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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials Features Patter
Rising Hospital Costs.
Many students have been wondering why they must pay for medicine and hospitalization at the Watkins hospital over and above the five dollar health fee this year whereas in the past all such costs have been absorbed by the fee.
Ray Nichols, secretary to the Chancellor, has given a reasonable explanation to this question. Medical supplies, like food and clothing, have advanced markedly in price because of the extraordinary wartime conditions.
The costs of maintenance, supplies, wages, and food have risen so much, and the enrollso the University has found it necessary either ment has dropped (1.000 less than last year), to increase the basic health fee or to charge individual students for medical service.
Rather than burden the whole student body with a higher health fee, the University decided to place the additional cost on those who benefitted directly, which is the more equitable alternative.
Because the army and navy is absorbing a large part of the medical profession, civilian doctors are at a premium. Watkins has to manage this year with a staff of three doctors.
Both in personnel and supplies, Watkins is feeling the pinch of the war. The major part of American druge being shunted to our armed forces at home and abroad.
What does the five dollar health fee go for? It helps defray expenses at the hospital so that students actually get medical attention at Watkins below cost. While a student must pay a dollar a day for hospitalization at Wakins, he would pay the Lawrence hospital six dollars a day for similar service.
Inflation has brought a problem to Watkins hospital which the University has sagaciously transcended. It seems that the students, remembering a scarcity of medical supplies and help here assures our fighting men of the best medical attention over there, must bear with the rising hospital costs for the duration.
Looking to Our Youth
In a fit of pessimism ("the tide of war is still running against us")，Paul V. McNutt,War Manpower chairman,yesterday announced the creation of the "High School Victory Corps"—an organization which proposes the mobilization of the nation's 6,500,000 secondary school students.
On these students, said the chairman, may depend our ultimate victory in this war.
McNutt, and other high Washington officials, know that World War II is not going to be short. They know that eventually they will have to revert to the all-consuming process of total warfare if the United States is to win.
The "Victory Corps" is indicative, if only slightly, of a trend toward that direction. The present plan is to make something of a "club" affair out of it, with service caps, arm insignia, and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker as "leader."
The idea is good. We are going to have to depend on our teen-age generation for the kind of power it will take to win the war, and now is the time for their mobilization and training. High school is the ideal place to
It would not be hard, however, to transform the group into a deadly serious, compulsory youth movement—one to match Hitler's.
Just Wondering
The Germans have reported three destroyers, an auxiliary cruiser, and five transports sunk by Nazi subs off Ireland. The Berlin radio is almost as busy dreaming up American sinkings as Henry Kaiser is in building new boats.
teach them the principles of aeronautics, ballistics and the hundred and one other wartime skills—knowledge of which they will have to be masters as fighters of Uncle Sam.
A half-way program would be useless. We hope that McNutt realizes that. If the movement is to be successful, it must be well-organized, well-directed.
The students themselves are willing, or at least would be if they could understand the value of their efforts. It seems to be a matter, then, of whether the Washington bosses trust the youth of America enough to put their faith in them.
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Utopia, according to the Hutchinson News, is just a place where you are ten years younger, make $10 more a week, and work 10 hours less for it.
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Thespian hall in Boonville, Mo., is the oldest theater building west of the Alleghenias.—The Pathfinder.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Sunday, September 27, 1942 No.6
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-se 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.
Ruth Sheppard, Pres
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
Steve Stimson, Delta Tau, must have been prompted by the coming gasoline rationing to sudden inventiveness. He says that he has at last arrived at the solution of all his coming gasoline worries.
at the solution of all his coming gasoline." Stimson explains, "I propose to put on the rear of my car, two big wheels. With this arrangement I'll be continually going down hill, thus getting probably 50 miles to the gallon."
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Since November 26 is Thanksgiving day both here and in Missouri, the K.U.-M.U. game is scheduled to be held at Columbia. It's probably too much to hope that the game could be held in Kansas City, thus permitting students from both schools to see the game by traveling a shorter distance than would ordinarily have to be traveled by the visiting school.
The coming gas rationing, the already critical fire situation, and the government request that students stay off the railroads and bus lines as much as possible should add great emphasis to this idea.
Two sailors passed on the street.
One named Hank and the other named Ed.
Said Ed to Hank,
"Is your name Frank?"
Hank said,
"No."
A contingent of the Hill's sailor crew in one of their regular drills marched yesterday morning—along Oread avenue and up the 13th street hill, past the Alpha Chi Omega house.
him, past the Alpha Chi's (all in bed at 11 a.m.) were awakened by the sound of singing males, so, dressed in house-coats, they dashed en masse to the serenade porch. The sailors paused at the street intersection.
In the mood for a serenade, the Alpha Chi's began to entertain the men with their regular sorority songs. For one-half hour the gobs and the gals exchanged singing.
Then it happened.
Then it happened. Edith Ann Fleming, Alpha Chi song leader, broke into a solo of "I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me."
The sailors went silent for a moment, then broke rank and made for the house. Boy, she was about to have somebody—about 50 of them, all dressed in blue.
The officers managed, not without effort, to quell the men and march them off down the street.
Mrs. Millicent Glenville Sommers, author of September's book of the month, "Ten Nights in a Canteen," and director of the WAIFS (Women's Army of Intellectual Females), has recently turned her gifted pen to wartime problems of the less-intelligent members of the enterprising sex, the college woman.
The "Sap" Of Homo Sapiens Asks- "After Man, What?"
In "After Men—What?" Mrs. fine explain, and solve the problems confronting the typical college woman of today, taking her title from the major problem, that of men. (There is a deathless quality about the problem of men which Mrs. Sommers has cleverly made up-to-the-minute by associating with the war.)
Cinch For Pulitzer
In an introduction, which is nothing more than an advocacy of a back - to - the - nunnery movement, Mrs. Sommers explains her reasons for the book which promises to take the Pulitzer award, if the Society for the Prevention of the Corruption of the Morals of Adolescents Over Twenty-One doesn't ban the opus from its reading list.
The author's reasons are simple. Mrs. Sommers is an American, first, last, and always. Her patriotic desire to keep up morale, her feeling of the need of college women for guidance in times like these, and
above all her supreme interest in army men, navy men, marine men, and well, just men, led to the writing of "After Men—What?" Also Mrs. Sommers admitted in a toy aside, the rent for the WAIFS headquarters is long since due, and if any patriotic reader would care to send 25 cents in coin or stamps to the office, the gift would be gratefully received.
Higher Mathematics
To get into the meaty matter in "After Men—What?" the first chapter is devoted to acquaintring the college women with the rudiments of mathematics. Mrs. Sommers considers this a knowledge quite necessary in counting the number of men on the campus, dividing them into the number of women, and discovering just how many and what fraction of men are still left to each individual woman. The fraction of men allotted to each girl, say the number came out 1 1-4, could be
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