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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943
Fate of Reserves Depends On Tide of Allied Offensive
Out of the maze of conflicting reports and indefinite statements regarding the college situation, one criterion has been substantiated: The chances of men students' staying in college will depend upon the tide of war.
Last summer, when the prospect of a large-scale offensive by the United Nations was imminent, rumors from Washington were that all college men would be drafted before the end of the fall semester; the army needed men and needed them badly. Government officials sought to speed up the induction and training program as well as armament production.
Then came the actual opening of the longawaited second front—in North Africa. As this campaign progressed successfully throughout the fall and early winter months, less was said and more was done about the military status of college men.
The relatively small-scale invasion of North Africa did not drain too much of our manpower. Moreover, we did not have the transportation facilities at that time to send across an army of more than several hundred thousand.
More definite and more extensive enlisted reserve programs enabled most college men to finish the fall semester. Certain specialized groups of students — pre-medics, engineers, pharmacists were virtually assured that they could complete their courses, where upon they would receive technical second lieutenant ratings.
As the North African campaign enters its last phase and as the Russians continue to smash German divisions along the entire Russian battlefront from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the outlook grows more favorable for college men who hope to finish this academic year.
Thus there should be no terrific drop in college enrollment of men students until the invasion of Western Europe is begun or contemplated and millions of men will be needed to crash through strong Nazi defenses and to patrol Allied-occupied countries.
Edward Flynn Case Shows Need Of Merit Plan for Diplomats
Edward J. Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, is now before a Senate committee concerning his appointment by President Roosevelt as minister to Australia.
In challenging Flynn's integrity as a public officer, Senate members are trying to show that he once used his position as a Bronx political boss to utilize labor and materials which were the property of New York City to build a Belgian garden at his country estate.
Whether Flynn is guilty of graft, although that is the point in question, is not significant in the long run. The distasteful aspect of the whole affair is the necessity of subjecting an appointed diplomatic official to the disgrace of a hearing on his character.
Flynn's appointment is a purely political one. And therein lies the deficiency of our diplomatic system.
Diplomats are the representatives of the
Just Wondering
If it is natural that the Topeka air base, supposedly an advanced training field for men who already have been taught to fly, should have so many fatal accidents.
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United States who carry out and sometimes even formulate policy with foreign nations. The job is a big one and an important one, particularly during wartime. It demands capable men.
The case of Edward J. Flynn demonstrates that all members of our various diplomatic staffs should be appointed on the basis of merit. Civil service could not only produce capable men for diplomatic posts, but would also take the political stench out of the system of appointments.
Kettering's "Road Ahead" Leads Through Social Sciences, Too
Charles F. Kettering, research manager for General Motors, emphasized a point in Hoch auditorium today that college students may easily misinterpret. America, he said, has been looking too much out the back window and not enough into the future.
Kettering is a scientist and his "futurist" philosophy applies to his own field of the physical sciences. He predicts that the post-war world will see much opportunity for progress which heretofore has been in the realm of the impossible.
Although Kettering is primarily a scientist, his statement can not be limited to the physical sciences. Mass production will not improve the world's living in Kettering's future unless other fields of knowledge go hand in hand with the sciences in facing more toward the road ahead instead out the back window.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
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Editor-in-chief...Bob Coleman
Editorial Associates...Dean Sims, Joy Miller,
Jim Gunn, Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor...Betty Lou Perkins
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Ralph E. Coldren
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Wire Editor ... Virginia Tieman
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
A bloomin' capitalist: Jay "Senator" Gunnels, it is reported, has entered the black market. He has five packages of gum. When asked what he was going to do with them he replied that he was going to spread them out, a little piece here and a little piece there, for bait.
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Pi Phil's in the parlor: A couple of Pi Phil's, coming in on a late train about 3 or 4 o'clock Monday morning, found their sorority house locked. They went over to the Phi Chi house where Mrs. Morrison, housemother, put them up for the night in the front parlor. And the boys never knew about it.
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Nor hell a fury: Margaret Pesler and Faye Elledge, Alpha Chi's, had dates, or so they thought, with Jim Ferguson and Duane Sickler, Sig Alph's, for Saturday night at the Alpha Chi dance. But Friday evening the boys called up with the information that they had to play the next evening in the combined Danny Bachmann-Johny Pope band. This information pleased the girls so much they sent corsages of lilies to the lucky fellows together with two little books on How to Play The Trumpet and Sax In Ten Easy Lessons.
Slips of the tongue; or we heard you the first time: Prof. E. B. Dade, whose students are popularly known as Dade's Ducks, ventured the opinion in his Business Statistics class the other day that, after we get through licking the two H's, everyone will have three cars in every garage and two chickens in every car. What a world!
The latest in degrees: Jim Bridgens, 1731 Indiana, received a package recently in which was a note and a baby rattle. The note informed Jim that he had just been conferred the degree of D.D., Doctor of Diapers. There is a rumor it is vaguely connected with the line he has been using lately about his wife and children. Remember that one boys?
Lost and found: A fine assortment of discarded or forgotten articles is reposing in the Watkins Memorial hospital, according to Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of health service. There is one classy hat, several scarfs, neckties, and a portable radio. Anyone missing part of his wardrobe or his music should call at the hospital to examine the collection.
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Mingling the "sweet" trombone of Danny Bachmann with the "hot" music of Johnny Pope's trumpet, a new band, entitled Bachmann and Pope's Band, will now furnish dance-lovers with a livelier display of music and dancing than the Hill has seen for some time. Since the personnel of a band tends to follow the leader's style, the combination of these two qualities should satisfy both "jive" and waltz fans. In addition, the mid-weeks, wartimes and open houses that.
Pope,Bachmann Combine Bands Merge
varsities, and open houses that are being planned may make the preceding semester's social life look feeble.
The merger of the two bands was necessary because of the loss of several band members to the armed forces. Pope has retained six men for the new band and Bachmann, seven. The thirteen piece band will play for all social activities on the Hill.
Because both bands had future contracts and playing dates, often on the same night, Melvin Zack, pianist and business manager, is straightening out the band's booking. Arrangements are being made so that as few dates as possible will be changed.
Bachmann To Front Combined Band Bachmann, who fronted his own band, will also front the new band. "Cryin' for the Carolines," Bachmann's former theme song, will be used temporarily. Johnny Pope and Melvin Zack will arrange for the band.
The numbers, "Company Jump," and "Who Hit Minnie with the Meatball?" originals by Pope, "Outskirts of Town," "Nine-Twenty
Special," and "All of Me" will be featured in the original band's style. The libraries of both orchestras are to be used.
To Play For Open House
One of the first appearances of Bachmann and Pope's Band will be on Feb. 5, when they play for the much publicized "Abe" Lincoln Open House varsity. It is rumored that the band members are planning to grow beards in honor of Lincoln and compete for the prize given to the man with the longest beard. But this shouldn't hamper the quality of their music.
After the loss of about seven man, the band as now formed includes on the trumpet Johnny Pope, Charles Kassinger, Don Holman, and Harry Johnson. With Bachmann on trombone is Eldon DeWater. Don Cousins, formerly with a band in the Hotel Washington, Washington, D.C., plays alto sax, aided by Walt Marty. Marty had his own band last year. Tenor sax men are John Williams and Dick Kell. Don Price handles the drums, Harold Bundy, bass, and Melvin Zack on the piano.
Both Zack and Kassinger have
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