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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
FLAGGING INTEREST
There was cause for celebration on the campus Saturday when our football team defeated Washington U. of St. Louis, 19 to 6. Attendance at the game was slightly over 5,000, a good turnout considering the inclement weather. But, what this article is primarily concerned with is, how many of the spectators noticed the American flags at the top of the north end of Memorial Stadium?
First, they were dirty and faded until almost colorless. Second, both flags looked as though a pack of jaguars had been fighting for possession of them. They were virtually in ribbons. Along both sides of the stadium were the banners of Big Six conference schools, all clean and colorful and proper. Why, then, were the American flags displayed in such disgraceful condition?
We have a good team this year, and attendance at the games may be better than last year. Consequently, for the sake of students and visitors, the stadium should present a good appearance. Beaten-up national banners like those on display Saturday will not add much to the appearance.
THE RUSSIAN WAR, 1941—and 1812
From day to day historians are squirming in their chairs and trying to forecast the outcome of the German campaign in Russia on the basis of Napoleon's costly experience of 1812-13.
A strong note of similarity is detectable in the methods used by the Russians one hundred years ago and their tactics now. It is still a Russian principle to wear the enemy down by rearguard action and spasmodic retreats. For evidence we have the battle of Leningrad, in which it has been reported about eight times in the last three weeks that the Russians were retreating and the Germans taking over. Leningrad is still not actually in German hands, and some observers do not expect it to fall this winter.
Resemblance is again notable in the way Russian morale is kept up and often increased in fervor by the many encounters with the enemy—encounters which merely prevent the Germans from attaining complete mastery of the situation. Just as in 1812, the Russians deem it a victory even if the enemy makes a gain but suffers a slight setback somewhere else as a result.
As in the Napoleonic campaign, the fact that their fatherland has been invaded is sufficient to instill them with a spirit of fanaticism too great to allow even the hardships of campaigning to break their courage.
Napoleon went into Russia amidst repercussions from his Austrian campaign of 1809, which had shaken materially the faith of his higher ranking officers concerning the emperor's infallibility of judgment. There is no sound basis for assuming that Hitler lacks the wholehearted support of his staff. The Hess incident seems to be about the nearest thing to it, but we've never seen anything that looks like proof.
If Hitler loses in Russia the defeat will be attributed to the combined resistance of the Russians and the severity of the Russian winters. But that is not what defeated Napoleon. The first frost did not come until the 27th of October in that fatal year of 1812. Sharp, cold nights, we are told, did not occur until November 28. Bona-
parte's losses were brought about by the utter want of discipline in the French army. So far as we know the Germans have absolute control of the morale and discipline of the goose-steppers.
What we have yet to see is whether Hitler will actually come through with the flag of victory. If he should fail to win before the rigors of winter set in, will he come back with a new expedition in the spring? If so, he will be copying the French emperor. It is only a matter for guessing, but if Jack Frost beats Adolf this winter, it seems to be a safe bet that he'll be back in there with the first breath of spring.
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A thief who entered a home in Topeka by turning the key, absent-mindedly left in the front door, stole nothing, but left an expensive flashlight on a chair in the room.
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Melbourne, Australia, now has women streetcar conductors.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Wednesday, Oct. 8,1941 No.18
Quack tryouts, 8:00 tonight, in the Robinson gym--Margaret Whitehead, president.
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.
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.
The Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega will hold its weekly meeting Wednesday evening, Oct. 8, in the Pine Room at 9 o'clock in the evening. All old members are urged to attend, and any man interested in the organization is invited.
The functions and the freedom of newspapers in war time will be discussed in Journalism building,102, Wednesday morning by Charles V. Stansell, associate editor of the Kansas City Star. Mr. Stansell will speak at 8:30 and at 10:30 o'clock.
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY. The School of Pharmacy will hold its annual picnic at 3:30 p.m. Thursday south of the Hill near the intramural field. All students of the School of Pharmacy are invited to attend.
OWL SOCIETY: Meeting in Kansas room, Memorial union, Thursday, Oct. 9, 4:30—Howard Sells, secretary.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be at room 415, Watson Library Thursday afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00 for personal conferences. -Matt Heuertz, member of Newman Club public committee.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... Stan Stauffer
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Charles Pearson
Editorial Associates: Bill Feeney, Floyd Decaire,
NEWS STAFF
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
Re-write Editor .. Kay Bozarth
Coy Editors: Anne Nettels Mary Margaret Gray
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Business Manager Frank Baumgartner
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By HEIDI VIETS
Phi Delt funny stuff took the form of mouse-chasing Monday night. Hecklers Roy Edwards, Lacy Haynes, and Chuck Elliott put a mouse in Bob Jensen's bed, an upper. After Jensen had retired, Haynes went out on the porch to check up on the trick.
