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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Politics in Local Defense
With the organization of the CVC—Civilian Volunteer Corps —among the women of the University, the defense effort now reaches all persons in the school community.
The usefulness of this organization cannot be questioned. Its value to the University defense effort cannot be doubted. Its success through the next few years is not solely dependent on its value. The persons who lead this program are responsible in a large part for its success.
To be successful after the novelty of the military program has worn off, it must not be representative only of a combine of women. It is regrettable that a semi-organized group of University women controlled, apparently, the organization meeting yesterday. The problem must be solved by the women concerned. Which do they value the most—the west campus combine or the Civilian Defense Corps?
Combines have their purpose during election time. They are not admired when they operate at the expense of an all-University program.
The University of Kansas now has a three-term school year, instituted as a defense measure but as yet, soldiers are not sleeping in the corridors of Frank Strong hall. In the Los Angeles public schools, cots are provided the service men who have just de-embarked. The men sleep in the schools at night and leave before class the next morning. K.U. students don't yet have to step over sleeping soldiers on their way to 8:30 classes—but you never know.
Shortened Sweets
This month brings Americans face to face with the results of the government's policy concerning tariff on sugar. No sugar will be sold in the United States the week of April 27. Thereafter sugar will be retailed upon presentation of coupons from sugar rationing books, the Office of Price Administration has announced.
Mr. Average American will in the future be allocated one-half, perhaps three-fourths, a pound of sweetening per week. Whereas this country consumed or stored 7,900,000 tons of sugar last year, this year there will be only 5,600,000 tons available, because Japan has blocked our supply from the Philippines.
The United States has depended upon importation for two-thirds of its sugar supply; fifteen per cent of America's sucrose was carried 7,000 miles across the Pacific from the Philippines by ship when Cuba,200 miles distant, could have supplied our needs. But our government played favorites, giving reductions to our insular possessions, in formulating its tariff and quota policy on sugar.
Consequently, Cuban production possibilities for sugar cane were never exploited; there was no good market in the United States, thanks to high tariff and low sugar quotas. In 1925 Cuba produced 6,000,000 tons of sugar, 2,000,000 of which were shipped to this country. In 1942 it is estimated that Cuba will be able to send the United States 3,800,000 tons of sugar, but 1,500,000 of this must be re-shipped to our Allies under Lease-Lend agreements.
Explosives, an integral part of our war effort, call for great quantities of alcohol, which is derived from sugar. Alcohol can be rendered
from sugar processed from home-grown sugar beets, but such alcohol is inferior to that produced from cane sugar. The explosive industries are scheduled to absorb 800,000 tons of sugar—most of it cane—this year.
To Cuba falls much of the task of supplying 130 million Americans with sugar for their breakfast food, their guns, and their bombs. Because our government failed to realize the potentialities of Cuban sugar production till it was almost too late, it seems that sugar—like so many other items in the Allied war effort so far—will be too little.
Had we given Cuba parity with the Philippines on sugar quotas and tariff, she would today have a sugar growing industry well enough developed to satiate America's wants. As it is, our stock of sugar is sweet, but short.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, April 17, 1942 No. 121
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.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEMBERS: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Monday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Frank Strong Hall. Please note the change of day from the usual Tuesday to Monday.—Deane W. Malott, President.
Students who expect to enter the armed forces before the close of the semester and who plan to receive partial or full credit for their work are urged to consult with Mr. Woodruff in the Registrar's Office at an early date. Raymond Nichols, Executive Secretary.
SIGMA XI: The regular April meeting of the Kansas Chapter of Sigma Xi will be held on Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall. Dr H. R. Wahl, Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Kansas, will speak on "War, Medicine, and Research."—W. H. Schowee, Secretary.
ALL JUNIORS and SENIORS who plan to teach, but have not completed their education courses must make application for admission to the teacher training program and for practice teaching before April 20. Application blanks may be secured in the Education office. Only students who have made application may enroll in education courses next fall.-A. H. Turney, Chairman, Committee on Admissions and Guidance.
PREMEDIC NOTICE: The premedical test will be held at 1:30 p.m. on April 24, in room 206, Marvin Hall.-Parke Woodard.
