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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 25,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Madison Ave. New York City. 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 master Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Louder and We'll Dance
Temporarily losing steam because of poor organization and co-ordination, the fight against the county rule which bans dancing in beer-selling establishments now takes on new vigor as Mike Kuklenski, Jayhawk Veterans' club president, begins the collection and tabulation of protesting petitions which have been circulated over the Hill.
The veterans already have voiced their dissatisfaction directly to the county commissioners, as have the Young Republicans' club and the Merchants' bureau.
The opposition of the powerful Lawrence American Legion, although never officially recorded, is generally known and has been felt by the county's three lawmakers.
But the best of campaigns will falter without an active leader.
Kuklenski's initiative co-ordinates the University phase of the drive and gives all students an opportunity to concentrate their protests effectively into one channel.
Petitioning is a democratic privilege. Its power depends upon the number of persons using it on each specific issue.
It can be hoped and expected that every student who has an ounce of interest in the issue will get his name on a petition and assist in getting that petition to chairman Kuklenski. Today.-J.C.
Here's a way to analyze character on first sight, according to the Better Vision institute. Black eyes are supposed to show wit and ambition for power. Brown eyes are believed to indicate affection and sincerity. Hazel eyes are mischievous and accompany a happy active nature. Blue eyes the institute believes, denote an optimist and dreamer, a person who seeks distant ends and far-off hopes. Gray eyes are supposed to be marks of wisdom and perseverance. Green eyes are associated with talent and a shrewd mind.
The war may be over, but point systems are here to stay. Points to get sugar, points to get out of the service—and considering the new priority plan of enrollment students may have to add up their points to get on the Hill next fall.
Congratulations to the committee who named and provided "Elbow Room" in the Memorial Union. We suggest that they concentrate now on promoting the same thing for Watson library.
It may be a favor the Japs don't deserve, but American women still approve the plan to permit Japanese production of more raw silk. Just try to find a coed who doesn't like silk hose and unmentionables more than she hates the Japs.
K.U. Officials Don't Give Enough Power To Student Government, Poll Says
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interviewees suggested that the Jayhawker be enlarged and published less frequently."
Activity Participation 'Fair,' Most Say
Around 78 per cent of the 120 students interviewed felt that they had been given a fair opportunity to participate in campus activities. The remaining 22 per cent thought the system unfair. "The accuracy of these figures may be questioned because in handling the poll, many students who are engaged in numerous activities were contacted. However, most dissatisfaction occurs among underclassmen who may wish for positions ordinarily held by junior and seniors.
"A portion of those dissatisfied consisted of unorganized students who seem to have greater difficulty in making themselves known. Some felt that organized groups, especially the Greeks, were unfair."
Purpose: Not Vocational, Half Declare
Concerning the objectives of a university education, primary emphasis was placed on purposes other than vocational by 48 per cent of the students. Around 37 per cent placed emphasis on making a living and 15 per cent emphasized both the cultural and economic advantages of university training.
"A large portion of those students opposing the purely vocational aspects of training stressed the value of making contacts with fellow students for exchange of ideas. Many felt that the K.U. classroom does not meet or satisfy their desires. They stressed a need for freer circulation of such ideas that the various students may have within the classroom."
"A number of students placed emphasis on a broader program to enable students to better evaluate ideas. Negro students believed that their training would provide vocational opportunity for them, but discrimination in activities, they add, has caused them to miss many of the values of university life. Women, especially, stressed the value of social contacts.
"Most of those indicating a stress on the vocational aspects of training were veterans who desire accelerated programs so they may obtain jobs. This is particularly true of married veterans. Students in professional schools desire training for a job, but many want a cultural education as well.
"Additional suggestions volunteered by those interviewed were!
"More all-school dances, provision for summer employment to gain experience in a chosen vocation, pre-enrollment, more faculty dinners, more informal faculty-student discussions, Negro participation in athletics, and separate classes for veterans.
Rock Chalk
By MARILYN STEINERT
One of the smarter members. Confusion ran havoc in Kansas City the night of the K.U.-Oklahoma Aggie game. Especially for Dick Scovel, DTD. Dick noticed everybody was selling tickets and he got so excited he sold his own, and spent the evening by himself. Dick still pretends to wonder how he came back with more money than he started out with.
Guess who? Did he do something to irritate the pledges or did he go to sleep in the barber's chair? No one seems to know exactly just how Sim Myers, Sigma Nu, got his hair cut. At any rate, "Commanche" as he is now called, gave his Theta buddy, Ginny Tolle, permission to break their date upon seeing his scalping.
Reunion. While driving around in Kansas City, Bill Sharp, Phi Gam, and date Alice Shankland, Chi O, with Rudolph Sandberg, Phi Gam, and Madelon McClure, Chi O, were picked up for speeding in the Brookside vicinity. Unmalicious as their crime was, they found themselves entering the police station.
