TWO
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1945
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Fag Rationing Must Depend On Conscience
While court-martial trials for 182 soldiers and 2 officers, who had been charged with taking some $200,000 in black market cigarettes, were underway in western Europe, the National Association of Tobacco Distributors met in Chicago this week to solve their problems of satisfying a record civilian demand for tobacco.
Despairing of any aid from the Office of Price Administration, the NATD decided to introduce voluntary rationing. Unded this plan, numbered ration cards (as many as stocks permit) will be issued by retailers to their customers. The cards will be punched once for every pack sold. To secure the cards, which must be signed by the dealers themselves, NATD announced that customers must sign declarations swearing they will hold no other dealer's card.
Whether the rationing plan succeeds depends entirely upon the conscience of American smokers. Ir view of unprecedented black market sales of cigarettes within the past six months, the American conscience does not appear to be very dependable. Tobacco distributors say there will be no letup in the shortage before the end of the European war. Meanwhile it is expected that military services will leave only 250 billion cigarettes for domestic use which is almost 8 billion short of the amount produced for the civilian market last year. This condition exists in spite of the fact that the production of cigarettes is at the peak of its production history. However, domestic and servicemen's demands are also at the highest level ever known.
Civilians were shocked to hear of black market practices in Europe among our own soldiers. Service men overseas will undoubtedly be interested in knowing whether the conscience of their American critics will aid those critics in maintaining the new voluntary rationing program.
Watch for the Weekly
University Daily Kansan
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
Associate
Assoc. in
COMPUTING
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... DOLores SULZMAN
Asst. Mgr. Editor ... MARYLOUISE ROWSEY
News Editor ... KATI GOBBILLE
JIM MORGAN
Society Editor ... BETTY J O'NEAL
Campus Editors ... RUTH TIPPIN, DIXIE
GILLILIAN, BETTY JEENNINGS
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager     LEON ELANE SCOTT
Advertising Manager    KELLM SMITH
Advertising Asst.    JOHN PAUL HUSSON
Advertising Asst. ANNA JEANNEE YOUNG
Member of Kansas Press Association and of National Editorial Association. National advertising by National Advertising Agency, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
man subscription rates, from Nov. 1 to:
Feb. 19, 1945, outside Lawrence, $1.85 plus
tax and $7.00 postage; From Nov. 1 to July
1, outside Lawrence $3.50 plus $0.70 tax;
from July 1 to August 1, outside Lawrence
$1.70 postage. Published in Lawrence,
Kansas, every afternoon during the school
weeks, for private, varsity holidays, and during examination
periods. Entered as second class matter
september 17, 1910, at the post office at
Lawrence, Kansas, under act of March 3,
1879
Rock Chalk Talk
By PAT PENNEY
Mr. Buehler's Speech class was having a much-needed lesson on pronunciation, Wednesday, with resultant remarks that received hearty guffaws from the class. Each member of the class was asked to give a list of ten words that are frequently mispronounced, and Helen Graham, Lawrence, was doing fine until she discovered a word on her list that had already been given, and remarked to Mr. Buehler, "Mr. Shewntz by hadden."
Then later on in the period, the class was discussing the words that Contributions came from every Contributions came from every side—"Liberry for library," "Peehny, for peony," "Sacerfice for sacrifice," and Jack Miller, Phi Psi pledge, had to get his two cents worth in. "Juke box for nickelodian," he offered.
CRUSH THOSE CYCLONES
Picture of the week;
Chancellor Malott and Dean Werner in the Pi Phi kitchen helping Barbara Winn, Betty Aylward and Jodie Armacost with the dishes. The Malotts, Lawons, Werners, Davises, Patterson, and Sandelius were guests at a faculty dinner Wednesday night, which proved to be one of those rare occasions where faculty and students mixed and a good time was had by all. The men formed a quintet at dinner and sang a parody on "Happy Birthday to You", which started off "Lovely Pi Phi's to you". Later when Chancellor Malott started to leave, Barb Winn said not to go so soon, cause she had to wipe diets. At which the Chancellor volunteered, "We'll help you." Efforts to keep the Chan-
ceutor and Dean Werner out of the kitchen proved of no avail, so everyone pitched in and helped.
Phi Delt's Matt Zimmerman, Bert Morris, and Carl Clark were upstairs and when they heard what was going on, they couldn't believe their cars, so down they went to investigate. Sticking their heads around the kitchen door, they were greeted by the Chancellor with, "Come on in, boys," and were each tossed a towel.
"The Bonche caught on to what we were doing and rounded the rest back up, but I kept one PW with me, and after waitiing a long time during which a company of at least a hundred brued by our tree, we made our way back to our lines, throwing away our steel helmets and shoes, putting on our knee caps, and blacking our faces. We wandered through the woods all day, taking many chances on scouting and patrolling parties.
As they escaped, they heard the dish wipers happily singing, "Accentuate the Positive."
CRUSH THOSE CYCLONES
The gals who came to dinner;
"Luckily they were out on a combat mission. It was a pitchback night and the woods were all but impassable. As they lined up us and interspersed our column with guards, I knew my chance had come. As we moved out, I quietly messed up the column by losing the man in front of me, and wandered a few yards where I saw a huge evergreen tree and crawled beneath it.
