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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Everyone Can Observe Parents Day
This is the story of a little boy. He was blue eyed, chubby, and cheerful. His hands were usually dirty, he loved chocolate cake, he was a good tackle on the back lot football team. His name was Richard, but most people called him Dick or Toughie. He proudly announced his age as ten whole years.
One morning Richard waked to hear that his mother had died during the night. He didn't cry—he didn't say anything. That night he quietly went to bed when his father suggested it. Almost a half hour later he came slowly down the stairs, walked into the living room in his blue and white striped pajamas, walked over to where his mother lay in her coffin. He bent over and kissed her goodnight. Then he went back up the stairs to bed, alone.
Three days later he announced at the dinner table, "I think Mamma is happy now, don't you?"
From that day on, every day was guided by the boy's interpretation of what "Mamma would have said about it." At the same time, he could stand on his own feet and think for himself. That mother is to this very day, part of that little boy's life.
This weekend the University celebrates Parents Day. You may be lucky enough to be able still to ask your mother questions. But even if you aren't you can observe Parents Day—because you still have your father and mother to remember.
If you, like Richard, can only remember then do it with your friends on Parents Day.
Even though you may be grown-up and sophisticated and uninterested in the heart, home, and heaven idea it wouldn't hurt to give it a try—just this once. Ask your parents to come to the Hill this weekend. They will be proud that you asked them. You are proud—because they are your parents.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, has three daughters—of whom he is fond of talking. The youngest Buehler daughter, in listing her father's occupation for school officials wrote, "he teaches speech and acts silly." Which would indicate that father doesn't put anything over on daughter.
Are War Bonds a Good Investment
It frequently is said that War Savings Bonds are the safest security in the world—the best investment anyone can make. Some Americans doubt the accuracy of this statement. This war, they say, is different.
No one will deny that this war differs from former conflicts. But this difference only enhances America's position. World War II is a war of production, and in that field America has no equal. It can be only a matter of time, therefore, until we are victorious, if our efforts and planning are sufficient and sensible. The only question as to the outcome of the war, then, is as to the time it will take for us to win.
What, then, is the risk in buying War Bonds as an investment? There is only one element of risk. This is that when the bonds are paid off the dollars received may buy less than the dollars with which we buy the bonds today.
For example, if one pays $18.75 for a bond now and finds that ten years hence when the bond is paid off, the $25 he receives will buy only as many goods as he can get now for $10, he obviously not only has failed to receive any interest on his money, but as well has lost
nearly 50 per cent of his investment. In brief, the only risk involved in the purchase of War Bonds is inflation.
Now, the government is formulating a scheme to prevent the spiraling process of inflation. This program calls for ceilings on prices, rents, wages, and profits—perhaps even a limit to net incomes. Those phases of the progral which hit the other fellow, we will favor. Those phases which pinch us, we will gripe about. But this is war; and Sherman didn't say that war was a bed of roses.
If the entire cost of the war is financed by the sale of War Bonds and taxation, if ceilings are fairly and sensibly placed, if each of us makes an honest and unselfish effort to do his part, inflation will be stopped. If inflation is stopped, the risk of government bonds is eliminated.
The proper policy for everyone, therefore is to buy War Bonds. Then, having bought the bonds, protect your interest and future by opposing every policy which, because it is inflationary, endangers their value.
If all America follows this course, victory will be ours and War Bonds truly will be the safest investment in the world.
C. V.C. girls are wearing rueful smiles these days. It seems that a good many of them "joined up" because it was the thing to do. It was! They have so much to do they don't know what to do.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, May 1, 1942 No. 129
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.
The Department of Home Economics will give a tea for visiting parents of K. U. students Saturday afternoon, May 2nd, from three to five o'clock in the dining room, 12 Fraser Hall. Faculty members and friends of the Department are also invited.—Elizabeth Meguiar, Chairman of Parents' Day Committee.
Students who have taken the courses in Home Nursing and Child Care are eligible for Red Cross Certificates in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. Former students who are interested should make inquiry at the office of the Department of Home Economics. Room 104, Fraser hall.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sophomores who have made application for admission to the teacher training program must appear for examinations either at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29th, or at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 2nd in Room 306 Fraser Hall. Only sophomores who have made application and have taken the examination may enroll this fall in any education course.A. H. Turney, Chairman, Committee on Admission and Guidance.
