UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 5, 1945
Kansan Comments
Campus Scene Altered Again By War Workers
Lindley hall will soon be the home of 200 Sunflower Ordnance trainees. The University will try out a new experience in its history. It is probably the most striking effect the S.O.W. has had on the campus, but in its three years of existence, the plant has made an equally striking impression on Lawrence.
In the short span of 36 months, the powder plant workers have flooded this city. Local citizens have seen representatives of every nationality walking down Massachusetts street.
Times have changed since May, 1942, when actual construction work on the plant began, 16 miles east of Lawrence. One hundred farm families were moved out of their homes to make way for the new industry. Today those farms have been converted into an independent city of 5000 separate buildings, some of them weird powder magazines encased in earth-filled barricades.
University upper-lassmen have watched the Sunflower powder plant develop virtually in their own back yard. Many of them have worked there part-time to put welcome cash into their pockets.
Upper-classmen also have watched Lawrence change from a friendly college town to a crowded and more impersonal war center. The familiar jelly-joint hangouts are no longer filled with "hiya Joe" collegians. War workers have taken over. They deserve priority. Direct contributors to the war effort should have every privilege.
It is hard to realize how swiftly times have changed. The happy-go-lucky atmosphere that college students used to enjoy is now at a low ebb. Frivolity has gone with the war. Shocked into early maturity
Letter to the Editor
I wish to correct an error in the Daily Kansas story yesterday concerning the proposed change in the election system, which has caused many false impressions among students.
To the editor:
The All Student Council did not vote upon any change in the election system. The only vote taken of any kind was a mere check of the opinion of those present, the majority of whom were not council members. All of the council was not in attendance last evening, and not every member chose to vote.
The story mentioned the fact that the vote was "of those present," but the headline gave a new slant to the story. That is what the students read.—A council member.
Paper Situation Is At Critical Stage
Topeka, April 5. — The continuing need for waste paper despite developments in the European war theater was emphasized today by M. B Gourley, chairman of the Kansai Salvage Committee.
"With the end of the war in Europe," Gourley said, "there will be an immediate and pressing need for packaging material for trans-shipment of supplies to the Pacific theater. Thus, rather than permitting a let-up in effort, the situation calls for constantly increasing salvage of waste paper in order to meet new developments."
Further cuts in allotments of wrapping paper, paper bags, and newsprint all serve to emphasize the seriousness of the paper situation, which is now in its most critical stage in the entire war.
by the world-wide conflict, the campus has become sobered. Lindley hall's new residents will be one more step in bringing war closer home. F.A.R.
—E.A.B.
April Fool's day was slightly on the delayed side this year at Corbin hall when everything was in an uprear Monday evening, but originality made up for the lack of promptness. Tables were exclusively decorated with no table clothes, and with cans of vegetables, and strainers. Dust pans and paper towels adorned the walls of the dining room. One was fortunate if he had a relish fork or a butter knife for silverware.
Rock Chalk Talk
Changing the custom a slight degree, milk, water, and coffee were served in vinegar jugs, pitchers, relish dishes, and sugar bowls. The waitresses, who were the practical jokers, wore green lettuce leaves in their hair and corsages of carrots and radishes.
The finale came when the guests put their dishes under the table and gaily strolled out of the "mad house" (after the meal was served, of course).
By LA VERNE KEEVEN
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In the group there is a 1931 copy of the Columbia Spectator published by students of Columbia university which was the first daily newspaper to use flush left headlines. This style is in general practice today. $ - (to be continued) $
Newspaper Collection Records Main Events in World History
Helen Lawrence, A.O. Pi, rushed in to the library last Monday evening just before closing time and asked for the "Constitution of the United States." Hurriedly Helen signed the little pink overnight slip and started to leave when she discovered that the librarian had given her "Care of the Children." She returned the book exclaiming, "This is a very interesting book, but I'm quite sure it won't take the place of the "Constitution of the United States."
"This display will be more valuable in 25 years because people will forget the events that marked the progress of the war—especially the defeats that we suffered in the early
"I merely mentioned the fact that the faculty in the entomology department takes a little time out for tea once in awhile," said Prof. H. B. Hungerford, "and today I received a box of tea straight from Burma."
Capt. Louis Kuiter, a former student of the University who is now with the sanitary corps in Burma, has been sending various species of
(Editors Note: This is the first of a series of two articles showing how newspaper's front page headlines are recording the history of the war and how they have recorded evens of the past.)
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In the hall outside Mr. Beth's office in the Journallism building is a display board depicting the course of the war in 1942 newspaper headlines. The headlines were taken from large daily newspapers and will be a permanent exhibit in the new School of Journalism which is to be established at the University There are two other display boards for 1943 and 1944 which are not or exhibit at present. The entire exhibit shows the trend and the turning points of the two wars.
Mr. Beth has the newspapers which show the results of the combining of the New York Evening World and the New York Telegram after the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain had purchased the Evening world, the Morning World, and the Sunday World. The Morning World had an Associated Press membership so, in order not to forfeit rights to the membership, Scripps-Howard published a four page newspaper with nothing but Associated Press news on the front page and three full pages of advertising. A copy of this newspaper is also on file with Mr. Beth.
months of the war," Mr. Beth declared.
Have you read a newspaper recently which doesn't stress a story of some war? Or, as you read the headlines in the daily papers heralding "good news" concerning the war in Europe or the Pacific, have you thought of the headlines of the newspapers in 1942 when it seemed as though we were losing both wars?
Newspapers showing such events can be found in the majority of newspaper offices and Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the University's department of journalism, has his share of interesting newspapers.
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In his office, Mr. Beth keeps copies of newspapers which he feels are interesting to all University students as well as to the inhabitants of the "Shack." In the top drawer of a cabinet in his office are three New York newspapers, the Daily News, the Daily Mirror, and the Evening Graphic, which filled their entire front and back pages with the story of the death of Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son in May, 1942. Other newspapers in the collection tell of the electrocution of Richard Hauptmann, the kidnapper and murderer of the baby.
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insects to Professor Hungerford, but after bearing of the afternoon teas, Captain Kutter sent a species which was classed in a different field entirely.
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art will be discussed by Raymond Eastwood, and Jan Chiapasso will talk on the music of France.
"Growing a Garden" is the subject of a new series of programs to be heard at 2:45 every Wednesday afternoon, in which Prof. Worthie Horr, of the botany department, will discuss methods of planting and caring for various types of gardens.
Three Graduates in 1873 In the first class to be graduated from the University in 1873, three students received degrees.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, April 5, 1945
The Ku Ku Club will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in the Kansas room. Election of officers will be held.-Dewey Nemec, president.
All freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences whose names appear on the four weeks report list are to see their advisers Monday and Tuesday, April 9 and 10.-Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College.
Speaking of Operations!
Our fighting men are using telephones, wire, switchboards, and other communications equipment in huge quantities. And Western Electric workers, peacetime suppliers to the Bell System, are busy meeting those needs.
An invasion fleet of several hundred warships uses some 48,000 telephones—from 1,500 on a battleship to 10 on a motor torpedo boat. That's as many as are used by most cities of 160,000!
That is why there are not enough home telephones right now. But we are looking forward to the day when the Bell System can again provide telephone service to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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