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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1944
KANSAN COMMENTS
Marriage Laws May Be Too Lax In Kansas
Kansas, recognized as one of the more progressive states in many respects, has fallen behind in at least one—the matter of requiring a physical examination and a waiting-period of several days before granting a marriage license.
For many years, California, like several other states, has required the filing of an application at least three days before granting a marriage license. The Catholic church, almost since its beginning has incorporated the public announcement of marriage intentions in its church service for the three weeks before the wedding. This "publishing of bans" provides an opportunity for anyone who has any objections to voice them before-hand rather than afterwards; it also gives the couple a better chance to make sure of their own minds.
The thousands of soldiers and defense workers who have come to Kansas in the past few years have rushed this problem to a climax. Dozens of young people are getting married every day to some one about whom they know almost nothing—family, background, prospects of a job following the war, tendency toward certain diseases.
Although Kansas is supposedly a "dry" state, some matrimonial bonds are contracted while one or both of the young people are under the influence of liquor. A necessary delay of three or four days would eliminate this situation considerably, and would not drastically affect the plans of the young people, in most cases.
Physical examinations, both for the protection of the individual as well as the future generation, should also be necessary. Treatments have now been found for many diseases, such as syphilis, which were formerly considered incurable, while protective measures can be taken against others if they are discovered in time. If it is possible to cure the disease within a reasonable length of time, the applicant should be forced to wait until he can present a clean bill of health, before a marriage license is granted him.
Kansas, it is true, is remarkably conservative in this martial business when compared to some of the eastern states where "bargains" in license fees, quick service, and elimination of legal "red tape" are brazenly advertised on road signs and in preachers' front yards. But it is now up to the University students who will constitute the voting public in a few more years, to make Kansas laws even stricter and establish Kansas as a state to which the rest of the country will point as a leader in social progress.
V-5 Ground Training Here Ranks Near Top
University V-5 cadets consistently ranked near the top in the ground training average in this region, which includes 14 schools, according to a letter received by Chancellor Deane W. Malolt, from Lt.-Comdr. John M. Rahm, officer in charge of V-5 training at Kansas City, Mo.
This ranking was made from the past seven classes of V-5 cadets who received their training at the University.
In his letter, Lieutenant Commander Rahm thanked Chancellor Malott and the staff for the commendable manner in which the course for aviation cadets was handled for students in training at the CAA-WRS School.
-BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Letter to the Editor
Editor's Note: The following letter was written in response to one entitled "Ex-Service Man Frowns on Freshman Caps," which recently appeared in the Daily Kansan. In explanation of this letter, the author, a student on the Hill, stated "You will see that I am in full negative agreement with this gentleman. The consensus of campus opinion was truly contemptuous. I hope that my satire will express no little amount of this feeling."
Beware Jayhawkers!
Our day of doom is near. We have been warned that ours is a degenerating race. The swastika and the rising sun menace our very steps! Why? Because, only the other day, a wise young man had a horrible dream vision of vicious frosh parading about in atrocious caps meeting the silly ridicule of irresponsible sophomores. Should we entertain such vile thoughts? No, never! It is "verboten," as they say in Germany.
Insult added to injury. Let us cas out the femme fatales that lurk behind every post and pillar of the Union fountain, seeking to sink their talons into innocent males of liesure. Flee, young men to your abodes—to the blissful security of your books.
There you will find the true values of human nature, the force of tradition, precedent, and the freedom of expression during war time; the warped depravity of excessive social functions, the restraint you must use not to rah-rah at football games; and above all that you must leave the campus grim and efficient for the returning service men.
Only through the guidance of this young apostle's terms can we become worthy citizens, worldly in our wisdom for the post-war years. As our illustrious critic so aptly expresses himself, "What the hell is going on here."
Take heed! Turn over a new leaf for the devil has us by the tail.
THE DEFENDER.
Church Founder Dies Of Heart Attack
Marriages and divorces, court actions and a mysterious disappearance in 1926 kept her name before the public. She was founder of the International Church of the Four-square Gospel which has 400 churches in the United States and 200 missionaries abroad.
