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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY,OCTOBER 24,1941
The KANSAN Comments...
Parades—Then and Now
University students will don nightshirts, pajamas, and sundry other bits of evening wear tonight to participate in the fourtieth annual Nightshirt Parade. High school journalists will watch from the dubious security of the curb as their friends and relatives disport themselves wildly about in an exhibition of pep and general high spirits.
The traditional doughnuts, apples, and cider will be served to students in South Park, following the bon-fire rally. Freshmen who are in costume (any uncouth dress garnered from long unopened closets or bureau drawers of roommates) will be given tickets for a special picture show. Later, all students will be admitted free and without tickets. It will be an evening of good, clean fun, and is useful for keeping alive school spirit and a natural amount of student deviltry.
But old timers will miss the boisterousness of yesteryear. Some of the older Lawrence merchants remember when the Nightshirt Parade was the signal for students to take over the town. Street car motormen finally learned to put their cars away in the barn and retire to their homes until the festivities were over. Confectioners expected their stores to be pillaged. Theater owners saw herds of stampeding students surge into their palaces of pleasure, there to stamp and whistle in appreciation.
The whole thing began in 1908, when hilarious students, fresh from the first football victory of the year, rushed on the home of Chancellor Frank Strong. The Chancellor had retired, but upon being urged, got up and appeared, nightshirt-clad, to express his happiness at the outcome of the game. To commemorate his spirit of fun, students donned nightshirts, and paraded from the Hill down the streets of town.
So, tonight's jubilation is traditional, and expected, but it probably will not compare with the wild orgies enjoyed by students of those benighted former days.
Welcome, high school journalists!
Of course, it isn't in the cards that all of you will become newspapermen and women. Some of you will choose other fields. But many of you who visit the University today will continue your study of journalism, and ultimately become a part of that great, frequently exciting, profession known as the Fourth Estate.
Future Fourth Estaters
Get acquainted with us here on the Hill. Feel free to ask questions—visit laboratories, classrooms, libraries. Then, sometime in 1950, when Kansas high schools have produced other Damon Runyans, John Kierans, Walter Lippmanns, Dorothy Thompson, and Leland Stowes, we can lean back in our chairs and say: "That fellow? I met him at the 1941 University of Kansas High School Journalism conference." R.W.D.
You are coming today to the University of Kansas for your annual journalism conference. It's perhaps trite to say we're welcoming you, so let's just put it in the manner of one of the craft greeting another-a sort of lodge grip, we might say.
Right now, you're probably more keenly interested in your own high school newspaper, but in a few years you'll be handling the newspapers of Kansas, filling places in other newspaper offices, perhaps becoming special correspondents and special writers.
What is this price-fixing bill now before Congress?
The Proposed Price-Fixing What Is It ?
Briefly, it contains three provisions which proponents hope will prevent inflation and keep the cost of living from almost doubling, as it did in the period from 1914-20.
In the first place, the proposed law, now before a congressional committee, will give the president power to set commodity prices at a point not to exceed the price at which these commodities were selling on July 29,1941. No one may sell goods in excess of this price, once the law goes into effect.
Second, the law excepts farm products, which are to be set at 110 per cent of their parity value (the average price received from 1909-14) on the price on July 29, 1941, whichever is higher.
Finally, the act allows the president to set ceilings on rents in areas engaged in defense work.
Hearings for and against the proposed bill have been held for almost three months. When it is finally reported out of the committee for a vote, it may not resemble the original measure much, but at least will represent the government's attempt at curbing high prices and inflation.-R.W.D.
An Iola mother had a rather memorable day last week. Her youngest son was born on the day that another son was drafted.
Wary of guns will be an Arizona man who accidentally fired his rifle, sending a bullet through his leg. It entered a pocket and discharged another bullet, which wounded him in the arm.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, Oct. 24,1941 No. 30
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: Phi Chi Delta will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, October 28, at 5:30 at Westminster Hall. Pledging services will be held. Everyone who is interested is welcome.—Ruth Moritz, president.
--the history of the "Dejected Bird." So there you are. Whatever could be written about it would mean little beside the fact that it sells. But the jokes are still "straight."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... Stan Stauffer
Feature Editor ... Betty West
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Chuck Elliott
Campus Editors ... Heidi Viets, Orlando Epp
Sports Editor ... Clint Kanagas
Society Editor ... Jean Fees
News Editor ... Glee Smith
Sunday Editor ... Milo Farneti
United Press Editor ... David Whitney
Re-write Editor ... Kay Bozarth
Copy Editors: Anne Nettels, Mary Margaret Gray
Editor-in-Chief ... Charles Pearson
Editorial Associates: Bill Feeney, Floyd Deacaire,
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Frank Baumgartner
Advertising Manager ... Jason Yordy
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Rock Chalk Talk
By HEIDI VIETS
A 65-pound baby St. Bernard at the A.T.O. house is demanding priorities on all food, to the great worry of the chapter. The A.T.O.'s are proud of the black circles around the dog's eyes, because the boys believe similar distinctive markings are typical of most Hill dwellers. The men are eager for the pup to grow to massive maturity so he can carry them to classes and to Topeka.
