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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Let's Place 'Em Here
The University sincerely hopes it will be given a chance to house Army cadets as part of its share in contributing to national war aims. According to the plan now under Army consideration, the University would convert the under portion of Memorial stadium into barracks and rent them to the Army Air Corps as quarters for approximately 500 of Uncle Sam's future flying soldiers.
Men stationed here would be air cadets in the initial or physical-training stage. They would be given no flying instruction at all, but instead would be subjected to a general toughening-up process. Actual flight instruction would be reserved until the men had gone on to the next phase of training given at one of the Army's regular flying schools.
This is in keeping with the latest plan of our aerial flying forces which provides that its cadets be given preliminary physical conditioning at certain bases designated for that purpose before sending them off to begin actual flying instruction.
About a month ago the Navy first gave out information that it was considering a program of this nature. One week later the Army chimed in with the news of a similar proposal to colleges and universities over the southern half of the United States. The Army seems more interested, however, in having such bases located in the midwest than does the Navy.
Chancellor Malott has wisely advised Washington of the University's willingness to become a host to future Army airmen. In addition, Edward Brush of the University aeronautical department has made a trip to Washington for the sole purpose of offering the use of our campus. The University has even prepared construction plans, should we be selected as one of the training sites.
An official representative is scheduled to arrive on the campus very shortly to inspect it as a possible location. Let's hope that when the list of approved locations comes out, Kansas will be in the starting line-up.
Protect the Private Consumer
The United States government is probably the greatest ultimate consumer in the world; certainly the greatest in this hemisphere. The purchases made by the government include every article that has been purchased by any private consumer. Because it is a purchaser of such wide and varied articles, ranging from pins to battleships, the government is naturally open to all standards of equipment. The American public, the private consumer, is open to the same range—but the government has a Bureau of Standards which conducts great testing laboratories to protect its purchases.
The Bureau of Standards has an operating cost of about two million dollars annually, yet it is estimated that it saves the government approximately one hundred million dollars a year-a return of 50 times the investment. And the government gets the best possible equipment for the least cost. Such a system is what the private consumer in America needs.
The use of chemical names and medicines in advertisements often aids in selling an article. This is true not because the medicine or chemical included in the mixture is of great importance, but only because the consumer believes it is.
The great advertising campaigns by manufacturers, producers, and wholesalers have driven the public into a fog. Every article advertised is noted as the "best" in its field. Knowing that they all can't be "best" the consumer cannot believe any of them; the result is near-chaos.
An example is Listerine. We have been told often that it guards our throat and nasal passages, sweetens our breath, and aids in checking dandruff. Listerine sells for approximately one dollar a bottle. Yet the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 1925, identified Listerine as Thymol, plus small quantities of boric and benzoic acid, and said that fifteen dollars worth of Listerine equaled one cent's worth of carbolic acid.
This is only one example in a small field of consumer's purchases. Yet it indicates strikingly the need for some method of protecting the consumer. There is not a field of purchases, advertised by private business concerns, that does not consider the unsuspecting consumer to make the producer's profits. A Bureau of Standards for the private consumer, which includes every person in the country, would clear the clouds produced by advertising and super-salesmen, and would protect the buyer.
The federal government has started the movement by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act, which requires that all contents of a purchase be printed on the label. Either the government or the producers and manufacturers should finish this job.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, February 8, 1942 No. 80
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.
Men's Student Council: The next regular meeting will be on Monday, Feb. 9, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room.—Fred Lawson. 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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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY WEST
Curious Chi Omega's are wondering who the lonesome little man was who serenaded them so sweetly at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. He gave them an intrepid interpretation of Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" on a rusty, trusty flute.
It takes a man to raise money by devious and sneaking ways. Three of the Rock Chalk Coop's more ingenious lads, John Conard, Orville Kreier, and Greg Studer, are having repair bill trouble. They own a Model A Ford named Elmer, which has developed a strange malady. It refuses to go any way but backward. To repair this misadjustment is going to cost them around $12.
