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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942
Temporary Lifting Of Gas Ban On Students For Trip Home Proposed
Students making homeward sojourns during the Thanksgiving weekend report badly-crowded transportation facilities: many of them made trips of more than a hundred miles while standing the entire distance. The Christmas vacation situation will certainly be even worse, for a larger number of students, civilians, and service men will be on the move, while gasoline rationing will put a halt to automobile travel.
Now is the time to begin making plans to handle the overflow of holiday travelers, and at least one sensible suggestion has been proposed by college students at this University.
They suggest a bureau at which students with cars would register as being available to haul fellow student travelers residing in their hometown and points in between there and Lawrence. Expenses could be shared for this service. In return the car owner would be granted a temporary permit enabling him to purchase the gasoline necessary for the trip home and back to school. No excess gasoline would be sold.
It is a question of whether the wear and tear on tires would be more than compensated for by the load taken off trains and busses at a time when those facilities will be under their greatest strain. The Kansan and many students think it would. It is a question that rationing bigwigs must decide, but now is the time for them to begin considering it. We have the gasoline—but do we have the train facilities? Is the emergency great enough for the temporary lifting, under certain restrictions, of the gasoline ban?
Kansas Newspaper Man Retires After Many Years of Service
After engraving his name in the history of outstanding men in journalism, Marco Morrow, former assistant publisher of the Capper Publications and until recently a director of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, is retiring from active journalism to begin writing thoughts and experiences which he never before has had time to record. Only because the field of journalism realizes it will be richer after Mr. Morrow completes such work does it agree to let him go.
His years of service in the field have been outstanding in every respect, his youthful energy having led him from one task to another with a conquering spirit. His judgment and ideals have been developed through wide experience, and his open mind has given him an undying spirit of fair-play. His love for poetry and writing have combined, and it is with the ambition to add to his collection that he retires from his well-performed duties. This love for the beauty in life has not twisted his mind into a day dreamer's paradise, however. His straightforwardness, his realistic thinking, have embedded themselves in his writing and speaking until he writes and says what he believes and then continues believing it.
It is with sadness and regret that the field of journalism receives word of Marco Morrow's resignation from the positions on the Capper Publications and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, but it is with a feeling of gratitude and admiration that his friends watch him go on to new aspirations. —V.T.
Beware of Man Bearing the Name of "Quantrell"
The announcement that shirt tails are to be shorter after Dec. 15 jolted Lawrence because it was made by William Quantrell, described in the dispatches as a New York authority on men's fashions.
The local conviction is that some of the rationing experiments are being put into the hands of the wrong people. No native of this locality should be expected to take a reef in his shirt-tail on the say-so of anybody named Quantrell.
A fellow named William Quantrell (later the historians decided it should be spelled Quantrill) caused a lot of trouble in this town early one August morning in 1863. Oral tradition relating to that historic raid says that such citizens as survived it did so only at the cost of departing hastily in dishabille, and concealing themselves in cornfields and timber nearby.
The possibility that the Quantrell family got its shirttail complex on that spectacular morning will occur to many who have heard those stories of escape.
(Reprinted from the Lawrence Journal World.)
Just Wondering
Why the athletic board doesn't hire fiery Helen Rhoda Hoopes to replace taciturn Gwinn Henry as head football coach, if it's inspiration the boys need.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... John Conard
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
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Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Dae Robinson, B.
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor J. Donald Keown
Society Editor Ruth Tippin
News Editor Dean Sims
Sunday Editor Virginia Tieman
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager John Pope
Advertising Assistant Charles Taylor, Jr.
Harvey Haines, Phi Delt, is hoping the weather will warm up.
Haines, alias "the fox," has caused much comment on the Campus in his supposed bear-skin coat, which reaches down to his ankles.
Haines went into the library yesterday, and got a warm reception from the students.
Even the sailors have noticed the apparation. When Haines passed them the other day, they barked.
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Jeanne Spencer, 1134 Mississippi, brought out this happy thought concerning Christmas vacation.
"No doubt Christmas vacation will now be shortened to a convocation period, and Santa Claus will come around and pass out candy to all those with a 2.9 average."
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A group of students in the "Shack" were discussing the ability of men to understand women.
The girls insisted that women could understand men, but men were unable to comprehend women's actions.
At this point, Bob Coleman, Templin hall, on the men's side, remarked (continued to page seven)
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