16, 1942
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Hill Co-eds Volunteer To Work For Soldiers
Officers and privates for the Co-ed Volunteer Corps, an army organization plan for University women, were sworn in by Col. James S. Dusenbury, professor of military science, at the first meeting of the new organization at 4:30 p.m. today in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
Before the meeting, the committee of Hill women in charge of organizing the volunteer corps met to make final arrangements. Gov. Payne Ratner will send the local corps its standing
on May 1. The Co-ed Volunteer Corps will be statewide in scope.
Election of officers for the organization, which is open to all University women, was held at the meeting. Officers will be a major as commanding officer, major's aid as secretary, captain adjutant as finance officer, captain adjutant as a point system manager, 6 lieutenants, and a platoon sgt. from each house represented. Other women in the organization will be sworn in as privates and will be able to work into higher positions through a point merit system.
The only requirement for membership is that the prospective member must start a defense stamp book. Stamps were sold at the door of the ballroom at the meeting.
Plans for the units are to sponsor milk drives, attend U.S.O. dances, send cookies and University publications to former students now in the service, and aid in the conservation movement. The group, which will be sponsored by the W.S.G.A., also plans to have drives to purchase defense bonds which will be given to the University for scholarships for boys in the services who will return to school after the war.
An honorary marching unit is also being planned. Uniforms for the women will be arm bands with "cVc" written on them. After three hours' work each women will be awarded a "cVc" button.
Jill Peek, college sophomore, heads the committee in charge of plans. Other members of the committee are Lila May Reetz, college freshman; Georgia Ferrel, college junior; Joan Bastian, college sophomore; Joy Howland, college sophomore; Peggy Davis, college sophomore; Jean Hoffman, college sophomore; Jean Bailey, college junior, and Ruth Krebiel, college sophomore. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser to women, is the faculty sponsor.
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Will Be Roundtable Topic
"The Pros and Cons of War Marriages," will be the topic on the KF KU Roundtable at 3 o'clock Sunday. Prof. E. C. Buehler, of the department of speech will be the moderator. Students participating are Virginia Nicholson, Richard Oliver, Jane Beal, and Maxine Walker, all of whom are college seniors.
Name New WSGA Committees
Committees for the Women's Self-Governing Association council were appointed by Marjorie Rader, president of W.S.G.A., at the first meeting of the new council Tuesday night.
On the judiciary committee of the council are Reola Durand, college junior; Barbara Koch, college junior; and Dorothy Stump, business senior. Acting on the joint council with representatives of the Men's Student Council are Marybelle Long, fine arts junior; Mary Lou Nelson, college freshman; and Barbara Reber, college junior.
The joint committee on student affairs includes Reola Durand; Barbara Reber; Jill Peck, college sophomore; and Mary Jo Cox, college sophomore. Virginia Tieman, college junior, was appointed publicity chairman and historian.
Georgia Ferrel, college junior; Mary Jo Cox; and Reola Durand were named to serve on the Memorial Union operating committee. The election committee includes Georgia Ferrel; Jill Peck; Marion Hepworth, college sophomore; Joan Bastian, college sophomore; Peggy Davis, college sophomore; and Ellen MacGregor, college junior.
A special continuance committee was appointed to investigate the possibility of continuing the WSGA throughout the summer. Included on the committee are Barbara Koch; Georgia Ferrel; and Nadine Hunt, college junior. Virginia Tieman and Evelyn Nielson, college junior, were named as the dance committee.
Professor Nash Talks in Hutchinson Before P-T A
Bert A. Nash, professor of education, spoke this morning in Hutchinson before a general session of the state parent-teachers' association. He spoke on a report prepared by the governor's committee on state children's institutions, a committee of which he is a member. This noon he was chairman at a luncheon meeting of the convention's mental hygiene committee.
Tuesday and Wednesday Professor Nash spoke before Hutchinson service clubs.
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Stockton Will Lecture On U.S. War Economy
Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, will discuss "Problems of American War Economy" at the twelfth lecture of the World at War series tonight at 7:30 oclock tonight in Fraser theater.
