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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Let's Organize
Organization of civilian defense work on the Hill can be compared in almost every detail to that of the national organization.
Differences in the two organizations:
(1) Faculty and student organizers are not paid for their effort.
(2) Leadership on the campus has not been decided.
Likenesses in the two organizations:
(3) On the Hill, funds have not been set aside for entertainment.
(1) Students and faculty members, like the United States public, have been accused of smugness, complacency, indifference, apathy, overconfidence, disinterest, negligence, and cowardice. Accusations have come from virtually the same phrase makers—politicians, propagandists, candidates, alphabetists, office holders,"spokesmen," "high authorities," writers, do-gooders, parasites, proponents of the new order, students, and faculty members.
(2) Efficient organization and coordination of leadership has been slow on the Hill as has it been in the Office of Civilian Defense. Everyone has different ideas as to what should be done; consequently little is done.
(3) Organizers who are working honestly, energetically, and quietly at the University have unduly criticized.
The accusation of complacency on the part of University members is unfounded, as is the accusation against the United States public. Students and faculty members, like the people of the nation, have been ready to go, ready to do what was bid of them ever since May, 1940. They are not afraid for their money, their businesses or material possessions. They are not afraid to fight, but they are afraid of incompetent leadership.
Determination and willingness to give up time and energy was evidenced by the turnout of women at the W.S.G.A. sewing room, after it was organized efficiently.
Leadership in the Hill organization is divided among at least three committees. Naturally there cannot be harmony in their decisions. Representatives of these groups should combine into one organization and direct the pent-up energies of the student body. Is it necessary that we on the Hill make the mistakes of the OCD?
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The German admission that their armies are on the defensive in Russia must come as a shock to the world!
Paper and the War
Prices of popular magazines are going up. The Saturday Evening Post, for decades a nickel a copy, will sell for 10 cents. Liberty Magazine will advance to a dime. Tht Ladies' Home Journal is now 15 cents, and Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan are considering charging 30 cents. Within the last few days Collier's has advanced in price, also.
Salesmen from wholesale paper houses no longer promise to match papers. Women's clubs that have identical covers on their annual booklets from year to year are using a different type of cover this year—probably not as good in quality as before.
Those individuals who prefer snow-white stationery are being warned to lay in a supply of this luxury while it is still available.
Why? It is the war. Chlorine, from which Clorox and such products are made, are used to bleach papers; it is also used in vital war industries, as when it is combined to form chlorides, such as sulfur, carbon, silicon, phosphorus, arsenic, aluminum, tin, and antimony. It is used to extract or recover metals, as tin and gold, from scrap tin cans and ores.
Chlorine is used in the manufacture of disinfectants, drugs, and dyes. It is used to sterilize drinking water and the water in swimming pools. In World War I, nearly all poison gases used were either free chlorine or compounds of chlorine.
Now the paper industry willingly plays second fiddle to the war industry.
Although loss of advertising is one important element in the price-hiking of "Satevepost" and other magazines, the increase in the cost of printing papers is serious. Printers no longer promise their customers exactly what they ordered and they feel free to substitute when necessary. Priorities have hit the paper industry, and printers under contract for a job often have reason to tear their hair because their orders from the paper houses are delayed, often indefinitely. Sometimes increase in prices means pecuniary loss on the contract.
Higher prices for less quality is one of the sacrifices we must make for defense. The publishing business is affected as seriously as any other industry. And, the public is helping to pay for it.
That is war.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, March 13, 1942 No. 103
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.
KAPFA PHI. There will be a meeting Friday night at 7 o'clock at 1209 Tenn. Installation of officers and important pledge meet—Eleanor Patty, Pub. Mgr.
RHADAMANTHI: There will be a meeting of Rhamdanthi 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 Kalis.
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 Tuesdayda, 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.
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BETTY WEST
Shades of Daisy-Mae dep't.: Marjorie May and Mildred Hall, walking from someplace to someplace the other day, fell into argument as women are apt to do.
"You'd better be nice to me, gal," says Marjorie to Mildred. "After, you are wearing my anklets."
