PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944 TODAY'S EDITORIAL ☆ ☆ ☆ Congress Ponders Draft of Women Under consideration in Congress is a bill to draft all single and unemployed women in the U.S. between the ages of 20 and 35 for non-combat duty in the Women's Army Corps. Proponents of the measure believe women falling in this category should be drafted before fathers. They quote figures from a recent poll to the effect that 75 per cent of the country feels this way and that 78 per cent of the women themselves think it would be right. Why then, if 78 percent of our women feel they should be drafted, have the WAC enlistments fallen off so sharply in the past year? Why, if three-fourths of the women feel the way Congressional backers of the draft bill say they feel, do we have to draft them at all? With 78 per cent of our draftable female population clamoring to be drafted, the WAC enlistment offices should be packed from dawn to dusk. Certainly not 78 per cent of the coeds on this campus feel it would be right for them to be drafted into the Women's Army Corps. Although no official poll has been taken here, enough comment can be gathered for a general appraisal to the attitude prevailing. The most predominant protest to the idea by coeds seems to be that "such a draft measure will lower the status of the American woman to that of the German woman—which is one of the things we are fighting against." Many college women feel that their training would all be lost—that they would be placed in dull jobs for which they have no liking and which have no connection with the career they are planning. They feel they could do more for the war effort if allowed to choose an essential job which would make use of their college training. For some women, military service is appealing and offers wonderful opportunity. Their service to our country in time of war is great. There can be no doubt that the Women's Army Corps has done and will continue to do a brilliant job. Enlistment of women who feel they can thrive in the new and extremely different environment — different from any which most American women have experienced — should by all means be furthered. But to draft generally all single women between the ages of 20 and 55 is simply to ask for huge numbers of maladjustments on the part of a greater percentage of those draftees; probably more problem-WACS than working-WACS. K.G. Navy Officers Return From V-12 Conference Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the University naval units, Lt. C. A. Michelman, assistant commanding officer of the V-12, and Lt. Comdar. R. W. Stockes, assistant commanding officer of the medical and dental units at the University and in Kansas City, returned to Lawrence yesterday after attending a two-day conference in Chicago for officers in charge of V-12 programs in the Ninth Naval District. "The conference was a general discussion of the procedures and practices in regard to academic business relationships with the universities," said Lt. Michelman. "The officers expressed the opinion that they were well satisfied with the kind of training the schools have given their trainees." Rock Chalk Talk How To Entertain a Rushhe -Ed Shive, Phi Gam, gives us the latest tip. Recently the chapter had a house full of weekend guests, and someone hit upon the idea that the crowd go swimming. Shive, agreeable, but unprepared, borrowed a pair of swimming trunks and the group set out. By DIXIE GILLILAND Peraha Ed wasn't quite the man the owner of the trunks was, but the startling result appeared when after an exhibition dive, he realized the borrowed article had disappeared somewhere in the water. For some time the crowd was amused by diving for the trunks, but it was Shive himself who, possibly more impressed with the seriousness of the situation than the others, found the missing attire himself. Said he, "Oh yeah, I got them all right, but I sure had one heck of a time doing a surface dive." * * We Live and Learn—We hear that over the weekend one Army medic, and incidentally a Phi Beta Kappa, became so curious about the efficiency of military discipline that he decided to try it out for himself. Painting P. W. (Prisoner of War) on the back of his fatigue suit, he headed for a stroll downtown. He was spied first by a filling station attendant, who, impressed with the urgency of the situation, locked the station and grabbed a shotgun—to watch the P. W. saunter by. Determined to do his bit, the attendant called authorities, who found the "criminal" calmly making purchases from an equally calm drugstore clerk. The culprit has found military police are extremely efficient. There has been a steady increase in jobs for women students to work in the last five years, Miss Miller said. The majority of these jobs have been in connection with the University, but a few are in downtown business places. Miller Reports 598 Employed This Year "I would like to express my great appreciation to these women," Miss Miller said, "as I know that many of them took jobs which they did not want in order to relieve the employment situation." In a count made on how many women students have been placed in