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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
Open Letter to Hirchito
Do you realize, Mr. Hirohito, just what you have done? You have deliberately provoked war with the most powerful nation in the world. You have pitted your people and your scrawny resources against a nation with the greatest natural resources in the world, and the greatest determination in the world that this shall be a bitter fight to the finish. And that finish will not come until America is victorious. You can paste that in your hat, Mr. Hirohito.
The American people are with their president in their belief that they shall win, not only the war, but also the peace. They are tired of heading the sucker list.
You have attacked American territory, fully cognizant that a British declaration of war upon you was pending on that attack. You are now pitted against the two most powerful nations in the world, and a host of lesser, but not negligible, countries.
You have no justification to offer to your people for this conflict. Japanese people may resent this uncalled for aggression, in view of the fact that you have been unable to defeat China, a country disorganized, impoverished, and unprepared. American people face the future confident. Those who are believers know that because the American side is the side of right our victory will be total. Others, through sheer logic, realize that Japanese victory is fantastic—impossible.
We are not deluded, Mr. Hirohito. We know that, through treachery, through lies, and a false indication on the part of the Japanese, you have, for the moment, the upper hand in the fight. But we also know that advantage cannot be maintained. That the inglorious attack upon our island possessions will be revenged a hundred-fold.
See what you are up against, Mr. Mikado?
America Tightens Its Belt
Next to war news, the work of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board seems to be most discussed. If we were actually engaged in a shooting war so much might not be heard of this effort to put first things first. It would be done automatically. But, as it is, we have not yet learned that this country is unable to carry on simultaneously our huge defense program and "business as usual."
The difficulty is not in the priorities but in the existing shortages. We still find it impossible to comprehend the magnitude of our defense program. It must be understood that the program will become even larger before safety is achieved. Those who try to determine and to supply the demands face a difficult task because the scene changes rapidly. Much time and effort are lost in debating whether certain estimates are accurate and some terms justifiable when our entire energy should be devoted to production and still more production with all possible speed. Bitter experience has taught that it is far better to have too much too early than too little too late.
It is plain to the average American that it is better to accommodate himself to priorities and scarcities for a relatively short time and complete the job than to put up with the condition for ten or fifteen years, or longer.
We must learn to take with grace everything from the absence of the simple bobby pin in the local ten-cent stores to the absence of repairs
for local and non-defense highways. We will learn much about conservation the hard way, but it is a lesson that Americans are becoming more ready to learn as they discover that our biggest problem is not how to save business and labor and John Citizen, but rather how to use them.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, December 10, 1941 No. 58
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.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS se reuilla jendi le once decembre a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 113 de Frank Strong. Ce sera la reunion de Noel. Marjorie Mossman.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Father Weisenberg will be in room 415 in Watson library from 1 to 5 Thursday afternoon for personal conferences.
NEWMAN CLUB MEMBERS: There will be Corporate Communion and breakfast next Sunday at and after the 9:30 Mass. Election of officers will be held; therefore, all members are urged to be present.
International Relations Club will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Kansas Room of the University of Missouri right chairman.
Orville Wright, chairman.
TAU SIGMA will meet Tuesday at 7:30 for Waltz and Celebration; Tuesday at 8:30 for Goliwogs and Profane; Thursday at 7:30 for Mozart Sonata and Sunken Cathedral; and Thursday at 8:30 for Satire on War and Regimentation—Anne Jane Hoffman, pres.
A special meeting of the American College Quill Club will be held Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9:00 in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Those interested in becoming active participants of the club may attend the meeting.
Jean Sellers, Chancellor.
W. A.A. All members of W.A.A. are to notify Kathryn Hines at 718, if they plan to attend the W.A.A. feed, which is to take the place of the regular December meeting. The price is 50c.
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.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. The second examination of the school year will be held on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8:30 a.m. All who wish to take this examination must register at the College office, 229 Frank Strong hall, Dec. 8, 9, 10. Only junior and seniors may register. Other examinations will be held on Feb. 28 and May 2—J. B. Virtue.
UNION TRAVEL BUREAU-All students or faculty members who want rides or have room for passengers for week-end or holiday trips, notify the Travel Bureau in the Student Union Activities office in the Memorial Union immediately. Phone K. U. 71.
FRANK ARNOLD, Manager.
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
Monday was Phi Psi "Rip" Lashley's twenty-first birthday. Engrossed in the war news of the day, Rip had completely forgotten about the occasion until brothers sardonically reminded him of it at dinner that evening.
