PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1942 The KANSAN Comments... K.U. AND JOURNALISM University of Kansas students and alumni seem to be doing well in the field of journalism. The most recent cases called to our attention are the appointments of Ben Hibbs, from his position as editor of Country Gentleman to fill the position of editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and of Robert H. Reed, who has been associate editor of the Country Gentleman for some years and will now step up to the position of editor of that magazine. Wesley W. Stout, the former editor of the Post, was also a student at the University in 1906-7. His resignation from the Post was prompted by a disagreement on a matter of company policy. Hibbs received a master's degree with major in journalism at the University in 1924, and filled positions on several Kansas dailies before going to the staff of the Kansas City Star. He was laboratory instructor for the Kansan in 1923, and editor in the fall of 1922. Reed was news editor of the Kansan in the spring of 1917, the year of his graduation. Both men are members of the Kansas chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity. Both have been active in alumni organizations since their graduation, and Hibbs was at one time president of the K.U. Alumni Association of Philadelphia. Heading the list of famous journalistic offspring of the University must, of course, be the name of William Allen White of Emporia. Another well-known writer who once was a student here is Jerome Beatty, known to thousands for his stories and articles which appear in popular magazines. Helen Patterson, a former student is now associate professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin, and has written a text on feature writing which is widely used in schools throughout the nation. Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star; Floyd Hockenhull, editor of Cirenlation Management; Marvin Creager, editor of the Milwaukee Journal; Doris Fleeson and Raymond Clapper, columnists; Earl J. Johnson, general news manager of United Press; at least 30 publishers of newspapers in Kansas. These are only a few of the students of K.U. who have made admirable names for themselves in the profession of journalism. If the present crop of would-be journalists does as well, University of Kansas will continue to be the Mecca of aspiring newsmen. We midwesterners can't suppress a snicker when we read that New Yorkers are the most gullible auditors of war rumors. We knew that long ago, when they used to come out here equipped to battle Indians and fight off drunken cowboys. AMBASSADOR BOMB SIGHT By her bombing of the giant Renault war plant near Paris, Britain has taken Franco-American diplomacy out of our hands. German propagandists have already begun a campaign aimed at a complete break between Vichy and the United States, and it is too much to expect that they will not be largely successful. Since the defeat of France, our state department has been carrying on the tremendous task of keeping Vichy at least nominally a neutral. France, her country overrun with Nazi police and her soldiers in German prison camps, has had to give in more and more to Hitler's demands. In spite of pressure from Nazi overlords and his own Admiral Darlan, Petain has, until recently at least, maintained the French fleet intact and kept French bases French. It has been a losing fight all the way, and our diplomats have known it. Still, the longer we could keep Hitler out of Dakar and French torpedoes out of Allied ships, the better off we were. The Allies now feel that enough damage can be done to Hitler by bombing factories in France to make up for any losses sustained from further Franco-German collaboration, or they believe that diplomacy is no longer effective. Even if Petain and Darlan go all the way with Germany, we have a feeling that the French "little people" will be cheering the drone of those British bombers overhead, joining in the roar of smashing explosions which mean the destruction of Hitler. C.R.R. OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol. 39 Sunday, March 15, 1942 No.104 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 at 4:30 on Monday, March 16, in Room 21, F.S. hall. Miss Lydia Lindsey, K.U.07, will speak on Japanese People and Policies. Miss Lindsey has been on the staff of Miyazi College, Sendai, Japan. She escaped on the last evacuation boat from Yokohama, shortly after Tojo became premier. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend. Members, please bring your dues!—Mary Lou Holloway, Program Chairman. K. U. YOUNG REFUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting of the club next Wednesday, March 18, at 8 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Memorial Union building for a discussion of the club's charter, and to make arrangement for the state convention—Bob Davis, Sec. ARCHERY CLUB: The Archery club will meet Tuesday at 4:30, Robinson Gym, -Lloyd Johnson, Secretary. RHADAMANTHI: There will be a meeting of Rhadamanthi Poetry Society Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. All those interested in poetry are urged to attend. Betty Lee Kals. MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The next regular meeting will be Monday, March 16, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room. Those who ordered council keys please bring their money.—Fred Lawson, Secretary. RED CROSS SEWING ROOM—The Red Cross Sewing Room of 116 Fraser is open from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons. Knitters are asked to report to the room in Fraser on Friday afternoon.—Mrs. P. B. Lawson. SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for fall, 1942, should be made in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall, before April 1.