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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
War Board Members Aid Home Economy
Today marks the second anniversary of War Price and Rationing Boards. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce gave a lunchon honor ing these board members, who serve without pay in this important home front war effort.
The purpose of these boards is to stabilize home economy, an essential part of the war effort. So, instead of gripping about the members of these boards, we should praise them and thank them for the time-consuming patriotic work they are doing unselfishly.
All over the country citizens are willingly giving their time to work on these boards and they deserve recognition. Too many regard the members as ogres, as politicians, and as grudge-bearers. Few realize the difficult job of planning and determining the real needs of the people, with which these Board members must cope.
It is not so hard to be regarded as patriotic when you are in uniform. It is not so hard to appear patriotic when you are working in a war war factory. But it is hard to be praised for patriotism when you work behind a desk where necessarily unpleasant facts are passed, where some requests must be denied. Of course, the armed forces and the war factories are essential to victory. But let's pause occasionally and especially today to praise other essential war workers—the War Price and Rationing Board's members.
Racial Tolerance Is Resolve for 1944
A marine, home from Guadalcanal, recently made headlines with a scalding letter to the California American Legion denouncing the racial hatred promoted by that organization. He said, in essence, he and his fellow marines would fight this injustice at home as readily as they fight the Japanese in the Pacific!
This rebuke, coming from a marine who has been fighting the enemy, has force behind it and cannot be easily overlooked. Seldom enough are voices raised against the growing menace of racial intolerance, which constitutes a major threat to the very freedom for which we profess to be fighting.
Rock Chalk Talk
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1944
By HANNA
HEDRICK
When Ensign Mike O'Donnell, a Phi Delt have last year, came back to visit on New Year's Eve, he challenged Jack Gisell, PT1, to a tape measure contest: Mike away with the waistline honor by fully 6 inches. Jack, who says these wartime girdles just don't fit right. blames good food or bad beer (or vice versa) for his slipping chest:
In the line of duty: Gene Kittle, Phi Psi freshman, feels that a public explanation would hold the situation along: The Phi Pais came up to Fraser theater to have their pictures taken Monday night, and somewhere in the scuffle, Gene (only heir apparent to the Delt scholarship throne) was nominated to remain and tote planks and other odd bits of equipment around for the rest of the evening—by virtue of his smartness. The Jayhawker staff decided to take an intermission and Gene went along, glancing furtively over his shoulder all the while. It finally came to light that he was supposed to have a date waiting at the game (either a Delta Gam or a Gamma Phi—the issue is not very clear). His fond hope was that may-
ue one of his brothers would take over the date situation and keep a friendly relationship, although not too friendly, with said girl.
His friends were glad to see that Charles Moffett, Delt, has regained his nerve. Charles spent all Christmas vacation alone in the Delt house so that he could practice basketball with the K.U. squad. By the time his brothers had returned, Charles' red hair was standing on end, and for nights he kept insisting that he still beard gremlins in the hall. His friends, who are not in training, assured him that they were only pink elephants.
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One, two, three, slide: A. S. Bob Daleen can't understand why the navy doesn't issue cleats. The hero of the PTI house, who is credited (anonymously) with having shot a Jap- or nearly so--right after Pearl Harbor, is having trouble keeping the rest of the boys on their feet. Its very disconcerting, he says in no uncertain language, to look back and find half of his outfit slipping, sliding, or falling along on the ice. Bob is the solo artist on "hep, two, three, four" for the outfit.
The race riots in Detroit, in Harlem, in Boston, and in California are blotches on the name of the United States, a name which to the other nations of the world, we are told, means democracy. How can the United States ever expect to get along with the other peoples of the world, much less guide them, while her own people are so extremely intolerant of each other? The people of Boston cannot with justification
accuse Hitler while they, themselves, allow riots against Jews to run unchecked for a year and a half. The people of California cannot justifiably point an accusing finger at Hitlerism while they falsely use the banner of patriotism to purge the Japanese. The people of Detroit have little grounds on which to censure Hitlerism when they look at the racial riots and the conditions which caused them in their city.
None of us is free from prejudice and intolerance, but we have the ability to rid ourselves of them if we try. If we refuse to try, the reckoning will come, and we will all be the worse for it. None of us can sit passively while purges and riots continue in this country and hope
To Discuss Demobilization On KFKU Roundtable
The subject, "How Should the Armed Forces Be Demobilized?" will be discussed at the regular Roundtable broadcast at 9:30 p.m. Friday, over KFKU. This is the first of four programs which will be presented during January on post-war problems.
Hull Confers With Halifax On Russo-Polish Relations
Washington, (INS) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull conferred for more than an hour today with British Ambassador Lord Halifax. The Polish problem was understood to be one of the chief topics of discussion. The British envoy's visit marked a further step in the intensified efforts which Anglo-American diplomacy is making to avert a new crisis in Russo-Polish relations as a result of the advance into Poland by Soviet forces.
for a magical dispersion of them and a peaceful country when the war is over. Instead of disappearing, they will grow if we do not become more tolerant.
A clean slate is handed us with the coming of the new year. We cannot hope it will be unblotched at the end of the year, but we certainly have a very good chance of making it a much cleaner slate than the one with which we have just finished. A resolution for 1944—to fight prejudice and intolerance of other races whenever and wherever we see it—would be a most timely resolution and a practical step toward peace in our own country and in the world
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 5.1944
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journal-
m. at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
Quack Club tonight, 7.30.
Frances Davison, Pres.
Quack club pictures will be taken Thursday, 12:30 in Gym.
Frances Davison, Pres.
9:30 p.m. Living Books. "Utopia" (More), Speakers: W.E. Sandelius, John W. Ashton, and Fletcher McCord.
. tomorrow afternoon:
2:30 p.m. Book Review Program,
"Basic English and Its Uses" by
I. A. Richards, reviewed by John
B. Virtue.
2:45 p.m. Tell Me a Story. Stories
for children told by Mary Elizabeth Evans, director of the University Nursery School.
Teeth and Bones Need Vitamin C Vitamin C is needed in the formation and maintenance of healthy teeth and bones.
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