The KANSAN Comments...
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941.
Undiscriminating Deferments
The policy recently adopted of deferring students now receiving technical instruction in professions necessary for national defense shows farsightedness of selective service directors and places a new responsibility upon two University groups—the students who will be deferred to remain in school and the faculty committee which will recommend such deferments.
The government reports a definite need for trained engineers, geologists, chemists, pharmacists, physicists, biologists, and doctors, for modern warfare calls for trained minds in specialized fields. Because of this shortage of technically trained men, students in these fields will be urged to complete their professional training.
The University committee which will recommend such deferments has a difficult task before it. Any selection which tends to discriminate among individuals is hard to keep on a strict basis of quality. From the outset, this committee should guard against recommending students for deferment for personal reasons rather than on a basis of greater potential skill and efficiency for the National Defense program.
Kansas Boy Makes Good
When the University of Kansas was looking around for a noted American to be the speaker at its 75th anniversary dinner, it was very natural that the name of Ben Hibbs, editor of the Country Gentleman, should bob up in first place and that Mr. Hibbs should be the choice of the University for the important job. Like the Chancellor of the University, Ben is a graduate of the school, and one of the outstanding young men of Kansas.
Ben Hibbs graduated at the University in 1924 worked on several small Kansas newspapers, taught journalism in one of the schools of the state and then went back East to write for the Country Gentleman. Up he went and now he directs the publication of this great American journal. Also he is a member of
the board of directors of the Curtis Publishing company, recently elected.
We don't know of anyone who is better fitted to do the honors and to receive the honors at the important functions in this state than Kansas boys who have gone to the top in their professions.
—Parsons Sun.
The dictators might do well to remember that he who lives by the tank usually winds up by taking a dive.
Boston Globe.
The University of Kentucky is offering a fiveweek course in billiards for co-eds. Yes, even in the sunny South they are educating college women to occupy the places vacated by Uncle Sam's selectees.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY KNANSAS JACKETS, KNANSAS
Publisher ... Gray Dorsey
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Kay Bozarth
Editorial Associates: Wandalee Carlson, Charles Pearson, Mary F. McAnaw
Poster Editor ... Lillian Fisher
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... David Whitney
Campus Editor ... Milo Farneti
Sports Editor ... Gabe Parks
Society Editor ... Helen Houston
News Editor ... Heidi Viets
Sunday Editor ... Chuck Elliott
Make-up Editor ... Glee Smith
United Press Editor ... Floyd Decaire
Copy Editors ... C. A. Gilmore and Betty West
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Rex Cowan
Advertising Manager ... Frank Baumgartner
Advertising Assistant ... John Pope
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Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year except Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under act of March 3, 1879.
ROCK CHALK TALK
--between all nations for both national and international reconstruction.
When the Phi Psi's were in meeting to elect officers Monday night, they sent four men who had been nominated for a office outside to await election results. Since all of them were intrumural golfers, they wandered outside and started knocking balls. Before the boys called them back in, they had broken four windows and had a jolly good time.
By HEIDI VIETS
Sig Ep president Knute Kresie says it's all right to have freshmen clean rooms if they don't carry the thing too fa. When he came home last night he found that Curly Hayde had put a nice, slick polish on the floor. Kresie varsity base ball pitcher, was thrown for a loss.
The old gentleman was so moved that he dug through a his pockets for a coin. He found none.
When the three cooperative halls met Tuesday night to write a constitution and establish an Inter-hall council, the Carruth men battled hard to win Battenfeld over to approving a 5-4-4 apportionment, with equal number in the council for them and Templin, instead of 5-4-3. It brought down the house when Charles Gudger, big burly brunette, sweethurned to the Battenfeld delegation to say, "You know w loves you boys."
Maybe he was mentally exhausted from the strain of having to juggle two dates for the I.S.A. Jay Hop last Frida night so that everybody would be happy.
Ardent movie fan is Vern Birney, Delta Chi. He broke his glasses so when he went to see a double feature the other night, he laboriously held up two lenses in front of his eye throughout the show.
Orville Kretzmeier at the Rock Chalk Co-op spent about four hours recently trying to find something funny in a point less joke that George Bonebreak told him.
"I'm broke myself," said the student. "In fact, I'm out to solicit." He launched into a war student sob story, describin the horrors in Europe and China.
While he was tag-selling yesterday, one of the W.S.S.H representatives went downtown. A broken and white bearded man accosted him, asking him for money to buy som lunch.
