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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 14, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KINGSTON 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: $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 school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, grad examination periods, entered as second semester Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., March 3, 1879.
Relaxing Is Back
"Where is this women's lounge the WEC is asking me to contribute to?" "You've caring and won't be back next year. Why should I help?"
"What good will a lounge in Frank Strong hall do me? All of my classes are in Fraser."
Many University women have asked such questions during the past few weeks, since WEC representatives visited organized houses to tell of the project. Some women living in private homes may not know what it is all about.
is at about: contributing to the fund for the new women's lounge on the second floor of Frank Strong hall, University women will be taking one more step toward University life "as it used to be."
step toward University, the three-room lounge gave them a place on the campus to study, cat-nap, or relax between classes. Club meetings were held there, and on Thursdays organized houses sponsored teas, to which women students could drop in for a few minutes or for the afternoon. Then the war began, and the navy took over, converting the space into an office. The new generation of students who arrived did not know that the lounge had existed.
had existed.
Now, with the navy office vacated, the WEC and the University are cooperating to raise the $2,000 needed to redecorate and furnish the lounge. The University will duplicate University women's contributions, which are (to be left at the office of Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women.
With a color scheme of gray and Chinese red, the lounge will have a large room with tables and comfortable chairs for studying and visiting, a smaller room with curtained-off cots, and a kitchen with gas burners and a sink for the use of organizations preparing teas.
After the lounge is completed this spring, University women will discover that dropping in there during their free hours, besides being easier than going home or crossing the campus to the Union, is a good way to meet old friends and make new ones.
The woman student who gives a dollar to the lounge fund will have the enjoyment of the lounge's facilities herself, and the satisfaction of knowing that she has added something to the college life of those who will be here after she is gone.
Standard Conduct?
President Truman's insistence on Edwin W. Pauley for under-secretary of navy has forced the resignation of Harold L. Ickes, former secretary of the interior.
Ickes testified against senate recommendation of the appointment last week on the grounds that Pauley's interests in oil (Standard of California, chiefly) would prejudice his operation in such a position. As under-secretary he would have great influence in the navy's oil contracts. No-one was greatly surprised at this; Ickes has always had a reputation for his outspoken criticism of anyone who incurs his displeasure.
Yet it cannot be forgotten that Pauley and Ickes were quite buddy-buddy during the war while the secretary was running the office of petroleum administrator. Ickes chose for the deputy petroleum administrator, Ralph K. Davies, president of Standard Oil of California, and later defended his choice on the grounds that he had been recommended by Pauley.
Other men of the office were selected on the basis of their acceptability to the oil industry. Ickes, Davies, and Pauley made beautiful music together until Ickes became suspicious in the spring of '45 that Pauley was laying plans to get his job.
If it's a question of oil, the problem may be where can an oil man do the most good, for the oil men . . . in the department of interior or the department of navy? Pauley may have decided on the navy and given up his desire for Ickes' job. Ickes may also know that the gravy's thicker in the navy and, therefore, is trying to keep Pauley out.
The point is, there's more to this than meets the eye.-LK.
The only cheerful thing about all the trouble the "firm male hands" in Washington are having with labor is the good laugh it must be giving Frances Perkins.
If Drew Pearson should be caught in a libelous statement, his new sponsor, Lee Hats, would probably be able to wiggle out of the suit. Lee spelled backwards. . . .
Since Kansas hasn't changed its stand on prohibition, at least a few veterans returned to find their old jobs waiting for them.
Letters to the Editor Brown Explains Parking Rules
All students, faculty members and employees of the University who wish to park cars on the campus during the restricted hours are required to obtain permits.
The restricted hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, and from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Permit holders may park during these hours, but only in their assigned zones.
Parking is unrestricted along certain portions of the streets bordering the campus. Parking is forbidden at all times where the curbing is painted orange.
Applications for parking permits are now being received. Faculty members, employees, part-time instructors and graduate students should apply for their permits at the University business office, 123 Frank Strong hall.
Undergraduate students should apply at the office of the adviser of men. 223 Frank Strong hall.
A fee of 25 cents is charged for each permit. Permits already issued for the academic year are valid until June 30, 1946, and need not be renewed until that time.
The speed limit on all the thoroughfares of the campus is 20 miles per hour. Violators of the speed limit are required to report to the Lawrence police
Drivers are also requested to proceed more slowly than the legal speed limit of 20 miles per hour during the intervals between classes or other times when the thoroughbirds are crowded with pedestrians.
Penalties for illegal parking and for other violations of the traffic regulations consist of a series of fines. The amount of the fine automatically increases with each succeeding violation.
Students against whom fines have been assessed are not permitted to enroll again in the University until such fines have been paid. Seniors are required to pay their fines before they are graduated.
The actual tagging of cars for violations of the traffic or parking regulations will begin at 7:30 am on Monday, February 25, 1946.
Call K.U. 25 with your news.
