence," the donor wrote, "for a few hours on my trip home from the Philippines in July, 1945, and must say I was greatly impressed by the beauty and growth of the old school from what I knew it back in 1918. The World War of that time broke up my college career and now World War II has practically ruined my life. However, I will start over and make the best of it."
"My daughter came through all right and is now married. My young son, born in the Islands, suffered mental shock and from malnutrition so as to permanently injure his life.
"My wife died mainly from starvation, dysentery, and shock during the battle for the Islands.
"I expect to remain here in the States until our industry gets back on its feet in the Philippines—which will be several years. The outlook is not very bright. The destruction is almost complete."
"I am enclosing a small preliminary donation to the memorial fund Hope to do better soon."
Vote for Recreation
Lawrence voters will decide Tuesday whether they want a city-wide recreation program, a proposal which has been given added timeliness by the public's added awareness of the lack of Lawrence recreational facilities precipitated by the county commissioners' beer-dance resolution.
If passed, the program will be organized under a law passed last year by the state legislature, authorizing any city or school district with a population of more than 8,000 to vote on establishing, maintaining, and conducting a supervised recreation system, supported by levying an annual tax of not more than one mill.
At present evaluations, such a levy would provide about $16,000. This money would be administered by an unsalaried recreation commission composed of two elected members from both the city council and the board of education, plus a fifth person chosen by them.
The commission would hire a qualified recreation director and any additional staff members required.
In the past Lawrence's recreational work has been limited to a six-weeks summer program, started in 1940, consisting of supervised playgrounds, art studio, street dances, baseball leagues, Red Cross swimming instruction, and a P.T.A. reading program, made possible by $800 annually from the board of education and $1,200 from the community chest.
Without the new levy, even this program, however, will not be continued. Officials feel that the recreation program should be on the budget of a governmental taxing unit; it should not be financed with chest funds.
The new year-round recreation plan upon which Lawrence voters will decide Tuesday would be an all-inclusive project for both children and adults. Social events, sports, dramatics, music, art, crafts, reading classes all these activities and others would be planned by the recreation commission.
With the problem of juvenile delinquency growing on a nation-wide scale, there could be no better time for Lawrence to step in and provide its young people the opportunity for constructive leisure time activities as well as to offer its adults new leisure time enjoyment.
Every faculty member or student who is a registered voter should take time Tuesday to cast his ballot in favor of a recreation program for Lawrence.-M.T.
Don't Post Propaganda,
Mexican Government Says
Mexico City. (UP)—The federal district government today asked political parties not to post propaganda on buildings in the capital's downtown district. During the weekend several political groups painted presidential candidates' names in 10-foot letters on facades of public buildings.
Hitter Lost His Pants
—More Ways Than One
Oslo, Norway (UP)—A coat and a pair of pants which belonged to Adolf Hitler were valued at $2,000 today by a visiting Dane who said they were stolen from his automobile.
He reported the theft to Oslo police.
Campanile Takes Shape in First Sketch
The preliminary study of the proposed memorial campanile pictures a 175-foot structure built of native Kansas stone and surrounded at its base by pergolas fitted with benches and individual memorials. In the memorial hall at the base of the tower large bronze plaques will be inscribed with the names of the 8,000 University men and women who served in World War II.
Letters to the Editor
EM Questions Leadership Of Jayhawk Veterans
To the Daily Kansas: A feature article in the Kansas City Star for March 10 discloses the fact that a KU. campus organization, the Jayhawk Veterans, is headed exclusively by former officers. I wonder how many former enlisted men members of the organization are aware of this?
Perhaps they are, and are still harboring the illusion that leadership is confined to this class. Or perhaps they are only following the old custom of forgiving and forgetting.
I, for one, intend to do neither.
I remember too well that enlisted men built the tennis courts on Tarawa only to have them taken over for months exclusively by officers.
I remember that a navy officers' mess in New Caledonia had fresh frozen milk on their table as a special treat while patients in the hospitals on the same island, veterans of Guam, Guadalcanal, and
Tarawa, received canned milk
I remember that 20 billiard tables donated by the Red Cross were divided, 19 to officers' club, one to an enlisted men's recreation room:
I remember that at a time when enlisted men (navy) were losing both pay and time when hospitalized with a venereal disease, officers in the same hospital with the same disease, were having their records falsified by the doctors in charge (officers), making it possible for them to avoid this loss of both time and pay. An officer's diagnosis sheet invariably read "Urethritis, non-venereal." It was no accident that V.D. was spoken of, ironically, as an "enlisted man's disease."
This list could go on indefinitely, but surely these few incidents should be reminder enough that men who condoned, aided, and abetted such unfair, undemocratic, and foolish practices and distinctions are scarcely the persons to head an organization largely composed of enlisted men.
Dissatisfied Veteran
Rock Chalk
By SHIRLEY LEITCH and TINA FOTOPOLUS
I see a bar. What? In the Si Chi yard. Joe Etzler claims he minding his own business, oc-cing no more than his allotted sp-under the sun, when a car of fried drove up and he rose to greet t-But nothing he had done se-justify the sneaking attack of brothers who robbed him of shorts. (Guaranteed to be the o article of clothing he had on.) the occupants of the car were mal-but those "&$1lb" Sig Alph's I four girls playing tennis on the courts.
Excellent specimens! Over in t bac department several studer were bent over microscopes look for paschen bodies (something ab small pox they say.) No one have much luck, until at long last Char Leiberman. 925 Main, spotted son
But Leiberman's timing and pronunciation were all off. Just as a screamed, "Ah, passion bodies Carolyn Crocker, Watkins, and Lilian Koch, Tippery, walked in the door.
Miss you since you went away Bob (L-just-had-a-tooth-pulled or Can't-get-my-mouth-open-any more) Martin, Sig Alph, gives the advice to those who who are toothless—"Just try gargling your Listerine through a straw.
Wishful thinking. When Kappa SIGs came marching home from the wars, they found their West Hills mansion inhabited by women, who called the place Tipperary hall (because it's a long way to) . In a fit of pique, the fellows moved into Templin and dubbed it "Temporary hall."
A facial. The test had been been and Gamma Phil's own Liz Evan was feeling a bit grrrough. Unfortunately, she was in a geology lab at the time and was fortified with handful of plaster-of-paris. Scowling at partner Peggy Howard, she shouted, "Oh, I could just throw this stuff at somebody I'm so mad."
Peggy, poor girl, said, "Well, why don't you?"
With that, Liz let her have it—right in the face.
A Bad Aim Could Hurt Somebody Else
From the St. Louis Star-Times