The KANSAN Comments ...
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Number 134.
Substitute Materials
Sun., April 27.
The war has stirred the search of business for new methods and new materials. The shortage of certain materials which are important in the manufacture of arms and munitions has brought about a determined quest for substitutes.
Aluminum used in making planes appears to be the ace war metal. One-tenth of all the aluminum produced in the United States has been used in making automobiles. Henry Ford recently told of some of the things which the automobile industry has been doing to save aluminum. A day or two later, a story from New York disclosed another industry which has reduced its consumption of aluminum. The Reynolds Metals corporation has developed a substitute for aluminum foil.
Users of aluminum are constantly finding substitutes. The exception seems to be the government itself, which swamped the aluminum ware manufacturers with orders for aluminum pots, pans, collanders, platters, wash basins, and water pitchers. The army could certainly have arranged to cook and wash its dishes in vessels made of some other material.
The automobile industry, besides using 10 per cent of the aluminum, has in the past used 29 percent of the nickel consumer in the United States and 10 per cent of the zinc. Both of these metals occupy an important place in armament manufacture, and the defense commission has stated that the supplies are not adequate for all civilian uses. Substitutes for these metals have also been found.
Some of the replacement is temporary, but the spur of war emergency may actually be the means of attaining real technical progress. It is conceivable that if our supplies of rubber are cut off, a synthetic substitute will be produced in the United States
which, on the basis of price and quality, will permanently displace rubber.
The search for substitute materials, though now accelerated, is not by any means a war development. New materials are constantly being sought to take the place of old ones. When the war emergency has passed, the strategic materials will largely resume their place in industry, but some of the substitutions will be permanent.
The long and short of it is that Mr. Roosevelt needs Greenland in his "bridge of ships" business across the Atlantic; and, like General Forrest, he "got thar fust."
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ROCK CHALK TALK By HEIDI VIETS
--efficient check on the weighing next year.
At Atlantic City they wouldn't think a thing about it, but when hordes of girls ran across the campus in shorts yesterday, people turned, gulped and stared. The occasion was Play Day at the gymnasium, which brought to Lawrence high school girls from this district and also short-clad University women to supervise the playing.
Because Gamma Phi Mary Millsom was campused last night, Logan (whoisit) Jerkfingle was unhappy. He couldn't be with her in person, so he sent her a coke to keep her heart warm.
If you wonder who Logan Jerkfingle is, you've got nothing on us.
It is reported that Jeanne Anderson, Pi Phi, is in possession of the Phi Gam pin of Swede Olson. But as yet the pinning is unofficial.
Tau, the Delt goat, is being made a scapegoat. Everybody is blaming him for the peculiar odor around the Delt house which really is caused by nothing more nor less than dandelions.
The buildings and grounds department has dumped the rooting weeds, souvenirs from Wednesday, on vacant University lot just south of the Delt frent door.
Tau is absolutely innocent. In fact, he's probably holding his nose, too.
Counting president-elect Bob McKay, there are now five one-time presidents of Men's Student Council on the campus. They are Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor; Blaine E. Grimes, assistant instructor in economics; C. H. Mullen, announced Friday as Honor Man; Bill Farmer, the present president; and Bob McKay.
If you notice a slightly darked shade in feminine skins on campus, it's all because of sunbaths. As warm weather gets a running start, girls are spending more and more time on sunporches soaking in vitamin D and suntan.
The difficulty of blacking out New York is shown by the revelation that switches would have to be pulled at 28,000 points in the city to complete the job.
No one realizes the need for a united front more than the man who has grown too big for his vest.
You Said It
To the University Daily Kansan:
I enjoyed Dandelion Day more than any other day in my four years at K.U. I dug dandelions from 9 o'clock until noon and I mean I dug hard. My whole team dug hard and we had fun. We didn't slack a bit, and we thought maybe we had a chance to win. We played fair; did not put in sticks or stones to make the bags weigh more, and we weighed each bag only once. We supposed that the rest of the K.U. students would play the game fair and square, too. But today I heard mutterings of wholesale cheating. Some people were bragging that they had sneaked around and weighed their sacks of dandelions three times. Now that makes me downright mad.
