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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942
The Editorial Page
Conscription of University Women Would Harm Post-War America
"Somewhere in Washington, as you read this . . . are several neatly typed sheets of paper containing a bill to be put to Congress within the next few weeks. . . The gist of one section of this bill is: legal authorization for compulsory nation-wide job registration of all women of reasonable working age." Thus ran a portion of an article in a recent issue of a women's magazine.
On top of such reports, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's recent comments upon the vital roles which British women are now playing in the war effort have placed increased emphasis upon women's importance in winning the conflict.
Registration of women, and their conscription which would probably soon follow,would be principally for the task of meeting industrial labor needs. If the move were made without qualification, it would be a serious handicap to American universities, already faced with the loss of a good share of their male students.
Conscription of women students, however would seem at present to be an unnecessary move. No really intensive campaign has been made to bring women into war work on a voluntary basis. Such a drive might very well bring into the industrial fold a sufficient number of women workers, so that those women in school could remain at their studies.
It is important that these women remain at their studies if at all possible. With men being called from school, a large share of the intellectual burden of post-war America must fall upon the shoulders of the female population. To call the women from school, too, would leave the country totally unprepared in leadership for those problems which must be met following the war, and which require educated minds if solutions are to be adequate.
It would seem that an intensive, highly-publicized campaign for women volunteers in war work should be first tried by government officials. If that fails and compulsory measures must be adopted, then the importance of the education being received by women in the universities should not be overlooked. Men are vanishing from universities, and it is up to women to hold up the intellectual front.
More Steaks for America; But Less for Students
Your Tuesday night T-bone has been replaced by chuck; your Sunday baked chicken has given way to a modest round steak; and your Wendesaay hamburger plate has disappeared in favor of macaroni and cheese, if you are co-operating in Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard's attempt to limit meat consumption to $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ pounds a week per capita.
Perhaps you are wondering why there is not so much meat for you as there was before the war. The hog crop will be the largest ever grown in any country in all the world's history, and will produce about two billion pounds more pork than last year. Beef production is up. Government estimates indicate that there will be available for domestic consumption this year 130 pounds of meat per capita after all war demands are met. This is about the same
Just Wondering
How the habitual hitch-hiker will make his homeward sojourn for Christmas this year?
--amount we had on the average from 1931 to 1940.
But wait a minute. Although there has been only $2\frac{1}{2}$ pounds of meat a week per person available for the last 12 years, not everybody has been eating his "quota." In the pre-war years Joe Doakes from across the tracks was making only $11 a week at the mill, and Mrs. Doakes found it next to impossible to include meat on the menus made to fit Joe's pay check. Now Joe is making money and he and his wife are ready to eat those steaks they have wanted so long. War workers must have substantial food.
Eat your macaroni and cheese, students, and thank God that Joe Doakes from across the tracks and his 15,000,000 brothers are getting good food at last.J.C.
A Rome radio news item: "Chiang Kai-shek has been accepted into the Jewish faith. The chief rabbi of Shanghai made a special trip by monoplane to officiate at the ceremony."
"A tentative agreement has been reached on virtually all issues in dispute with the exception of wages, hours, and union security," it was announced following a mediation meeting of meat packers and their employers. Which is very much like a football story without the score.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... John Conard
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
                  Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
                  Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
News Editor ... Dean Sims
Sunday Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Picture Editor ... Miriam Abele
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... John Pope
Advertising Assistant ... Charles Taylor, Jr.
BLACKOUT HIGHLIGHTS--swift and unerring. Though eyes be glued shut with sleep, weary arms are able to go automatically through the motions of twisting strands of hair into tiny curls and then thrusting a bobby- or hair-pin into it.
Alpha Chi Omega: Margaret Welsh told weird ghost stories to a shivering group of listeners.
Kappa Kappa Gamma: The girls held a song practice during the blackout. Immediately after they decided not to have a serenade, anyway.
Chi Omega: The girls gathered in the basement and had a song fest.
It is rumored that one or two of the girls were too curious about the blackout and watched from upstairs. If warden Margaret Krieder only knew!
Alpha Delta Pi: Sang while Barbara Ann Hays froze on the roof. The girls put a sweater on her and made her air patrol.
Sigma Kappa: Keeping with the trend, the girls had a song fest.
Sig Ep: Claim they did nothing worse than have a bull session in Paul Turner's room.
Theta: Had a black-out party in the basement. Lots of food. Teke's and ATO's watched in front of the house—also merged in a slight snowball fight with the Sigma Chi's.
SIGMA CHI's: Claimed they had a snowball fight with ATO, but it known figure who turned out to be the senior air warden of the Theta house.
Delta Chi: Broke an ash tray in the front room while wrestling un- known opponents. They also threw snowballs at an approaching un- known figure who turned out to be the senior air warden fo the block.
Beta's: They say they sat around the house.
Delta Tau Delta: Bill Mcntire organized a quartette and as soon as the blackout was over, this little group sang, "When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World."
Phi Delt's: Engaged in something new—a water fight.
**DU:** Could it have been they who accidentally threw snowballs at the campus cop in front of Bailey laboratories?
Kappa Sig's: They claimed they played the Phi Gam's in basketball in Robinson gym. Mighty peculiar.
Phi Psi's: The outcome of their snowball fight with Hopkins hall is still being debated.
Pi Kappa Alpha: Curious, they claim they had a snowball fight with the Beta's. Tsk, tsk, and the Beta's say they sat around the house.
Sigma Nu: Were the other half of the Delta Gamma serenade. Les Thornton, air warden, helped watch the Delta Gamma house.
Sig Alph's: Evidently had a slight mad-house, since they ran around either tripping each other or pouncing on unsuspecting members.
Phi Gamma Delta: Joe Stryker, air warden, went slightly crazy looking for a light that was reported to be on someplace on second floor.
Still, if it hadn't been for closing hours——! ! ! !
NOCTURNAL ORDEAL The Ritual of Womankind Fixing Hair
BY A WOMAN
Oh, men may sing of a daring fling,
And the deed of great renown;
But I will sing of the sweet young thing,
Whose glory is in her crown.
Her work she plies and ever tries
To make her crown more fair;
Her work she plies and never shies
From putting up her hair.
Hence the moral of my lay:
What price beauty? Who can say.
Neither war, nor famine, flood nor man, can keep a woman from putting up her hair. It is one of those essential acts, like sleeping and eating, without which the woman would curl up and die. It is as much a part of her being as a coily sweet manner to anything in pants or the damning with-faint-praise attitude about
- From Rosie the riveter, staggering in after a tedious swing shift, to Rosalyn the debutante, who has just given her all in a night of dancing with service men, the path to the box of comb and pins will be
The result may resemble little Toot
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