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Election Is Coming
Next week University men will visit the polls to cast their votes for a new student governing body.
In a college election there exists the situation frequently found in national elections: There seems to be no difference among the candidates that voters can consider pertinent one candidate appears as well qualified for office as any other.
Unlike the planks of the major parties in the last national election, party platforms on the campus may be, and frequently are, radically different. But these variations are likely to deal with some problem that the Men's Student Council does not have the power to control. Consequently, student voters should look beyond the high-sounding promises of the politicians and consider the party aims which are pertinent to student life and subject to student control.
Discerning students will consider intelligently the qualifications of candidates and select a Men's Student Council that will be actively progressive in strengthening student government on the University campus. Before they go to the polls they will know why their votes should be cast for certain candidates.
A certain School of Business professor warned his students yesterday that leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. No doubt this is the advice found on the other side of the plaque which tells students that it is easier to keep up than to catch up.
WEDNESD $\Delta$Y, APRIL 16, 1941.
Congratulations, Legislators!
University students and college students throughout the state of Kansas are ready to offer congratulations to the state legislature for the recent appropriations made for improvements on the campuses of the state's institutions of higher learning.
The $400,000 granted to the University for the proposed Mineral Industries building will provide the necessary room for the rapidly increasing research and training the University is offering to Kansas industries and her youth.
Twenty-five thousand and ninety-two persons have received degrees from the University of Kansas. The total enrollment in Kansas schools of higher learning tops the enrollment in similar Missouri schools by some 3,000 students. Yet, year after year, Kansas has appropriated less than Missouri for the purpose of higher education. Admittedly, Kansas has a much smaller population than Missouri; but on the other hand, her natural resources and industries give greater per capita wealth.
Let Them Grow
Keep Off the Grass.
The increased 1941 appropriation of the Kansas legislature to the state schools will make for a more favorable comparison among the educational facilities offered by Kansas schools and those offered by the neighboring states of Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado, and help to mark Kansas once more as an educationally progressive state.
No such signs mar the University greens this spring for the first time in several seasons. Students should appreciate the absence of these
unsightly warnings and keep them stored away forever by using the sidewalks.
If you just make your classes on time by cutting corners, then start a few minutes earlier and take time to enjoy a "sidewalk view."
Give the grass—and the dandelions—a chance to grow.
The true order of learning should be: first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like eating your dessert first.
Funniest recent happening: The Axis boys calling U.S. siezure of their ships an act unjustified under international law.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Wednesday, April 16, 1941 No. 125
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
ARCHERY: A meeting of all men and women interested in archery will be held on Thursday, April 17, at 7:30 in the women's physical education office in Robinson gymnasium.-Joe L. Stapleton.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The April meeting of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held Tuesday, April 22, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong Hall. Deane W. Malott, Chancellor.
QUILL CLUB: Feeh run of the American College Quill Club will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Pine room.-Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
PI LAMBDA THETA: There will be a Pi Lambda Theta meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 in room 115 Fraser. Round table discussion and important business meeting.-Verleen Miller.
K. U. UNIT K.S.T.A.; The K.U. Unit of the Kansas State Teachers Association will meet on Thursday at 4:30 in room 115 Fraser hall—R. A. Schwegler, President, K.U. Unit.
SENIOR AND GRADUATE WOMEN: Senior ania graduate women are cordially invited to a tea given by the American Association of University Women at the home of Mrs. J. J. Jakosky, 1120 West 11th, on Thursday, April 17, at 3:30. Dean Mary P. Van Zile of Manhattan will be the guest speaker.-Mrs. Waldemar Geltch.
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"So freh you can't breath it, is the way Mary Millsen college junior, describes the tang of Alaskan air. For over two weeks last summer, Mary cruised along 4000 miles of Southern Alaskan coast, getting a first hand geography lesson, and taking well intentioned but fuzzy pic-
Mary's cruise, which lasted just long enough to make her want to go back, started and ended in Seattle, and took her about halfway across the Gulf of Alaska. Her traveling companions on the S. S. Aleutian were a well assorted mixture of tired business men, school teachers, and families escaping the heat of an American summer. Embarking at Seattle, the passengers spent the next two weeks peering at the Alaskan mountains and buying curios in the little coastal towns perched on the sides of steep foot hills.
