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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
HILL ACTIVITIES IN WAR TIME
The War-Defense committee of the Men's Student Council has asked several organizations and will ask more to continue their regular activities during summer school. This action seems commendable because the summer session students should have some of the advantages which are offered in the winter.
In asking that Hill activities be continued, however, the committee has overlooked the present need for soft-pedaling extra-curricular work. The average student now is taking part in some phase of defense work besides his regular outside activities. He is carrying a normal schedule, or perhaps a heavier one. The school term is shortened, the work made more difficult. In addition, the psychological aspects of the war are bound to interfere with his work.
Many University men and women have said that previously they have made better grades and received more from their summer school work than they have in the winter session. They attribute this to the opportunity summer school presented of concentrating on subjects without interference of outside activities.
The continuance of regular activities, the introduction of defense work, and the presentation of more intense studies will increase the physical and mental burden on the winter session students, to say nothing of those who attend the summer session. Students repeatedly have been told that they must remain in school and obtain the most they can from their work. Under the circumstances, they cannot be expected to gain the most from their education.
Is the University to be an institution of learning or one of extra-curricular activities?—R.B.
---O--be the real underminers of French democracy large industries. He told of French armament firms which shipped guns and other munitions to Italy in their greed for profit right up to the time of the war, and of other great corporations who fought bitterly against curbs on their monopolies of essential war-goods. He did not point out that many of these same plants are now turning out arms for the Germans under practically the same management. Newspapers were doing that for him.
Here's one thing California doesn't have. A minister in Nashville, Tenn., holds the record for the longest sermon. His topic: "America Back to God."
PLACING THE BLAME
It has long been a pet superstition of the American people to place the blame for the fall of the French democracy upon the undefended shoulders of the French labor unions, Communists, and the 40-hour week. With this as the basis for their outeries, many American political leaders have been labeling these same three factors as the primary internal threat to our democracy. Last week such unsound reasoning received a blow that should, but won't silence it.
Leon Blum, the stoop-shouldered old former head of the Popular Front, was on trial at Riom for "war guilt". The penalty was years of imprisonment, possibly even his life. His only hope for freedom was to appease the German victors who were pulling the strings at the farcical trial, and what better method of appeasement could he have adopted than to place the blame for French weakness upon the labor unions which "decadent" democracy had allowed to exist, and upon the Communists whom the Germans were even then battling in eastern Europe? But what did he say?
He said, instead, that the 40-hour week gained by French workmen had increased production, not decreased it. He offered to bring before the court records to prove this assertion—an offer interestingly ignored by the court. He defended the loyalty of the French workers, and, with unbelievable daring, the allegiance of French Communists.
Then, suddenly, he named what he termed to
It was a declaration of faith in the common man, and at the same time a revelation of what greed can do to the money-mad. It was also a story which Americans should analyze carefully. It might contain a valuable lesson.—J.D.K.
--on their way out to the trim little ship waiting "on the line" to take them into the distant skies.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, March 29, 1942 No.112
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.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB will meet on Monday at 4:30 in Room 21, Frank Strong hall. Miss Margaret Anderson, of the department of speech, will talk on "Speech Difficulties Among Adults." Everyone is invited to attend.-Mary Lou Holloway, Program Chairman.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB, Wednesday, April 1 Room 10 Fraser hall. Tea for all University women, 3:30-5:00 o'clock.
W. S.G.A. Council: There will be a meeting of the W.S.G.A. Council Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. — Mary Ellen Roach. Secretary.
RHADAMANTHI: There will be a meeting of Rhamdanthi poetry society Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the Men's Lounge of the Memorial Union building. All those interested in the reading, writing, or criticism of poetry are invited. John Waggoner will speak on "H. B. Auden."—Betty Lee Kalis, President.
The Girl Reserve training course will meet Monday at 4:30 in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Dr. Bert Nash will speak on "The Personality of the High School Girl."
