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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940
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A. R. F. Aids Britain
In England today mobile canteens, or "kitchen wagons," bearing names of American universities are bringing relief to a deserving people. These canteens are being purchased by money contributed by college branches of the Allied Relief fund.
Equipped with food, gas stoves, utensils and dishes, the kitchen wagons are capable of feeding 300 to 400 persons. In stricken areas, the canteen's sides are opened and tea, warm soups, and stews are passed over the window counter.
The Allied Relief fund has $113,000 of the $150,000 it is seeking for the purchase of 100 of these canteens, and a drive now is being conducted to raise the remainder of the fund. Sufficient interest has been shown here at the University to raise a small fund for this purpose, and, it has been indicated, an organized effort will be undertaken for contributions toward this worthy cause.
President W. A. Brandenburg of the Pittsburg Teachers College, one of the five large state schools of Kansas, died yesterday in St. Louis at the age of 71. In his passing Kansas lost an able executive and a democratic educator, his spirit of democracy will be remembered.
W. A. Brandenburg
Perhaps above all other personality traits, longest. He was human to the core. Faculty and students alike at Pittsburg Teachers called him "Prexy," and he liked it. Students needing money for fees or books went straight to "Prexy," not to the president. "Prexy" heard their story.
In his 27 years at Pittsburg Teachers College, Brandenburg helped build the college from a struggling semi-dependent institution into a recognized class "A" college offering graduate work.
President Brandenburg without doubt would have retired soon as head of the college, but nevertheless it was difficult for many alumni of the college to realize that he had passed the 70-year mark and that death was imminent. Knowing his Germanic passion for thoroughness, it is not difficult to believe that he would have preferred his life to close while he still was on the job.
Now his biography can be written, "He was president 27 years until his death. And it can be added, "The 27 years were well spent."
The American Scene
To those persons who were dependent, in part at least, upon the testimony of witnesses appearing before the Dies committee for the entertainment and amusement that develops in pointed and extemporaneous charges and counter-charges, a new ne plus ultra in repartee and barber shop humor has been uncovered in the court record of the Senate's subcommittee inquiry into Hague politics in Newark.
Yesterday's session included, among other things, this bit of dialogue:
"Not from a lunatic who should be in a mental hospital." Mayor Hague thrust back.
Senator Charles W. Tobey, "You're silly and acting like a child. You just can't take it."
The crowd, in which there was more than just a sprinkling of Newark Hagueites, applauded.
But, fundamentally, aside from whatever attitude may be taken at stuffed ballot boxes and corrupt politics, there is a far more serious aspect to such dialogue, although it is a matter usually just taken for granted: the right of free speech. It is a right that is often abused, perhaps, but a right that must always continue in a democracy.
LETTERS★
Newspapers and the Draft
Newspapers over the entire country these days are fulfilling a public service that entitles them to a well-deserved bow, although in most newspaper offices the task of printing registration and serial numbers comes only under the general aim of the paper: the dissemination of information.
Without newspapers, the carry out of a huge program such as the selective service act entails would be almost chaotic. There are those who would point out that the draft numbers were also carried by radio, but the shortcomings of the human voice as compared to the black and white permanence of the printed page are so apparent as to leave little comparison, a statement that finds corroboration in yesterday's draft lottery.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1940 No. 33
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.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be an important meeting Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the Memorial Union. There will be a guest speaker. Everyone is welcome to attend.-Barrett Silk, secretary.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le cercle français se reuniva jeudi, le 31 octobre a trois heures et demie dans le Pine Room of the Union building—Else Nesbitt, president.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weisenberg will be at Room 415, Watson Library every Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for personal conferences.
—Joseph A. Zashka.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS: Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish will be given at 10 o'clock on November 2, in 107 Frank Strong hall.
Registration for this examination may be made at the College office until tomorrow morning.-W. H. Shoemaker.
