The KANSAN Comments
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
What A.V.A. Means
to Kansas
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941.
Last January two bills were introduced in Congress to establish an Arkansas Valley Authority. At that time opposition was shown by the state governments of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the A.V.A. plan on the argument that it would interfere with state's rights to administer its waterways.
An understanding of what the A.V.A. would do for Kansas and the drought-plagued states might make a valid argument for sacrificing, if necessary, these states' rights over waterways in favor of this larger plan and its wide-spread aid for the Middlewest.
The Arkansas Valley averages 400 miles in width and extends from the Mississippi more than 1,000 miles westward to the crest of the Rocky Mountains, embracing practically all of Arkansas and Oklahoma and parts of Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Texas Colorado, and New Mexico. It covers 293,165 square miles of those valleys that offer to the nation soil richer than the Nile.
In the area vast and unexcelled deposits of natural resources now lie idle partly because power rates are too high to permit development of them. The Federal Power Commission has already reported a serious shortage of power in this area so that it is not feasible to establish national defense concerns here—the very concerns for whom this territory has been clamoring.
The two bills provide for a three-member board to administer a well-rounded program of total water control, including irrigation, floor control, navigation, drainage, production and distribution of power, reforestation, wild-life propagation, and erosion and dust control within these basins, subject only to the rights of the affected states. The falling water would be harnessed, insofar as it would not conflict with established projects of the states.
I Am An American
Sunday the nation celebrated "I Am An American Day." In cities throughout the country, hundreds of naturalized Americans gathered to demonstrate their appreciation of being citizens of our country.
National hook-ups broadcast the programs of such meetings where our biggest politicos told the nation's most recent citizens why they should be glad to be Americans. Although it was Sunday, the top songs of the day were not religious but patriotic. Churches joined in the celebration, and ministers extolled the glories of old Uncle Sam.
While our new citizens were being fraternally inducted, native-born Americans would do well to consider what their citizenship means to them.
Does being an American mean that we have reached the ultimate goal or are we to make this country an advancing nation where the mere word "American" will be backed by tangible advantages? Special interest groups have manufactured hundreds of trite labels with which they are marking things to their advantage as "American" and everything on the opposing side "Un-American."
New and old citizens are going to have to stop reading mere labels as though they were the gospel truth if the majority of us can whole-heartedly join in celebrating "I Am An American Day" in future years.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
"Let's go to the show," are fighting words at 1041 Tennessee.
All year there has been a battle royal whenever the boys tried to drag Jimmy Draper to the movies. His Summerfield scholarship conscience couldn't stand the frivolity. But the
other night—with final week hot on his heels—Draper turned the tables. He persuaded Lloyd Woodburn, also a Summerfield, Dick Epps and Richard Snyder to go to the show with him.
When the ticket window loomed in front of them, Epps and Snyder thought better of the deal and walked away, leaving the scholarship boys to their pleasure. When Elved Jones, back at home, heard them come in, he thought surely they were after him. Fearfully he scrambled to the attic, where he bid until 11 o'clock.
Of course, he didn't get any studying done. But then he didn't have to go to the show, either.
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Who is the George with a black Buick coupe who lives at the Sig Alph house, and who tried to pick up two girls Saturday night but ended up being taken for a ride in his own car?
Because they bought some jacks yesterday to pass away idle hours until final examinations, Warren Snyder has been re-christened "Nancy," and Henry Holtzelaw, "Susie," by the 2207 New Hampshire boys.
The two pick-ups ask the question. They really don't know. But they do know that it is a good thing they got in to drive for George.
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Train Girls to Eat
Prepare Diets
No Fun For Sorority Cook
By JANE WEST
Cooking hundreds and hundreds of meals over a period of twelve years is apt to discourage any good cook from ever wanting to enter culinary heaven—particularly if he slaves over a hot stove in a sorority house. Men dinners, being noticeably less particular about food, are fairly easy to please, but women, no. The cook in a sorority house usually manifests a strong desire to retire at an early age, and there$ ^{®}$ —no form of blame than the long institution that is breakfast
One of the arts that these master mechanics of the kitchen pick up in their years of service behind the scenes is a knowledge of the food foibles and fancies of the people for whom they cook.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wells have been cooking in the same sorority house for 12 years, and Mr. Wells' mother and father filled the same post for another 12 years before that. They are fairly well qualified, therefore, to expound on women in connection with food.
