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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Is Basketball in a Slump
A recent sports comment in the Kansas City Star said the K.U. basketball team was in a slump. This comment appeared in the paper a few days after Kansas had lost to Iowa State at Ames, and after the Kansas-Kansas State game, which K.U. won in an overtime.
Kansas has played three games since defeating Kansas State. On January 29, the Jayhawkers downed Iowa University, 53 to 51. Two nights later Kansas gave DePaul University of Chicago its worst defeat of the season, winning 46 to 26, and on February 3 K.U. swept to a 56 to 37 victory over the University of Wichita.
Kansas' basketball record for the 1941-42 season to date shows 9 victories and one loss. The team has scored 492 points to the opponent's 364. In Big Six play, the Jayhawkers have scored 240 points in five games to their opponents' 187. This is a wider margin than any other conference team can claim for the same number of games.
Kansas shares the Big Six lead with Oklahoma, both teams having four victories and one defeat. For all games played this season, Kansas has an average of 49.2 points per game, and an average of 48 points per game for Big Six competition. That is a good record and certainly does not indicate a slump for the Kansas team.
Ability or Cooperation
A recent issue of Liberty Magazine devotes a full-page editorial to criticism of the President. Their criticism is, in effect, that he has shown partisanship in his appointment of defense officials, and that he has borne grudges against able men who have opposed him in politics
They suggest, as able men who have been denied important posts, ex-Governor Alf M. Landon, ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Governor Al Smith, ex-corporation executive Wendell Willkie, ex-ambassador Jospeh Kennedy, and ex-priorities administrator Bernard Baruch.
Certain of these men have shown talent in the past. Some of them might be capable in positions of great responsibility. Others have upon occasion demonstrated lack of foresight mounting almost to stupidity.
Of the six, Wendell Willkie probably is most deserving of notice. He does, as shown in his administration of Commonwealth and Southern, possess considerable executive ability. His most serious drawback is, however, a limited amount of tact and diplomacy, and at present, an overwhelming interest in the future of the Republican party.
Joseph Kennedy, as ambassador to England, was opposed to extension of aid to England, which he considered a lost cause, thereby demonstrating his scanty foresight and lack of judgment.
Bernard Baruch is an able man, as proved by his work in the last war. He is so old, however, that he is useful only in advisory capacity and there is much to indicate that he is being so used.
Alf Landon, perhaps, has never had a fair national test of his ability. He has never held a major national job. He did well as Governor of Kansas, and since his defeat in the candidacy for President, has turned his attention wholly to the Republican party and to his own personal affairs.
Herbert Hoover, by virtue of past deeds, has shown his incompetency in times of emergency. In the first War he did a successful job as Food Administrator. Hoover's lack of tact is minded Leon Henderson as Price Administrator, there would seem to be no need for a Food Administrator. Hoover's lack of tact is demonstrated by the fact that his recently published book is a blast at England. A good man to put in charge of the Allied Command perhaps?
Regardless of the ability or inability of these men, they have all failed in the past to cooperate with the President, and their cooperation is no more likely now than then. Regardless of politics, this is a time for cooperation, and that cooperaton must be maintained, even if Liberty, and similar publications, feel that their heroes are being slighted.
Al Smith, certainly an able governor of New York, has been one of the most caustic critics of the President in recent years. He was once rejected by the people for a very important government position. Remember? His would not be the cooperation that is essential.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, February 5, 1942 No.78
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.
QUILL CLUB: There will be a meeting of the American College Quill club in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union building this evening at 7:30. Members attend. We plan to change meet night in order to avoid conflict with evening classes. Jean Sellers, chancellor.
Tau Sigma will meet Thursday night at 7:30 Sonata and Sunken Cathedral; 8:30 Regimentation and Satire. Anna Jane Hoffman, Pres.
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
One new Hill freshman is bewildered about the Grover Whalen-New York World's Fair signs which say "Please" at strategic intervals all over the campus. "I just can't figure out," he says mournfully, "whether they really don't care if I do, or if they definitely wish I wouldn't."