SENIORS! Order your announcements now. Deadline is April 27—Fred Robertson.
English Proficiency Examination: Saturday, April 25. 8:30 a.m. Juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts may take this, the last examination of the current school year, if they have not already fulfilled the requirement. Register in person at the College office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, April 20-22-J. B. Virtue.
TAU SIGMA will have a special meeting at 1:30 Saturday. All members must be present and all costumes ready.-Anna Jane Hoffman, President.
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To the Editor:
I have followed with increasing animosity your articles purporting to favor the holding of "Dandelion Day."
The idea in itself has merit, there is no doubt; but—to let you in on a great secret, of which I am not at all sure you are aware—the United States is at war. In consequence of this, students of Kansas University have given up many pleasures which we would otherwise enjoy.
To enumerate a few: Easter vacation has been abolished, in the end that the school year will be speeded up; a year 'round program has been inaugurated by the faculty as an aid to speeding up the educational process; students are saving paper, metal foil, and other war essentials; joy-riding in the old jalopies is being cut down because of the rubber shortage; funds have been started by numerous Hill organizations for war purposes.
The resources of the nation are turned toward one principal objective: win this war! I ask but one question: what do the Japs care about the dandelions on the campus of the University of Kansas?
I am here to get an education—and to complete it as soon as possible. There are a few others with the same goal in view. So before you "railroad" this through, why not think it over—clearly.
ROBERT H. MILLER
Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
Fire Warden Charles F. McCreight, also of the College business office, last week missed his one chance in years to put out a fire endangering the Ad building.
A few days before the incident occurred, McCreight stopped in the Alumni Association office to tell Fred Ellsworth, Executive Alumni secretary, that he had just discovered and remedied a flaw in one of the fire extinguishers hanging in the hall. A blod of paint, he explained, had dried over the end of the nozzle of the squirting hose. He had scraped it out. "The extinguisher is all ready to go now," said Warden McCreight on leaving, "All we need now is a fire."
A couple of days later, a small trash fire rampaged at the west end of the Ad building basement, filling the basement with smoke. Jean Robertson, secretary to Ellsworth, hastily called McCreight and informed him of the blaze. McCreight wouldn't believe her at first she so had to convince him on her honor as a Theta there was honestly and no kidding a fire for him.
The Fire Warden sped to the scene of the fire—just in time to witness a janitor putting the finishing touches on the guelling of it.
Rumor has it that a couple of tears trickled down McCreight's face as he viewed the mess the janitor had made of the fire that rightfully belonged to him.
Cecilia Goncalves, special college student from Brazil, Alpha Chi Omega, and prize protege of Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, advisor of women, was seated at the side of Miss Meguiar at the Alpha Chi faculty dinner last Tuesday night. Miss Goncalves suddenly expressed herself with a passionate, "Oh, darn it!"
Covering her mouth quickly with her hand, Miss Goncalves peered out of the corner of her eyes at Miss Meguiar.
The adviser of women was seemingly unaware of the profanity of the term and paid no attention. Miss Gonalves smiled and was seen to mentally mark down "one more American expression I must use more often."
Threats are floating around the Theta house to expose the identity of the group of freshmen who belong to the "Eberhardt club." The society was formed, as was mentioned Tuesday, when several Theta freshmen declared their secret passions for Beta, Fred Eberhardt.
Meanwhile, the whole thing continues to embarrass the Eberhardt fellow.
Speech Students Discuss Inter-American Affairs
With the objective of improving Pan-American relations, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs is currently sponsoring a national extempore-discussion contest among the colleges and universities of the United States. This contest is proposed with the object of enlisting our institutions of higher learning in a nation-wide, cooperative endeavor to interest thousands of students in a study of inter-American affairs, to inform the general public concerning relations in this field, and to formulate solutions for ex-?
5. Formulate solutions for existing problems.
In February of this year, each school competing in this contest selected five to eight students who demonstrated the greatest mastery of the subject matter and who exhibited superior ability in the public expression of their ideas. These students
At each district conference, delegates from eight to ten neighboring schools met at roundtable discussions in the afternoon followed by an ex-
were selected through a series of group discussions and were thereby qualified to represent that institution at one of the district conferences.
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