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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 6,1945
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
Service, 420 Madison Ave. New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence and add $1 a semester postage). Published in Law School Journal. In the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class master Sept. 17, 1810, at the Poet Office at Kansas City, Kan., under set of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
ELEANOR ALERIGHT ... Managing Editor
MONGINA VIRGINIA OVERDE ... Asst. Editor
MANJAMET GAYNON ... Makeup Editor
BITTY JENNIFER ... Telegraph Editor
PATICIA PENNEY ... News Editor
BILLIE M. HAMILTON ... Asst. Editor
MIKE M. WIRELAND ... Sorcery Editor
MIGAREL WENSKI ... Sports Editor
JANE ANDERSON ... Feature Editor
CLIO NOBEL ... Feature Editor
MARIAN SAYLOR ... Research Editor
MARIAN THOMSON ... Asst. Feature Editor
JOYHOW LAMO ... Copy Editor
Telegraph Editor
JOAN VEATCH DINIE GILLILAND
EDITORIAL STAFF
BARBARA EWING        JASN MURRAY
NEAL SHEEAN          PAUL CONRAD
DANIEL BOWEN
BUSINESS STAFF
DOLORES SULZMAN | Editor-in-Chief
LOEWEN KING | Editorial Associates
NANCY TOMLISON ... Business Manager
BETTY BEACH ... Advertising Manager
Assistants: BQR BORNEBANK, MARY BRAMI-
GAN, ANN RENDING, ANN COFFEE, SLYMIA
A master sergeant of the Fifth Marine division, who received his master's degree at Drake university, wrote to the Drake dean of liberal arts:
SMALL, ELFANOR THOMPSON.
In Charge This Issue ... ANNE SCOTT
A Vet Speaks
"The student's course should be more strictly regulated. This the veteran may not want, but let me point out that I escaped from the university without ever having taken a course in economics or mathematics. I now regret it, for in understanding the world as it is, economic factors are always to be considered, and I am handicapped."
The veteran sergeant points out that education in the arts and sciences should be improved. New perspectives have caused veterans to expect something more from formal education than a ready-made bunch of facts. What these veterans want is something all students have a right to expect from the colleges today.
"The average student of the past has been over-complacent because facts have too often been presented to him as facts," the ex-sergeant believes, "and not in their relation to human behavior—past, present and future.
"It seems to me that all freshmen should be startled or shocked out of the lethargy which society has imposed upon them. Something is not true merely because someone has said so."
The veteran in college he explains, will be serious enough to be interested in the world which he has encircled in his battles. He will want to know the cause of human conflicts and means of their elimination. He knows that future security depends on him and others who have seen at first hand the nations in tumult.
"More and more the colleges should work toward developing in a student the critical attitude of mind that will pierce through convention and superstition and ignorance, and will open up to him the world of ideas," the sergeant concluded.
Editor's note: The sergeant's letter to the dean appeared in full in an Associated Collegiate Press "Parade of Opinion" release.
Discharged G.I. Janes should have some new and rigorous ideas on housekeeping.
Hollow Word to a House-Hunting Veteran
Let's Hear from You
Each ASC member holds a number of executive positions in addition to his seat on the Council. If all students capable of leadership are to be trained, these positions must be more widely distributed
A study of the personality sketches of All-Student Council representatives which have been appearing in the Daily Kansan indicates that the University is in definite need of a point system to limit the activities in which an individual may participate.
The 1941 surprise Pearl Harbor attack seems to have been no surprise at all. At least that's the way it looks now after four years of reflection—and war.
Where is our Forums board?
Which is more important—a study of the problems of peace or participation in a number of minor clubs which struggle to arrange interesting programs every week?
Poor Distribution
In the "good ol' days" the Forum, board kept the Daily Kansan copy desk bogged down with copy concerning movies, discussions, radio programs, and speakers it was sponsoring. This year it's the board that's bogged down.
—Cartoon From The St. Louis Star Times
Tea Party or Peace
Many students have indicated that they would sign up for the campus peace project if it were not that they are already "doing so many extra-curricular things" they feel they "don't have time for any more." The problem resolves into one of evaluation.
It seems only logical for these organizations to cut down on their activities to make room for a more vital and timely project.
Forums board is an organization which could, and should be, of real service to the University. Maybe Forums board members are working hard in their own quiet way What we want to see is the result of this "quiet" labor.
What Do You Think?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE "LONGER SKIRTS FOR 1946" TREND?
"I thk it's, definitely repulsive Certainly not a sign of progress.— Erich Eulich, business senior, Kansas City, Mo.
"Lengthen them? Why mine already come to the middle of my knees!" — Georgianna Sewell, fine arts freshman, Sabetha.
"I guess I'm a romanticist. I think it would make women more picturesque."—Bruce Worthington, College freshman, Ogden Meadows, Wash.
"Shows we're heading toward the 'sad nineties' again—bustles, mustache caps, surreys, and intemperance."-Dean Smith, College senior, Selden.
"I don't think it's a good idea. There's no sense in the cycle of change in women's fashions. Besides it would waste a lot of good material."—Richard Gunn, College junior, Kansas City.
