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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941
The Kansan Comments-know they can't get a job done without us. And, anyway, they're rolling in dough; why shouldn't my wages increase? No wages, no work. Simple, isn't it?
EDITORIALS★
BOOKS★
University students need a vacation! Not at the end of the semester, not during the annual Easter holidays, and not next summer, but now!
TAKE A VACATION NOW!
Most students live almost automatically in the grip of a weekly, or daily, schedule. They forget that with planning they can pack into short daily intervals all the essentials of a protracted holiday—change of scene, change of pace, change of people, and most important, change of habit.
The daily vacation, which could be practiced profitably by all students, must be not only a definite break with the routine of external compulsion, but a positive rendezvous with pleasure.
Of course, with final examinations in view you say you haven't time to waste on a vacation. That can wait until the quizzes have been passed, or not passed, and then you will spend a week's vacation in bed.
But there is always the lunch hour. Too many of us accept this hour as just another of the day's routine habits. Try eating your lunch at a different place every day, or make your daily vacation a means of sounding out some of the persons you usually pass by with a mere nod. A ten-minute conversation may refresh your point of view.
Day after day University students strangle their personalities in the vice of their habits, frittering away leisure moments. Any activity that summons the real you from the dim recesses of your clock-ruled hours gives you the vacation you need.
Much of the tension of days before the finals is caused by unceasing regularity of schedules. A daily "vacation" breaks the tyranny of fixed schedule and habit. Give it a try.
JACKPOT: A NEW GAME
A new game is sweeping the country. Everybody is playing it and having more fun! It's called Jackpot, or Dollar Patriotism. And here's how you play it:
First you give a long speech on why the United States should build up impregnable defenses for the protection of our country. Your opponent then asks you: "What are you going to get out of it?"
If your answer is, "Why, the satisfaction of knowing that I have performed the duty of every free man—the duty to fight and sweat for that freedom," then you have been too naive; you have lost. But don't feel badly; a few will lose with you—but not many. Only a few.
Union laborer: Higher wages, bud. The government and those "economic royalists"
Business man: Our chamber of commerce is putting plenty of pressure on our representative in Congress. We'll get a small arms plant, and then look at the business I'll do.
The winning answer depends upon whether you happen to be a business man, an industrialist, a union laborer, a farmer, or, perhaps, just a college student. As a guide the following possible winners are given:
Industrialist: Get out of it? Why man, my Washington salesman just landed me one of the biggest orders I've ever had. No risk involved, either. Of course, I'm getting the satisfaction of serving my country—hope those obscenity New Dealers don't think up any more confiscatory taxes.
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Farmer: The farmer hasn't had a good break since the last war. Did you see where those wheat crops in Europe were ruined? Think of all the people that'll need food. Why, we'd have to feed them and then wheat oughta be worth $2 a bushel.
College student: I haven't got a line of the deal yet. I'm trying to get out of the draft and into a good job some army man had. But before I'll let them draft me, I'll get a commission in the army—some way. Be awful if I had to be a private.
These answers are guaranteed to win the game of Jackpot, or Dollar Patriotism—but not a strong National Defense. Or was it defense we were interested in, anyway?
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Thursday, Jan.16, 1941 No.72
Notices due at Cancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA; There will be an Alpha Phi Omega meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room. Members please note change of meeting time. —Barrett Silk, secretary.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 at Myers hall. Photographs of European cities will be projected. Dues will be collected from the old members and new members will be initiated—Emile Weiss, secretary.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOW-SHIPS: Students interested in applying for graduate scholarships and fellowships for 1941-'42 may obtain information and application blanks at the Graduate Office, 225 Frank Strong Hall. Announcements of grants available at other institutions are also on file at the Graduate Office—E. B. Stouffer, Dean.
NEWMAN CLUB; The Newman Club will hold its monthly Corporate Communion at the 9:30 Mass on Sunday. Breakfast will be served in the Parish Hall after Mass. The regular business meeting will be held. Anyone wishing to make reservations for the breakfast call or see one of the officers.—Joseph A. Zishka.
QUILL CLUB: Feeh rune of the American College Quill Club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room. There will be initiation. All members who have not paid their dues are to bring them—Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph I. Canuteson.
