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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY,MAY 24,1944
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
This Is Our Kansas
Since the war they have come—the welders from California; the soldiers and their families from New York, from Pennsylvania, from Texas the war workers from states all over this vast continent. They come to Kansas on business, to see their beloved ones, or because Washington demands their presence here. Some of them call our people corn-fed; others say our state is barren and flat.
"Where else," they ask, "do they have snow storms one day, dust another, and sunshine the next?" "The people here are so ignorant that they don't know a washing machine from a typewriter," they comment. "Where else do you find that but in Kansas?"
"What's the matter with Kansas?" we ask.
"What's good about it?" they reply.
What's good about Kansas? Let them ask any Kansan, for we are proud of our state. Flat and barren? No, for where else but in Kansas do we see the torch of God when the sun rises in the early morning until it sinks again at night? The leaves on every bush, every shrub, yes, every weed, if you will have it that way, reflect the glory, the clean shining glory of God.
We Kansans corn-fed? The people are good in Kansas! God has taught us to be patient and thankful for the gifts He gives us. We have waited months at a time for a few drops of rain, for our crops to grow, for the dust to stop blowing.
We have great men who love us, great men among us, too. Men from Dr. Hertzler, our "country doctor," to General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces.
We have our great heroes now dead, sung and unsung, Pvt. John Jones, who gave his life at Bataan, Cpl. Tom Smith; who died on Guadalcanal.
We Kansans possess a fierce pride in our state, and to our eyes, dusty, dirty, and rain-starved though it may be, this is our Kansas.—(Reprinted from the Guidon of Hays high school).
War Casualties
Washington, May 24, (NIS)—The war department made public today the names of 415 United States soldiers missing in action in the Asiatic, Central Pacific, European, Mediterranean, and Southwest Pacific areas. The list included six from Kansas from the European area:
2nd Lt. Charles E. Brumback, Mrs.
Bettie Lou Brumback, wife, 126 N.
Toneka, El Dorado.
1st Lt. Elmer R. Canfield, Mrs.
Doris M. Canfield, wife, box 25,
Detroit.
2nd Lt. William C. Foushee, Mrs.
Roma L. Foushee, wife, 218 West
9th street. Newton.
Staff Sgt. Stewart C. Robb, James K. Robb, father, Route 1, Mayetta.
Tech. Sgt. Elvin E. Smith, James U. Smith, father, 1112 College street, Ottawa.
1st Lt. Charles R. Strode, Miss Glada N. Strode, sister, 1440 South Hydraulic, Wichita.
Sawmills Idle From Strike
Portland, (INS)—Forty-two sawmills in the Pacific Northwest were idle today while 13,000 CIO and AFL lumber workers remained away from their jobs in protest over the refusal of the national war labor board to grant them a wage increase.
Rock Chalk Talk
Help Is Hard to Get These Days—Mildred Hack, College sophomore from Lawrence, had an extremely important telephone call to make a few nights ago (we are not told about what), and with no phone book handy she picked up the receiver and asked the operator the number of PT-1.
By DIXIE GILLILAND
"What was that name again?" asked the operator.
"PT-1, supplied Mildred.
"FT-1 Wo-on?" inquired the operator.
"That's right." said Mildred.
Moments passed. Mildred waited.
At long last the operator returned
to ask, "How do you spell that last
name? Weon?"
In desperation Mildred telegraphed.
"Something of Remember You By"
—When Marion Hasty's Phi Delt pinee, Huebert, left Sunday to study at the KU hospital in Kansas City, he gave the Theta, as a farewell gift, a small, but very-much-working-order thermometer. We can't help thinking Dean had in mind something about the temperature of those in love, or sentiments to that effect, but Marion has other ideas. For four days she has been canvassing the rooms of the chapter house taking the temperature of every Theta sister foolish enough to open her mouth.
The Intricacies of Science — Prof.
Calvin VanderWerf believes in
Dramatics Workshop Holds Picnic at Potter Lake
Members of Dramatics Workshop held a picnic at Potter Lake last night in place of their regular Tuesday afternoon meeting. Twenty students and Prof. Allen Crafton and Miss Margaret Anderson, of the department of speech and drama, attended.
