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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Marathon Charity
During this semester, University faculty and students have contributed to the Jayhawk shelter, tossed pennies into a net for Alpha Phi Omega, given time and money to any number of other deserving charities, and are now busy in a campaign for the Red Cross. With wartime conditions as they are, the need for more charity work will no doubt increase in the future.
The problem of soliciting funds has always been a large one, both for the solicitors and the solicited. The organizations have usually set a certain amount as a goal in their drives, but could not start any action until the actual funds were obtained. Students and faculty members, like anyone else, have at times been financially embarrassed when called upon to contribute.
Downotwn merchants have solved the problem of charity collections with a Community Chest, to which each person contributes as much as he can afford, and this money is allocated to various charity organizations which would ordinarily have to rely upon individual solicitation. This would enable the charities to plan their work ahead of time, as they would know just how they stood financially, and would enable students and faculty to make a single contribution instead of having to face a number of solicitations and occasional embarrassment. Our student councils might do well to look into this problem.
While in the economic frame of mind, we might also consider the problem of pestiferous salesmen who inflict themselves upon faculty members during office hours and deliver unending orations on the merits of certain insurance policies, magazines, etc. If salesmen of only reputable firms were forced to pay a fee for the privilege of operating on the campus, they might develop a higher regard for the value of a teacher's time, and the money raised through the licensing could be used for student activities.-D.C.W.
Top sergeants will be inclined to be gentle with orders directed at Buck Private Joe Louis, we feel.
Not startling is the intelligence that students prefer a three-year college course.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has an idea: "Every housewife should register. Certainly. Anything but indifference."
Women in Uniform
Republican Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, former World War I nurse, has proposed a bill in the House calling for the voluntary enlistment of women between the ages of 21 and 45.
Working on the theory that there are certain jobs, even in the Army that women can do more capably, than men, its backers are particularly concerned with the civilian defense program and the idea of leaving more men free to do the things required of them in our "all out" war program.
The proposal is at least worthy of some consideration. Secretary of War Stimson believes that the most vital use of women in the army would be the formation of a separate aircraft-warning section to make possible organized discipline.
There are two things which seem to be particularly unreasonable about the calling of women to army service—general drafting of women and the setting up of a special division in the Army.
Frequently a volunteer unit does not attain as high a degree of competence as does a drafted group. Yet, drafting of women would be as complicated and difficult a task as the Government could possibly undertake. It seems a much more nearly sane plan to bring the women into the Army on a salaried basis, selected for service by a system similar to the Civil Service and for a predetermined length of tenure.
Under this plan, women would be serving merely in the capacity of civilians working for the Army or Navy. There would be far greater competence attained by this method, and the cost of obtaining and keeping women on the job would be much less.
The women of the United States are eager to do their share in the war program. But American women and Congress should consider carefully just what the shares and duties of women are in war time.
And then there were those benighted early days, when we used to joke about making out income tax returns.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, January 13, 1942 No.70
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.
CLASSICAL CLUB "Julius Caesar," a film of this great Roman's life, will be shown in room 206, Fraser hall, at 3:30 this Thursday afternoon. The public is cordially welcome.-Bill Muxlow, president.
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W. S.G.A. tea Wednesday afternoon, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Women's Lounge, Frank Strong hall. Delta Gammas will be hostesses—Lois Worrel, social chairman.
Tau Sigma will meet at the usual times on Tuesday and Thursday. Special attention for the Golliwigs leader will be chosen-Anna Jane Hoffman, president.
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' 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.
LOAN SCHOLARSHIPS: There will be a few loan scholarships available for use during the second semester. Application should be made in room 1, Frank Strong hall, before Jan. 15.-Lela Ross, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards.
EDNA OSBORNE WHITCOMB SCHOLARSHIP-Application for the Edna Osborne Whitcomb Scholarship for second semester, 1941-1942, should be made in Room 1, Frank Strong hall, before January 15. This scholarship is open to women students majoring in the department of English—Lela Ross, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards.
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN OSTRUM
Heard in passing through the shack this morning (Theta Joan Fronkier speaking): "You know what, I dreamed of drinking champagne all last night and this morning I just feel terrible. I think I've got a hangover!"
