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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
HOW MANY NEXT YEARS?
Well, it begins to look as if we are going to have to wait until next year for that all-star football team that is going to win the Big Six championship for the University of Kansas. But how many next years have we already waited, and how many more do we have to wait?
A recent copy of the Outlook, printed in Lawrence, suggested that the Rock Chalk cheer be changed to, "Oh, Well! Oh, Well! Wait 'til next year. We'll give 'em hell!"
The sports editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World recently suggested that it was high time that we begin to look around and see what is the matter with Kansas football when the University wins only three out of four games.
There is no point in trying to pass the blame off on the coach. Kansas has heard the howling of wolves often enough to know that the changing of coaches does nothing toward getting the University a good football team. Gwinn Henry seems to be doing everything in his power to get a winning football team for the school, but it seems obvious that the University of Kansas does not have sufficient good football material to build a championship squad.
The schools in the Big Six that have winning teams make very little pretense about their methods of going out and buying football players from high schools. Star football players are assured good jobs and spending money at other schools.
Basically then, the blame for the poor showing the University makes in interscholastic football competition must be placed on the alumni. The old grads who grumble because they can't return to the alma mater to see a winning football team are the same persons who refuse to put up the cash with which a winning team might be purchased.
There is hardly a matter of ethics involved for the University officials. Kansas is far in debt for the huge stadium that is never filled. The only way the debt can be paid is by gate receipts accruing from winning football seasons. No University officials who feel that Kansas cannot afford to be involved in prostituting amateur athletics had better turn their heads until the debt is paid—if the alumni ever do kick in with the money for winning football.
So the number of next years which we wait is left up to the alumni. How long do you boys out over the state want to wait?—D.C.W.
WHAT NEUTRALITY?
Isolation leaders in Congress are dubious about their chances to block the repeal of the Neutrality Act of 1939, either in its entirety or the two clauses forbidding merchant ships to be armed or to enter the war zone.
It must be remembered, however, that in March, 1917, a group of 11 "willful men" in the Senate conducted a successful filibuster to prevent the arming of merchant ships as requested by President Wilson, to combat the unrestricted submarine warfare declared by Germany. After conferring with Attorney-General Gregory, Wilson, on his own authority, ordered the ships armed.
If, by some chance, the Wheeler-Nye bloc in the Senate (there are about 11 men in this group, by way of coincidence) is able to block legislation, Roosevelt may follow Wilson's course and have the ships armed without consent of Congress. If so, it will not be the first time he has resorted to such action in order to get things done. Witness the sending of American troops to Iceland, and the transfer of 50 destroyers to British command—both without the consent of Congress, but with the approval of the press and the public.
There is every reason to believe that the American people will again support the President if such a move is necessary. We are becoming tired of the idiotic spectacle of a nation clinging to an antiquated act in the attempt to remain neutral, at the same time showing a complete lack of neutrality by the Lend-Lease Act, and the attacks on the Nazi regime by press and radio. Why maintain a neutral front when Germany, by attacks on our merchant ships and war ships, outside the defined war zone, shows nothing but contempt for our protestations of neutrality?
Not particularly flattered was the bride whose prospective husband fainted three times at his wedding.
A 73-year-old woman in Chicago sued her 86-year-old husband for divorce after a year because he deceived her about his age. He told her that he was only 80. She must have been shocked when she learned that the gay young blade was really an old man.
A recent thunderstorm in Los Angeles frightened more than 200 dogs away from home. Dogs, who seldom appreciate Independence Day celebrations, must really have quailed when Nature let loose with her fireworks.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol.39 Thursday, Oct.23, 1941 No.29
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.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the west end of the ballroom, Memorial Union. All interested in verse are invited to attend.-John Waggoner, president.
FRESHMEN; The freshman campaign of P.S.G.L. begins tonight with a meeting in Room 104 Green Hall at 8 o'clock. All interested in helping are urged to attend.
—Art Partridge, secretary.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... Stan Stauffer
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Charles Pearson
Editorial Associates: Bill Feeney, Floyd Decaire,
Mary Frances McAnaw
Feature Editor ... Betty West
Managing Editor ... Chuck Elliott
Campus Editors ... Heidi Viets, Orlando Epp
Sports Editor ... Clint Kanaga
Society Editor ... Jean Fees
News Editor ... Glee Smith
Sunday Editor ... Milo Farneti
United Press Editor ... David Whitney
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Rock Chalk Talk
By HEIDI VIETS
The perfect picture—an 8:30 class where each student is intently reading his copy of the new "Sour Owl." The professor starts to lecture. The students flick pages and smile. The professor gives up, goes out to invest 2 pennies in an "Owl" of his own, and comes back to join the chuckclers.
The new streamlined magazine's boosters say it's the answer to campu prayers. The students—over skeptical, even about their prayers—are waiting to see.
The "Owl" will take off as soon as students hit the Hill tomorrow morning For further information call your favorite organized house tonight. There a surprise in store.
Cigars were passed at the Phi Delt house last night, and housemother Mrs J. H. Kreamer wore a typical pin-put-out corsage. The couple-Johny Jenkins and Shirley Wasson. Jenkins was amazed. The cigars were two for a nickel; the whole affair was a hoax.
After dinner a fraternity brother phoned Dick Chubb, Beta, who has also been occupying Shirley's time, and told him the news. He took it well, but sounded happier after Jenkins himself got on the line and explained, "All a joke, Dick."
Seen later last night—Jenkins and Wasson laughing the whole thing off.
Enough to make your hair stand on end!
On many of the defense projects encountered by the Bell System, the work sheets—showing telephone facilities needed and time allowed-would make a good, conservative engineer's hair stand on end.
For example, take the Navy's huge new air base near Corpus Christi, Texas, which covers 14,500 acres, includes 29 separate flying fields and 431 buildings. Closely connected with the base are Defense Housing projects for 1700 families.
But telephone engineers and construction men took hold proceeded to shatter records—completed their huge task in seemingly impossible time. For men with the "will to do," there's a real thrill in such Bell System work!
Imagine the complex problems involved in planning telephone facilities for this new "city" where formerly there were sand dunes—in obtaining and installing miles and miles of wire and cable, switchboards, telephones by the thousand.
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