After the Psi raid on their silverware the preceding evening, Chi O's decided that they should serve dinner at the Phi Psi house in hopes of retrieving their lost belongings. They made their arrangements with Mrs. Dunagin, and descended upon the kitchen about supper time Wednesday night. Earl Crawford and R J. Atkinson discovered them there and threw water at the waitresses from behind the dining room door. The new waitresses were, of course, gleefully greeted by the Psi's, but R J. and Earl got their just due—water down their necks—before the evening was over. Sam Anderson, language professor, a dinner guest, was a bit chagrined to find a fingernail (artificial) in his salad, though he was assured by all that it must have been meant for one of the Psi's. Natch!
Ostrum Escapes from Germans By Hiding in Evergreen Tree
Later the Psi's put Sue Diggs through the line, which she had successfully avoided (until Wednesday night), after she put out a pin to a Nebraska Phi Psi.
An evergreen tree in which he hid to escape from the Germans after being taken prisoner was the best "Christmas tree" he ever saw, Lt. Dean Ostrum, student with the class of 1944 wrote to his wife, the former Sarepta Pierpont.
"The Krauts had set up a road block on our axis of signal communications, and we happened along at the wrong time. There was a battalion of them, and if the front lines had been consolidated at the time, I would have been on my way inside Germany in a few hours.
"I was captured by the Germans, and after a day and part of a night I succeeded in escaping to the Allied lines in Belgium," the former K. U. student wrote.
Stay Hidden in Tree
Nazis Set Up Road Block
"I headed for one of our artillery battalions. We got through the outposts without a scratch despite the fact they had orders to shoot anything that moved.
"I don't mean to worry you, but I wanted you to understand how a guy can be missing and still be all right," Ostrum explained.
- Watch for the Weekly —
Claudette Colbert as Ann Hilton tenderly comforts her daughter "Brig" Shirley Temple) in David O. Selznick's moving panorama of the American home front, "Since You Went Away," at the Jayhawker theater, through United Artists release. Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore and Robert Walker share stellar honors in the film.
All-Star Cast Comes To the Jayhawker
"Since You Went Away," David O. Selznick's first production since "Gone With the Wind," will come to the Jayhawker screen in Lawrence for one entire week starting Sunday.
"Since You Went Away" stars Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrrymore, and Robert Walker. It is another tribute to Selznick's master movie-making. Taking the simple theme of an ordinary American family on the home front, Selznick has woven the story of all America. It is the first real tribute to the unsung heroes of America's superb war effort—the women and children back home.
Shirley and Claudette Co-Stars
"Since You Went Away" sets a mood of alternate pathos and humor with the humor always predominating. It is a song of the courage, the hope and the ability of Americans to laugh and find happiness even in the face of tragedy.
Important changes in the times of this show are necessary due to the length of the feature. The week day matinees will begin at 2:00 p.m.; the evening shows will be at 6:30 and 9:40 p.m. The feature will begin on Sunday at 1:12, 4:20, 7:30 and 10:35; and on week days at 2:12, 6:42 and 9:50.
The Jayhawker in Lawrence is bringing this great hit at the regular low prices.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Attend the I.S.A. Party (After the game)
UNION LOUNGE Saturday, January 27
DANCING COKING
CARDS
PING PONG
UNION RECORD MACHINE
ISA Members Free - Others 25c per Person
- Watch for the Weekly
  - BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
WANT ADS
LOST—Glasses in case and billfold with identification papers. If found please return to Mehrn Clark or call 2788 W. -87
LOST-Top half of Sheaffer fountain pen with "Marjorie" engraved in gold. Please call Marge Reich, phone 267 -88
LOST—Brown leather billfold containing money, activity book and other identification. Reward. Please call Lorraine Runsey, Phone 504-88
Government Standard Materials Used
Hillside Band Box Cleaners
Phone 123 9th & Ind.
Clothes Cleaned by Odorless Process
That Will Please "Him" Best--plays la
chance
Iowa
$2 Wedr
a pr lost to
b 16 to 38
couled o
dicates it
o be re
VALENTINE GIFTS
Arrow Shirts
Arrow Sport Shirts
Arrow Neckties
Botany Wool Neckties
Interwoven Socks
Zelan Jackets
Corduroy Coats
Wool Leisure Coats
Wool Socks
Station Wagon Caps
Kansas T Shirts
For the Boys in Service---plays la
chance
Iowa
$2 Wedr
a pr lost to
b 16 to 38
couled o
dicates it
o be re
The Boys in Service
Leather Unfitted Cases
Fitted Aprons
Sewing Kits
Shoe Shine Kits
Kippy Kits
Money Belts
Novy Billfolds
Christy Knives
Service Neckties
Scuffers
alt tm
Depa
To O
Classify and in the t beginning ofounced being n yche r housed
Frank
quarters
two ye
he Nax
he Nax
and cha
Professor
Prof.
Chandle
and build
week. '
Invitations
schools
Professor
report
school a
school s
made it
soon
Universi
JAYH
Lane
eated
times by
ence 47
empt 6
winning
Officia
Louis H
Kansas
Wa