"What did you do with the mouse in your bed?" Haynes asked.
"Kicked him out," was the nonchalant answer. Jensen thought it was a nonsense remark, but just then the little gray beastie ran up his leg. With a nightmarish scream he leaped up, scaring the mouse down to the lower berth where Sam Kneale was sleeping. Kneale's surprised yell was enough to convince everyone that mystery stalked the sleeping porch. From then on the hubbub was general.
The men sniffed and worried until at last Frank Eaton, Carruth strong man, came to the rescue. He battered down the door to the room, turned off the motor, and extinguished the offensive odor.
A peculiar odor spread over Carruth hall Sunday night, and nothing could be done about it. The unwelcome aroma came from a motor which was burning up in a room to which no key could be found.
Eaton will soon become a part of Uncle Sam's army, where he expects his powerhouse tactics to come in handy.
Sigma Kappa pledges staged a lockout instead of a walkout last Saturday afternoon. While actives attended the football game, freshmen ransacked actives' rooms, hiding shoes and cosmetics. Then when the actives came home, jubilant over Jayhawker victory, they found that the doorknob had been removed and they were locked out of their own house.
Certain pledges, late for the fray, gained admittance by pecking out a secret code on the doorbell. Later the freshmen smuggled in dates for a prearranged buffet supper and hour dance in the chapter house, in spite of a spirited tug of war. Next six Phi Delts came over, deftly crashed the party.
Outside the actives seethed with indignation. They withdrew to plan an attack, and finally took over the house about 10 o'clock after pledges had evacuated in small groups.
The reward for the pledges' innovation in walkouts was not disappointing. It came the next morning, beginning before dawn, and Sigma Kappa freshmen tell of a wholesale lack of appetite for Sunday breakfast.
Joe Brown, Sigma Nu, wonders who paid for the "Vote for Joe Brown" advertisement in Sunday's Kansan. He had long ago given up his Rose Bowl drive, and the ad came to him as surprise.
Not that he wouldn't like a free trip to California. But Joe wants to know who among his friends or enemies has become his self-styled advertising manager.
Now You Tell One---
Gems from the New Yorker brought by carrier pigeon to the Kansan for the late city edition.
"Rich, Beautiful Prose Department. (From the New York Herald Tribune.)
Oyster juice of soft fawn gray is new as today for a cocktail beginning. Serve it frigid with each little glass tucked deep in its bowl of shaved ice. Zest it with lemon—no vinegar, which would destroy delicacy of the oyster flavor, the salt sweetness of its aroma. If it's oyster juice cocktail as we suggest today, sip it slowly, let it prolong the anticipation of the good dinner to follow, extending it like an impudent little page carrying the brocaded train of his lady."
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(from the Los Angeles Times)
The warm night took the starch out of a battery of fur coats that showed up at the Lily Pons concert.
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"Fitch, McEachron and Cole Mortuary Ask Those Whom We Have Served (From an advertisement in the Omaha World Herald) Oh, we wouldn't want to bother them."
"The Well Shod Boy (With a Package Of Band-Aid For
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(With a Package Of Band-Aid For John Greenleaf Whittier)
Blessings On thee; little man
With thine oxford brogues of tan
With tine arches held so fast
And thine orthopedic last;
With thy red lip, redder still
Where the dentist rests his drill;
With the smile that makes a sheath
For thy rows of cared for teeth;
Though hast all that cash can buy
For the ear and nose and eye.
Blessings on thee, well-shod boy!
Modern science gives thee joy.
Oh for boyhood's painless play
Schick tests almost every day,
Health that follows all the rules,
Hygiene taught in all the schools:
Of the telltale morning cough,
Of the rash that won't wash off,
When to play and when to rest,
Where the tonsil builds its nest,
When to wear thy rubber ar'tics
Whenit's death to take cathartics.
Hypochondria's a joy,
Blessings on thee, worried boy!
scales;
Every evening do thy sums,
Stimulate the lazy gums;
All too soon thy feet may lose
The rare benefit of shoes,
All too soon your sire, though
Cherriily them, my little man,
Lockjaw is an also-ran.
Every morning clean thy nails,
Check thy weight on bathroom
willing,
May turn up without a shilling.
Ah that thy could's know thy joy,
Ere it passes, well shod boy!
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—E.B.W. "