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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1944
KANSAN COMMENTS Young People 'Got Religion' Today Despite Skepticism of Elders
Criticism is often heard concerning young people of today. Those ing the non-religious, sometimes almost irreverent attitude of the young people of today. Those who make such criticisms frequently have not stopped to look around them and take account of the actual situation.
In Lawrence, for example, the buses are crowded every Sunday morning with University students on their way to or from church. These young men and women do not have their parents around, urging them to attend—they do it because they want to. A large percentage of the two dozen churches in this town also have regular Sunday evening meetings which are composed almost entirely of young people.
Programs for both these vesper meetings and for Sunday School classes are planned by young men and women of University age and are truly inspirational at times. These same young church-workers, in addition to teaching Sunday School classes regularly, also compose a large part of the church choirs and voluntarily attend choir practice once a week.
The army and navy are still issuing pleas for more chaplains to fulfil the religious needs expressed by the service men. Three or four
church services are held each Sunday morning at most army camps to accommodate the crowds. For the skeptical, the soldiers' familiarity with the words of hymns and the service's ritual might prove a revelation.
Even with their limited pay checks, service men are exceptionally generous with their donations, perhaps because they more than those who remain safely at home, can appreciate what the modern religion accomplishes in a material way and how faith in an all-powerful Being can carry them through in times of need. This feeling is demonstrated by the requests of men on the battlefront for hymns, rather than the shallow "popular" music, whenever camp shows come around. They also read an amazing amount of literature, such as daily devotional booklets and new Testaments, which various religious organizations distribute.
Maybe the young people of today can't recite Bible verses by memory —maybe they don't believe in sitting home on Sunday afternoons and meditating—but the religion they do have is a much more vital thing—one they can and do apply.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Editor's Note: All "Letters to the Editor" must be signed. The name will be withheld from publication upon request, but the editor must know who wrote it.
One of the most vital tasks each student must face is that of finding himself. Too many of us become confused about our objectives and what we are capable of doing.
Realizing that his present decision will determine whether or not he will become a functioning cog in the machinery of civilization or merely a square peg in a round hole, the student must use his utmost intelligence in choosing his vocation. There is nothing more tragic than the student who has chosen a field in which he is not fundamentally interested or for which he does not have the mental capacity.
Before one can intelligently choose his vocation, he must know his own possibilities as well as his limitations and interests. One girl of my acquaintance is majoring in a field she dislikes intensely and has little ability in, because her parents wanted her to. This girl has an exceptional talent in writing, but she feels it her duty to stick to her original major.
For those who seek help, the University has established a vocational guidance bureau, under the direction of Dr. A. H. Turney, assisted by Dr. H. B. Pepinsky. The bureau does not tell the individual what field he should go into; but acts as a crutch in assisting him to make his own choice. Already, the bureau has taken in 54 persons, most of whom were students who came voluntarily.
I. as a student, have just finished my last interview with one of the counselors of the guidance bureau, having spent from 20 to 30 hours on various types of tests and other interviews. I cannot say how valuable this time has been to me, nor how grateful I am to those who are responsible for the bureau.
A. Student.
Texas U to Have Victory Dance
A Victory Dance has been planned at Texas University to raise money for the War Chest Drive there.
U.P. Plans To Remodel
Students returning to Lawrence from their Christmas vacations will be pleasantly surprised to find a remodeled Union Pacific station awaiting them. Plans have been made to start the $20,000 improvement job as soon as possible. William T. Wellman of Omaha, general architect of the railroad company, announced yesterday, and the modernization will be completed before January 1.
"The Union Pacific has felt for some years that the present depot was not adequate for the city of Lawrence, and we now are ready to get action on our plans to modernize the structure." Mr. Wellman said. "The present brick and stone trim building will not be changed on the outside, but a new concrete platform, with modern lighting, will be built along the entire length of the loading area."
The interior of the depot will be entirely remodeled, according to Mr. Wellman. The old wooden floor will be removed and a concrete floor installed. In the waiting room and ticket office the concrete floor will be covered with Title Tex. A new lighting and heating system will be installed, with new fluorescent lighting fixtures.
