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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1943
Tomorrow's Peace Must Be Planned While We Fight Today's War
Foremost in the thoughts of prominent men and women today is the problem of peace and the post-war world. Leaders like Governor Stassen, Representative Clare Booth Luce, Vice-President Henry Wallace, and a hundred others are trying to drive home to the people that today is the time to plan for peace-today while we know what we want; today while we are still fighting and sacrificing and dying.
Vice-President Wallace is speaking from the heart of the people with his proposals for a freer, warless world. He would like to make a world where no one need go hungry or jobless or in chains. His is the dream.
Representative Luce bids us look to the air. Look, says she, to the future of commercial aircraft. Mrs. Luce created quite a tempest under the capitol dome the other day when she made her maiden speech and advocated American control of global air (later denying she implied so much). Some alarmists may say that she is creating dissention among the United Nations by bringing up such topics now, but now is the time to bring them up—now while we are united in aim and purpose, we should harness these forces which are likely to rip us apart tomorrow. Mrs. Luce emphasizes the practical turn of mind.
Governor Stassen in his speech here recently recommended a careful consideration of the outlines of a post-war world. He suggested seven points for post-war relationships, knowing that they were not perfect but hoping that they might lead to further discussion and elucidation. His is the plan.
The practical, the ideal, and the plan—that is what we need today. And most of all we need discussion, clarification, thought. We need thought today by the men behind the guns, by men and women in the factories and in the home, and by the students. Yes, by the students, for the student of today will be the leader of tomorrow.
To quote a fiery orator of another time of crisis: "Men may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace." We cannot wait for the peace. We must prepare today, or we shall have no peace.
Tomorrow will be too late, because tomorrow we shall have forgotten.
Invention of Phonograph Record Is Attacked By Caesar Petrillo
At long last the American Federation of Musicians (A.F.L.) has announced that it has submitted to large recording firms proposals to end its ban on the making of records by A.F.M. members for public use, and invited industry representatives to a negotiations conference. Spokesmen for several recording firms said they would accept the invitation.
According to James Caesar Petrillo, union president, the ban was ordered to give more employment to more musicians. Throughout the dispute, which has been to the courts and before a Senate committee, Petrillo has insisted that thousands of his 138,000 members were not employed because of juke box and recording competition. The substance of the A.F.M. proposals is that recording manufacturers pay for their recordings into a union fund
Just Wondering
Who will be out for football practice in the fall—the faculty?
--to be used for supporting unemployed members.
"The invention of the record has done my boys an injustice and thrown them out of work," says Petrillo. "The record must pay."
Ah, if the horse had only had a James Caesar!
Washington Prescription- Shake Well Before Taking!
The recently-publicized split between Rubber Czar Bill Jeffers and the Army and Navy over rubber, high-octane gasoline, and the Uboat menace may be symptomatic of a diseased bureaucracy. At least, the War Production Board seems in need of a doctor's care.
The question has been raised time and again about the capabilities of Donald Nelson for coordinating the activities of such resolute and head-strong men as Ferd Eberstadt, Chief of Production Charles Wilson, and Rubber Czar Jeffers. With disputes and battles over authority and critical materials storming over the capitol, it would seem that Nelson is not the man to harness these unruly chargers to the chariot of war.
It is not at all unlikely, therefore, that President Roosevelt, M.D. (medicineman deluxe), may prescribe for his ailing bureau a good shaking-up.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Rock Chalk Talk By JIMMY GUNN
Aerial gymnastics: If anyone is wondering about the three yellow training planes that swooped low over the campus Sunday noon, they were winged wolves on the loose from the naval aviation cadet training station at Oathe.
It seems that they barged into town Saturday looking for a few lambs and called up the Sigma Kappa house (unwittingly, I suppose). Two of the women took them up (there were only two of the cadets Saturday) and made an evening of it.
They were surprised no end to receive a long-distance telephone call Sunday forenoon from the cadets at Olathe saying they would be up in half an hour and would swoop three times over the Sigma Kappa house. Their word was as good as their bond, and right in the middle of dinner they swooped, while the Sigma Kappa's rushed out into the yard to wave frantically skyward.
*****
Let us ask the gods for such a brother: Marian Eisele, 1708 Massachusetts, has a brother. The brother, on the point of going into the Army Air Corps, took his sister downtown for a treat and bought her a pair of shoes on his number 17 sugar coupon.
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Bloody but unbowed (from the Yale Record):
but unbowed (from the Yale Record):
"My wife ran off with the butler."
"What a shame."
"I'm satisfied. Furthermore, my house burned down and I haven't any insurance."
"Too bad."
"I'm satisfied, and to cap everything off, business is so bad I'm going bankrupt, but in spite of everything I'm satisfied."
"How is that possible with all your misfortunes?"
"I smoke Chesterfields."
Yellow Jacket
Faculty valentines: The Marshall County Club met at the home of Miss Sara G. Laird, professor of English, before Valentine's Day. Ann Stevens, Watkins hall, had every lady write a rhymed valentine to her sweetheart.
Wrote Mrs. Lawson to the Dean:
Please, sweet man,
Whose head doth shine,
won't you be my
Valentine?
Wrote Mrs. Ashton to the professor:
My eyes ain't blue,
My hair ain't curly.
But don't you want me
For your girlie?
Home Town For Dean Back To Law
He likes to talk in Russian brogue and brag about his home town. He is proud of his Swedish ancestry, hopes to take a trip to Sweden some day, and likes to spend all his leisure time with his girl. He is Dean Ostrum, president of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
Quiet and easy-going, Dean seems just like the boy-next-door. With every other word, he utters some praise for Russell, Kan., under $ ^{ \circ} $
Quiet and easy-going, L With every other word, he utte and wants everyone to understand why his home town is so fine. In fact, he likes Russell so much that he wants to return after graduating from the University and go into law practice with his father.
Dean claims that the time when finally he will become a lawyer seems far off, since he is going into the army in May. He is now a junior in political science, but insists that he will come back to the University and graduate.
Dean has been on the Dean's honor roll for two years and has a Summerfield scholarship. He is in Owl society, Scabbard and Blade, is an editorial assistant on the Jayhawker, and wrote for the Kansan last year. He is treasurer of the Inter-fraternity Council and was formerly publicity chairman of the YMCA.
Because he likes to ride,he was
president of the Bit and Spur club, which is practically non-existent now. He wants to have his own horse when he goes back to Russell.
He says he is no good at any sport but he likes to watch any of them. He plays the clarinet just for his own amusement and jams with the radio. Last year he played with the University band.
Dean is engaged to Sarepta Pierpont, Gamma Phi. In telling about it, Dean explained, "I had a blind date with her last spring, and she was the only girl who ever told me I was a good dancer, so we were engaged eight months later."
Dean Ostrum has a great admiration for John Conard, editor of the Jayhawker. In contrast, he dislikes persons who forget that they've met you, and he hates snobbery.
He likes animals and has a cat at
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