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UNIVERSITY DALE, KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
Keep Them on the Farms
Government officials have at last recognized that there exists a critical shortage of farm labor. Too many men who formerly worked on farms are now in the military service, or have been lured by high wages to employment in the war industries.
The Washington columnist, Drew Pearson, suggests that we draft about 30,000 of the red tape artists, government publicity experts, and bureaucrats in Washington, and let them feed the nation. (But, do they know anything about farming?)
In his recent speech, President Roosevelt pointed out that it is possible that drastic legislation may be necessary to keep the farmer supplied with help to harvest the nation's food supplies.
Japanese laborers now in re-location centers such as the one at Granada, Colo., might be used. There is a growing sentiment in the beet country of the Arkansas valley of western Kansas in favor of using Jap labor in the beet fields, if other help is scarce.
Various methods have been offered that might alleviate this shortage but the working value of some is a matter of great conjecture.
Plans are being suggested whereby schoolchildren might spend some time in the fields. Possibly city workers should be encouraged to spend their vacations in the harvest fields.
Most farm boys drive trucks and tractors as soon as they are big enough to handle the machines. Two old men, ages 78 and 82, put up the alfalfa crop on a farm in Pawnee county. During the wheat harvest last summer many of the trucks were driven by women. A few drove tractors. Women help shock feed, repair fences, and paint barns. They milk cows, care for chickens, tend gardens, and preserve food for the family.
But they can't take the place of a skilled farm-hand. A good farm-hand is just as much a skilled-laborer as a riveter; now that no more farm machinery is being made, what we have now must last for the duration of the war.
As more and more men are called into the armed forces, it is imperative that something be done to keep farmers on the farm. They should be deferred from army service, with the understanding that they stay on the farm and don't go off somewhere to build airplanes.
Patriotic Japanese internees should be given employment on farms. If necessary, drafted farmers should be honorably discharged from military service to return to the food production part of service to the country. Farmers should be encouraged, even forced, to stay on the farms rather than get an office or skilled job in a war industry.
After all, an army marches on its stomach. The military forces can bog down just as severely because of lack of food as of lack of the mechanical devices necessary to fight the war.
The Clay Center Dispatch tells about the Clay county sheriff adding a home brew bottle capper to the scrap collection; it had been stored in his basement.
Just Wondering
How does the new metal flagpole, which is being erected in front of Frank Strong hall, fit into the all-out scrap drive?
Maybe it is only wishful thinking, quips the Salina Journal, but it begins to appear that as far as Stalingrad is concened, the Nazi's can't make the grade.
The Pittsburg Sun believes that the present often makes up for the past—that is if the present costs enough.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Thursday, October 15, 1942 No. 16
EL ATENEO se reunera Jueves el 22 de octubre a las 4:30 en la sala 113 Frank Strong Hall. Los hermanos Marquez nos presentaran un programa de canciones, discursos, etc. Margaret Welch, President.
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.
KAPPA FHI—There will be a cover dish supper for the cabinet at 5:30 Friday evening at 1209 Tenn. St. A regular pledge meeting will be held from 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock Friday evening. Eleanor Patty, Publicity Manager.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS; There will be a corporate communion and breakfast after the 8 o'clock Mass, Sunday, for all Catholic students and for all old and new Newman club members.—Matt Heuertz, Newman club treasurer.
SIGMA XI: The first meeting of the year will be held Thursday, October 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union. Professor Guy W. Smith, department of mathematics, will speak on Cryptography (Secret writing). Please note the change from the third to the fourth Thursday of the month.
Beulah M. Morrison, Secretary.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS—Proficieney examinations in French, German, Latin and Spanish will be given at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 in Frank Strong 107. Students who have had at least two Units (years) of credit in any one of these languages are eligible for the examination in that language. Students who pass the examination are not required to take further work for Bachelor's Degree. Dictionaries are permitted.
W. H. Shoemaker.
Registration must be made at the college office by 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS—Dr. E. J. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 p.m. for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of Student Health Service.
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BETTY LOU PERKINS
Rock Chalk Talk
Earle O'Connor, business junior fr mPaola, seems to harbor thoughts entirely unrelated to accounting when he attends his Accounting V class. Proof o fthis assumption is offered by the following testimonial:
As I sit in class just dreaming away,
I thing of Paola and its small white way;
The thoughts of such and persons therein,
Take a person's heart away from sin.
These thoughts with meaning and ever so nice Are not of man's sin commonly known as vice, And when they ask, are these thoughts of Eva? No, no I reply. They're of a girl named Reva. (continued to page seven)
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Army planes fly and fight with radio command sets. Radios ride in tanks to coordinate mechanized operations. Army commanders get reports and give orders over field telephones, wire and switchboards. Naval vessels use announcing systems, telephones and radio.
A major source of this specialized equipment is Western Electric-for 60 years manufacturer for the Bell System-dedicated today to meeting the need for equipment that delivers fighting words to fighting men.
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