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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
Unrest In Vichy Africa
As Axis power crumbles before the devasting British Eighth army in North Africa, Vichy France is becoming aware that Algeria and French West Africa may be next on the list of Allied African offensive moves.
British success in Lybia brings nearer the possibility of Allied action against potential Nazi bases in these colonies. French territorial officials now are warning that their colonies will be held by the sword against invasion.
Governor General Pierre Biossen has challenged, "We hold French West Africa, and we are not going to give it up." Admiral Jean Darlan has threatened that Vichy colonies will be defended vigorously against attack and not merely as a gesture of "putting up a fight for honor's sake."
Words are cheap. When the time comes, will Dakar be another Madagascar and Algeria another Syria, or will the French puppets of Hitler for the first time in the war back their boasts with bullets?
A writer says an extravagant girl makes a poor mother. First, however, she makes a poor husband, 'cause the Pittsburg Sun says so.
If conservation of skirt material will win the war, the Emporia Gazette believes that it is good by Hitler.
Monday may have been just plain blue Monday for you, but for poor old Hitler, it was much worse. The Salina Journal reminds us that it was the two months' anniversary of the day on which he announced that his armies would take Stalingrad.
A Year's Production Every Week
Do we realize how well the aviation industry is doing its part in this war? In 1938, the airplane factories were turning out only 100 planes a month. Today aircraft production has reached a rate of 5,000 planes a month. Last year's total production is now matched in just one week—and it is matched every week.
To understand the magnitude of this seemingly impossible task we must realize that a single medium bomber has 30,000 parts, which are built into 650 minor sub-assemblies to make 32 major sub-assemblies. This whole process requires 30,000 man hours of work. Each of the two engines in this plane must be inspected by specialists 50,000 times.
Into each of the 50 instruments go many hours of precision workmanship. Nevertheless, there is one factory which now turns out four of these bombers every day. Another factory produces fighters at the rate of nearly 20 a day.
Many headaches and worries were involved in this greatest industrial expansion in history. Both government and industry grasped the enormity of the situation when President Roosevelt called for 50,000 planes in the spring of 1940. They gulped, set their jaws, and firmly resolved that it could and would be done.
Surprisingly enough, this miracle of modern manufacturing was accomplished without any sacrifice of the high standard of American aeronautical equipment. Regardless of the idle concern the quality of our planes, as compared to those of England, Germany, or
Just Wondering
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is government spending—It never stops!
--than the college student?); it has lightened the hearts of a nation. But, no, the KU man will have none of it.
Japan; statistics from war communiques concerning American planes under fire give evidence of their superiority.
Our planes now are instruments of destruction, but our post-war world will know flying freight trains (with aerial locomotives towing glider boxes), family household panes, and universal "fly-it-yourself" service hangers. Hats off to those who "Keep 'em flying." — P.B.
The Leavenworth Times wonders if Mrs. Roosevelt's visit has any connection with lease-lend aid. If it does, they certainly got the worst end of the deal.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Sunday, November 8, 1942 No.30
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
Pi Lambda Theta: An invitation tea will be given Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 4:00-5:30 in the Men's Lounge of the Union Building. It is important that members be there. Jeanne Scott, Corresponding Secretary.
Le Cercle francais se reumi mercredi le onze novembre. a quatre heures et demie, dans la salle 113 Frank Strong hall. M. le professeur Mahieu parlera. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites. Secretaire Bertha May Patterson.
Psychology Club meeting Monday, Nov. 9, 4:30. Room 21 in Frank Strong Hall. Miss Leena Handler, Minister of Unitarian Church, will speak on: "Social Integration of a Community of Evicted Sharecroppers."
CATHOLIC STUDENTS; There will be a Corporate Communion and Breakfast at the 8:00 Mass, Sunday, for all Catholic students and all Newman club members.—Matt Heuertz, Newman Club treasurer.
KAPPA PHI—The regular meeting will be held in Mr. Bernard Frazier's studio in Spooner-Thayer museum from 7 to 8 o'clock Friday evening. Eleanor Patty, Publicity Manager.
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY LOU PERKINS
BY JIMMY GUNN, GUEST EDITOR
Thirteen women at 1245 Louisiana are wondering about the student who whistles the same tune outside their windows every evening at 8 o'clock sharp. They're beginning to set their watches by him.
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Epic poetry is blossoming forth upon the campus in the form of an Ode to a Coed by One Who Knows (namely Sterling Hess). It begins:
A toast to the K.U. Coec
So lovely and so fair,
And a toweled head of hair.
With a face that's three-fourths lipstick
Anyone who would like to know the rest of Sterling's opinions about the deadlier of the sexes should see Sterling himself.
The invitations to the Kappa Katch, Kappa pledge party, went out last Tuesday and Wednesday. They were in the form of big mouse traps clamped on blue stuffed hearts. The hearts were emblazoned with such names as McCard's Mechanical Heart (Charlie McCard, Phi Delt), Pringle's Pulsating Heart (Tom Pringle, Kappa Sig), and Frizell's Frigid Heart (Bob Frizzell, Phi Gam).
The Sigma Nu's are very unhappy because nobody mentioned that Andrew Schoepel, the next governor of Kansas, is one of their boys.
Good Enough For Omar Gorgeous Grapes
By Jimmy Gunn
And much as wine has played the infidel And robbed me of my robe of honor—well, I sometimes wonder what the vinters buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. The Rubavait of Omar K!
—The Rubayait of Omar Khayam
You know, it's a shame that the students of this institution don't pay more attention to the call of the grape. It is celebrated in poems and ballads; great writers have named it the source of their inspiration (along with the eternal woman); countless generations have drowned their sorrows in its purple depths;
I have asked innumerable questions on this score. I have said: "Tell me, what is the matter with wine? It was good enough for Paul Verlaire. It was good enough for Baudelaire. It was good enough for Rabelais. Why do you spurn the grape?"
The answers I have got are many and varied. Some have said: "But wine is intoxicating, isn't it?" Others have ventured: "Who is this baudy Lare? I should be like a blasted furrier?" Still others: "Isn't Kansas a dry state?"
This state of conditions is deplorable. Wine is the drink of the aristocratic, the cultured, the artistic. Wine is the staple diet of the elite. Wine is gentle, mellow, invigorating. Wine is condensed sunlight and captured moonbeams. And will the KU man have anything to do with it? Nope, the KU boy will touch nothing alcoholic.
Schools Use Pinball Machines
Three thousand confiscated pinball machines have been parceled out among New York colleges and high schools where their electrical apparatus will be used for experimental purposes.
CVC Conducts Survey Of Working Women
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A house-to-house canvass to determine the number of Lawrence women available for work during the coming year is being made by the C-ed Volunteer Corps and is continuing for one week. The canvass is under the direction of Miss Esther Twente, of the sociology department and Irwin E. Youngberg of the economics department.
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CVC platoon sergeants will meet at 4:30 Monday in Fraser theater to plan the districts for the canvassing.