The thought of taking $12 out of their collective pockets for fixing Elmer's insides, is repulsive, repugnant, and real nasty to all of them. So they have started an Elmer fund to do the job for them. They managed to raise about $4 in the Rock Chalk Coop, but for the residue they have had to worm their way into various women's houses with promises of cokes, rides, and other sorts of wicked pleasure. To date the fund is reported growing rapidly.
The Phi Psi's have a custom they call "bumping." It consists in auctioning off all of their upstairs furniture twice a year, according to seniority. Yesterday morning the "bumping" was supposed to end sharply at twelve. At 11:29 Jules MacKallor discovered, to his horror, that he was missing a desk. Rushing upstairs to Frank Sims' room, he discovered one just the size he had been looking for all his life. His seniority happens to .5 of a point higher than Frank's. MacKallor, drawing up to his full height, demanded the desk. Sims adopted a negative attitude about the matter. MacKallor resorted to force. For thirty-one minutes each of them tugged at one end of the desk. Finally came 12 o'clock, and Sims came out victorious, since even Mackallor's .5 of a point of seniority couldn't help him after 12 o'clock.
Sigma Nu Joe Brown, new pledge trainer for second semester, had the 19 Sigma Nu pledges out on the rock pile this morning, their chains clanking in the early morning stillness. Joe, it seems, has a yen to line the Sigma Nu cinder path with hand hewn rock. What the pledges now want is a new penal code.
Hatters Ready for "Duration Advice on Hat Care
This article, which is about hats, probably will not appeal to many campus folk. Not that any of the other articles which appear in this little corner do, but the topic of men's hats is virtually passe.
Most male animals roam the campus sans chapeau, regardless of weather or relative humidity, with the rain building up little flood plains or the snow forming glacial drifts on their weather-beaten craniums. Some wear hats of a material obviously gathered by raking the yard, and which gives one the appearance of having walked underneath a tree when a bird's nest fell down.
All of which is water under the darn (we must be careful on a student paper). There are still a few of the old guard who wear the conventional felt hat, and who are worried as to whether the wartime rationing system will $ ^{\circledast} $
have any effect on the further manufacture of their headgear.
Hat Style Council, a national association of hat manufacturers, announce that hats will continue to be smart and varied in style despite threatened shortages in some materials. They urge people to take care of their hats just in case, and offer the following ten-point program for preserving the chapeaux:
1. Keep the hat free from dust.
If it is dusty, a drop of water will make a mud spot that will soak into the fur and be hard to remove.
2. Brush the hat regularly with a soft bristle hat brush, always brushing gently with the nap, not against it.
3. When you put on a hat, grasp the brim fore and aft. Putting it on by the side brims is bad for its style lines.
4. If you are going to lay the hat aside for some time, pust out the crown, turn up the brim, and put it away in a hat box. Don't let hat check girls pile your hat up with other hats. The sweat band of the upper hat, will stain the crown of yours.
5. If your hat gets rain-soaked, heat, and see that it is not pushed
out of shape while drying. Unsnap dry it slowly, away from artificial the brim, push out all the dents, let it dry slowly, then brush it with the nap, and reshape it.
6. Turning out the leather sweatband after a hot day preserves the life of the hat. This allows the perspiration and hair oil to evaporate and dry out, instead of being transferred to the hat.
7. When a derby is put away for any length of time, always stand it on its side on the brim and crown, never upside down, never flat on the brim.
8. Straw hats should be brushed too. Use a soft brush for the smooth weaves, an ordinary whisk broom for the rougher jobs. If you get caught in the rain with a straw hat on, unsnap the brim and see that the hat is properly shaped while drying.
9. Keep a high silk hat in its box when not in use. Never leave it standing on the brim, as it will settle and lose its shape. Turn it upside down and rest it on the flat-topped crown.
10. Never put a folding opera hat away collapsed, as this weakens the springs and wrinkles the fabric.