"I'm again' it. I think it's a revolting idea. It makes the legs look silly."—Barbara Ford, College sophomore, Osborne.
"I think it would be an improvement. Some people don't have such cute knees."—Christine Christy, College sophomore, Wichita.
"A vicious, reactionary movement engendered by international bankers, reds, and other un-American groups." —Rhoten A. Smith, College junior, Lawrence.
"I don't like it. I'd rather see them shorter."—A. J. Ross, V-12, engineering senior, North Bergen, N.J
"One inch is all right. Beyond that, no!" - Marilyn McAlister, College sophomore, Winfield.
"It seems to me to be a very unprogressive move."—Foster Reynolds, V-12, engineering senior, Upper Darby, Pa.
"Tm in favor, Some of these K.U. calves need hiding."—William Ellis, College sophomore, Mound City.
"Speaking as a married man, I say it's bad. It means a new wardrobe for the little woman. Besides, it's going to hide a lot of scenery."
—Henry Brown, College junior, Lawrence.
And then the department of speech and drama offers a closing answer—the old one about how dresses, like speeches, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting.
Will Jap Women Get Square Deal
Now that Occidental powers are holding sway in Japan, we wonder if the Japanese women will take advantage of this opportunity to rise above their low status in life.
Japanese women, often quite pretty, look happy enough, but underneath this decorative contentment they must be the most unhappy women in the world. The Japanese girl is trained as either the servant or pretty toy of men. Her artificial poses and smiles have the timelessness of an old art.
The Japanese women are required to know family duties, etiquette, and flower arrangements. Their only education is for the career of marriage, unless they become geishas. They cannot divorce their husbands, but their husbands can divorce them by sending them back to their families.
Until a son is 12 years old, the mother guides her child. When he is 12, she gives him the hara-kiri dagger and steps out of his life. According to the law in Japan, the child belongs only to the husband, anyway. The mother's only purpose is to give him life. Even during childbirth, etiquette denies an anesthetic and forbids the mother to utter a sound.
The Japanese woman has not the slightest degree of domestic freedom. Her only sure release from her trials in life is suicide, and even in this final act she cannot assert free will. She may drown herself or leap into a volcano, but she is not wortily to commit hara-kiri. If she wishes to have the honor of dying
Rock Chalk
By MARIAN MINOR and MARILYN STEINERT
Erf! Erf! Grandma come down on the rafters, you're too old to be on the beam.
Birds of a feather. "Doc" Wheeler and "Phog" Allen have something in common, or didn't you notice those red plaid stockings "Phog" displayed at the basketball game?
What parents don't know. "Could you tell me where the Theta house is?" queried a gentleman to two pedestrians in front of the Chi O house. Directions were given, but the nice man insisted it must be right where he was because his daughter had given him explicit directions where to find her.
By this time "Ginny" Larson was shouting, "Oh, Daddy," from a window in the Chi O house.
Mutual interest. Some of the Sig Alfs have started a fraternity within a fraternity. Bill Mayor, SAE, says its Greek name is Sigma Epsilon Chi, or SEX.
Is this trip necessary? A few couples were waiting to be served at the "Hawk" and one of the girls held up her hand. Whereupon a member of the group said quietly, "All right, you may be excused."
Lost: One pair of pre-war tennis shoes. Last seen hanging from the flag pole in front of the Sig Alf house.—Donna Mueller.
More blackout. When the surprise blackout came the other evening a few organized houses were suspicious. The Chi Omegas thought the Phi Psis were out again and the Phi Psis suspected the Chi Omegas. The DU's reincarnated their beer bottles by giving them an extra coat of wax.
It could happen to you. How would you feel if you came home simply worn to a nubbin from a strenuous Saturday in Kansas City to find not one stick of furniture in your room, not even a mirror left on the wall, and the closet containing all of your clothes padlocked? Confronted with this situation, two Tipperary girls turned the other cheek declaring open house and inviting the culprits in for a dance since there was plenty of room.
Thousands of Seattle readers have a reason to be glum these days. Since the newspaper strike closure Nov. 18, they are getting desperate to get some word of Dick Tracy and Dagwood Bumstead.
While the villians feted, the hostesses went to work on the sleeping porch. Ahh . . . sweet revenge.
University High To Present 'Arsenic'
"Arsenic and Old Lace" will be presented by the senior class of University high school at 8 p.m. Dec. 18 in Fraser theater. Robert E. Perkins English instructor, is directing the play. Miss Ruth Lichen, senior class sponsor, is business manager.
Members of the cast are Elizabeth LeSeuer, Lowell Ashby, John Riling, Richard Barlow, Whitfield Anderson, Betty Stephenson, Eleanor Wells, Bob Moorman, Neil Tucker, David Lawson, and Charles Krone.
The third governor of Kansas was John W. Geary, also first mayor of San Francisco.
with her husband, she must obtain his permission.
Until now, the Japanese women have accepted their fate because they knew only one way of life. The current of living in Japan as a whole is bound to be affected now. The extent of change can only be anticipated—C.N.
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