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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Fortifying Alasaka
Our government has been greatly concerned in recent days over the need for stronger transportation links between the United States and Alaska.
If the Japanese should try to attack the United States, or any part of North America, they would inevitably aim their drive at Alaska. It is but 700 miles between a corner of Alaska and the northernmost point of Japan, and the Japanese have demonstrated an ability to conquer greater distances than this.
Alaska is, however, by no means unprepared to meet an enemy coming either by sea or by air. For some months work has been going on to strengthen the fortifications of our northernmost outpost.
A great need still exists, however, for a transportation line extending from Seattle to Fairbanks. Only in-so-much as we will be able to supply Alaska quickly and easily with war supplies, will we fortify her to the fullest extent.
New military air networks have been laid out and strong Army air bases have been constructed at Fairbanks and Anchorage; naval stations are also located at Sitka, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor.
Last week Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes urged that construction be undertaken on an Alaskan highway. President Roosevelt, however, said that the highway plans might have to be put aside temporarily in favor of projects which can be carried out more rapidly.
Whether it be a one-track railroad, a chain of freight airplanes, or a convoy of ships, the fact remains that something must be done to insure the transportation of war supplies to our northern outpost in the Pacific.—P.L.C.
If the accusation against a Minneapolis youth is true, he must be an understudy for Superman. Police suspect him of having stoien a ton of scrap metal.
The Lowly Peanut
No sooner will housewives of the nation become accustomed to cooking without sugar than a new food supply will be rationed. Undoubtedly, the next commodity to be curtailed will be butter, its substitutes, lard, and salad oils.
Nutrition experts say that peanut butter is easier to digest than many other vegetable oils, and will be as well liked as any compound now in use, as it is one of the finest fats for deep frying of many foods. Its heating point is higher than that of many fats, permitting food to cook thoroughly without danger of burning. Homemakers will find that in many ways it is superior to the oils they are now using.
The soybean, a lowly cousin of the peanut possesses a high content of vegetable oil also, though less pleasant in food than peanut oil because it takes on rather an unsavory odor as it ages. It will take its wartime position in the making of paints, varnish, and soap.
In ordinary times, the United States has all the vegetable oil that it needs, but many of the salad oils, such as olive oil, come from abroad. The lowly peanut has finally come into a position of importance in every kitchen, for the duration. Perhaps, even when the imported oils are again available, women may prefer to go on using the newly discovered peanut oil, rather than go back to the old fashioned shortenings.—T.M.
New peak in patriotism — convicts in Alcatraz, who do the washing for the army transport service, have agreed to work on their holidays. One prisoner who suggested a "slow-down" strike precipitated a riot that lasted five minutes before guards could stop it.Denver Post.
Latest scheme for grand larceny developed in West Virginia when some unidentified individual jacked up the automobile of a physician, removed all four tires, and left fifty dollars in an envelope on the front seat with the note: "You can buy tires. We can't."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, March 10, 1942 No. 101
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.
There will be a meeting of the faculty of the School of Education Thursday, March 12, at 3:30 in room 110, Fraser.—G. B. Smith, Dean.
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.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weissberg will be in room 415 Watson library from 1:30 to 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon for personal conferences. Lloyd Vobice, Vice-President, Newman Club.
Tau Sigma will meet at the regular times this week There will also be a special practice for Profane, Goliwiogs, and Regimentation at 8:30 Tuesday night.—Anna Jane Hoffman, Pres.
W. S.G.A. Meeting: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in the Pine room.-Mary Ellen Roach, Secretary.
The New Y.M.-Y.W. group on "Interpretation of Religion" will meet Wednesday evening at 7 in Henley house-Hope Crittenden, Student Chairman.
SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications for scholarships for fall, 1942, should be made in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall, before April 1.—Lela Ross, Executive Secretary
A. I. CH. E.-There will be a meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Wednesday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Room. Dr. Brewster will speak.
JAY JANES will meet Wednesday at 4:30 in the Pine Room. Please wear uniforms for pledging. Genevieve Harmon, President.
There will be a meeting of the W.S.G.A. Council on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union.-Mary E. Roach, Secretary.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS -Dr. E.T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 P.M. for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial hospital. Ralph I. Canuteson, Director, health service.