RHADAMANTHI POETRY CLUB: Rhadamanthi poetry club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the west ballroom of the Union building. Mary Elizabeth Evans and Bill Stafford will present the program. Anyone interested in the reading, writing, or study of poetry is welcome.—Bob Humhrey, president.
QUACK CLUB: Quack Club will meet in Robinson gym at 8 o'clock this evening—Margaret Learnard.
THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Thomas for President Club at 7 o'clock Thursday, Oct. 21, in the east wing of the Memorial Union ballroom. All members are requested to attend. —Lou Cook, secretary.
NOTICES★
Amateurs to Judge In Butter Box Contest
Wants Art Critics---
If you have two good eyes and are willing to climb to the third floor of Frank Strong hall and have the characteristics of the average person, you are the one for whom T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design, is looking to judge the current butter box contest.
At the west end of the hall are two display windows in which 52 folding butter cartoons parade the name "Jayhawk fancy creamery butter" in red, white and blue. Designed by students in the department, these boxes are competing for commercial use by the Lawrence creamery for its full line of products and, incidentally, for a first prize of $10.00
All women who expect ever to buy butter for the family sandwiches, and all men likewise, are invited to come up to look over the butter cartons and pick their favorites. By voting five preferences on the basis of attractiveness, legibility, and appropriateness, the designers can learn what the buying public likes.
"We want the opinions of all butter buyers, not of art students only," Mr. Jones explained.
This contest was arranged with R. H. Wagstaff of the Jayhawk cakeery after a package design by a professional artist was rejected. The winning student design will be used not only on butter but also on ice cream and cottage cheese cartons.
Every day, positions of competing boxes will be shifted in the display to equalize advantage.
"I like to dig up all the business of this kind I can," said Mr. Jones. Next students will submit package designs for a cosmetic company in Kansas City.
Historians To Meet
"America's stake in a free China" will be discussed by the History club at a meeting at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Jayhawk 2-Milers Look To Saturday's Race At Columbia
After making a surprisingly good showing against the champion K-State 2-mile team, Don Thompson, Dick Edwards, and other Jayhawk runners assume the role of favorites Saturday when they meet the Missouri Tigers at Columbia. The race will be run between halves of the Missouri-NYU football game.
Coach Bill Hargiss is concentrating on improving the running of Clarence Miller and Russell Mount. If they can finish nearer to Thompson and Edwards, Kansas will rank among the favorites to cop the Big Six title.
Missouri lost to Nebraska, 19 to 17, at Lincoln last Saturday. Roy Ginn and Harold Brooks of Nebraska finished one-two with Tiger runners taking the next three places. Ginn, a sophomore, ran the distance in 9:56.5.
Thompson and Edwards now rate with the best 2-milers in the conference. Don's 9.58.5 at Manhattan with Edwards pressing him gives the Kansas runners times approaching the fastest recorded so far this year.
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY HEIDI VIETS
John Elden, casanova of Battenfeld hall, early this week realized that he had made three dates for tonight. After breaking two of them, he will dance tonight with no social complications to worry him. But what of the girls, you big bad man?
Sigma Chi pledge Russell Atha takes air cruising in his stride. Last Friday afternoon he moseyed out to the airport, called for his personal plane, and took off for Manhattan just to take a look at their airfield, to see how the land lay.
Then, Saturday afternoon he hied himself to the hanger and got his plane out again. But this time it was not for a circle trip but for flight with stop over long enough to see the K.U.-K. State game.
The Homecoming queen must have not only a photogenic puss but also a well-filled slate of campus activities. Another score for the theory that "beautiful but dumb" is not the winnah.
Mike Gubar, A.T.O. pledge, is trying to convince his public that his reputation for coke-bumming is an idle rumor. But after the way the Gubar's car lagged behind and even got lost in the brush on the geology field yesterday, we suspect him of anything.
Only six days from today Willkie will be tearing his crumpled hair and F.D.R. will be muttering mild curses with Eastern accent, while his wife may entitle her Nov. 5 column "What a Day."
If you enjoy hysteria, start working yourself up now for a red-letter day of excitement on election day.
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