PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS NOVEMBER 15. 1945 University DAILY KANSAN Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associate Collegiate Press. Represented National Nat'l News Press, 420 Madison Ave. New York City. Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage), Published in Lawrence, school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matte September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Kinsnell, Kin., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF MARY TURINGTON Managing Editor ELEANOR ALLEIGHT Asst. Managing Editor LOREN KING Telegraph Editor ORIGINA ORDER Wes Jones MARIA MARGARET GAYNOR School Teacher PAT PENNICK Sports Editor BILLIE HAMILTON Feature Editor JANE ANDERSON Military Editor GEO NORIS Research Editor MARGARET WENSKI Ast. Sports Editor JOAN YVATCH Campus Editor DOLores SULTMAN ... Editor-in-Chile MARY MORRILL FRANCLIN FEARING } Editorial Associates OVILLE ROWES EDITORIAL STAFI BUSINESS STAFF NANCY TOMLISON ... *Business Manager* BETTY BRACH ... *Advertising Manager* ASSISTANT ... BONNERMAN, MARY BRAMI- NGHIA, HARRY READING, SOLLYVA SMALL, ELEANOR THOMPSON. Rock Chalk Talk By O. A.WEST VISITORS ON MT. OREAD Green and his flyin' machine, And Flash Gordon with all his contraptions,$^*$ They will be here in force and the reason, of course, They've been reading the daily captions. It's a well-known fact that they're coming back—Grads of three generations or more. Those from home and abroad will applaud When again they approach K.U.'s door. There'll be plenty to do out here at KU... There'll be dances, a good game, and teas. And we'll gaze at the stars, old Polaris and Mars, While the nightshirts flap in the breeze. Old grads of K.U.? We bid welcome anew— You're the nation's best leaders, it's known. You climbed up this Hill for four years with a will, Hats off for the valor you've shown. *(*Green and Gordon are not listed at the alumni office—their records probably were destroyed during Quantrill's raid.*) (This poetic contribution was submitted by O. A. West, junior in the Naval R.O.T.C., who, although a K. U. man of two weeks only, seems to Arguing Is Hobby Of Senior Betty Ball, Member of A.S.C. Dear Editor: Letters to the Editor Nature of Training Plan Is Important, Student Says Among the most vital reconversion problems is the familiar pro and con enigma of compulsory peacetime military training for 18-year-olds. It has been the common practice to discuss this controversial subject on a definite basis of "for" or "against" argument, but in the heated debates the actual substance and crux of such training is not usually well defined. have captured the homecoming spirit. Known as "Chaplain" to fellow Salts, West, with 100 other Rotsie's, lives at Lindley hall, known by the residents as the "stables.") We are in favor of any system which will serve us a prepared and organized nation, capable of upholding the established peace. The question is not so much "Should we have military training?" but rather "What will be the nature of the training program and how will it operate?" We sanction a national training program which probably can be most efficiently conducted under a military command. But first we insist upon the assurance that the proposed program will provide us these things—preparedness and individual physical and mental improvement. BETTY BALL A year of training, if conducted progressively and thoroughly, could prove of immense value to most American boys. Senior Favors Adoption Of Military Program To the Daily Kansan: Peacetime military training, a big issue in our reconversion program, is still "sweating it out" in Congress. Loud outcries from sentimentists and theorists are urging our lawmakers, always a little on the lethargic side, anyway, to take their time in considering President Truman's message on adoption of an adequate national defense system which would include a year's specialized training for the nation's youth. How many army officers released from the strain of total mobilization, will approach the less exigent emergency of future preparedness with the same vigor after four years of war? How many high-ranking officers now holding inflated, temporary status are exerting pressure toward maintaining the armed forces at swollen numerical strength merely to insure their own rank? Kennehunkport, Me. (UP)—Kenneth Roberts may say he is "only a writer," but his neighbors testify that he also is quite a gardener. Roberts grew tomatoes this year; which measured ' six or more inches in diameter. And some of his plants had as many as 44 tomatoes on them. Can and will the army, after the emergency ends, maintain its war-time efficiency? Or will it lapse in inertia and permit the proposed program, if it is enacted, to grow stagnant? A year of unsupervised or misguided camp life in distant areas could cause decadence rather than progress in the ranks of American youth. It is a challenge to any enacted system of training to afford full time constructive activity for a million, energetic 18-year-olds. We fully recognize the necessity of a constructive preparedness scheme. The question of purpose is overshadowed by that of designing n means toward the end.