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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1942
Wichita Beacon Calls Demonstration A Disgraceful, Unpatriotic Incident
If those University students who participated in the Christmas vacation demonstration are wondering just what type of publicity the University received because of their actions, their attention should be called to the following editorial which appeared in the Wichita Beacon under the heading—"No Vacations Till After Victory."
"Probably no one is more ashamed, today, than the students themselves over the disgraceful incident that occurred at the University of Kansas at Lawrence Friday. The major part of the student body left classrooms, marched to the president's office, and demanded a nine-day Christmas holiday.
In the calm that has followed this unpatriotic demonstration, the students, no doubt, are nursing sincere regret and remorse over their unthoughtfulness and impulsive action.
"Parents are asking: What can our sons and daughters have been thinking about when they declared that they are not to be given sufficient time off for vacation purposes and that they resented it?
"Vacations are not a wartime activity. They are highly desirable in peace time. In war there is work to do, idleness is out. We must be on a 24-hour daily work basis, with no time off for holidays and vacations. There is no hope of winning the war any other way. It is shocking to think that young men and young men students are not joining in this determination to work now and play later.
"Let us first win the war. Then everyone can take a vacation without slacking duties."
The editorial is, of course, misleading and incorrect. The writer states boldly that a majority of the students took part in the mass meeting, when estimates of those present run usually around 800 students, of whom about half were believed to have been mere spectators.
The writer of the editorial goes so far as to put thoughts into the minds of the parents of the students. Actually, we think the parents knew what students were thinking of when they requested an extension of a Yuletide spent in the friendly atmosphere of the home, of meeting friends once again, and for many of them a final get-together with parents and relatives before being called to the colors. We do not for a minute doubt that many Kansas parents enjoyed a happier Christmas because of the extended vacation.
He places education in the same category as defense work in the denial of vacations. Certainly he must realize that speed is not equally important in all occupations. We wonder if the writer of this same editorial will not next summer enjoy a vacation from his newspaper duties? If so, certainly he will not consider himself an impeder of the war effort. University students felt similarly.
The writer then flatly states that student requests for an extended holiday were unjustified. One day later, responsible faculty members on the University Senate met and decided they were justified. We hardly think the writer was in possession of the essential facts set before the Senate.
However, the readers of the Beacon, like the writer of the editorial, are not in possession of
Just Wondering
If Kansas State students, still home on Christmas vacations, don't feel a little guilty.
these facts. Thus their opinion of the University cannot help but be colored. Students who acted unwisely that Friday have thus damaged at least a small portion of the goodwill held by the citizens of the state toward this institution.
Mint Director Says Keep 'em Circulating
Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the United States mint, has asked college students' assistance in keeping small coins in circulation. She points out that for every penny or five-cent piece kept out of circulation, the mint must make new coins from metals badly needed in the nation's war effort.
Last year, the director pointed out, the mint made 1,437,000,000 pennies. Into those coins went 4,600 tons of copper, plus quantities of tin and zinc. All three of those metals are now on the critical list, sorely needed for war purposes.
This copper would have met the requirements of that metal in 1,245 flying fortresses, 120 field guns, or 120 howitzers; or enough for one and one-quarter million shells for our big field guns.
Therefore, the mint is asking students to practice their thrift (a commendable habit in these times) with bills and coins of the larger denominations. Better yet—put your savings into the form of war stamps.-M.H.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence. Kansas
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Not particular; what an admirable quality: Paul Downey, 618 W. 12th, was going home on the bus sitting beside a blonde when he saw some of the other passengers coming on with some big sacks of popcorn. He went out to get some for himself, but when he returned he sat down one seat in front of the blonde, beside a redhead, and started to offer her the popcorn. Whereupon a soldier stepped up, tapped him on the shoulder, and said: "What's the matter, buddy? Color blind?"
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Priorities: Don Johnson was to be the Sig Ep Santa Claus, but, unhappily, he found that he could get no suit. He announced to his brothers that Lucky Strike green and Santa Claus red had gone to war.
*****
This New Year's Eve
This New Year's Eve
The stag at eve had drunk his fill
Where danced the tireless coed still,
And stag-gered gaily home once more,
Perhaps to sleep, perhaps to snore.
The sorry eyes that close tonight
Tomorrow will be closed as tight.
And sorry heads, and sorrier still.
The stag at eve **will** drink his fill.
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What big bags you have, Grandna: Lavon Peters, Westminister hall, and Virginia Markley, Miller hall, took a taxi Tuesday evening from the bus station. They left behind them two other girls who did not want to go up the Hill yet, but they took along all the luggage. The driver kept casting apprehensive glances at the five suitcases and saying: "Are you sure we haven't forgotten someone? That couldn't be all your luggage!"
College Fun at Silo Tech: Two college students and a waitress were scheduled to appear before the justice of the peace last Tuesday to plead to charges of "gambling with money and cards." They were arrested in an automobile in front of the girl's house at 3:10 a.m., Tuesday. The officer charged they were seated in the car in the 18-above-zero weather of the wee, small hours, violating the law with cash and a deck of cards.
Jayhawker On Women Second Flight
At a time when news pages,rotogravure sections,magazines,and even books are filled with men and their activities in connection with the war effort, it is a restful and rather eyepealing to glance through a publication devoted to women,like the last issue of the Jayhawker.
Keynoted by a cover picture of a young woman (Mariette dog in hand, imposed on a drawing of a tense some $ \textcircled{9} $
Keynoted by a cover pictu Bennett), hotdog in hand, imp moment in a basketball game, the entire issue attempts a portrayal of women in all phases of college life, from the social angle, through physical conditioning to what men think of women (as if they care). To provide just something else for framing and to serve as a final checkup for anxious men on what a prospective date looks like, pictures of the women in organized houses and organizations are presented.
Men Comment on Women
Lila Jean Doughman comments on what a woman can do "In Four Short Years" and concludes that as a freshman the typical coed was "pure as snow—but she soon drifted." Four men in the four classes give an idea, in no uncertain terms, of how they see K U women. The light was evidently not too flattering when they took the last look before sitting down to the labors of composition, but the big-hearted men admit that women are something of necessities.
Simultaneous with the second issue was the distribution of the 1943
But even women cannot take up all the space. Men's politics, concerts, dramatics, sports, poetry, homecoming, and the Military Science building, come in for discussion in the latest issue of the Jay-hawker.
covers—white leather superimposed with a colored photograph of the campus as seen from Frank Strong hall across Marvin Grove. The cover is one of the most striking in years, Editor Burtis having as much an eye for beauty in cover design as in inside magazine makeup.
"Officer Selection Dance Is Next Week
The election dance for selecting new district representatives and candidates for the general election of council members of the ISA will probably be held next week, Mary Gene Hull, president, said last night.
At the present time, no place has been selected to hold the dance for the district election. The time and place will be announced later. Unless a special dance is called, the election dance for council members will be held in February at the regular date, the president explained.
At the district dance, each district will select its own representative and propose a candidate for the general election. The council members will be elected from the candidates.
"The term of ISA offices last from January to January, so that the officers can carry on through the summer months." the president concluded.