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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1941
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The KANSAN Comments...
HITLER—FROM LOW COMEDY PART TO VILLAIN
It is rather interesting to note the change in tactics of the press in its campaign against Hitler. Some years ago when the Austrian came upon the political scene in Germany, the press tried derision. Cartoonists inevitably showed him with one hand in the breast of his coat, the other extended at arm's length in a 45 degree angle. They emphasized the toothbrush mustache, and showed him with his mouth widely distended.
In editorials he was laughed at, also. Editors failed to see how the German people could be carried away by a little man with straggly hair, who shrieked so violently in his bad German. They said he was silly, and held their sides and laughed at his antics. Then they almost forgot him.
He began to invade countries "as planned" and the press called him a mad man, and his new order the dream of a maniac. Enterprising magazines, mostly in the pulp field, showed that by his horoscope he couldn't possibly live past April of 1939, or May of 1940, or January of 1941. But he did. They also predicted—they had access to facts which assured them—that he would commit suicide any day, now.
But since the war with England and Russia, they have changed tactics. Cartoonists now show him with grim countenance, his hobnailed boots dripping gore. He is the villain now; the horror element.
Sometimes they show him with a beaten look, but usually he looks defiant. Editorial writers pelad with the nation to awaken and view the menace in the cold light of fact. They say we can't bargain with Hitler, we must fight him to the bitter end. And they are right, but it took them a long time to wake up.
CRAZES, AND HOW THEY GROW
George Hopkins, of San Antonio, Texas, is $50 richer now that eight trained mountain climbers have pulled him off the top of Devil's Tower in Wyoming. George, as you know, got there via parachute in order to win a bet, and win it he did—the hard way.
Of course, this was a foolish bid for publicity and should be forgotten. But it won't be. The American people are too given to crazes. Ping pong, mah-jong, chain letters, goldfish-gorging, miniature golf—all of them developing from some insignificant event into a matter of national proportions. And so George may be the pioneer of a new craze—the-win-$50-the-hardway-craze.
Here are a few news stories we may be reading soon:
New York—man wins $50 for getting a half Nelson on Gargantua. (Please omit flowers).
Berlin—man wins $50 for giving a speech in the Reichstag denouncing Hitler. He is survived by the following—
Chicago—man wins $50 for giving Joe Louis the hot-foot-(visitors not admitted).
Lawrence—student wins $50 for setting up liquor store and bar in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall.
Siberia—Siberia Technological Institute welcomes a transfer student from the University of Kansas.
Wyoming — George Hopkins wins $50 for jumping off the top of Devil's Tower without a parachute. He is still pulling himself together and has not yet given a statement to the press.
LIFE WITHOUT ZIPPERS
Apparently the threat of an epidemic or "gaposis" amongst the feminine citizenry these days is much more alarming to certain of our modish American misses than the thoughts of goose-stepping on Fifth Avenue. We have long been proud of our American women and their ability to look like a Schiaparelli on fifteen dollars a week. We have not, however, been able to forget the grandmothers and great-grandmothers who helped fill powder horns and clear fields, and who bore children and fought winter's cold and summer's heat. And because we still feel indebted, somehow, to those less-beautiful, less-well-groomed women of past generations, we can't help but feel a bit ashamed (and more than a little disgusted!) when our own modern women start bemoaning, of all things a life without zippers!
Sure, zippers are handy little gadgets. Freedom is a pretty nice thing to have, too—or so those other women thought. Of course, it takes more time to manipulate a hook and eye placket but that time is still our own to spend in whatever way we choose. Maybe the priorities board even remembered that. Perhaps the United States government thinks even life without zippers is better than life without hope.
B. J.S.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, Oct. 10, 1941 No.20
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 First Christian Church is sponsoring a skating party at the Roller-drome tonight from 10 to 12 p.m. Skaters will meet at the church, 10th and Kentucky, at 9:00 o'clock. Tickets are 25 cents.
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.
UNION ACTIVITIES: All people interested in Student Activities Committees apply at Student Activities office, Union Building, between 2:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon.—Fred Mitchelson, publicity manager, Union Activities.
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By HEIDI VIETS
Those men in red-and-black checked flannel shirts and blue denim jeans on campus today were members of the Rock Chalk Coop-20 of them in official uniforms, making a colorful splash on campus.
The outfits, characterized, say the men, by "Levi pants with lots of rivets," will be worn by the trusty twenty every Friday from now on out. If you should lose your calendar, you can check up on the passage of time by watching for the Rock Chalk boys in uniform.