"Well, if that's the way you feel about it, "says Mildred to Marjorie, "you can just have them back."
Whereupon, she removed both her shoes and Marjorie's stockings and walked home barefoot through all kinds of bad weather conditions.
In Professor Taylor's Sight Singing class the other day, Leo Goertz was working madly on a rather difficult quiz. The harder he worked, the more his long, blond hair hung in his face. He bent lower and lower over the desk. Finally, Professor Taylor, noticing him, remarked, "Goodness, when Goertz is working so hard, he almost looks like Veronica Lake."
The Pi K.A.'s live far enough down the Hill that sometimes early in the morning they can hear the 6 a.m. whistle blow downtown. The other mornning, T. P. Hunter heard it blow, and thinking it was the 8 a.m. Hill whistle, jumped frantically out of bed to help the freshman 'Rooster' call the rest of the house. He helped waken those boys he thought had 8:30's and then started downstairs for breakfast before he discovered that it was only very slightly after 6 a.m.
Hitler's Program For Organizing German Youth
Herr Adolf Schickelgruber Hitler—the Austrian paper-hanger who, it is alleged, never could hang paper straight—has one weapon that is no "secret weapon." In fact, it has been constantly publicized; it is his organization of Germany's youth. The essence of German youth movement lies behind one single aim: to restore the strength of Germany as a great power.
Call of the Wild
Nazi organizations such as Hitler Jugend (Hitler youth), (League of German girls) take in hand German youngsters ranging in age from 10 to 18. It is not absolutely voluntary that 10-year-olds enroll, but the result of Nazi high-pressure recruiting technique results in almost every eligible child joining. Jewish children, of course, are not allowed in the organization.
The program can be outlined approximately like this:
Nazi organizations such as the Jung Volk (young folk), Hitler Jugend (Hitler youth), and Bund Deutscher Maedel Germany girls) take. $ \circ $
In the Jung Volk group the recruits get Nazi propaganda and sound physical conditioning. They are also encouraged in such sports a s glider - flying, model - airplane building, marksmanship and the elemental principles of seamanship. They wear scouting uniforms, go on long hikes and learn to live in the open air and according to the call of nature.
Adolf Hitler Schools
At the age of 14, the most promising of the Jung Volk are taken into the Hitler Jugend, where they receive more technical training. Those showing an aptitude for mechanics get further instruction in operation and repair of automotive vehicles and a chance to learn something about tanks, warplanes, and anti-aircraft guns.
While all this has been going on, a selective draft has been earmarking the most promising youngsters for political and military leadership. Those recommended—for special training are admitted to "Adolf Hitler schools," and if they measure up to the stringent standards they can qualify, at 18, for enrollment at an "Ordenburg," which is a kind of university for Nazi leaders. Before matriculating, however, they must serve a year in the labor battalions and two years in the regular army. At the Ordenburg the students pass from one "burg" to another, getting a year or six months' ing
struction in each. They are thus full-fledged graduate leaders at the age of 29, especially since tests of courage and leadership weed out all but the fearless. For example, should a student be ordered to jump from a flying plane, and he hesitates for one moment, he has flunked a very important exam.
Even before they are old enough for military service, consequently, members of the youth organization fit into the military set-up simply because they are organized on a nation-wide scale. The chief distinction of the German youth mobilization is that it began long before the war—and in anticipation of a war—so that it could be of value when the struggle began.
Of course every German youth who has attained the age of 18 must register for compulsory service, whether or not he has made good in the Hitler youth, whether jobless or gainfully employed, whether rich or poor.
Rifle Teams To Booneville For Annual Valley Meet
One of the new ROTC. army trucks loaded with rifles and ammunition and with Sgt. George Davolt at the wheel, left Lawrence yesterday at 1 p.m. for Booneville, Mo. The University rifle teams will compete there in the annual rifle matches for schools in the Missouri valley, this weekend.
Following the truck was a cavalcade consisting of Col. and Mrs. Gage, Master Sgt. and Mrs. Kolllender, seven members of the women's rifle team, and six members of the men's rifle team. The group will return Sunday.