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
Graduate student John Ise, Jr., Lawrence, was embarrassed beyond powers of expression Tuesday evening while enjoying a fast match of tabletennis in the Union building's recreation room. Mr. Ise's woeful predicament arose when the hostess in charge there disapproved of his athletic costume—a pair of shorts and a T shirt.
"Young man." the hostess approached him, "If you wish to continue this game of ping-pong, you'll have to put on your trousers."
Just when John was winning the game
Just when John was winning the game too.
Well, for pity sakes! That guy, Wendell Link, Templin hall, whom we made so much fun of about two weeks ago—about being fluffed off by two Hill maidens in one week's time, then it all turning out that he had been engaged to another girl all the time—well!
The most recent news concerning this fellow Link is (gulp) that he has been seen dating both the girls that gave him the brush off in this column's earlier report.
--war machine and developed it with that purpose in mind.
(One year from now, I predict, Wendell Link will be in jail charged with bigamy.)
Theta's Woggie Stewart and Miriam Jessen, together with Beta's Dick Chubb and Bill Jones, offer the theory that "Little pixies went all over the world Wednesday night and turned up all the clocks but theirs"—thus making them late for a 10:30 o'clock engagement.
"I'm sorry I can't go with you but I have an engagement to attend a horse show."
An unidentified Mr. X called an unidentified Miss X at the Kappa house recently and got a date. Miss X called him back a little later, expressed her regrets, and said,
Commented Mr. X, "I've been stood up lots of times because of some crummy males, but this is the first time because of a horse."
A Corbin hall Miss nearly brought about the destruction of two nice young men of the University—all in conjunction with the Corbin hall spring formal party tonight. It seems she promised both men invitations to the party, naturally the two gullible male animals (each believing-he rated 1A with her) prepared for the date.
Through the mail a few days ago each man received his invitation—each a stag bid.
Yankee Ingenuity Made Modern Methods of War
Hitler's two most powerful weapons, airplanes and submarines, are products of Yankee inventive genius which the Germans have adopted and improved upon.
Yankee ingenuity is in reverse.
Little did Orville and Wilbur Wright realize when they made their first flight from Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903, that they had invented a machine which would be the deciding factor in naval and land engagements in future wars.
It took five years for the world to recognize the Wright brothers as those who had accomplished what had for centuries been considered impossible. This recognition came only after many exhibition flights were made by Wilbur throughout Europe. The feat was officially recognized by the United States government in 1909 when Orville Wright made a series of successful flights at Fort Mever, Virginia.
America soon fell behind in airplane development and the first country to make use of the airplane as a weapon for war was Germany early in the first World War of 1914 to 1918. The Germans have concentrated on the development of the airplane as a weapon of war ever since.
Like the airplane, the submarine too was an American invention which was adopted and developed for military use by other nations.
In 1898 in New York harbor, John P. Holland, Irish-American inventor launched the first successful submarine, the model from which the modern underseas boats of all nations have been copied. This first submarine was tested before the United States Naval Board of Inspectors and went through exercises of diving, turning, and even fired a torpedo under water.
It is said that Holland foresaw the tremendous powers of this ship as a
Again the Germans took the initiative in development and improvement of this Yankee invention and by 1916, the submarine was such an effective weapon of war that the Allies were kept busy perfecting anti-submarine devices. The British Admiralty in 1918 announced that from the outbreak of war in 1914 to January 1, 1918, the U-boats of the Central Powers had sunk 11,827,572 gross tons of allied and neutral shipping.
Yankee ingenuity has produced effective weapons of war before, and there is every indication that it can still give aggressor nations a few lessons in warfare and ex-weapons.
Naval Relief Drive Fund Nears Goal, Says Buehler
The Naval Relief drive fund is within $30 of its goal, Professor E. C. Buehler, chairman of the drive, announced yesterday.
The fund now totals $145.75. Contributions are still being accepted.
Brewster Talks in Hutchinson
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry, was in Hutchinson yesterday where he spoke to the Rotary club last night on "The Place of Chemistry in Modern Warfare."
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