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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Passage of the election bill now under consideration by W.S.G.A. means a virtual end to self-government by women.
It's Conversion Plus
A nod to those American manufacturers who have progressed so rapidly with their job of conversion! It is amazing how fast this change has come about in some factories, considering the usually striking dissimilarity between the manufacturer's original product and the war product his plant now turns out.
Latest example is the production by a noted radiator company of a new style war helmet. Workers who formerly labored tediously on delicate radiator tubings, for example, now press out helmets so tough they cannot be pierced by even a .45 caliber missile.
A foremost washing machine producer has changed over to the manufacture of bomber parts. An amusement factory has been given over to casting dies for army and navy equipment such as turret mounts for tanks, tools, punches, and gauges.
A producer of stove thermostats has shifted to the making of intricate devices for the firing of artillery cartridges. This evidently was the simplest of the changes since both men and machines were already suited for exacting work on complicated parts.
With this change in methods of production such as floor space arrangement, tools, dies and machinery, came the necessity for training many of the workers in their new tasks. Vocational classes have contributed mainly in this direction.
We owe a vote of thanks to the school system and to many manufacturers of America; they show the stuff our country is made of.
We see by the Chicago Tribune that Uruguay produces more rice than is needed for local consumption.
History Repeated
Not for 136 years had England's shores been threatened with invasion when swarms of Hitler's planes almost bombed Britain into submission in September, 1940. Amazing is the parallel of the paths of England's last two would-be conquerors—Napoleon in 1803 and Hitler today.
Before Bonaparte's invasion attempts, he secured his fronts on the west by defeating the Austrians in Italy at the battle of Hohenlinden and mitigating their potency by the treaty of Luneville in February, 1801. Hitler precluded his invasion efforts against Britain by crushing the power of Czechoslovakia and Poland. Next Hitler pounced on Belgium, Holland, and France to assure his armies a path to the Straits of Dover, across which stood the British bastion.
After defeating Austria, Napoleon signed the treaty of Amiens with England. The English knew that it was merely an armistice till France's "Little Corporal" had prepared his forces for invasion. (Hitler used the Munich agreement to the same effect.) Napoleon used conscription to raise an army of 210,000 men—insignificant in comparison to Hitler's millions under arms, but preponderant enough in that day. He ordered thousands of barges moved to the invasion ports, and in May, 1803, Napoleon declared war on the British.
But the French navy was impotent, and Nelson's smashing naval victory over Napoleon's
navy at Trafalgar in 1805 curshed Bonaparte's hopes of reaching the British Isles. In 1940, the R.A.F. canceled Hitler's air-borne attack. Prime Minister Churchill recognized their intrepid efforts: "Never before have so many owed so much to so few."
To retain his power and keep the French people behind him, it was exigent that Napoleon turn his war efforts in new channels. He marched on and decimated a coalition of Austria, Russia, and Prussia at Austerlitz in 1805. By the treaty of Pressburg, France made its victory secure. To keep the German support, Hitler turned his war machine to the Balkans—Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete—and Lybia. The Nazi hordes overran Greece.
From Austria, Boneparte's vanguard pressed eastward into Russia. Thence looked Der Fuehrer some 130 years later. Napoleon moved into the land of the Czars in 1812 with 610,000 men. He reached Moscow. It was a burnt shell. His glorious army lost 500,000 soldiers in its retreat through blizzards and desolation in 1813. Hitler's Russian offensive fell short of Moscow. His legions are now being pushed back. Winter and the Russians are overwhelming the Nazis.
All the occupied countries rose against the war weary legions of France as Napoleon trekked homeward from Russia. He won some hollow victories, but at Leipzig in 1814, his forces were trapped and defeated by the Prussians under Blucher and the Austrians under Schwarzenberg. Dissension in France soon caused the ambitious "Little Corporal" to abdicate and withdraw to the Isle of Elba. Hitler's armies are already tasting defeat in Russia; how long will it be before the occupied countries of Europe rise to fight another battle of Leipzig?—A.H.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, March 5,1942 No.98
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY WEST
The men of Carruth Hall are taking the war seriously. Not content with performing mere civilian defense duties, they have been getting in some vital training as bombers. It all started when Dale Lingelbach sent to his dot of Wheaties radio serial fame, Jack Armstrong, for the Jack Armstrong Bomb Sight.
