THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw Hell on Earth
Editor's Note: The International Coordination Council reveals the following information as coming from a person who was able to make several extensive visits to the Warsaw Ghetto during the past winter, and who is now in a neutral country.
There are more than 400,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Ghetto covers the northern part of the city and some of its center. It is so situated that it separates the center of the city from the workers' districts, which lie mainly in the western and northern suburbs.
The streets of the Ghetto are indescribably crowded and noisy. There is not enough room for all the people who want to be out in the streets. The area of the Ghetto is extremely small, and the authorities of occupation are constantly reducing it further. Only recently three large streets (The Sienna, Sosnowa, and Sliska Streets) were carved out of the Ghetto; the Jews who lived there were ordered to move deeper into the Ghetto.
There are no taxi-cabs or horse-driven carriages in the Ghetto streets; they have been replaced by "rickshaws", or man-driven cabs. The horse - driven street - car has been revived in the Ghetto; there are twenty-five of them along the main streets. The few electric street-cars still operating in the Ghetto have no numbers to indicate their routes, but are marked by a blue Star of David.
Trade in Drinking Water
The Ghetto is surrounded by high walls. Beggars with ulcerated feet, ragged children with old men's faces sit near these walls.
Trade is conducted on the street corners. Vegetables, scrap-iron, books, Jewish armbands showing a blue Star of David are bought and sold. There is a great trade in drinking water; one glass of fresh water costs 18 groshy. The water is sold by water-carriers who walk along the streets with buckets of fresh water. When a military car passes, all in the crowd silently remove their hats.
There is a sharp dividing line between the rich and the poor. The rich ride in the rickshaws and have their own clubs. They carry on a trade in houses (the Jews were allowed to keep property which was
All candidates for positions of business manager and advertising manager of The Daily Kansan should file written applications in the office of Elmer F. Beth, acting chairman of the department of journalism. Closing date is Friday, May 15. Every University student is eligible, no matter what his major course is. Both positions pay salaries.
The written application should explain in detail why the candidate's training, experience, interest, and talents make him a suitable person for the position. Appointments will be made by the business committee of the Kansan board, consisting of Profs. Beth and L. N. Flint, Mr. K. W. Davidson, and Frank Baumgartner, business manager of The Kansan.
situated within the Ghetto walls). Parts of houses may also be bought or sold, divided either vertically or by floors. Thus, for instance, one may buy a third floor of a house, or a section of the house reaching from one balcony to another.
The Ghetto contains synagogues and elementary schools, as well as hospitals and baths. There are also restaurants, dance-halls, and cabarets, photographs of which frequently appear in Nazi periodicals as proof of how well the Polish Jews live in the ghettoes. There is even a Jewish theater. But there is not a single park, not a single playground, not a single sport field. Misery and Hunger
The prevailing elements in Ghetto life are misery and hunger. Every parcel arriving from abroad saves people from actual starvation. The Jewish physicians, who were compelled to move into the Ghetto, are overwhelmed with work. Hundreds of people die daily from exposure and hunger. Even the sacredness of death is lost in the Ghetto. A funeral must be paid for, and few families possess the means. Misery overcomes piety, and the dead are simply put out into the streets at night. Later Jewish police carry away the corpses to be buried free of cost by the Jewish community.
The poverty in the Ghetto is appalling. The Germans boast of permitting the Ghetto to be ruled by "its own Jewish administration." In reality the functions of this administration are limited to merely paying for the food supplied to the Ghetto. The Germans mockingly explain to inquisitive foreigners that the only reason for the prevalence of hunger in the Ghetto is the failure of the Jewish community to buy sufficient quantities of food.
Five Are Nominated For ISA Sweetheart
Recently, our informant tells us,
he received word from Warsaw that
Five candidates for this year's ISA sweetheart have been nominated by a secret committee of ISA men. They are Mary Jo Cox, fine arts sophomore; Pat Foster, college freshman; Martha Fairhurst, college senior; Nadine Munt, college junior; and Dorothy Mav, college senior.
The votes will be cast by ISA men at the annual Jay Hop, Saturday, May 16, and the winner will be announced at intermission.
Georgia Mae Landrith, college senior, reigned as ISA sweetheart last year.
Pachacamac Elect; Coulson is President
The Inner Circle of the Society of Pachacamac, men's political party, elected officers for the coming school year at its regular meeting Sunday night.