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The next regular meeting will be on Monday, March 30, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine room. Those who ordered keys please bring their money.—Fred L. Lawson, Secretary.
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.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for fall, 1942, should be made in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall, before April 1.-Lela Ross, Executive Secretary.
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY WEST
Two of the Rock Chalk Co-op boys who are not exactly catalogued as mental giants by their peers at the co-op, are Earl O'Connor and Bill Lane. Consequently, derogatory nicknames are in order. Earl is known as "Bulb," shortened from "Dim-Bulb," and meaning some bulb snatcher has grabbed his light. Bill Lane is called "Lane-Brain" for obvious reasons.
Newest matrimonial bureau about town is the Collegiate Digest. Wally Kunkel saw the picture of a five-foot-two red head in one of the recent issues of the Digest. This lovely goes to Park College in Missouri. Wallace wrote her, received an answer, and since then things have been buzzing right along. To date, he is squirring her to the Cakewalk, and he made a special trip to Park College this weekend just to see how she affects him at close range. Love by remote control.
Hurt and crushed is Phi Psi Tom Cadden who thinks he should have been appointed waste paper coordinator at the Phi Psi house. This mark of honor has gone to Upperclassman Delbert Campbell. Now Cadden is muttering from one end of the Phi Psi house to the other about discrimination against freshman.
New Dramatic Workshop on the Hill is the one being sponsored by Dot Schroeter and Prill Campbell at the Kappa house. They are the directors, actors, and the whole works, indeedy. Last week they produced, "A Bird In A Gilded Cage" to an audience consisting of Myra Hurd and Jean Fees, who were appreciative but somewhat taken aback by the whole thing.
Next week they are doing "Jane Eyre." Admission price is two straight pins or one safety pin.
March 27,1942
To the Editor:
I was somewhat disturbed over Mr. Mark Viesselman's recent quotation of from $2 to $7 as the current price for campus offices. Lest this arouse any false hopes among the student body, I must say that I have never known of anyone being voted into one of these "grandiose titles" for such a tellingly small sum.
Respectfully,
TOM MANION.
"My Day" As Written By A Student Pilot
By FLOYD DECAIRE
"That's right; keep her on the runway—steady, steady; little back stick—she's off." That's the chant of instructor to student at the Lawrence airport where 30 primary and 20 secondary students are trying out fledgling wings, in the hope of someday piloting high-powered ships in one of Uncle Sam's air combat forces.
But it's different now than it was before the United States' entry into the war. Formerly it was very simple. "Anyone flyin' number 31409 this hour? questioned the instructor. No one said anything, so pupil and teacher looked at the wind sock and went
Now, it's an entirely different situation. A control tower and administration building have been erected at the airport. All planes, while on the runway or in the air, are under the strict supervision of the tower.
Before any flight can be attempted, the instructor must get a clearance form from the flight office. This clearance states just how long the fliers expect to be up, which ship they are to use, and over what area they intend to fly. Bob (the instructor) calls the tower, gives the number of his clearance, and length of time he expects to be in the air.
"Okay," says Lou in the tower, "we're using the north-south runway today."
Bob and Carl, his student, head for the ships perched in front of the hangars. Only after the clearance papers are produced to the satisfaction of the policeman standing guard over the hangars,are the men allowed to go near the planes.
Comes The Take-Off
Bob searches for wheel chocks; it is now compulsory that they be placed in front of the wheels on all-planes when being started, whether the ships are equipped with brakes or not. They pour the juice to 'er', and find she's hitting like a wildcat's kitten. Everything is set and all is in waiting for the signal from the tower.
There's the green light! Bob wiggs the control stick back and fortune moves the ailers and informs the tower operator that his signal has been seen. The plane is taxied down the runway to the far end, another signal flashes from the light-gun the tower, the pilot wiggles the stick in reply, and shoves the throttle in all the way. They zoom down the runway and the ship becomes light.
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