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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1943
Unicameral Council Promises To Be A Forward Step in Student Government
In union there is strength, and the new plan for a unicameral council here at the University should prove no exception. After years of bickering between the W.S.G.A. and the M.S.C. in which nothing could be accomplished because one side offset the other, the councils combined in concerted action should be efficacious and progressive.
In addition to the advantages unity would bring the councils, there is also the major factor of continuity. The terms will overlap, with the newly elected members serving as apprentices to the old Council and meeting with it until May. In this way the next year's student government will not be turned over to inexperienced hands, but rather the well-oiled machinery set up by the old Council would continue to work at its utmost speed and efficiency under the new regime.
More nearly equal representation would be brought about by this new system, for the membership would be elected from organizations, schools, and other groups which cover the entire field of student activity.
The unicameral system would be a plan of student government set up for the future as well as now. During the war, student government would continue in the absence of men, with women being elected to a majority of the offices, a part of which the men would take over on their return. After the war there will be few if any loose ends to pick up, and certainly none of the complete reorganization will be necessary which would follow from the two councils' present set-up.
The finer angles of the united council plan have not all been worked out, but even in its embryonic stage it points to a finer student government than the University has yet experienced. Students with an eye to more effective centralized management of student affairs will do well to support this endeavor.
The Hill whistle: a whistle you curse if you have a class, or bless if you are in a class.
United States Will Be Focal Point Of Struggle For Advancement
Today the United States is the arsenal of democracy, the factory of the United Nations for turning out the tools of war, the shipping center for the factory, the banker for a dozen allies; all things are going out—money, weapons, ships, men—to be smashed upon the field of combat. Tomorrow the United States will be the crossroads of the world.
Since 1942 the center of the world has gravitated toward the Americas, toward the rough and vigorous land of the assembly line and the dollar bill. This war has thrown the leadership of the world int our hands. In the post-war world, all roads will lead to the United States.
The movement is inevitable. We have become a major partner in the battle against Nazi Germany and Japan. With our armies and our navies, our factories, our men, we have become a world power-perhaps the greatest world power. Our prosperity, our factories and their manufactures, our dollars will make themselves felt and obeyed throughout a disarmed world as our arms make themselves felt today.
It is not a light responsibility,leading a war-
Just Wondering
If Lawrence, too, doesn't need a curfew law to keep schoolgirls off the streets and out of joints late at night?
torn world into the light of a new day. It is inevitable that the roads and sea-lanes of commerce should lead to our shores, but it is up to us to see that the roads of world diplomacy do the same. The leadership of the world is once more thrust upon us; we must not be as blind as we were in 1918. If we do not grasp our opportunity firmly and boldly, the world movement for enduring peace must fail. The movement must not be wrecked again upon the shoals of American isolation. We are no longer isolated; that has been proved again and again. We are one with the world; its wars are our wars; its peace is our peace.
Tomorrow the roads will be filled with better cars, with better fuel, the seas will be laced by trade routes, the skies will be bisected with sky lanes where super airplanes will bear tomorrow's freight—and all the roads can lead here.
What could be a more intelligent gift for an association to spend $1,000 on than books for men in the services? This is the extent to which the Merchants' Association in Kansas City is donating to the Victory book campaign. These books will all be placed in schools and libraries which are to be the collection centers. They will then be distributed to canteens, army posts, and other headquarters of service men. Reading provides enjoyment for a great many service men.—V.G.
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Editor-in-chief ... Maurice Barker
Editorial Associates ... Don Keown, Joy Miller,
Matt Heuertz, Jimm Gum, Florence Brown
Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus editors ... Alan Houghton, Jane
                Miner, Clara Lee Oxley
Sports editor ... J. Donald Keown
Sports Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... Charles Taylor, Jr.