-F. F. Memorial Association Trustee To Elect Officers Saturday The success or failure of the program could depend on the answers to these questions. Trustees of the University Memorial association will meet in 222 Frank Strong at 10 a.m., Saturday to adopt by-laws for the association and to elect its officers and executive committee, Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, said today. Betty Ball, College senior from Newton, is chairman of the All-Student Council's charter committee and a member of the finance committee. They want facts more clearly established before they give their approval to a policy which, they say, has not saved Europe from ruin and one which, up to this time, Americans have regarded as having no proper place in their way of peace time living. They want, most of all, to mark time until the ravages and ruin of war are far enough behind us to make preparedness and military strength seem unnecessary. Adoption of military training during the life of our present congress, before the remnants of our wartime army are dissipated, is a step in the right direction.—A College Senior. The association has been granted a charter, Justice Hugo Wedell, chairman of the Memorial committee, has announced, and plans for the financial campaign will be made. 16 Attend Meeting Of Music Club We are aware that to institute a system of compulsory one-year military training and discipline for male citizens of the United States is to institute a radical innovation in American socio-economic life. It isn't pleasant to think in terms of another war. In fact it's much easier to slip into the old routine of blind idealism that assures us "it can't happen again." That happened after World War I. The delay culminated in neglect and final disregard of the lessons taught by that conflict. Students discussed the organization's purpose—music for those who are interested in good music, but who haven't the chance to hear it. Writes and Farms Betty came to the University as a freshman in 1942 and is majoring in political science. Recordings of the music of Brahms, Grofe, and Debussy were played. Attending were Eleanor Brown, Sue Newcomer, Sara Webb, Guinevere Goerz, Lois Linck, Lois Lauer Martha Haines, Louise Haines, Ruth Granger, Shirley Cundiff Harriett Harlow, Elaine Walker, Joy Godbehere, Joan Vickers, Gloria Hill, and Janet Tavlet Sixteen students attended the Musie Appreciation club's first fall meeting the Union Tuesday, with Norma Kennedy, Fine Arts junior, presiding. She belongs to the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, Jay Janes, Tau Sigma, W.A.A., and is president of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity. Sophomore-Junior Team Defeats Freshmen-Seniors She would like to get a master's degree in political science, then work for the state department in Europe. If there are powers on earth which recognize no authority save that of force, who are we to turn back to a peacetime program which was not workable after any previous war and which becomes less workable for us every year? Why should we hesitate to take the step that will make us strong in a world where the voice of a nation is measured by the force behind it? "My only hobby is arguing and I really like to do that." Betty says. The sophomore-junior hockey team won 3 to 1 over the freshman-senior team Tuesday afternoon. Mary Hoffman made two goals with Joan Anderson adding another one for the sophomore-junior team. Lucile Land scored the freshman-senior team's only point. Mrs. Richard Boyce New on Nursery Staff Mrs. G. L. Smith, Lawrence, registered nurse, has also been appointed to the staff. Mrs. Smith will inspect each child daily as a health measure. Mrs. Richard Boye, former business student, has been appointed to the K.U. Nursery school staff to replace Mrs. Floyd Krebhiel who has resigned, Miss Mary Evans, supervisor, announced today. Mrs. Gerald Miller had been filling Mrs. Krehbiel's position. Cosmetic Dept. 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