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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1943
College Reservists Should Await Final Orders Before Leaving School
With the college army reserve question becoming more confusing every time the war department makes an announcement, University men in the army enlisted reserve corps and the army air force reserve are trying to make some sense today out of weekend developments.
Most air force enlistees attending the University on deferred status fully expected to be called within the next two weeks. This was indicated in Friday's Kansan by Laurence Woodruff, coordinator of military affairs, after a telephone conversation with officials of the Seventh Service Command at Omaha.
Now, however, it develops that the Omaha authorities qualified their statement in another telephone call yesterday afternoon. Only those aviation cadets who waived deferment when they enlisted in the reserve will be called. Those who are now on deferred status will continue to remain on deferred status.
Yet, at least seven University men who thought they were on deferred standing received orders yesterday morning to report for induction. Omaha explains this paradox by saying that such cases are errors and that the men involved should straighten out the matter with the Omaha office and remain in school.
Members of the enlisted reserve corps, with designated exceptions, will supposedly be called starting February 1. The war department has been unusually definite in this announcement which was repeated Friday.
These latest declarations on the fate of the two reserve corps seem to be authentic, but University men have become justifiably dubious of war department communiques.
One thing is clear: University men should, above all, remain in school until they have been officially informed when and where to report. That is the advice of the Seventh Service Command, and that is the only sensible thing to do.
Any air force reservist who thinks he is on deferred status but who receives his orders to report should consult immediately with Mr. Woodruff.
One thing is encouraging: The authority in the college reserve situation has now been coordinate with the selective service system under Paul McNutt, war manpower chief. After preliminary adjustments, which are inevitably confusing, plans for the college reserve should attain a clarity which heretofore has been unknown.
University Needs Easy Means Of Cashing Student Checks
About 50 per cent of the students at the University meet their college expenses by cashing checks, most of them on their father's deposit in the home town bank. They have used this method with little difficulty until this year. Now they are met with statements such as these: "I'm sorry, no checks over one dollar;" or "We just don't have the money."
One student approached the business office with a ten dollar check and was told that she would have to cash it elsewhere.
"But I don't have time to run downtown to the bank every time I want to cash a check," she protested.
"You could catch a bus at noon and get back in plenty of time," she was informed!
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Just Wondering
Why a Hill band is charging $25 more this year than last year for playing at the President's Birthday Ball. Looks like a case of business giving charity a beating.
The business office is even reluctant to cash checks earned by students working for the University. These students have had much difficulty in getting large checks cashed in a hurry.
The Lawrence banks will cash checks after going through an unreasonable amount of red tape—each time. They charge ten cents for the service. The main complaint against checking down town is that it requires so much time.
Students object, justifiably, to keeping large amounts of cash on hand. Parents usually dislike to mail cash; and the process of procuring and exchanging a money order is detailed and, for the purpose, unnecessary. Checking is the most reliable and simplest method—if the checks can be cashed.
Housemothers try—but they are not mints. What is needed is a University bank or some system within the business office by which students can cash their checks.
-P. J
"Corn is not to be gathered in the blade, but in the ear." Is that why we hear all the moron jokes and never read 'em?
---O--in the Beginning." Dr. Wilson will also discuss "The Origin of Taste, Odor, Color, Minerals, Animals, Flants, Man, Sin, and the Alphabet."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
A stenographer was granted the first divorce of '43. Maybe she found it harder to take dictation at home.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Bob Coleman
Editorial Associates ... Dean Sims, Joy Miller,
                  Jim Gumn, Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus Editors ... Alan Houghton
Clara Lee Oxley.
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager Charles Taylor, Jr.
By Mary Morrill, Sunday Columnist
Good night! ladies: Pi Phi freshmen were just barely used to warm beds in the house when hard hearted actives informed them it is a tradition of the sorority that pledges endure the hardships of the sleeping porch for at least two semesters. At 11 o'clock that night actives lined up in the halls just to be sure that the freshmen paid proper respect to tradition. They did—dressed for the occasion in mufflers, mittens, ski suits, and earmuffs. Aldra Smith led the parade of martyrs in a flowered flannel night gown and mink coat. Gale Gray brought up the rear with a pair of high rubber boots pulled over her pink striped Dr. Dentons.
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The Fine Art of gossip: Mr. Block, professor of art, is accredited with a sense of humor, a temper, or something, as of day before yesterday when Wayne Gallentine, Phi Delt made his fifteenth trip to the art department after some lost paints. When Wayne had gone, Professor Block was heard to sputter, "If that Gallentine comes after his paints again tell him to go to, and if he wants sympathy he'll have to look in the dictionary—"
There's nothing like the measles. Patty Lockwood, F.A. major, has them and she hasn't been to school all this semester—The whole department is waiting with bated breath for a sunrise painting by Katy Sewell, Alpha Chi. Until it is completed, day by day reports by Darrell Mathes, 1423 Ohio, on its progress are partially pacifying art lovers.
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But The Fire Delts still have them beaten: Warren Israel is rereading Grimes Fairy Tales in an attempt to learn more of all the pixies and little men who weren't there whom he suspects have been trailing him. Israel first became aware of their obnoxious presence when he walked into his room the other night and found his waste basket reduced to a pile of ashes, a charred ring on the floor around it, and a singed place on his desk, but no fire.
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Some people just won't let you be honest: The Chinese salesman who visited organized houses on the Hill admitted to members of Delta Tau Delta—Bob (Sherlock) Schulteis in particular—that he had unwittingly duped the entire Pi Phi chapter. In fun he told the girls his inscribed rings said Pi Beta Phi in Chinese and, before he could convince them otherwise, they bought out his entire stock.
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Signs of the times: Phi Psi freshmen so dressed up in suits, hats, and gloves on the campus nobody recognizes them. Sigma Chi freshmen looking like they've been up later than usual. And that means late. Only one form of torture, besides the ever popular push-up has leaked out of the hell that is Greek fraternity life now. That torture is employed by members of Sigma Chi. Pledges stand blindfolded on chairs, drop handfuls of tacks in front of them, and, at the crack of the active whip, jump on the tacks. It sounds like fun, but it really isn't. The actives catch the tacks and spread popcorn on the carpet before the pledges land.
Is It Flynn Or Is It Flynn?
All these headlines have me puzzled With their tales of crime and sin Always wondering as I read them: Is it Flynn or is it Flynn?
Is it Ed, or is it Errol?
Running madly through my head
What the headlines never tell me:
Is it Errol? Is it Ed?
"Battle over Flynn," one blazons.
"Witness tells of secret sin."
"Twenty witnesses tomorrow."
Is it Flyn or is it Flyn?
"Faces his accusers calmly." "Flynn's accusers to bare all." "Flynn welcomes investigation." Is it Ed, or is it Errol?
Headlines haunt me, tease me, taunt me.
One huge question mark within
Questioning each line I read there:
Is it Flynn or is it Flynn?
Ever am I disappointed.
Reading underneath the head.
Always hoping it is Errol;
Always finding it is Ed.
Jim Gunn
"In the Beginning" Is Tuesday Lecture Topic At Rumsey Chapel
His topic will be "What Happened
Dr. Walter L. Wilson, author, lecturer, radio speaker, and traveler, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Rumsey Chapel, 6th and Indiana streets.
"Dr. Wilson is probably as well known in Europe as he is in the United States, and this meeting should be of great interest to the students," David Boylan, chairman of the Christian Fellowship group, commented.
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