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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943
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Students Not Voting on Constitution Have No Right To Criticize Government
The voice of University students clamoring for student government and more power should, by all rights, be only a murmur after the exceeding small number of students who participated in the vote for the new all-student unicameral constitution.
With only 522 students voting, it is clear just how interested the student body is in such matters. Persons have asked and some have practically demanded that student government be given more rights and more freedom. They have blamed the Chancellor and the administration for having too tight a rein on the activities of the student body. "The student organizations don't do anything; they haven't any power; it's all a farce," they say.
After Thursday's turn-out for the vote, there are very few persons on the campus who have a right to say anything against student government or how it is operated. In fact, there are very few persons on the campus who have a right to say anything against student government or how it is operated. In fact, there are very few—only about 500—who have any right to student government at all.
Working hard and constantly throughout a large part of the year, a student and administrative committee has been investigating student government and the relationship with the administration for the benefit of the total University body. This committee has been conscientious and has set up a constructive plan whereby the students can have the voice in government that they have been asking. Then at one of the most important elections effecting student government, only 522 have enough interest to vote.
Is it any wonder that student government bodies and the administration give up in their attempts to give governing power when they receive no more support from the student body than that shown Thursday?
WPB Planning Committee Head Is Demoted After Controversies
Bob Nathan, talented progressive New Dealer and head of the War Production Board's Planning Committee, is on his way out as a result of a demotion which prompted the young economist to request immediate call to military duty as an army private. Nathan's principal fault leading to his demotion seems to be that repeatedly in encounters with business and military-minded bigwigs in the WPB he proved to be the one who was right.
It was Nathan who battled for an early expansion of our steel and other vital industries, who, through the Smaller War Plants Corporation, brought those lesser factories more completely into the nation's war effort, and who repeatedly exposed certain conservative dollar-a-year men as the obstacles to the United Nation cause that they were.
At present he is engaged in a controversy with heads of our military forces. He has shown that figures on our shipping facilities indicate that it is impossible to ship to the world's battlefronts the number of men requested by the army. He has pointed out that, since it is impossible to use these men immediately in combat, they should be stationed in the factories and on the farms until the time actually arrives when their training should begin before transportation across sea.
Just Wondering
Why a modern receptacle isn't provided at the circulation desk of Watson library to protect students from being charged with books which might be taken from the desk before they are checked as being returned.
Nathan and other progressive members of the WPB fear that any army as large as the one requested could be desired for only two reasons by conservative army officers: (1) for excessive policing of the world following victory, or (2) for a war with Russia after the present struggle. Either of these measures they regard as dangerous and undesirable.
When the demotion came, Nathan was also pressing for the concentrated production of needed civilian supplies in a small number of large factories, so plants and manpower could be conserved for essential war work.
Perhaps Nathan's cause was best championed by William Lord O'Brien, WPB general counsel, who said, when informed of the demotion: "I can't see why the Planning Committee should be demoted. It's the only one that has been right."—JDK
Hugh Dalton, president of England's Board of Trade, said after considering men's clothing. "Men are a great problem. They are too conservative." Women have known this for a long time.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
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Editor-in-Chief ...Virginia Tieman
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News Editor ... Phyllis Jones
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Society Editor ... Annie Lou Rossman
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By MARY MORRILL
Activity consciences: Eddie Hansen, Sonny Love, Bud Netzer, and Frank Godding, Kappa Sgis, have received recognition as being four of the most active members of that noble institution, the Thank God It's Friday club. Following their traditional beers (s-s-s) Friday afternoon, this quartet habitually adjourns to the intramural field. Where-upon, in their cars they play at air squadron. The fellows line up and drill—at full speed. Hansen generally leads. He is a bomber, Netzer and Love suffer under the illusion at such times that they are pursuit planes while Godding brings up the rear in the role of an oil tanker, capacity unlimited.
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Spring scores a direct hit: Bob Barton remains bashfully silent these days as his brothers of Phi Kappa Psi wait on him in awed reverence. In spite of many precautions, it has leaked out that Barton will accompany Barbara Koch, Gamma Phi, to her home in Chanute next week. The rumor is not officially confirmed, but the Phi Psi's believe that the purpose of the trip is to provide an opportunity for "Bobby" to meet "the folks." Phi Psi freshmen take turns polishing Barton's pin. It will be ready at a moment's notice.
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So this is what the dairy service is coming to: An article submitted by Gerald Tewell in long hand to this column recently caused a great disturbance among members of the department of journalism. Tewell began by saying that the characters in his story were Lily Rose Lyons, Jean Kaufman, A. D. Pi's, and a cow.
The action had something to do with Lily Rose and Jean waking up, finding a big black cow in their room, and screaming.
Although the story seemed improbable, many intelligent journalists were involved in a discussion of how a cow would go about getting up on the second story of the A. D. Pi house, when some budding chirographer announced that the correct interpretation of Tewell's scrawl was crow, not cow.
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Join the navy and see spots—the spots: All navy reservists who will leave school the 13th, before reporting for active duty in Chicago have been summoned to a meeting Monday evening in the Men's lounge, at which gathering arrangements for an educational tour through Chicago will be made. Cliff Parson and Alan Houghton, co-organizers of the movement, insure those interested that the trip really will be most educational. Especially for Kansans.
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Kansas hospitality: At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon Arie Holland, 1134 Mississippi, received a dozen roses and word that her husband, Lt. David Holland, scheduled to arrive about then for a ten-day leave, would be late. He had missed his train.
Viola Richardson crept downstairs at 1 o'clock next morning to answer an impatient doorbell. Upon confronting a male with a deep bass voice on the shadowy porch, she lost her nerve. Slamming the portals. Viola fled up stairs and pounced on slumbering Tex Trate.
"Oh Tex, there's a man down there," she wailed. "Do something." "Not me," said Tex, the phys ed major in her disseling.
Peggy Hodgson spread the alarm to Mr. and Mrs. Larcom, house parents. More confusion—much more. Then the door finally opened. Lt. Holland stood on the front porch mopping his brow.
"Gawd, does my wife live **here**?" he asked.
Tracy and Hepburn now at the Jayhawker
Co-starred together for the first time since the hilarious "Woman of the Year," Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn turn their talents to serious drama in M-G-M's thrilling "Keeper of the Flame," now at the Jayhawker for 4 days only.
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