Embarking at Seattle, Mary and her family traveled north through the Dixon entrance to the Gulf of Alaska, visiting the canneries and curio shops at Ketchikan and Wrangell. Alaska's southern metropolis, as far as Mary is concerned, is
"Since we went inland only once at Seward," Mary said, "it was hard for me to form an opinion of Alaska as a whole. All the country we saw was glimpsed from the boat and was all very much alike. We were near the mountains all the way. We were unfortunate enough to run into a bad stretch of weather, so it was foggy and cold most of the time. During the middle of the summer, however, Alaska is usually bright and sunny, though it rains a short time almost every day. It reminded me of Colorado with its little showers in the middle of the afternoon."
Juneau, where she was very much impressed by the Hotel Baranoff, one of the finest and most modern in that part of the world. Even in the larger towns she visited, Mary found more Eskimos than white men although they were dressed in blue jeans and mackinaws instead of fur parkas and skins.
Leaving Juneau, the party spent 36 hours on open water in the Gulf of Ala-ka on the way to Seward, the terminal point of their cruise.
"We arrived in Seward at three o'clock in the morning," Mary said, "and believe it or not, the curio shops were open and waiting to clean our pockets as we got off the boat in the dead of night. The shops, and there were hundreds of them, were filled with furs, carved ivory, and semi-precious stones."
"The most eventful part of the trip was on the way back," Mary said, "for we not only had a chance to see the beautiful Mennen Hall glacier, but had the thrill of being on the Gulf of Alaska during one of the worst summer storms they have had in many years.
"This particular glacier, only one of many to be found in Alaska, is famous for its beautiful color, a striking cobalt blue. We came close to it the night of the same day we left Seward." Mary continued.
"It was at two o'clock in the morning that the deck steward rang a bell to call us on deck. We all Continued to Page Seven)
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
An early bird makes closing hours, but Gus Reardon, Battenfeld hall, wishes he weren't quite so early. He is now out gunning for whoever but his watch ahead an hour the other night. After running his date, Joy Howland, all the way home to make closing hours, he went back to the hall to discover he was operating on individual daylight saving time.
Marvin Zoschke can call his shots. Riding with friends to his home in Junction City for Easter vacation, Marvin suddenly remembered when he was halfway to Topeka that he had left his violin at school.
He had the driver stop the car. Marvin jumped out, spied a Lawrence-bound car speeding around a curve, and yelled, "There's my ride." Sure enough he flagged it down, climbed in, and was gone before his car-mates knew what had happened.
This is what Dale Leuhring has been declaring since he got back from vacation, but the other boys at Battenfeld like to play hard to convince.
It seems that last Saturday night Dale and Jean Trekell, accompanied by Bob Trekell, were at a dance in Wichita. For a joke, Bob had a song dedicated to the "newly wed Cadet Major and Mrs. Dale Leuhring." Somehow another University student in Wichita heard the dedication. When Dale got back to campus, the Battenfeld boys were ready to order rice.
"Married? Anything but that!"
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Political tags are latching on to men's buttonholes again, and should be seen soon on the women as well. Last night, it is reported, some ambitious candidates were campaigning in sorority houses.
Shades of the band trip—Junior Ford went to sleep during the concert at Hutchinson while his band-buddies soothed him with "The Poet and Peasant Overture."
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Can you imagine anyone doing a job and leaving without getting that's what the band did at Coffeyville. They played a morning concert, then ate at the school cafeteria and left so quickly that they left Harry Johnson, band secretary, behind in the principal's office settling financial matters. He pursued the busses by auto and caught them about five miles from town.
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Margaret Hyde was so surprised when Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, notified her that she had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, that she tried to argue him out of it with a "There's been some mistake" line.