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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1943
Kansans Deserve Honor of Having Battleship Named After Their State
If any state in the Union today deserves the honor of having a battleship named after it, Kansas is that state. In this period of rapid expansion in the number of battleships, there is surely one that should be destined to be the "U. S.S. Kansas."
Kansas has earned the right to have this honor more than any other state today. She led the nation in the scrap drive, collecting more scrap metal per capita than any state in the nation. Kansans collected an average of 164.52 pounds per person—the total was over 286 million pounds. Much of this scrap metal will undoubtedly be used in making battleships—it is only fair that Kansans find their state's name on one of the new "battle wagons."
In important war production, too, Kansas has become one of the leading states in the nation. Kansas has a great many war plants—some of the largest plants in the country. Kansas has long been one of the leading airplane building states in the nation. The Salina Air Base which is nearing completion, is probably the largest one in the country. A huge air base is being constructed at Garden City. Topeka has a big bomber base, Coffeyville has its air corps base to mention only a few of the air training bases in the state.
Plastics, powder, shells, oil, gas, coal, and airplanes are all produced on a vast scale in Kansas. Add to this the fact that Kansas is a leading wheat-producing state and one of the leading food producers, and Kansas has an impressive record in aiding the war effort. Should not this record rate us a battleship?
Kansas has long been considered the state representative of the great middle west—when people think of the vast central plains, they think first of Kansas. Yet, in selecting names for battleships, the middle west has been largely ignored. Only the U.S.S. Iowa and U.S.S. South Dakota bear Middle West names. The north, south, east, and west are all represented in the battleship roll call—the middle west should have more prominence on the list, and Kansas has the best claim to be added.
The people of Kansas have shown that they deserve national recognition for their contributions to the war effort. The plaque awarded the state by the War Production Board for winning the scrap metal contest was a gesture of recognition, but Kansans deserve something more. A "U.S.S. Kansas" would be proof that Kansas has not been forgotten.
Sportsmanship of Kansas Fans Is Far Below Past Standards
What's happening to Kansas University sportsmanship?
Aren't we ashamed? We should be—every one who was a part of that booing crowd at Friday night's basketball game.
In moments of tenseness and over-excitement such as those during the closing moments of the game, people seem to become radical, impulsive, and hard to control. We saw what happened. It wasn't something to be proud of even if it is blamed on collegiate enthusiasm.
Something should be done to improve the sportsmanship and audience-conduct at our basketball games even if a campaign of ostracism against those who hoot and boo has to be
undertaken. More than once this season the audience has had to be reminded by means of the loud-speaking system that they are not behaving in a manner becoming a Kansas University crowd.
Booing doesn't help the players. We've seen the team members themselves try to suppress it from the court by motioning for quiet. When the men who represent our University in basketball and win for us a Big Six championship by honest rivalry and courteous acceptance of decisions and results, hear those whom they are representing send up hoots and contemptuous boos, they might rightly feel that we don't deserve the effort they are making.
A basketball audience should realize that the officials don't have an easy job. Also, people in the audience should remember that they themselves are not in a position to see every move.
At any rate, whether it's a mistake or whether it isn't, just whom does it help for people to release their energy by long and loud booing?
Let's eliminate that from our sports conduct. Let's make our fighting team members proud of the audience that supports them, and let's keep the name of our University crowds synonymous with good sportsmanship.
A headline reports "Bombers Visit Jap Airdrome at Lae." For a TNT party, we hope.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Joy Miller,
Matt Heuertz, Jimm Gunn, Florence Brown
Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
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Miner, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports editor ... J. Donald Keown
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Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
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Rock Chalk Talk By JIMMY GUNN
Bv MARY MORRILL<sub>e</sub> Sunday Columnist
How not to make one's grades: Two Phi Gam freshmen had Miss Hoopes over to the house for dinner Thursday. Things were going beautifully until dessert—ice cream covered with strawberries—arrived. In class recently Miss Hoopes informed her students that the one thing she didn't like was strawberries. They revolted her—positively! The boys remembered and their hearts sank—with justification. When the English teacher saw the red fruit, her reaction was violent. "Two grades I know of have sunk down, down, down! In fact, boys," she exclaimed, "your whole system of apple polishing has just gone to hell."
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Did you put the cat out, dean? "Hey who's kissing me?" Pause. Sigh. "We-ell now!" Ed Sims thought his roommate (Bill Shaw) was just having a highly satisfactory nightmare. Then suddenly something in the direction of Shaw's bed started walking. Sims switched on the light to see a brown female cur licking his grimming roommate with affection. There were two other such animals in the Sig Alp house at the same time—1:30 a.m. No one knows how or why.
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Those who guide our young lives: At the Union operating committee meeting the other night Miss Zipple was complaining about how Esquires keep disappearing from the reading table. At the first of the year three issues were stolen overnight—Union covers and all.
"I just can't imagine what student would have the nerve to take them," she said.
Eyebrows raised in mild disapproval, Henry (adviser of men) Werner asked dryly, "Are you sure the Purity League didn't do it?"
The minutes don't say Miss Zipple blushed, but she did.
On the foxy Beta fresh: Every morning and every noon last week, Taeta freshmen trudged up the hill to classes single file. (Hell week regulations). Generally they were followed by 9 to 10 mute but happy Beta freshmen (also single file). It was the nearest most of them, (the Betas) had ever come to walking with a girl on the Hill, and they loved it.
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When enough is enough: Al Howes maintains his buddies were just jealous of the long conversations he manages to carry on with the cuter Hill women. Prompted by some such motive, Sonny Laird, Bill Sims, and Kenny Kates locked their fellow ATO into a phone booth—for two hours. And this is no joke—just ask Al.
Who's Who Needs Him Versatile Student
By Martin Hatfield
Combine a pleasing witty personality with an active, blond curly haired business school senior and we have one of the outstanding members of the class of '43.
The chief characteristic flavor of Bob McCarty can best be described by a personal description. At the first glance one gains
described by a personal descrip a true impression of Bob. A perpetual smile is as characteristic as his much "talking hands." Acquaintances have connected Bob with the Bob Hope of radio for his likeness in wit and humor.
Throwing a little light in the corners of his life we discover Bob addicted at an early age to sleeping out and hiking. Scout work later became his occupier of time and he achieved the maximum ordinate in scout work when he reached the rank of Eagle Scout.
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If a Who's Who at the University of Kansas existed we would find listed under Bob McCarty's name: manager of the intranural board, advertising manager for the Kansas Relays program, freshman adviser, president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and a member of Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity.
"Mac," as he is sometimes known, invests his leisure moments in reading Time and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Relaxing goes farther than that by his becoming absorbed in literature thus "escaping from it all."
Has Many Activities
Something that hasn't been revealed by Bob now until now is his liking for the Quiz Kid radio program. "If my mind registers the answer before the contestants I feel as though I'm riding on rubber tires," was his snappy reply. His Hobby Is People
Our subject firmly believes in practicing "give- and-take." Bob will graduate in May which accounts for the "taking" element. Next is the "giving" element. "Stripped for action" is a phrase tailor made for Bob, and just this he will be, in the fall when he is commissioned an ensign in the navy.
Bob's life for the duration has been blue printed by the navy which promises to provide steady work for some time yet. His course has been mapped, the wind checked and Bob stated "I see nothing but smooth sailing for the Allies. My most elevated ambition is to be able to have done and said "sighted sub, sank same."
People might well serve as a hobby for Bob. "I never grow tired of talking with people," and he emphatically added, "maybe because I enjoy talking and secondly each one is different and has something the other hasn't."
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