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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1941.
The KANSAN Comments...
AMERICA'S HOUSING PROBLEM By GEORGE M. BEAL Professor of Architecture
Each new month finds the United States with hundreds of thousands of square feet of additional working space and thousands of housing units in place, buildings and more buildings, as the race for preparedness moves into high gear. Last June FWA let their largest prefabrication construction contract up to that time, ordering 4000 dwelling units. The Farm Security Administration by September had provided 3,200 trailers, while during the first week in August 1,200 units of the Federal Defense Housing Program were brought to completion. The new Vega Airplane company plant of Burbank, Calif., contains 1,334,000 square feet.
The whole extensive defense building program, with its concentration of craftsmen, followed by the establishment of permanent workers, places a heavy burden on the city that was already struggling under the weight of conflicting forces. The problems centering around obsolescence of buildings, blighted areas and the shift of families living within the city limits to the county outside call for solutions. Between 1930 and 1940, according to the Home Loan Bank Board, the rate of population growth of American suburbs outside the city boundaries was more than three times as large as that in the cities themselves.
It has been estimated that about one-third of the 40 million dwelling units in the country will be more than 50 years old by 1945. Grave as these and other problems were before the present emergency, they now become all the more so and consequently there is a growing demand for comprehensive planning. Out of the 36,000 American communities only 1,200 have planning boards. This number must be expanded to include at least the larger centers. It is interesting to note that Chile, our neighbor to the south, adopted a law in 1936 requiring that every city with a population of 8,000 or more must prepare a city plan within six months.
This problem of planning really starts, not with the city, but with each building and its relationship to the neighborhood. It is here that the character of living conditions and needs are most clearly pictured. As the individual building is related to the neighborhood, so the neighborhood is to the community. The community must fit into the regional pattern and ultimately each region to the nation.
Thus there is needed all along the way planning agencies and boards with professional advisors. County planning boards should be increased in number to include all the 3,000 counties. Almost all of our states have planning boards, but many lack the necessary financial support necessary for effective work. The nation has its need for careful analysis of realities in order to be able to advise wisely. Today there are nearly thirty planning agencies that are national in scope.
Planning cannot confine itself to isolated phases, nor can it be limited to a locality. It must move forward to an integrated whole, yet remaining flexible, capable of adapting itself to altering conditions, ever cognizant of the physical, social and economic realities in relation to changing human needs.
"Wisconsin Governor stands on dignity, boosts state's cheese."—K.C. Times. Must make great after-dinner entertainment.
"We are free from the heavy-handed protection of Germany and the unpleasant company of Austria."—Benito Mussolini. What is this, an Axis break-up we haven't heard about? No. Benito said that back in 1915.
Come March 15, our check and balance system becomes all check and no balance.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, November 16, 1941 No. 45
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.
PHI CHI DELTA will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday at Westminster hall for a supper meeting
Miss Mary Miles will speak on Japan. Any non-members interested in the speech may come at 6:30.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in room 21, Frank Strong hall. Harry O'Kane will speak on "Experiences in Personnel Work."
RUTH MORITZ, President.
DELTA PHI DELTA will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in room 310 Frank强壮 hall—Ann Murray, Pres.
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. WILSON, Chennai
University Deferment Committee
B. Q. BREWSTER, Chairman
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB—The International Relations club will hold its first meeting at 4:30 p.m. Monday, November 17 in room 104 Frank Strong. All those interested are invited.
ORVILLE WRIGHT, Acting Chairman.
W.S.G.A. COUNCIL will meet Tuesday evening at 7:00 o'clock in the Pine room.-Mary Ellen Roach,
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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. Schoewe, Sec.'t.
NOTICE TO PREMEDICAL STUDENTS—Premedical students who are interested in making application for admission to the University of Kansas School of Medicine for the freshman class of 1942-43 should submit applications as soon as possible. Application forms may be obtained from the School of Medicine Office, Room 10, Frank Strong Hall, O. O. STOLAND, Secretary.
DRAMATIC WORK-SHOP: Meeting Tuesday at 4:30 in Green hall. Apprentices be prepared to present entertainment. Please bring old dues.
THETA EPSILON will meet Tuesday evening at 6:45.-Elizabeth Marshall, president.
Jane Beal, Sec'y.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL — The next regular meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 18th at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room—Fred Lawson, secretary.
