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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 18,1946
University DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
Association of Advertising Repres-
sented 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 Law school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class Date 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3 1879.
ELEANOR ALRIGHT ... Managing Editor
NANCY TOMLINSON ... Business Manager
BETTY BEACH ... Advertising Manager
DLORES SULZMAN ... Editor-in-Chief
Kansan Open Letters
We want to be around when some less Christian soul than Dr. T. Z. Koo is made to compete with the Hoch public address system static.
Dear K.U.:
Heal public address system sauna
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Book Store committee:
Stay in the buggy—we'll get that store yet.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Dean Lawson:
That "lessening the assignments and quizzes" advice you gave faculty members Tuesday was a fine gesture.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Veterans Returning to K.U.:
Someone mentioned that Marvin grove was opened to anyone who'd like to set up a mattress in a fox-hole for the duration of the housing shortage.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Back Assignments:
Any time now—we'll get around to you.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Friday:
You know how we feel about you
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Dear Buildings and Grounds;
The ballet last night didn't put anyone to sleep—but the temperature in Hoch did all right.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
We Know, We Know
Once upon a time, two fuzzy black spiders went to college to major in web-spinning.
The first day of class the professor told them. "Now practice the things I will show you each day, and in four months you will be able to spin better webs and ensnare more insects than any other spider in the garden."
Every day, he taught them some new trick. He told them how to spin strong, silky threads of different lengths and consistencies. Then he showed them how to make large wheel webs in intricate patterns.
One spider always went home after class end practiced, as the professor had told him.
"There's nothin' to it," drawled the other spider, as he lay on a rock in the sun. "It's a snap. I can pick it up without even trying!"
At the end of four months, the professor said. "Now we will go out into the garden and see what you have learned."
The first spider spun a web which shimmered in the sunlight and trapped three flies and a yellow moth.
"Very good," said the professor.
The other spider, who had stayed up all the night before, trying to cram in the hours of practice and development he had missed, crawled out on a lilac bush and began to drop down from a high branch by a thin, uneven thread. Before he had spun a foot, the thread snapped with his weight, and he shot to the ground, stunned.
"Okay, I've learned a lesson," he declared as he struggled to his feet. "Please give me another chance, and next term I'll practice until I can spin the best web you ever saw." But he never did. MT
But he never did.—M.T.
Rock Chalk Talk
Wit's End. We have been intrigued no end by the posters announcing the coming campus poetry contest. We are forced to admit that William Herbert Carruth was pretty good at wielding the pen, but after all, we weren't born yet in his day. Here is our latest gem, "Ode to Socialized Education."
By KEITH WILSON
I love to get up in the mornin'
after a night of quiet sleep.
His
after a night of quiet sleep.
Huzzaz, Huzzaz for the mornin'
intrinsic with vitamins I'm replete.
Oh, it's great to live in the mornin'
when the world is clean, not dirty
Oh, it's great to live in the mornin'
even with an eight thirty.
But when along come the dastard
But with along come the dastard that gives your job the biz With a "Good, good morning kiddies for you I have a quiz!"
—by U. Erz Truely
Mathematics and laundry. Irene James, 833 Indiana, received something like 75 yards of silk from a friend in Japan. The way she figured it, she could style the stuff
into enough nightgowns so that she could wear a new one each night for three weeks. Now she wonders if she should make handkerchiefs instead—and have a clean one every day for a years without sending any to the laundry.
Letters to the Editor
Wondering. Speaking of famous personages, we haven't been able to sleep nights ever since we listened to T. Z. Koo. We still keep wondering—is he related' to 'Kitchy Koo?'
Gosh, Guy. We sided up to the bulletin board the other day to cast a furtive glance at a large four-color poster which read, "Coming! The Don Cossack Chorus." As we stood enrapt by the poetic words, a young freshman turned to us and asked in wide-eyed amazement, "Gee, do ya' think Don Cossack will be here in person?"
Thought for today. They laughed when I stood up to sing. How was I to know I was under the table?
'Not All Good Swimmers
A Chinese proverb says: "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying overhead, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."
Are Quack Club Material' Dear Editor
Before Quack club becomes unjustly involved in the perennial Greek-Independent dispute, I think it is only fair to point out that there are probably just as many "good" Greek swimmers who have not made the organization as there are "good" Independents.
A sign on a New York bank building would have startled our grandfathers, but goes unnoticed in this age of taxation. Exhorting the citizenry to save, it ends up: "Remember, part of all you earn bel- leng to You."
