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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
CUST 0 TIENA MAIDENDE
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
New Year For Student Union
With the election of officers of the Student Union Activities board last week a new year starts for the Memorial Union building. New Year's Resolutions are in order for the Activities Board.
The Memorial Union building is incorporated under the laws of the state of Kansas. Control rests in the hands of the Union Operating Committee, composed of nineteen members, including nine students. This group supervises student activity and looks after the general welfare of the building. Since the Operating Committee meets infrequently, it delegates some of its power to a student committee, which handles day to day problems of Union management. This group, known as the Student Union Activities Board, is appointed by the Operating Committee.
This committee wields broad powers in many branches of Union activity. It may be noted that this group is the only one in the University which can charge admission to an event held in the building when the money gained is to be used by the organization. That is, any organization desiring to hold a benefit in the Union is refused the use of the building unless the money earned is devoted to Union activities.
The Activities Board, composed of three students, must remember that, although they were appointed by a board of nineteen, nine of whom were students, their responsibility for the Memorial Union building is to the student body of the University. The students support the building.
The new Activities Board may well resolve to guide Union activities so as to derive greatest student benefit not Union benefit. This Board has the opportunity to make the coming Memorial Union "year" one which makes available the building for meetings of all groups of students and extends a welcome to every student, individually.
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Society women in England are being given rifles so that they may help fight off invasion, if it comes. When they become as adept with them as with tea cups, the island will be safe.
The Joy Ride Is Over
For eighteen months in 1940 and 1941 the nation took a financial joy ride on the deficit spending of the federal government. The federal deficit spending during those eighteen months of increasing prosperity was more than 12 billion dollars, equal to approximately half the total deficit spending for the whole of the "depression" period from 1931 to 1939.
"Deficit spending" means spending of the difference between what the government receives in taxes and what ti pays out. In the past, the amounts of the deficits have been largely financed by bank credit. The government sells its bonds to the banks, the banks in turn merely give the government credit on their books. As the government draws on this to spend the money, those who receive it put some of their money back in the banks, so bank deposit money has been created—an inflationary process.
Largely as a result of huge federal expenditures, our national income by last December was above the rate of 100 billion dollars, a level which far exceeded the income of that famous "boom" year of 1929. At present, our outlay for war approximates three billion dollars a month. President Roosevelt estimated that in the fiscal year 1943, beginning July 1. our war expenditures would be about 56 billion dollars, a sum unapproached by any country in the world's history.
Despite its magnitude, this federal spending will produce no repetition of the 1940-1941 production "boom." The joy ride is over; the headaches have started. Business, which profited greatly during hte recent months of prosperity, now is facing difficult problems of scarcities and dislocations.
Taxes will reach into more pockets and take more from each pocket than ever before. But even after these taxes are paid, more money will be left in the hands of the people than ever before in our history. This great residue of earnings will not be as easily spent as in the past—because of the scarcity or complete lack of many goods and services. If every citizen does not curtail his expenditures during this time when the national income is the greatest in history and the goods which may be purchased are constantly fewer, he will contribute directly to inflation, which is far worse in its effects than any tax.
Under present conditions, "save" should become the password of the nation. Business, labor, agriculture every individual in the land-faces a measure of hardship created by the all-out demand of war.J.C.K.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, April 2, 1942 No.114
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.
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STUDENT DIRECTORY. All those interested in applying for the position of manager of the student directory for 1942-43 should do so before April 15. Applications should be filed with the secretary of the Men's or Women's advisor.-Dave Watermuler, MSC President.
1943 CALENDAR. Anyone interested in applying for the position of manager of the 1943 university calendar should do so before April 8. Applications should be filed with the secretary of the Men's advisor—Dave Watermelder.
DANCE MANAGER. Anyone interested in applying for the position of Varsity dance manager for the year 1942-43 should make application before April 13. Applications should be filed at the office of the Men's or Women's advisor.-Dave Watermulder.
JAY JANES. The Jay Janes will hold their regular meeting at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building—Mary Kay Brown, president.
QUILL CLUB will have a dinner meeting 5:30
Thursday in the Memorial Union building. After the
dinner students will adjourn to the Pine Room where
a review of the magazine will be presented. Members
please bring money for subscriptions and dues--Jean
Sellers, Chancellor.
PREMEDICAL STUDENTS NOTICE: The premedical aptitude test will be given this spring on the afternoon of April 24. Those who plan to enter a medical school a year from this fall should register at once in Room 10, Frank Strong hall. For those who desire it and who pay the fee of one dollar at the time of registration a practice sheet will be available. All others will pay the fee at the time of taking the test. For any further information inquire of, Parke H. Woodard, Room 8C, Frank Strong Hall.
