The KANSAN Comments
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1941.
Bean Soup and Bread
Once more there is a "drive for funds" in full swing on the campus. Today it is the World's Student Service Fund.
Last night, team members attended a prison fare banquet of bean soup and bread to get into the spirit of urging students and faculty members to give to students in war torn lands. Posters and handbills reminding you to give have dotted the campus for weeks.
The World's Student Service Fund contributors are giving help to persons outside our country when many young men and women at home are deprived of the most meager cultural advantages. Many Americans say our help should stay at home.
Members of this school of thought should remember, however, that we cannot be cultural isolationists to any greater degree of success than we can remain economically unaffected by the rest of the world.
The goal set by WSSF workers is not high. The $1,000 fund would not buy one 25-cent show ticket for every student in the University. But even when five per cent is deducted from the $1,000 for administration and overhead expenses, entire schools and prison camps in war torn countries will feel the benefits derived from student sharing in America. It seems only logical that the college men and women of America should take the first steps toward a reasonable reconstruction program which will be necessary at the end of this war.
Pay At The Door
The United States treasury department last week launched a drive to sell United States savings bonds.
The bonds can be bought in denominations ranging from $25 to $1,000 and are thus fitted to purses of people in every walk of American life. Youngsters in our schools are being urged to save by buying 10-cent stamps with the expectation of filling the $5 stamp book which draws interest at the same rate and matures at the same time as the savings bonds.
The campaign to get money will reach into every walk of American life. Without the fanfare and the four-minute men of the last war, the drive will not
be as colorful, but it will be no less penetrating. Every American citizen is going to help pay the cost of national defense. Despite the billions of dollars being bandied about in the headlines, the actual cost of "depression recovery" and the entrance into the big arms race against Hitler has not yet been felt by the average citizen. Particularly mid-western persons will have to be jarred into the realization that Uncle Sam needs far more money now than ever before and that, as an ordinary citizen, the mid-westerner will have to do his share.
Income taxes are certainly going to be considerably increased, and taxes on theater tickets and luxuries will soon be felt by most people. When the United States begins paying for everything it has ordered, United States citizens are going to know who pays the bills.
In the near future it may not be an exaggeration to lay down your money at a theater ticket office and get back two tickets—one an admittance to the theater, the other a receipt for material or labor costs on a new Flying Fortress.
A Japanese in Seattle, Wash., recently tacked this notice on his vegetable stand: "Vegetables nice and fresh and do not care anything about United States secrets and navy fortifications." A lot of navy and military men are wishing more Japanese were vegetable sellers these days.
After dinner speeches in Japan come before the meal. The custom not only relieves the speaker's nervous tension, but also limits the length of the speech as the serving of the meal interrupts a long-winded orator. Perhaps Americans can still profit from Japanese customs.
In old Monterey, Calif., the citizens vote 12 times a year to pick the "Shack of the Month"—the most unsightly building in town. Owners of the eyesore rarely try to retain the trophy more than one month. Yes, there is always some new competitive sport hitting California.
Taste is the mark of an educated man, imagination the sign of a productive man, and emotional balance the token of a mature man.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Men in the Sig Alph annex wondered when they heard feminine voices enthusiastically serenading them last night with "There's a Shanty in the Town."
The warblers were Gamma Phi's who had sneaked through back yards to sing to their neighbors. Their second number was "Down at Mary Ann's," and was followed by voiciferous yelling in the annex. Non-anxel Alph's are said to have waked up this morning with a jealous taste in their mouths.
Senenading last night, Delta Upsilon brought down the sorority houses. They featured the humming harmonica of Charles Blair and the golden voice of Ray Wright, an alumnus who lives in Lawrence. When Wright enced with "L'-Amour, Toujours, L'Amour," or similar lyric, girls at every house let loose a volley of spring fever sighs.
Bedlam at the Sigma Nu house Monday night lasted for an hour and a half, while the frantic scholarship chairman made vain efforts to restore order. It all started when some of the boys were locked out on the upstairs porch. Their kind-hearted brothers immediately started dousing them with water. Then Rocky Stone found himself stranded on the roof, all alone, and at the mercy of the crowd.
