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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1941.
The KANSAN Comments...
After Politics—Action
The Men's Student Council, at its meeting Monday night, gave signs of returning to life and normal activity after a considerable lapse of time. Forgotten for the moment was the political bickering that has marred previous meetings of the year.
The council heard the decision of the Supreme Court which held that Watermulder is president pro tempore of MSC, with all powers of president, but that actually no vacancy on the council exists. This may put an end to the squabbling that has prevented important action.
Part of the cause for this confusion was conflict in wordage and meaning in the MSC constitution. At the beginning of the school year, a one-man committee had been appointed to revise the constitution, but with the decision of the Supreme Court this man was barred from the council. So a three-man committee has been set up to accomplish this long-needed action.
Of no obvious value, but of interest to students, is the measure to revive and publish various old songs of the University which have fallen into disuse. More valuable was the $135 voted to the Student Statewide Activities Commission for promotion of interest in the University.
Other committees were appointed to study student housing, to work on a men students' activity honor point system, and a committee proposed to investigate labor conditions of working students. Most difficult to understand was the reasoning behind the decision not to vote upon the labor bill until a later session of the council.
If the plan is for committees to be appointed merely to create a favorable impression of the council, with no work intended, this meeting is no more noteworthy or commendable than any of the preceding meetings. If the committees appointed on Monday really work on their problems, a step in the right direction has been taken.
Airplane Armament
Last week's news from England reveals that the newer models of the Hawker Hurricanes, British fighter planes, now carry either twelve machine guns or four cannon as compared to eight machine guns carried earlier in the war. Armament of the Hurricanes and Messerschmitts of World War II differs as greatly from the armament of the Spads and Fokkers of World War I as do the airplanes themselves.
The first world war had been fought for nearly a year before the various nations involved took the airplane seriously as a new means of combat. The first use of offensive weapons in airplanes was confined to revolvers, automatic pistols, and automatic rifles. First step in the use of machine guns was to take up an ordinary machine gun, the observer operating it from his shoulder.
Few attempts were made to adapt fixed machine guns to airplanes, as the pilot could make little use of a gun firing forward because of the propeller. It was not until the synchronizer was developed; a device whereby the firing of a machine gun was so timed that the bullets passed between the revolving blades of the propeller, that the mounted machine gun came into general use.
The first successful synehronizer to be put into general use was invented by the Germans and was used on the Fokker planes in 1915. The
synchronizer was soon adopted by the Allies, who applied it to the Nieuport and the Sopwith Camel, single seated fighters each mounting two guns firing through the arc of the propeller, which later became standard armament for World War fighting planes.
By the end of the World War, most heavily armed combat plane was the De Haviland in use by the Allies, mounting two machine guns firing forward and one and sometimes two swivel machine guns mounted on the rim of the rear cockpit.—J.H.
An Associated Press story from Belleville, Ill., says that taverns still offer hard boiled eggs at a cent each, but customers still have to pay a nickel. The following itemized account explains the price.
Hard boiled eggs, 1 cent.
Defense tax, 1 cent.
Rooster service, 1 cent.
Wear and tear on hen, 2 cents.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1941 No.28
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.
TAU BETA Pi. Tau Beta Pi will meet tonight at 8:15 in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. New members will be considered and discussed. All members please be present.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Father Weisenberg will be in room 415, Watson library, Thursday afternoon, from 1 to 5.
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.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS: Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish will be given at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 25. in Frank Strong 107. Students who have had at least two units (years) of credit in any one of these languages are eligible for the examination in that language. Students who pass the examination are not required to take further work for the Bachelor degree. Dictionaries are permitted.
Registration must be made at the College office by 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23.—W. H. Shoemaker.
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Gamma Phi Texas-bred pledge, Betty Brook, is amazed by Kansas dancing and has even suffered a mixup of hepcat words. At a midweek she learned to dance off the beat, but she misunderstood the term.
Confused, she told the girls at the house. "Down in Houston we never dance off the beam. We're always on the beam down there."
Fur flew between the Pi Phi and Phi Psi houses Saturday night and Sunday until a date tangle supreme was straightened out as merely a case of mistaken identity.
It seemed that Jack Kirkham, had called Barbara Batchelor for a date. By mistake Barbara Benton came to the phone, talked to him and made plans for a date Saturday night. She thought she was speaking to Jack Cadden.
Came Saturday night. Came Kirkham. Miss Batchelor was out on date. Miss Benton was upstairs waiting for Cadden to show up. Kirkham and Benton each tore hair, heaping curses upon Pi Phi's and Phi Psi's respectively.
Sunday afternoon the situation came out in its true light, and the sky was cleared. The Jack's and the Barbara's are back on friendly terms.
The Kappa's are losing ground and throwing dirt at the Theta's, all because of the weather. The terrace in front of the Gower Place sorority house is sliding down the hill. However, the lawn is now undergoing a facelifting process to keep it in place.
Every year the terrace has moved downward a little, but excessive rains this year caused a literal landslide.
Don't forget to save an hour's reading time, 20 cents, and a spot in your drawer for the new "Sour Owl," which will be on sale Friday. It promises to be one of those things you'll want to show your grandchildren.
To the University Daily Kansan:
Cannot something be done to stop the wanton killing of migrating birds that has become such a fad in the last few weeks? Not only blackbirds, but martens, grackles, starlings, and woodpeckers are being killed by the dozen, and many more are maimed, the helpless prey of cats.
Neighbors complain, the police demonstrate, and the blasting resumes ten minutes later.
A grown man sprawled in a lawn chair and firing a shot gun into a dense flock of migrating wild birds must certainly be motivated by the same noble spirit of the chase that spurs the straffer of civilians and the bomber of peasants.-FRANCYESKA FRAZIER, 1608 Edgehill Road.
The Open Mouth Policy--- It Only Takes One To End It All
Famous last words culled from selected collegiate biographies in a graphic nation-wide survey;
"I guess I'll go to bed now and get up at 5 a.m. to study for this quiz . . . . "
"What if I do have a midsemester tomorrow? A man's got to have a little relaxation . . . . "
"Now leave me alone! One more beer tonight isn't going to hurt me . . . "
"Say Joe . . It was me who borrowed your tux last night. I just heard you were looking for it . . ."
"Don't act like a fool . . Of course I can drive home. That's not a stop sign; it's a picket fence!"
"Well (heh, heh), we must be out of gas. The car seems to be stopping. (heh, heh) . . . "
"And so I said to him, 'It's not that I don't want to come to your class, Prof. Johnston, it's just that I usually have a heart attack at 8:30 in the morning . . ."
"And I said to her, 'Joan, no girl can stand me up, and expect me to come crawling around for more! . . . "
"It isn't that I like to play those football parlays, father, but the other fellows get sore at you if you don't, and if you will just send me $10 more this month . . . "
"How was I supposed to know that he wanted us to buy a book for the course . . . "
"Why hello, Mother . . . I didn't exactly expect you to call this weekend. Well, no, I wasn't exactly in the city all weekend. You see, it was this way . . . "
"Listen you, stand up and call me that again! . . . "
"I told him if he sent me gardenias just once more, I'd join a convent . . . "
Music Room Concert Will Feature Faust
The opening work of the music room's Sunday afternoon opera concerts will be Gounod's Faust, Teresa Comley, director of programs, revealed today.
Faust will begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the music room of the Memorial Union. Other operas will be presented on alternate Sunday afternoons.
The concert is open to the public.