The issue really resolves around the definition of the term "good." Naturally someone who has taught swimming or appeared in home town swimming performances considers herself a good strong swimmer, and knowing little about the standards of the club, excepts almost automatically to become a member.
Being a senior life saver and having taught swimming and participated in water pageants at home, I, too, tried out once for Quack club. I didn't make it. And after watching those who were pledged and being brutally frank with myself, I understood why.
But Quack club isn't interested in just good strong swimmers; it is looking for the strong swimmers with perfect form and style. Many women are quite capable of getting across Robinson pool. Probably they could even take someone with them. But the woman who executes the back crawl with absolute correctness as she swims a length is an exception.
Quack Club pledges these exceptions. It is an organization for already accomplished swimmers who concentrate on difficult formation and precision swimming. Those who still need the rough edges knocked off their form should enroll in an advanced swimming class-if they wish to swim.
—One Who Didn't Get In
As a sorority member I have seen many pledges leave for Quack club tryouts confident that they would "make it." One of them, I remember, managed a large municipal pool for two summers. The next day she was astonished when the members in our house told her she hadn't been selected.
Ong and Chalfant Object to Editorial
University Daily Kansan To the Editor:
Last Wednesday's Daily Kansan gave us a rather poorly-written allegory describing the wandering sheep, the butterflies, and the first-blossoming flowers.
We wonder are the views expressed quite fair to the entire University? We feel sure that a sizable number of the "sheep" would object strenuously. This being the case, why print one, and only one, side of a highly controversial question in a newspaper distributed throughout the state as an index of student opinion? Is the Daily Kansan fulfilling its pledges to represent student opinion fairly?
We are not arguing the merits of the question involved; we simply deplore Daily Kansan policy in taking a stand on the question. "The Fall Fleece" quickly descends from a plane of genuine literary effort to a level of venomous mud-slinging, particularly in its closing sentence. This ill-starred piece of sarcasm would probably win only questionable acclaim in the Kan-Do; its appearance in the Kansan is a striking example of editorial poor taste, prejudice, and lack of judgment.
We haven't decided whether the freshman was bitter about the first semester fees or just confused when he showed several bills through the business office window and said, "Here's my malnutrition fee."
Donald H. Ong
H. F. Chalfant
An editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reminds us that youth is glorious, but it isn't a career.
Blenko BUBBLE GLASS in Beautiful Colors
Hand-Painted Valentines
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Newman club will meet Sunday after 10 a.m. mass. Prof. Leslie Waters will speak.
Friday. Jan. 18
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He Who Hesitates
Vi's Gift Shop Hotel Eldridge
Boston (U.P.)—In the 37-year history of the Christian Science Monitor, no one ever has smoked in the paper's newsroom.
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When Col. Evans Carlson, leader of the famed Carlson's Raiders, visited the newspaper on the invitation of a Monitor Pacific war correspondent, he pulled out a cigarette and struck a match. Then he hesitated.
"Say," he asked one of the editors, "it's all right if I smoke in here, isn't it?"
"Oh, certainly," came the affable reply. Then the editor added with a smile: "Of course, no one ever has."
WANT ADS
LOST—Brown Shaeffers fountain
pen in Room 310, Hoch Auditorium,
Tuesday, January 15. Norma Jeane
Prater on it. Call 290.
LOST—Gray Parker "51" fountain pen with silveh cap. Finder call 3009. Reward.
FOUND—A Chicago Lock Co. key. Owner may have by paying for this ad at the Kansan office.
LOST-Black bone bracelet with silver plates on each link (5 links).
ENDS SATURDAY
"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN"
with GENE TIERNEY
Hand painted, hand carved, and made in Peru. A keepsake. Finder please call K.U. 66 or leave at the Kansas office.
LOST—Maroon Schaeffer pench with name engraved on gold band. Please return to Kansan office or call 3337-M. Mary Ann Sawyer.
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.
FOUND — Red Esterbrook pen.
Owner may have same by identifying at Kansan office and paying for his ad.
The Unforgettable Star of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" in a
New Thrill - Romance of Today!
The Screen's New Heart-beat!
Owl Saturday 11:45
SUNDAY — 4 Days
ENTRANCING . .
DANCING . .
ROMANCING MUSICAL
with FRANK MORGAN
Mildred NATWICK · Mary NASH
Lion AMES