New officers are Fred Coulson, president; Jim Waugh, vice-president; George Bolt, secretary; and Marion Haynes, treasurer.
The meeting was held at the Phi Delta Theta house.
it is no longer possible for sick people in the Ghetto to obtain treatment. Although the German censor erased parts of the letter, he did not do it thoroughly enough, and it was possible to decipher it. The letter was written in German; the sentence, "Wir sind gesund einstweilen" ("for the time being we are well"), was followed by some erased words, then the word "Fleckfieber" (typhus) appears. The rest of the paragraph reads as follows: "... impfen kann man sich nicht, da man die betreffenden Ampullen nicht bekommen kann" ("it is impossible to be inoculated because the necessary serum cannot be obtained"). This letter plainly reveals that there is a typhus epidemic in the Ghetto, and that there are no means to prevent its spread.
Such is the life of the Polish Jews within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto. The walls are 10 feet high and have 10 gates. At 9 p.m. these gates close. It is the curfew hour. The streets are silent and dark. Only the graveyards are growing. The numberless, nameless dead receive burial. Life in the Ghetto is a veritable hell on earth.
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We will get your household goods at the end of school and have everything cleaned and back in the house before rush week next fall.
School Will Soon Be Out. Don't Forget to Call Us About Cleaning and Storing Your Rugs, Drapes and Furniture.
Name Six to Kansas Teaching Positions
H. E. Chandler, director of the teachers appointment bureau, today announced the appointment of the following six persons to teaching positions in Kansas schools for next year: Lawson Roberts, A.B. 1939; Mary Helen Wilson, college senior; Beverly Brown, college senior; and Aliere Witherup, fine arts senior; Hazel McClure, college senior, and Everett Cole.
Roberts will teach the social sciences in the high school at Junction City; Miss Wilson, home economics in the high school at Wathena. Miss Brown will teach grade school music at Medicine Lodge; Miss Witherup, music and English in the Portis high school. Miss McClure will teach high school English and home economics in Lane high school, and Cole will be elementary school principal at Auburn.
To Replace Books Lost In High School Blaze
Las Vegas, N. M. — Answering an emergency call from Miss Gertrude Sliger, teacher of commerce at Hobbs high school, New Mexico Highlands university's department of business education has sent books to Hobbs to replace those lost in a recent fire that destroyed the $80,-000 high school there.
The department did the same thing not so long ago when the Mora school burned. The books are sent as loans to hard-pressed typing, shorthand and office practice students.
"First College Course in Photography," an illustrated 286-page text by Prof. Katherine Chamberlain of Wayne university's physics department, has been published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Eighty-five percent of the 422 new full-time students who were examined upon entrance at Wayne University this semester have been given "Class A" ratings in physical exams recently completed.
Jackson Named Top Journalist of Year
Ken Jackson, college senior, was named honor man of the year of the department of journalism at the Kamsam Board banquet held in the Colonial tea room. Tuesday evening, Jackson was selected as the man most likely to succeed on the basis of his present and potential ability.
Recognition was also given to other outstanding students in journalism. The Henry Schott award, a cash sebol- scholarship to junior men, was awarded to Alan Houghton, Dale Robinson, and Charles Elliott.
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, gave awards to Ken Jackson, Robert Trump, and Heidi Viets in recognition for superior scholarship.
The L. N. Flint awards for the best news stories, feature stories, and editorials were presented as follows:
News Story: first, Milo Farneti and Joy Miller; second, Milo Farneti; third, Donald Keown; honorable mention, Bob Coleman.
Feature Story: first, John Harvey; second, Virginia Tieman; third, Joy Miller.
Editorial: first, William Feeney;
second, Charles Pearson; third, Donald Keown,
honorable mention, Alan Houghton and Raymond W. Derr.
The University Daily Kansan staff for next fall was announced as beeing; publisher, John Conard, managing editor, Bill Feeney;; editor in-chief, Alan Houghton; and new chairman of the Kansan board, Virginia Tieman.
Acts presented on the program following the banquet included a group of piano selections by Rodger Weltmer, a Spanish song by Alida Ramírez, a tap dance by Howard and Duane Camiff, a piano solo by Edward Utley, and a tap dance by Doris Jackson.
Brewster Speaks to Kiwanis
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry, spoke to members of the Lawrence Kiwanis club at noon today at their weekly meeting in Wiedemann's tea room. Brewster spoke on the topic "Out-Producing the Axis."
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