UNIVERSITY* DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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JANUARY 17,1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
Kansas Press Association Represented
by the National Advertising Service, 420
Madison Avenue, New York City.
Mail subscription; $3 a semester, $45 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence and add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence. Kan., every month during the academic year for 6 days. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered at second class master Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Kansas, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
EDITORIAL, STAFF
Dolores Salzman
Editor-in-Chief
Morgan Loren Louren Kang
Assoc.
Julia Aune
Editor
NEWS STAFF
Eleanor Albright ... Managing Editor
Virginia Van Order ... Asst. Managing Ed.
Mary Margaret Gaynor ... Makeup Editor
Bibby Sawyer ... Telegraph
Patricia Penney ... Assistant Editor
Billie M Hamilton ... Ast. News Editor
Becky Vallette ... Society Editor
Margaret Wenski ... Sports Editor
Mike Johnson ... Feature Editor
Cioe Norris ... Military Editor
Annabette Saylor ... Research Editor
Catherine Osgood ... Asst. Society Ed.
Neal Shoeban ... Asst. Sports Ed.
Marion Thomson ... Feature Ed.
Telegraph News
Joan Veatch Dixie Gilland
Staff Assistant
Paul Conrad, Jean Murray, Barbara Ewing,
Margery Stubbs, Lela Strahynow,
Alna Robison, Martha Jewell, LaVone
Craig, Alamade Jewell.
BUSINESS STAFF
Nancy Tomlinson  Business Manager
Betty Beach  Advertising Manager
Assistants: Mary F. Beals, Robert Bonenbrake, Mary Branigan, Ruth Clayton,
betty Mace Origin, Ann Redding, Anne Shepard, Linda Smith, Eleanor Thompson, Patricia Creel.
Dear Mr. Robey
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Business Tides," a weekly column by Ralph Robey in Newsweek magazine frequently sets the stage for late-hour bull sessions among students who read Newsweek for class assignments or otherwise. In an editorial Open Letter, Loren King, editorial associate, takes issue with Mr. Robey.
Your column in the Jan. 14 News-week tries to prove that President Truman has been "all mixed up in his selection of the group with which to be annoyed."
Congress, you state, has done Mr. Truman a service in saving him from "himself and from those who have misled him," by refusing to pass the president's legislative program.
Let's look at one of the examples you have sited, Mr. Robey, in the light of truth.
The Unemployment Compensation bill that would have assured those who lost their jobs in the period of reconversion a minimum of $25 a week for a minimum of 26 weeks was a bill that should have been passed. Your argument supporting Congressional inaction on the bill is that employers cannot find workers to fill available jobs because unemployment compensation has allowed "many workers to loaf rather than take jobs at the offered wages."
Mr. Robey, when a business man, for one reason or another, has liquidated a business and has on hand time and resources with which to start a new undertaking, does he put his time and money into the first prospect that bobs up? You know he doesn't. He loafs (and I use the word in the same sense you do) until he finds a deal acceptable to him, whether it takes 26 days or 26 weeks.
Until recent years, however, the average wage earner has been so heavily pressed that if he loses his job, he must immediately find another or begin to lose his living. The advent of unemployment insurance freed the worker of the necessity of taking what he could get quickly
Swell! But When Do I Get the Car?
LETTERS to the Editor
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
University Daily Kansan
Dear Editor:
Perhaps the charge is unjustified. If so, this writer would be happy to apologize to the club. But the fact that the club passed up two swimmers with the following qualifications seems significant;
A check of the Quack club rou shows that the majority of members are sorority women. There is nothing damning in this fact alone, but the more or less popular opinion that these women are assuring their pledge classes members in the club, even though their applicants aren't as competent swimmers as other contestants, doesn't paint any gilt edges on their water wings.
Both women referred to above have passed their junior and senior life-saving tests, both have been swimming instructors. One has been a water safety instructor, and the other swam for two years in one of the largest high school swimming demonstrations in the state. She also participated in a rhythm performance before an outsanding athletic club in Kansas City. Incidentally both looked good in tryouts at K.U.
Lawrence was the capital of the free-state party in Kansas in 1857.
(Editor's note: Tryouts for Quack club membership are held each semester. Applicants are required to execute a number of swimming strokes and techniques. Old members judge the tryouts, discuss the applicants, and grant membership by a majority vote.)
This bargaining power, Mr. Robey, is the worker's measure of economic freedom, an integral part of your free enterprise system. Deny him that freedom and you invalidate all your arguments based on the sanctity of free enterprise.
and made him free to bargain a little with potential employers.