Business Assistants ... Eleanor Fry,
Betty Lou Perkins, Mary Morrill
By Mary Morrill
Insomnia solicited: Jack Weaver and George Lathan, decided around 11:30 one night to rig up a communication system between their rooms on the second and third floors of the ATO house. The invention (a pulley on the side of the house with a basket for notes, razors and what have you) was still unperfected by 1 o'clock when Mike Gubar, Weaver's roommate, began to complain that he couldn't go to sleep with the light in his eyes. Weaver and Lathan refused to postpone operations until the following day so, in desperation, Gubar tied a blind fold around his head. The next morning about 8, he elevated an eyelid an eighth of an inch, saw nothing but darkness, and turned over. Three classes later Mike looked out again, saw the same blackness, but decided to get up because he wasn't tired anymore. He fumbled for the light and turned it on. Not until after a panicky moment of blindness did the Great Gubar remember his blindfold.
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The best men of all go to Marvin hall: Malcolm Harned, Theta Tau, is back on the Hill after his graduation at semesters, but nobody knows it. This is mainly because Malcolm appears in a clever disguise which he himself terms "dog" and acknowledges is in honor of the defense women he now instructs. Before his first class Malcolm gave away his dilapidated—typical engine school—cords and invested in a suit. John Williams another Theta Tau went with him to make the selection. Both boys got into a little trouble when clerks caught them smearing chalk on the coats to see how they would stand up in the class room.
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Woman—let's keep her IN the home: West Hills folk had reason to believe last week that hell week at the Delta Gamma house is really something. One bright shining afternoon a bloodcurdling scream rent the air, a girl hurtled forth from a window of the D. G. house, dropped into a growth of shrubbery, and bluberbed as a bucket of soapy water shot down from the same aperture and landed upside down on her head. D. G.'s hasten to explain that the incident is not typical of their hell week technique. It happened entirely by accident when Joyce Hartwell was proving—or disproving—her domestic abilities and her love for Delta Gamma by washing the guest room windows.
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Just a nasty rumor: Betty Lou Perkins, Chi O Jabberwockess, doesn't know quite what people thought when they saw her car rammed into a telephone post in front of the Hawk the other afternoon—but, whatever it was she denies. Betty Lou was in Rowland's when her Ford went on its jag. She came out just in time to see it start unsteadily down the hill, and by that time the situation was beyond her control.
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Safety First: A soldier on the bus Phog Allen and his iron men were taking from Lincoln to Iowa State last week accidently dropped a lighted cigaret into the lap of a woman who was sitting beside him. Her pocketbook caught on fire, the stuffing of the seat flamed up, and in no time at all, quite a flame had started. Every one grew panicky and began to dash about as much as people do dash about in busses looking for any kind of an exit. Over all the frantic voices rose the boom of the Kansas coach. "Keep cool, people, keep cool. We'll get this fire out," encouraged Phog with his hand on the knob of the only door to the bus.
WAR DOES IT Lake Changes Hair Do Sweater Gals
War causes strange and interesting things.
International News Service staff writer, Walter Kiernan, comes forth with these opinions on the deadly serious situations of the war. In writing these opinions, Kiernan states that these are only "one man's opinion."
To begin, Kiernan makes this statement concerning the world- resounding decision of Veronica?
To begin, Kiernan makes this resounding decision of Veronica Lake to change her hair style. Walter Kiernan says: Flash—Hidden eye Found Under Veronica Lake's Tresses. Flash—Benny's Wig To Be Explored Next!
Flash—So What?
Lake hung more hair over one eye than Phil Baker has sewed on his winter hairstcut.
She was half-mane, half-woman. She couldn't wink without bumping into protuberances. A protuberance is a knob or a swell. If you bump into a swell with your knob it's a double protuberance, but you meet nice people that way.
Anyway, to get back to Miss Lake and let's all run like crazy—along
came Uncle Sam singing "Take it off, take it off." Veronica's fingers nervously ran up her zipper, skirted her neckline and hesitated in the golden locks.
Then with a quick fling she flung back the wool drape and bang—she had two eyes just like other girls (but not like you, honey.)
It was a victory for the manpower commission. It was a victory for the war production board. It was a victory for society. At last one half of Lake's face knows how the other half made up. Thought for the day: Now we can get on with the war.
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