PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1943 Reserve Plans Can Still Be Changed; College Men Should Stay in School University men, by this time, should have become hardened to the conflicting reports of the war department concerning the fate of the college reserves. There have been plenty of them. The fact is, however, that the reservists are still susceptible to every story which creates a change or delay in the reserve pattern. And they should be, for what the war department finally decides to do is of great importance to them. Now, after several months of utter confusion during which the morale of men at this and other universities hit a new low, it finally appears that something definite has been resolved from the mass of red tape which winds in and out of Washington departments. Members of the air force reserve are informed on another page of this paper that they will be called, if possible, between the 20th and the 28th of this month. The army enlisted reserve has been told to expect call at any time beginning in February. Naval reserves do not figure in any mobilization plans for this school year. Yet no University man can be sure when he is to go until he receives his orders. In the past the war department has not played fair with the college students, and the uncertainty about when the reserves would be called has already wrecked many a student's work. If University men could be sure that they would be called within the next two weeks, many of them would drop out of school. Some have done just that on the strength of the recent announcements which carried an air of authenticity. But let's profit by our mistakes. The war department has let us down before, and, even though intentions may this time be firm and the statement of those intentions definite, a lot of things could interfere with the machinery that the war department is to use to transfer hundreds of thousands of reserves to army camps all over the nation. It would be impossible to handle all the reserves at once, and the call may be over a period of several months. We can't hope to change army policies, no matter how unfair and inconsiderate they are of us. We can, however, stay in school and study hard until the day we know we must report for active duty. Let's have no repetition of the "What the hell" attitude which swept the reserves — and which spread to other men and women students — the final few weeks of last semester. College men must realize that their status has been changed. They are no longer merely reserves to be utilized when needed; they are the integral cogwheel of the new unified War Manpower Commission's plans for the training of officers. This is no time to let up and say, "What the hell." Now is the time to buck up and say, "Let's keep going!" Education Holds Key to Future And Nazis Strike First at Schools A motion picture, currently appearing at a local theater, illustrates an early step in the complete and ruthless reorganization of enslaved countries by the Nazis—the compulsory teaching of the "New Order" in a grammar school. Why have the Nazi always struck at educational institutions early in their process of occupation? Just Wondering How long it will take Lawrence rooming house keepers to lower rents to student levels --- Hitler must have some reason, other than sheer blind rage, to strike savagely at a country's academic freedom by undermining and warping the minds of innocent school children. There seems to be an instinct that leads totalitarian rulers to overthrow those citadels of independent thought from which free men proclaim the truth to a country's youth. The Nazis are using force to sow the seeds of "New Order" ideas in conquered lands. We are using force to keep our democratic way of life with its compound of idealism, tolerance, and individualism. We must cherish, preserve, and strengthen our liberal arts tradition as never before. We must do this even while we are turning more and more of our efforts toward the production of implements of warfare that are indispensable in this war for survival. If there is a hope for a new and better world, that hope lies in the field of education not only of America, but the world over. The schools of democratic nations, however, have the obligation of leadership; they must, in this senseless era, preserve the sensible concepts of freedom and individualism if the processes of democracy are to survive World War II. —M.H. There is this about a military call to service that comes at last to the college youth whose existence has been upset for two years by war calls and rumors of war calls. It is at least something definite.-K.C. Star. What the country needs most, as anyone who has been one of three officially ticketed claimants for Upper 6 will agree, is berth control. —Salina Journal. Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN EDITORIAL STAFF NEWS STAFF Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller Campus Editors ... Alan Houghton --- Clara Lee Oxley, Milo Farneti Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti News Editor ... Florence Brown Picture Editor ... James Gunn Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier Editor-in-chief ... Bob Coleman Editorial Associates ... Dean Sims, Joy Miller, Jim Gunn, Matt Heuertz Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes Advertising Manager ... Charles Taylor, Jr. Logic: Betty Lou Perkins, Chi O, in Editorial Class yesterday responded quickly to the stimulus of the word, "Colgate." The class was looking for the university's geographical location. "That's a dental college, isn't it?" ventured Betty Lou. Star duster: In a letter received recently from Captain J. J. Svoboda, who has three sons and a daughter in the University, he described an interesting experience he had at the marine base in San Diego, Calif., where he is stationed. One of the marines was cleaning up his headquarters one day, and he noticed the man's name on the back of his shirt. (All marines have to have their names printed there.) Captain Svoboda had the marine dust everything in the room before he dismissed him. The name on the back of the shirt was Tyrone Power. Typographical errors. The Kansan in Sunday's issue erroneously placed an Alpha Tau Omega head on a story of Alpha Chi Omega initiations. The mistake displeased the Alpha Chi's no end, while the Alpha Tau's looked at each other in amazement when they read of their feminine initiates. It is, perhaps, noteworthy, that the Alpha Tau's are now choosing their roommates for the next semester. A rose is a rose is a rose: Speaking of fundamental definitions (as we weren't), the subject was brought up in Prof. F. E. Kester's Physics 5 class. (You know the old questions: Define time, space, or indeed almost anything which prevents your speaking in terms of some simpler substance.) Professor Kester's definition deserves to go down with those of Gertrude Stein, Colonel Stoopnagle, and Albert Einstein. Professor Kester defined an angle as "the yawn between two lines." $$ * * * * $$ Parlor Games A Solution Shoes Precious "No, thanks, we're staying home tonight." So runs the course of conversation, "we're saving for the duration." It seems the most practical thing to do would be to have Grandma teach us some of those exciting, old parlor games. We all have had our parents and? ___ How? It's simple. First, no tires. Then, no gas. Now, no shoes. We can't ride, fly, or even walk. So we stay home. It seems the most practical Grandma teach us some of those all have had our parents and grandparents tell us again and again how much fun they had playing those games of "Spin the Bottle" and "Musical Chairs." Or, if we can find a horse, we can always hitch him up to a buggy, wagon or cart and take a long ride in the country. Not much chance of going over 35 miles per hour, anyway. May Go Barefooted And it seems only logical that during the hot summer months, the natives of the United States may well adopt the style of going bare-footed. It will save shoes for the cold, winter months. Soon it will probably not look ridiculous to see a casually dressed coed walking daintly down the street in a thin, summer blouse, dirndl skirt and, yes, bare feet! It won't be startling to see a pair of bare feet below a boy's mussed cords instead of a pair of dirty saddle shoes! In spite of the fact that such sights as mentioned above is just wishful thinking, the lavish-footed American public will find it necessary to stop kicking. At least with their shoes on. Long hikes will be out for the duration. Anxious fathers will have to find other outlets of energy than pacing the floor. Dancing will be carried on in a less bouyant manner than before. Jitter-bugs, hep-cats, and solid-senders will either slow down or work in their stocking feet. Rationing is Begun Sunday the stores were closed to all trading. Yesterday began the rationing. So get out No.17 in your coffee-sugar ration book and buy a pair of shoes. Only be careful. These shoes must be good quality; they must have soles an inch thick; and be made to last a life-time. John Public sighs, settles down in his most comfortable chair, lights his pipe and switches on the radio. "I didn't want to go anywhere, anyhow!" he smiles contentedly. Drafting of 17-Year-Olds To End British Colleges Mollie Panter-Downes has reported from London that Britian's new National Service bill, which went into effect recently, calls for the registration of seventeen-and-a-half year olds. She says that this "has been a sobering pointer toward a future when casualties may be almost on the Russian scale." She said, this registration means "that the already hard-pressed universities will practically have to shut up shop, except those prepared to give medical and technical courses and to teach women students." Freshman Dorothy Quigley is helping finance her way through the University of Rochester by wielding a meat cutter as a butcher's aid. 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