UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943
Progress Lies In Research Speaker Says
"It's all in front of you," assured Charles F. Kettering, general manager of the research division of General Motors, at the all-University convocation in Hoch auditorium this morning. "The future is raw material out of which you can make anything you want, if you want it hard enough," he explained.
A scientist with a sense of humor as Chancellor Deane W. Malott introduced him, Mr. Kettering with his wide experience in engineering and science spoke mainly of his experiences with General Motors and inventions. He asked why there were no courses offered in colleges on inventions, since inventions were considered so important.
Givers Two Rules
"If I were to teach a course on how to invent. I would emphasize two rules: get used to failure, and learn how to fail intelligently. Inventors do not invent because of necessity, but because they want to," he explained, changing the theories that inventors are born, not made; and that necessity is the mother of invention.
Laying little stress on academic education, Mr. Kettering explained an educated person as "a guy who makes the best decision at the time it must be made." He added that the person with too much "book larnin" was likely to set rules for the behavior of engines, for instance, instead of allowing the machine to show him how to improve itself. Life In The Future
"I would like to spend the rest of my life in the future, because you can do something about tomorrow," he said. He used the analogy of the present as being the fog line, with everything in the future engulfed in fog, and everything behind clear.
Mr. Kettering emphasized the paradox that "it isn't the thing you don't know that will get you into trouble; it's what you know for sure, but isn't true." In closing, he repeated that "we didn't know very much about anything, but if a person has enough faith in himself, and if he is willing to pay heavily in effort, work, and failure, he will accomplish what seems now impossible."
Editor-in-chief Out Of Hospital
Robert Coleman, college junior and editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan, was released Saturday from Watkins Memorial Hospital where he underwent an appendectomy.
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He's Here
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Zilch Dinner
Is Tonight
Elmer A. Zilch, world famed reporter and newspaper publisher, will be a guest on the University campus tonight when he comes here for a dinner to be given by the department of journalism in his honor. The Zilch dinner is an annual event of the department.
Since his visit to the campus in April last year, Mr. Zilch has been covering world battlefronts, and is reported to have been with Allied landing forces in Morocco. He is coming from there by dog sled.
A program for the dinner has been arranged by Bill Feeney, which will be climaxed by a speech from Mr Zilch and the presentation of the "Zilch Award for Meritorius Service to Journalism." According to tradition, the recipient of the award is assured of a successful future in journalism.
Women Schedule Intramural Sports
Entries were made for the second winter term at a women's intramural meeting Thursday afternoon. There will be a table tennis tournament made up of three teams from each house. There will be no aerial darts or badminton as before.
A swimming meet is planned for March 10th and 11th, and there will be softball and tennis doubles tournaments in the spring.
WORLD WAITS---
(continued from page one) reported today to have smashed across the Tunisian border at Libia at three points as Allied pressure against the Axis increased in north and central Tunisia.
Axis problems mounted on other fronts—in Russia, in the South Pacific, and in occupied France where a civilian revolt against the Nazis and the puppet Vichy government was reported to have broken out at Marseille.
Vichy admitted that six thousand persons had been arrested. A state of siege was proclaimed in the area with orders to shoot to kill any disobeying police orders.
The Letter Of The Law
One dark night in Prague a Czech policeman spotted a man who appeared to be chalking something on a wall. Going closer he saw, written in Czech, the words: "Perish Hitler!"
Brown University students' favorite fiction is "East of Farewell," by Howard Hunt, a Brown graduate in '42, and their favorite piece of nonfiction is "Only the Stars Are Neutral," by Quentin Reynolds, a graduate in '24.
"Fool! Haven't you heard that all public inscriptions must be written first in German and then in Czech?"
Immediately he shouted indig-nantly at his countryman:
German Enrollment Up In World War II
A good-will exhibit depicting campus life and student activities at New Jersey College for Women was flown to South America bearing 100th anniversary greetings to the University of Chile.
