UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941
The Kansan Comments--
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A VITAL STATE ISSUE
It is not a pleasant thought, but Governor Ratner and the legislature in Topeka know that during the last decade Kansas had the largest numerical population loss of any state in the Union. A continued loss means decadence.
There is no need to whisper about the situation, and no logical reason why teacher's pensions, free text books, increased payments to the needy, and kindred routine proposals should be shoved to the forefront as the principal items to receive legislative attention.
The greatest service the Government and the legislature can perform in Topeka this year is to do something to create employment in Kansas, to pave the way for industrial expansion which will stop the steady flow of young talent to other states. Do something which will turn the latent wealth of Kansas into factories and payrolls. Something which will encourage the young men and women to remain in Kansas and to build it into a growing, prosperous state.
The Industrial Research Commission created two years ago was a step in the right direction, but only a short step. It is to the credit of the body that it has not wasted state funds, but the fact that only half of the $120.000 appropriation has been spent is proof that leaflets, postage stamps, talk, and travel can't alone bring industrial recovery.
The soundest proposal made by state educational leaders in many years is the request for a mineral industries building at the State University. A building equipped and manned for the sole purpose of turning the undeveloped mineral wealth of Kansas into jobs. A building which within a few years would undoubtedly provide millions in new payrolls and millions more in capital investment.
What would have happened to General Motors or DuPont without research laboratories? Both would have passed out of the picture by now.
And what will happen to Kansas unless we learn how to use nature's gifts of coal, gas, clay, lead, zinc and countless other rich endowments which now provide only a fractional part of their potential development?
Research is the only way. And research cannot be successful without the necessary tools and laboratories.
Provision for a state industrial research building at the University would be a sound investment for the people of Kansas.—Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
The "student" production "Cock Robin" is scheduled to have a cast including four professors, one professor's wife. They will undoubtedly get valuable experience.
Headline: "Bore on R.O.T.C. Building Site." These professors turn up everywhere.
Dorothy Thompson is the woman who has discovered the secret of perpetual emotion.
LETTERS
An American woman in Germany wrote a friend in California, saying that the country was splendid; that she knew of no place she would rather be, except Forest Lawn. Those Nazi censors aren't so smart. Forest Lawn is a cemetery.
Unfortunately, thanks to Prime Minister deValera's policy of trusting Germany, Eire is today virtually without means of defending herself. She would be in the same position as Norway was a year ago if Great Britain were not now in much better shape to come to her assistance. The fact is that Eire's continued independence depends, like that of every other small country in Europe, upon a British victory, and the only real force behind her protests to Adolf Hitler comes from the nation de Valera and his associates have spent so much time denouncing. How long the Irish can conceal this from themselves and refuse the British all cooperation grows problematical.-Kansas City Star.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1941 No.75
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.
EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING: There will be a meeting of the School of Education faculty at 3:30 on January 28 in room 115 Fraser.—Dean R. A. Schwegler.
SENIORS: Seniors graduating at the end of the present semester who wish to enroll in the Graduate School for the second semester should make application for admission at the Graduate office, 225 Frank Strong, as soon as possible-E. B. Stoffer, dean.
TRANSFERS: Students who plan to transfer from one school of the University to another at the beginning of the second semester should apply for their transfers at the Registrar's Office before January 30—George O. Foster, registrar.
WITAN: All members of the Witan should make arrangements to attend the party meeting in the party room of the Eldridge Hotel this Saturday night. See Dick Mankin for details.-Haven Glassmire, president.
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Second Chancellor Was Doughty Military Hero
After the Civil War, Union soldiers who were captured and held in the Andersonville prison by the Confederates, loved to tell the story of one doughy little Scotch general who shared their prison pen. At one time their prison happened to be exposed to Union fire, and most of the soldiers ran to take any possible shelter from the shells. In $ ^{5} $
sible shelter from the shells. In a few minutes, only the little general remained in the open, scribbling intently on a scrap of paper. He was as he explained later, amusing himself by estimating the curvature and distance of the course of the shells as they came toward him.
That man was General John Fraser, who was to become the second Chancellor of the University. The uniform he wore was placed on exhibit last week outside the door of the Lawrence room on the third floor of Watson library. It was presented to the University by his widow, Fannie Saunders Fraser, shortly after his death in 1878, and his been in storage for a number of years.
The impeccable cut of that blue melton army coat, its black velvet trimming, and the dramatic flare revealed in the white vest under it, all tell something of the character of the man who wore it. General Fraser was a handsome man. He has been described as shorter than average, with a sturdy, closely-knit frame, and a brisk up-right carriage. He had black hair, a full dark beard, and very expressive eyes. He loved good clothes and had a passion for orderliness. (Among his other possessions on exhibit is a soldier's mending kit.)
