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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Industry Turning Santa Claus
Recently fifteen American food manufacturers pooled a million dollars to start a nonprofit research laboratory aimed at the study of foods people should eat. At the head of this Nutritions Foundation is Karl Taylor Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Said Dr. Compton, "It is my hope that this foundation may be an example and pattern of what an industrial group can do when it devotes a portion of its energies and resources to a sincere effort to help humanity without thought of self-interest . . . and by so doing it will, in the long run have well served its own interests."
This is by no means the only unselfish act that business has performed. A Nebraska power company, after using some fifteen salesmen for a short time, felt that these men merited steady employment. Unable to use them any more itself, the company paid for announcements over the local radio station, and for a quarter-page ad which listed the name, address, telephone number, and qualifications of these salesmen. Within a week every one had a new job.
The Phillips Petroleum company meets its obligation to society by giving scholarships to gifted children of its employees.
Sears, Roebuck and Company, under its Cow-Hog-Hen program, gave pure-bred stock to 2,240 boys and girls in eleven southern states, and each recipient was pledged to turn over one of the "first-born" of his stock to be further distributed among other boys and girls. The idea behind this program is to induce diversification among the one-crop farmers of our southern regions.
There are still other examples of genuine effort on the part of business organizations, without thought of remuneration, to make life easier and more livable for its employees and patrons. No doubt such generosity will cause people to blink and ascribe some ulterior motive to the action. Nevertheless, there seems to be a strong trend toward business becoming more humane. Some writers attribute this better understanding of business management to the dark days of the depression. At any rate, more and more companies are learning that it is possible to have a business mind and also a soul.
Rumor has it that the Japanese cabinet resigned when it learned that Joe Louis joined our armed forces.
Native Son
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead . . .”
Yes, traitors, deserters, the ill-advised and misinformed, sometime in their lives always have and always will come to the realization that home ties are stronger than foreign ties.
Benedict Arnold, our outstanding Revolutionary traitor, requested that he be allowed to die in his old American uniform. Last week, misguided Charles A. Lindbergh offered his services to the army air corps from which he resigned last April. He, too, has expressed his desire to die, if necessary, in his country's uniform.
Until Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh was practically "a man without a country." England shunned him; America tolerated him; Germany welcomed him, but he knew better. Last week a pathetic Lone Eagle acknowledged that "this is my own, my native land," and re-enlisted
in the service for the defense of his native land which he once asserted was already beaten. He was a colonel when he resigned from the air corps—he will re-enter as a colonel.
Aviation, not international politics, made Lindbergh a national hero. Only aviation can redeem him in the eyes of his crest-fallen admirers. International politics wreck many national heroes who try to play the game. He is to be regarded in the same light with the country bumpkin who was taken in by the city slickers.—M.H.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, January 15, 1942 No. 72
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.
ENGLISH MAJORS: Students desiring to begin on continue Reading for Honors in English may consult Miss Burnham in 211 Fraser, between 2:30 and 4:30 on Monday, Jan. 19 or between 3:30 and 4:30 Tuesday, Jan. 20. Please consult catalogue in advance—J. M. Burnham, for committee.
Kappa Phi: There will be a meeting of Kappa Phi Friday evening at 5:30 at the Methodist Church. Please bring fifteen cents with you.
QUILL CLUB: There will be a meeting of the American College Quill Club at 7:30 Thursday evening in the west end of the ballroom. Members and applicant members attend—Jean Sellers, Chancellor.
All students not now registered in the Teachers Appointment Bureau, who expect to use the services of the bureau in seeking teaching positions for the school year 1942-43, are asked to attend a meeting in Frank Strong Hall Auditorium, Wednesday, January 21, at 4:30 p.m. The services of the bureau will be explained and registration blanks will be ready for distribution.
H. E. Chandler, Secretary.
SIGMA XI: The regular January meeting of the Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi will be held on Thursday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall. Dr. J. D. Stranathan, chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be the speaker. Initiation will be held for newly elected members. A full attendance is requested.-W. H. Schoewe, Secretary.
Men students who desire to apply for Templin, Battenfeld, and Carruth Hall Scholarships for the second semester should do so at once. Application forms may be obtained in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall—Mens's Residence Halls Scholarship Committee, Gilbert Ulmer, Chairman.
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
DEAN OSTRUM
In the mood last evening after dinner for a few hot licks on his trumpet, Delta Chi prexy Charlie Grutzemacher called pledge Leo Doobin into the chapter house living room.
"Run up to my room, Leo," Charlie ordered, "and bring down my cornet and mutes."
"Sure." obedient Leo muttered and dashed up after them.
In a few seconds Doobin reappeared and handed Grutzemacher the January issue of Coronet.
"Here's the magazine, sir," Leo added, "but I'll be darned if I could find that bag of nuts!"
Alpha Chi actives got quite a jolt the other night when pledges Mary Louise Isrig and Frances Tucker dashed down for dinner and announced that they were open for congratulations. The two explained that everyone else seemed to be getting engaged, and they just took for granted it would be all right if they did.
The diamond rings they were flashing were purchased the same afternoon at a local five-and-ten.
Financial wizard Norris Fiedler, Tennessee Club, is rightfully proud of his latest manipulation.
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Teaching a new Army old"tricks'in telephony
The telephone plays a vital role in army communications. So the Bell System is helping to school Signal Corps men in practically every phase of telephone construction, operation and maintenance.
This training job is but a small part of the tremendous task Bell System people are doing in this national crisis. They're setting up telephone systems for new camps, bases and factories--handling an enormous volume of calls needed to coordinate the Nation's war effort.
Throughout the country, Bell System people are wholeheartedly cooperating in the drive for victory. To men and women of their high caliber, there is real satisfaction in a difficult job well done.
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