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UNIVERSITY OF DARULAHANNAH
The KANSAN Comments...
Letters—to the Editor, or the Enemy?
We are all acquainted with the stories circulating the country of the innocent Japanese storekeepers in strategic locations, who at the proper moment don admiral's uniforms and become full-fledged members of the intelligence service. We have also heard of letters which passed the censor, only to be held over a candle's flame to reveal hidden messages in invisible ink. The old gold-headed cane trick is a time-tested method of smuggling intelligence through the lines to the enemy.
Our attention was called today to a new trick. A warning has been issued to editors, reporting that seemingly innocent letters and similar contributions to the eidtorial page are in reality the dastardly work of enemy aliens who by this means sneak messages out in code to rfiends who are in a position to use them to advantage. One Japanese is credited with having written a clever little poem, which when decoded, contained vital information.
To date, no such material has reached the editorial sanctums of the Kansan. In fact, no contributions have reached us at all. Unless you are an alien Japanese between the ages of 1 and 100, we will welcome your letters. The Kansan is a student paper, and we hope to maintain a close touch with student ideas, views, and attitudes. So, if you have any particular complaint to get off your chest; if you want to praise or criticize anyone or anything, send a letter to the editor.
Letters should be kept down to 100 words, and must be accompanied by the name of the writer. Your name will be withheld at your request but it is imperative that your letter be signed with your real name when it reaches us.
Where Are American Reinforcements?
It is now more than two months since the United States entered the war against Japan. With the notable exception of Douglas MacArthur, who has made a brilliant defense of the Philippines, United States seems to have done very little, in an offensive way, or in defense of her own interests.
After two months, MacArthur's small force on the Bataan peninsula is still fighting without reinforcements, or if they have arrived, they are singularly inefficient. The British are being beaten back to Singapore, and it appears certain that they cannot hold the city. The Japanese no woccupy Macassar in the Celebes, they have made advances into Borneo, they control the Malay peninsula, they have Kong Kong, Wake and Guam islands, and are now driving against Java and Sumatra.
The Dutch are perhaps more to be commended for their conduct in the Pacific than any other of the United Nations. With small forces they have defended their territory well, and have done effective sniping at Japanese shipping. With some reinforcement from the United States, they might well be the force which would turn the battle.
But there is no news of American reinforcements. United States and England are the two great powers of the United Nations. To date, most of the effective fighting has been done for England by the Australians, and for America by the Filipinos.
The average American sees by the papers that he must make sacrifices. He knows that
America's war-time production is perhaps the highest in history. He is confident that we will "whip the little yellow devils" because "our cause is just," because "United States is the most powerful nation in the world," or for similar reasons which make good conversation, but are horribly unconvincing when used to combat Japanese bombs and shells.
If we are producing; if we have an army and navy, why haven't the outnumbered, but valiant defenders of our Pacific bases been relieved? Obviously they haven't, because of the ease with which Japan has routed them in most sectors.
If something decisive isn't done soon, it may be too late to effect a victory in the Pacific. With the loss of Singapore, Java, and Sumatra, United Nations are left without any important bases nearer Japan than Hawaii or Australia. If we are to do any offensive work against the enemy, it is imperative that we preserve some of these bases.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, February 11, 1942 No.82
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.
W. N.A.A. meeting at 8:00 p.m. tonight in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. All members be present.-Georgia Ferrel, President.
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Catholic Students: Rev. E. J. Weissenberg will be in room 415, Watson library, Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for personal conferences.—Lloyd Svoboda, vice-president, Newman Club.
K. U. Young Republican Club—There will be a meeting of the club Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union building for the election of officers.-Lloyd Woodburn, Secretary.
There will be a makeup psychological examination for students who missed the regular test—Saturday, Feb. 14, at 9 a.m. in room 121 Fraser—A. H. Turney.
Social Pathology Field Trip: The social pathology field trip to Kansas City will be made Saturday morning, Feb. 14. All members of last semester's Social Pathology class are to meet at 8 o'clock Saturday morning in front of the Union building. Trip will be made by bus—Mabel A. Elliott.
