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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
Student Deferment
The Senate Military Affairs committee has been considering an amendment to the Selective Service bill, which will defer all students officially registered in a college or university granting a degree in arts or sciences until the end of the academic year. At present, the deferment of college students is left to the discretion of local boards, some of which have refused to defer students even until the end of the semester.
This bill was originated before the war with Japan started, and in the light of present circumstances may be discarded. But, before making a decision, the committee should consider that a time will come when the problem of reconstruction will be far more important than military affairs. That time is far in the future, so far perhaps, that people will lose sight of it in the rush to prepare against the more immediate danger. When the shooting is over, the world will be in need of leaders in every field to build a new order from the one whose failure we are witnessing—leaders such as are being developed in our colleges and universities.
America now has more men in its armed forces than it can adequately equip for battle. It will not add to our military strength or morale to put more men in over-crowded camps when those men are serving their country equally well in classrooms and laboratories.
College men should not be called "slackers" because they ask for more time to prepare for the fighting that will come on a third front, the post-war front.
Draft dodgers will not be able to take advantage of this proposed legislation, because the bill provides that only those men already registered in colleges and universities are open to deferment.
It has been suggested by the Spectator, student paper at Columbia University, that students of and near draft age throughout the nation should write to Senator Bob McReynolds, chairman of the military affairs committee, asking that the bill be approved. The Kansan agrees with this idea, feeling that a display of student interest would aid in securing favorable action on an important measure.
Censorship—Good or Bad
Of necessity congruous with the question of war is the question of censorship. American newspapers will be confronted with this problem more and more as the war progresses.
In a sense, it seems paradoxical that civil liberties must be temporarily forfeited in the heat of a battle for the preservation of these same liberties. Upon more mature consideration, we realize that if the victory is to be ours it is imperative that no information which would aid through thoughtless publication be released.
President Roosevelt, when asked if he intended to give the public the benefit of reports he receives, answered that everything would be given out which conformed to two principles: first, that it is accurate, and second, that it does not give aid and comfort to the enemy. The job of determining when information meets these classifications falls to the Secretaries of War and Navy. The President denies that this means unfavorable news will be withheld.
Difficulties lie in the interpretation of the President's conditions. It is debatable whether certain information, if released, would be of value as a builder of morale to the American people to a greater extent than it would be dangerous because of information which might give the enemy a clue to our military movements and set off a wave of destruction that might prove fatal.
On the other hand, it is important that the American people, who are making sacrifices at home that we may continue under our democratic system, know how their nation progresses in the fight. Truth is a great dispeller of rumor. If truth is denied the people, disturbing rumor will take its place.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, December 14, 1941 No.61
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.
FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES will meet on Tuesday, December 16, at 4:30, in the auditorium in Frank Strong hall.
--sailors captured the English fort at New Providence, Bahamas. Marines also fought on the sea, taking part in the battle between the "Ranger" and the "Drake," and under John Paul Jones in the battle between the "Bon Homme Richard" and the "Serapid." In the latter battle, 49 out of 137 marines on board the "Bon Homme Richard" were killed or wounded. Marine Corps Established
Deane W. Malott, Chancellor.
ARCHERY CLUB will meet Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1941, at 4:30 p.m. in the basement of the Community building. Novelty shooting will be featured and the regular weekly tournament will be held. Anyone interested is welcome to come--Betty Lou Current, President.
There will be an important meeting of all NYA workers Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 3:30 p.m. in Fraser theater.—Velma Wilson, Executive Secretary.
THETA EPSILON. All members please come to the reception at 1124 Mississippi street immediately following Vespers on Sunday afternoon.—Elizabeth Marshall, President.
SIGMA XI. The regular December meeting of the Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi will be held on Thursday, December 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall. Dr. E. H. Taylor, professor of zoology, will speak on "The Distribution of Reptiles as an Aid to Paleogeography." The Board of Electors will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in room 206 Worth hall.
W. H. Schoewe Secretary.
CLASSICAL CLUB: Tuesday evening, Dec. 16, at 7:30. James Chandler will speak on: "The Roman Christmas." All members and persons interested are invited to the Memorial Union Pine room for this feature.—Bill Muxlow, president.
The Psychology Club will meet next Monday, Dec. 15 at 4:30 in Room 21 of Frank强牢 hall. Mr. Carl Packer will talk on the Southard School of Problem Children and its Summer Camp. He will illustrate his discussion with pictures.
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.
