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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1941
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The KANSAN Comments...
WHATISTHEKANSAN?
The University Daily Kansan is the official student publication of the University of Kansas. It is written, edited, and published by students, and its primary reading audience is the student body of the University. It seek at all times to please this audience. Naturally it is impossible, as the old saw indicates, to please all of you at all times. Certain issues present themselves, and a stand upon one side or the other must be taken. When these views conflict with your own, write a letter to the editor.
No anonymous letters will be accepted for publication. Your name must be signed; however, it will be withheld from publication at your request. Letters should not be more than 200 words in length.
The news staff of the Kansan strives to keep you informed at all times of latest news developments on the campus. The official bulletin is essential to students, as it contains information regarding meetings and requirements of the University.
If at times the Kansan seems less than perfect, which of course it will, we hope our readers will be charitable. We hope they will remember that it is being written by students who are trying to learn the business. Errors are to be expected. We appreciate having these slips called to our attention. Students in the department of journalism do this work on the side, for the most part, being fully enrolled in other courses. College credit is given only for key positions on the staff which demand a large expenditure of time and energy. Certain other positions are part of the responsibility of laboratory work in connection with journalism courses. When a student becomes proficient at one job he is moved to another, in order that he may have experience in all branches of journalistic work before he is graduated.
Perfection is our goal, but perfection is a thing seldom achieved, even by the most seasoned performers. We are trying to please you; your suggestion and constructive criticism will be of immeasurable benefit to us.
STUDENTS — TAXABLE PROPERTY
Betty and Joe College will be paying Uncle Sam, right along with Poppa and Momma, now that the senate has finally approved the tax bill to raise something like three and a half billions.
Poppa and Momma, of course, will get hit hardest, but the boys and girls on Mt. Oread are going to feel the pinch, too.
Unless he hitch-hikes home, it's going to cost him 5 per cent extra whether he rides a train, bus, plane or boat; if the fare is over 35 cents.
Most students won't be affected by the lowered income tax level—$1,500 for married couples, $750 for single persons. But—
He can't call up the girl friend back home-or Father for more currency, without finding Uncle Sam's collectors on the job. Ten per cent on long-distance calls is what he pays. If he maintains a phone in his home, a 5 per cent tax will be added on its monthly bill. You can't get away from it by sending a wire, either, for your Uncle Sammy will be around to add 10 per cent on that.
If Joe buys a musical instrument, probably there'll be 10 per cent added. Golf clubs cost extra, too. Radios, likewise. Washing machines are exempt, but what college girl ever bought a washing machine?
Those furs the Delta girls will be wearing 10 per cent extra. Fraternity pins will be
cheaper than engagement rings, since they do serve a double purpose, but new ones cost 10 per cent extra, anyhow.
Poker players find the ante up to 13 cents a pack—for Uncle Sam.
Movies and night clubs are included. If your show costs more than nine cents, you'll pay 10 per cent. Night clubs add 5 per cent to your bill.
If your landlady doesn't furnish the light bulbs, you'll pay 5 per cent more on your new ones.
And last, but not least—an added argument for parents against son's plan to own an automobile here on the Hill. There will be a $5 use tax on every jallopy, regardless of age, capacity for night life, or previous servitude.
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Living costs in the United States rose 1.3 percent in August.
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The Great Lakes produces 100 million pounds of fish annually.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, Sept. 21, 1941 No.6
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.
--is no great improvement over Gertrude Stein, the former is a name which that estimable lady sometimes uses in her calling. Ellis Bell was the penname of Emily Bronte who evidently preferred her readers to think of her as a big strapping male. Charles Dickens of Pickwick Papers fame wrote under the pseudonym of Boz. Short, horrible, and easy to remember.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The first regular meeting of the Men's Student Council will be on Monday, Sept. 22, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room.-Fred Larson, secretary.
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB: Former Girls' Glee Club members must report to Miss Peabody during try-outs to sign up for this year.-Virginia Gsell, president.
The Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega will hold its first meeting in the Pine Room of the Union Bldg. at 4:30, Monday, Sept. 22. All men who have ever been a member of the Boy Scout Organization, and who are interested in a program of service to themselves and others are invited to attend.
There will be an important meeting of the Ku Kus at 9:00 Monday night, Union lounge. All members who wish to be considered as active must be present—Roy Edwards, president.
K-Club will meet in K-Room in Robinson gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night.—Knute Kresie president.
