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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
C.A.A.—SAFE AND SANE
THE University of Kansas may take another bow, since its civilian flight training program has helped to create a high national record in air training safety. No injuries have marred the University's flight training program since its inception.
That such training is comparatively safe as most other University activities is demonstrated in a tangible form by the recent reduction—the sixth since the national program was started of rates on life and accident insurance for student pilots.
It serves to demonstrate, also, that, far from being considered as an element of defense training alone, flying in modern and suitably equipped planes is among the safest of activities in modern life.
The excellent type of instruction and training given by those in charge of the program, of course, has made this splendid safety mark possible. The C.A.A. reports that trainees in the various schools of the country have flown more than 6,200,000 miles for each fatality.
In setting up such a program, the administration of the University has shown itself to be far-sighted, providing training in a career which is certain to be much in demand when the present emergency has ceased.
FROM POET TO GOVERNOR
So Rex Tugwell is going to be governor.
He's giving up his short-time job as chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. Before that, he was expounding his theories of economy in magazines and newspapers, and experimenting with the city tax budget of New York. From 1931 to 1938, while an undersecretary in the United States department of agriculture, Rex was generally regarded in Washington as "Roosevelt's No. 1 embarrassment." He became governor last Friday.
With the island of Puerto Rico a key position in the plan for defending the Carribbean sea and the Panama canal, his position in the federal government again becomes important. The measure of cooperation, in view of his past record, which he will give to those in charge of defense is still undetermined.
Friend and foe alike agree that his career has been spectacular, and certainly has not lacked variety. Although he personally considers himself a conservative, his acts while an undersecretary of agriculture certainly were not calculated to agree with those of most conservatives. His "planned economy" speech startled orthodox economists with unusual plans for bringing America out of the depression.
Still handsome enough to turn women's heads, still enthusiastic about his theories, and ready to go to bat for them, Tugwell is 50, divorced, likes canoeing, and will talk whenever he can get anyone to listen to him.
Primarily an academician, having taught economics in the University of Washington, and Columbia university, since his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1915, he has mingled freely with socialists and Civil Liberties union members. He is enthusiastic about Russia, but is unsympathetic with Soviet plans for revolution. "Force never solves anything," he says.
What will he do in Puerto Rico to make the islanders' economic status better? One wonders, after witnessing the NRA, the Tugwellfathered AAA, the Resettlement administration, and the dozen other plans which he offered America as a panacea for its depression problems.
Anyway, with a little change in locale, he can repeat the poem he wrote while a college student, and try again:
"I'm sick of a nation's stenches;
I'm sick of propertied Czars;
I have dreamed my great dream of their passion.
I have gathered my tools and my charts; My plans are fashioned and practical;
I shall roll up my sleeves and Make America over!"
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1941 No.7
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.
K-Club will meet in K-Room in Robinson gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night.—Knute Kresie, president.
--tion which should involve lengthy period spent in the mountains or at the sea shore near a fairly quiet summer resort populated by no one over twenty-eight.
The Happy Workshop will be open on September 23 from 7:30 to 10:00 o'clock p.m. All students who are interested in copper, silmithingm, wood carving, or any other hobby, please meet in room 316, Frank Strong Hall—Marjorie Whitney, chairman, design department.
SCABBARD AND BLADE: Important meeting on Scabbard and Blade on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1941, at 7:30 in the Kansas Room of Memorial Union—Benjamin M. Matassarin, captain.
Jay James will meet Wednesday at 4:30, m the Pine Room. Please bring money and tickets from the football game.-Genevieve Harman, Pres.
Swiss Flag Swingers see Mr. Wiley, Room 302 Frank Strong Hall, Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 24-26, between hours of 1:30 and 5 p.m.
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.
JAY JANES: Jay Janes will meet at 4:30, Wednesday afternoon in the Pine Room. Please bring tickets and money from the football game. Signed, Geneive Harman, president.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be at room 415, Watson Library every Thursday from 1:00 to 5:00 for personal conferences.—Bernard Hall, vice-president, Newman Club.
MATHEMATICAL COLLOQUIUM: Dr. R. S. Pate will be the speaker at the first meeting of the Mathematical Colloquium on Thursday, September 25, at 4:30 in 213 Frank Strong Hall; his subject will be Multigroups: General Theory. The colloquium is open to all who are interested.-G. Baley Price, for the Colloquium Committee, Mathematics Department.
