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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 29, 1944
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
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K.U. Food Handlers Should Take X-rays
In 1939 the tuberculin testing program for the food handlers of the eating houses of the University achieved great success. In previous years the examinations had been started in a desultory fashion, but were never carried through satisfactorily because no authority was given to enforce the measure. However, in 1939 the Pan-Hellenic Council, providing a fine for houses coming under its jurisdiction which failed to have food handlers tested, gave impetus to the program. The voluntary compliance by the other University organizations and local restaurants was more than gratifying.
Lacking the student government support of previous years, the motor X-ray unit of the Kansas State Board of Health is in Lawrence to examine free of charge all students and University employees for tuberculosis. Although Saturday was the day set aside for the X-ray work of K.U. students and employees, an official said today that any person who desires the examination could come to the Community building today, Wednesday or Thursday for the test.
It was realized in 1939, as it should be recognized now, that, to carry out effectively this vital health safeguard, the program must necessarily include food handlers of all Lawrence restaurants, not just those in the immediate vicinity of the University. To do this, the city would have to pass an ordinance requiring the examinations and have some means of enforcing the law.
Since the X-ray examining of food handlers of the University area is not in any way compulsory this year, the responsibility is vested in the individual organizations themselves.
The hours for the X-ray examinations at the Community building are:
Men: 1-3, and 8-9 p.m.; women:
3-5, and 7-8 p.m.
Glen R. Sewell Gets Commission in Army
Glen R. Sewell, Jr., of Sabetha, was commissioned a second lieutenant upon completion May 25 of the officer candidate course at the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Lieutenant Sewell, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Sewell of Sabetha, was a senior in the University this year. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary commerce fraternity, and the Scholarship Hall Council.
Lieutenant Sewell was inducted into the army in September, 1942.
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For All Occasions RIDE THE BUS
By LIZ BAKER
Personality plus Line equals BTO (big time operator) Ed Schmitt-It seems quite a few girls on campus have believed PT-5 Schmitt and his line which he reels out to any cute number who comes along. The little hint included here is that he had better watch his step or he'll have more dates stacked up in one evening than EVEN HE can handle. Which says a lot.
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Evelyn Hodgson, Watkins hall spent a quiet Saturday night. But a lot of other people didn't. That evening, George Hudson called her up for a date and asked if she had a friend who would like to go out too. Evelyn couldn't make it. So she asked Bertha Cummins and her friend, former student Flavia Stone, if they would like to go.
Evening and the boys came. Flavia, decked out in her sister's best, went downstairs to meet the new man in her life. She looked once;
After saying yes, Flavia remembered that, after all, she was just visiting for the day, and she had nothing suitable to wear. And then came the dawn; she would call up her sister Mildred who works in Lawrence, and Mildred would be glad to lend her a dress. She called Mildred. Mildred obliged, sent the dress.
Strawberries is red, and so is their faces. The annual strawberry festivals which Corbin hall gives out with, come spring, grow bigger and better as the seasons roll on. Thursday's was the best yet.
Letter to the Editor
DEAR EDITOR:
There's also Mary Lou Dillenback, Phi Beta Kappaclad senior, who held back her titerings long enough to hear that "dear Miss D. at 80 is still the taster at Seagrams, and to quote her very own words, 'My work is so stimulating.' She was ust announced her engagement to the nightwatchman."
Blond (which makes her a good) psychology major Esther DeBord was amazed. She learned that she "has just received her Ph.D. on her new research treatise, 'The Psychoanalytic Aspects of the Love Life of the Earthworm.' If you have any delinquent little worms lying about, just send them to Esther's resoft for observation." Address Squirm road, New Mexico.
While licking their respective chops clean after soup bowls of ice cream heaped high with all the red berries they could eat, the pajamaaed 145 fems listened to some amazing prophecies about their futures.
The film "The Birth of a Nation," shown last Thursday in Fraser theatre might better be called "The Crucifixion," for it certainly did no less than crucify the Negro. To say that the film is controversial is a gross understatement of the facts. Any historical significance the film may possess and the fact that the film represents a land mark in film history is totally obliterated by its rabidly anti-Negro implications. Its deplorable implications far outweigh any virtues that the film might have.
According to the programs issued,
"The faults of The Birth of a Nation' are obvious." This is not necessarily true. Many people are intentionally biased and will not consider the fact that the film is one sided. These people will be prone
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she looked twice. For her blind date was Jack Drummond, sister Mildred's boy friend.
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The motion picture industry has successfully stereotyped Negro fathers as clowns and Uncle Toms; Negro mothers as bowing and scraping mammies; and Negro youths as razor-carrying crapshooters. The motion picture industry has made mockery of Negro preachers, churches, and religions. None of these stereotypes are typical of the Negro—but unfortunately they have been created and fixed in the minds of theater-goers. "The Birth of a Nation" carried stereotyping of the Negro to the extreme.
to cite the film as an authority when making tirades against the Negro. They will have little difficulty finding a susceptible audience.
This film should not have been shown at a time when intelligent Negroes are trying to obtain their proper places as citizens of this so called democracy and to participate
I do not think the Forums Board intentionally committed this injustice, but the injustice has been done. It would be no more than fair for the Forums Board to partially compensate by showing a film that is more nearly typical of the Negro. Such a film might be, "The Negro Soldier," recently released by the U. S. Army Signal Corps.
to their full capacity in the war effort.
With the country once again at war, the intended spirit of the day has been revived. Last year it began to change. Tomorrow the metamorphosis should be almost complete. Although thousands of other graves will not be ignored, those graves which mark the resting places of soldiers, some quite recently
But in the 20 odd years which separate each of America's wars, the people periodically forget the day's original singleness of purpose. Instead of a day for veterans, Memorial day becomes a time for family reunions—a time to pay special attention to all graves.
The commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic issued an order on May 5, 76 years ago creating what we know now as Memorial or Decoration Day. On that day, the people of the nation were to take time to honor their military dead.
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9:30 p.m. Exploring Your University. Spring Concert of the University of Kansas Band, directed by Russell L. Wiley.
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fallen, will be foremost in the thoughts of the procession which winds its way to cemeteries of the nation.
Monday. May 29
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Tuesday, May 30
There will be processions in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone tomorrow, too. Only 42 of the states of the Union, however, will be observing the day.
tuesday, May 30
2:30 p.m. Stories Told in Music.
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Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina have set other dates aside for the purpose. In Louisiana, the day chosen is June 3, birthday anniversary of Jefferson Davis.
Although Virginia celebrates a May 30 Memorial Day, she still insists on calling it "Confederate Memorial Day."
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In spite of its title, in spite of the fact that it has not been accepted by several southern states, Memorial Day has a deep meaning in the North. The very date—selected so many years ago—carries significance. It was on the next to the last day of May that the last Union volunteer was discharged following the Civil War.
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