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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
HERE AND THERE
The student council at the University of Nebraska has laid out a program for the year. Among the more noteworthy plans of the council are these four projects:
2. Improving housing conditions for men by helping establish additional cooperative houses.
3. Improving working conditions for men students.
4. Sponsoring forums on international and national affairs to get rid of a tendency among University students toward the provincial attitude.
The Daily Nebraskan feel that these are needed reforms, and congratulates the council for its attitude.
It is unfortunate that our own MSC has been unable to tear its attention from politics long enough to chart a similar course of action for the year. Any or all of the reforms proposed by the Nebraska council might well be used at Kansas. These plans, if acted upon, would be of lasting benefit to students.
MSC and WSGA are behind the Statewide Activities Commission in its efforts to publicize the University through its county correspondents. These correspondents have done a good job, and call attention to the University in the county newspapers all over the state. Other projects suggested at Nebraska have received little or no attention from our councils.
Some cooperative houses have been established at the University. MSC was active in support of Battenfeld, Carruth, and Templin halls, but displayed no interest in the formation of such cooperative houses as the Rock Chalk and the Jayhawk. Cooperative houses which exist on the campus are not adequate to meet the demand for them.
Working conditions for men students are deplorable. Waiters in campus restaurants work as many as five hours daily for their board. Board seldom amounts to more than $1 a day, which makes an average wage rate of 20 cents an hour. Just another problem which MSC might try to solve, if it finds time.
Forums, which have been tried on the campus, have not been particularly successful. Perhaps it is lack of publicity, perhaps lack of interest on the part of students, but a campaign for better forums for the information of students would be a commendable thing and would have full support of the Daily Kansan
Maybe it is not too late for our MSC and WSGA to adopt some program of constructive work and redeem themselves from the spell of lethargy and petty squabbling into which they have fallen.
TAKE LESSON FROM ENGLAND
England's price-fixing plan has not worked, according to observers, and the proposed legislation before congress will not work either, unless some way is found to stabilize wages along with other price controls.
The British government had a law all ready when the present war broke out. The law went into effect at once. Commodities were controlled, ceilings put on individual items, rationing was applied, and private enterprise was
severely regimented. Yet in the first four months of the war, prices advanced more than in the first 15 months of the first World War. Prices today are still higher than for a similar period during the first World War.
England attempted to remedy the evils of her price-fixing law afterward, instead of anticipating them. Wages were not made a part of the price control, and administrators of the law now acknowledge that this was a serious mistake. The country found that price control cannot be effective as long as labor and wages are outside price control.
Bernard Baruch, who handled a similar problem for the United States government during World War I, recently told a congressional committee that price fixing was necessary, but "it must be piecemeal. I think you first have to put a ceiling on the whole structure, including wages, rents and farm prices, up to the parity level and no higher, then to adjust separate price schedules upward separately, if necessary, where justice or governmental policy requires."
Congress should study the English law and its mistakes, before committing itself to a final price-fixing act.-R.W.D.
Horses who have survived to this modern age must put up with the changes progress has wrought. A new Colorado ruling insists that they have reflectors on their tails at night.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, Oct. 12, 1941 No. 21
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.
The next regular meeting of the Men's Student Council will be on Monday, Oct. 20, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine room—Fred Lawson, secretary.
KU KU: There will be a meeting of the Ku Ku organization, Monday night, 9:00 p.m., Union lounge Bring your dues.-Roy Edwards, president.
NOTICE TO PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: Premedical students who are interested in making application for admission to the University of Kansas School of Medicine for the freshman class of 1942-43 should submit applications as soon as possible. Application forms can be obtained from the School of Medicine Office, Room 10, Frank Strong Hall. O. O. Stoland, secretary.
DIRECTORY: Copy for the Student Directory is now being prepared. Students who have not filed addresses and telephone numbers at the Registrar's Office should do so at once. James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
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By HEIDI VIETS
Not only grid battling went on in Lincoln yesterday. Sidelights included Clint Kanaga, Kansan sports editor, stewing during lulls in Jayhawk Husker action, wondering what Fate was doling out to his predicted winners—Notre Dame, Clemson, Navy, Fordham, Northwestern, Minnesota, and others.
Then Kansas students wondering why the band in Lincoln swinging out dance music last night looked so much like Clayton Harbur's.
Answer—it was.
Templin hall's Bob Mann has fast become a political dynamo on the Hill. A week ago he went to the Sigma Chi house to a meeting of the Pachacamac party. The boys gave him the glad hand, elected him treasurer of party freshmen.
Back at the hall he decided to switch political affiliation. He phoned Bob McClure, president of Pachacamac, and notified him of his change of heart. Then on Thursday night Mann went enthusiastically to a P.S.G.L. get-together, where he was voted into the vice-presidency of P.S.G.L freshmen, which also makes him their assistant campaign manager.
Mann's present thoughts may well be turned toward sorrow that there is no third party in the men's politics.
Band members who beat cock-crow with brass blare and formation practice Friday morning may not be sorry that the Nebraska trip is the only follow-football excursion the University band will make this year. Travel is fun, but sleep is sweet.
Two freshmen women got together the first week of school and measured their calves so that they could later check up on the effects of daily hill-climbing. Now one of them finds that she has added one half inch to her measurement. She has spent only about one sixteenth of her college career trudging up Lawrence slopes.
Do the statistics bother you, girls?
To The University Daily Kansan University of Kansas
Gentlemen:
I wish to bring to your attention an incident which has occurred at various football and basketball games during the past few years, and which I am sure occurs through lack of forethought and with no intention of disrespect.
I refer to the moment when the band is ready to play a march or a pep tune, someone in the audience calls for "Billboard" or some other old tune which they may happen to know. I would like to remind our students that "Billboard," though it may have been used in their high school bands, has never been a part of the University of Kansas Band repertoire and never will be. I have no dislike for the number other than the fact that it has been terribly overused.
It is not complimentary to any pep organization to have such a thing happen; nor is it complimentary to the individual who may be possessed with the desire to disturb those about him now and then. The band is a part of the student body. It is a vital part of the pep organizations and it never refuses to take part in such activities. On the contrary, it is always very willing and ready to do its part in carrying on the traditions of the University. I believe it deserves the respect of the students and humbly request that the students use a little more consideration before making such remarks as those mentioned above.
Respectfully submitted,
RUSSELL E.WILEY. Director of Bands.
Current Discus Throwers---- For More Dope See Your Local Juke Box
Chained to winter rocking chairs over college campuses this season will be disciples of all forms of modern American music or reasonable facsimiles thereof.
For personal record here-sider Jan Savitt's "I See A Million People" and Cootie Williams as he takes out several of Goodman's men in "The West End Blues."
sonal record libraries the short haired boys will con-
For Will Bradley, Terry Allen sings "Call It Anything, It's Love" very nicely, and Ray McKinley with the same band is pleasing his peoples with "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
Everyman's favorite Dinah Shore is sweet and low in "All Alone" and "Love Me Or Leave Me," making the boys in the back room happy again. Barnet is jangling nerves and jumping platter sales with "Mun-
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