At the sound of "Taps" from a bugle blown by Charlie Ege, Delbert Campbell stepped into the room carrying a large birthday cake. Paul Carpenter and Bob Bellamy assumed the position of attention at either side of the cake-bearer, armed with house-borrowed shotguns.
Poor Lashley. Aren't you guys ashamed?
STOLEN: one Greek-letter doormat and one white love bench. Reward.
Phone 267—needed badly.
Although this isn't a commercial column, I couldn't resist when that ravishing Gamma Phi redhead Betty West asked.
While borrowing a book from a friend at 1230 Oread Friday night, "Bucky" Walters met the Ward Flower ship delivery boy as he was coming upstairs.
In a hurry the flower fellow thrust a corsage into Bucky's hand and asked him to take it up to Walt Cassida, soldier going to the military ball that night.
"Sure," Bucky replied and hurried up to Cassida's room.
Thinking it a good joke, Bucky took the money and left.
"Well, I didn't know you were working at Ward's!" Cassida muttered hastily shining his brass. "The two bucks are on the dresser, Thanks!" Thinking it a good idea Bucky took the money and left.
Something tells me Walt Cassida and Ward's Flower shop are going to have a mighty confused conversation about the first of next month.
During Verdun Daste's Reporting I class this morning, discussion worked it's way around, as all discussions have a habit of doing these days, to the war with Japan. Naturally most of the talk concerned the University. Will many enlist? Will school open next fall? Will tuition rise?
Carried completely away with the thought of war, awed Jane Peake with compassion in her voice hastened to inquire, "Well, Mr. Daste, just when will we get our siren here?"
(Jane, you now have an unpaid balance of $1.25. Couldn't you take care of it before the holidays?)
Intent on doing her county correspondent job well, Barbara Batchelor, Pi Phi pledge, is hunting here and there and everywhere for news to send to her home county, Reno.
The other day Barbara "had to be told" after finding what she thought to be "the nicest little item." She had heard the rumor that a student from her county had pledged T.N.E.
Santa Claus Rides Again In Spite of Sea War
Christmas is 14 shopping days away, and Santa Claus has not been drafted. America seems to be going all-out for Christmas without any noticeable crimp in her celebration caused by the war. Much of the nation's gift shopping had been done before Japan bombed Hawaii. ?
For one thing, the U.S. will probably entrust to holiday-weary postmen $30,000,000 worth of Christmas greeting cards, just as was done last year. Britain is doing without holiday cards this year, but America will see the usual number of cottony snowmen, printed poinsettias, saucereyed Christmas deer, and old-fashioned maidens parading over Christmas cards.
Extremes go from those who can afford a sculptured, cookie-like greeting with raised figures to the student who figures that, after all, her friends won't care if she trots out the left-over cards that have a 1938 calendar on them.
A Bottle, Eh?
In refutation of the overworked campus gag, "We can't have any Christmas trees this year because Hitler has the Axis," Hill houses are hoisting their firs and cedars. At the Kappa house individual rooms have trees, and house decorations are ready to go up. The men at 1128 Ohio have put a Christmas candle in the window, stuck in a brown bottle, to guide wandering boys home.
Other houses either have or will have visible signs of Christmas cheer. It is rumored that the Sigma Nu's will cover their front columns with tins-selled muslin and illuminate them with lights at the bases. Is Frank
Strong going to be outlined with neon lights?
Kiddies Write to Santa
One businessman downtown reports that shoppers still flock in. The radio continues to blare "Christmas with Cuddles and Tuckie" along with newscasts and swing. Letters to the North Pole from the subversive second graders are demanding everything allowed by priorities.
Christmas is in for a five-star performance, with Santa Claus at his classic best. As Oread leg-slappers say, "He's the only man who can go out all night with a bag and not be talked about."
"The Effect of National Emergency on Transportation in the United States," will be discussed by Bruce Hurd of Topeka at the December meeting of Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity at 6 p.m. Thursday at Weidmann's grill.
Hurd to Discuss Transportation
Youth Forum Will Hold Party
The Youth Forum of the First Christian Church will sponsor a Christmas party Friday night. Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education, will lead folk games. The party will be held at the church, 10th and Kentucky streets, at 8 p.m.
Twenty-nine states and the Philippines Islands were represented in the 1940 graduating class.
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