TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Letters to the Editor
the editor:
This is our answer to Luther H. Buchele. He uses a quotation from his brother in New Guinea. In this quotation his brother wishes that he could have the "old times" back, the times when he was enjoying such pleasures as ice skating, which he did shortly before leaving for overseas duty.
In our opinion, he would be most selfish and narrow-minded if he were to deny us the chance for one last good time about which we may reminisce, when we are in a similar position.
We are both in one of the reserve corps, and there are hundreds of students on the Hill who are in a similar position. It does indeed seem likely that this will be our last chance for a Christmas at home, or any other time at home, if our noses are to be held so close to the "grindstone."
Frankly, Mr. Buchele, we do not believe that you considered the angles which we have mentioned when you wrote your letter in the Daily Kansan, Dec. 1. We also have relatives on the fighting fronts, and one of us lest one of his best friends at Pearl Harbor, but even under those circumstances we still maintain that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Also, a short rest from our studies would be justifiable in that our work would be much better done during the remaining few weeks of the semester. Being in the enlisted reserves, the soie purpose of our being left here is to get as much out of our studies as possible. If vacation will help us get more out of our studies, then we will be accomplishing that purpose with a greater degree of success. Instead of adopting the motto "VICTORY THEN VACATION," why not adopt instead the motto "VACATION FOR VICTORY?"
A COLLEGE SENIOR
A FINE ARTS SOPHOMORE
Dear Editor:
Deeming it advisable that some attempt be made to present a resume of student reasoning in opposition to our abbreviated vacation, we would like to do this now through the Kansan.
First, it is certainly obvious that the administration of the Naval Academy at Annapolis is more competent to prescribe the vacations of potential officer-material than is the administration of a middlewestern university. They have seen fit to grant the Annapolis Cadets a 15-day vacation.
Second, one of the purposes of vacations in peacetime is to improve the efficiency of students' work upon returning. Certainly efficiency is more important now than in peacetime.
Third, since many of our men students are the soldiers and sailors of the immediate future, this winter may offer their last opportunity for a Christmas with their loved ones.
Fourth, officials whose business it is to handle the transportation problem have decreed that in order to avoid the congestion of transportation facilities, it is necessary to lengthen the vacations of college students.
What benefit is to be derived from would-be patriotic gestures which fail to benefit the war effort; which succeed in damaging the morale of our future fighting men; which are directly contrary to expressed recommendation of the transportation officials?
NAMES WITHHELD.
Naval Reservists Meet Tomorrow in Marvin
There will be a meeting of all the naval reservists tomorrow evening from 8 to 9 in the auditorium of Marvin hall, Dell Perry, chairman of the organization announced today.
Plans are to have a showing of the movie, "Menace of the Rising Sun" and a talk on "Security" given by some representative of the naval station here on the Hill.
Ferry urges that all V-1, V-5, V-7,
and HVP men attend this meeting.
He stated that this was the first of
a series of indoctrinational programs
that will be given the reservists.
Speaking of women, the Civil Service Commission is seeking Junior Chemists and is particularly interested in co-eds who have had four years of college, with 30 semester hours of chemistry. Pay, $2,-000 annually; no written test.
Charles Rice Is Subject Of Sketch at Meeting
Charles Rice, inventor and linguist, was the subject of a word sketch by Charloffe Robson, pharmacy junior at the meeting of the Pharmacy club Friday. Jack Bicknell, pharmacy senior, spoke on the possible uses for the new germicide, gramicidin. The role of pharmacy in the war effort was discussed by the third speaker, Max Wilson, pharmacy senior.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, December 8, 1942
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CATHOLIC STUDENTS: There will be a Corporate Communion and Breakfast at the 10 o'clock Mass next Sunday. Note the change in time. Election of officers will be held at this meeting—Matt Heuertz, Newman Club treasurer.
The All-Girl band will practice at 7:30 Wednesday night on the stage in Hoch auditorium. Russell L. Wiley, director.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Rev. E. J. Weissenberg will be in his office, room 415, Watson library, Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for private consultations.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. The second examination of this school year will be held on Saturday, December 12 at 8:30 a.m. Register in the College Office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, December 7-9. Students who have not registered will not be admitted to examination rooms. Only students of junior or senior standing may take the examination. To qualify for a degree in the College, students must enroll for and obtain credit in twenty-four hours of work after passing the Proficiency Examination. J. B. Virtue.
Important meeting of the Alpha Phi Omega, Wed., Dec. 8, from 7:00 to 8:00 in the Pine Room. Don Pomeroy, President.