The problem facing the nation, Stockton says, is that of gearing our economy into a systematic and coordinated machine for war production. This involves the development of plant capacity, filling raw material needs, solving the problem of producing machine tools, converting industries from civilian to war production, and solving the questions arising over labor.
In planning an economy for war production, it is necessary to take into account civilian needs and the best way to handle them. In his lecture tonight, Stockton will discuss the necessity of simplification and standardization of goods produced for civilian use, of concentrating the manufacture of these goods in fewer plants, and of rationing of these goods.
Another problem arising from war production is that of price increases and methods of controlling them. To prevent the cost of living from increasing too much, some plan of price control must be worked out. Equally important is the question of how to put the brakes on spending. Increased taxation and the sale of defense bonds and stamps have been applied, but the question is whether that be enough.
Stockton will explain these points.
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Harry Scott of Rice institute is men's representative for physical fitness in the Eighth area organization of civilian defense.
Stockton will explain these points. Tonight's speaker believes we are rapidly developing a planned economy essential to the war program, and the outlook is that we will be living under such a system for many years, in his opinion.
Drums Beat Out Jungle Jive Zilch Lands at Dakar
BY RALPH GIANBATTISTA COLDREN
Fresh from this triumph in the dark wilds of the Congo, Zilch, the fourth estate's "Son of Heaven," made his way to the Atlantic and then up the Gold Coast to the seething metropolis of Dakar.
Warm Reception
Zilch was welcomed by the childlike Ouolof natives of the Cape Verde region and made such an impression upon them that they considered him one of their own and swore him in as an honorary tribal member. While living in the soukolas (huts) of the natives, Zilch was able to study and photograph them in their native habitat. He promised to show these new fourth
At the friendly village of Ubangi on the Lubilahzs river, Zilch assembled his powerful crystal set and established first communication with the outside world. His first words flashed to a breathless and waiting audience were: "Livingstone has been found." Zilch had scored another scoop!
Special to the Daily Kansan by Atlantic cable from our special correspondent in Dakar, Africa. April 14—(Delayed—Excitement ran high today in this west coast African town as drums from neighboring villages boomed out the message that the safari of Elmer A. Zilch, famed journalist, explorer, and author of the current best?
seller, "The Life and Loves of a Type Louse," had been sighted.
This town had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Zilch ever since he had flashed word that he was leaving Cairo on the long dangerous trek to West Africa. Upon leaving Cairo, Zilch had planned to fly across the Sahara desert straight to Dakar but a severe war rationing of high test wood alcohol by the Egyptian government forced the famed newspaperman to abandon his space ship for lack of fuel. Zilch decided to take the great circle route to Dakar. He and his safari pushed up the Nile into the heart of the "Dark Continent" and then to the headwaters of the Congo.
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dimensional pictures at the annual Zilch dinner to be given in his honor in Lawrence, Kansas, Tuesday, April 21.
Shortly before leaving Dakar on his trek across the Atlantic to South America, Zilch discovered that by special processing, the Arachides (native peanut) which grows in abundance in the Dakar, region, yields a certain high test wood alcohol necessary to run his space ship. Whether or not he will go back to Cairo for his abandoned space ship or build a new and faster one at Dakar remains unknown.
When asked if he expected to be in Lawrence, Kan., in time for the dinner on Tuesday, Zilch merely blinked his bloodshot eyes seven times and said, "Wait and see."
Phi Sigma Initiates Hears Landon Speak
Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, held its spring initiation banquet last night at Evans Hearth. Seven new members were taken into the organization. They are: Verlyn Norris and Keith Spalding, both majors in the department of psychology; Jean Rubbra, major in bacteriology; Burton Hodgden, major in entomology; Dorothea Franzen, assistant instructor in zoology; Henry Ivy, instructor in physiology, and Mary Elizabeth Evans.
Lowell R. Laudon, associate professor of geology, spoke to the group on "The Klondike Gold Rush Trail."
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