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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 13,1945
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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 year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Registered on September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
You Can't Join YM
With the increased enrollment at the University, the question about the YMCA is raised more often. Perhaps still only every 10th man seems independently interested. But with the registration line predominantly male, the total of 10th men has ceased to be an inconsequential figure.
So the question warrants an answer. Here's what did happen to the YMCA.
First of all, in 1944 Harry O'Kane, the last of a long line of executive secretaries, some good and some bad, left. He was offered far and away more money for a top position in the USO, and, being of sound mind and body, he took it.
Without him the YM still had its own student officers and its advisory board, but as the past had proved, stripped of an executive head, the group lacked continuity and organization. There were scarcely enough men on the campus to make a YM program seem worthwhile, certainly not enough to stir the imagination of student officers who were receiving no steady stimulus from an older leader.
While the YMCA was inactive, the advisory board and the standing officers kept in touch with national headquarters and tried to hire another secretary. But as in so many other cases during the war, the right man could not be found, especially at the low salary the University was prepared to pay.
The Board is still searching for this right man. And, even though the salary remains the same, chances that they will find him are looking up.
But in the meantime, what happens to the YMCA? What do we tell the veteran, who used to go to the meetings, when he asks where to sign up?
The advisory board and the present set of officers seem to feel that the YMCA has a place on the campus. They believe its discussions attacking problems from the Christian viewpoint answer a definite need in the lives of young men who are interested in right living. They believe that the YMCA provides a valuable basis for the social life of many students, that it serves as a medium of self-expression, giving many University men an opportunity to develop their personalities and their leadership potentials to the fullest extent. Undoubtedly, the YMCA does offer these things.
Do we, then, tell the veteran that he can't join the YM? He can't join because there isn't one?
Or are there students who can rise to the occasion and start the YM now before new students who are interested fill their time with other things?
Perhaps as one member of the advisory board put it "the history of the YMCA has been the history of its leadership." And perhaps 'its leadership always has meant the executive secretary. But that does not mean that the initiative in this instance, when necessity demands, could not possibly be taken by the students themselves.
Certainly, if there are students interested in the YMCA, they'll never have a better chance to show what they can do.
The G.I. And Conscription
In the February Atlantic monthly is a provocative answer to the proponents of universal military conscription written from the G.I. point of view by a man who served as an ambulance driver beside the dogfaces in this, the bousiest of all wars. Admitting that one man cannot speak officially for the G.I. as a class, the writer, Edgar L. Jones, nevertheless presents an often-heard expression of the fighting-man's attitude toward war, the armed services, the home front, and the government's dangerous short-sightedness.
Epititled "One War Is Enough," the article is a scathing attack on American self-righteousness, narrowness, guaranteed to make any wishful-thinking, well-fed, socially amoral student squirm. It describes graphically what modern war does to American youth, and masterfully understates the soldier's amazement that the homefolks are planning the next war even as he is coming home from this one.
When the president first raised the question of universal conscription, a poll among the nation's fighters indicated that a majority of them were in favor. This Mr. Jones has explained away by saying that under the stress of the war itself, the blind hatred of war and all its associations led many men to seek relief through recrimination by wishing its hardships onto other American boys.
Given a little time back in the states, he says, these men would vote for saving the peace by peaceful methods, not for vainly trying to save peace through warlike methods that can only destroy it.
Perhaps realizing this, he speculates the advocates of conscription are rushing things so that while the atmosphere of war still surrounds us we can he propagandized into adopting universal military training.
A month ago we might have listened to Mr. Jones and let it go at that. We knew a number of G.I.'s, but not enough for a cross section poll. Today it's different. With the University flooded with returned service men, we shouldn't have to accept one man's idea of what the G.I. is thinking.
And what is he thinking? Does Mr. Jones correctly represent his attitude? Well, perhaps we don't have long to wonder. Perhaps the G.I. himself will straighten us out.—L.K.
With Oliver Wendell Holmes dead and buried, the tattered ensigns of the Saratoga, the Salt Lake City, the Pennsylvania, and other famous fleet members will be given to more than the lightning and the gale when the navy performs its atomic experiment in May.
James Petrillo's theme song—"Music for Millions-for Me."
Rock Chalk Talk
By KEITH
Even the workers who supervised the torture chamber installed for this week only in Robinson gymnasium had their troubles. Ed Surface was working diligently at one of those desks toward the west end of the floor where, after coming all the way down the line, the student is told he is missing something and is sent scurrying back to do it all over again. Becoming bored with his sadistic work, Ed leaned back in his chair, and the whole works collapsed in a heap on the floor. Which just goes to show that you can't trust anybody any more.
WILSON
"Oh," he gulped to the girl at the bottom of the stairs, "I thought this was where the engineers enrolled."