PI LAMBDA THETA—Pi Lambda Theta will hold a business meeting Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in room 115, Fraser Hall—Ruth Litten, president.
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY WEST
Sigma Nu charm boy, Dean Ostrum, has grown a new accent for the benefit of his public. It is a cross between a cleft palate, a Polynesian lisp, and a backward fog horn, and works wonders with a date that is dying on its feet!
That loud, agonized series of sounds you heard one night last weekend in the Jayhawker was Becky Trembly. Losing her way in the catacombs, she missed those three important stairs onto the first balcony and made sound effects history.
Mr. Patterson gave his Medieval History class a realistic touch of the Dark Ages last Monday morning. In the cool of the dawn he walked into the room, already brightly lighted, and turned out all the lights. He bumped into a chair or two, thought better of it, and returned his thirty odd and astonished students to the light of modernism.
Rowland's is now selling miner's lamps for 8:30 class consumption. For hose who have 7:30 band practice, a couple of well trimmed kerosene amps are effective.
In the chaos of the Theta between-semester moving last Saturday, pledge Virginia Phipps got inadvertently locked in a closet. Whether it was a put-up job or a tragic mistake can never be proved. But brave archeologists who unearthed her reported the remains in a state of remarkable preservation.
Howard Hamilton, D.U.-about-to-be-in-the army, has a bad impression of the army and vice versa. He went to Ft. Riley last week to take that necessary physical exam, and upon becoming hungry around noontime, was told that he might eat his luncheon in one of the mess halls.
He found a convenient line of hungry looking men, and followed them up to the logical conclusion of a meal. Once seated, however, he noticed an air of strain, bordering upon actual antagonism. Finally his neighbor turned to him and asked coldly, "Are you supposed to be here?"
"Well," gulped Howard, "they told me to find a mess hall."
"It just so happens," said the abundantly striped gentleman on his left, "that this is the officers' mess."
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Army Presents Openings For Skilled Students
The position of the student in war time has come to be of primary importance to college men since the entry of the United States into the present conflict and the resultant lowering of the draft age to 20 years.
In an attempt to inform college students of the positions in which they might best serve their country, the Vocational Guidance Committee under the chairmanship of Prof. P. W. Viesselman, of the School of Law, made inquiry of 24 branches of the military, naval, and other defense services with respect to three questions; whether college students or graduates were eligible for appointment in such services direct from civilian life; what specific courses or lines of training each of these departments would recommend prior to appointment or enlistment therein; whether officers' training schools or schools of technical instruction of selectees or enlisted men are maintained by such departments. Army Branches Reply
In response to these inquiries a number of the branches of the army have furnished the programs for officer's training schools including infantry, cavalry, coast and field artillery, aviation, quartermaster's transport school, chemical warfare service and ordinance corps. As a rule, each of these training schools require a preliminary period of service as an enlisted man or selectee before entrance to such training course. Similar material has been received from the Bureau of Navigation, Surgeon General's office, Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Bureau of Ordinance of the Navy. Details of the requirements for these training schools and further information on these branches of the service can be obtained at the Registrar's office.
Specific suggestions as to college courses to be pursued prior to entry into the military or naval service
have been received from the Chief of the Field Artillery, Colonel Rex W. Beasley, and the Surgeon-General of the Navy, Rear Admiral Ross T. Mc-Intire.
Recommendations for training that would be of help to the student if assigned to the field artillery under the Selective Service Act, are, according to Col. Beasley:
1. A thorough grounding in college mathematics, including algebra, plane and solid geometry, coordinate geometry, plane trigonometry, use of logarithms. Accuracy in computation should be stressed, and facility in mental operations encouraged.
2. English, particularly the ability to express ideas clearly and concisely.
3. Plane surveying; use of the slide rule; basic physics, including elementary electricity; theory of radio; radio repair and service; basic automotive engineering; and application of aerial photography.
4. Knowledge of modern foreign languages, particularly German, Italian, Russian, Spanish Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese.
Similar suggestions were made by
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