THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Werner Tells Frosh Of Outside Activities
Henry Werner, adviser to men, spoke on "Extra-curricular Activities" this afternoon at the Memorial Union building. This speech was one of a weekly series of talks directed to the freshmen and sponsored by the YMCA.
Mr. Werner pointed out the value of participating in extra-curricular activities such as intramural sports, clubs, entertaining, newspaper work. Union activities, and the Jayhawker yearbook. He defined extra-curricular activities as those activities which are not required academically by the faculty but which show the interest and ambition of the student to do more than is required in the school course.
Park Rally to Climax Nightshirt Parade
Ernie Pontius, radio announcer, Gwinn Henry, Kansas football coach, and Vic Hurt, assistant football mentor, will be the speakers at the rally tomorrow night in the City park which will climax the annual "Nightshirt Parade," sponsored this year as a part of freshman "education" by the KuKu's and the K-Club.
Pajama-clad freshman men are requested to meet in front of the Memorial Union building at 9 o'clock where they will be regimented by the KuKu's and K-men and started on their march downtown. The University Band will accompany the marchers.
The rally will end with a free show for all participants at 11:15 p.m. at the Granada theater through the courtesy of the manager, Stan Schwann.
The procession will travel north to Sixth street, swing east to Massachusetts street, and then move south to the park where the rally will be held.
Kellogg Loans To Six Students
Six medical students have been granted loans from the Kellog loan fund, available for the first time this semester, it was announced today by Henry Werner, chairman of the loan fund committee.
A $10,000 grant was made to the School of Medicine by the W. K. Kellog foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., to help students of medicine who are in the accelerated war program. Use of the fund is restricted to fees and books.
Qualifications for loans include participation in the speed-up program, scholarship standard acceptable to the University, and need of financial assistance.
The loans are repayable one year after finishing internship.
after finishing internship at two and one-half per cent interest.
The University is one of 150 schools receiving grants from the foundation.
Names of the recipients will not be released.
A recent tabulation lists the valuation of fraternity and sorority chapter houses at $153,124,000.
Secretary to American Press Attache Visits Here
InLondon Eight Years . . .
... Tells of British Life
"Americans do not realize how impersonal the lives of the English have been since the beginning of the war," summed up Mrs. Frances Nowlin Head in a visit yesterday to the University.
Mrs. Head attended the University from 1918-20 and has spent the last eight years as secretary to the press attache of the American embassy in Lon don.
"The British no longer enjoy the luxuries of leisure, of frivolous hours, of personal indulgence," she said. "Their lives are bound up in the war and the war effort. There can be no other life for them until the war is over."
Peaches Sell for $1.20
Accustomed to life in England after three years of war, America seemed to Mrs. Head a "land of plenty." Fruit is almost impossible to obtain in England, she said, and when she left peaches were selling for $1.20 each.
Mrs. Head explained that today there are two American embassies in London; the regular embassy and a second embassy in which Mr. Anthony Drexel Biddle, Jr., is accredited to all the refugee governments.
England, as Mrs. Head described it, is entirely utilitarian now. Farming allotments have been assigned in the parks. Window boxes are filled with tomato plants. Ducks are swimming about in "static water" tanks—the tanks that are there to help fight incendiary bombs. People are raising chickens in coops on their roof tops; these are examples of what Mrs. Head admiringly called the English "ability to improvise."
Picadilly Becomes "Jeep Street"
American troops, Mrs. Head said, are a familiar sight in London. Pleadily, one of London's famous old streets, has been nicknamed "Jeep Street," for it houses a contingent of
American soldiers who dart back and forth in the army bantam cars.
There were still plenty of clothes in London shops, but Mrs. Head said they were very expensive and when the current stock gives out, "utility clothes" will be the rule. These are designed according to government regulations and are "very wearable," she said.
Many things seem strange to Mrs. Head after London—private cars in use, the size of our newspapers—most London papers are down to three sheets—and our sugar rationing, with bowls of sugar on the tables or a seemingly unlimited amount of lump sugar.
Mrs. Head is returning to London in November as she left, by Pan-American clipper plane. This time, however, she will have to go by way of Lisbon instead of Ireland, for the latter route is closed in winter.
Women Will Complete Rifle Preliminaries
Preliminary practices of the Rifle Club will be completed this Saturday, and the organization will have a meeting early next week to make plans for future activities. Any University woman is privileged to join the Rifle Club and participate in the group, provided she pays a small fee covering the use of a rifle. Any woman interested should see Mary Lou Nelson, Nancy Teichgraeber, or Lieut. W. A. Shockley.
Your Tires Deserve The Best Care!
They're precious now—so keep them rolling longer, more safely. Drive in for air whenever your tires need it—and have them switched for even wear.
REMEMBER---has elected the following offi-
cera for the year:
"See It Thru"
Byran Stoffer
Urges YM-YW
"Young people of today must face hard facts without losing courage and conviction," observed Dr. Byran S. Stoffer, president of Washburn University in Topeka, in his address to the YWCA and the YMCA at a joint membership dinner in the Memorial Union ballroom last night.
"Seeing It Through" was the theme of Dr. Stoffer's speech. He related the analogies between Christ's decision to face opposition, misunderstanding, rejection, and death for the sake of his beliefs, and the decision youth must make regarding the uncertain, unpleasant future.
"Young people are to be commended on the way they are facing serious problems. They are not in an hysterical form of mind as in 1917 and 1918," he commented.
He advised the audience to "determine whether the thing for which you are striving is worthwhile, then
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY-has elected the following offi-
cera for the year:
ALPHA DELTA SIGMA ...
President, Valle Schloesser; vice-president, Dick Ramsey; treasurer, Eldon Eneegas; corresponding secretary, V. L. Cline; recording secretary, V. G. Cline.
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ALPHA_KAPPA_PSI . . .
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON . . .
Juncheon guest today was Victor Loskot, '42, now connected with the General Electric company in Schenectady, N. Y.
visitors at the house this week are Lieut. Dick Amerine, Kansas City, Mo., and Lieut. Dale Hyten, Wellington.
CORBIN HALL . . .
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will have an hour dance from 7 to 8 tonight. All University men are invited.
think far more deeply than ever in the past. We will never be able to avoid war unless all the peoples of the world enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Walker Butin, membership chairm and master of ceremonies, introduced the speaker.
Union Pacific plays its part in building a healthy America by hauling tons of grain and other western-grown products for our homes and our men in service. It plays its part in maintaining American freedom by transporting huge shipments of armament, trainloads of troops over "the Strategic Middle Route" uniting the East with the West.
THINK of the ersatz food eaten by Axis-dominated people and thank Providence for our rolling fields of grain, our vitamin-rich bread that helps to keep us a healthy Nation; a Nation determined to remain strong and free.
All Union Pacific employes realize that this is a job that must be done—and they're doing it. Day in and day out, they're "keeping 'em rolling" to back up Uncle Sam.
The Progressive UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD The Strategic Middle Route