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Miss Beulah Morrison, of the psychology department, startled Howard Gibbs in one of her classes the other day by saying, "Oh, there you are, Mr. Gibbs, I marked you absent because you were sitting behind the boy in front of you."
Joy Miller wants the world to know that she doesn't like Harvard begins. To uote her, in words of only slightly more than one syllable, she says, "if we have Harvard beets once more this week, I'll Yale!"
Some dog is out gunning for Kenny Jackson, secretary of the journalism department. About a week ago, a mysterious persecutor put on his desk a wax effigy with matchstick arms and legs, very like those that African witchdoctors pass out to their customers. The fearful Jackson is now awaiting a painful and horrible death.
Larry Stream, a Sig Ep freshman, sitting in the Hawk the other night, saw what he thought was a map of Lawrence done in relief and hanging on the wall of the cafe. He rose eagerly to his feet, and plowed his way over to the wall to see if he could locate the Sig Ep house on the map. Confused he was when he found that the map was an air conditioning screen covered over with paper, which was in turn covered with a plentiful supply of dust, which gave that elegant bas relief effect.
Someone walked into the Chi Omega ping pong room Sunday evening and started to turn on the lights. A threatening masculine voice said, "Get out of here." It was Gene McGehee and Jeff King, who were hiding from a Delt active, who would have undoubtedly sent them on their way home to study hall.
General Funston---
Current Events Recall Feat of Former Student
In direct contrast to the heroism of General Douglas MacArthur and the American troops in the war-torn Philippines has been the treachery of Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino political power and one-time leader of the native guerilla troops opposing the annexation of the islands by America. Aguinaldo, after his forces were beaten in 1901, promised loyalty to the American government, and for the past 40 years has given at least 1p service to the island administrators. Still, when the Japanese invaders moved in, Aguinaldo performed a quick-change act
and began urging the native Filipinos to end their resistance against the Nipponese armies. ___
All of which is important to the feature section only in that a former student at the University of Kansas engineered the capture of the wily Aguinaldo back in 1901, by an unusual bit of military strategy.
Schoolmate of W. A. White
Frederick Funston, born in Ohio in 1865, came to a little farm near Iola, Kansas, with his parents at the age of two. After an adventurous boyhood, he enrolled at the University in 1886, and became a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, along with a boy named William Allen White. Like the Sage of Emporia, Funston had a savage opposition to formal study, and dropped out of school in 1888, leaving behind only the record of being a better-than-average botany student.
In 1890, the adventure-loving, bantam-size (5'-5") Funston secured a position with the Department of Agriculture, and traveled everywhere from Death Valley to the Yukon. Then, when the smoldering insurrection against the Spanish rule in Cuba broke out, Funston joined the Cuban rebel army and served in the artillery, such as it was, until early in 1898, when his health broke down.
Trouble in Philippines
When American troops moved into the Philippines, during the Spanish-American war, Funston was along, as head of the 20th Kansas regiment, and received several promotions and
the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in action. The Spanish army provided little opposition for the Americans, and that phase of the war ended quickly.
The real trouble in the Philippines came from those natives who were opposed to foreign rule of any kind. Banding together under Emilio Aguinaldo, these Filipinos, knowing every inch of the jungle and mountains, could strike quickly and be hidden in the brush before the outnumbered, outmaneuvered American soldiers could strike back.
Funston and the other officers played a waiting game, with good results. The guerillas, when they became better equipped, tried to meet the Americans in full scale combat, and were hurled back, but back into the jungle, and were still a powerful force as long as Aguinaldo remained free.
Intercepted Pass
Then the lucky break occurred. A Filipino soldier, carrying dispatches in code from Aguinaldo to other rebel leaders, was captured. Funston, aided by native interpreters, decoded the messages, and learned the location of Aguinaldo's headquarters. Deciding to meet Filipino strategy with some of his own, Funston sent a message to Aguinaldo, signed in the handwriting of one of the guerilla leaders, telling that reinforcements were coming. The reinforcements were Macabebes, Filipinos loyal to the Americans, and they brought six white "prisoners," in reality Funston and five other soldiers. The bogus reinforcements
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