The KANSAN Comments...
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FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941.
American war correspondents have been doing such a good job of getting their dispatches through to this country that we here at home seldom even think about their problem.
When Leland Stowe spoke to members of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, before his lecture last Wednesday, he told of the trouble that journalists in Europe have in getting their stories sent to their papers.
The first problem, of course, is censorship. Whenever the Germans take over a new country, they usually clamp down a strict censorship on all wire and radio services at a time when news from that country is most desired by the world, and by America in particular. Later on the bars are raised, but by that time the real news has died.
Another problem is that of expenses. Mr. Stowe said that from Greece the cable rate to American was 27 cents per word. When dispatches of 1,000 to 5,000 words are sent, the tolls get rather high.
In order to compete with such high cable tolls, several big American papers. The New York Times, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, and others, set up a wireless station in Paris about 10 years ago. Correspondents of the papers paying for the service could then telephone their messages to the Paris wireless station. From there the dispatches would be radioed to New York.
When France fell, the station was moved to Amsterdam. After the invasion of The Netherlands, the papers took their wireless to Berne, Switzerland, and it is there today.
This service has proved to be of inestimable service to correspondents, Mr. Stowe said. But the problem remains of telephoning the messages to the Berne station. Wires were often closed by the Germans or by the officials of jittery countries, and sometimes the armies, especially the Greeks and Fascists, decided to fight their battles far beyond the reach of a telephone.
In Greece, Mr. Stowe and other correspondents had a free-lance correspondent receive their stories each day-for a price per storyat Athens, have the articles censored, and then dictate them over the telephone to Berne. The cost of sending the stories in this way was about 10 cents per word as compared to 27 cents per word by direct cable to New York.
Our newspapermen brave death covering this war, but they aren't sure anybody will hear about it when they do get some news about it.
THE HUMAN SITUATION
Speaking before the group of people who crowded Hoch auditorium last October to pay tribute to Ernest Hiram Lindley, Fred M. Harris, chairman of the state board of regents, said, "One of the greatest losses which the students of the University and the people of this state have ever suffered is that the lectures which Mr. Lindley planned are never to be given."
Plans are now being made by a number of University alumni to take care of that loss. The proposed Lindley Memorial, still in the incubator stage, will provide for a yearly lecture or series of lectures by some nationally prominent man or woman on Mr. Lindley's own proposed lecture courses, "The Human Situation" and "Plan for Living."
The Lindley lectures seem more appealing than most of the ways universities and colleges honor their great men. Once a year Kansans will almost be able to see their smiling Chancellor emeritus.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, March 21, 1941 No.111
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.
BOOK EXCHANGE MANAGER: Applications for manager of the W.S.G.A. Book Exchange should be left in the office of the Advisor of Women, 220 Frank Strong, by Monday, March 24. Applicants should have had some experience in business or sales work.—O'Theene Huff, president W.S.G.A.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION; Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.-Betty Charles, secretary.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will have its March entertainment meeting this Saturday at 8 p.m. at Myers Hall. Assessment 15 cents. Members and newcomers interested in the club are urged to come.-Beatriz Riajes, president.
KAPPA PHI: Potluck Supper—this evening at 6 o'clock at the church followed by a very important meeting. We will have election of officers and it is necessary that everyone be there. Plan to stay for the Wesley Foundation Party at 7:30.-Kathryn Schaake, publicity chairman.
MEDICAL STUDENTS: The Association of American Medical Colleges is changing the time for giving the Medical Aptitude Test from the fall to the spring. This year it will occur on the afternoon of May 1. Will all those premedical students who plan to enter Medical School in the fall of 1942 register with the undersigned within the next two weeks. A special practice sheet is available for those who register and pay the fee of one dollar at the time of registration. All others will pay the fee at the time of taking the 'test'—Park H. Woodard. Room SB, Frank Strong Hall.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Dr. R. I. Catutenes.
PHI SIGMA: C. V. Anderson of the Zoology department will discuss "Immunity in Trichinella Infection." Important business meeting will follow on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in room 206 Snow—Hal Smol, president.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: The Psychology Club will meet Monday in room 21 Frank Strong hall. Dr. E. T. Gibson, psychiatrist at the Watkins Memorial Hospital, will speak on his work with students here on the campus. Everyone is welcome.-Lois Schreiber, secretary.