Lin Defends India's Fight for Freedom
"India is helping in the fight for liberty and democracy but does not have them," commented Philip Lin, of China, in his remarks preliminary to a group discussion of India at the meeting of the International Relations club Thursday evening in the Memorial Union building.
"The people of India," he continued, "are peace-loving, freedom-loving, and democracy-loving just as we are. They, as much as we, deserve freedom and democracy."
"The statements in the Atlantic Charter are good," observed Lin, "but we remember Winston Churchill's recent words to the effect that he has no intention of presiding at the liquidation of the British Empire. We must remember too, that India was told that she could have independence if she would help win the World War I. When she did not receive that independence, there was violence."
At the conclusion of these remarks various possible solutions to the India problem were discussed by the fifteen members present.
The organization planned to hold its next meeting on Dec. 17.
SITE BY FRASER---n't there; so I guess he didn't turn off."
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Lawrence when those troops came in"
The Earthworks which were erected were circular trench-like affairs about five feet high, and the barracks resembled block houses. The Mt. Oread which bristled with these defenses was not the luxuriantly, arbored campus that we know today.
Trenches on Lilac Lane
One writer, described it thus: "In its primitive state, the hill was not a thing of beauty. It was entirely desisture of trees, and its barren surface was so suggestive of desolation that travelers passing it a century ago applied to it such epithets as the 'Hogback' or the 'Devil's Backbone.'"
Long after the barracks had been removed, evidence of the trenches remained along Lilac Lane on the east brow of the campus. However, it wasn't till Dec. 4, 1908, that a marker (along with 25 others designating historical spots in Lawrence) was dedicated to the fort which was built but a few weeks too late to prevent Quantrill's massacre.
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Student Trial in Green Ara Loses Her Case
The jury returned judgment for the defendant in the case of Ara Bartholomew vs. Continental Casualty Company after a trial which lasted from 1 to 6 p.m. yesterday in the courtroom of Green hall.
Judge P. W. Viesselman presided, and Jack McCarty, senior, served as clerk of the court. Robert Miller and Curtis Burton represented Mrs. Bartholomew; and the insurance company's case was handled by $ ^{\textcircled{4}}$
J. B. Malone and Charles Case.
Jury members were Herbert Peterson, foreman, Jeanne Spencer, Kenneth Larkins, John Anderson, Roland Gidney and Robert E. Little, all members of the freshman law class.
MacGregor On The Stand
The first testimony was from the widow, Mrs. Bartholomew (Comora MacGregor) who told the jury that with her four children she was visiting her Aunt Minnie in Baldwin when the Topeka agent for the insurance company contacted her husband and induced him to sign the release for $390. (This occurred after the locomotive accident between Eudora and De Soto in which the deceased, an engineer, had been injured and after which the plaintiff maintained he became insane. The plaintiff held that Bartholomew was insane at the time of signing the release; i. e., at the time of the Topeka agent's call, whereas the defendant held that the man did not become insane until later, and, moreover, that his accident was due to negligence in obeying orders.)
Rube Morris, an old friend of the family, (John Somers) testified next. He assured the jury that Bartholomew had been acting "queer" when the two bowled together as they did "about every night." James Borders as Sol Levitkovitz, the locomotive fireman, next testified. His testimony indicated Bartholomew had been acting against orders as he did not turn off at the approach of the train coming from the opposite direction. "I looked around," the witness reported, "and he wasn't there; so I guess he didn't turn off."
Paper Mill Representative Interviews Chem Students
Dr. C. A. Fisher, Lawrence practitioneer, played by James McClure, sophomore in the School of Medicine, next testified that Bartholomew had seemed "queer" to him.
Edward Todd, who was graduated from the University in 1918, and now a representative of the Paper Chemistry Institute at Appleton. Wis., was in Lawrence Friday interviewing Chemistry students interested in the institute and the field of pulp and paper technology.
Mr. Todd showed 800 feet of film picturing the institute and its work at a meeting Friday in Bailey laboratories. The film also included scenes from a recent trip through the forests of Wisconsin, the institute's source of supply of wood pulp for making paper.
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The defendant's witnesses were I. R. Chase, claim agent for the insurance company (Bob Barton) and Dr. Harry Stelle of Kansas City, medical advisor for the Santa Fe Railroad whose testimony was given by Art Robinson, sophomore in the School of Medicine. Chase asserted that Bartholomew admitted he had acted against orders and felt that he was getting more than a good deal to settle for $390. The doctor, a brain specialist, asserted that at the time of signing the release the engineer had been perfectly sane. Final arguments to the jury were presented by both attorneys for the plaintiff and by Chase for the defendant.
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