I'm not blaming the officials or the weighers. This is the first Dandelion Day we have had and naturally they had to figure everything out from scratch. They did a fine job and deserve a lot of praise. Next year they will profit by this year's experiences, and I'd like to give them a word of warning. Fix up your system of weighing so that there can be no cheating. Of course, University students ought not to do anything as mean as cheating someone of the fruit of his honest toil (and I do mean toil), but if there are students who will cheat, then there ought to be an
I've never written a letter to a newspaper before in my life, and I probably wouldn't get up the spunk to write this one if I didn't have such a sore back and sunburned face. And all for what? In case you haven't gotten the general idea now I'll tell you. It is too bad that everyone couldn't enter into the spirit of the day in a manner befitting university students.
Even so I had a grand time, and I hope it becomes a yearly affair.— Dissatisfied.
To the Editor:
Many times I, as do other students, check out reserve books Saturday afternoon. These books must be returned to the library between 2 and 2:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon. When a house, such as ours, doesn't serve Sunday dinner until 1 or 1:30, it is not hard to see the difficulties caused by library reserve books.
Couldn't Watson Library install a box near the front door in which reserve books could be dropped Sunday mornings?
When I find myself with a reserve book on Sunday morning I can do one of three things. The first (and most economical) is to cut my dinner short, say "sorry I have to dash
off" to the guests, trot, book-in-hand, up the Hill, and return the precious volume to the reserve desk within the allotted 15-minute period. The second alternative is to rise quietly from the dinner table, call 2-800, cross the taxi-driver's palm with 15 cents and direct him on his mission. The third, and most expensive possibility is to eat dinner as a normal person would eat dinner, chat a few moments with the guests, return the book, and pay the two-bit fine.
A book-box at the front door would eliminate the difficulty by permitting students to return books at their leisure Sunday morning. More Sunday dimmers would be enjoyed and we'd all live, no doubt, happily ever after.—Respectively, John J. Conard.
The editor and business manager of the Jayhawker for next year will be selected at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at a meeting of the Jayhawker Advisory board.
Jayhawker_Editor To Be Elected
Jim Surface, college junior; Dave Whitney, college junior; and Kenneth Lewis, college senior, have applied for the editor's position.
Tom Lillard, college junior; Dune Smith, college sophomore; and Nation Meyer, college sophomore, have applied for the position of business manager.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANS.
Vol. 38 No.134
Sunday, April 27, 1941.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The last proficiency examination of the school year will be given Saturday, May, 3, at 8:30 a.m. Juniors who have not already passed a proficiency examination should take this one. Only students of junior or senior standing may take the examination. Register at the College Office, 121 Frank Strong Hall, April 28, 29, 30. Unregistered students will not be admitted to the examination.—J. B. Virtue, for the committee.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C, Myers Hall Everyone welcome.Betty Charles.
HATTIE ELIZABETH LEWIS PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST: All essays are due at the Chancellor's office not later than Thursday. Watch bulletin boards for directions—Seba Elrdridge.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Council will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Pine Room. Jim Burdge, Secretary.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS:
Appointments for personal conference with Dr. E. T. Gibson, who will be here on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5, may be made at Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. R. I.
Canuteson.
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 all 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.
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PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: Esther Twente will speak to the club tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in Room 21, Frank Strong—Lois Schreiber, Secretary.
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SENIORS: Seniors expecting to receive degrees this June or at the 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.
STUDENT DIRECTORY APPLICATIONS: Applications for editorship of the student directory for 1941-42 should apply by letter not later than Monday at the N.Y.A. Office.—Velma Wilson.
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TAU SIGMA: There will be an election of Tau Sigma officers at 4:30 Monday. Attendance is required.
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