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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941.
The KANSAN Comments...
Have You an Idea?
Have you an idea which you believe will help national defense?
If so, you are not alone. The office of the National Inventors Council, headed by Charles F.Kettering, known the world over as director of General Motors laboratories, receives suggestions at the rate of 300 a day.
So far, about eighty ideas have been considered valuable enough to be submitted to the National Defense Research Committee. Some of these days, the officers of the council feel, someone is going to submit a suggestion that will put the United States far out in front in its defense program.
They come from people in all walks of life. Inventors who have never seen a destroyer or a battleship suggest ways they feel certain will end U-Boat menaces forever; others who have never seen anything larger than a 12-gauge shotgun submit ideas on how the army's Big Berthas can be improved.
Who knows, your idea may be the one they're waiting for!—R.W.D.
But the Inventors Council likes to have ideas submitted. Conway Coe, commissioner of patients, says that 99.9 per cent of all ideas received are rejected, but the remaining oneenth per cent may be worth consideration by the army and navy.
An Era of Substitutes
A recent news release informs the waiting public that the supply of silk hosiery will be exhausted by the first of March. Sneering males find nothing so world-shaking in this revelation, but their female friends, who will be inconvenienced by the shortage, are more concerned.
Besides the tendency for cotton stockings to muffle any good points discernable in female anatomy, they are practically indestructible. Women, not expert conversationalists at best, in the presence of other women lose capabilities of intelligent speech without certain reliable old stand-bys.
One of the stand-bys has been silk stockings. In a burst of confidence, one woman tells another that she positively cannot keep herself in stockings. She then launches into a tirade against chairs and general furnishings upon which it is possible to snag the flimsy garments. She acquaints her friends with the intimate details of her latest hosiery casualty, and explains that prices have gone almost out of reach. This gets her over some pretty bad conversational spots.
The thing has frightening possibilities. Barring draft complications, the marriage rate should go up. Men, no longer fearful of inability to provide a sufficiency of silk wear, will pop the question to cotton-clad sweethearts. Ministers will profit immeasurably.
Department stores will close more rapidly than in 1929. With no more silk hosiery, and no immediate prospect of replenishing what was once their largest commodity, merchants will close their doors in desperation, and remain in abject poverty for the duration.
Women will not, however, be seriously hampered in their primal and eternal manhunt. Their grandmothers got their men unaided by the flimsy product of the Japanese worm. As a rule, the grandmothers didn't get as many men, but they got one good dependable man—and that would have its merits, too.
The Hosiery Cramp
When the Chi Omegas buy a tire for that wreck they call Persephone, it may be of the new material, synthetic rubber. Of course, the girls at Corbin hall don't wear cheap costume jewelry, but if they did, likely the bargain counter product which they bought would be made of plastic, so cleverly created as to be almost indistinguishable from the real gold, ivory, and gems.
Perhaps it is trite to say that science touches us every day of our lives, but nevertheless it is becoming increasingly true. Not only is science aligned with the forces now engaged in defense activities, but it is also striving to serve civilian needs as well.
Uncle Sam will spend $300,000,000 this year on research of all kinds, for both civil and military purposes. He will employ more than 70,000 persons. Research has become a major American industry. It will be a tremendous factor in strengthening our national defense, and many of the discoveries made in these laboratories will also benefit the civilian.
There are still many problems to be solved. Substitutes are needed for aluminum, tin, magnesium and many other essentials now demanded in defense industries. Experimentation in research laboratories will ultimately find these substitutes, just as the laboratories have been able to make artificial wool from surplus milk, plastics from soybeans, and dress goods from air and coal.-R.W.D.
A boy in Milwaukee is learning the ways of big business early. He sold his mother's diamond for a nickel.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, Nov.4, 1941 No.37
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.
QUACK CLUB will meet tonight at 8 p.m. Regular practice will be continued.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Father Weisenberg will be in room 415 Watson library for personal conferences from 1 to 5 p.m. on Thursday.
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 13:0 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, Associate of Physiology, Room 8B, Frank Strong Hall.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school week, and in publication as a second matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Rock Chalk Talk
By HEIDI VIETS
Sigma Nu actives were spiritually uplifted Monday night by an end thusiatric pledge-sponsored "Revival of the Brethern and Sistern of the We-Shall-Arise-in-the-Glorious-Hereafter." Actives liked the title.
