E SIX
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Sabotage AND Neglect?
Just one week ago today the United States lost another "battle" in the burning and cap-sizing of the Normandie, recently commissioned the S.S. Lafayette. The Allied cause has consistently met with set-backs, but the New York harbor disaster stands out as one of the most prominent in the series. Its magnitude is intensified by its proximity.
In all these battle scenes the stage had been set at a fairly "safe" distance from the home theatre—until last Monday. The possibility that sabotage on so large a scale might have occurred in New York harbor strikes awfully close to home! Yes, we said sabotage.
We complained when the British fell away at Dunkirk; we yelled when the Japs took Pearl Harbor and followed it up with Manila. We began howling again last week when it became evident that Singapore could not hold out and we howled still more Sunday when we learned that the inevitable had occurred. Now we had better start screaming—and in the direction of the Anti-Sabotage Division of the U.S. Maritime Commission.
"For a week I have been playing enemy agent. For the last two days I have been wandering all over the S.S. Lafayette, once the Normandie. I have been lighting imaginary fires. I have been planting imaginary bombs. I have succeeded in 'destroying' a dozen times over the second biggest ship in the world."
America owes much to the newspaper, PM, which warned us as early as January 3 of the possibilities of sabotage aboard the world's largest potential troop ship. Two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, that newspaper assigned a reporter, Edmund Scott, in the guise of a longshoreman, to study the ship's vulnerability to fire. Mr. Scott's comment was as follows, in part:
Is it not criminal that such information (in full detail, too) should be ignored by the chief of the Anti-Sabotage Division of the U.S. Maritime Commission? Yet that is exactly what happened. PM, unselfishly offered the results of Mr. Scott's investigation to Captain Charles H. Zeerfoss of that Division rather than print it. But, the captain refused it.
We will note the true results of last Monday's tragedy as time goes on if more and more Allied strongholds fall because of no reinforcements. The resultant chapter will be written in the blood of American soldiers. Is it not time that we start screaming?
Tomorrow's High School
In 1932 three hundred liberal arts colleges made it possible for the Progressive Educational Association to experiment with high school teaching by agreeing to admit graduates of thirty progressive schools without the usual entrance requirements.
The meanings and objectives of such education are simple. Every student should learn to read, write, and speak the English language with skill. He should also learn to understand mathematics. Cut and dried textbook teaching should give way to teaching solutions to problems of modern living. The concerns of United States youth should be the heart of the curriculum. The schools should promote students' physical, mental, and emotional health. Most important of all, schools of the future should bring to every young American his heritage of freedom and inspire devotion to human welfare.-J.C.K.
Now four classes of progressive high school students have been graduated from colleges. Impartial judges paired each of these students with a conventional-school graduate of the same intelligence, sex, age, interests, and family background. Results showed that the progressive students got slightly better marks from their professors, won more academic honors, were more precise and systematic in their thinking, were more resourceful in meeting practical problems, took a keener interest in world affairs, went out for more extracurricular activities, and were elected to more student offices.
When Winston Churchill said that his fondest hope had been the entry of U.S. into the war, we'll bet Senator Wheeler muttered Whaddi tell you? under his breath.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, February 18, 1942 No. 87
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.
--pear at the scheduled time.
James K. Hitt, Ass't. Registrar
K. U. Young Republican Club: There will be a meeting of the club Thursday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union building to make plans for the state convention—Lloyd Woodburn. Sec.
GIRLS' RIFLE CLUB: Important meeting for last semester's members as well as any other girls interested in shooting, tonight at 7:30, on second floor of Fowler Shops.-Dorothy Durand, Captain.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: Thursday, Feb. 19. Meet in room F.S. 222 at 4:15 for refreshments and in room 203 at 4:45 for talk. John Yarnell will speak on "Computing Machines." Everyone interested in mathematics is invited—H. G. Kolsky, Vice-President.
FALL SEMESTER GRADES: Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's office this week, according to the following schedule of names:
Wednesday N to S inclusive
Thursday T to Z inclusive
Friday and Saturday —Those unable to ap- face the scheduled time
TAU SIGMA will meet at the usual times this week.
Anna Jane Hoffman, Pres.
Newman Club: Corporate Communion for the Newman Club will be held Sunday. A breakfast and discussion meeting will follow the Mass and the Rev. E. J. Weissenburg will preside. All Catholic students are urged to attend.-Lloyd Svoboda, vice-president, Newman Club.
Newman Club: The Rev. E. J. Weissenburg will be in room 415, Watson library, Thursday afternoon from 1:30 to 5 o'clock for personal conferences. —Lloyd Svoboda, vice-president, Newman Club.