One new student bounded hopefully through the line at the east entrance to Robinson. Upon reaching the stairs, he took the wrong turn and headed toward the women's dressing room. In mid-flight he caught sight of the large warning sign "Women."
As the day lingered on the line of handsome young vets before Dean Ulmer's desk lengthened to formidable proportions. The co-eds acting
as guides could not bear to see this mass of masculinity go unattended, so before long everyone else in Robinson was standing up while the line before the dean's desk reclined in comfortable chairs provided by the guides.
A new student got her directions mixed and became hopelessly lost in the enrollment maze. Finally giving up, she went over to a desk to ask for instructions. "Have you been in the pen vet?" she was asked.
Marge Free, Kappa rush captain, opened her mail Monday to find a letter recommending a new student. Among other things the letter announced that the prospect "is six feet tall, weights 170 pounds, and has won letters in boxing, football, and weight lifting in high school. He is a swell fellow who is easy to live with and would make a good member of your organization."
"Why, no," she replied somewhat ruffled, "I'm from a respectable family."
Ex-Chancellor's Desk Returns After 63-Year Vacation
Bewildered, Marge looked at the envelope again. It was addressed to "Membership Chairman, Kappa Sigma."
AT THE HOSPITAL
Admitted Tuesday
Jean Oliver Moore, 1400 Tennessee
Canyon Hall Stone, 1702 Mas-
sachusetts
Osea Carolyn Williams, 1837 Kentucky.
Thelma Harmon, 1101 Mississippi.
Hiphk Hicks, PT 7.
Dismissed Tuesday
Kenneth Eldon Miller, 1541 Tennessee.
Recent Surgery
Jeanne Cooper, 1317 Massachusetts
Denzel Gibbons, 1325 Connecticut
John C. Cory, 1005 Maine.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Wednesday, Feb. 13
Kappa Sigma meeting 7 tonight Templin hall,1407 La.All members are invited.
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Christian Science organization meeting 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Pine room, Union. All new Christian Science students are invited.
Forensic League meeting 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow, East room, Union.
A part-time position for staff announcer on KFKU is open. Apply program director, 115 Friser, Thursdays or Friday between 4 and 5:30 p.m.
It was not surprising that the first prize winner of the "I don't like Jack Benny because" contest was a lady from California. Jack Benny has spent most of his time in Hollywood; the Californians know him best.
We hope traveling conditions improve before interplanetary travel is developed. Imagine standing all the way to the moon!
A New York department store advertises "real rubber, gas masks, made to protect the GITs" and invites children to "be the first kids in town with a real gas mask."
Jaytalking--
The Gettysburg address was recited from the stage of Boston's Symphony hall in a test of the acoustics. Abe would be pleased to know that it's still of some practical use.
A motor journal says that the $200 car is bound to come. What we'd rather know is—will it go?
Talk about comics contributing to juvenile delinquency!
One thing about the steel strike, Pittsburghers got a glimpse of the sun, the first in quite some time.
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After 63 years, Chancellor Marvin's desk has returned to K.U.
The black walnut desk was used constantly by Chancellor Frank O. Marvin for more than 40 years. Recently the desk was returned to the University from Chicago by William C. Hoad, former student and professor of engineering; and is now in Prof. Leonard Axe's office in Frank Strong hall.
Dr. Marvin, clergyman and professor of mathematics came to the University from Meadeville, Pa. He resigned in the summer of 1883.
Chancellor Marvin died in Lawrence, July 9, 1901. The desk was given to Mr. Hoad in his will.
The donor of the desk was graduated from the University in 1898, and roamed at the Chancellor's home (now Carrhull hall) for one year. He taught civil engineering at the University.
At the 1943 commencement, Professor Hoad was awarded the alumni citation for "genuine talent as a teacher and developer of young engineers." He now lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Marvin hall is named for the Chancellor's son, Frank O. Marvin, who became dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture in 1893.
Washington. (UP)—Eleven noted German atomic scientists, "kid-naped" by Anglo-American forces last spring, are being allowed to return to Germany under orders to remain in the U.S. or British zones, it was revealed today.
The group includes Otto Hahn, first man to split the uranium atom, a feat that laid the groundwork for the atomic bomb.
New York, (UF)—Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans boat builder who closed his three plants because of a labor dispute, is going back into business with a new 12 million dollar corporation that will bargain with any union that employs of the old company select.
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HELP WANTED—4 students for floor work, 11:30 to 1:15 at the Union Fountain. Three students for counter work, breakfast and noon, in the Cafeteria. Apply to Miss Zipple, at the Union.
FOR SALE—Two Navy officers blue uniforms, size 37 and 42. One tux size 36 and two tux shirts size 15-33. Call 2470W.
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