Merely a mental case having a mental morning after.
That low-flying U.S. army airplane over the Hill Saturday afternoon was dive bombing at the Chi Omega house, we're told. Lt. Bob Turk, brother of pledge Christine Turk, was piloting the ship.
Worried Chi O's complain, insisting that their sorority house is no military objective. Although it's plenty nerve-wracking, Christine still feels it's kind of nice having her brother drop in on her like that.
Last week Evelyn Hodgson, Miller hall, phoned a downtown drug store and asked them to deliver three or four packages of hair pins. Hours passed, days passed, and still the hair pins never came.
"Where are my hair pins?" she demanded.
The other night Evelyn got tired of waiting. She phoned the drug store again.
"Why, we sent them days ago," the clerk answered.
"To Miller hall?" Evelyn continued.
"Oh," the confused clerk coughed, "we sent them to Marvin hall!"
Alpha Delta Pi pledges pulled one over on active Mary Arden Ewing last night when her boy friend, Sig Ep Joe Walter, called for her at the sorority house. The girls met Joe at the door, crowded around him, and hurried him out of the house and off to a show.
Before going into the movie, they stopped by the telegraph office and sent the following telegram to the Sig Eps:
"Found one mutilated Sigma Phi Epsilon by thirteen pledges of Alpha Delta Pi—stop. He does us more good than he does you but if you want him back contact us—stop—signed, the illustrious pledge class of Alpha Delta Pi."
That's one way of getting out of study hall on a week day ni
Latest from the Phi Psi house is that Frank "Baldy" Bolin is knitting a lovely rose-colored afghan.
Frank became interested in the project and started it with the help of Mary Louis Goddard Saturady morning in Music Appreciation class.
Mary Louis was knitting along with her gadget called a "weave it" and Baldy began to ask questions. Soon he had the "weave it" and was learning the stitch. One thing led to another, and now he's working on an afghan.
this essential commodity. However, the all-important fact remains, guayule rubber can be produced right here, under the eagle eye of Uncle Sam.
His motto—"Remember to purl harder."
A native of Mexico, the guayuage plant has been grown successfully in California's Salinas valley. In some parts of California and Texas the climate is so favorable that the plant grows wild. Salinas valley farmers are already experienced in the culture of the plant, and probably other regions with the right conditions of aridity—neither too much nor too little, for the little herb is squeamish about such things if it is to produce rubber—could cultivate guayuule.
Guayule May Relieve Rubber Shortage In U.S.
Known to Aztecs
Guayule is a shrub which produces—if you can stand the shock—rubber. Being a rather fastidious little plant, it drives a hard bargain, and refuses to turn out the hydrocarbon, rubber, at the same economical rate at which India and the East Indies formerly furnished us $ ^{ \textcircled{1}}$
Guayule is no new-fangled baby in the rubber world. Used by the Aztecs for making footballs, it has long been a source of rubber for Mexican natives.
As the nation settles down to a prolonged hangover from nights sleepless with rubber worries, it can thank its 48 lucky stars that under the light of two of them, California and Texas, farmers are cultivating the guayule plant.
Technically, guayule is a shrubby carduaceous herb of northern Mexico, christened by some connoisseur of shrubby carduaceous herbs, "Parthenium argentatum." Its Spanish name, "quaholli," means literally, "ball plant," harking back to when the Aztecs spent long Mexican afternoons kicking the guayule around.
Guayule growing is now at low ebb in this country because this rubber has cost more in recent years than the rubber from the East Indies. At present, writes a California authority, it could not be produced under the price ceiling fixed by Congress unless the government made up the difference.
U. S. to Make Rubber From Oil Within 18 months factories will be built under the new government plan which will produce 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber annually by the butadiene process, which uses crude oil as a base. Factories with a capacity of 90,000 tons annually are already in operation or under construction. When synthetic production is in full sway, U. S. rubber worries will fade, although they will not be altogether forgotten.
In 1941 this country used 750.000 tons of rubber. As the war was on, more and more rubber will be needed for military purposes. Civilian needs will tend to be pushed out of the picture unless the rubber supply is increased.
A California newspaper believes that cultivation of greater quantities of guayule might give the sit-
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