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UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942
40TH YEAR
NUMBER 12
Senate Shortens Christmas Holidays More Sailors NOW They Tell Us! Abandon Armistice Day Vacation Plan Here For Naval
More Sailors Here For Naval Machine School
The enlarged enrollment will cause the school to operate on a 24 hour basis. The new group will begin school Monday. The first division begin training Monday in the power plant located in the Mechanical Engineering laboratories. In the power plant the bluejackets will do actual work with the equipment and machines and learn maintenance work. Their classes are in two divisions, shop mathematics and machine work, and are taught by instructors provided by the University.
Two hundred sailors marched through Lawrence this morning to the U.S. Naval Training School for machinists mates stationed in the west wing of Frank Strong hall.
Recruited from the midwest and east, the men have received from five to six weeks boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training station, Great Lakes, Ill., and will receive training here that when completed will qualify them as competent firemen or machinist mates below deck on shipboard.
The regular procedure of the trainees is to start with blueprint reading and bench metal work, and continue thru instruction in milling machine operation, shaper operation, lathe operation, planer operation, precision grinding, and welding. This is followed by study in the hydraulics laboratory to complete the training.
Howes Reviews Press Censorship
He related that the task of the (Continued to Page Eight)
Newspapers must continue to serve as both the mouthpiece and the informant of the American public and therefore must be allowed freedom from censorship, Cecil Howes told a meeting of journalism students in the journalism building Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Howes, Topeka correspondent for the Kansas City Star, said that the voluntary suppression by the newspapers of the news of the President's recent "inspection" trip of the nation had reawakened the question of censorship of the press.
Now that it has been proved that censorship of news is possible, he believed that it might lead to more requests that news be suppressed. If some news is withheld from the public, Mr. Howes explained, the readers may begin to wonder how much more of the news they read is up-to-date and how much news is being kept from them, thereby undermining the people's trust in the press.
Paramount topic of discussion among students today is the action taken by the University Senate to expedite an alreadyintensified school program by eliminating Armistice vacation, lopping a week off Christmas vacation, and cramming final weeks into six days.
Student consensus seems to be opposed to the Senate's action. It is difficult to comprehend the exigency for curtailment of a vacation program which had been previously revised to suit war aims.
Students want to know exactly WHY they are being deprived of vacation days already too few. The natural answer is the war; that is the excuse of so many haphazardly planned and executed war policies, both military and civil, throughout the country.
Faculty spokesmen have been vague in setting forth reasons for shortening the school calendar, thereby providing an early graduation date—May 17, 1943. They aver the speed-up will release graduating students for armed duty and war industry at the earliest possible moment.
Will the two weeks saved by early graduation be worth the loss in knowledge and efficiency the students will suffer? Our fighting men receive reasonably frequent furloughs. America's military leaders realize that too much work renders even the best of soldiers stale, thus endangering morale.
With Christmas vacation cut in half, many students will find themselves pressed for time in doing term papers during the holidays. Shortening final week by one day each semester means just that much less time to review, all of which is hardly conducive to adequate training and good grades.
There was a three-weeks lapse between the close of summer school and the beginning of the fall term. Although there would have been an acute problem of late enrollment, it seems possible that starting school a week earlier could have been arranged to allow students a few more days vacation throughout the year.
The Senate met this summer to formulate the physical conditioning program which now is compulsory to men of draft age. Yet, at that time, no cognizance was taken of the necessity of shortening vacations.
According to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, the (continued to page seven)
Former K. U. Student Named As Jap Agent
BY JIMMY GUNN
—Tsuguo Hidaka—
Japanese Patriot
American Traitor
Thus should read the epitaph of one of the Japanese students America welcomed to her universities and colleges, offering to them all the advantages afforded her native-born, extending to them the hand of American charity.
Those who listened to Walter Winchell's broadcast Sunday night heard him report the arrest of a Japanese student formerly at the University of Kansas on charges of espionage. Tsuguo Hidaka was the student's name. Winchell stated that he was a prince in Japan.
Tsugu Hidaka appeared to be innocence itself when he attended the University from 1936 until 1941. He came here with advanced standing from Hope College, Holland, Mich., and was enrolled in the Graduate School as a student of medicine. He studied here for five
years, including four summer sessions, without obtaining a degree. Such was Tsuguo's scholastic ability.
Those who remember Tsuguo in his years here describe him as diminutive, excessively polite, and apparently lacking in ambition. He
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The University Senate, on the recommendation of the Calendar Committee has shortened the school calendar to provide for graduation on May 17. In order to meet this earlier date Armistice Day holiday has been abandoned and the Christmas vacation shortened to include Dec. 24, 25,26, and 27.
No Further Action On Labor Question
While largely noncommittal, Greek house leaders are still of the opinion that their kitchen help is not contemplating walkouts. The members of the bargaining committee are still ready to take action, however, if any such trouble occurs.
No further developments have taken place in the question of the "Greek" kitchen help. The main question still remains: "Is the kitchen help of the Greek organizations on the Hill dissatisfied and if so will they join the American Federation of Labor and stage a walkout if their terms are not complied with?"
Student Union
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Wants Talent
Newell Jenkins, chairman of the Student Union bureau of entertainment, wants students who have any special talent and are interested in participating in Union entertainments to see him and fill out an application in the Union Activities office as soon as possible. Freshman entertainers especially are needed.
Connections have already been made for the assistance of Prof. Allen Crafton of the department of speech, professors in the School of Fine Arts and the Dramatics Club. The bureau is anxious to get all sorts of entertainment, both group and individual.
The entertainers will perform at banquets, meetings, and possibly as a "floor show" for dances. There is a possibility that they may perform the soldiers at Ft. Leavenworth and Ft. Riley. Contact has also been made with the navy in reference to exchange of talent.
With the present over-crowded conditions in Lawrence, entertainment will be at a premium this year. All students are urged by Jenkins to make an effort towards supporting campus entertainment.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE KANSAN WILL DISCONTINUE unless
Your activity book ticket has been turned in to the KANSAN Business Office in Journalism Bldg.
Oliver Hughes Business Manager
(Organized houses must two in as many tickets as they want KANSANS.)
The Christmas recess begins at 5:30 o'clock on the afternoon of Dec. 23. The semester examination period also has been shortened one day each semester.
This action was taken in order to release members of the graduating class to the armed services and war industries at the earliest possible moment, and to provide flexibility in the further study and development of plans for a possible longer summer session in the summer of 1943.
"It is the belief of the faculty," according to Chancellor Deane W. Malott, "that the necessities of these war years demand practically continuous year-round operation of the University and it is furtherance of this objective that the Senate acted to shorten the current year."
The actual class days remain practically the same, 78 in each semester.
Report Reveals Students Choose War Vocations
That the war is having a definite effect on the choice of vocations for University students was revealed today with the release of the report of the University vocational guidance committee. Of the ten leading vocations indicated by the students, five were direct war vocations.
Leading in popularity as a life work was engineering with 16.7 percent of the new students interviewed expressing a preference for the various branches of that profession. Aeronautical engineering ranked first, with mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering following in order.
Business was the second most preferred subject as a vocation with 9.2 per cent of the new students electing to enter that field. A large increase in students interested in home economics was indicated, what with new emphasis having been placed in this department on nutrition, dietetics, and canteen service. Seven per cent of the new-comers selected home economics as their field of study.
Medical technology attracted 6.5 per cent with chemistry close behind with 6 per cent. Other popular vocations in order of their preference included commercial art, social science, journalism, and law.