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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
Home Front Economy
Intensified scrap drives, and gasoline and sugar rationing are helping 'put it over' over there, but the home front has not even approached its epitome in war efficiency yet.
Economy, like charity, begins at home. Greater care of home appliances and greater economy in home budgets means American fighting men will receive ample and superior ordnance and supplies.
Material which once went into the construction of refrigerators, sewing machines, stoves, and radios is now being shunted into airplanes, guns, bombs, and bullets.
Electric refrigerators should be oiled frequently to insure longevity of operation; they should be defrosted as often as necessary and should be set at as low a speed possible to do its task in order to reduce wear.
We must conserve on the home front or do without. No longer is it a problem of supply and demand so far as home appliances and commodities are concerned; there is no supply; we must manage with what we have for the duration.
Clean, well oiled sewing machines are in step with home conservation. They should be kept in a dry room and dusted frequently. Also oil the old phonograph often and keep it in a dry place, for it is an integral patr of maintaining high civilian morale.
The radio should be cleaned, repaired by experts, and otherwise kept in working condition. Parsiminous use of repairs in civilian radios and phonographs allows the army and navy signal corps' utilization of large amounts of materials which before the war had been literally thrown away on unnecessary repairs.
While gasoline and sugar rationing enforce equitable distribution of these two essentials, there is a perceptible conflict between civilian needs of fat for soaps and military needs for explosives.
Before the war, this country imported approximately one and a quarter million pounds of fats and oils a year; that source has run dry because of submarines and shortage of shipping space. Home conservation must now fill this gap.
By saving bacon drippings fats from roasts, and trimmings from meats for manufacture of explosives, and by using soap sparingly, we can avoid a shortage of fats and oils.
There is a limited supply of materials basic both to civilian life and the prosecution of the war, but this doesn't mean we must hoard. By conserving, by spreading the sparse supply, we will be quashing inflation and maintaining our fighting men in the field.
Thousands of students have returned to this University this fall to discover, to their dismay, that there is no price ceiling on education. They are learning that what one dollar brought last year, now requires a dollar and a half in this war-industry boom city.
No Ceiling on Education
University men and women not residing in organized houses must now compete with defense workers for living quarters. Such workers are drawing large paychecks and can afford to pay larger rents. Few University men and women, however, have any more money to spend this than in previous years.
Added to the rise in board costs, larger in
Just Wondering
War Manpower Chairman Paul V. McNutt hints that soon workers may be drafted to key war industries . . . Join the army and fight the Jap at $50 a month or join the union and fight capital at $1 an hour.
--many instances than was anticipated, the rent question is a problem which many students are finding difficult to solve. The University has done what it could to aid the students. Now many students are asking for the federal government to come to their aid.
Indubitably there is considerable justice in their pleas. The federal government has made no secret of its desire for all students who possibly can, to continue their schooling. However, serious as the situation is, let it not be forgotten that there are a hundred more serious and more momentous questions facing government authorities at the present time.
Some of these problems are more than a question of the comfort or welfare of a few individuals. They deal with the life of a nation. Those are the problems which must be solved first.
Until the authorities will have time to handle his problems, the patriotic student will do well to continue his education by every means possible. Drastic retrenchment of the student's budget will probably be necessary.
Silver lining to the high-cost cloud is the availability of more and better student jobs this year. Such steps, and faith that his Uncle Sam will not long forget him, will see the poorer student through the year.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Tuesday, September 29, 1942 No.7
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.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The first of the four examinations to be given this school year will be held on Saturday, October 3, at 8:30 a.m. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, September 28-30. Only juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts may register. First-semester seniors who pass the examination at this time, provided they meet other requirements for graduation, may qualify for degrees in June by obtaining twenty-four hours' credit during this semester and next.
J. B. Virtue.
TAU SIGMA — First important business meeting will be held Tuesday night, 7:30, in Robinson Gym. All members are urged to be present.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP GROUP which previately met in Watson Library will meet in the Pine Room of the Union Building, Thursday noon from 1:00 to 1:20 p.m. throughout the coming semester.