F. L. BROWN Parking Committee Chairman
Rock Chalk Talk BY KEITH WILSON
They're going in circles. Frank Curry keeps making the same mistake at Battenfeld. Whenever he sees a new face on the premises, he says, "Hi, sucker," in that benevolent manner seniors take with froth. Later he discovers that the lad was only house president before the war and has returned to do graduate work. . . . It was Jack Nichols who tried to help a vet get in the School of Business. Four cards and five lines later, the advise told Jack he was going back home and get a nice quiet job in a boiler factor. Dean Werner is lamenting the fact that the new men are interested in taking jobs as sorority house boys when he wakes up (--). Greg Trombone is Denverite is the new Jawhawk who has been measuring the 14th street hill for skiing. . Coeds, in case you didn't already know, Earl "Howl" Crawford, Psi, is enrolled for classes, etc., again.
More red tape. Bobby Burch, V-12,
has had just enough leave to get
himself made an active in a secret
society back in his home state, Texas.
One of the pledge duties of the
organization is writing to the gf's of
the actives. Upon order of Bobby,
therefore, Mary Lou Maubhes, D. G.,
received a letter in the last mail. Surreptiously enclosed was an application for a date, requesting Mary Lou's age, weight, height, complexion, and other capacities, plus an estimation of the comfort quotient of her sofa and the walking time between her place and the bus stop.
Louder and we'll dance. A group of late callers at the Gamma Phi house Tuesday night transferred all the furniture into the music room and rolled up the rug. They departed before the girls had come down for breakfast, though, leaving a number of empty calling cards in the hallway and humming a little tune about "Violet."
Our 4-footed friends. All 300 lbs.
2 ozs. of "Canillia" woe-be-gone
hunk of St. Bernard who haunts the
campus, called at the Kappa house
recently. Sid Gleichrist, navy Phi
Delt, had to ring the bell, but Camillia walked in and jumped playfully at pledge Virginia Rogers on her own steam. After the initial fright, those who did not faint or flee (Virginia fled) cheered lustily as houseboys Rod Phillips and Russ Halverson battled to eject the pup.
Taking Off Clothes In Public Is An Art, Administration Decides
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
That much I've got in black and white. It's official. You'll have to judge for yourself about the rest of this dispatch. You may remember a story in the papers a couple of weeks ago about the Veterans' Administration paying for the schooling of some ex-WACs in the technique of the bump and the grind.
Washington. (UP)—The federal government agrees with the Misses Gypsy Rose Lee, Hinda Wassau and Margie Hart that taking off clothes in public is an art. Or at least a craft. And an honest living for a girl who tools smothered in a dress.
Two days later the administration said that it was not, either, footing the bills of any ladies learning how to stand in front of a spotlight and keep time to the music while taking off their dresses and underwear. No strip-teasers among the WACs, the Veterans' Administration said.
Where there's smoke there's fire,
Keep Oily Hands Off the Helm
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
I always say. The Veterans' Administration fills a 12-story building, jammed full of people, working hard. I dropped in, located the man who knows about strip-teasing, and—well, I guess it's congress' fault.
Congress never did say what a veteran, male or female, should study. It said, simply, that if any former member of the armed services wanted to improve himself, the government would put up $500 a year for his tuition and give him $65 a month for room and board.
So about 100,000 men and women discharged from the services have taken up this offer from their Uncle Samuel, the Veterans Administra-tion thought would be a good idea to take a poll and learn what they were studying.
It checked 21,805 of its students against the department of labor's occupational catalogue. This is a big book, which lists all the honest ways there are to earn a living, including strip-teasing (catalogue number 04531).
The Veterans' Administration made a chart, with occupations on the left, and students on the right, and came up with 79 architectus, 69 actors, 115 newspaper reporters, 548 lawyers, two zoo managers, 53 bartenders, 178 preachers, 19 chiropodists, one waiter, eight magnet winders, and several thousand others studying several hundred other jobs.
Yes sir, there it was; strip-teasing.
On the right side of the page was a goose-egg, like this: 0. That indicated no WACs had expressed interest in this profession and so far, so good. Only somebody, obviously in need of bilocals, misread the chart, got 04531 confused with glass benders, and came up with the idea that the government was subsidizing two strip-tease students.
About half way down the list, just after embalmers, 146, and dressmakers, 2, was occupation number 0459.
The man said he didn't like to think about it. I said the labor department saw nothing wrong with strip-teasing. He said that was the trouble. He said he supposed if any lady from the WAC or the WAVERS wanted to undress publicly for a salary, the administration's councilor would try to dissuade her. "But if she is stubborn?" I insisted.
"What." I wondered, "would happen if a lady got out of the army and said she wanted to learn how to be a strip-tease artiste?"
That was bad. The Veterans' Administration rushed out the correction and all was well.
"She'd get her tuition paid in a strip-tease school," he said.
Hiya now, Miss Gypsy!