Fraser was born and educated in Scotland. Also on exhibit is his diploma of graduation from the University of Aberdonia, Scotland, in 1844. He taught for a short period in the Bermudas, and then came
to the United States to the presidency of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. In 1855, he went to Jefferson College, Canonsburg, as professor of mathematics and astronomy.
When the Civil War broke out, he deserted teaching for soldiering. A born military commander, Fraser entered the war a captain, and left it a brigadier general. One of the two sabers exhibited with his uniform is inscribed—"From the ladies of Canonsburg to Captain John Fraser, 1862."
In 1868, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Kansas. By that time a middle-aged man, used to strict military discipline—the general had an over-developed sense of order and a fiery Scotch temper—he found life in the struggling University a hard one. Strained relations with his faculty and the student body followed close upon his rigid military rule. He was Chancellor only six years, resigning in 1874. During his administration, although past 40 years old, he married Fannie Saunders, a student beauty queen.
But for all his rigidity, Fraser gave an invaluable service to the school. He found it little more than a preparatory school, poorly organized, and housed in an inadequate building. He left it, after a long fight with the legislature and the board of regents, in beautiful, commodious Fraser hall, with college classes fully organized and doing work appropriate for a University month.
ROCK CHALK TALK
Chuck Elliott, pretty Phi Delt, was the only boy in the Pi Phi house when all lights from the city power plant went out about 6:15. No longer will he be afraid of the dark.
Darkness at the Delt house brought Jack Kurtz out of his hole. The boys, downstairs at dinner, were surprised to see him solemnly marching down the stairs holding a lighted candle in a whiskey bottle.
At the Phi Delt house lights-out brought a water fight.
And at the Gamma Phi, a guest from Chanute cracked, "So you can't bear to look at me."
Somebody called the telephone operator to ask, "What's the matter with the lights?"
"I think they're out," she said.
Mike Sheridan, fanatic for intramurals, is being called "Rope" by brother Phi Psi's. Last night he scored 19 points in a "C" team game with the Delta's.
Another claim to fame—he was end on the six-man all-star touch football team picked by the Kansas this year.
For weeks and months Estelle Eddy had been knitting a pair of socks for fance. Frank Pinet. Finally came the great day—they were finished.
Estelle framed them and hung them on the front door where he would see them when he called for her. A note attached read:
"Solefully yours, my little heel. May this knit us together. (Signed) Purl."
At the Pi K. A. house, legal proceedings involving a bet made by Charles McVey and Lane Davis as to who would get the higher grade average are getting complicated.
McVey charged Davis with fraud and breach of contract for planning to take an incomplete one course in order to win the bet. But yesterday, the judges announced there could be no trial until they were paid a fee for refreshments.
McVey refused to pay. Now Davis is plotting a new trial charging McVey with slender
Chuck Elliott, pretty Phi Delt, was the only boy in the Pi Phi house when all lights from the city power plant went out about 6:15. No longer will he be afraid of the dark.
Darkness at the Delt house brought Jack Kurtz out of his hole. The boys, downstairs at dinner, were surprised to see him solemnly marching down the stairs holding a lighted candle in a whiskey bottle.
At the Phi Delt house lights-out brought a water fight.
At the Pihl Deft house lights-out brought a water light. At the Damma Phi, a guest from Chanute cracked, "So you can't bear to look at me."
Somebody called the telephone operator to ask, "What's the matter with the lights?"
"I think they're out," she said.
Mike Sheridan, fanatic for intramurals, is being called "Rope" by brother Phi Psi's. Last night he scored 19 points in a "C" team game with the Delts.
Another claim to fame—he was end on the six-man all-star touch football team picked by the Kansas this year.
Estelle framed them and hung them on the front door where he would see them when he called for her. A note attached read:
"Solefully yours, my little heel. May this knit us together. (Signed). Purl."
For weeks and months Estelle Eddy had been knitting a pair of socks for fiance, Frank Pinet. Finally came the great day—they were finished.
At the Pi K. A. house, legal proceedings involving a bet made by Charles McVey and Lane Davis as to who would get the higher grade average are getting complicated.
McVey charged Davis with fraud and breach of contract for planning to take an incomplete in one course in order to win the bet. But yesterday, the judges announced there could be no trial until they were paid a fee for refreshments.
McVey refused to pay. Now Davis is plotting a new trial charging McVey with slander.
Says every Pi K. A., "I can't say a word till I see my lawyer."
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