Saturday, the bomb sight made its long awaited arrival. It took some time to figure out the complicated mechanism of the sensational gadget. It took a goodly amount of patience to figure it all out, but eventually direct hits rang from one end of the house to the other. Wheaties consumption at Carruth Hall has gone up 100 percent, since the boys want to accumulate enough box tops that each and every one of them may own one of these military masterpieces.
Nickam source department . . . . . The Phi Ps1's call Bob Barton "Bubbles" because he is fond of taking bubble baths. Most bizarre!
Last night Dean Rosen started a minor Chicago fire in Battenfeld when he pulled that old gag of knocking his pipe out in a well-crammed wastepaper basket. Spectators report that it took two lusty yelps and several teaspoonful of water to restore peace and order to Battenfeld again.
Sigma Nu's dates who attended their buffet supper last Thursday night might possibly be in the dark about the source of the event. The pledges got together and decided to ask an abundancy of dates over, so that the actives might be forced to eat in the kitchen. This vile trick got to the actives who turned around and did the same thing, in order that the freshmen might have to eat in the kitchen. This plot does not mention what was supposed to happen to the freshmen's dates.
Finally, however, the chapter managed to compromise, everybody was squeezed into the dining room, and a good time was had by etc.
In Watson "Lost and Found"
The Scarlet Letter
By Forest Hashbarger
"The Letter" is in the lost and found drawer of Watson library. "Dear Harlan," it begins in a fine, girlish hand. (Poor Harlan doesn't know what he missed.)
This little manuscript made the other contents of the drawer seem almost drab and unglamorous, although some of them were rather interesting. There was a small spiral notebook which contained everything for a liberal education, from dinner menus to a list of girls' names and phone numbers. Unfortunately, the phone numbers were not matched up with the names.
argument to get him to spend his spring vacation on Mt. Oread, tells him what a wonderful guy he is, and then ends up by tantalizing him with the information that Jimmie Lunceford is to be here for the Junior Prom, "and doesn't he wish he could be here?"
Through three pages, this babe subtly weaves her web to entangle the chump. She draws a beootiful picture of her proposed weekend visit (to a certain well-known military academy) and of the fun they will have, explains why she isn't explaining something which is too, too delicate, complicated, and long to put in a letter (she doesn't mention that it might be self-incriminating), puts forth a charming $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
All this stuff gives one hope that prosperity is not too far away, however. Certainly no poverty-stricken people would be able to lose so much stuff, without ever giving a thought to reclaiming it.
There was one pair of spectacles, which must have been there for some time, judging from their nearness to the bottom of the pile. A dime, a key, powder and puff shared the inside of a compact, which was really not of dime-store quality. Some student apparently believes he can get through physiology without the aid of the $1.50 lab manual which he abandoned in the library. "Springe iz Hear"
Liberal Education
A trend toward spring was indicated by the number of discarded scarves, gloves, and mittens. There were five scarves (girls') and two
around-the-head bandanas, seven pair and two singleton mittens (also feminine), and four pairs of women's gloves. Three men decided to let their lily-white face the elements unprotected, leaving their gloves behind. One person left his nose drops, semingly convinced that spring is here to stay.
Other items in the pile—a bottle of Sheaffer's ink (3/4 gone), two groups of accounting sets, one ROTC final (grade: 88), the minutes of the graduate women's club for 1940-'41, notebooks covering a variety of courses: Spanish, German, chemistry, algebra, and others, a 30-60-90 degree triangle, one blue quiz book, and two lovely, brand new Easter cards. Oldest item in the collection is a key, tagged as found in front of the library early in 1940.
If people don't start being more careful, the librarians are going to have to find new quarters for their sideline, the library.
Warning For Raid Wardens
Hood River, Ore.—(UP)—A civilian defense captain, attempting to arouse the town for an early morning alert started banging away with his shotgun. Then he rushed to the phone to find out the results of his effort. The telephone was dead. His blast had shot down the wires.
All slide-rule artists will go to the Hobnail Hop Saturday night, where the engineering students will crown their queen.