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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941.
The KANSAN Comments...
Adolf Breaks the Camel's Back
In one of the most recent of Adolf Hitler's philippics against Herrs Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, Der Fuehrer indulged in an extraordinary name-calling orgy. Churchill was referred to as "the crazy drunkard who for years now has been ruling England," (Adolf delivered this speech from a Munich beer cellar); Stalin was illogically berated as an instrument of Jewry and a second Genghiz Khan; and by broad inference, that fellow in the White House was sneered at as a map-drawing school boy.
But for sheer absurdity we choose the following statement as the prize-winner: "South America is as far away as the moon." If so, Hitler is not satisfied with spreading German culture and Lebensraum throughout the earth, but is concentrating on its satellite, too.
There are German fifth-column groups in nearly all the South American republics, with particularly strong ones in Chile and Brazil. According to John Gunther's "Inside Latin America," "the Germans are reputed to spend $2,500,000 per month on propaganda" in Brazil.
German financial interests, by undercutting British and American pices, have made a considerable amount of economic progress into the South American countries. South America is rich in the kind of natural resources that Germany lacks, and Hitler has not left many stones unturned in his efforts to gain the friendship of our sister continent.
For a mathematical clincher, we would like to point out that the distance from Nazidominated Dakar to the bulge of South America is about 1600 miles, while the distance from planet earth to the moon is about 92,000 miles. Adolf either is poor at figures or is a big storyteller—take your choice.
Let's Back Agriculture!
Three recent announcements in the news are of significance to Kansas citizens who are interested in the future of their state.
The first of these is the announcement of the proposed new cannery at Bonner Springs; the second is the story that the agricultural alcohol plant at Atchison may be re-opened; and the third, the statement of Governor Ratner that chemists may be able to find a suitable plastic material for the state's 1943 automobile license plates.
The establishment of a cannery, in many states, would not be an event of importance. In the Kaw valley, it is. Famed for its fertility, the Kaw valley has lost in recent years much of its principal market, potatoes. to other areas. The farmers in this territory have been searching for something to take the place of this lost market. A cannery may provide that market, and add to the prosperity and good fortune of the state as a whole.
The industrial alcohol plant, which was built to produce motor and industrial fuels from agricultural products, has proved practical but a market has not been widely developed. The demand for fuels of this kind in defense industries has encouraged the plant's managers, and if the plant reopens, will mean a demand for agricultural products, profit to Kansas farmers.
The use of plastics for 1943 automobile tags, will, if successful, call for other agricultural products. OPM authorities have informed
Kansas that steel for 1943 tags is not available and that some substitute must be secured.
The point in tying these items together is simply this: Any move which benefits Kansas agriculture benefits the state as a whole. Defense industries may be established here, provide employment for some, and additional wealth, but Kansas is basically an agricultural state. To encourage agriculture in every possible way is the best means of guaranteeing the state's prosperity and well-being.
---o--water and go back to the reservation with a hangover and the heroine would finally get her hooks on the hero. Fortunately all this impossible sort of melodrama is now past.
At North Carolina's Sadie Hawkins dance, one of the Hairless Joes caused no small amount of eyebrow-lifting by setting his bushy beard on fire with a cigarette.—N.C. Tarheel.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, November 20,1941. No.48
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.
--water and go back to the reservation with a hangover and the heroine would finally get her hooks on the hero. Fortunately all this impossible sort of melodrama is now past.
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.
WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB MEETING--For all University women interested in learning to shoot. Monday, Nov, 24, 8:00 p.m. Second floor of Fowler Shops Dorothy Durand. Captain
FRANK ARNOLD. Manager.
ALL STUDENTS graduating at the end of the first semester who expect to teach should secure blanks 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.
NOTICE TO MEN CLASSIFIED IIA for Selective Service—Every student classified IIA for Selective Service is requested to call at the Registrar's office to see Mr. Hitt.
R. Q. BREWSTER, Chairman University Deferment Committee.
SIGMA XI. The regular November meeting of the Kansas Chapter of Sigma XI will be held on Thursday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall, Dr. R. H. Wheeler, chairman of the Psychology department, will speak on "The History of Climate in Relation to the Rise and Fall of Government."—W. H. Schowee, Sec't.
NOTICE TO PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: Due to the abnormal situation there are some students desiring to enter medical school next fall who did not take the Medical Aptitude Test at the regular time last spring. For these students, the Association of American Medical Colleges is arranging to give a special test at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 1941, in Room 206 Marvin Hall. Those students who wish to enter medical school next fall should take the test at that time since the regular test to be given next spring will come too late. Will such students please register AT ONCE at the Medical School Office, Room 10 Frank Strong Hall. A fee of two dollars will be charged for this special test. For further information, inquire of Parke H. Woodard, Assoc. Professor of Physiology, Room 8B, Frank Strong Hall.