Prospective teachers may obtain junior memberships in the Kansas State Teachers Association at the office of the School of Education, 103 Fraser Hall—Signed, R. A. Schwegler, president K.U. Unit.
PRACTICE TEACHING: Students desiring to do supervised teaching during the spring semester should make application at once in the office of the School of Education.—Signed, George B. Smith, Dean.
Faculty members who have not yet called for K.S.T. A. membership cards may obtain them at 103 Fraser Hall.—Signed, R.A. Schwegler.
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 Marl 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
The K.U. Pumpkin Prom and Carnival Friday night in the Union ballroom was a roaring success! And I do mean ROARING. The Student Union Activities Board is happy. Everyone who went is happy.
Thetas and Delts went together with a Twentieth Century Swingster side show. Doris Johnson, Theta, stood out in front to keep things moving. It was heard off the beat that Jim Burdge, varsity dance manager, has offered the side show band a booking for the Sophomore Hop.
A voice soft and gentle was far from a description of Patsy Schmidt, Kappa pledge, who was official veil for the Gower Place girls. Pretty Paula Reeves in an Egyptian veil and two-piece you-know-what got the crowd's attention on the outside while Mystic Marvel Mary Beth Dodge talked herself hoarse telling fortunes within.
Delbert Campbell spent a full evening chiming up business with a cow bell for the Phi Psi rat race. The rat was named Nation Meyer. Rumor has it that the ever victorious Phi Psi rat hole had cheese in it.
Only one thing perplexed Pumpkin promenaders. Where were the pumpkins?
Noted for their clever parties, Delta Tau Deltas and their dates spent Friday evening in a bomb shelter at the Delta shelter. Sand banks lined the basement entrance and earmarks of air raids were evident throughout.
Novel costume prize of the social season so far goes to Dorothy Chapin and Helen Pepperell, Gamma Phi Beta pledges. A hurried call yesterday to a Kansas City costume company did the trick. The two appeared last night at the Sigma Nu Milk party dressed as a cow. It would be embarrassing to disclose the respective positions played.
Starting Tuesday the following new rates for this column will be observed: 25c to get your name in; 50c to keep it out. Now that Viets has taken care of her old age and retired, it is only fair that someone else should get a chance.
Badinage for Backward From "The New Yorker"
From "The New Yorker"
NEW ORDER DEPARTMENT her evenings to herself.
A terrorist mobilization call for a "battalion of death to save the Constitution and our economic system" has been sounded here as Big Business's challenge to the New Deal and progressivism.
Speaking to a carefully selected audience of 1,200 Detroit employees, Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business, official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (300,000 circulation) shouted the call for assassination and terror.
"Are you ready," he asked, "to join a battalion of death to save the Constitution and our economic system. Are you ready."
The monopolists who had been selected to attend the dinner last Thursday in the Book-Cadillac Hotel at $1.25 a plate, shouted the chorus of "Yes! Yes!"—The Daily Worker.
Just something they ate, probably.
Sonja Henie rested today after the excitement of her ice carnival opening before 16,000 at Boston Garden last night during which she fell while skating solo, was slightly disturbed by a small fire in the bandstand, and announced she will become an American citizen. Columbus (Ohio) Citizen.
LIFE-DEPARTMENT
WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE DEPTT.
Unstrung, probably.
(From the World-Telegram)
Though Miss Maxwell was included among the guests at Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Beach Club dinner, she did not go. Lady Ribblesdale was there.
ISN'T NATURE WONDERFUL
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Young Jersey cow giving 214 gallons. per day very rich milk. Will care for children evenings, 15c per hour. Have car. 19025 Ingomar St. Reseda.—Ad. in the Van Nuys (Calif.) News.
She ought to be allowed to have
RAISED EYEBROWS DEPT.
RAISED EYEBROWS DEPT.
(From the Trenton (N.J.) Times)
At a dinner-meeting of the Lions Club in the social rooms of the Methodist Church, plans were completed to hold a two-day showing of a moving picture in the Star Theatre, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The proceeds will be used to purchase girls for the orphan boys at the State Home for Boys.
IT'S ABOUT TIME DEPARTMENT
(From the Bennington (Vt. Banner.)
With the thermometer standing at minus 10 degrees this morning, the North Bennington fire department was called out at 8 o'clock to extinguish a chimney fire at the tenement owned by Will Harrington on West street and occupied by the Morrison family.
This was the first time this year that the North Bennington department has responded to a fire.
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