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APRIL FOOL!
Very few things are so insipid as a postponed holiday. It's like warmed-over tea or a picnic held in the gymnasium while it rains—or being called at the last moment to fill in at bridge.
Charles Wright, manager of the Dandelion Day celebration, has worked hard. As late as Saturday, the dandelion captains were working heroically to get their teams in shape for the event. Everybody was interested-even the movie photographers.
Now all the publicity is lost. Captains will have to do most of their work all over again. Interest must be drummed up again. Spirits must be aroused. Because somebody didn't take the dandelions into consideration.
The fault lies with the planning committee. It was their fault that they didn't pick a day when it was known positively that there would be dandelions to pick. Many years, April 2 is even pretty early for grass.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941.
But that is all spilt milk, and there is no use crying over it. We must go back to work after the Easter holiday and get interest aroused—no matter how low it may have dropped. We can make this holiday a success if we all work with that aim in mind.
We are sure now that the idea is a good one. Greater enthusiasm has been shown by students, faculty, and outsiders in this event than in anything the University has undertaken for a long time—outside of athletic games.
Wright, the captains, the committees, and the faculty can't make this holiday successful by themselves. Every student must do his share.
EENIE, MEENIE, MINIE, MOE
The Selective Service act is no doubt a necessary and indispensable part of the defense program. Men are needed, and the most efficient way to get them is to select them from the civilian population. But, on any program as large as this one is, and so vital to the country in these "most perilous times," it seems rather absurd that there should be no uniform system whereby exemptions are made.
Cases coming to mind at once include the Hank Greenberg fiasco, in which the famous baseball player was at first placed on the deferred list, then on the immediate duty list; the case of the two local draft boards in New York which settle the married draftee problem in ways which seem largely to rely on the hand of God showing the best way of action. One of them even goes so far as to assume a "Voice of Experience" attitude in drafting unhappily married men and exempting the blissfully wedded ones, i.e., husbands with less than six months' experience.
Why in the name of the Bill of Rights should a group of just average and untrained citizens have the right to say arbitrarily who should and who should not take a one year vacation from work, family, and general way of life? That year makes a lot of difference to some of the men.
Let's have some organization.
GIRLS! DON'T DO IT!
In her column yesterday, Dorothy Dix, famous adviser of the love-lorn, gave some sage advice to young women who want to get married. Virtually all of the article was concerned
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with types of men that girls should not marry. The following are some of the gems of wisdom Miss Dix wrote.
Don't marry too young. Don't marry out of your class. Don't marry a man who is hard to get along with. Don't marry a jealous man. Don't marry a man to reform him. Don't marry a chap who can't keep a job. Don't marry a man with holes in his pockets or one who counts his change too carefully. Don't marry Mother's pet. Don't marry a man who tries to boss you. Don't marry a great lover. Don't marry an egotist. Don't marry a man who is too good looking.
As far as we can see, Miss Dix seems to have covered the entire male portion of the population. She could undoubtedly have saved time, space, and numberless readers' temper if she had merely said: "Don't marry!!!!"
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, April 1, 1941 No.118
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.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS: The student branch of the ALEE, will hold its regular monthly meeting in Marvin Auditorium on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Student paper presentations by John Laidig and Ray York. Special Music and refreshments—Charles W. Avey, Jr.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be in room 415 Watson Library from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Thursday—Joseph A. Zishka.
GRADUATE WOMEN'S CLUB: Graduate Womens Club will meet this evening at 6 o'clock in the Old English Room for a supper meeting. Helen Huffman will talk about Porto Rico. Members please consider this announcement your invitation-Dorothy Pollock, president.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cerce Francais se renuja jeudi, le 3 avril a 3:30 dans la salle 115 Frank Strong. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites.— Rosemary Jones, secretaire.
THETA SIGMA PHI: Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Election will be held.Mary F. McAnaw, secretary.
W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a W.S.G.A. tea tomorrow from 3 to 5 in the lounge in Frank Strong Hall. All University women are invited—Jean Klussman, social chairman.
Y. W.-Y.M.: Y.W.-Y.M. study group will meet as usual Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Henley House.—Mary Helen Wilson.