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Rock Chalk Talk
DEAN OSTRUM
Sigma Chi's Bill Ferris and Maurice Claasen, no wgoing steady with Chi Omegas, will soon have more company in the Chi O house. A darkened two-toned Chrysler with Sigma Chi stickers and a Kansas tag (number 1-18297) is a familiar sight around the Hill on weekend nights.
Reliable sources say George Lind, Kansas City Sigma Chi pledge, and Virginia Britton, Elleworth Chi Omega pledge, are dated up solid far into 1942. Lind is journeying to Ellsworth for New Year's and Britton is migrating to the City before Christmas. Furthermore, informed sources say a pledge-pin-putting-out is near.
(Is that all right, George? I did the best I could in the time I had.)
Forrest Cornwell, El Dorado independent, has been working on the Kansan since the start of school. An ever-tempered lad, he doesn't easily rile, but now he's MAD.
For the first nine-week period, Cornwell's beat covered the rousing subject of buildings and grounds. When beats changed Tuesday, disgruntled Cornwell learned he was the new home economics editor.
Any especially good recipes, any of you could spare, would be appreciated. He's now working up a knock-out called "prune whip."
Monday night at the Kappa Sigma house saw pledge Don Herold, Ellinwood, dressing in his best. Suit, shirt, tie, and talcum.
"Where you going?" actives questioned.
"Why, to the dance, of course," Don informed them.
Letting well enough alone, Kappa Sig's asked no more questions and awaited Harold's return.
Around 10:30 Don came home--sheepish and disappointed. Alec Templeton was a pianist, not a big-name band!
Marty Shartel, Pi Phi, is diversifying her talent. An M. U. Sigma Chi seems to rate priority on our local talent this weekend. Dauntless Bob Patterson, Phi Delt pledge, says, "Kansas will take the game. Missouri can have the women!"
It looks as though there'll be more than a football game Saturday. Four M. U. beauty queens, chosen by the men from Missouri, are arriving tomorrow to challenge K. U. pulchritude. John Latshaw, Missouri Sigma Nu, breezed in last night to bring the news from the Tiger Claws, M. U. pep club.
Mizzou's beauties may be cuties, but Latshaw, you're going to have to "show me."
Old Order Changes--water and go back to the reservation with a hangover and the heroine would finally get her hooks on the hero. Fortunately all this impossible sort of melodrama is now past.
Superman Lugs the Mail In Streamlined Serial
Still going strong but showing the effect of the years is that old matinee favorite, the movie serial in fourteen episodes. Apparently the old "Who'll carry the mail through Deadwood Gulch?" "I'll carry the mail through Deadwood Gulch" school of melodrama is on the way out, replaced, at least partially, by the Superman or man of tomorrow school.
For years every serial had a western setting, thirteen chapters beginning with miraculous escapes and ending in precarious situations, and a fourteenth chapter with a happy ending. The typical plot centered around one man as hero, a woman as heroine, and lots of rustlers, Indians, horses, and cattle in the near background. The setting was always the frontier and on that whole frontier, the hardest, toughiest, fastest man on the draw was, you guessed it, the hero. Likewise on that whole frontier the sweetest, purtiest gal was the heroine.
Never A Dull Moment
This hero and heroine always made it a point to be in some new predicament at the end of each episode. Being trapped in burning powder magazine, or surrounded by rustlers, or being chased by Indians apparently after their scalp would only sharpen their appetite or would cause a yawn of boredom. These yawns of boredom were not always on the screen.
However in the next installment, things would brighten up a bit depending on one's point of view, as the hero escaped through a secret tunnel, or the U.S. Cavalry arrived on the gallop, or the Indians chasing the hero proved to be selling hand woven blankets or Indian jewelry and only interested in a new prospect for a sale. In the last installment all would end happily. The rustlers would swing from the nearest cottonwood, the Indians would run out of fire-
The new serial apparently gets its inspiration from the comic page of the newspapers where for two years a now weary public has followed the exploits of innumerable "super" characters always dressed similarly in swimming trunks and capes and always running rampant in the interests of law and order.
Characters all appear sinister, including the ingenue who is not intended to appear sinister. They include a handful of kindly old repressed-looking scientists, a lead who changes identity in a puff of smoke and reappears as a superman called the captain, and a character known as the Scorpion or the Centipede who is after a scientific formula held by the kindly old repressed-looking scientists. The Centipede's duties consist in kidnapping the various principals in attempting to get the formula and the Captain's duties consist in returning them unharmed to the arms of the kindly old repressed-looking scientists. The Captain amuses himself by stopping bullets with his chest and taking off in a jump for the top of a six story building like a Spitfire taking off after Messerschmitts while the heavy whiles away the dull beast by electrocuting unoffending people.
The New Era
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