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BOOKS
Editor's Note: Today the "Oread Magazine" appears for the first time in three years. The magazine, published by the Quill club, sells for 25 cents.
THE OREAD MAGAZINE
Reviewed by George F. Waggoner, instructor in English
It is good to see the reappearance of the "Oread Magazine." After an absence of several years, it is published again in an attractive format. One hopes that it can make a regular appearance, for a publication in which student writing of a serious kind is used should be a part of the activities of every university. In a state university as large as ours, there is certainly sufficient writing talent to justify a magazine. The publication of the magazine in itself should create interest in writing of artistic intent.
One of the articles in the current number of the magazine, a history of Quill club written by Dr. E. M. Hopkins, tells interestingly of the forty year tradition of the club and its publications. With this background the magazine makes a welcome appearance.
This latest issue of the magazine contains almost equal amounts of prose and verse. The verse, which is the more interesting, varies from the long narrative to the epigram and epitaph. The outstanding poems are "Memories of Franz Marc" by Bill Read, two poems by William Stafford, and "Rondeau" by Robert Humphrey.
Among the prose a reminiscence of a wedding, "Now That I Can Talk About It" by Jane Robison, and a humorous sketch "The Higher Education," written in the stream of consciousness style, are most effective. One's chief complaint about the prose is its lack of convincingness and sincerity. Several of the stories have a manufactured and artificial quality and strained effects that very nearly spoil them.
On the whole, however, one congratulates the Quill club on this latest edition of the "Oread Magazine." If it is as completely successful as it might be, its very appearance is an encouraging sign. The material in it, too, indicates that effort should be made to continue publication and to make the magazine a regular event during each year.
ROCK CHALK TALK BY HEIDI VIETS
Jumping the gun might have been easy at the women's intramural swimming meet last night if there had been a gun to jump. Most of the time Jim Raport couldn't get it to go off. Six times during the course of events he raised it for a bang, got a click instead. Contestants would plunge into the water only to climb out, dripping for him to try again.
Finally, while he was trying to start the two-lengths breast stroke race, he resorted to Miss Ruth Hoover's whistle, which he used for the rest of the meet.
In one of the 300 Philippine dialects, "Yes" is the cute word, "ohoh." So Jean Sellers learned when she received a letter from a marine now stationed in the Philippines. "No" is "hindi," which doesn't mean a thing. And those three little words that every language has stuck in somewhere are "inibig kita."
In the middle of Miss Sara Laird's narration and description class a man, with no explanation or warning, got up and calmly walked out.
Miss Laird watched the exit, then remarked, "Well, I guess I should have shut the door."
After a few minutes the fellow came back with a strange woman. All Miss Laird said was, "Well!"
The telephone number of Moody apartment 12 is 781. The Kappa number, as if you didn't know, is 718. Frequently young swains get their wires crossed, call the apartment boys when they want the Kappa's.
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Last night Orlando Epp and Winifred Nash talked long minutes to a man who wanted to talk to Betsy Dodge.
"How did you guys get on the third floor of the Kappa house?" he would ask.
"Betsy will be here in just a minute," they would answer. Finally the frustrated fellow hung up.
When Sigma Delta Chi, honorary professional journalism fraternity, entertained Leland Stowe at dinner the other night, they found that an ace foreign correspondent may also be a milk-totaler. "Over there" no milk is to be had, he told them. That is why he relishes it more than ever now. He drank two glassfuls, and asked to keep his milk glass by him until the last word was spoken.
LETTERS
To the Editor:
Is our security dependent on English victory? No one has proved it yet.
Is our security dependent on English victory? No one has proved it yet. It is difficult to understand why college students will permit propaganda and misled public opinion to direct their sympathies so completely. A startling example of this can be seen in the turn of thought most K.U. students seem to have undergone in regard to helping England in the present war.
In a few months the convictions of many of the K.U. student body have been completely reversed. Even isolationists of last September are avid "pro-Britishers" already. What will the situation be when the war-mongers really turn on the heat to convince the public that we should send men along with the arms to aid England. Will college men and women, who should be able to evaluate printed material, still follow blindly the newspapers' and magazines' misrepresentations designed to work up war fever?
Are they going to continue on to the point where they will be willing to offer their lives for an ungrateful England? If men of selective service age allow their emotions to be stampeded, surely no one else will recoil from war.
From a graduate student who things England has the more favorable cause but is unwilling to pay a nickel to help them win.