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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
Sh-h-h, a Secret
They do a gallant service, these girls in the army service. They type, they cook, they keep the post library, they drive trucks, they do everything but actual fighting. Already the country's punsters have found them useful in the creation of new and better jokes.
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created for the purpose of having a women's organization for the duration of the war, plus six months. They would do auxiliary work, hitherto done by men, so that more men could be available for the fighting forces. A fine idea.
Then came the question of issuing clothing to the women soldiers. The stuffed-shirts in charge couldn't decide whether to issue girdles to members of the women's army, or to let them bulge. That bit of altercation was played up by the press of the nation. The last we heard, the gals were still girdled. It also took time to decide if the girls should wear nighties or pajamas. Now they can wear either.
Upon the official sanction of the organization came the appointment of Oveta Culp Hobby, and her picture showing her efficiently holding a cradle phone was gazed upon by millions throughout the nation. Just think, a woman colonel. The women got to Des Moines before their uniforms did, so they marched in civilian clothing. More publicity.
A couple of the women went A.W.O.L. over the weekend and were picked up by the Military Police at Leavenworth. That didn't pass unnoticed. Women who join the forces are given all sorts of publicity in the local papers.
The country feels that they know just about all there is to be known about their women's army. But not all has been told about the WAAC's. The War Department has decreed that there shall be no publicity about the unmentionables of the WAAC's. Obviously, a military secret.
Litvinoff: Stalin's Spokesman
Maxim Litvinoff, U.S.S.R. ambassador to the United States, has always warned the world against Hitler. From Hitler's very beginning, Litvinoff was the public spokesman in Russia against the Nazi.
After March, 1936, when Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, he was extremely pessimistic about world peace and was confident that Hitler would continue aggression.
Litvinoff, because he had so openly opposed all Hitler did, was dropped from power in 1939 when Stalin signed a peace pact with Hitler, but reappeared immediately after the Nazi invasion of Russia.
Since he had always urged a world alliance against the Nazis, he was by far the best suited to represent Russia at Washington when the war center shifted there.
On his way to Washington early last December, the new ambassador stopped at Hawaii and in the Philippines. There he told American officials that Japan would strike at any time. Litvinoff left Pearl Harbor on December 6.
This sincere little man, who puts the advancement of his country above everything, hardly looks the part of an ambassador. He is 65 years old and is short and fat, with a homely yet jovial face.
He is typically Russian, being at once "honest and cunning, simple and inscrutable, irascible and patient, practical and idealistic."
It's a disgrace that so many of the present generation have no respect for age unless it is in bottled form.
Just Wondering
Under this complicated personality lies a shrewd mind, which is constantly being put to test in his job—to act as Stalin's spokesman in working with Roosevelt and Churchill to determine the present strategy and Lend-Lease agreements of the United Nations.
When the war ends, Litvinoff is guaranteed a voice (and a strong one) in the settlement of world affairs.-M.O.
The Leavenworth Times has found the golden lining of the cloud of tire rationing. Stopping autos from diminishing the tire supply will stop autos from diminishing the pedestrian supply, the Times believes. However, it adds, maybe those who like to drive wildly think pedestrians are expendable.
At the second anniversary celebration of the Tri Partite pact in Berlin Joachim von Ribentrop, who before the war was a high pressure wine salesman, announced that the Russian war had solved the food problem in Germany and Italy . . . Naturally—no food, no problem.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Friday, October 2,1942 No.9
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.
EL ATENEO, the University Spanish Club, will hold first meeting Thursday, Oct. 8, at 4:30 in room 113 Frank Strong hall. Refreshments will be served and all who speak Spanish are cordially invited to attend. Margaret Welch, President.
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.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... John Conard
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Editor-in-chief ... Alan B. Houghton
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Eleanor Fry, Bob Cole-
man, J. Donald Keown
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us Editors ... Virginia Tieman, Dean Sims,
Dale Robinson, Bob Coleman
Sports Editor ... J. Donald Keown
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DEAN SIMS
Colleen Poorman, college senior and member of Mortar Board, attended the MSC-WSGA dinner Tuesday night. She lost her Board pin somewhere, as near as she could tell, in a banquet room in the Union building.
Wednesday morning, the janitor found a Mortar Board pin in the room in which she believed she lost hers. But on the back of the pin was engraved the name "Cornelius."
According to records, no woman by the name of Cornelius ever belonged to the K. U. chapter of Mortar Board.
Sorta spooky, isn't it?
Larry McSpadden, dance manager, said yesterday that, although he couldn't be positively sure yet, he was fairly well confident that the Freshman Frolic would be held on Saturday night October 24, instead of on the original date of October 17.
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The Sig Ep pledges don't do things by halves, as proved by their walk-out (25 hours) which began at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning and lasted until 7 a.m. Thursday.
All the actives being asleep on the dorm at the time of the revolt, the pledges locked the dorm door, nailed it tighter, then for good measure, put on some padlocks.
Larry Stream, college sophomore, acted as hero of the active chapter when he dropped out of the dorm window and went around the house to pry open the dorm door and let out the trapped Sig Ep actives.
The class of adolescents also fixed the house telephones so that they wouldn't "talk," swiped the glasses of all the members wearing them, and sent the cook away (who came back for fear the actives would starve).
The pledges spent the evening hours in Topeka.
Those Sig Ep's are the darndest guys to go to Topeka. Every time you hear of them going anywhere, it's always to Topeka. They must know of something over there that no one else has yet discovered.
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Phil Dynan, till recently a ferry pilot, comments that this whistle we use to change classes by is about to drive him distracted. He says that in England they use the same thing for an air raid warning.
So if you hear the whistle one of these days, then see a figure digging himself a bomb-proof hole, don't be too surprised.
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The Sigma Nu pledges this year presented the historic Sigma Nu moose head to the ladies of their choice, the Alpha Chi's. That was Tuesday night.
The Alpha Chi's (half asleep) trooped out onto their serenade porch and listened for a while to the men chant "Alpha Chi's, we want our moose head and Bambil"
But the sleepy Alpha Chi's were reluctant to part with the nice noggins so they told the Sigma Nu's to go jump in the lake.
At 6 a.m.yesterday morning the Sigma Nu active chapter called at the sorority house and demanded their moose head—along with a fawn head, called Bambi.
In the end, a contract was signed stating that the women should give back immediately the moose head, then after the party the Sigma Nu's were to give in their honor, they were to get back the head of little Bambi.
Then the Sigma Nu's got business-like.
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A little more of this Junior Commando training( physical education) and ill bet these walk-outs terminate.
In Scrap Drive Kansas Vs. Nebraska On The Gridiron
The Governors of Kansas and Nebraska bet each other a $25 war bond that their state would exceed the other's in the scrap drive. The $25 war bond will then be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the Kansas-Nebraska football game to be held here on Oct. 31.
Do you know what the Governor of Nebraska said to the Governor of Kansas? In so many words, neither do we. But the result of such a conversation is known.
So, Kansans, we not only have to beat Nebraska in football, but also must exceed them in collecting old scrap. Are we to let the Huskers find that they have more scrap in Nebraska than we have in Kansas?
College students may have the idea that all their old scrap is at home. What about these old, exhausted, so - called automobiles, which would no doubt take the
shortest route to the scrap pile and collapse with a sigh of relief if they could but run.
Surely a student can get little enjoyment in taking his girl out in an old wreck and then having something drastic happen to the jalopy just as they are driving along a lonely, country road. By simply handing his car over to the scrap drive committee, he is able to at-
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