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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Opportunity Knocks
For those students who each summer must go forth and hunt employment so as to meet the next semester's fees, the search might be considerably narrowed this year. It is altogether possible that construction work on the Eudora munitions plant will alone furnish sufficient employment to meet their needs.
According to information released through the office of Marvin Goebel, secretary of the Men's Student Employment bureau, the requirements for a job as common laborer consist of a social security number, a registration card from the Federal Employment Bureau, and being over 18 years of age. Wages for such labor will have a minimum scale of from $85 \frac{1}{2} c$ to $90 \frac{1}{2} c$ an hour, skilled men, such as painters, will receive as high as $1.62 \frac{1}{2}$ an hour.
All labor positions will be union jobs, and the admittance fee will total $25. Of this amount, $10 is to be paid in a lump sum upon admittance, and the remaining $15 at the rate of $1 a day when employed. Monthly dues will then be $2.50. The union is affiliated with the A.F. of L. Office, management, and engineering employees need not join a union. The construction work at the plant is not expected to be completed before the first of December.
Considerable incidental labor will also be available to students at the plant site. Railway lines must be laid, highway improvements initiated, and overpasses built. For information concerning any type of construction employment, students should inquire at Goebel's office, where they will be referred to the correct personnel man representing the construction firm. Different types of labor have been placed in the hands of different company representatives. Goebel will also aid job-seeking students in checking their qualifications, and will keep them informed by telephone of any developments on the personnel front.
The Hercules Powder company, operators of the Eudora plant, have set up headquarters in the Lawrence armory. They are already accepting applications for employment. Firm representatives have emphasized the need for chemical majors, to begin training soon so that they will be ready to begin employment immediately upon the opening of the plant.
All types of work will be available at the plant, although all positions will very likely be full-time ones. Hercules jobs will be on an open shop basis. Most needed at present at the firm's headquarters, operating on a singleshift basis, are capable office workers.
University students should have little trouble this summer obtaining the funds which will see them through school next year. At the same time, they will be receiving an opportunity to assist Uncle Sam at one of the fronts where a shortage has been most severely felt—the labor front. Students should be quick to seize advantage of their good fortune.-J.D.K.
The Colonies Come of Age
World War II has proved to be a great leveller to the British Empire. Lord and laborer work side by side to enhance the war effort. All the Self Governing Dominions have assumed equal status with Great Britain in prosecuting the common cause.
Britain has learned many lessons by the blood and sweat of this war. It has learned that a people, given no voice in their own government, show no fortitude to support a superimposed authority. Look at the native apathy even perfidy, toward the British in Malaya and Burma.
It learned that, as well as allocating "too little" self government, there is such a thing as conceding some form of political freedom "too late." An English plan for self government, which would have seemed exceedingly propitious to India fifteen or twenty years ago, is rejected today.
The clairvoyant Britisher realizes that his colonial empire is now coming of age, that the time is drawing near when London must sign a Statute of Westminster with its colonies such as it did with its dominions in 1931.
The New Statesman and Nation, an English publication, on April 4 voiced the prediction that, "Whether the dependent Empire continues to exist after the war is largely in our hands; it will exist only if we learn from our previous mistakes to give the dependencies a position which they will feel themselves to be willing partners, not slaves or servants in the imperial community."
The magazine continued, "Ever since the beginning of the century the disease at the root of our colonial policy and the cure of it have been clear to those who had the will and eyes to see them. The disease is paternal government, complicated by economic exploitation; the cure, democracy."
Britain has everything to gain by granting quasi-sovereignty to its far-flung possessions. By relinquishing control, an expensive, ponderous, and thankless task, England would gain cooperation. It has foresworn all sway in the political direction of the Dominions, yet Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the Union of South Africa are giving London full support and cooperation in the war. Why wouldn't the colonies follow suit?
Thomas Babington Macaulay, nineteenth century English statesman and historian, presented the colonies' case for autonomy when he sagely surmised, "Many politicians lay it down as a self evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom—the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
The British colonies have had no chance to swim, but astute Englishmen realize it is time that they were let into water. As the Statesman and Nation puts it, "If we do not give self government now, we shall probably never have the opportunity of giving, for it will simply be taken from us."
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
A beacon was lighted on the roof of Templin hall Friday night. It was in memory of something passed.
Velories M. "Shorty" Harlan, college sophomore, applied the torch to a basket of accounting papers—after finishing the exam shortly before.
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Half the D.U. chapter (known for rising "with the chickens") were up and dressed before the "sun" in the south was extinguished. (Meaning the light on Templin hall.)
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The Chi Omega's held their annual "bad manners" dinner Friday night. The ladies (?) shot cherry seeds, threw forks, hacked with knives, etc. No injuries were reported. (I wonder if they cussed.)
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Virginia Tieman, college junior and journalist, commented to Jack Werts, junior journalist, in the Shack Thursday that she would not be going home to lunch that day, having a term theme to write. Then Werts commented to her that he had heard they had pretty good food over at the Jav Co-Ed house, even a little better than he had over at his place.
Tieman said, "Jack, why don't you go over and partake of lunch in my stead."
She wrote the hungry Werts a note of introduction and sent him on his way. (But only after he had called his house, the Rock Chalk Co-Op, and requested their menu.)
Virginia called the Jay Co-Ed house at noon and received the report that young Werts had arrived and was going fine.
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Phi Psi alumnus Buddy Rogers was a guest at the Theta house Friday evening, visiting niece Shirley Binford. The Phi Psi's were allowed within a safe distance of the house to handshake with brother Rogers and to serenade the other half of the slowly-being-forgotten feud.
Another Step to
ALL-OUT VICTORY
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