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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY,APRIL 16,1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Dangerous Boom
When the machines begin to clatter at Eudora's new war plant, they will be sounding a danger warning to the University of Kansas.
Wherever large new war industries have sprung up, with their mammoth payrolls, living costs have risen, too. Prices naturally rise in such localities because of increased demand for all commodities and services, and an added impetus is given in some cases when some townspeople hike prices to make a little easy money.
Civic officials of Lawrence and neighboring cities agree that a large number of workers in the new factory will commute daily from Lawrence. That would create a boom for owners of rooming houses and restaurants here, but is a blow to University students, for room rent and food prices will be going up at an accelerated pace. By fall, increased costs of living in Lawrence may make enrollment impossible for some students who have been hard put to finance their education even under present conditions.
The rental agency established by the Chamber of Commerce and the other activities started by them indicate that the city of Lawrence is well aware of the changes to come. Student housing should be of continued interest to Lawrence citizens because--though a defense plant may come and go-the University is a permanent institution.
How much the new situation will actually affect the University is impossible to predict, but it will bring many changes to Lawrence. The progress in student living conditions made in the last three years must not be lost now.
Is Turkey to Be Next?
Greatest natural barrier to Hitler's Middle Eastern drive is Turkey. Blocking the back door to Russian oil fields in the Caucasus, protecting Cyprus, Syria, and Suez, and clamping shut the entrance to the Black sea, it is strategically the most valuable area in the Near East today.
Both England and Germany have recognized its importance. In 1939, Turkey signed an alliance with Britain and France, and even after the fall of the latter, has given frequent assurances of her loyalty to Briaina. However, Hitler's "third degree" expert, Franz Von Papen, has been working on the Turks for some time and may have damaged the Allied cause.
The water connecting between the Black and Aegean seas—the Bosporus, Sea of Marmora, and the Dardanelles—divide the country into two distinct parts—Thrace and Turkey proper.
Thrace is a small area, an offshoot of the Balkan peninsula. Turkey proper is a 300,000 square-mile, rectangular-shaped country about two-thirds surrounded by water and bounding Russia, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. In the east are the high mountains of the fierce Kurdish tribesmen. The central country is a plateau sinking to north, west, and south into wooded foothills near the coast.
Along the whole seacoast—the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean—extends a strip of forest averaging 75 miles in width. It is widest and densest in Thrace and the Bosporus sector, the area through which the German army must first slice its way. In fact, this wooded straits country is the only good natural defense line Turkey has against attack from the Balkans.
Her climate is varied. The central section is
temperate, with hot summers and frequent light snows in winter. The west and south coasts have a semi-tropical Mediterranean climate, but the north coast is annually afflicted with biting winds and deep snows sweeping across the Black sea from Russia.
Turkey's population is slightly under 18,000,- 000, and is widely scattered except in Thrace, where the city of Istanbul, of Constantinople, has over a million inhabitants.
Hitler has begun his spring drive against Russia and has increased air activity over Malta. The Allies are awaiting a blow at the Turks. Probably military aid will be sent from accumulating Allied units in the near East.
A long time ago, backward Turkey used to be called the "sick man of Europe." We hope that he has weathered his attack of Von Papen fever and that his courage and strength are unimpaired.--c.R.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, April 16, 1942 No.120
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.
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.
QUILL CLUB: Meeting for today has been canceled. The magazine will be ready for distribution a week from today. A 5:30 dinner meeting will be held then in the cafeteria of the Memorial Union building, and the club meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Pine Room—Jean Sellers, Chancellor.
Professor William A. Owens of Texas A. and M. College will lecture on American Ballads and Folk-songs in Fraser Theater at 4:30 on Friday, April 17, under the auspices of the English Department. The public is invited.-J. W. Ashton, Chairman.
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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DEAN SIMS
Clayton Krehbiel, fine arts senior from Moundridge, in hearing a poem read in Miss Helen R. Hoopes' History of English Lit. class concerning the climate in Italy, demanded of teacher Miss Hoopes, what sort of weather they have in Italy.
"Mr. Krehbiel, what sort of weather do you think you would find along the ocean?" retorted Miss Hoopes.
"Miss Hoopes, living in Kansas, as I have all my life, how would I know?" answered Mr. Krehbiel.
!more—I'm going steady."
Miss Hoopes saw there was nothing else to do so she told about the weather in Italy.
Wendell was one jump ahead of both of them—he had announced his engagement to a girl in Emporia a week before either incident happened.
Here's a follow-up on that Wendell Link story of Tuesday. It seems the joke wasn't on him after all, but on the girls who told him at the door, "Sorry, but I can't see you any
asleep. Pranksters, after three trials,
John Harvey, senior journalist from Parsons, found a comfortable and sunlighted spot in the journalism "shack" Monday and contentedly fell were successful in giving him a hot-foot.
John rose from his slumber, screamed in anguish, and began beating out the flames engulfing his sizzling shoe.
Harvey loudly and longly swore vengeance—so loudly and longly he came near to being permanently excommunicated from the "shack."
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