In direct contrast to the attitude concerning the German language in World War I, the enrollment in German classes this semester has exceeded the number enrolled last spring. There were only 146 students in German classes in the second semester of last year; there are 168 this semester.
Colby college is placing emphasis on American history this year.
Besides his classes of German, Sam F. Anderson, instructor, teaches the first course in Russian offered in the University. He closed the class when 20 enrolled in it, making the total enrollment in the department of German 188, a 27 per cent increase over last year.
Larger Enrollment In A Cappella Choir This Semester
Dean D. M. Swarthout has announced that the University a cappella choir is entering the second semester with a larger enrollment than ever before. It has a total of 88 voices.
New members who were chosen at try-outs this week are: second soprano, Leona Moreland; first tenors, Bill Brown, Robert Fountain, Deane Tack; second tenors, Wilbur Geeding, Albert Fountain, David Hutchinson; first bass, Denis Dooley, Donald A. Gilles, Don Holman, J. E. Stewart, Don Diehl, and John Davis.
Seven men and five women dropped choir last semester because of conflicting schedules or entering military service.
The choir will appear early in April in its annual home concert and also will sing in Hoch auditorium at the All-Musical Vespers on Feb. 14, and again on March 14. The choir will sing over the radio station, KFKU, on Feb. 17.
ISA Election
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Dance Is Feb. 2
The ISA district representatives election dance will be from 7 to 8 o'clock, Feb. 2, in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. A nickelodeon will furnish music for dancing.
There will be three nominees from each of the three districts, and each district will elect one member to the council at the dance.
At the ISA Varsity in the main lounge of the Union building on Feb. 13, members will elect the president and four representatives-at-large. Lila May Reetz and Ty Schuerman are nominees for president to succeed Mary Gene Hull.
Bachmann and Pope's band will play at the president's election-dance.
AERC WILL----
(continued from page one) communications in networks, radio, ultra-high frequency techniques, or closely allied subjects that will prepare them for highly technical duties in connection with electronic aircraft detector equipment.
Application blanks for such a transfer are available now at the registrar's office, Dr. Laurence C. Wooldruff, registrar, said yesterday.
Upon graduation those selected for transfer, if 'found qualified', will be temporarily appointed as second lieutenants in the army and assigned to immediate active duty in the Signal Corps. Electronics Training Group, the information stated. Those not qualified upon graduation will be called to immediate active duty in the grade of private and assigned to the Signal Corps with the opportunity to qualify for a technical rating.
The Treasury has asked undergraduates to restore their idle change, especially nickels and pennies, to circulation.
US Planes Rout Japs Over Guadalcanal
Washington (INS) — Indicating the arrival of Japanese aerial reinforcements in the Solomons, the navy announced today that a large force of enemy dive- and twin-en-gined bombers and fighters which were headed for Guadalcanal were routed in a sky battle by US planes. Four Nipponese Zeros were shot down. No US planes were lost.
This was the first powerful Japanese plane force reported in operation in the southern Solomons since early November. Only lone Nipponese bombers have been raiding American positions in recent weeks.
K U Men Are Good Paratroopers, Says One of the Jumpers
The University can be proud of the men in the Paratroops, so says St. Sgt. Edmund Becker in a letter to the University Daily Kansan.
Sgt. Becker is a former student of the college from 1939 to 1941. At the present time, he is stationed in the 505th Parachute Infantry at Ft. Benning, Ga. He refused to brag, but he says, "I love my outfit and I enjoy jumping."
WEEKLY CLASSES---
Plans are being made for the construction of several telegraph keys that will be made available to the men to take to their homes for study.
(continued from page one) ing seniors will take the same program.
At the first meeting, definite plans will be made for a visit to the O-lathe Air Base. The Navy V group has been invited to be guests of the base for a day. Because of the transportation problem, only the V-5 men will be assured of the trip. If transportation can be arranged, others interested will be taken.
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