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From the Grounds Up A Continuous Coffee Jag What a Life
BY HELEN MARKWELL
---What a Life
Is it bad manners to sip your coffee, to take a nice big sip of coffee? Well, that all depends. Some people can get away with it, especially Russell Atha when he is showing his brothers down at the Sigma Chi house how $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
at the Sigma Chi house how professional coffee tasters do the job of sipping America's favorite beverage.
Russell Atha is the son of R. E. Atha, president of the Folgers Coffee company. He enrolled at K. U. this fall as a junior in the School of Business. His main ambition is to be a big shot in the Folgers Coffee company, of course. But such a position is not going to be handed to Russell on a silver platter. By the time he gets to the top in the coffee business, he will know it from the grounds up.
Expert Coffee Taster
Already Russell is an expert coffee taster. The boys in the Folgers laboratories taught him the trick. You take a sip of the coffee, spray it over the inside of your mouth by working the tongue and teeth in some indescribable manner. The idea is to cover the palate, but not to swallow any of the liquid.
Tasters test the coffee to determine the right amount of roasting necessary for each new shipment of raw coffee.
Three years ago Russ went down to Guatemala, Central America, where the Folgers Company buys most of its coffee. He learned how the crop is purchased directly from the plantation owners, and also picked up a considerable amount of their Spanish lingo. In the summers to come Russell is planning to go
back to this same region to learn more of their language.
Not only does Russell know the coffee business, but he is an excellent pilot. It was July, 1939, when he first took to the air. Since then he has logged 215 hours of flying time. He will get his commercial pilot's license this summer. His longest flight was to the Mexican border last summer. He piloted his dad to Corpus Christi, Texas, in his own Stinson Reliant.
That same five-passenger Stinson plane came to school with Russell this fall. Since that time any number of K. U. students have been piloted about the country by this flying business student.
In April, 1940, Russ visited every state down the west coast of South America, and back up the east coast to the Island of Trinidad. Naturally his impressions were many. The navy of Ecuador really rang the bell in Russell's mind. Going down to the sea shore in Guayaquil, he was shown the official navy of the state. It was one small yacht. Amazing, thought young Atha, to find one place in the world so non-military minded. What Hitler couldn't do to those boys!
Atha Turns Instructor
In Quio, Ecuador, Russell went to school again. He even became a teacher for awhile. While he was strolling in the city's beautiful park one day, a little native boy approached him with a regular yankee (continued on page eight)
ROCK CHALK TALK
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That's what Prof. Laurence Woodruff's 1:30 entomology class decided Friday.
For several days Mr. Woodruff had been telling them how disappointed his little girl would be because her mother, fearful of the measles epidemic decreed "No party," for her fourth birthday.
By HEIDI VIETS
All of them are completely won over by the four-year-old glamour girl. One of her tricks is that every week she changes her name, for no reason and prompted by no one. This week she is Mary Selkirk. Last week she was Kathryn Poppendorf. She keeps the Professor guessing.
There are more ways than one to cut a class.
The class met at 1 o'clock, each member with a gift. They buzzed out to the Woodruff home, and surprised the little redhead, Sue, and also her father.
We're used to students sweetening professors, but when the teacher apple polishes, it's news. C. K. Hyder, associate professor of English, gave graduate student Tony Zbranek a stick of gum in his Victorian poetry class yesterday.
The party lasted long enough to eliminate the 1:30 class, students are sorry to say.
Paul Thayer, Beta, waited and waited on the chemistry lab corner for the airport transportation car to come by and pick him up. Finally a kind-hearted friend came along and informed him that his trainer plane had burned in the airport fire last night.
Why? If you must know, Zbranek had a cough which offered strong competition to Mr. Hyder's lecture.
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When Mr. and Mrs. John Pierron came back to their apartment at 1333 Kentucky after spending last weekend in Kansas City, they found a pleasant surprise. When they pulled down one of the window shades, three crisp one dollar bills fell out.
Pierron, a freshman medic, can't imagine who was the benefactor.
The landlady at 1041 Tennessee announced at dinner Saturday night that all the men who would go to church Sunday morning would get an extra piece of angel food cake at Sunday dinner. Dead silence for a moment.
Then one of the boys spoke up, "How about a slice of devil's food for those who lie in bed until noon?"
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