But they felt it wasn't so bad after all; in fact, they got to feeling quite at home. Before the judge, also on the same charge were Andy Andrees, Dick Shields, and Tuffy Hinshaw, Phi Gams, plus the wives of the latter two.
Are you sure? Upon being asked to give a health poem Connie Cloughley, Chi O, gave forth with this little ditty:
Don't ever have an appendectomy.
Ode to an Appendix Don't know
it leaves a scar on your ab-
domeny
You can never be a burlesque queen.
Because your scar will be a
shrinker.
lking.
Ben McKenny, SAE wafer, got hysteries so trifurcantly that he just barely made it into the kitchen to drop the dishes he was carrying.
Overheard. Some Hill character, slightly potted, exclaimed at the big game, "All people over nine feet tall have to play on their hands and knees!"
AT THE HOSPITAL
Admitted Friday
Jacquetta Shaw, 1145 Louisiana.
Barbara G. Johnson, 1246 Oread.
Marguerite E. Adams, Sunflower.
Dismissed Fridav
Dishussed Friday
Forrest Nelson, 308 West 16th.
Doris Kenton, 1238 Mississippi.
George Matson, 1137 Connecticut.
Donald H. Dorge, Pt 6.
Leonard Hartigan, 1408 Tennessee.
Robert Eugene Crawford, Carruth hall.
rd Hartigan, 1408 Tennessee
Admitted Saturday
Dismissed Saturday Lillian Simmons, 1247 Kentucky. Floyd Tony Vetch, 1301 West Campus.
Richard W. Sevier, 1100 Indiana.
Catherine Minor Miller, 1731 Kentucky.
John W. Parrott, 1100 Indiana.
Achilles V. Wheat, 1901 West Campus.
Nelle Smallwood, Corbin hall.
Catherine Osgood, 1238 Mississippi
Marguerite Adams, Sunflower.
Robert Westmacott, Pt 6.
Marian Minor, 1045 West Hills.
Robert Fleming, Lecompton.
Admitted Sunday.
Dismissed Sunday
Donald Gordon, 1416 Tennessee.
Claudia Baldwin, 1247 Ohio.
Kansas Yields Fossils, Hibbard Tells Geology Club
Manchurian Industry Is Stripped By Russians To End Competition
Digging for fossils in southwestern Kansas is worthwhile, according to Dr. Claude Hibbard, curator of vertebrate paleontology, who spoke to members of the geology club last week.
Dr. Hibbard said that this section of the state is very rich in fossils, and he mentioned that 84 vertebrates have been found there. After explaining the geological formations of the section, he showed slides of various localities in which he and others from the University have collected fossils.
By REYNOLDS PACKARD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Changchun. (UP)—Russia appears to want Manchuria, once a great industrial center and arsenal, reduced to a weak state which cannot be a threat to Siberia.
The Russians are letting the giant industrial machine built by the Jap nese during their 14 years of control fall to bits like a piece of wormy wood
This seems to be a fulfillment to the Russian desire not to have a highly developed industrial state on the southern borders of Siberia.
During the months I have been in Manchuria I haven't seen one bit of evidence that Russia is trying to reconstruct Manchuria, even for her own interests.
On the contrary, I have noted many indications that Russia is continuing to strip these parts of heavy machinery, generators, and hydraulic equipment.
The Russians' interest in Manchuria, so far as I have been able to judge from what I've seen, is stripping this area of heavy machinery and sending it to Siberia for newly created industrial areas there, like that at Chita.
I have seen Soviet soldiers with tommyguns at both Mukden and Changchun prevent Chinese repair experts from entering the looted and smashed factories which the Chinese municipal authorities wanted reopened. The Chinese authorities have only nominal power.
All Japanese soldiers in this area are authoritatively reported to have been sent into Siberia, probably to Chita as factory workers.
Industrial life has been suspended throughout Manchuria. The Russians are making no effort to revive it, and the Chinese are not able in most cases to enter the plants and establishments to carry out a reconstruction program.
It was suggested in some quarters that the Russians would like to set up a weak buffer state in Manchuria, while turning their interests to Europe and the Middle East.
Chinese quarters here point out that during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Russians were called to concentrate hundreds of thousands of troops in a military equipment in Siberia against the threat raised by the Japanese.
This was suggested especially because of the presence of U.S. marines in northern China, as close to Manchuria as Ching Wang Tao, only 14 miles from the great wall along the gulf of Liaotung.
Such a settlement would enable Russia to transfer some of her Siberian troops westward.
The American marines were cited by the Russians in almost every conversation I've had with them as the reason why Soviet troops remain in Manchuria.
Mrs. Praeger Receives Award For Husband's Action
Mrs. Verda Ames Praeger, college senior, received the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for her husband Maj. R. B. Praeger in a ceremony at Ft. Riley last week.
Maj. Praeger was credited with keeping alive the spirit of resistance in northern Luzon after the Philippines had surrendered to the Japanese.
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