UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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JANUARY 21,1946
University
DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
Represented by the National Advertising Rep-
sentation, 420 Madison Ave. New York City.
Mail subscription; $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawn address)买 $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawn addressthe school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Kann, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
DIOLORES SUJMAN
ELEANOR ALRIGHT
NANCY TOMLSONS
BETTY BEACH
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
A Field Day
What could we learn about Russia if there were no censorship, either at the source of the news or in the transmission of it?
Aside from the fact that a free flow of vital information out of the Soviet Union would help clear up the most important international problems of the day, the free flow of news from Russia would make very good reading.
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Books and magazines by the stacks have been written about Russia in the last 20 years, and lecturers have lectured on it by the hour. But the public remains woefully ignorant of life in Russia. The ignorance of the public is one of the primary causes of the widespread distrust of Russia in America. It is due to two principal factors—the confusion in the minds of many who read the books and the total lack of anything to be confused in the minds of millions who don't read the books.
What we need is a great corps of crack correspondents and free-lance writers who would have permission from the Soviet government to roam over the country, writing what they observe.
Think of the field day our newswriters and feature artists would have.
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We Americans, who know what expanse of territory means, would like to read descriptive stories of the vast Russian landscape, from the wheatfields of the Ukraine to the icefields of the Bering Sea. Being well acquainted with what it means to live among people of many origins, we'd enjoy articles telling us all about the 80 or more different races living within the boundaries of the Soviet Union.
We'd like to know the state of the church in Russia, how many young men and women go to college, how the collective farms have worked out, whether there is really a new ruling class, and the extent of application of the Russian constitution.
If the flow of news between Russia and the United States could be made to compare with that between Canada and the United States, Mexico and the United States, and Great Britain and the United States, it would enrich our reading material and help establish a peaceful understanding between two powerful countries.
A new AAA has been born, this one guaranteed to be constitutional. It is the Atomic Age association, a group of students dedicated to fostering the concept of world government as the only defense against war.
The back page of the ad-less newspaper, PM, now shows several columns of "Situation Wanted" notices which are given, not sold, to former servicemen needing jobs.
After all the publicity the O.P.A. got on not receiving any letters of thanks for discontinuing rationing, we wonder if some kind soul might not have responded with a belated note of appreciation.
Time is free, but woe to him who continues to squander it.
Rock Chalk Talk
By ANNE
New angle, girl bites boy. Yes it's been done, girl has hitten boy. Maybe it was for the money or just for the heck of it when Mila Williams, Alpha Chi, on a dare (for a dollar) bit Jerry, the houseboy. As the unsuspecting male served Mila her dessert, the wolverine instinct popped out and Mila BIT. Need it be said that Jerry returned to the dining room with a huge towel wrapped around his serving arm? Alpha Chi sisters think this is the case of Mila's reading too much about the wolf girl in 'Lil Abner.
Yes, final week is drawing nigh much to our regret, but you could never tell it by class notes we found We quote: "Quack, queen, king, the quick brown foxie jumped over the lazy dog. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to mix it with. Four score and seven years ago—was 1859 —ridiculous, what? London bridge is falling down, who cares 'cause pancakes are flat. Poverty-striken Dick's Astrology Magazine (meaning Poor Richard's Almanac to the still sane readers) Les Miserables, Les Brown, Brown Miserables and Les and Les and Less." Yes, less and less time before finals, beware or you too will go beserk and end up like the poor author of the above notes!
Continued story. Rev. Mullins is beyond the point of caring whether his young heir is illiterate or not. He just wishes that Rev III would quit
SCOTT
VOICING his opinion so loudly 'cause the proud, but tired, poppa slept only 24 hours last week. What with doing all the housekeepings, holding down a job, and trying to pass his courses, it's just too much for him.
Shoe rationing is over, but shoes are still shoes. Since her grade was down in "Unionology" at midsemester, a coed sauntered over to raise it a little. You know how these D's look on the transcript. While waiting to be served the diligent student decided to light-up. That she did! Feeling an odd burning sensation near her feet, she glanced down to see what it was all about. Ha, big joke. You see, after lighting the cigarette she forgot to blow the match out. Well, as matches will do, this one kept burning—and did her shoestrings, her shoes, and her feet.