jobs from June 1943 to June 1944, Miss Marie Miller, assistant adviser of women, announced that 598 were employed through the women's employment office. This is almost double the number placed last year. Washington. (INS)—Secretary of war Stimson, in a letter made public today, asserted that return of American Japanese to the restricted west coast areas hinges entirely on changes in the military situation. Return to Coast Uncertain And Visa-Versa — Prof. R. H Wheeler of the psychology department spoke to members of several of the PTs Friday evening on "Love, Sex, and Marriage." We wonder if certain members of certain PTs could not offer a little research information on the subject themselves. Hint Hit Hard—Sigma Kappa night with Pat Scherrer as a clown who provided special entertainment every hour on the hour. Carrying out the part, at 10 minutes to 12 o'clock Pat entered the room with a blanket, a pillow and a "To Let" sign, which she arranged in the middle of the floor. Then she walked out. Ten minutes later, at the fatal hour, she came back, took a deliberate look around and lay down. It was supposed to be the gentle hint to guests that the party was over. Four dates had other ideas, however, and with a quick one, two, they grabbed the corners of the blanket, and Pat found herself sitting on the sidewalk in front of the house. We have heard that Pat then chased the guests from the house. * * * * KFKU PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. *Stories Told in Music.* *Hansel and Gretal* (Humderdinck). 9:30 p.m. *Symphonic Favorites.* *The Moldan* (Smetana). Tuesday, June 13 Baker Resigns Position As University Bursar Robert O. Baker, who received his doctor of Philosophy degree at the University in 1933, has resigned his position as bursar of the University of Kansas City to become assistant comptroller of the Vendo company of Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Baker served as business manager and accountant for the Daily Kansan while he was a graduate student at K.U. From 1933 to 1936, when he became financial officer for Kansas City University, he was purchasing agent on the staff of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee. He has published several articles on accounting and related subjects. His doctor's degree was the first ever to be granted at the University from the Department of Economics. Phys. Ed. Department in 1937 The department of physical education was established in 1937. Phone 4 Elephant Felt at Home in Kansas During the B.C.'s --- No Zoos Then- (The Kansan continues a series of features about strange animals that once lived in this state, and are now exhibited in Dyche museum. Today — a mighty tribe of ex-Jayhawkers, the Elephants). Had the Martin Johnsons lived 20,000,000 years ago, they would not have needed to go to Africa for their game. Many of the animals which they hunted were right here in Kansas. The camels, rhinoceroses, horses and saber-tooth tigers were already here at the end of the Miocene Period when the elephants arrived on the North American plains. Fossil skulls and parts of fossil skeletons exhibited in Dyche museum furnish unmistakable evidence that these animals were once at home on the Kansas plains. The elephant tribe consisted of two great branches; the mastodons and the true elephants. Both had trunks used for seizing food, and tusks to use as weapons. The mastodons, however, were not as tall as modern elephants and had four tusks as shown in mural paintings which form a colorful background for the Dyche exhibit. Makarona and Strong Teeth An excellent skull in the display shows the strong-ridged teeth fitted for feeding upon leaves and tree branches. As ages went by the animal's upper tusks gradually grew WANT ADS LOST: Black Sheaffer Lifetime fountain pen either in reserve room of library or between library and Haworth. Please return to Mary K. Parker, Corbin hall, 860. Reward. -172 LOST! Small size tan gaberdine raincoat, somewhere on campus last week. Has side slash pockets and buttons down front. Notify Marjory Stroup, 860. -171 LOST: Brown short-sleeved shirt with orange and black fountain pen and Phi Fsi pin. Left at intramural field Wednesday evening. Reward. Return to Wayne Hird, 770N2. 845-171 larger, even ponderous; a single tusk found last summer in a gravel pit at Garden City is eight inches in diameter and nine feet in length. The true elephants wandered across a land bridge from Siberia and arrived in our state at the beginning of the Ice Age. They favored life on the plains and their grinding teeth show that they were grass-feeders.' Largest of the elephants, the Imperial Mammoth, reached a height of 14 feet, which is two and one-half times as tall as today's average man. The elephants came and went in Kansas. Today they are transported thousands of miles from Africa or Asia and placed behind zoo bars for the benefit of curious onlookers who probably do not realize that they were once prime residents of this land. OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, June 13, 1944 Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication. 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