"Girls usually come to college with a long list of things they either can't or won't eat," says Mr. Wells benevolently. "Some of them hate liver or turnips; others detest carrots and tapioca pudding. Most of them overcome their dislikes in a hurry, however, after walking to classes all day. Having spent a day on the Hill, they are usually ready, willing and able to eat anything."
Sorority girls, almost without exception, learn to appreciate the
lowly institution that is breakfast, Mr. Wells says. It seems that most girls at home belong to the coffee-orange juice-coffee school. After a few weeks of plowing through winter snow drifts to make an 8:30, they are very apt to switch over to the lumberjack variety of breakfast and like it a lot. Even prunes, never a glamour food, take on an added glow.
After comparing notes with other Hill cooks, Mr. and Mrs. Wells say that the girls seem to eat as much as the boys, and how they love their desserts! Women seem, universally, to love chocolate, and Kansas girls are no exception. They vote unanimously for chocolate pie as their favorite dessert, but strawberry shortcake, when it's in season, runs a close second.
Contrary to ancient superstition almost all girls like spinach, the more the better . . . sans sand, of course. In one organized house on the Hill, they drink more than forty quarts of milk a day, exclusive of milk used for cooking purposes.
"One thing I can't understand about college girls," Mr. Wells sighs, "is all this diet business. Once every three months they all decide they have to diet. They never seem to look much different after they have finished starving themselves, but I suppose they mean well. Most of these college girls on a diet cut out things like sweet potatoes and Boston cream pie, and then they secretly stuff themselves with candy and green olives after their roommates have gone to bed."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Wells frown on college girls' table manners. "When we're in the kitchen, and the girls are feeling particularly good about something, the dining room sounds like a monkey house. Everybody screeches."
Although neither Mr. or Mrs. Wells want to keep on cooking for many more years, they both insist
that they enjoy their jobs, although on big weekends, such as Homecoming and the Spring Relays, when Hill houses are filled to overflowing, they'd like "to throw all the saucepans in the sink and forget it all."
Advanced Student Recital Presents 16 Hill Musicians
The program was given as previously announced, with the exception of voice numbers by Virginia Gsell, fine arts sophomore, and Mary Louise Belcher, fine arts freshman. The two singers were ill and unable to attend the recital.
The second of the year's two final advanced student recitals was presented last night in Frank Strong auditorium.
Sixteen persons took part in the program.
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
May 28 to June 5,1941, INCLUSIVE
WEDNESDAY A.M. 2:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 May 28 P.M. 2:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
THURSDAY A.M. 8:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 May 29 P.M. 8:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
SATURDAY A.M. 9:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 May 31 P.M. 9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
MONDAY A.M. 11:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 June 2 P.M. 11:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
TUESDAY A.M. 10:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 June 3 P.M. 10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
WEDNESDAY A.M. 1:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 June 4 P.M. 1:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
THURSDAY A.M. 3:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 June 5 P.M. 3:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 1:30 to 3:20 P.M. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:30 to 5:20
Sheriff's Office To Fingerprint R.O.T.C. Graduates
The R.O.T.C. office orders that all R.O.T.C. seniors report at 4 o'clock Monday. Their fingerprints are required and will go on file in the F.B. I records.
It will be a straight and neat w path for R.O.T.C. graduates who receive their commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps after next Monday.
For at 4 o'clock that afternoon a representative of the Douglas county sheriff's office will take fingerprints of these men.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m.
on Wednesday, March 19, from 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday leave.
May 21,1941
Vol. 38 No. 151
DRAMATIC CLUB: The Dramatic Club will meet for election of officers at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday. Shirley Jane Rube, President.
EL ATENEO: Sign the list in the Spanish Office if you wish to attend the picnic Thursday evening. Wetle E. Simmons.
QUACK CLUB: Last check on dives from 7.30 to 8 o'clock tonight.
Important meeting. — Margaret Learned.
QUILL CLUB: Initiation will be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening at the home of Professor Hopkins, 1234 Mississippi Street—Mary Elizabeth Evans, Chancellor.
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