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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1943
Official Publication of the Summer Session
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
(The following editorial tied for first place in the department of journalism contest this spring for high school newspapers.)
St. Francis—small town? Yes, but it has its own type of drama and beauty; it's Main Street, and more. It's part of life. It's all the poignant small details that indelibly, inevitably mark impressionable young personalities. . .
Published in The Cheyenne Indian News of St. Francis Community High School.
The way the school looks a half a block down the street, all cream brick and crystal windows, impersonal and symmetrical; one shiny black corner of roof showing, and part of a red letter on it, and the chimney's finger silently pointing to the sky; the feel of wide, warm paving underfoot: it hums to drums and marching feet, the slap of horses' hooves, the supercilious purr of engines, the pleasant busy swish of tires in a hurry.
Sunday sounds—church bells, music, the murmur of after - church conversation; the shaded streets with drifted leaves on lawns and porches where pensive dogs watch and blink at passersby—main street, weary at supper time, with the sun at the end of the street, long rays reaching out, touching streets and stores with gold dust, and the six-o'clock whistle, startlingly near.
The view from the glazed-tile called windows of school, across trees and roofs to the valley and the glitter of the river, and fields on the hills, and a little haze of autumn smoke in the air; streets in the winter, cracked frosted glass over gravel, with children on sleds and older people walking as if to warn the ice and curb treacherous nature.
The grade school's creaking merry-go-round on warm days, covered with children in fluttering pastel dresses and blue denim overalls like noisy butterflies and sober moths on a swaying flower.
Small towns—there are thousands of them, basically the same; each is home to the natives, and desolately uninteresting to tourists from towns just like it: the cokes are never quite so good, or the water so cold, or the school so big as at home. St. Francis is one of them: a symbol of the American way, its ideals and aims and habits; there are no skycrapers, there is no sharp modern skyline. But in towns like this the nights are dark and still enough to let one see the stars bright and hear crickets singing the small songs of peace that will someday be crescendoed when the sounds of bombs and warfare shudder into oblivion.
Apple syrup, a relatively new product, is produced by treating apple juice chemically and evaporating to proper consistency; a bushel of apples will produce half a gallon of syrup.
BILL NO. 8
A Bill Concerning Smoking:
Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas:
Section 1. Smoking shall be prohibited on the first and second floors of Frank Strong Hall and in buildings which present a definite fire hazard on the campus of the University of Kansas.
Section 2. That the President of the All Student Council shall appoint members of the A.S.C. to serve on a committee which shall determine which buildings present a fire hazard
Section 3. Receptacles shall be provided in these buildings in which smoking is permitted.
Section 4. Receptacles shall be used where provided.
Section 5. All students violating sections of this act shall be brought before the Student Court and punished according to the discretion of the Court in accordance with the following penalties.
Section 6. That on his first conviction for violation of the bill concerning smoking the guilty person shall be fined not less than two dollars ($2.00) nor more than five dollars ($5.00).
Section 7. That on his second conviction for violation of said bill the guilty person shall be fined not less than $10,000 nor more than ten dollars ($10,00).
Section 8. That on his third conviction for violation of said bill the guilty person shall be expelled from school for the remainder of the semester.
Section 9. That each conviction shall be res adjudicata for all offenses against said bill prior to that conviction.
Section 10. This bill shall be in full force and effect from and after its publication according to the Bill on Legislative Procedure.
Passed June 22,1943
Clarence H. Eagle, Jr.
President of A.S.C.
Jill Peck, Secretary of A.S.C.
BILL NO. 9
A Bill Concerning Student Council Keys:
Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas:
Section 1. That Student Council members shall be allowed keys after the first meeting of the second semester of participation; that purchase of keys shall be optional and up to the individual members.
Section 2. That members eligible to receive keys shall be those who have been regularly elected or appointed at a student election; have served one full semester of that term in the Council; have attended at least 75 per cent of the meetings of the Board; have either graduated at the end of the first semester or are eligible to serve an additional semester.
Section 3. That possession of a council key shall entitle the possessor to privileges of student council members only while in active service on the council; that those who lose their council seats because of ineligibility or improper conduct shall lose the privileges of student council members; and that no member shall be allowed more than one key even though he serves more than one term.
Section 4. That the secretary of the All Student Council within one week after the installation of new members, shall furnish any persons
Navy personnel is divided into three classes, the commissioned group, petty officers and non-commissioned officers, and non-rated enlisted men. Insignia designate the type of officer or branch of service. Stripes designate rank.
Commissioned officers to be seen on the Hill are Ensign, designated by a one-half inch stripe; Lieutenant (j.g.), designated by a one-half inch and a one-fourth inch stripe; and Lieutenant (senior-grade or full lieutenant), designated by two one-half inch stripes. A Chief Warrant Officer wears a one-half inch stripe broken by strips of one-half inch dark blue thread, and a Warrant Officer bears a one-fourth inch stripe.
