PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1941 The Kansan EDITORIALS★ SO IT'S '41 SEE! BOOKS★ A year is a year, is a year. A year is, is a year a year? What is a year, is a year; is a year a year, what a year is? That old devil was blitzkrieged, lebensraumed, shot in the head for spying, shot in the head for disagreeing with the government, just plain shot in the head. He was torpedoed at sea; bombed, shot and burned on land; machine-gunned in the air. The old man drowned in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the North Sea. He was bombed, bombed, bombed in Britain; beaten to a bloody pulp and dragged all over the graveyard of 1914-18. He was herded into a concentration camp in Germany, hanged in the United States, bayoneted in Albania, was stabbed in the back all over the world. All due apologies to Gertrude Stein, but who doesn't feel a bit dazed and woozy in the head, when he finds himself suddenly shoved into a new year. There you are minding your own business, mostly, minding the girl at the next table only a little, minding the music not at all. All of a sudden, emerging from a deep blue fog, you find yourself dangling on the edge of a new year. (Only consolation: he was valiantly saved, by Herr Hitler, from British imperialism and French aggression.) The old warrior was killed a few thousand times by wrecks, explosions, fires, floods; but those are little things that could happen to anybody. Any way you look at it, the old boy had a tough row to hoe, and a short hoe handle. You turn around to see where you've been. There is poor old beat-up 1940, the man who had a million lives, rasping out his last few breaths, finally done to death by the kid in the three-cornered pants. So there you are still toppling on the edge of that new year. You see what a tough nut that 1940 must have been and what a swell fight he put up. Pretty humiliatin' to get knocked off by such a little squoit, and de squiot widout a scratch. Mebbe dat faker in de nightshoit wit de long-handled sickle helped de squoit in de pinches. So you turn around and take a gander at 1941; awful hazy, can't make out nothin', just all looks black. So you decide you'll go over and give old '40 a last minute pep talk. But what happens? Old Whiskers with the long draw blade catches you fairly in the middle and you go sailing right into next year, backwards. So here you are, here we are in a new year, wrong-side-to, no idea of where we're goin', outflanked, and our rear exposed. SETTLE UP AND SING This scrap between ASCAP and the radio networks produces mixed reactions. You may have to go to the "Camptown Races" two or three times a day, but you do get to hear some of the really fine things of Stephen Foster that were formerly buried under the avalanche of popular music. "Accidentally on Purpose," "I Hear a Rhapsody," "So You're the One," and others of more ancient vintage are making the juke boxes not only less annoying but almost a relief. Rhodeheaver, the radio evangelist and hymnster, finds himself severed from his congregation by the very organization that sponsored his songs. PATTER★ The blank spots during the broadcasts of the bowl games—when the crowd could not be heard behind the announcer—were often occasioned by college bands that insisted on playing tunes banned for radio transmission under penalty of heavy payments to ASCAP. Listening fans could not even hear the national anthem at game opening. A ban on some pieces has caused many old favorites to be dusted off, modern tempo arrangements made of classics. Even so, we'd rather have our choice of the whole shebang, so, boys, please settle the squabble and let's get back to work. 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College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK N.Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON • LOS ANGELES • SAN FRANCisco OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 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. Vol. 38 Tuesday, Jan. 7,1941 No.65 CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Reverend E. J. Wisenberg will be in room 415 in Watson library from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday for personal conferences.—Joseph A. Zishka. FRENCH AND SPANISH CLASSES: Wednesday afternoon (January 8) classes in the department of Romance Languages and Literature will not meet on account of the funeral exercises of Professor Amida Stanton, to be held at 3 o'clock at Rumseys.—W. H. Shoemaker. SIGMA XI. The regular January meeting of the Kansas Chapter of Sigma Xi will be held in the lecture room of Blake Hall, Thursday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 p.m. Dean J. J. Jakosky will speak on Economic Aspects of Geophysical Exploration. There will also be initiation of new members—W. H. Schoewe, secretary. SCHOLARSHIPS: There are a few loan scholarships available for use during the second semester. Applications should be made immediately in Room 1, Frank Strong Hall—Lela Ross, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards. Y. M.