KAPPA PHI: There will be a covered dish supper at 5:30 at the church Friday evening. We have the Haskell girls as guests. The theme will be "Indian Customs." Everyone bring a covered dish and come for an interesting and good time—K. Schaake, publicity chairman.
STUDENTS INTERESTED IN TEACHING: A meeting of all students who expect to enroll in the Teachers Appointment Bureau during the second semester will be held at 3:30 on Monday, Jan.20, in the Fraser theater. The operation of the bureau will be explained and instructions given for the filling out of blanks. All persons interested are urged to attend.-H. E. Chandler, secretary, Teachers Appointment Bureau.
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Once Unpopular Glass Comes Into Limelight
One of life's ironies lies in the fact that very often that which is most cherished by one generation is ignored and despised by another. Usually there is a reason for the change. Sometimes, however, there is no accountable reason for the reversal of public opinion — perhaps, just fickle fashion and the human craving it belongs to the era of
Now, for no particular reason, the cut glass fad has died. Cut glass is as sparkling and elaborate as ever, but
opinion — perhaps, just fickle fashion and the human craving for change.
When grandmother was a girl, every bride dreamed of cut glass wedding gifts, and if she received such gifts, she considered it a great privilege to own them, but she did not use them. For every day, she used cheap pressed glass, and the previous cut pieces were kept in the china closet or displayed on the top of the buffet.
Take, for instance, the collection of "Victorian" glassware which, through the courtesy of Mrs. Margaret L. Barber of Williamsburg, Mo., is now on exhibition at Spooner-Thayer museum. In spite of its English name, this collection consists entirely of American glass, its name signifying the late nineteenth and early twentieth century period.
These pieces of glassware, which are now carefully labelled, arranged for display, and preserved for posterity, were not considered of value in their own day. They are of "pressed" glass; the expensive and cherished glassware of the period was "cut."
it belongs to the era of what-nots and chair tidies. It is passe.
Those who owned cut glass preserved it so carefully that there are great quantities of it in existence. The pressed glass of the period, however, got such hard usage that much of it was destroyed.
When molds were dropped or styles of dishes changed, pieces and patterns began to grow rare. Consequently, pressed glass is now more valuable than the cut; and collectors ignore that which was so carefully preserved and gather up even chipped, scratched, and broken specimens of pressed glass of certain patterns.
According to Miss Minnie Moodie, curator of Spooner-Thayer museum, Mrs. Barber's collection is an unusually complete one of nineteenth century pressed glass patterns. There are, for instance, three pieces of coin glass which is exceedingly rare. This glass contains the imprint of actual government coins. The mold was discontinued at government request, because counterfeiters were using it.
Other patterns which have become rare and which are represented in the exhibit are the thunder bird $ _{f} $ the daisy and the button, the Jacob's ladder, the horn of plenty, the Baltimore pear, and the beaded tulip. The
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Scientific was the approach of the Pi K.A.'s to the Valentine queen question. They called in a disinterested outsider, showe dhim the candidates pictures without name or sorority labels, and accepted his choice as theirs.
But he says nobody listens! Even the Phi Gam brothers are either in class or at dinner.
ROCK CHALK TALK
When the mind rules the heart on Valentine's day, K.U. should rank with Harvard.
Spencer Bayles is discouraged. Tuesdays and Thursdays he announces over KFKU at 3 p.m., and on Mondays and Thursdays at 6.
He should start a boost campaign for sling-over-the- shoulder radios.
It seems that Fritzi Meyn attended the Kappa party Saturday night with a trio. Originally, her date was Jack Coyle, Sig Alph. When he called for her, she said, "You don't mind going by to pick up Ed Stout, do you?"
No, of course not. Stout's a town Sigma Nu. He joined the couple, grimming that as soon as they picked up Virgil Wise at the Sigma Nu house, they would be on their way.
It would have been all right with Jack. But after that, he was no longer an independent operator.
But they didn't fool Dottie. When Skidmore called, Jean Trekell went down to explain that Dottie had thought the date was off, and was in the middle of a hair-washing job.
Sunday night Frank Vratil, Battenfeld, called Dottie Harkness, Watkins, to say that his roommate, Charles Skidmore, was in the hospital and couldn't keep his date.
Sikidmore swallowed hard. Then Watkins hall rushed en masse into the parlor to have the last laugh.
The reason Helen K. Moore went to the Rose Bowl game, it develops, was not roses.