NEW ADDRESSES FOR DIRECTORY SUPPLEMENT: Students who changed addresses between semesters and who have not reported new addresses to the Registrar's office should file these addresses at once so that corrections may appear in the Directory Supplement.—James K. Hitt, Assistant Registrar.
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BETTY WEST
Miller Hall women are going around these days with sore left arms. It seems one of them came down with a nifty case of chicken-pox, and to avoid quarantine at this crucial time, it was necessary for them all to take shots. Miller now claims the corner on this particular serum market.
The Sigma Nu's are still having trouble with Lawrence cleaners. Only a week or so ago Hills Kennard sent his cords off to be reconditioned and set them back a soft and lovely shade of blue. Now, by heaven, Howard Shryock is having attacks of the same trouble. His cords returned to the Sigma Nu house disgustingly clean, but of a sweet and simple shade of pink.
Earlier this week, Kappa pledges, observing certain formalities of Hell Week, came to school with their hair very much down, having been forbidden the use of bobby pins. The exception to this case however, was Mary Cheney, who doesn't care about putting her hair up at night anyhow. A contingent of insensitive actives styled her hair in wee, tiny braids all over her head and sent her out into the limberlost. Footnote: It was observed that she wore a scarf well anchored over her head that day.
Mutterings from a mummy case, or what the faculty is saying this week: Byron Sarvis: (His draft number is up), "Well, the government has decided that they want my body. Now the only question remaining is when they want it."
Robert Calderwood: (At tryouts for "Charley's Aunt"), "How do you expect me to cast you women in these roles when you come to tryouts in slacks? I simply cannot visualize you in these parts when all I can see is a pair of trousers."
Mapheus Smith: (lecturing on the fact that women seem to live longer than men), "Women, after they reach a certain age, are practically immortal."
Overheard and ununderstood telephone conversation: Shirley Henry: "Is there something wrong with the telephone? I can't seem to hear you." Brian Kirby, cheerfully: "Oh no, I just brushed my teeth."
Dyche's New Roomer----
Big Black Bear Is Newest Recruit for Panorama
The animal was shot by forest rangers last September near Tower Falls in Yellowstone Park. Two shots were required to stop the big fellow, since the rangers did not fire at his head for fear of damaging the hide for museum purposes. Klaus Abegg,
A 450-pound black bear (dead, nacherly) will soon join the grizzlies, walruses, moose, beavers, etc., in the big North American Animals panorama on the first floor of Dyche Museum.
custodian and technician of Dyche Museum, who is preparing the beast for exhibition, was in the ranger party.
Present plans are only tentative, but the bear will probably be placed in the southeast section of the panorama, and will be posed digging around the base of a tree stump in search of grubs, a piece de resistance of black bear diet. For company, Ursus Americanus, as he is referred to in some quarters, will have a few grizzly bears and some smaller woodland animals.
Lengthy Process
Abegg is now busy working on an addition to the bird collection on the second floor of Dyche, besides preparing Ursus for exhibition. Considerable work is involved in transforming the beastie from an almost shapeless furry black pelt to a life-like showpiece. The first step, already completed, is to make a plaster form, held together with wires, which roughly approximates the shape of the bear. This form is supported by the critter's leg bones, the only part of his skeletal structure used in the process.
Over this plaster and wire contrivance is placed a thin layer of clay, shaped to display accurately the bear's body contours. Then comes another layer, this time of plaster and fibre, which forms a mold. The mold is permitted to harden, and is used to cast a plaster and fibre "manikin." On this manikin the animal's hide is stretched
and sewed back into shape. It is then decorated with glass eyes, and artificial teeth, for its natural teeth tend to check and become discolored. The claws are treated with a type of poison that will discourage any insect who desires to use them for a blue plate special lunch. All this being accomplished, the bear is ready to take his place in the panorama.
Custodian Abegg does not hold with those who contend that the black bear is a dangerous animal. Like any self-respecting human, he will do battle when attacked or annoyed, and as in the genus homo sapiens, there are a few outlaws, but on the whole, the black bear appreciates peace and quiet.
Ursus Hates "Wah"
Swarthout, Glotzbach to Play
It would make excellent reading to say that the museum specimen-to-be launched an earth-shaking charge at the rangers, and was finally dropped almost at the gumner's feet, but such was not the case. The fact is that he was making extensive efforts to be alone when, as it must to all black bears, death came to Ursus Americanus.
The program tomorrow evening, of the regular weekly musicale, broadcast over station KFKU at 6:15, will consist of a piano duo by Bob Glotz-bach, fine arts senior, and Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts. They will play the rhapsody of Rachmaninoff, "Theme and Variations."