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, silversmithing, wood carving, or any other hobby, please meet in room 316, Frank Strong Hall.. Marjorie Whitney, chairman, design department
Jay James will meet Wednesday at 4:36, 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.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
Publisher ... Stan Stauffer
Editor-in-Chief Charles Pearson
Editorial Associates: Bill Feeney, Floyd Decaire,
Feature Editor ... Betty West
EDITORIAL STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Charles Elliott
Campus Editors ... Heidi Viets, Orlando Epp
Sports Editor ... Clint Kanaga
Society Editor ... Jean Fees
News Editor ... Glee Smith
Sunday Editor ... Milo Farnett
United Press Editor ... David Whitney
Re-write Editor ... Kay Bozarth
Copy Editors: Anne Nettels, Mary Margaret Gray
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Business Manager Frank Baumgartner
Advertising Manager Jason Yordy
Rock Chalk Talk
Bv HEIDI VIETS
Campus parking regulations are going to the dogs. Friday a little poach of the slightly wire-haired variety was trotting about the Hill with a red parking ticket tied around his neck. According to the tag, his ticket number is 2317, and his offenses, "No tail light" and "Parking near fire plug."
Last seen, he was languishing wishfully on a bed of four-leafed clovers, apparently hoping a wave of good luck would wash away his brand new criminal record.
Phi Gam Don Nigg has a new and original attachment on his car—an apparatus for making his comments to pedestrians loud and forceful. He talks through a homemade microphone as he drives, and the sound is magnified and hurled to passers-by a speaker outside.
But it may be said to his credit that there has not yet been reported one case of his calling, "Hiya, babe."
What has become of the Sigma Chi band? Where is the disharmony dish of Tennessee street? For days the University has waited to hear whether this famous organization would continue its wild orgies another happy year. Because, no matter how tinny, the campus public loved it.
Trickery by Earl Clarke, D.U., caused Virginia Marshall, who had been going around with him, to have a blind date with the very same.
Virginia's Chi O roommate, Muriel Henry, goes with D.U. Jack Dunagin. It was Dunagin who first brought Virginia and Clarke together. Then Dunagin moved from the D.U. house to the Nu Sig house.
From his new location he called to ask Virginia to take a blind date with a friend of his. She accepted. When the friend came, it was Clarke. She was amazed. "Just checking up," he told her.
The first thing that any really aspiring writer must do is to secure for himself a penname. The more mundane author is satisfied with what his parents gave him, and lets it go at that. Any writer, however, who is getting into the full swing of his craft usually spends blissful hours finding himself a name which will ring in the ears of posterity.
Samuel Clemens evidently thought that Mark Twain sounded more adventurous than his given name, and while Alice B. Toklas is no
Lewis Carroll, the man of the parody, was really christened Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a nice stable English name, while Washington Irving made his mark with the nom de plume of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq., even after the manner of P. G. Wodehouse.
Everyone knows that Elia is the little English clerk, Charles Lamb, and that George Eliot was known to the home town boys as mere Mary Ann Evans.
Ray Stannard Baker writes under the name of David Grayson, and Laurence Hope is really only Adela Florence Cory Nicholson. Most women seem to have a phobia against letting the literary world know that they are females.
Famous Authors Indulge In Name Twisting
O. Henry was William Sydney Porter, while Fiona MacLoed is the stout Scottish pennae of William Sharp. David Ross Locke chose the pixi-alated title of Petroleum V. Nasby to spread his fame, and Johnathan Old-style is another pseudonym for Washington Irving.
Bulwer Lytton changed his name to Meridith Owen and uses that particular name exclusively in his writing. Saki, the author of so many brilliant English short stories was really W. H. Munro. This Englishman got his penname from the Rublyat, the old Persian Mother Goose book.
Thackeray wrote some of his things under the name of Michael Angelo Titmarsh, which ought to prove something about the mental stability of authors, and the greatest satirist of all, Voltaire, was baptized under the name of Francois Marie Arouet.
So while there may be nothing in a name, when you consider the fact that Cary Grant is really Archibald Leach, there is undoubtedly some merit in the whole deceiving business of name changing.
William Alden Jewell, the "first string" critic of the New York Times, in his exhibition review of last Sunday, takes special notice of Mattern's contributions to this exhibition.
In the first exhibition of the season at the Macbeth gallery, Professor Mattern had three of his watercolors, all of which had previously been shown in Spooner-Thayer Museum.
Professor Matter Exhibits Paintings In New York
Professor Karl Mattern of the department of painting, now on a year's leave of absence in New York, has made arrangements with the Macbeth gallery for the handling of his paintings.
The ratio of accidents to flying time in the army has been reduced from one every 214 hours of flying time in 1921 to one in every 1941 hours in 1940.
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Taxes paid on liquor sales in the United States in 1940 totalled more than $1,100,000.