The KANSAN Comments ...
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1941.
Brains Versus Strategists
If the policies of the federal administration now engaged in training and equipping a huge civilian army were influenced by public opinion to any great extent, college students might well expect deferment for the completion of their professional training.
In a recent Gallup poll, citizens were questioned as to whether or not college students should be allowed to complete their present college courses before being inducted into the army. The answer was 69 per cent in favor, 31 per cent opposed. But when the question dealt with engineers and doctors, the percentages were even higher.
Leading doctors, engineers, and educators have repeatedly warned against the dangers of the present policy of induction without due consideration by well-informed men of the advisability of drafting certain individuals.
The inconsistent policy of the administration in grabbing college students who have practically completed a five-year engineering course and shoving them into the army while at the same time, young men without college educations are being rushed through government short-courses to supply engineers for the army, does not seem logical to the civilian observer.
Dr. Morris Fishbein, head of the American Medical association, foresees a serious shortage of physicians unless the Selective Service Act is amended to allow medical students and internes to complete their training. The regular army has only 1,250 doctors. The proposed army of 1,400,000 soldiers will need 9,100 doctors, Dr. Fishbein states, and he estimates that 7,800 physicians will be needed each year for five years.
This year, medical schools in this country are graduating only 5,200, and future graduating classes will be greatly reduced when next year's doctors are revamped into military strategists.
Army and navy officials strongly opposed the deferment of military training for men engaged in studying the professions necessary to successful warfare. Their haste to recruit all available manpower outweighed the opinions of educated doctors and engineers.
The American public does not approve of this policy. It is time the American people emphasized this opinion by concrete action.
Cooperative Education
Battenfeld, Templin, and Carruth halls are good examples of a cooperative undertaking as a part of
this University, but have you ever heard of a college conducted on a cooperative basis?
Such a school can be found thirty miles south of Regina, Saskatchewan, on Canada's treeless prairie. It is the youngest, smallest, and poorest college in the Dominion; it started in 1929 with 10 students, now accommodates about 200, and last fall had 800 applicants.
The Notre Dame of Saskatchewan was founded to meet a particular local need. Droughts, dust storms, and depressions had hit the community, making it practically impossible for the youth of the area to obtain an education.
Then came Father Athol Murray of Toronto to help this little village of Wilcox, which had been deserted by most of its merchants and was burdened with past-due debts and unpaid rents. Father Murray rented a building which had formerly housed a furniture factory and equipped the various rooms with desks and benches made from old lumber. As other students came, two more empty buildings were acquired for classrooms. The boys took lodging wherever they could find it. Some boys moved into an old icehouse, and others lined a flimsy shed with boards from old packing cases and snuggled in for the winter.
Tuition and board are $18 a month-payable in cash, fuel, meat, vegetables, or anything else the school can use. No deserving boy or girl has even been turned away for a lack of funds.
Everybody works at Canada's Notre Dame. The only persons hired are the instructors and a $15-amonth cook. The boys help with the preparation of food and do the maintenance work. Coal mine operators give the fuel, and friends pay the freight on it to the school. Much of the food is donated by neighboring farmers.
Father Murray found unemployed instructors with degrees from such universities as Harvard, Louvain, and Ottawa, who were willing to work for board and room. As the school has gradually improved, he has been able to pay them, and they now receive $20 a month.
With donated lumber, the boys have built bleachers for their football and baseball fields. Everyone participates in athletics, and in spite of limited facilities, the school has gained recognition on the athletic fields throughout Canada. The hockey team traveled 8,000 miles one winter in the school's unheated truck, and some of the players have gained professional positions.
This is truly a Spartan school. It turns out democratic men and women the hard way, but they like it.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Lock-up and walkout, with the actives behind barred windows, were feature events at the Acacia house Monday night.
While the actives were in meeting in the chapter room, pledges locked them in and boarded up the windows. Then they locked the pledge trainer, Bud Livengood, and the chapter adviser, who had come to talk to the pledge class, in a room upstairs. The occasion was a second semester walk-out.
out. Actives succeeded in breaking through the windows just in time to see all the pledges speeding away for Kansas City.
Sigma Nu Larry Blair hit a new high in efficiency in advertising campaigns class in an investigation on the advertising of Macy's department store in New York City. He sent Macy's a long list of specific questions, but forgot to keep a copy of the list.