The men fetched hoses and formed a bucket brigade. By the time the fight was over, every victim had been thoroughly soaked.
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Easier to Handle Men Are Wanted
No Closing Hours
By LILLIAN R. FISHER
What's the matter with women? What's so hard about being a house mother in a women's home?
In recent interviews, various housemothers of women's houses on the Hill were alike in saying, "I'd prefer to be in a fraternity. We learn to love our work with the young women, but with men the worry and strain is not nearly so strong. With need to stay $ ^{e} $
them, there is no need to sta up every single night until closing time."
In fact, so great is the responsibility of having charge of a large group of college women, that several of the housemothers of women's houses have been more or less "forced" into the position, instead of accepting it from choice.
Every housemother interviewed set up practically the same group of qualifications for a successful housemother. They are: Must be patient and have a good disposition at all times; should like young people; should trust young people; should be cordial and hospitable; should have gone to college and
Mrs. C. E. Esterly, housemother at Watkins hail, added, "I told my girls that I refuse to be a police-woman. I let them run themselves, and they love it. I don't expect young women to be perfect, but in the main, they conduct themselves excellently."
gained a knowledge of the problems that college women go through.
Life of a housemother at a private rooming house where several women live is a little different from that of a housemother in an organized dormitory or a sorority.' Mrs. W.E.Walter,1244 Louisiana,says, "Women who live in rooming houses, on the whole, are very good about conforming to the W.S.G.A.
rules. I flash my porch light once, and they come in immediately at closing time. One big advantage about girls is that they pay their bills better than boys do."
Being a sorority housemother presents even more problems. Mrs. Jane MacLean, housemother at the Pi Beta Phi house, believes that the woman about to become a housemother of a sorority should be free of all home ties, and should know how to handle servants.
All of the housemothers agreed that the pranks the women play are a necessary part of college life, and that they are to be expected. However, one housemother said, "Boys fix what they break, while women sometimes never admit that they had a thing to do with it."
A few years ago, the job of housemother for women students was harder than it is now. It seems that women who smoked wanted to smoke all over the house and let the ashes fall wherever it was most convenient.
The problem of the housemother was to set up certain rooms, such as the dining room, where smoking was restricted. This was for the benefit of the non-smokers who objected to the constant smell of tobacco.
On the whole, housemothers of women students are pleased with the young women of the University, but they all are agreed that the hardest part of their job is to keep up the fast pace that the women play, and stay up night after night until closing hours.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Housemothers seem to think that smoking among young women students is rapidly declining. At every house the percentage of smokers this year was far below the average for the last four years. Women who smoke now have conformed to smoking in the lounge, and are much better about throwing ashes in the trays.
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Wednesday, May 7, 1941 Vol. 38 No. 144
ENGLISH LECTURE: Don't forget the lecture by Professor John Nelson at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in 205 Fraser. The lecture is open to all students of the University and to the public.-J. W. Ashton.
GRADUATE WOMEN'S CLUB:
Picnic has been postponed until Friday from 3:30 to 7:30. Meet at Union building at 3:30. Individual notification will not be made. Phone reservations to Mrs. Jessie Sailer, 238.—Dorothy Pollock, president.
MATHEMATICAL COLLQOUIUM; Professor J. J. Wheeler will speak at a meeting of the Mathematical Colloquium on Thursday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m. in 215 Frank Strong Hall. His subject will be "Sampling Theory in Statistics." Open to the public—G. B. Price.
QUACK CLUB: Meeting at 8 tonight in Robinson Gymnasium. Margaret Learned,
W. N.A.F. : Meeting in the Pine room at 7:30 tonight—Nancy Kerber.
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TAU BETA PI: Meet tonight in the Men's Lounge at 7:30. Election of officers—Glen A. Richardson, recording secretary.
THETA SIGMA PHI; Meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the Sky parlor of the journalism building. There will be a professional speaker, Please pay your dues—Mary Frances McAnaw.
RHADAMANTHI will meet in the Pine room of the Memorial Union at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. William Stafford will discuss the poetry in Ecclesiastes. — Robert Humphrey, president.
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