Things were a bit fishy for Don Thompson at the A.T.O. house the other day. He went to get a drink from the refrigerated water tank on the third floor, but when he filled his little paper cup, he got goldfish as well as water. Ingenious pledges had stocked the water tank.
The "Belle Star" who held up the D.U. house last Sunday night was a Jayhawker from right here on the Hill.
When the D.U.'s came to the door, Mary pointed the gun and said, "This is a holdup." The men didn't know her, wondered what was the score. After some frenzied bickering, she asked for Gillie. Then the thriller turned commonplace, and he got his rifle.
Mary Robelene Scott, 1709 Mississippi, came back to Lawrence Sunday evening from a weekend at home in Columbus. While there, she got a .22 caliber rifle for Jim Gillie from nearby Joplin, Mo., his home. About 11 p.m. she went to deliver it.
Bob "Potty" Jensen, who had a mouse put to bed with him Monday night, Wednesday night found a dead squid for a bedfellow. From now on he will venture out on the Phi Delt sleeping porch with serious misgivings.
About 1 o'clock yesterday morning the long distance operator rang the Phi Psi house, asked for Ralph Miller and said, "Hollywood calling." It was enough to draw a crowd of Psi's, who knew the call would be from Ted North, Phi Psi alum now with Twentieth Century Fox.
The meeting was held at Wyandotte High School. New ideas in education were discussed. J. C. Bond, president of the teachers college of Kansas City, Mo., F. L. Schlagle, superintendent of Kansas City, Ks., schools, and J. F. Wellemeyer, principal of Wyandotte High School, were the speakers.
North, who had phoned to find out if Miller's injury in the Washington game had banged up his bad knee, was relieved to hear Miller's assurance, "I just had the wind knocked out of me, that's all."
Members attending were George Baxter Smith, dean of the school of education; J. W. Twente, professor of education; Henry A. Shenk, assistant professor of physical education; F. P. O'Brien, professor of education; and Harold F. Summers, assistant in the University high school.
AUTHORIZED SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
When the brothers invited him to come back to the Hill for a ball game, North promised that he would be here for either the Kansas State or Missouri tangle if at all possible. At present he is starting work on a movie with Jackie Cooper and Bonita Granville.
During tryouts for Quack club, women's swimming group, Wednesday night, a low-slung dog of a combination of breeds wandered into the gym and up to the pool. His actions indicated that some wise hound had advised, "Look at all the pretty girls, but don't jump in the water." The women report he couldn't even quack.
Phi Delta Kappa Men
Five members of Phi Delta Kappa national educational fraternity, attended a meeting of the Gamma field chapter of Phi Delta Kappa at Kansas City yesterday.
Misfortune also followed Jensen to dinner Wednesday. After the regular course had been served him, a waiter brought in an extra covered dish. Lifting the lid, Bob found a delicacy—a dead blackbird. Responsible for the appetizer was Roy Edwards.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, dance, Kan-sas room, 12:00 m.
Beta Theta Pi, dance, Union building, 12:00 m.
Christian Student Council of the Christian church, skating party, the Rollerdrome, 11:00 p. m.
Phi Gamma Delta, Chapter house,
12:00 m.
Saturday, October 11th Varsity, Union building, 12:00 m.
Wesley Foundation, Game open house, Ecke's hall, 10:30 p. m.
Pharmacy Students See Wholesale Drug Business on Screen
"Behind the Druggist" was the title of a sound film presented before the students of the School of Pharmacy at 11 o'clock this morning.
This picture was shown by Mr. V. A. Rankin, through the courtesy the McKesson-Faxon Drug Company of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Rankin was graduated from the School of Pharmacy here in 1892 and is now merchandising manager of that wholesale drug company.
Geologists to Visit Manhattan to Study Rocks and Fossils
Dr. W. H. Schoewe, J. M. Jewett, and John Frye of the Kansas Geological Survey; Mr. Claude Hibbard, Dyche museum; and Dr. A. B. Leonard of the Zoology department will spend Saturday in the vicinity of Manhattan studying Pleistocene, or glacial period, exposures. Also they will examine fish fossils of an earlier geologic period, which were discovered by Mr. Jewett. These formations are now visible because of a recent road excavation.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foster, Carbondale, visited their daughter Pat Foster at 1536 Tennessee Saturday.