Candles in the dark. A K.U.
scholar, full of good intentions,
settled down to study the other right.
Everything was swell, she was in it
(her study) up to her neck. But
then the lights went out. Always
prepared, she found some little
candles and continued. Just when
she decided to go to bed, the lights
came on. "Well, that's life," she
thought. The blow came when she
started to wash her face—the water
failed to co-operate. As far as she
was concerned, the whole evening
was shot—no studyin', no washin',
no nothin'.
Letters to the Editor
Quack Club President Explains Tryout Rules
Perhaps it would be wise to look into the way Quack club selects its members. Once each fall and once each spring tryouts are held to which all women enrolled in the University are invited.
Dear Editor:
University Daily Kansan
The girls trying out are lined up in four lines and asked to demonstrate, for form, not speed, the front crawl, back crawl, and side stroke. In the same group of four they swim one length for speed and perform three surface dives. Each applicant must tread water or float on her back for three minutes, perform an acceptable standing front dive, and swim 25 consecutive lengths of the pool.
The members of the club rate each girl on each event, except speed, on the basis of a perfect score of ten. No girl is eligible for menorship who does not have a
If a check is taken of the sororites which have the most members in Quack club, it will be found that they are also the houses which have won the intramural swimming meets. Then, too, sororites can see to it that their good swimmers try out; it is up to the Independent's own initiative. At least 85 per cent of Quack candidates are Greeks.
Marilyn McEwen, Quack club president
six plus average in all of these things.
It is one thing to be easy in the water, to have endurance, to have speed, but something quite different to have excellent form. I have seen many sorority women with equally high recommendations as the examples used in last Thursday's letter, turned down for the same reason—lack of form.
I hope Quack club keeps on choosing its members, not by their reputations and past glories, but by the actual ability and technique they demonstrate.
Ernest Pagano, Paramount script writer, christened his estate El Rancho Costa Mucha.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
University of Kansas Monday, Jan. 21
Bell Music Company
Intra-Fraternity council meeting, 8 o'clock tonight, Pine room, Union building.
All-Student Council meeting, 7:15 p.m., Tuesday, Pine room, Union building.
The Bitter Bird offices, located on the lower floor of the Union building, will be open from 3:30 to 5 p.m. daily.
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Independents Council meeting, 7 o'clock tonight, Union building.
Forensic League meeting, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, East room, Union building.
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The K.U. Dames will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Memorial Union. Women from the Sunflower Ordnance Works will be guests.
Starvation, idleness, and cold are poor leaders but great powers in the post-war world-New York Times.
WANT ADS
FOUND—A Chicago Lock Co. key.
Owner may have by paying for this
ad at the Kansan office.
FOUND—Pair of mittens at Hoch auditorium Tuesday night. Owner may have by identifying and paying for this ad at Kansan office.
STOLEN—One set of Lasico drawing instruments from mechanical engineering laboratory. Call 348- Hauserman. No questions asked. Seven dollars reward.
FOR RENT—Rooms for Girls 1247 Ohio.
FOR SALE—National Graftex camera f.3.5 lens, 1/500 shutter. Case included. Call R. Kunkle, 3386.
LOST—Green Sheafer lifetime pen and pencil set in library. Name, Goodell, engraved on side' Reward. Call 257. Jacqueline Goodell.
LOST—Black Sheaffer pen with gold trim between University High and Ad building. Reward, card 355.
Hand painted, hand carved, and made in Peru. A keepsake. Finder please call K.U. 66 or leave at the Kansas office.
LOST-Black bone bracelet with silver plates on each link (5 links).
FOUND—A pair of glasses. Owner t may have same by identifying and paying for this ad at the Kansan office or cal K.U. 66.
FOUND—A key chain with five keys on it, found at a West Hill Bus stop. Owner may have same by identifying and paying for this ad at the Kansan office.
LOST—Black Sheaffer fountain pen on campus Thursday. Gold band with Doris Dixon engraved. Please call Doris Dixon, 898.
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