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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1942
American Council of Education Reports On Student Reserve Situation
President Roosevelt's order which last Saturday closed all voluntary enlistments in the armed services is indicative of a shake-up in the college reserve forces — and University men know it. So far, however, Hill reservists have been told nothing, and the silence of Paul V. McNutt, new manpower overlord, has led to many speculative rumors as to when the reserves will be called.
The only definite information to evolve this week concerning army-navy plans for college men has come from the American Council on Education, a board of independent educators headed by a former Kansas man, Dr. George Zook, which has been working with the government in setting up special training plans for American universities. A bulletin from the Council predicts that:
1. All army enlisted reserve corps and ROTC men will be called at the end of the present semester.
2. From this group, some will be selected for further training.
3. Those selected will be reassigned to selected colleges and universities to continue their college work with an emphasis on military subjects.
Detailed Statement Coming
A letter received by Chancellor Deane W. Malott, who today said that the ACE is followed with considerable confidence by educators from the president of a university in this area indicated, on the basis of Council statements, that the navy would use a similar plan for its V-1, V-5, and V-7 reservists, but that it would not take effect until after the spring semester.
The ACE bulletin, which cannot be taken as final authority, inferred that a detailed statement would be made by government officials within two weeks.
E. G. Williamson, dean of students at the University of Minnesota who acted as consultant at the recent ACE conferences in Washington last week told Minnesota students:
1. The army will not wait for all ROTC seniors to graduate.
2. The army air corps reserve will be treated the same as the enlisted reserve corps.
3. Reserve officers in dentistry and medicine will be in the army or navy taking specialized training in medical schools.
4. The government will pay all expenses of the reservists who are sent back to college. (They will probably be uniformed).
This plan, as outlined, is essentially similar to the one submitted to the ACE two months ago by James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University. Dr. Conant urged that every physically fit youth 18 and over be made a member of the armed forces and that the army and navy select those who were to go to college for specialized training and eventual commissions.
Engineers Will Remain
Assuming that the Council has called its shot right, the only big question still unanswered is what will happen to college men not enlisted in the now frozen reserves. Most of the men
Just Wondering
If the professor who each afternoon conducts the intriguing Spanish lessons over KFKU has a staff of secretaries to handle his daily fan mail.
in this category are engineers or 17-year-old freshmen.
The engineers will probably remain in college under army and navy sanction. No definite plan for earmarking engineers for industry has yet been developed, but the possibility of such a plan is not remote. Seventeen-year-olds may still enlist in the navy's V-7, and the army will undoubtedly make some provision for them, along with selected high school graduates, to continue school if they show possibilities as officers.
The President's no-voluntary-enlistment decree makes mobilization of the reserves and co-ordination of war-time education the only logical step to take. The army and navy will eventually have to depend on the universities to train most of their junior officers, and it is important that those universities be geared now for that all important, highly difficult task.
City College of New York, once the storm center of agitation against military training for undergraduate students, now has the largest volunteer Reserve Officers' Training Corps in the country, according to The Nation.
While California University worries about rounding up its football fans next fall into a compact rooting section, this University can confine its worries to merely rounding up the fans.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
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Hookins, Eleanor Fry
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Rock Chalk Talk BETTY LOU PERKINS
To give credit where credit is due, I feel I should explain that the last item in last night's Rock Chalk was written by my very dear friend, J. Don Keown. I couldn't have spelled pulchridtudinus, anyway.
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Maurice Barker of the journalism department was reading a copy of Esquire in the news room yesterday. The entire staff seemed unaccountably interested in it.
Prof. E. F. Beth, head of the department, walked by. In all seriousness he leaned over Barker's shoulder. "Say," he cautioned, "better take that over to the Law building; we've got to put out a paper today."
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Corbin hall has been having a few too many men around there lately, night at their heart dream, the demon awoke. It
Wednesday night at their hour dance, the dancers found it necessary to dance around a bucket in the center of the room which was catching the drip from a broken pipe on second floor.
This wasn't so bad, but the plumbers kept coming in and looking up at the ceiling and scratching their heads.
The next morning, Claudine Scott was coming down from second and noticed the plumbers casually going on second without yelling a warning. "Don't you think you'd better yell?" she asked.
"Man on second," the plumber said in a very feeble whisper.
Not only does "Mrs. Battenfeld Hall" receive mail, but a company wrote to "Mr. Corbin Hall," and informed them that this company could furnish him with a coat of arms and the "Hall" family history. Imagine!
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Raymond Keroher, or Wimpy, or Ray, the popular figure who used to reside at the Kappa table, was asked the other day, "Well, how are you, Ray?"
Ray laughed and answered: "Oh, 2-A!"
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At 1:30 Wednesday night, John Taylor, TKE, decided to have a sham air raid. The other members of the house were awakened by bells clanging and a great deal of noise.
The finemaster took the situation in hand. Taylor was fined, because "this just isn't being done quite yet!"
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During chem laboratory Wednesday afternoon, Jean Oyster, Joanne Croson, Barbara Barber, Shirley Henry, Florice Barnum, Seba Eldridge, Bill Benefiel, Bill Ellis, and Al Haas went to the Union to celebrate a birthday.
When they returned, they remembered finals will soon be here, so all brought a big, red, shining apple.
RATHER BE RIGHT? President's Life Hard Poor Prexy
By JIMMY GUNN
Being president of the United States is a back-breaking, soul-rending task at best, and at the worst, it is a kind of Gorgon's head that has made strong men falter and weak men turn to impervious but immovable stone.
For a stipend of seventy-five thousand dollars a year the chief executive is supposed to labor like a draft horse, deliberate with the speed and inspir- $ ^{ \textcircled{4} }$
For a stipend of seventy chief executive is supposed to late with the speed and inspiration of the most profound mathematical genius, and speak with the golden throat and the silvery tongue of an Ingersoll or a Bryan. Ay, pity the president! Johnson Was Not Appreciated
To be president is to be maligned, misunderstood, and betrayed. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, was a man who was pure and good and noble, and he had to pay the price that the pure. the good and noble must ever pay in this unequal world. Johnson, in carrying out Lincoln's post-war plans, was opposed by a strong and malignant Republican Congress. Where Lincoln would have been lauded, Johnson was indicted. Where Lincoln would have quelled the rebellion with a frown, Johnson bent to it and was nearly broken.
Woodrow Wilson, the idealist, the dreamer, the impractical man of
books, returned from Europe after the peace conference negotiations that concluded the World War to find Congress filled with enemies and scoffers. From the defeat of having his Fourteen Points torn to shreds by a vengeful France and a practical England, he returned, like a prophet of old, to find himself without honor in his own country. Abe Was a Wit
Wilson went to Europe with high hopes, vast dreams, and a castle in-the-air blueprinted and drawn to scale, and he come back with hopes shattered, dreams burst, and a single room that he had wrested from the human jackals of Europe to offer as his monument to enduring peace. Each stone he had fought for and put carefully in its place. This was the room that the members of a ghoulish Congress ripped apart as carefully as he had hutt it there.
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