The store sent back "Yes" and "No" answers, but kept the questions. Blair was reduced to making his class report in monosyllables.
Because he is noted as a girl-shy Summerfield scholar, other boys at 1041 Tennessee were surprised when they saw "Blondie" written across one of the dates on Lloyd Woodburn's calendar, and on others "Molly" and "Sadie."
The explanation was that he used the names to indicate radio programs—Blondie, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Vie and Sade.
At the design department walkout Monday afternoon, Flosse Allen and Virginia Scott, both Kappa,s had some embarrassing moments. They had been going from group to group to get food when somebody noticed them purlining apples from his stores. On questioning, the apple-owner learned the girls hadn't realized that they were supposed to bring their own food with them, so they had spent the afternoon bumming.
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Only Living Survivor-
Custer's Last Stand
Comanche-War Horse
Fifty hours after General Custer had led his tragic charge on the Sioux Indian camp on the Little Big Horn river on June 25, 1876, two soldiers, John C. Lockwood and "Crazy Jim" Severs, found among the piles of dead men and horses one Dyche museum-the sole survivor of horse that was still alive
By KEN JACKSON
The men examined the horse carefully and found that all his wounds were superficial and that he had no broken bones. Lockwood and Severs carried water in their hats from a nearby stream to the injured animal, staunched his bleeding wounds, and did all they could to save his life. Their attempts were successful, and the horse lived to die of old age at Fort Riley. The horse was Comanche who is now mounted and stands in
John Lockwood, one of the cavalrymen who helped save Comanche's life, was formerly adjutant of the National Indian War Veterans in Wichita. Lockwood was a good friend of Comanche's owner, Captain M.W. Keogh of the 7th U.S. Cavalry. According to Lockwood, Keogh got Comanche in 1867 on the stake plains of Texas, after his horse had been shot out from under him in a fight with a band of Comanche Indians that General Custer had been following for sometime. The cavalry
In 1871 the 7th Cavalry was ordered to Kentucky and remained there two years. Most of the officers bought thoroughbreds while they were in the blue grass country, but Captain Keogh still kept Comanche. In all the hard winter campaigns of the Northwest in the years following, many of the thoroughbreds failed. But although Comanche was Keogh's only mount, he was always ready to go and was always in good condition
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Captain Keogh rode Comanche from 1867 until the disaster with the Sioux in 1876. Keogh was quite attached to the horse and rode him in all the Indian campaigns in which he fought. Comanche was wounded by an Indian arrow in the battle of the Washita in 1868, but the arrow had not been poisoned, and he recovered satisfactorily.
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troop had lost quite a few horses, so Custer captured some that belonged to the Indians. At that time Comanche was six years old. Recovered From Arrow Wound
Recovered From Arrow Wound
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 No. 136
Wednesday, April 30, 1941
FRESMAN Y' MEMBERS: Picnic on Saturday, May 3, 4:30 to 7. Bring 20 cents. Last meeting of year. — Thornton McClanahan.
SENIORS: Seniors expecting to receive degrees this June or at the
PREMEDICAL STUDENTS NOTICE: The Medical Aptitude Test for those who are applying for entrance into medical school in the fall of 1942 will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Room 206, Marvin hall. The test will not be given again this spring or next fall and should be taken now by those who are interested. A fee of one dollar will be charged to each student who does not present a receipt for the fee. For any other information, inquire of the undersigned—Parke Woodard, Room 8c, Frank Strong hall.
end of the summer session who have not filed application for degree cards in the Registrar's Office should do so immediately.-George O. Foster.
QUACK CLUB: Tonight at 8, Robinson gymnasium, diving practice—Margaret Learned.
HATTIE ELIZABETH LEWIS PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST: All essays must be in the Cancellor's Office not later than tomorrow—Seba Erdridge.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Election of officers and student reports on conventions at 4:30 tomorrow in the Kansas Room.-Patty Riggs.
WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: Meeting this evening at 8 in Fowler. Awards will be announced and of- officers elected. Bring dues. — Mary Catherine Colglazier.
The University A Cappella Choir enjoyed a social evening yesterday with a roller skating party at the Lawrence skating rink. Bernice Zucher, college junior, was in charge of arrangements.
A Cappella Choir