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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY.NOVEMBER 14, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
A Humanitarian Change
It may be a sign of changing times or perhaps the beginning of a new trend in the hither-to serious magazines, but readers of Time, the weekly news magazine, found the cover of last week's issue brightened by a Petty drawing of shapely, red-haired Rita Hayworth. As Rita marks a distinct improvement over the mustached and uniformed militarists whose pictures have appeared on the cover of Time recently, it is hoped that the trend, if it is a trend, will continue.
One effect of such an attractive cover is to counteract the depressing effect of the magazine's contents. For instance, after one has read that the Germans are nearing Moscow, or have broken through in the Crimea, or have sunk the British home fleet and the future appears dark, he can turn back to the cover and give his morale a lift by staring at the Petty girl on the cover.
An important feature of Petty girl covers would be to increase the circulation of such magazines immediately as college boys and soldiers and sailors, who have long recognized the aesthetic qualities of Petty art, would have a vast new field of literature opened to them.
Should this trend spread to other magazines, we might, before long, see Petty girls adorning the covers of such staid magazines as the National Geographic or Harpers, or even the socially conscious magazines such as the New Republic or New Masses.
—J.H.
When Jimmy Durante of "schnozzola" fame was dashed to the floor during the filming of an Apache dance scene, his only injury was a cracked rib. How he could have landed to break a rib with such a prominent adornment on his face has yet to be adequately explained.
--gan in the 1930's, In the past decade, three of every ten farmers worked at other occupations to supplement their farm income, and there is ample foundation for the belief that many of these, and others, may abandon farming altogether for the surer pay of the defense industries.
Canadian women have been forced to substitute soap for fingernail polish. Less glamor and more sanitation will probably not come in omiss.
Who Wants To Be A Farmer?
The Kansas farmer, after facing a decade of drouth, hot winds and low prices, now faces a new group of problems. Today he speculates upon probable rise in prices, both of what he has to sell and what he must buy, and the effect of national defense and industrial expansion upon him and his needs. He wonders, too, if inflation will come, and how it will affect him. Where will he be in 1950? One hesitates to make even a guess in this fast moving world.
The decade just passed has been a trying one for Kansas farmers. They are fewer now than in 1930. Dust, drouth, low prices—all have taken their toll as many farmers sought occupations less disheartening. The debt ratio to the value of farms became greater, and a larger number (53.4 per cent) of farmers who operate their own farms found it necessary to mortgage them.
In 1940 the picture began to change. The rains came, prices rose. The dust bowl of the Tugwell era became the water bowl of 1941. Crops were good, too. The Kansas farmer felt that he might again prosper, become independent of government aid, life his mortgage.
Now, with national defense industries calling for men and paying good wages, will the Kansas farmer stay on his farm? Will the trend away from the farm continue as it began in the 1930's, In the past decade, three of every ten farmers worked at other occupations to supplement their farm income, and there is ample foundation for the belief that many of these, and others, may abandon farming altogether for the surer pay of the defense industries.
Yet, dark as this picture may be, farming even during the 1930's, was not so unpleasant. Four out of five farmers owned automobiles, a fourth of them had trucks, half of them, tractors. One in four had electricity, every other farm had a telephone. Farmers were still young, tenant farmers averaging less than 30 years of age; the general average, 48.-R.W.D.
In Paris there is a premium on cigarette butts. A wealthy Arab there hires 14 boys to shoot snipes for him.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, November 14, 1941 No. 44
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.
DRAMATIC WORK-SHOP: Meeting Tuesday at 4:30 in Green hall. Apprentices be prepared to present entertainment. Please bring old dues. June Real, Sec'y
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. Schweiler, president K.U. Unit.
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.
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.
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 Parker H. Woodard, Assoc. Professor of Physiology, Room 8B, Frank Strong Hall.
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Rock Chalk Talk
By HEIDI VIETS
With tonight's Pumpkin Carnival on their minds, Sigma Nu's sent a committee to Kansas City to buy white rats for a rat race booth on the ballroom fair grounds. They brought home the rodents. Then Sigma Nu's decided to check their idea at the Student Union Activities office, found that another organization had beat them to the draw.
When Battenfeld dwellers looked at an envelope they received in the mail the other day, they blinked their eyes and wondered if somebody was joking. It was an advertising circular addressed to "Mrs. John Battenfeld Hall." They have decided that Mrs. Hall is the little woman who isn't there.
Now the fraternity has five white rats on its hands, to be kept as pets, turned over to science, or given to Bundles for Britain.
Jack Werts, Rock Chalk Co-op, chief gunner of the decoy-shooting expedition of two weeks ago, seems to be a perennial hunter of inanimate wildfowl. A poem appeared in the Nov. 10, 1938 Gridley Light, written by Rayburn Werts and dedicated to brother Jack. Essence of the verse: "You get up early . . . grab a gun . . . then start out for some early fun. Peek over the dam . . . a booming noise. You have shot yourself six wooden decoys."
Since Clint Kanaga's "Why can't the faculty help keep good gridmen in school" objection hit the Kansas City Star morning, Kanaga has spent two 8-hour days of answering the phone and reading letters. The Jayhawkere football public has definitely taken to the idea, for most of the letters are "yes" messages.
Yesterday the two Theta's polished off their honking friends by sending them a little sck of chocolate kisses and a telegram-style note.
Two Phi Fsi's, Dick Miller and Phil Robertson, stopped in front of the Theta house after closing hours Wednesday night and honked the individual buzzes of two of the Kite girls, Tommye Thompson and Jane McFarland, whom they expected to see immediately at a window ready for conversation. They were received by silence, cool and stony. The girls didn't want to risk getting a fine.
Beginning with Sunday's paper, Rock Chalk Talk will have a new writer. According to present plans, Dean Ostrum will take over the column.
The wolves that howl around the Shack every night have wailed this advice to columnists, which is now passed on to Dean: After having misspelled a student's name, ignore him for at least three days. Otherwise he will ignore you. But, sometime, tell him you're sorry."
From 'The White Cliffs' By Alice Duer Miller
"If some immortal strangers walked our land And heard of death, how could they understand That we—doomed creatures—draw our meted breath Light-heartedly—all unconcerned with death. So in these years between the wars did men From happier continents look upon us when They brought us sympathy, and saw us stand Like the proverbial ostrich—head in sand While youth passed resolutions not to fight, And statesmen muttered everything was right Germany, a kindly, much ill-treated nation Russia was working out her own salvation Within her borders. As for Spain, ah, Spain Would buy from England when peace came again! I listened and believed—believed through sheer Terror. I could not look whither my fear Pointed—that agony that I had known. I closed my eyes, and was not alone.
Later than many, earlier than some,
I knew the die was cast—that war must come;
That war must come. Night after night I lay
Steeling a broken heart to face the day
When he, my son, would tread the very same
Path that his father trod. When the day came
I was not steeled—not ready. Foolish, wild
Words issued from my lips—"My child, my child,
Why should you die for England too?" He smiled:
"Is she not worth it if I must?" he said.
John would have answered yes—but John was dead."