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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943
Victory Gardens and Manpower Lack Leave Dandelion Question to Students
With the coming of spring, the day when the common dandelion will again scatter across Mount Oread is not for away. While the dandelion menace has been checked the last few years, this year other problems are added to the question of how to rid the campus of these pests which detract from the beauty of the campus grounds.
Last year, when students could not have a day off for digging dandelions and so took no initiative in solving the problem, the faculty gathered one afternoon after classes and did the job. This year, however, many of the faculty members have victory gardens that will need constant work and care. What time they have for digging in the soil should, by all rights, be spent in working in their gardens—a task for which many members of the faculty have too little time as it is.
The department of buildings and grounds has been so affected by the manpower shortage that it would be impossible for its men to take time for special work on dandelions. Those employees have enough to do keeping the grass cut and watered and taking care of the Hill in general.
With the shortened semester and the fast approaching end of the year, it would be impractical to think that students could take a day off for the job. On the other hand, after th diligent work on the dandelions for the last two years, the crop this year should be small, and not a great deal of time will be needed to clear the Hill of the ugly menace.
Isn't this a time when students could give up a few hours some afternoon or some Saturday to help maintain the appearance of the campus and to keep from losing the steady gain made on the dandelion problem during the past two years?
A nineteen-year-old Chicago girl has resolved, after being jilted by a navy man, that she is "through with soldiers, sailors, and marines." She must "want to be alone."
Mexico Takes Step With Allies By Sending Minister To Russia
Luis Quintanilla arrived in Kuibyshev by plane last week as Mexico's first minister to Russia in ten years. With this diplomatic action, Mexico takes another step in proving herself a friend of the Allies and a nation growing in international influence.
During the past three years, since President Manuel Avila Camacho has assumed the duties as President of the neighbor to the South, Mexico has changed in her world position as well as in her dealings with the United States. The direction of President Camacho has brought stability to the Mexican people and has changed them from a people who distrusted the Yankees to a people who are staunch supporters of the United States in its fight against the Axis.
Even before his election, the Mexican President had been firmly aligned with the United States and her policies. He had demanded, as the ranking general of the Mexican army, that Mexico's armed forces be supplied with U.S. planes, tanks, and guns. At the outbreak of
Just Wondering
If the scenery in North Africa isn't becoming monotonous to Germany's crack sprinter, Erwin Rommel, after so many wild dashes back and forth across the continent.
the war, Camacho saw that Mexico's future was with the United States and not against it. He banned Nazi newspapers, cut Nazis off the air, purged his government of fifth columnists, and exposed Germany's plot to include Mexicans in the same Nordic race class as the Germans.
Now added to this list of actions which have drawn Mexico closer and closer to the Allies is this step in bringing about workable relations with Russia. For ten years, the two countries have been independent of one another, but through the fight against a common enemy and through cooperation with friendly allies, the two nations now have a basis for diplomatic relations.
Out of such important steps as these, Mexico is determined to overcome her backward ways and to take a definite place in the world. With leadership of such men as Camacho within the country and with outstanding diplomats in other important nations, Mexico could easily be led to forget her inner strife and trouble and to turn into a strong promising power.
Reno, Nev., reported an earthquake tremor recently. That city should be used to shocks by now.
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The stork is pretty jealous: Dick Pile told whoever it was on the other end of the line that his roommate, Les Butterfield was out and that this was Pile, his roommate and what could he do. And the voice shrieked, "Oh, you're Dr. Pile, Dr. Butterfield's assistant, whom we've heard so much about. This is the humanitarian of Wattin's hall and we have a dog over here who is in desperate need of medical attention, and do you suppose you could come right over?"
Somewhat in a fog, File went over. The dog was thrust into his arms and a chorus of girls pleaded with him to do what he could.
Later on that night—much later, Watkin's was awakened, and a haggard Pile and Butterfield announced over the phone the arrival of six blessed events—plump rosy girls, apparently. The two doctors, after consulting the proud mother, selected the following names: Joyce (Durall), Eileen (Smith), Alice (Lewis), Joan (Justice), Bertha (Cummings), Marie (Larson), and Tizie Lish. Tizie is for the till-now-anonymous humanitarian, Ann Stevens.
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The more worth while things of life: With sun bath season upon us, navy officials report there is no longer that rush through the lower doors of the Union for chow. The men seem contented to sit for awhile before meals on the northern side of the building.
As for the Pi Phil's—they're still having chapter meetings to decide whether it's their patriotic duty to get brown in time of war.
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--tender one day, and tough the next. Chicken an Impossibility
Sigma Chi handiwork: Chief topic of conversation at the Theta breakfast table this morning was "how do the D. T.'s feel?" Out on the front walk was a very realistic apparition of a jalopy—no tires, no wheels—but still a jalopy.
A man's home his castle? The Phi Gam's were eating dinner peacefully Monday when a loud army march from the Victrola suddenly drowned all conversation. From the kitchen marched Warren Riegle bearing a white envelope on a huge tray. He was followed by Vic Costello and Ned Smull with wash mops over shoulders. Every Fiji clutched his throat—it was evident the time of one of their numbers had come. "Thumper" (Jim) Heaton proved to be the doomed man. The draft orders were delivered ceremoniously to his place.
The posse organized finally found the criminals on the floor of the D. G. linen closet—area 4 square feet—playing bridge. They played minus a fourth because when they shut the door the fourth had been on the outside, and bidding through the partition was inconvenient as well as suspicious. The girls were given away by the smoke from their cigarettes which poured out of cracks around the closet and caused somewhat of a panic.
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Investigation proved that the chapter was not ready for confinement, but that a car really was parked in the vicinity of the front porch. The Theta's are existing on a concentrated diet of Wheaties. They hope to have the car moved away by the end of the week.
Campus molls: Mary Ann Gray, Joyce Hartwell, and Jean Rose became fugitives from the justice shortly after Carol Stuart and Jo Ann Everett crawled into generously cornflaked beds.
Meat Fades From Menu Vegetarian Diet
By JANE MINER
Restaurants here are on a temporary point basis for meat until the rationing board gets their inventories processed. Most of them have enough meat for?
Hamburger lovers are faring pretty well on the Hill now, but their future is a little uncertain. That's the opinion of the managers of the local jelly joints.
Restaurants here are on a until the rationing board gets th of them have enough meat for two weeks, but after that the going may be a little rough, they believe. However, the present situation is very uncertain
Students reminise now about the good old days when the menus featured veal cutlets and pork chops, and bacon for breakfast. Beef makes the print most often these days, with lamb running second. Ham is seen sometimes. While restaurants have little difficulty in getting enough meat for meals, they have had little choice as to the kind of meat, having to take what they can get.
Was that steak (gosh, a steak!) a little tough today? Blame it on Hitler if you wish, for the quality of meat received is inconsistent—
Chicken, for which no points are required, seems to be impossible to get in Lawrence; so cooks can't substitute it for meat. Those scrambled eggs you had for breakfast may be the cause of no fried chicken (and it's spring, too.) Chicken raisers, because of the high price of eggs, are selling the eggs, and not the chickens. Fish, the other substitute for meat, is difficult to purchase, too, because of the demand for it. If more poultry were available, the jelly joints could probably get by the last two weeks, in case the meat supply should prove insufficient
In the event the meat situation does get desperate, one of the foli (continued to page five)