-Y.W.: There will be a Y.M.-Y.W. skating party Friday night, Jan. 10 from 9 to 11. Admission will be 15 cents. All Y.M.-Y.W. members are invited—Helen Martin. TAU SIGMA: There will be a Tau Sigma meeting this evening at 7:30—Carolyn Greene. NOTICES★ Plant Legerdemain Only God Makes Trees But These Boys Do Okay By DONALD DUNCAN Some day when you are out poking around buildings, poke around behind Fowler shops. You'll find some men doing the same thing, poking around. But they will be poking plants everything from dandelions to "ti,' a species of an Asiatic and Polynesian palm tree. The greenhouse men are always busy. In the fail they take plants out of the ground around the campus and put them in the greenhouse. In the spring they take the plants out of the greenhouse and put them in the ground. (Preliminary course is under supervision of WPA.) Best trick of these plant movers is the disappearing and reappearing act they do with the flowers in front of Frank Strong hall. Walk in the building and you see rows of marigolds. Smoke a cigarette, (in the basement, please) go to class, smoke a cigarette, (in the basement, PLEASE), come out in front again and the marigolds are blush-red tulips, or I'm crazy—they're tulips anyway, and the same to you. George M. Fisher, landscape artist, experiments with varities of plants unknown in this section, seeking to acclimate them to Kansas. The greenhouse furnishes botany classes with specimen plants for study. The cuttings of "tf" were a gift from Mrs. Deane W. Malott. She brought them back from Hawaii last summer. Mrs. Malott also brought back two varieties of eucalyptus from the botanical experiment station in Hawaii. These plants are natives of south tropical Asia. They are believed to be the tallest trees in the world. ROCK CHALK TALK One night last week Theta Edna Givens was amazed when her father, T. M. Givens, cashier of the Citizens National bank at Ft. Scott, brought into the house a red-headed baby boy, about six weeks old. When he opened the door of his car, parked outside their home, her father heard a whimper. At first he thought it was his dog; then he found the baby, wrapped in blankets and supplied with a bottle of warm milk. "He was darling!" exclaimed Edna. "I wanted to keep him." He was darling. Exactly here. However, the baby was taken to the hospital, and now a home has been found for him. Among the snow-shunners who steered their course south during the holidays was Tom Dawson, a Phi Gam pledge. To say nothing of the harrowing moment in one hotel when he was attacked by a real life Bela Lugose. He shudders but refuses to give details. He reports a very quiet time. Barely missed two train wrecks on the way down (he traveled alone); had a swank party given in his honor at the Yacht Club in Tampa, Fla.; had New Year's Eve in Miami. Remeber the "one for the money" jingle? All that Bob Beeler remembered when he left campus for home on Thursday, Dec. 19, was the last part, "four to go." En route for Beloit in his car, he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten his luggage. He had also forgotten his money. Too full of the wanderer-returneth spirit to let this throw him, he stopped at a gas station, phoned the Sigma Chi house (reversing the charges), and had the brothers send forgotten items. Happily puffed up was Hal "Shelley" Ruppenthal when a poem by him was read on the "Moonbeams" program over WDAF. He doesn't even seem to mind the ribbing this aesthetic outburst has brought forth. We still have finals and Groundhog Day to look forward to. EXAMINATION SCHEDULE THURSDAY A.M. 3:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 23 P.M. 3:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 1:30 to 3:20 P.M. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:30 to 5:20 FRIDAY A.M. 10:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 24 P.M. 10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 SATURDAY A.M. 1:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 25 P.M. 1:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 MONDAY A.M. 9:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 27 P.M. 9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 TUESDAY A.M. 8:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 28 P.M. 8:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 WEDNESDAY A.M. 11:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 29 P.M. 11:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 THURSDAY A.M. 2:30 classes, 5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 Jan. 30 P.M. 2:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20 U N C1 nece the o worl the lowi Rick range fense fourt court Bil M.S.C those or 15 Far one i not a subm p.m. the e to ace the j made Two The proper versit parkin campu The sists of Moe Wiles, of Pa freshn freshn Studer