The next regular meeting of the Workshop will be on May 31 in the Little Theater of Green hall, Alice McDonnell, president, announced. Officers for the coming year will be elected, she said.
Miss America Is California Co-ed A University of California co-ed, Jean Bartel, currently holds the title of Miss America.
keeping members of his organic chemistry class up-to-date on scientific achievements, inferior as they may be in war time. He was discussing a Reader's Digest article about such inferiorities recently when the lecture touched upon the important problem of lipstick.
"It has been proved," said the professor, "that lipstick is no longer made to stand the heat and pressure it formerly did. For any of you particularly interested in this matter, I refer you to Wallace Grimes, who has done personal research on the problem."
And how is lipstick these days,
Experienced?
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Gambling Is a Sin But "Red"
Stucker had to find it out the hard way. Before a recent (score to be forgotten) Gamma Phi baseball game, "Red" bet Billy Simmons 15 minutes' worth of dandelion digging on the Gamma Phi lawn that she couldn't hit a home run. Billy promptly hit a four bagger and the Phi Gam was trapped. After practically promising his life away, "Red" was allowed five minutes of reprieve by the girls. At the appointed hour he returned to do his duty like a man—with a set alarm clock to assure no overtime.
With due thanks to the "speedy" Mr. Stucker, the Gamma Phis can hardly say their lawn is now immaculate through the efforts of their debtor.
Humphrey Finishes Parachute Training
Lt. Frederick G. Humphrey, son of William F. Humphrey of Kansas City, Mo., has won the right to wear the Wings and Boots of the army paratroops, according to the public relations office at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Lieutenant Humphrey attended the University from 1941 to 1943 and was a student in the School of Business.
Stationed at the parachute school at Ft. Benning, Lieutenant Humphrey has completed four weeks of jump training during which he made five jumps from a plane in flight. The last, a tactical jump at night, involved a combat problem on landing.
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He Gave Stone; She Made Ring
Not every girl makes her own engagement ring. Furthermore not every girl wears an Alaskan brown diamond on her third finger, left hand. But combine these two elements and you have the story of Margaret Eberhardt of Kansas City, graduate art student and art supervisor of Oread High School.
When Sgt. Ben Shanklin of Kansas City came home on furlough a month ago from White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada, he gave Miss Eberhardt an unset Alaskan diamond. She designed an attractive gold setting for the stone and Monday of this week the ring was finished.
Following plans which Sgt. Shanklin had made before returning to Alaska, Miss Eberhardt received an orchid. Thursday afternoon she will pass chocolates to members of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, off-campus educational sorority.
It is the first engagement ring which Miss Eberhardt has designed, and she adds with a twinkle, "It will be the last."
Future Russian Students To See Prof. Anderson
Students desiring to enroll in Russian language courses for the summer session are asked to confer with Sam Anderson, German and Russian instructor, concerning these courses, Mr. Anderson announced today. Past interest in the study of Russian has revealed the growing possibility of greater activity in that language field, Mr. Anderson said.
Dean Lawson First Speaker
Dean Laurence B. Lawson will deliver the first sermon of the Union Sunday evening church services in South Park.
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Meeting for the first time since their graduation in 1939 from the University School of Medicine, Capt. Thomas R. Hood, and Lt. Myron Messenheimer, had a "grand" reunion May 10 in Algiers and spent the day exchanging news. Captain Hood wrote in a V-mail letter to his parents, Prof. and Mrs. Geo. J. Hood.
Captain Hood has been stationed with a hospital unit near Algiers since last September, while Lieutenant Messenheimer had arrived in Algiers May 10. They are both in the medical unit of their respective branches of the service.
House Passes Bill to Allow Simpler Income Tax Returns
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, May 24, 1944
Washington, (INS) — The house yesterday gave approval to the tax simplification bill freeing 30,000,000 Americans from the need to file regular income tax returns and sent the measure to the White House.
Two Graduates Hold Reunion in Algiers
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
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Kappa Beta, Christian Church sorority, will hold its regular meeting, May 24, with a picnic at Myers Hall at 6:30. Bring 25c.
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There will be a meeting of English majors Thursday afternoon, May 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Fraser, Room 205. Professor John Hankins will talk on How Poets Write. This will be the last meeting of the year.
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