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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943
Cash Pledge System of Donations Would Eliminate Hill Charity Drives
Another drive is about to start on the Hill, and students again will dig into their pockets, as they have done so many times during the past year. Only this contribution will not be so large as the last one, and the last one was not so large as the one before that. Each drive receives diminishing returns.
Students on the whole are a generous lot, and they don't mind giving to a worthy cause but to give and give and give to cause after cause after cause—it get's monotonous.
Is there no remedy for this situation? Cornell University found the answer to its similar problem with the cash-and-pledge-donation system. In this method, the student gives what cash he can at the beginning of the school year and pledges whatever more he feels he should, payable within the ensuing month. A painless way of treating sororities and fraternities is to have the members' pledges put on the next month's housebill.
A similar plan could be instituted here at the University, but the machinery would have to be set up this spring if the donation system were to function next year. The likely time for the initial donation would be within a month after the fall semester begins, allowing a little time for students to refill depleted bank accounts after paying fees. A week could be allotted to the gathering of the cash offering and at that time the student could sign a card pledging a further amount payable with the next month.
All this would take place before the usual time for any of the drives to take place, and the organizations would be assured of a bigger contribution than usual, for each organization which would sponsor a drive on the Hill would receive a fair share of the money, the exact partitioning to be decided by a committee of faculty members and students, appointed by the Student Councils and the University Senate.
Payment of the pledge could be enforced by withholding grades at the end of the semester in the same way the University handles all other debts. The student would undoubtedly be only too glad to pay these two times and, for the rest of the year, be free from solicitation for donations. He could then look at some mention of the Red Cross or Community Chest and think of its service instead of "How soon and how much will I have to come across?"
The organizations will also profit by this system of donations. Their worries about making the quota and setting up publicity and collection machinery would be over. Instead, all their time could be devoted to increasing the service and benefits they render the community and nation.
The cash and pledge donation system seems to have all the points in its favor. All it needs is to have the Councils and University Senate undertake the project.—J.M.
Germany Is On the Defensive But Is Not Yet Defeated
Reports coming from Nazi and Allied officials the past few days seem to indicate that the German retreats in Russia are due not only to the thrust of the Russian armies, but also to
Just Wondering
If Mayor Russell and his committee on streets realize how disgracefully filthy Massachusetts street is on Sundays?
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Germany's fear of an Allied invasion of Europe.
Yesterday Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that the Casablanca conference scheduled an Allied invasion of the continent of Europe for sometime in the next nine months. Earlier in the day, Stockholm reported that German soldiers were taking up defensive positions in fortified areas of Western Europe, because their leaders believed an invasion was imminent.
Shortly after the Stalingrad defeat, the Nazis announced that their lines were being shortened in Russia because of transportation difficulties. No other explanation was given for their retreat.
Recent German reverses in Russia and the apparent desire to hold only the strongest points of previous conquests may indicate that the Nazis are fighting a delaying action rather than a battle to hold all points.
It has long been predicted that when Germany found her battlefronts becoming too hard to hold,when she began to suffer military reverses,she would pull in her armies closer to Germany and defend the already conquered territory.
If she has decided that this time has come, that she must prepare for an invasion, to defend herself she must have more men on her western front where the invasion is most likely. These men logically can come only from the Russian front.
So, don't be surprised if in the next few weeks Stalin's armies continue to take with breathtaking ease and swiftness cities and territories which they lost a yard at a time. Germany is not yet defeated.-W.H.
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Those dangerous moments: Such was the crush on the bus that travels from the top of the Hill to the foot of the city that Joseph Yager, 1111 W. 11th, struggling through the sardine-packed masses, gave a sigh of relief once he had cleared himself.
Said Joe, clutching his briefcase, "I almost lost my grip."
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impossibilities: Gathered at the A O Pi house were Jane Reid, Dolores Grosenbacker, and Dolores' boy friend, Lionel Cherry. Upon discovering that Jane was an artist, Lionel suggested that she draw him a Petty girl. Girl-friend Dolores offered to model for Jane, but Jane shook her head.
"It wouldn't work," said she. "You haven't any white telephone."
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Signs of the times: Professor Russell Wiley missed band practice the other day for the second time in nine years.
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Great Scott!: The roll was being called the other day in Prof. E.B. Dade's Business Statistic's class, Claudine Scott's name was called and the deep masculine voice of Bob Shubar answered. "Voice changing, Claudine?" ventured Professor Dade.
Just the thing I wanted: Juanita Bowman received a belated Christmas package the other day. In it were a size 3 child's sweater and a pair of small pajamas with "ABC" printed on them. Juanita figures that she has a nephew in Arkansas who has just received a pair of window drapes and a "sloppy Joe" sweater.
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The spice of life: I saw the sage of Mt. Oread again yesterday. This was the second time the bearded hermit had come out of seclusion for several years, and I was much surprised. Perhaps it was the unseasonable weather that called him out (I sometimes suspect that, like the bear, he hibernates and, like the duck, flies north in the summer). The weather was balmy, however, the sap was running free. After a long while, the old man broke the silence like a fragile cinnacea vase.
"Love of wit," quote the Sage, "makes no man rich."
"Love thy neighbor," continued the Sage, "but pull not down thy hedge."
"Love," meditated the Sage, "will creep where it cannot go."
"Love," added the Sage, "being jealous, makes a good eye look asquint."
"Love, knavery, and necessity," suggested the Sage, "make men good orators."
"Love, a cough, and the itch," muttered the Sage, "cannot be hid."
"Love does much," concluded the Sage, shaking his head sagely, "but money does more."
Orchids to Penny Comics Valentine Sell-Out
By JEAN SELLERS
Dan Cupid donned his spurs that "jingled, jangled, jingled and rode gaily down Massachusetts street every day this week, leaving a path of total destruction behind him. The war hasn't daunted him. He still remembers that Feb. 14, is his day to howl—loud and long.
He let us in on a few secrets—let us know just what the hemen and she women are thinking about when it comes to selecting a valentine for that boy or___girl friend ___before in the
He stopped in the Vickers Gift shop and observed that the card racks had been filled three times—everything even resembling a valentine had been sold. The woman in charge revealed that boys were more serious than girls when it came to selecting a valentine. Traditional for the boys was a large satin valentine for that special girl friend and one for mother. Girls Buy in Numbers
The girls would select anywhere from one to six special sweetheart cards. Boys spend more on valentines, but how can the girls spend much when they have so many to buy? Over a thousand cards left Vickers this week, as well as Indian jewelry and a few china dogs.
Dan's next stop was the Allison-Armstrong Flower shop. Here he found that more flowers were being wired longer distances than ever
before in the history of Lawrence. The sailors and other service men are wiring flowers to "the girls back home." Dan confided that most men prefer carnations, but send girls roses because the rose is supposed to be milady's favorite.
The Bell Music company had an entire show window filled with Dan's special brand of greetings, plus two large tables, but Dan's followers bought every card and a store of phonograph records and sheet music in honor of "the day." It was rumored that one girl bought three very special sweetheart cards. Sells Two Thousand
S. S. Kress and company sold approximately 2,000 valentines, which included a share of funny, serious and sentimental ones. The Cook Paint and Varnish company sold about $700 worth of valentines. They sold from 5 cent valentines to $2.00 ones, complete with a sweetheart
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