The KANSAN Comments
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The Concrete Path
Persevering is the word for the department of buildings and grounds. Once more the corners of the lawn and the spaces along the sidewalks, where the grass had been beaten out by straying students and professors, have been resodded.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941.
There is not a man or woman in the University who is not proud of the unusual beauty of our dandelion-free campus. But something more positive than pride is needed to keep the campus greens from being ruined by the heavy footsteps of hundreds of hurrying, corner-cutting academics.
The University of Kansas is not fault free. No student has trod Mount Oread who has not found something to decry or some improvement to suggest. Recognizing this fact, the University Daily Kansan devotes the column "You Said It" on the editorial page to the airing of the opinions of students and professors.
Students and professors, keep your heels clicking on the sidewalk. Follow the concrete path and give the new sod a chance to grow.
Invitation to the Reader
Dormitories built by Harvard University several years ago were constructed with Yale locks—but without nameplates.
The Kansan urges every student to write his opinion on any subject which he feels should be publicized, and the Kansan will print letters verbatim with the following exceptions:
1. Libelous, indecent, or unnecessarily inflammatory material included in the letter will be deleted.
2. Letters exceeding 200 words will be cut down within that limit.
3. Any grammatical errors in the letter will be corrected.
4. Opinions of no possible value or interest to anyone which are submitted merely for self-glorification or personal publicity will be relegated to the wastebasket.
All letters must be signed with the correct name of the writer. Address letters of opinion to the editor freely and often. Your opinion and suggestions may be of great value in making our University better.
If idealistic youth dream of building a new world, they have the material at hand. The first one was made out of chaos.
U.S. Navy Shadows Over Japan
It seems evident that Germany wants Japan to stir up trouble for the United States in the Far East, but Japan wants assurances that she will not have to deal with the full strength of the United States Navy.
Japan's present position as a power is entirely due to its foreign trade, and her future depends upon this trade being maintained. Consequently, freedom of the seas is vital to Japan.
Denial of this freedom is the pressure the United States Navy can exert without projecting a naval campaign across the Pacific. The new political development in the Far East and the stiffening American attitude toward Japan raises such a blockade to a position of major strategic importance.
At present, Japanese bigwigs are still undecided about their future course of action, but they propose to obtain all the strategic advantages they can without being called to account.
For some years Japan has furthered its ambition at the expense of China without incurring more than routine protests from the United States. Japan has predicated her actions on the assumption that apathetic public opinion in the United States would not uphold a forceful objection to Japanese aggression, the Navy's demands for fortifying Guam and Samoa, or the imposition of retaliatory economic measures.
However, the American people have had a recent change of heart. Congress authorized military defense for Guam and Samoa, imposed economic restrictions upon trade with Japan, and Uncle Sam's general attitude toward the western neighbor has become more openly opposing.
Japan realizes that as long as Singapore remains available as a potential base for the U.S. naval forces, Nippon cannot hope to command the eastern seas or the Strait of Sunda.
The establishment of a chain of air bases across the Pacific by the United States, has made military strategists think of the defense of Manila no longer as a forlorn hope. With Manila flanking the 2,800-mile route from Japan to Singapore, the Japanese may well pause before committing themselves to attempting the conquest of Singapore or the Netherlands East Indies.
Without Singapore, and a sure source of oil to supply her navy, Japanese militarists will find their territorial ambitions to be merely a matter of wishful thinking unless Hitler makes rapid advances along the British front and turns German strength to the aid of Japan.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
They say the boys are spending much more time around Dr. F. C. Allen's office now that Phog has a new secretary, a brunette named Ruth Christianson.
Really, the football office needs more pepping up than the Allen hangout. Gwinn Henry should import another beauteous secretary for competition.
Around the School of Business the wheels are set to roll on another big election, to see who shall reign next year over the realm of ledgers. Again we have the story of well-established, big brother party (Commerce) being whipped into by a small and peppy outfit (Coalition party).
If you see Bob Fluker (Coalition) and Elden Beebe (Commerce) glaring at each other this week, don't be alarmed. They are just two political-minded business juniors trying to get along.
On election day next Wednesday, business seniors will wear straw hats, just to get the feeling so they will be ready to swing into mortar boards in June.
Songbirds of the Alpha Chi house fluttered out on concert tour last night. It was the second serenade by a sorority this year, the first being warbled by the Kappa's the first semester.
Among peculiar incidents was one at the A.T.O. house. Before the girls got there, he came chasing out to beg, "Don't walk on the grass." They didn't.
At the Beta house a pajama-clad Wooglin boy yelled, "Wait a minute till I wake up some of the fellows."
Song leader Marjorie Theis gave the serenaders the wrong pitch at the Sigma Chi house, and they had to back up and start over.
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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.
Lives in Trailer
Mr. Ward, with his wife and two-year old baby, Carol, lives in a trailer which they wouldn't exchange for any apartment—not even a permanent home in Hollywood. Several years ago Mr. Ward was offered a permanent occupation in Hollywood by the R.K.O. motion picture studios. His job would have been to
"My idea is to work from life, to get all the subleties and the little characteristic quirks that one can't get from pictures," Mr. Ward stated. He is famous for the speed with which he reproduces the faces of people. Making portraits is his favorite occupation and he feels that his caricatures are the nearest step to portraits.
During the winter months, college students provide Mr. Ward a chance to make a living. Other jobs are just "gravy," as the caricaturist expresses it. Mr. Ward has booked out of the R.K.O. and M.G.M. Hollywood booking offices for Hollywood and Los Angeles parties. He receives 100 dollars an evening for entertaining the movie stars and their guests with his works of art. Many are hysterical with laughter as they see themselves caricaturized. Others are angry. Mr. Ward enjoys telling about the time he was knocked out by an insulted subject. After an hour to cool down the wronged man came around to apologize.
Earns Good Living
While in Lawrence, Mr. Ward sketched more than 200 students at one dollar a person. In 1938, he drew between 500 and 600 people on this campus. This artist is not in the least bothered by having people jammed around him. "The more, the merrier", he believes. People
make the rough drafts of animated cartoons to be later completed by staff artists. But such conventionality did not appeal to Mr.Ward's artist soul. He loved his freedom too much. Both he and his wife prefer to roam from one end of the country to the other.
L. C. Ward is one of the country's most outstanding caricaturists, according to Miguel Covarrribias, a staff members of the old Vanity Fair magazine. Ward was in Lawrence recently for three weeks doing caricatures of K.U. students. This was his fourth visit to the campus. In 1930, he started on a tour of colleges in every state in the union. His schedule brings him to K.U. every three years. His works on famous characters have frequently appeared in magazines and newspapers.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Ralph I. Canuthes.
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Thursday, May 1, 1941
QUILL CLUB: Feoh rune of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 this evening in the Pine room. Bob Humphrey will speak—Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
SENIORS: Senior who have not filled out activities cards for their Jayhawker senior pictures please do so at the Jayhawker Office before
FRESMAN 'Y' MEMBERS: Picnic on Saturday, May 3. 4:30 to 7. Bring 20 cents. Last meeting of year. — Thornton McClanahan.
Raze KFKU Tower For Engine Lab
The 150-foot south tower of radio station KFKU, tallest structure on the campus, is being razed to make room for the new Engineering Research laboratory, to be located back of Marvin hall.
Neither the north nor south tower have been in use since 1931. KFKU is renting the use of radio station WREN's tower, which is located near Tonganoxie. The north tower may be put to some use in short wave radio operations, but no definite plans have been made.
May 6.—Bob Woodward, business manager.
SQUARE DANCING: There will be square dancing Friday at 8 o'clock. Ruth Hoover.