FRESHMEN: All Freshmen interested in the Freshman Commission of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. will meet in the Pine Room of the Union Building at 4:30 on Thursday, September 25.-Ed Price, chairman of joint Y.M.-Y.W. Freshman Commission Committee.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The first examination of the four to be given this school year will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 8:30. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, Sept. 29, 30, Oct.1. Only juniors and seniors are eligible. Seniors who pass this examination may qualify for graduation in June, 1942.—J. B. Virtue.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Charles Pearson
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Mary Frances, McAney
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Rock Chalk Talk
Freshmen of some eight houses wandered around in a daze today after going A W.O.L. last night, and either taking the consequences or worrying about penalties still to come until wee hours this morning. Truant pladge classes were Gamma Phi, Sig Alph, Kappa, Phi Gam, Pi Phi, Phi Psi, Delta Tau, and Sigma Nu.
Beta Theta Pi jumped the gun on other freshman classes by having their walkout Sunday night.
One evidence of walkout night was the front of the Phi Psi house. Before their freshman left with the Pi Phi's for State Lake, they draped the Indiana street homestead with you-know-what-kind-of paper.
Sigma Nu pledges pulled a fast one on their active chapter. As they walked out, they took with them the big mounted moosehead, shot by Teddy Roosevelt, that used to hang in the front hall. The message they left read, "Ask the Delta Gammas."
It turned out that the bright boys had formally presented the moose-head to the neighbor sorority, with a speech politely offering it as a gift from the active Sigma Nu's.
When the water was finally turned on, no one remembered that the third floor empty faucets had been left on. The boys thought of it when water began to drip through the second floor ceiling.
Freshman-wrought havoc at the house of Delta Tau Delta included absence of electricity, water, china, and silverware of all sorts. Mattresses and bedding were tossed in a heap. To make matters worse, the pledges had kidnapped an active, Bill Perdue.
Pledges returned from the city this morning to find all their neckties in festoons here and there, and a houseful of actives who would not speak to them even to say, "Boo."
Gamma Phi old-timers, who had long since been through walkout night and knew its perils, laughed when they overheard Barbara Taylor telling her fellow pledges how to swallow an egg. They never had a chance to use the advice.
Another Gamma Phi freshman trick was sending the chapter a telegram, 33 cents collect, relating what good girls they, the pledges, are, and how lucky the Gamma Phi's are to have such a class.
In traditional manner, the Sig Alph's awakened their neighbor sororities on West Campus road this morning with paddle smacks and cries of "Give him the board."
Ah, this is the week when freshman hearts are happy.
Summer Jobs Run Gamut From Drone to Drudge
Summer jobs are supposed to be edifying to the young man-about-college. They are intended in parental eyes to give one an air of experience and a bravery-while-under-fire look. They are supposed to be character building and truly cute. But they are not. Summer jobs for the college student are primarily a menace to his well being.
A student who has just gone into retreat from nine months at the university needs a complete mental and physical rehabilitation which should involve a
If he can not manage to spend three months getting back his strength in such a place, the solitude of his home will do, providing he can have certain comforts, among which are a full ice-box, a car with no strings attached to it, and enough money to lead a moderately active social life. This is the least his family can do for him.
These positions of work which all college men and women are forced to accept during the summer are many and varied, but they have one unvarying similarity. They are degrading to his self respect. No one thinks or can be coerced into thinking that a student can do any task which might not also be given to a low grade moron. He drops his calculus and algebra in June to sweep out a grocery store during July and August. He has to store away his superior knowledge of petroleum engineering to trop around an oil field like a common day laborer, blistering the back of his well educated neck.
He probably knows more about business than anyone else in the School of Business, but where does his Price and Distribution lead him? To a filling station, but verily. If he's an incipient doctor, he usually merely has to find some task beneath him, and if he's a lawyer, he may have the chance to dust out the law office of some doddering old fool in his home town.
The secons of liberal arts and sciences usually drone away those lethargic summer days standing on their fallen arches in some sweat shop of a department store. Half the time they spend watching the clock, and the other half in making the wrong change for a string of customers who fail to appreciate their superior station in life.
The crux of the matter, in an editorial sort of way, is that someone ought to do something about the problem of the summer job, but soon College students, fresh from the vaults of knowledge need positions of responsibility in the summer time.
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