UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1940.
The Kansan Comments-that the Yugoslavs can not help Greece unless Turkey does; and that the Turks will not move until they have some assurance Russia will stay out.
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A Real Pickup
ANYONE who feels a bit disgruntled about the showing the football team has made this year or is piqued about any little thing that has happened around the University should try this simple remedy.
Just look over to your left under the brow of Mt. Oread and think back one year. A wilderness of trees and scraggly underbrush sprawled over the rough slope on both sides of winding, muddy path leading to the stairway by the side of Miller hall. A house with broken windows, like discolored, lifeless eyes, thatared out from walls ripped bare of stucco, out over once-spacious porches sagging now where posts have rotted away. Decay, neglect, and wilderness right on the edge of the campus.
Get up about 9 o'clock some Saturday or Sunday morning after a good nine or ten hous sleep. Pick a morning like yesterday morning when the weather has moderated after three or four days of cold winds sweeping across the hill.
Half way up you may want to pause a moment. You'll have ample excuse for taking a little breather before you tackle that last block.
Go around to the 14th street hill (if you don't already live down that way) and walk up it. Maybe you have done it a thousand times or maybe you have never done it before, but do it once on a sunny Saturday or Sunday morning when you don't really have to go up the Hill for anything in particular.
Look again. The house is squared up. The walls are smoothly covered and painted. The mining windows now look out and see a new walk in front, a gravel drive, a smooth rolling awn ,and over where the path used to wind through the thicket brush, a handsome red brick building, its white cupola standing higher than the edge of the Hill.
Well, you can't stand there and rest all morning. Walk on up. Take it slowly and enjoy it. You don't have to get to class. Feel the rush air as you get close to the top. Air that was ting-cold yesterday, that is refreshingly cool day.
Walk on past Fraser with its two flags snapping against thin white clouds in a blue sky. Walk along Oread until you can see both valleys—the valley of the Kaw to the north and the valley of the Wakarusa to the south.
Stand there awhile and see the things you've looked at every day and have never really seen. Watch those valleys, how they join off to the east. Watch them, and see the clear panorama gradually absorbed in haze. Watch them and see if your troubles don't seem as far away as those hills and just as hazy.
Victory in the Press
MANY times during the past week headlines have proclaimed—"Italian troops wiped out."
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While we may hope, for Greece's sake, that these reports are true we must remember that the world heard that Finland was victorious to the day of its defeat, heard that France was doing not too badly against the Nazis, heard again that the British were throwing the Nazis out of Norway.
Remeber also that there are only 150,000 Greeks against 250,000 Italians; that the Italians have behind them the support of 1,125,000 Germans already in the Balkans; that Britain is militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt;
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With these odds against her it is only a question of time until Greece is defeated. Already the Italians have thrust three speerheads far into Greek territory. Unless Greece receives outside aid soon, she will join the little Democracies that have gone down before the dictators' war machines, and we will find that our hopes for an ultimate Greek victory were only wishful thinking.
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Vol. 38 Sunday, Nov.17,1940 No.46
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.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, November 19, at 4:30 in the Auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong Hall—Deane W. Malott, president.
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.-Patricia Neil, secretary.
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DRAMATIC TRYOUTS: Dramatic Tryouts will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the Little Theater in Green Hall for men for parts in the Cradle Song.—James Barton.
KAPPA BETA: Kappa Beta meets Tuesday at 6:30 at Myers Hall. Speaker will be Mrs. A. J. Mix.-Lois Worrell, president.
I. S.A. MEMBERS: Get your I.S.A. directories now in the office of the Men's Adviser, room I Frank Strong hall—Charlotte Steele.
SIGMA CHI. The regular November meeting will be held on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Blake Hall, Dr. A. J. Mix will give an illustrated lecture on "The Genus Taphrina."—W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
SOCILOGY CLUB: The Sociology Club will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Old English Room of the Memorial Union building, Miss Amaretta Jones, Supervisor in In-Service Training, State Board of Social Welfare will be the speaker. The Psychology Club is cordially invited.-Patty Riggs.
PHI CHI DELTA: Phi Chi Delta will meet Tuesday, Nov. 16, at Westminster hall. The time will be 5:30 as usual.-Dee Elen Naylor, Jean Dooley.
W. S.G.A.: W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7:00 in the Pine Room Tuesday night—Doris Twente, secretary.
Harvest Time--- 'Colonel' G.W. Smith Picks A Crop of Kansas Cotton
It's cotton picking time in Lawrence!
If you don't believe it just run over to 1730 Illinois street and take a peek at Prof. Guy W. Smith's front yard.
Your thermometer may indicate that it's winter, but a glance at Professor Smith's cotton crop will make you think yesterday's imagination.
snow was a product of your Buys Nickle's Worth of Cotton
Early last May Smith, who is professor of mathematics, purchased a nickle's worth of cotton seed and planted it along the hedge in his yard. After that he thought very little about it. If it grew all right—if would be an interesting experiment. If not—well cotton wasn't supposed to be a Kansas crop anyway.
However it soon became apparent that it would grow. By July the plants showed every sign of surviving.
Last Thursday Smith made his first "pickings" and placed it on his office desk where curious students could take a look at Kansas cotton. The cotton is fairly high grade, strong fibered, and white.
Of course cotton picking on the Smith plantation isn't quite as picturesque as it is in the deep South, because here a heavily dressed professor does the work in place of stripped-to-the-waist negroes.
But nevertheless, it's something to see the cotton fly while the snow flies!
Game In Washington Brings Memories
Yesterday afternoon when K.U. met George Washington University at Griffith Stadium, students who were on the Hill in '38 recalled the impressive delegation that went from Lawrence to Washington, D.C., two years ago. conventio
Besides the football squad, the entire K.U. band made the trip.
Money enough to give the band this outing was raised by student contributions. Beginning Oct. 28, the Kansan printed a thermometer every day showing how much the help-the-band fund had increased since the previous day, and quoting a campus authority on the worthwhileness of the campaign. A gigantic thermometer in front of the library also recorded the increase of contributions.
The band made the trip in buses. According to Rex Cowan, then a twirler with the band, the highlight hardship came at Vincennes, Ind., where all hotels were filled with
Before the drive was over, students kicked in more than $900.
convention delegates. Bandsters had to sleep in buses or in hotel lobbies.
At Cincinnati there was a stop long enough for everybody to pile out and line the sidewalks in front of the bus station. They made a double line facing each other, forcing pedestrians to walk between whistling, jeering Jayhawkers, law barn style.
At the football game, Nov. 13, the band paraded before a crowd of 9,000. After the game George Washington U. gave a dance for them, importing girls with a southern accent.
Among those who made the trip with the band were Bill Farmer, chairman of the committee for soliciting funds, and Marvin Goebel, who had pushed the fund campaign as publisher of the Kansan.
ROCK CHALK TALK
Anyone who doesn't take a fling at the football squad identification contest at the Jayhawker theater is missing a surefire opportunity.
According to the new simplified rules, it will not be necessary to leave your contest blank when you leave the theater. Contest entries may be handed in any time during the week and on any kind of paper. Reference to football programs and newspapers should make this a cinch.
Since the winner is to be decided by drawing in case of a tie, this should turn out to be a tricky variation of bank night.
"Happy birthday" is irony to May King, Pi Phi pledge. Campused on her birthday, she will have to celebrate with her echo and shadow.
In the column of fancy dancers are Bob Quiring and Margaret Funk, who demonstrated their hops and whirls at the Sig Alph house Friday night.
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