Oakland, Calif. — (INS) — Aimee
Semple McPherson, spectacular
evangelist, and founder of the $1.-
500,000 temple in Los Angeles where
she became famous, died yesterday
of a heart attack.
Clark Henry was elected president of the KuKu club at a meeting of the men's pep organization Tuesday evening in the Kansas room. Other officers elected for the coming semester are Jason Dixon, vicepresident; Dewey Nemec, secretary; and Jim Conard, treasurer.
She came to Oakland to dedicate a new Four-Square church, and was stricken in her hotel suite.
Henry Elected Head Of Men's Pep Club
Various committees were appointed, and tentative plans were discussed for the organization's program this year.
The club will meet next on Tuesday.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Rock Chalk Talk
JOAN HARRIS
Career women—So many of the comely coeds who flit around the campus these days are really capitalists at heart—one can never tell what goes in to their curly blonde heads, anymore. For example, Barb Nieweg, president, vice-pres., and acting-manager of the Nieweg Love Letter Agency announces the following price list:
Plain gooey letter ... 16c
Deluxe gooey letter ... 15c
Special super deluxe gooey
Plain gooey letter ... 10c
... 15
For a quarter, she guarantees a masterpiece of such slushy mush that the recipient will have to put on his galoshes to read it. Head-quarters: Alpha Delta Pi.
The most dangerous woman in the Alpha Chi house is Doris "Slug" Dixon who deals in powder-gunpowder to be exact. She has a rifle and a revolver for sale, and is driving a mean bargain for them. Members of the PD (police dept., not Phi Delt), candidates for the state prison, and for the lunatic asylum keep the lines buzzing perpetually, "Slug" seems to get a big bang out of her work.
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Discontented cow—Dick Jurgens, pride of the PT-8, called the Kappa house one night and asked the pledge on the other end of the line the following question in his sweetest falsetto voice:
"What has my husband been doing over at your house tonight?" He concluded the conversation with a calf-like "Moo."
The baby Kappa, new to the campus, had been wondering what Jayhawker men were like—she's afraid she knows now.
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"That's what I call sticking to your job," said Professor Rinehart as Kati Gorrill got up from a chair where the freshly pasted news story had been.
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It moved—what's it goin' to do next?—Everyone in the vicinity of Edgehill Road waits, watches, and wonders about the teakettle on wheels that has been seen out with the Betas. Some say it is a revival of "Butch," a pile of junk which accompanied the Betas last year. At
any rate, for the first time since it made its debut, it moved Tuesday night. Given a push, it chugged merrily down the hill 'til it came to the bottom—then it stopped. It hasn't been seen in Beta company since—the only difference seems to be that it used to sit in front of the Beta house and nobody paid any attention to it—now it sits at the bottom of the hill and nobody pays any attention to it.
KFKU WILL----
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lowing this course a similar one will be given on "Poetry."
The "Book Review Program," becoming a traditional feature, will return this year to the air. This program is sponsored by the department of English and planned by Prof. John E. Hankins. On this program, fiction and non-fiction books are reviewed by persons both on and off the campus.
Once again "Your Spanish Lesson" will be broadcast with Miss Maude Elliott of the department of romance languages resuming her position of radio instructor in Spanish.
Staff members of the Kansas state board of health will present a second series of talks entitled "Health for Happiness." Eighteen talks are scheduled for this year's series of programs.
"Living Books," a program series of roundtable discussions of the great books of the world, will start its second year on the air also. On this half-hour program, a group of faculty members discuss a book from the standpoint of its human interest and its reflection of life.
A program of the world's great music recorded by outstanding orchestras, also starts its second year. This program, "Symphonic Favorites," is to be an uninterrupted half-hour of music following brief program notes given at the beginning of each broadcast.
Radio art lessons for rural and small town schools will be directed for a third year by Miss Maude Ellsworth. This program "Art by Radio" has become a regular class in many schools. The recorded music played on the art lesson broadcast serves to offer a course in music appreciation along with the art instruction.
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Kansas Leads in WAC Recruiting
For seven months, since the first of the year, Kansas has led the seventh service command in WAC recruiting, exceeding its quota each time. Since January 1, enough Kansas WACs have entered the service to equal the number now on duty in all the Army Air Forces installations in Kansas.
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