Bizarre, isn't it, how many formerly devoted Hill women are looking at their men in an entirely new and not too rose colored light, having seen "Suspicion"?
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Fred Robertson, of the 'Happy Smiles' Robertsons, has been put upon! Going into Brick's the other night to slurp a coke with some of the femmes, Fred reached a new low, when having ordered a lemon drink, an impudent waiter brought him a large full grown lemon and placed it in front of him.
Jean Ott is the 'Hot Pie' artist over at the Chi Omega house. There is usually one of these species in every organized house. They make a life work out of slapping people's hands into their pie along about dessert time. "My!" they say coyly, "Isn't this pie hot?" And when you reach over in the interests of scientific determinism, they smear you in your pie.
Something distracted Miss Ott in the middle of her latest effort, and, as her hand hung limply over her own piece of pie, Nancy Kerber turned the table on Ott and made culinary history in the Chi Omega dining room. The little microbes who live on the ceiling are having pumpkin pie this week.
The Phi Psi chapter gave Baldy Bolin a rollicking graduation present before he left the flock. The most vivid part of it included a dunking party for the guest of honor... in Potter's Lake.
The School of Fine Arts is going out vigorously for defense. New enrollees in Trig and Algebra, with V-7 in mind, are Vic Kalin, Ann Murray, Eldridge King, and Bob Sudlow. (What's Murray doing in the Navy?) At the last report Ann and Eldridge were applying for withdrawal cards. Another instance of going to the gates of hell, but not through them, for Uncle Sam.
Herewith followeth a story with a moral: Dick Pierce, once upon a time having had a date with Kappa pledge Francie Morrill, announced, "She hasn't a brain in her head!" The pinheaded one just pulled down fifteen hours of bona fide A, which should make Dick realize that all is not bookworm that glitters.
Wartime Demand Brings Out "Cinderella" Metal
Pittsburgh—(UP)—Molybdenum, a metal long neglected by American industry, is now playing a leading role in steelmaking and is lessening this nation's dependence on foreign sources of steel-hardening materials.
Nearly 90 per cent of the world's molybdenum is produced in the United States, according to Dr. Bates. It has been slow in being put to use, however, because this country's stores of it were only discovered in recent years, and because of difficulties in learning to produce and heat-treat alloys containing the metal. Replaces Tungsten
"This country is rich in its resources of base metals—iron, lead, zinc, aluminum and copper," he explained. "But we have always had to depend upon supplies from abroad for nickel, chromium, manganese, and tungsten, which are used with iron to produce steel of strength, hardness, toughness or workability."
Replaces Tungsten
"Molybdenum has been neglected for many years," Dr. Bates said. "But this metal now is playing a leading role in steel-making as a result of industry's search for substitutes to replace metals formerly obtained abroad.
stricted alloying metals for production of shells, tanks and guns.
The increasing use of molybdenum, according to Dr. A. A. Bates, manager of the chemical and metallurgical departments of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, is freeing war-restricted alloying metals for $ ^{\textcircled{1}} $
90 per cent in U. S.
To cope with the great demand of nickel steel for making shells and armor, Westinghouse is now using molybdenum and chromium in place of nickel as the strengthening agent in steel for shafts, bolts, gears
and other motor and generator parts.
other motor and generator parts. Replacing strategic tungsten in the manufacture of high-speed tool steel. Westinghouse engineers devised a method of making tools of molybdenum steel, which contains only a tiny percentage of tungsten.
Molybdenum alloy the engineers have found, is equal in quality to alloys formerly used and is also less expensive.
Ellsworth Tours East To Talk to Alumni
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, will return Feb. 20 from a 3 weeks tour of the East. He is visiting several eastern alumni chapters.
Among those chapters to be visited are Akron, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington, D. C. Ellsworth left Lawrence Jan. 29.
He plans to visit other state university alumni associations before his return. The purpose of the trip is to keep in contact with past graduates so interest will not lag for their alma mater, but to keep the alumni informed on the progress of the school and achievements of their past classmates.