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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 194
Allen Has Made Basketball Famous Now He Must Fight To Save It
Wherever the game of basketball is played you will find the University of Kansas known for this school more than any other can claim the title of birthplace of America's greatest sport. To two men—Dr. James Naismith and Dr. Forrest C. Allen—can be attributed the success of the game both here and throughout the sports-loving world.
Naismith was the inventor of the game—but it was his friend, Dr. Allen, who gave the game its polish and appeal to youth. Under him the game grew from a minor sport, overshadowed by football and baseball, to a place in the sports sun where annually it attracts more spectators than either of the other two of the nation's popular games. Other schools looked to Kansas to set the pace in the development of the sport, and set the pace Allen did.
Development of the game has not ceased, although today Allen is only one of the many leaders in the game. Frankly, he is worried about this continued advancement, for the doctor fears that this progress—if it is progress—has taken a turn toward professionalism.
Now, "Phog" will tell you he has nothing against professionalism, but the truth is that underneath he has that same abhorrence of sports for pay's sake that most men who grew up with a game possess. They have lived too close to their sport to wish to see it tainted with money. To them the health-giving possibilities of the game give a worth far greater than that of the common business venture. They fear that professionalism will tend in the long run to subordinate the worthier characteristics of the games--that the aim will tend to become one of giving the public what it wants, not the youthful participant what he needs.
We have seen many sports go that way in recent years. Certainly wrestling on a large scale is no matter of exercise for health's sake. So it is with other sports which have landed in the hands of large-scale promoters. Dr. Allen and others have seen a decided tendency for football to join in this movement toward professionalism in recent years and have deplored that tendency.
Amateur athletics, by their very success are an attraction to professional promoters who see profits in that success. It would seem that the only choices in the colleges of the country are the suspension of large scale sports, or their continuance on a professional or semiprofessional basis. Dr. Allen, however, is not one to give up so easily. A diehard, he believes that University athletics may yet be rescued for the student participant. Certainly, if he is successful, he will have won a hard uphill fight for a good cause.-J.D.K.
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With 96 per cent of all food now under rationing beside all the other rationed items, and the possibility of clothes rationing, there may soon be more man-power hours involved in rationing than there will be in war production.
Congress has been complaining bitterly because only dummy guns and dummy soldiers have been placed over their heads to protect them from enemy air attacks. Still, scarecrows have been known to protect corn.
Just Wondering
Why the University doesn't provide adequate lighting facilities for students in the library.
University Employment Situation
Ever since the first of the year the office of the Dean of Women has been urging women students to register for employment outside of school. The system as it now stands is that the student turns in her class schedule and the kind of work she would prefer. The University offices and departments turn in their requirements and receive the names of the applicants whom they call for appointments.
To eliminate this round-about method, it might be well to have a list of possible jobs available either in Miss Meguiar's office or on a bulletin board and let the students apply for the one they feel they are best qualified to fill.
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It seems just about time for the combined U.S.-British armies in Tunisia to catch Field Marshal Rommel with his panzers down.
One of the world's leading authorities on the stomach said recently of Gandhi's 21-day fast that it might mean a lot politically but as far as the human body is concerned it's merely a practice workout. A 21-day fast is nothing, he said; that should be a big comfort to a lot of us, faced as we are with the prospects of getting along on but little more than fruit juices for the duration.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
It seems the Chinese have won a campaign. Madame Chiang Kai-shek has taken Washington by storm.
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Joy Miller,
Matt Heuertz, Jimm Gunn, Florence Brown
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus editors ... Alan Houghton, Jane
              Miner, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports editor ... J. Donald Keown
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager...Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager...Betty Lou Perkins
Assistant Advertising Manager ..Mary Eleanor Fry
Advertising Assistant...Mary Morrill
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By MARY MORRILL, Sunday Columnist
Mixing the Minks: Ruth Sheppard was one of the first out of Miller hall when things got hot around the anatomy building. She grabbed a coat in the front hall and ran. Halfway over someone took a good look a her and exclaimed, "Anybody'd know we had the Chancellor's daughter over to dinner tonight. You've got her coat on." Ruth was a little late to the fire.
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Proving there's money in everything: Jean and Jane Scott, Watkins hall twins, drove their car back to school from Garnett last weekend. They can't drive around the hill (no gas), but business women a heart and desirous of seeing their machine do some good, they have started renting it out in its parked condition. Customers usually appear in pairs. Business is good.
Burns may have considered them poetic, BUT: Barrett VanDyke, Sigma Nu and an earnest student of Insects and Public Health, has been raising a bed bug in a glass jar. The other night he took the lid off in his room to make some scientific observations and the beastie crawled out. To the horror of all, namely Barrett and roommates, Don Chadsey and Jack Jarvis, it disappeared rapidly under the rug. As yet the boys have had no indication that the bug is still perambulating, but Barrett says it wasn't scheduled to eat again until Monday, anyway. The doomed ones are now trying to decide between two equally odious alternatives—bed bug or sleeping porch.
Right spot, wrong sport: Under the tutelage of Bob Humphries, one time winner of Golden Gloves title, Harlan Cope has been trying to learn to box. The other night he was waving his arms around frantically in a shadow engagement when someone remarked, "That's OK, Cope. With Kuesteiner getting called to the army and all there may be a place for you yet." Harlan thinks maybe he isn't doing so well.
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Let this be a comfort to Hill morons: Ralph May (grade average 2.95) worked three hours daily in his improvised hydraulic lab at the Theta Tau house. The other night he emerged clutching a fat wad of papers, "Well fellows," he exclaimed with a deep breath, "I've done it. My figures prove conclusively that water runs down hill."
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In 25 words or less: The recently conducted "Random Harvest" contest proved that a variety of motives will impell movie-bound students during the following week. Reasons for wanting to see the show which were submitted ranged all the way from "because they say its slightly on the shady side. Lemme to it!" (by the editor of a prominent Hill publication) to an aesthetic: "Warm and human drama is needed to divert the mind of the harassed American. Random Harvest is warm and human."
★ Letters to the Editor
To The Editor:
Women, wake up and dig in! This University is bound to be without many men in a few weeks, at least by the end of this semester. The rumor is now that the Navy reserve may be called at any time. If this rumor is true, women will definitely dominate this campus.
The women must carry on. The University can and will be lifeless and inactive, in other words, dull, unless the women can take over and keep things moving.
Baloney. If you women are planning to remain in school, you've got to do more than sit back and watch this University decay from lack of life. It's up to you to keep K.U. on top. Don't be afraid to take on responsibilities and essential positions left by men. Don't just attend class, but begin to increase your activities. In addition to helping the school, you'll be less lonely, less likely to feel sorry for yourself. Do your part in the war by keeping the school running for the boys who plan to return.
It won't be easy. The feminine population of the campus has been enjoying the social and academic extracurricular activities which were planned by the men. The women have done little or nothing. With the exception of a few, the women still sit at home wailing about their lonely evenings and lack of dates.
BETTY LOU PERKINS
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