"But I certainly wish I could contribute," he quavered a the student walked away.
At 1231 Louisiana one of the boys has a new spotlight. Las night the men tried it out by aiming it at the girls' hous across the street.
Keep Up Morale
Relieve Suffering
From Students to Students
"I was without shoes and I murmured... until I met a man without feet." So say the thousand of pamphlets that are circulating on the Hill this week. The World Student Service Fund is the organization responsible, and the purpose is to inform students of the ideals of the work behind "tag day."
By MARJORIE DABBS
WSSF is attempting to raise $100,000 in the United States through faculty and student contributions, to help further the development of student leadership in the Far East and Europe, and thus make possible a foundation of post-war cooperation between all nations for both
Money contributed is used not for armaments or betterment of the armies but for raising the general morale of student war victims. Materials for a university must be supplied. Books and periodicals are difficult to obtain because they are published abroad mostly and the rate of exchange makes their price prohibitive. Medical supplies are needed because the lack of proper food weakens the individual and disease sets in more rapidly Other uses for the contributions will be for food, clothing, candy, and cigarettes.
Through investigations made, it has been found that in one room as many as a dozen or more people eat, sleep and while away the long days.
In a report of the executive committee of W.S.S.F., it was stated that $1.00 a month will support a student who is a victim of the war. Of the money remaining from European relief, 15 per cent is allocated for refugee student relief in the United States. Last year students in the Far East and in Europe contributed to the European Student Relief Fund, which aided student victims to "start all over again."
In China, according to W.S.S.F.
literature 91 out of 108 universities
have been destroyed and only 45,-000 Chinese students remain. The libraries have mud walls and tin roofs; 200 students often use one book.
Naples, N.Y., (UP)—Russell Murray, who has yet to observe his first birthday, has seven grandmothers, all living. He is the fifth generation of his family alive.
Baby Has 7 Grandmothers
KFKU
Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, chairman.
6:00-6:30 Drama, presented by students from the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art.
6:00-6:30 Drama, presented by stu-
MUSIC WEEK MONDAY
2:30 French Lesson
2:44 Kansas News Briefs
7:30 Joint Recital by Marie Wilkins, coloratura-soprano, and Joseph Wilkins, tenor and head of the Voice Department.
7:00 University of Kansas Roundtable, "Conscription as a Permanent Policy".
TUESDAY
2:30 Talk by Clin Downes, music critic for the New York Times
2:47 Spanish Lesson
2:45 Interview: "Music in the Middle-Western States"-Earl Harper, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Iowa; D. M. Swarthout, Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas
FRIDAY
2:30-3:00 Vocational Guidance,
"Pharmacy as a Vocational," L.
7:30 Story-Book Lady, "How the robin's breast became red" and "How the woodpecker got his red head" -stories for primary grades told by Miss Tull.
THUR
7:40 Book-Club Program, "Russia through the Ages", Stuart A.
WEDNESDAY
Tompkins; "Travels on the Osage Prairies" by Tixier—reviewed by Theodore Paullin.
2:30 On the Flying-Carpet, "King of the Golden River"—story for intermediate grades told by Miss Hanson.
2:45 Kansas News Briefs
2:48 Books and Reading
8:00-9:00 "Requiem" by Brahms (Sung by University A Cappella Choir, directed by Donald M. Swarthout, as a memorial to the late Charles Sanford Skilton.)
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. in day before publication. Received by Mail for Sunday issue.
Thursday, May 8, 1941
61. 38 COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: Meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the home of Miss Mary Larson, 1225 Kentucky.
Mr. Hal Cook will speak. There will be an assessment of 10 cents. Every one is invited.-Letha Jean Curtis secretary.
GRADUATE WOMEN'S CLUB Picnic from 3:30 to 7:30 Saturday Meet at the Union Building at 3:30 Phone reservations to Mrs. Jess Sailer, 238—Dorothy Pollock, president.
JAY JANES: Pledging services will be held at 4:30 Friday in the Pin room. Wear your uniforms.—Gen evive Harman.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS Appointments with Dr. E. T. Gibso who will be here on Tuesday after noons from 2 to 5 p.m. should b made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital-pital.-Ralph I. Canuteson.
Hamilton, Ohio, (UP)—Relative of Ernest Doty, who died recently rummaged in the cellar of his hom and found $733 cached in a glas jar.
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EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
May 28 to June 5,1941, INCLUSIVE
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EDNESDAY 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
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