Quack club should come across with a sound explanation or clean u. it eligibility list.—M.T.
On a Note of Triumph
Lord God of trajectory and blast
Whose terrible sword has laid open the serpent
Whose terrible sword has laid open the serpent
so it withers in the sun for the just to see.
Sheathe now the swift avenging blade with the names of nations writ on it. And resist in the preparation of the threat
And assist in the preparation of the ploughshare.
Lord God of fresh bread and tranquil mornings.
Who walks in the circuit of heaven among the worthy, Deliver notice to the fallen young men
That tokens of orange juice and a whole egg appear now before the hungry children;
That night again falls cooling on the earth as quietly as when it tent from your hand;
That Freedom has withstood the tyrant like a Malta in a hostile sea, And that the soul of man is surely a Sevastopol which goes down hard and leaps from ruin quickly;
Lord God of the topecoat and the living wage
Who has furred the fox against the time of winter
Do bring sweet influences to bear upon the assembly line;
And stored provender of bees in summer's brightest places.
Do bring sweet influences to hear upon the assemblage.
Accept the smoke of the milltown among the accredited clouds of the sky
Fend from the wind with a house and a hedge him whom you made in your image,
in your image,
And permit him to pick of the tree and the flock
That he may eat today without fear of tomorrow
And clothe himself with dignity in December.
Lord God of test-tube and blueprint.
Who jointed molecules of dust and shook them until their name was Adam,
Who taught worms and stars how they could live together,
Appear now among the parliaments of the conquerors and give instruction to their schemes:
instruction to their schemes:
Measure out new liberties so none shall suffer for his father's color or the credo of his choice:
Post proofs that brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend;
Sit at the treaty table and convoy the hopes of little peoples through expected straits,
Rock Chalk
And press into the final seal a sign that peace will come for longer than posterities can see ahead.
That man unto his fellow man shall be a friend forever.
—Norman Corwin
By MARILYN STEINERT
Confusing pledge life. One pledge answered the phone one evening, while she was giving some other pledge some lecture notes on second floor, and a call came in. The pledge buzzed up on third for the girl wanted on the phone. The pledge stood there and buzzed about 15 minutes before she realized that she was buzzer girl on third. The pledge received a campus for her brilliant effort.
All mixed-up! the other day a letter addressed to "Chi Omega Pledge Pat" was delivered to the Chi O establishment. Before the letter reached the correct hands, five Pats had read it.
One girl had a little mix-up the other evening when she received a phone call from a boy and made a date. The only thing she could understand was that the boy was a Sigma Nu. Becoming a little worried about the date, when Friday came, she asked on of the Sigma Nus whom she had a date with. Saving the day, the Sigma Nu informed her.
Have you seen? Those red and green plaid slacks Barbara Breed, Pi Phi has been sporting. The other morning she wore them to Professor Chubb's class. After class a friend came up to her and asked how Professor Chubb liked the ensemble. Barbara retorted: "I sat on the front row and he acted like a perfect gentleman."
Every day somebody drops something. Orville Roberts is no exception. His "drop" goes something like this: "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine."
Theacrifice Thale. Virginia Powell, Miller hall, trying to fix up her finances, launched a private rumage sale of out-grown apparel with an advertisement announcing a "Clothing Out Sale."
Fag Finances. Speaking of finances, Horace the type louse was drowning in the library the other day. He noticed at least two dozen good-sized cigarette butts in the smoking annex on the way out. His first and only thought was "What these stubs would have bought in France!"
Frat-Frolicking
A news story from the University of Wisconsin tells about the attitude of war-sobored students toward fraternity antics. Quoting from the story;
"With the return of veterans to the University of Wisconsin campus, many fraternity houses which were closed have reopened—but the so-bearing effects of the war years have created a changed atmosphere.
"Instead of enduring a hectic and often painful Hell-Week during initiation periods, the fraternity pledge now attends dinners given by the fraternity with which he hopes to become affiliated. Members of the faculty are present."
"Asserting that returned war veterans have seen 'too much deadly inhumanity to warm up the paddle-swimming and gold fish eating,' fraternity representatives meeting in Chicago each week said they would substitute a week of education instead of beating."
"Students, too, have tired of the tradition which in many colleges brought disability and sometimes death to the pledge who was the object of the misguided fun.
"By cooperative action on the part of both students and administration, the hazing system has been written off the books in the annals of the fraternities of the University of Wisconsin."
The first Lawrence settlers camped on Mount Orde August 9, 1854.
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