The next and last meeting of this year's M.S.C. will be on Monday, April 6, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room. Fred Lawson, Secretary.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Publisher ... Kenneth Jackson
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN SIMS
Pi Phi freshman, Jane Allen, gets the column's weekly prize for being the strangest individual commented on through the week. She is proved to be the Hill's greatest sleep-walker and sleep-talker.
Saturday night Jane retired as usual and (not oddly) went to sleep. Her freshman sisters, knowing Jane was on "wake duty" for the chapter, shook her about 2 a.m. and informed her that it was morning and time to get all the acts out of bed. She awakened the actives.
actives out of bed. She awakened the actives.
Deciding to carry the fun further, the pledges began dancing about the as-if-in-a-trance Jane and jeering at her for being so gullible as actually to believe it was time to get up. But Jane just stood there—eyes closed.
It now became evident that she had gone about her task of rousing the active chapter while walking in her sleep.
Peggy Schroeder shook Jane and asked her what she was doing. "Petting my rabbit," replied Jane. "See my rabbit; I won it in a bowling contest."
"On a trip in Ohio," came the reply.
"Where are you Jane?" asked Poggy.
"For Heaven's sake, what are you doing in Ohio?" again questioned Peggy. "Oh. just bowling," again answered Jane, still sleeping on her feet.
The now frightened pledge class hurriedly put Jane to bed before complications set in.
Have any of you chuckled yet over the prize funny-bone tickler that won Bill Hodge, Phi Psi superman a carton of Life-saver candy?
It goes something like this:
"I think I'll go on a bender," said the fly as he started to crawl around the pretzel.
The Theta's had a cosmetic saleswoman as a guest Tuesday, who gave talks on care of the face, hands, eye-brows, hair, and all that sort of man-bait stuff that girls must know. Guests for the between-us-girls talks were Sigma Chi's Hal Weber, Chuck Bevan, and Buddy Adams.
(Maybe the boys of the Sigma Chi house are going to fight off the females with their own weapons—or maybe attract them with their own bait.)
When it seems imminent that some of their number are going to graduate other members of the school often require the graduating seniors to differentiate themselves from underclass Usually this differentia-
men. Usually this differentiation is accomplished by some bit of wearing apparel.
If you're a senior, you are a marked man! Not that three previous years of college life leave their mark upon the senior or that superior knowledge, a little winged angel sits atop the senior's head. What we refer to is the treatment of seniors in different schools of the University.
Financiers Wear Straw
So in the spring when you see a young man striding toward west ad (Frank Strong, if you please) wearing a hard straw hat, you can immediately label him as a senior in the School of Business. Who on this campus would wear a hat, least of all a flat-topped, stiff brimmed straw hat, unless it were required? Every day these seniors don their straws to go to class, as they expect in future years to wear them to a Wall Street office every morning. It gets them in practice.
"Senioritis" Sets In With Canes, Straw Hats
Lawyers Swing Canes
Business seniors, however, are not the only students who must go through this differentiating process. Law seniors, too, learn a necessary practice years ahead of time. Besides carrying an unusually large stack of books, which law students maintain that they need, the senior carries a cane. Awkward and inconvenient as it may seem at first, the future lawyer endures the inconvenience with patience. In his mind he pictures himself a few months hence walking down a busy thoroughfare toward his first office, nonchalantly swinging his cane. Somehow, the cane seems to add that professional look to a lawyer.
White Coats Mark Druggists
The School of Pharmacy also prepares its seniors for what they may
expect when they are no longer working in school laboratories, but have an actual job with personal responsibility. Cleanliness is the supreme requisite for a drug store. Neatness is as important. Cleanliness and neatness of displays and of the workers are paramount. The customer expects both. Most pharmacists wear the neat white jacket. For this reason, pharmacy seniors are required to wear white jackets and bow ties to their classes. When in this attire, however, the students usually confine themselves to the building and are seldom seen on the campus. Green Shirts Are From Marvin
Of course, the senior engineers carry slide rules but what engineer doesn't? Therefore to set himself apart, the senior engineer wears a green shirt which identifies him as a senior.
Senior medics, though not fulfilling a specific requirement, can usually be spotted by the heavy black boxes they carry. Instruments are essential to their work.
Seniors in the College are the most difficult to classify. Unless you tell them by books they carry or by the furrows in their forehead, your identification can not be depended upon.
A Fine Arts senior puts his all in a senior recital. Whether an instrumental or voice major, he must give a recital.
To some, these methods of diff
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