Jungle Jim Draper and Lloyd Woodburn, 1041 Tennessee, wanted to go out for something to eat the other night. Before leaving, they tossed a coin to see who would treat. Lloyd lost, but the two men hastily formed a plot to trap the other housemate, Richard Snyder, into treating both of them.
By agreement, Lloyd and Jim would toss heads, taking a chance on Snyder's not matching. If he did, they would both flip tails next time. They cornered Rich, then got their wires crossed, and Lloyd lost again. He is still suspicious.
Students of philosophy wondered yesterday morning when Duane Smith, Phi Gam, brought Kappa Dorothy Schroeter with him to class. All agree, however, that a little siping up of Plato is a good idea.
Brian Kirby, Phil Delt, had been carefully tending a long wavy lock in preparation for the Phi Delt party tonight. That girl from his home town, Great Bend, was to come for the affair, and he wanted to look pretty.
About 10 of the brothers spoiled his plans Tuesday night, when they took him down and gave him a modernistic barbering. Kirby had to get a professional haircut almost amounting to a crew job in order to repair the damage done.
Again and again the Sigma Nu phone rang last night. Again and again it was Louis Banker's mother calling from Russell to speak to her son. He was not at home. When she finally reached him, she demanded testify, "Where have you been?"
"Working for the Y.M.C.A.," Bunky said meekly.
"Working for the Y.M.C.A." Bunky said meekly.
It was the truth, but Mrs. Banker thinks that Hill alibis are degenerating.
Hitch in "Sour Owl" circulation scheming came when Bob "Misto" McClure, circulation manager, went to Watkins Memorial hospital Wednesday with a bad case of poison ivy, claimed to be contracted while hunting. Planning was continued by note and carrier pigeon.
Today McClure still remained on the inside, discontent because his only "Owl"-boosting activity was giving sales talk to the nurses.
Boy, were you fooled! It ain't got that poignant touch it once had. Meaning, it used to be rough. We're talking about the new Sour Owl.
Now open it up. Behold, subscription blanks! By deduction, we conceive the idea that the thing must have a business manager Shuffle these little deals aside and then proceeds the blatancy of advertising. You won't read the ads either until you've read the jokes, so let's read the jokes.
"He was just out of college and back in civilian clothes." That's a joke! No slam on the Owl, but the jokes don't stink as they formerly did. If you want dirt there's a mag stand down on Massachusetts St., that can supply your wants, but—you know, these pictures aren't bad. Beings as how most of us know Mary Jo Cox (or wish that we did), there comes a warmth beyond the comprehension of humans. Yeah, her picture's in there and a lot of others worth mentioning.
Let's open the darned thing up. No, let's don't. Look at the cover. Ettinger, plus the remains of a dog pile, grovels his way into the depths of your heart, clutching a football. It's paradoxical, but that's a football.
the history of the "Dejected Bird." So there you are. Whatever could be written about it would soon
And while this is being written, the Owls are on the rampage, and more have been sold in the first hour than of any other edition in
The Owl looks a lot like Life after which it was fashioned and the photography shows thought instead of candidness. Betsy Dodge, editor, has made lay-outs that are a compliment to any magazine, and certainly to the new Owl.
Owl Clicks With Pixs; Stuns With Puns
Elsie Dinsmore---
And then there's the "Men Wanted" feature that reminds the reader of a marriage bureau or a harem or something that makes Barbara Batchelor, the "television girl," a Panic-er. Other descriptions are as follows (and think of the lamp-wick that was signed): Sparkling, Swell Belle, Four Bells, Precious, "Like a Brick House," Slick Job—and a Devil Besides. So on into the night and possibly tomorrow morning. It lists Drusilla Phinkeywitch as Phone 295. We suggest that Drusilla exchange phone number for name!
That's the Owl. Some of us kinda thought for the last few years that it was a bird of a different feather, but we're at last on a clean perch.
Now to the Eds: Just keep wheting your beaks on the brighter side of the Hill.
A special scholarship is maintained at Dartmouth college for a "religious man from Missouri."
A thing can be sour and still not curdle.
Approximately 70,000 college students this year hold scholarships valued at more than $10,000,000
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