—Lela Ross, Executive Secretary UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 1942 Active Member Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Publisher ... Kenneth Jackson EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief ... Charles Pearson Editorial associates ... Maurice Barker and Floyd Decaire Bill Deeney NEWS STAFF Feature editor ... Bill Feeney managing editor ... Heidi Viets Campus editors ... Betty Abels and Floyd Decaire Sports editor ... Chuck Elliott Society editor ... Saralena Sherman News editor ... Ralph Coldren Sunday editor ... John Conard United Press editor ... Bob Coleman BUSINESS STAFF Business manager ... Frank Baumgartner Advertising manager ... Wally Kunkel Advertising assistants ... John Harvey, Charles Roos, LeMoyne Frederick DEAN SIMS, Guest Conductor Friday night dinner'at the D.U. house is strictly informal—but it has certain bounds. Last week Freshman Karl Ehrlich, feeling moody for a more comfortable position at the table while waiting for dessert to be served, tilted back his chair and pushed one foot on the table. His neighbors quickly plotted against him (Dick Hocker, chief plotter), pulled off his shoe and passed it up to Mrs. Hooke, housemother. All the brothers agreed that Karl's manners were "simply abhorrible" so now he has only one shoe. Now that spring is on the doorstep (March 21st) the following poem is in season: The sun shined and made it hot, So hot in fact, I forgot, To go to class (eight times in a row) And now I'm in a heck of a mass (mess). The Summerfield Colloquium Friday night was a scene of chaos, disaster, frenzy and panic—all on the part of one Keith Martin. Keith was slated to be one of the two senior speakers at the dinner and had his speech all typed up (pages and pages of it). It was only a matter of minutes until speaker Martin discovered his loss—flushed and panic-stricken he waveringly inquired of his neighbors as to who possessed it. Gilles calmly commented that he had seen Bob Fluker (seated across the room) come over and take it. Playful Paul Gilles, fearing a long speech, quietly crept up behind the already-nervous fellow's chair and quietly swiped his manuscript. Not wishing to make himself more conspicuous by crossing the room and accusing the muscular fellow, Martin sat in his uncomfortable seat, torn between jumping out of the window and committing hari kari. Hilden Gibson, chairman of the Colloquium and professor of political science and sociology, rose to introduce Martin as the first speaker. Knowing of the prank begun by Gilles, he explained to Summerfield dinners that since Martin was such a b.m.o.c. he had little time to write speeches, but that he had friends and one of these friends had graciously consented to write his speech for him. At this point, Gilles produced the fist stack of typed pages ("What a friend," the Summerfields breathed). Keith Martin read his (and Paul Gillies) speech. 'How to Become Extinct'--- Bill Cuppy's 'Ridiculous Understatement' Amusing Feuds With Aristotle One of the funniest parts of the book is Cuppy's feud with the Father of Learning, one Aristotle. The Greek thinker par excellence had some strange ideas on natural history, including the viewpoint that snakes had a forked tongue because they liked dainty food and wanted two sets of taste organs to better enjoy their meals, and didn't have any legs because such a creature cannot have more than four legs, and a snake with two or four legs would be virtually stationary. Cuppy attacks the Aristotlean theory as though the fate of Faithful readers of New York and happy to see the collected pearing again, this time under come Extinct." Mr. Cuppy's gig plus William Steig's cartoons, humans, ad infinitum, makes "means for passing away an eve the City, with somebody else, mire the prose works of typical New Yorker writers will retch ominously after about 50 pages of the book, but such people, are or ought to be in the minority. Like Cuppy's two previous books, "How to Be a Hermit," and "How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes," the title of his latest opus is violently deceiving. The stories are little two or three-page neo-scientific treatises on the appearance, habits, sex-life and psychological quirks of fish, reptiles, and a host of extinct birds and other creatures, concluding with two essays on the topic "Are the Insects Winning" and "Thoughts on the Erine." Faithful readers of New Yorker magazine should be pleased and happy to see the collected short stories of Will Cuppy appearing again, this time under the cryptic title of "How to Become Extinct." Mr. Cuppy's gift for ridiculous understatement, plus William Steig's cartoons, of leering catfish, baffled-looking humans, ad infinitum, makes "How to Become Extinct" a good means for passing away an evening when your date has gone to the City, with somebody else, nacherly. Those who do not admire the prose works of typical* Better than the main part of the stories are the footnotes. A few examples: "The Supercilious Viper is found in Mozambique, of all the places in the world to be supercilious!" "The mother crocodile doesn't do anything about bringing up her young properly. She knows it's no use." the world hung on his ability to re- fute the false doctrines. Footnotes Are Good Best cartoon is that of the Giant Ground Sloth, posed somewhat like Rodin's "Thinker," pondering on the amount of work involved in pulling a Pear off a tree branch. Three advertising assistants have been added to the staff of the University Daily Kansan, Wally Kunkel, advertising manager, announced yesterday. The positions were filled by John Harvey, college senior Charles Roos, and LeMoyne Frederick, college juniors. Advertising Staff Gets Three Assistants Students at the Central YMCA College in Chicago, Ill., are serving in the Cook County Defense Savings Committee as speakers on United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. Faculty men act as special instructors.