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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25,1940
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Bundles for Britain
The importance of the United States to Great Britain as a source of badly-needed war materials was clearly indicated by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones yesterday in a report that shipments to the United Kingdom had amounted to 780 million dollars during the first year of the war. This total was 57 per cent more than shipments in the twelve months preceding Britain's declaration of war on Germany last September.
Significant as one of the chief exports, both in the amount of sales and as one of this country's direct aids to Britain's war machine, are the airplane shipments. A year ago this month not one plane was shipped, and five months later, in March, only two planes were sent to Britain. But beginning in May, when 19 airplanes were shipped, sales of aircraft showed a boaring increase. In June, 97 planes were sold; in July, 173 aircraft were shipped; and in August, the number of planes shipped increased to 278, or more than one-third of the year's total.
Secretary Jones said British buyers "have shifted sharply toward products vital to the conduct of war, including particularly aircraft and parts, explosives, firearms, metals and metal working machinery, industrial chemicals and petroleum products." Among these items, the report showed, were 743 airplanes valued at $72,163,000, explosives and fuses, $11,077,000; firearms and ammunition, $33,198,000; metal working machinery, $70,478,000; petroleum and petroleum products, $56,298,000; aluminum, $12,756,000; copper, $19,845,000; in dustrial chemicals, $8,693,000.
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The Japanese Way
Only a few days ago a Japanese society was formed for the purpose of campaigning against Christianity. The organization resolved that: Japan is a land of gods . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion, and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy . . . Christianity . . . must be eliminated."
Japan is right. She must eliminate Christianity—and soon. Every minute that Christianity is permitted to exist Chinese will be fed, educated, nursed, and cared for only to become bulwarks against Japanese invasion and conquest. Christianity is losing—losing badly in the hearts of the Nipponese whose lust for carnage and "colonies," mounts yearly.
Japan is right. She must wipe out this threat to her empire. She must try to forget those same Christians succor Japanese as well as Chinese, conqueror as well as conquered, pagan as well as Christian.
When the haze of the campaign lifts, probably all worth remembering will be these two utterances:
Willkie: "Only the productive can be strong, and only the strong can be free."
Roosevelt: "A nation doesn't have to be cruel to be tough."
Kansas is having increased difficulty in maintaining its amateur standing as a prohibition state in the face of the products offered by the mixer manufacturers. A Lawrence firm offers Tom Collins, Cuba libre and champagne ginger ale as part of its list of bottled goods.
The great improvements made in electioneering techniques since the time of Lincoln can be better understood when the elements of a campaign of his time are contrasted to those of the present race.
The pre-requisites for the presidency used to be; rail splitting, a love for farmers and laborers, and a fear of chaos.
Modern pre-requisites for a President are: hair-splitting, a love for farmers and laborers, and a fear of chaos.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 Friday, Oct.25,1940 No.30
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.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon in the Pine room of the Union building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.—Patricia Neil, secretary.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will have its first meeting this year at 7:30 this evening at the Unitarian Church. Twelfth and Vermont streets. People of all races and nationalities are cordially invited—Emile Weiss, secretary.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The K-State-KU. peace dinner will be held at the Gillett Hotel, at Manhattan, Friday evening, at 6 o'clock. Any member seeking transportation, or who has transportation to offer, please get in touch with Presson Shane, 1337 Kentucky, 'phone 2953—Jim Burdge, secretary.
NEWMAN CLUB: This Sunday is the Newman Club Corporate Communion Sunday. The reverend E. J. Weisenberg will be here for the breakfast following the 9:30 Communion Mass. Reservations by non-members and non-Catholics may be made by calling 783 by 7 p.m. Friday.-Joseph A. Zishka.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a regular meeting of the M.S.C. at 8 o'clock Monday evening, in the Pine room.—Jim Burdge, secretary.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS: The Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish will be given at 10 o'clock on Nov.2, in 107 Frank Strong Hall, instead of Oct. 26, as previously announced. Registration for this examination may be made at the College office any time until Thursday morning, Oct. 31.—W. H. Shoemaker.