The types of commissioned officers to be seen at the University include Line officers with a corps insignia of one star; Dental officers, an oak leaf; and Medical officers, an oak leaf with an acorn.
The enlisted men on the campus are known as trainees. They begin as apprentice seamen, advance either to a seaman, second class and first class, and then obtain petty officer ratings, or else advance, from apprentice seamen to firemen, third, second, and first class.
With around 900 sailors on the campus as trainees for machinists or cooks and bakers ratings, with almost 500 navy engineers to begin studying on the Hill in the near future, and with many University men leaving to attend other schools as members of the Navy, it seems appropriate at this time to discuss Navy uniforms, who wear them, and what the insignia mean.
Non-rated men are seamen. Apprentice seamen wear one stripe, second class seamen wear two
who need such information a list of all members of the council, who are entitled to privileges of student council members; that the secretary shall further furnish said persons with the names of those members or former members who have lost said privileges within one week after said privileges are lost; and that the secretary shall cooperate with said persons to see that the list of those entitled to privileges of student council members is kept up to date and accurate at all times.
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Section 6. That this bill shall be in full force and effect from and after its publication according to the Bill on Legislative Procedure.
Know Your Navy Marks And Insignia
Section 5. That the type and style of key to be allowed council members shall be that of the design in the secretary's files.
Signed:
President of A.S.C.
Jill Peck, Secretary of A.S.C.
Passed June 22,1943.
Phone 1051
Clarence H. Engle, Jr.
1025 Mass.
DO A MAN-SIZE JOB IN THE NAVY
Advanced Training For Former Student
Glen Bradley Smith, former University student, has been transferred to the naval air training center at Pensacola, Fla., for advanced flight training, according to a navy press release. He has been stationed at the naval reserve aviation base in Anacostia, D. C.
9:45 am. Church school. The Rev.
Charles W. Thomas will speak on
"The Church and L."
First Baptist Church Eighth and Kentucky
Smith is the son of Bert A. Smith Washington, D.C., and was graduated from Horton, Kansas, high school.
11 aam. Worship service. Rev. Chester E. Tulga, of Brookings, S. Dak., will be a guest minister. Janice Patchen, violinist, will play a solo.
Phelps Commissioned
Lester V. Phelps, who received his degree from the University in 1937, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the army medical administrative corps last week. He was trained at the medical replacement training center, Camp Barkeley, Texas.
Phelps' home is in Marysville, Pa.
stripes, and first class seamen, three stripes.
The stripe is a braid worn around the shoulder seam of the jumper. Seamen wear on the right shoulder seam a white braid on blue clothing and a blue braid on white clothing. Men of the Engineering force wear braid on the left shoulder of their clothing.
In the Petty or non-commissioned officer class, which always include an eagle in the insignia, are the Chief Petty Officer, whose rating badge shows three chevrons with the top chevron joining the eagle; the first class petty officer, three chevrons; second class petty officer, two chevrons; and third class petty officer, one chevron.
Between the eagle and chevrons on the petty officer's insignia are the branch marks. There are a number of these marks in the Navy but only the following are to be seen on the Hill: two crossed quill pens denote a yeoman or office man; two crossed skeleton keys mean store-keeper or caretaker of all supplies; the propeller is a machinist mate's marking; and a red cross denotes a pharmacist mate.
Summer uniforms for all commissioned officers and chief petty officers during the daytime are khaki, at night, white. Petty officers of first, second, or third class wear white day and night during the summer, as do seamen.
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'Strictly Scuttlebutt'
By C. V. McGuigam Lt. (i.g.) USNR
Yes, the e has been some scuttle butt lassly, but, there just wasnt time to pass it around, as the Navy was down fighting the rampaging Kaw river, but, here's a catch-up on the very latest.
And, speaking of the flood, brings forth some memories and amuzing incidents that may have passed without notice. . . . . There was the young bluejacket, who was hobbling around in one shoe. He had lost the other while loading sand, but still hadn't asked to be relieved. . . . . Some of the boys remarking, "Gosh, we are finally near water." (The boys at the Machinist Mates' School come principally from training stations and as yet haven't sailed the briney deep.) . . . . Another quote, "And this is what they told me was the Dust Bowl. I'll have to clear the picture up a little with the folks back east." . . . . "After this, the command course will be a pushover. I am going to go through that eight foot wall, instead of going it." . . . . And, the eternal questions, "How's she doing? Is she still going up? Are the levers holding?"
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The Navy boys did a great job at the flood, and that isn't scuttlebutt—that's the truth. That extended liberty last weekend from the Captain was pretty swell too.
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