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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 19
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Come Play On My Team
Once upon a time there was a group of boys who organized themselves into a football team called "the Texans." They were big and bumptious, and proved to be haughtily contemptuous whenever any of the neighboring children gathered to watch them play, hopefully wishing they would be asked to join in the fun.
Instead, the Texans secluded themselves from their visitors, showing particular disregard for a small dark-skinned group that huddled on the border line of disgrace, according to the big boys. These little neighbors, the Mexicanos, silently watched and longed to participate in the game of ball. Their desires were not fulfilled, and their advances brought only scorn and ridicule from the Texans.
"Play on our team? Why, we should say not!" they said. "Go back to your own homes before you contaminate our field and leave the air filled with an unclean stench."
And so the Texans played, and the Mexicanos went home. But one day the picture changed. Many of the big boys left the team in the fall and went off to school in far places. The Texans were no longer a complete team with high noses, but were rather humble in their appeal for players to substitute on their stripped squad. Their only resource was to the south where the little Mexicanos could provide the needed manpower. But by this time, the smaller group had formed their own team, and were no longer interested in playing on Texan soil.
This revolt against "cases of extreme, intolerable racial discrimination," sounds sharply familiar to the recent, unanswered plea of Texas to the Mexican laborers during the wartime labor shortage, following the days when the dark-skinned neighbors had known nothing but northern "Jim Crow" treatment.
-M.R
Bond Buyers to Get Passes Until Monday
Theater tickets will be given to all individual bond purchasers until Feb. 21, Stan Schwahn, manager of the Jayhawker theater, has announced.
"We are averaging ten calls a day," said Mr. Schwahn, "from people who believe that free tickets were discontinued with the end of the Fourth National War Loan drive, Feb. 15."
The complementary tickets will be good until Feb.29. Bond buyers may use the special theater form as an admission tickets, or obtain a ticket good to any Lawrence theater, he said.
Twenty theater tickets are given away every Wednesday night to bond buyers turning in their pledges for free tickets. This will continue through Feb. 23, Mr. Schwahn said.
Thus far, the Jayhawker theater has given away 1100 free tickets, representing $100,000 in bonds.
Mexican Literature Class Will Present Plays at Ateneo
Prof. C. J. Winter's Mexican literature class will present short plays to the "Atenlo" meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in room 113 Frank Strong hall.
All Spanish students are urged to attend, Louise Hatch, vice-president, said.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
Rock Chalk Talk
BY MARY
MORRILL
Russian Winter: The feud in Carruth hall (fresh air culturists vs. ordinary humans) ended on the coldest night of the month with John Bossi curled up alone on the Carruth sleeping porch (all 12 windows wide open) while the rest of the boys tossed on the floor inside. Up until the very last Bossi had Aubrey Gibson as an ally in his window-epening campaign. But when the latter woke up from a coke date dream and found he was really crunching ice, he, too, weakened.
Gibson's last night on the porch, he slept under a matress as well as on one it is reported.
When asked to comment on his strange objection for air, Bossi said,
"The porch is stifling. Perhaps I can arrange for a hammock in the front yard."
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Men are such gossips: Taking Lolly O'Leary back to the Theta house one evening, Kenny Bellamy saw Mariette Bennett descend the stairs with an orchid on her shoulder. Concluding promptly that the attractive sophomore had just put out her pin, Kenneth the Reliable, rushed back to the Phi Psi house. Among those to whom he related the details of the pinning was Dean Simms, chapter member last year, who is now working on the Ottawa (Bennett home town) paper. Super-reporter Simms, rushed back to Ottawa, gave the red hot tip to his society editor, and took a day of for being so up on his toes. The society editor, irate over getting scooped by the Lawrence Journal-World called Mrs. Bennett, and Mrs Bennett in an equal huff called Mariette.
End of an Enemy
In a split second this enemy plane will be blasted from the skies by a shell from one of our anti-aircraft guns on the ground.
The answer is the Gun Director—an electrical brain which aims the guns. Swiftly it plots the plane's height and course. Instantly it solves the complex mathematical problem, continuously matching the curved path of the shell to that of the plane so the two will meet. It even times the fuse to explode the shell at the exact instant.
How can a gun hit a plane going 300 miles an hour 20,000 feet up...when it takes the shell 15 seconds to get up there and in that time the plane has gone more than a mile? Besides, the shell curves in its flight. Wind blows it. Gravity pulls on it. Even the weather affects its velocity.
The electrical Gun Director has greatly increased the deadliness of anti-aircraft gunfire. In its development at Bell Telephone Laboratories and its production at Western Electric, college trained men and women have played important parts.
Buy War Bonds regularly—all you can!
Dr. Choguill Will Speak At Young People's Dinner
Dr. Orlo Choguill of Emporia will be the speaker at a dinner for young people at 6 p.m. tonight at the Trinity Lutheran church, under the sponsorship of the Lawrence Christian Mission.
Dr. Choguill will also speak at a meeting for University students at 4:30 p.m. Friday, in the chapel at Myers hall. Following this talk, there will be an open discussion period.
The University of Wisconsin recently took action to orient all campus defense chairmen for the purpose of affecting a more coordinated war program on the campus. Under the program, each war council chairman will have charge of nine chairmen to meet together to plan a more effective program.
The orchid turned out to be nothing more than a Valentine present—week early that it was.
Telling tales out of school: WAC Day Jeancei Allen of Watkins hall, a part-time central on the K.U. switchboard, met Captain Archie Morris for the first time. "Oh," shrieked Jeancei to the middle-aged officer, "You're the one who calls me Buttercup." Not many of the other officers heard.
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Babc in the Woods: After five months at the "Country Club of the Middle West," Martha Metcalf, freshman, decided it was time she exhibited some sophistication. So for two days she listened studiously to waiters calling orders in the Hawk. On the third day—during a coke date, Jerry Wildgen, Sigma Chi V-12, asked her what she wanted.
"A little Red Riding Hood," said Marty.
Jerry's eyes bulged out. "Are you sure?"
Marty said she was.
"M'Gawd," hissed Jerry to a Chi in the next booth, "She's ordered a beer."
Her closest friends give Marty credit for really wanting a cherry coke.
9:30 Sportcast—Presenting Dr. F "Phor" Allen.
9:45 Lest We Forget — Treacy Star Parade.
Tomorrow:
KFKU PROGRAM
2:30 Speaking to Parents: The Preschool Child. "The Nurser School" by Mary Elizabeth Evan
2:45 Speaking to Women: Tune and Tips from OWI.
Tonight:
Nash Is Honored At Wichita Meeting
Bert A. Nash, professor of education and University director of the ASTP, was elected to membership on the board of directors of the Kansas Children's Home and Service league at the annual meeting Saturday in Wichita.
During 1943, 1,350 children received help through the league while 750 children were cared for in adoption, boarding or free homes. War bonds were bought with all available capital account funds for the year.
H. Gibson Called to Leavenworth Hilden Gibson, assistant professor of political science and sociology, is in Leavenworth today taking his physical examination for the armed services. He will return this evening.
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
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