PHI CHI DELTA: Phi Chi Delta, the Presbyterian church sorority, will have its fall semi-formal dance in the Kansas room, this evening at 8:00 o'clock. All members may get their tickets at Westminster hall—Grace Oishi.
You Said It
The Kansan welcomes contributions to You Said It. All letters should be limited to 300 words or less, and the right to edit communications to this length is reserved by the editors. Letters must bear the name of the contributor, although the signature will be deleted upon request.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
In connection with Tuesday's editorial, may I submit the following remarks?
KU. needs a winning football team just as Peterkins, my cat, needs a fish for dinner. Give Peterkins his fish, and all will be serene, but withhold that fish, and woe befall all concerned. He may even circulate a letter of protest and belittlement among his feline friends, or write an editorial for the Daily Kansan, for he does not aspire to the title of a good sport or gentleman.
gentleman.
K.U. needs a winning football team, because we, the students, want such a team. And everyone knows that in American colleges want and need are synonymous terms. And there are, in addition, definite reasons why we want a winning football team.
We want to make and keep everyone happy. A winning football team helps. For alumni will then give until it hurts. Legislators will pass University appropriations. Merchants will purr at the money and business brought to town by battles between winning teams. And college authorities themselves will be pleased by the advertising a winning team will give the college.
We also want the pleasure of subsidizing the individual members of a victorious team. We and our parents, the taxpayers, want each promising 200 pounds of football material to be given BRT-Board, Room, Tuition, and perhaps a cash payment each month. As average students, we would willingly do without the scholarships and opportunities that are reserved only for football material in colleges with winning teams. We want work handed out through the athletic office and given to gridiron stars, and of course, with higher rates of pay than to ordinary students. We cheerfully do all this and more for the sake of subsidizing players and having a winning football team.
And, lastly, we want to appease the Habit of Football, dictator in American universities. For football is a habit, and habits are hard to break. The dictator asks why doesn't K.U. have a winning football team. His voice is ominous, and we tremble. What if a few hundred athletes are helped, what if a few ethical ideals are smashed. The Habit of Football is powerful, and his influence reaches deep into our educational system; and everyone knows dictators are not to be trifled with these days.
So up and onward, colleagues. Circulate your letters of protest, get Peterkins his fish, and K.U. her winning football team.
B. H. Sanderson.
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY HEIDI VIETS
Man-about-town Walt Meininger, who works in the Kansas municipalities office this year, received a telegram last night from his Kansas City girl friend, Tildie, asking, "What's the matter? Did you break your arm?" Always brief and to the point, Meininger sent back the answer, "Yep."
Speaking of yelling, Buckshot Thomas is right in there. Last night at an off-the-record rally bonfire he led cheers in the best “unaccustomed as I am” manner. He would be a natural on the locomotive. He chugs and steams.
Judging from the shrill screaming, the Theta-Watkins hall game must have been a horror thriller. Maybe it horrified Watkins and thrilled the Thetas.
Emily Mumford, reporter for the local downtown paper, is wondering how she can arrange her time during Christmas vacation to entertain two west coast boy friends who have written her that they will be in town. Rumor had it first that both of them were sailors and that she could entertain in the Ferry or the Harbor, but the latest angle is that they are members of an air corps and an airplane manufacturer-ing concern.
Manhattan, Kan., Oct. 25-(UP) Although the college man pays the courtin' bills, the college co-ec spends more money.
Manhattan Coeds Spend Most Money
At least a recent survey taken by the business staff of the Kansas State Collegiate shows the average woman student here spends approximately $538.72, while her male counterpart averages $521.64.
It revealed the average Kansas
State University student spends $530.18 during the school year and that the total buying power of the 4,000,000 students is $2,066,309.
The greatest part of the $2,066- 309 is amount spent for food totalling $620,184.65 per year. Candy, ice cream and chewing gum purchases amounted to $27,271.94, and $31,570.24 is spent for drinks.
Other expenditures, in order, include general supplies, men's clothing, women's clothing and transportation.
Expenses for individual students were found to vary from $200 to $1,500 for the school year.