ALL STUDENTS graduating at the end of the first semester who expect to teach should secure blankes and complete a registration in the Teachers' Appointment Bureau immediately. It is probable that a considerable number of vacancies will be received during the holiday season—H. E. CHANDLER, Secretary.
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN OSTRUM
Full of Christmas cheer, Phi Delts last night held their annual winter formal. High spot of the evening came with the presentation of gifts around a huge Christmas tree—well lit.
Lois Anderson, Kappa pledge and fine arts major, got a lovely toy drum from her date, Chuckles Elliott. Fred Darville, pledge from Sabetha, gave Pi Phi pledge Ann Wallace a toy baby doll, a bottle, and a small dresser. Most appropriate present was given by John Taylor to Kappa pledge Jane "Bird-Brain" Peake—a Jane "Bird-Brain" Peake scrapbook full of Jane "Bird-Brain" Peake clippings.
Delta Gamma's feel something should be done about Christmas tree snatching. Their tree disappeared from their veranda behind the house the other evening.
Outraged President Audene Fausett commissioned a searching party with specific orders to bring back the tree. The girls did—from the living room of the D.U. house.
The posse insists Audene said A tree, not THEIR tree.
A radio newcast from the West Coast said that the Sigma Nu's at the University of California at Berkeley had placed a large sign in front of their house following the Japanese declaration of war.
"If you think we're worried," the sign read, "you ought to see our chapter in Tokyo!"
Josephine Johnson, Kappa pledge and originator of the Hutchinson Hop, has a sore back. The other night crowded quarters at the house made it necessary that she give up her lower bunk and move to an upper. Awakening the next morning, she threw back the covers, stepped out of the top deck, and fell flat on the floor.
“... !*?!!!” jarred Johnson commented.
A mysterious bundle containing an expensive blanket, void of all identification, arrived early last week at the Phi Gam house. Two days later a letter of explanation came from a prominent Oklahoma City attorney, a Phi Gam from another chapter.
"I am replacing that blanket I carried off," the letter read, "while stopping over at your house fourteen years ago."
Gad, there is a Santa Claus!
In line with our public service policy we want to tell that gentleman who couldn't find his hat at the Granada Friday evening that he can have it by calling at Apt. 7a, 1231 Oread. The boys there say he is welcome to it since it doesn't fit any of them. Added information: their phone number is 3333; and the visiting hours are "always."
Announcement by the Navy Department that a Marine garrison still holds tiny Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean against continuous Japanese air and sea attacks and that the Marines have sunk Japanese cruiser and destroyer during the attacks, effectively disposes of rumors current last week to the effect that the island had been taken without a struggle.
Navy Dispels Rumor--sailors captured the English fort at New Providence, Bahamas. Marines also fought on the sea, taking part in the battle between the "Ranger" and the "Drake," and under John Paul Jones in the battle between the "Bon Homme Richard" and the "Serapid." In the latter battle, 49 out of 137 marines on board the "Bon Homme Richard" were killed or wounded. Marine Corps Established
Marine Garrison Holds Wake Island in Pacific
Always the first troops to land in time of trouble and the last to withdraw, the United States marines, popularly known as "leathernecks" from their British forbears who wore high, laced leather collars, the marines are the American shock troops and the first to be called upon in a dangerous and difficult situation. Marines Have Landed
According to the Navy's announced to four air attacks and one period and when the last word was received, the garrison was expecting a Japanese attempt to land troops.
According to the Navy's announcement, the garrison was subjected to four air attacks and one sea attack during one 48-hour period and when the last word?
During the earlier years of the present century when the marines were often called upon to restore order and quell uprisings, the announcement by the Navy Department that "The marines have landed and the situation is well in hand," became a classic and a symbol of marine efficiency.
First American marines were three regiments organized in New York in 1740 for service under the flag of Great Britain. On Nov. 10, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the organization of two battalions of marines. These marines saw their first action early in the following year when a detachment of marines and
Detachments of the new Marine Corps saw their first foreign action in the war with Tripoli in 1803 when marines stormed and captured the native fortifications at Derna in Libya, the same Derna captured by the British last winter from the Italians.
After the war of Independence was over, the marines went out with the Continental navy but when the Department of the Navy was established in 1798, a United States Marine Corps was also established.
In the War of 1812, marines fought on board the American frigate "Constitution" in her famous battle with the "Guerriere" and others helped repulse the British in the battle of New Orleans. After the War of 1812
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