"Walnut woodwork will be installed inside," Mr. Wellman said, "with walnut furniture for the ticket office and new waiting room seats to match."
Mr. Wellman is no stranger in Lawrence. From 1906 until 1912 he maintained his office here, and designed many of the local buildings and homes. For the past 25 years he has been with the Union Pacific railroad company at Omaha.
William H. Hartigan, 65, of Kansas City, chief of Federal Food and Drug Administration enforcement in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, died at St. Joseph Thursday night.
Food and Drug Chief Dies
Hartigan received his degree from the University of Kansas in 1899. Funeral services were held at St. Joseph Saturday.
Rock Chalk Talk
It all comes out in the wash—in has been noticed that many campus black lists are getting tattle tale gray. How about a whitewash job?
By JOAN HARRIS
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Sigma Kappas disguised themselves Saturday night for the purpose of throwing a "different" sort of juke box party.
Margaret Wright, clad in an army fatigue uniform, drove a kiddy car. She represented "The Caissons Go Rolling Along."
"Goodnight Wherever You Are," said Mag Hall as she descended the stairs in her cotton flannel night shirt, carrying a candle.
Helen Todd was garbed appropriately for "Indian Summer" feathers, tomahawk, buckskin et al
"Sweet Lelani," alias Beth Beamer was present. Don Dimond spent the evening chasing her grass skirt with the scissors.
Others present were Daisy Mae, Dolly with a hole in her socky, and Jackie Sommerville in a pair of
glorified diapers who wore a sign which proclaimed her to be a "Lieutenant, junior grade."
Open house, huh?—Betty Bixby comment on the DG open house: "Every telephone line and bathtub in the house is full."
Sara Jane Worsley says that "Little Bix" didn't know the half of it. It seems that a couple of Phi Delts came calling on the afternoon before the night before the morning after. Sadie and Carol Stuart simply couldn't resist the temptation to drown them from a second floor window as they sat waiting patiently on the front steps. For retaliation, the PD's charged upstairs and ran, yelling "Come out wherever you are" through the hall
Miss Dodge's picture is in the section of the magazine titled "Arts on the Job." She said that the work she had done for college magazines and summer jobs stood in her good stead when job hunting.
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She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and while on the campus was editor of the Sour Owl, on the Jayhawker staff, in charge of the state display board for the State Wide Activities. She did cartooning for several publications also.
Betsy Dodge Listed By Magazine Picture As Outstanding Artist
Pictured in this month's Mademo- seille magazine is Miss Laura Gray (Bestsy) Dodge, a 1943 graduate in Fine Arts. Out of the University of Kansas one year, she is now in charge of all the art for Lord and Taylor's direct mail advertising in New York.
Statement following a PT-8 dance:
Tex Darden—"You can take the gum off your ear now, Bill. You've already kissed her goodnight."
Indiana to Organize Classes
Plans for organization and representation of freshman, sophomore and junior classes at Indiana University have been approved by the University student council. Formerly only the senior class was organized.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Monday, Oct. 16, 1944
The Music Appreciation Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Music room of the Union lounge. All those interested in music are urged to attend.
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
American Society of Civil Engineers; student chapter meeting. Election of officers. Slides on Grand Coulee Dame, narrated by Scalzo Erickson. 7:00 p.m. today. room 207 Marvin Hall. 6:00 Kinney, Pres.
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Ku Ku's To Discuss Homecoming
Ku Ku activities for Homecoming
will be discussed at a meeting of the men's pep organization at 7 p.m.
tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union building.
WANT ADS
SPECIAL: Sweet potatoes, country sausage, wieners, liver loaf, bread, milk, butter, etc. Open all day and evening. Akorn Grocery, 420 Ind. St.
FOR SALE: Remington upright
typewriter. Good condition.
Priced for quick sale. Call Edwin
Blase, phone 2003.
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FOUND: Fountain pen in Union
Fountain first of this week. Owner
may have after correct description
and paying for this ad at the Daily
Kansan office, Room 9, Journalism
Bldg.
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