"A W.S.G.A. tea will be held Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 in the Home Economics Room, Fraser Hall. Miller Hall will be hostesses—Marybelle Long, Social Chairman.
Ruth Sheppard, Pres.
If you are a Christian, you will want to be present. Everyone welcome! David Boylan, chairman.
CVC will hold induction for all new members in Little Theater, Fraser Hall, 4:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday. Students will be recruited by application 1 day tomorrow and Thursday in Watson Library.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
Dennis Hardman, Battenfeld hall, escorted Sara Ann Jones, Miller hall, to the Marquette football game last Saturday. Game time arrived and the Jayhawks ran onto the field. Said Hardman,
"I wonder where Marquette is?"
And Miss Jones replied,
And Miss Jones replied,
"Just a minute, and I'll see if I can point him out to you."
(One can hardly believe it, can one )
Maybe college was the place for it in the old days, but to develop a technique now you have to join the army. Anyway—
Two young men in khaki visited the campus Sunday afternoon, via convertible. They drove over the campus once and started back again. They got in front of the library and spied their objectives—two co-eds. They halted along side of them. One soldier said, (Boy, this is good)
"Pardon me, but could you direct us to the University of Kansas?" The girls giggled, they talked for a minute, became fast friends, the soldiers got dates. That was that.
The Jay Co-ed co-op has a rule that says no girl may take a telephone call while at luncheon or dinner.
can write at funerals of other The Jay Co-ed co-op also has a girl living there by the name of Judy Schwade, a freshman from New York City.
Judy, at dinner Sunday, heard the phone ring. She rose and went to the phone. The party asked to speak to Judy Shwade.
"I'm sorry," Judy said. "I'm at dinner now. Won't you call back later." (No kiddin)
The Sigma Nu pledges, like all other pledges, walked out last night. As the playful little fellows left the house, they gave the cooks a two-day vacation, sent the house mother away, hid the bedding, locked the actives' rooms and took the keys, and hid the electric light fuses (odd ones which are hard to replace).
which are hard to repack). (As this column was being pecked out last night at 10:00 p.m., the Sigma Nu active chapter was sitting in a dark Sigma Nu house with big paddles, just waiting----)
From all external evidences, Westminster hall's two inmates, Lila May Reetz and Maxine Jones, should be tubby little girls by the end of the year. Saturday night they went to a church party early in the evening, partook of the refreshments, left early, changed their religion, took in another church social, and again stayed for refreshments.
Neither Rectz nor Jones would confide in us as to which place had the better refreshments.
STUDENT STOOGES Got Gridsters' Grades
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Back In 1920
"Each member is responsible for six football men. He looks after their grades and when they become ineligible reports the name and subject to the society. A member who has specialized in this subject is assigned to tutor the football player.
"The football men receive the same help as if they were paying one dollar an hour for it." Pledges for the preceding year included "Jay" Jakosky.
Later we found a "Liberty Measles" note—a German club which dropped the speaking of German during the first world war. From the Lawrence Journal-World comes this;
"Up to the time of the world war the members of the organization were mainly students majoring in German, and their conversation at the dining table and around the house was in German.
"In 1917 the members voted to discontinue the speaking of German around the house and the organization became a mixed club." Occasion for the story was on June 6, 1925, when the organization voted
to disband and sell the furnishings of the house.
Humor is injected into the Kansas' morgul by "Alpha Chi Omega—see also Beta Theta Pi." and "Alpha Gamma Delta, sorority, see Fraternity Fires." Some warm numbers there, no doubt.
In the B's now, we find "Billiards"—see Athletic File." And here's an "Oh, Happy Day" note for this year's freshmen. (Remember the paddling incidents of last years Nightshirt Parade?) On Sept. 9, 1920, there was sophomore society:
"The Black Helmets, at the first meeting of the year, issued a formal warning to all freshmen to immediately provide themselves with that form of life insurance that comes with a small blue cap. The Black Helmets will be in the parade Saturday, and at the game in a body, wearing the Black Helmet colors and each carrying a goodly portion of barrel." Tsk. Tsk. A split infinitive in there. The organization was ordered disbanded in 1924.
April 14, 1932, the Kansan ran a (continued to page seven)