The service was carried on by candlelight. Mock preacher was Dick Buck, whose eloquence wrung a moving confession from Tom Twyman, freshman. Active Bill Pepperell was christened with a pledge-given name.
For two years Carruth hall dwellers have been searching for a secret compartment, supposed to be behind a certain wall panel. Sunday night three Carruth "bloodhounds"—Tom Haney, John Hagen, and Maurice Hill—finally found the secret panel and compartment.
It is said that this nook was once used to hide liquor, but to the men's sorrow it was found bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
Phi Gam's, taking a quick look back at the year thus far, find some jokers on their slate.
For instance, there was the "band at the station" episode when Ros Hambrick's girl from the University of Oklahoma came to Lawrence for the weekend. Hambrick went to meet her privately, thankful that no brothers had trailed him. Just before the train pulled in, up from nowhere sprang a Phi Gam mob, including a band. They made music and much noise as the train came to a stop. Passengers wondered why. Hambrick was blushing. He knew.
When Alfred M. Landon was visiting the Fiji house before the Iowa State game, pledge Jimmy Kennedy put on his best manners. He had not been introduced to the guest or officially notified of his identity, so he walked over to repair matters.
"I'm Jim Kennedy," he said politely. Then, "Your face looks awfully familiar. Haven't we met before?"
Kennedy winced when he learned that he had undoubtedly seen that face many times on political posters and in the Kansas papers.
Mid Semester Advice For Backwards
An Excerpt from "How To Increase? Your I.Q. in Seven Easy Leaps," by Dr. Phineas Zinnia.
"... and lastly but not leasty, we come to the matter of intense concentration as an aid in increasing the Intelligence Quotient of the average college student.
At examination time, his long semesters of mental stagnation usually leave his mind in a state of suspended atrophy, rendering him useless in a sort of mental exercise. To remedy this affliction he should, about a week before examination time, indulge in a few gently stimulating mental exercises designed to promote greater cerebral action. To loosen up the medullar region, the student should repeat softly the following exercise with a gently rising inflection.
1. I am a genius even if my family is backward. I am going to make Phi Beta Kappa in the spring semester of my junior year.
Many students believe that burning the midnight oil is done on the same principle as burning the candle at both ends—a simple matter of spontaneous combustion, but the former requires a locked room, a pot of coffee and the desire to win.
2. Two and two are four and four and fore is what a golfer shouts at anybody else on the course.
As he first seats himself at his desk the student needs a clear field on which to work. This necessitates cleaning off his desk, a matter which occupies some hours, and requires the reading of many old letters and desk debris. By this time the night is usually well on its way, and he feels sleep overcoming him. It requires a strong will to combat the heavy eye, the aching back, and the drooping mind. The student usually decides to go to bed for several hours and then arise in the cool of the winter morning and start his work.
At this stage the cause is lost. Sub-consciously he realizes that he will never get up, even though he may be
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the owner of three or four $1.49 alarm clocks of the loud, jangling variety.
At this juncture I should advise my young friends to look around for a nice filling station to operate, or if he happens to be of the weaker sex, a berth in one of our more up and coming ten cent stores. . . . ."
Student Recital Tomorrow Afternoon
A student recital will be held at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Ensemble: "Springtime Sonata" by Beethoven, Barbara Huls, violin, and Robert Glotzbach, piano; "Trio in E flat" by Haydn, Marvin Zoschke, violin, John Ehrlich, cello, and Eugene Jennings, piano.
Piano: "Scherzo in E minor," Op. 16, No. 2, by Mendelsohn, Mary Elizabeth Evans; "Concert Etude" by MacDowell, Yolanda Meek; "Concert Etude" by Carl A. Preyer, Mary Elizabeth Bitzer.
The following numbers will be presented:
Bacteriology Club Elects Faucett, Maser, Collins
At a recent meeting the Bacteriology club elected the following students to serve as officers: Bob Faucett, graduate, president; Peggy Maser, senior, vice-president; Carolyn Collins, graduate, secretary-treasurer.
Voice; "Beauscir" by Debusn Helen Colburn; "Sombre Woors by Lully and "Hop Li" by Manning, Haworth White.
The University of North Carolina although an institution of the state, did not receive state appropriations for nearly 100 years after its forming.