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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
A Basement Or a Building?
Since the University is a state school dependent upon legislative appropriations, additional appropriations will be forthcoming only when Kansans realize that the state does have resources, other than surface land, worth exploiting.
With its mineral industrials yielding 154 millions of dollars a year, and with more mineral wealth than any of the famous mining states of the West. except California, Kansas does have a secondary source of wealth worth developing and worth training men to develop. Latest figures show this state ranking seventh among all the states in mineral sales, and fifth among oil producers.
Oscar S. Stauffer, well-known Kansas newspaper publisher, in his speech Saturday before the K.U. Alumni Association reiterated the University's keen need of a mineral industries building. In pointing out the importance of the state's second greatest resource, mineral industries, and in pleading for a building to provide proper educational facilities here for students who some day will develop this resource into even greater significance, Mr. Stauffer was fighting an elusive but formidable foe — the agrarian state of mind.
The far-fixation has resulted in an anomalous situation in the educational set-up. Kansas has a special college set apart for the study of agriculture, while its mineral resources department is crowded into a sub-basement of Haworth hall. Agriculture is worth three times as much as mineral development in this state, but the agricultural college has buildings worth thousands of times as much as the basement of Haworth hall.
Missouri broke away from the agrarian mental set in 1870 and established the Rolla School of Mines. Rolla graduates are now crowding Kansas boys in a lucrative profession. This agrarian state of mind must be amended if Kansas is ever to realize the full benefits of its natural resources.
Germany, long famed for more potent brews now is experimenting with eight types of near beer in answer to a plea made by Dr. Leonardo Conti, the reich's health fuehrer. Such experiments, if conducted in the United States, would doubtless receive the full backing of the fuehrers at Iowa State College, which—officially, at least—is now on the milk standard.
YOU SAID IT
Many University of Kansas students will vote this fall and many more will be voting in the next few years, and consequently should have training along political lines. The political clubs on the campus offer this training, and every student should be urged to join a political club. If the student favors Mr. Roosevelt he should join the Young Democrat club. If he is for Mr. Willkie the Willkie club is the place for him. If he has lost faith in these two major parties, I suggest he join the Thomas or Socialist and cast a protest vote.
Editor. Daily Kansan:
Along with training in his chosen field every student should learn of and be aware of the world in which he lives. The "hill" political clubs offer a part of this training.
L. C.
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Vol. 38 Thursday, Oct.17,1940 No.24
FENCERS: There will be a meeting of the Fencing Club tonight at 7:30 in the boys gym. Fencing will follow the meeting.-Haven Glassmire, president.
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.
ENGLISH LECTURE: The first of a series of lectures on Kansas writers, sponsored by the department of English, will be given Tuesday at 3:30 in Fraser, room 205. Miss Helen Rhoa Hoopes will discuss "Contemporary Poets". The lecture is open to the public.-J. W. Ashton, chairman, Department of English.
FRENCH CLUB: Le cercle français se reunie vajei, a trois heures et demie dans la salle 113 F.S.; Tous ceux qui s'interessant an francais sont invites—Rosemary Jones, secretary.
HOUSE PRESIDENTS COUNCIL: Meeting tonight at 7:00 in the Kansas room of the Union building. Rosalys McCrerey, president.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Y.W.-Y.M. Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet next Tuesday, October 22, at 4:30 at Henley House. The discussion will be "Christianity—So What?" The discussion will be led by the Reverend Harold Barr.—Mary Helen Wilson, Bob Collette.
YOUNG DEMOCRAT CLUB: The Young Democrat Club will meet tonight in the Union lounge at 8 o'clock. Dr Wm. Balch, Professor of History at Baker University, will speak. Plans will also be discussed for entertaining Wm. H. Burke when he comes to Lawrence next week. All Democrats are welcome.Jerry Riseley, president.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhamdanthi poetry club will meet at 7:30 this evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union. Miss Margaret Anderson will speak on "The Interpretation of Poetry". Miss Ise Nesbitt will discuss the Poetics of Aristotle.-Bob Humphrey, president.
SIGMA XI; Dr. H. B. Hungerford, retiring president of the Kansas Chapter of Sigma Xi will deliver his retiring presidential address this evening at 8 o'clock in Spooner-Thayer Museum. Dr. Hungerford will speak on "The Age of Insects." The public is cordially invited. —W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
KAPPA PHI: Kappa Phi, Methodist girl's sorority, will hold a regular meeting at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18 at 1209 Tennessee street. Poco Frazier will talk on sculpturing. All actives and pledges are urged to attend. —Kathryn Schaake, publicity chairman.
TAU BETA PI; Tau Beta Pi will hold a meeting this evening at 7:30 in the Hydraulic Lab for consideration of new members. Also for report on Convention.—L. Schroeter, president.
University Aero Clubs Have History of 21 Years
The Seventeenth unit of the Women's National Aeronautical Association, composed of the University's potential aviatrixes, is taxiing into its second year. The initial purpose of this all-woman flying club is to promote beneficial aeronautical projects among University students and throughout the community.
The first University flying club started in 1919, when 13 exaviators of the United States Army set a precedent that has endured the test of 21 years. This club, called the Flying Service
club, was formed in conjunction with a similar organization in Kansas City.
Start Glider Club In 1924
In 1924, the Glider-club replaced the army pilot's association. The student members constructed a glider and put it to the first successful flight test on Thanksgiving Day of that year in a small field south of the Campus. For the landing base, however, the field was too small for satisfactory results. For all further experiments the city airport was used.
The Glider club was converted into the Aero club in 1928. These pilots-to-be received, formally, their charter from the National Aeronautical Association following some thrilling army air maneuvers held at Fort Leavenworth. Fifty planes, divided into two squadrons, participated in the formation flying that day. Spectators witnessed actual bombing and daring aerobatics.
It was in this same year that the University considered instituting a ground school flying course in the regular college curriculum. The enthusiasm of the fight club furthered its promotion. This club also initiated the idea of the 5-foot wind tunnel beneath the west stadium. It served as a testing laboratory, and is still being used today for similar purposes.
The Curtis Flying school was established in 1929, through the sponsorship of Prof. Earl D. Hay, chal man of the department of mechanical engineering and present head of the C.A.A. program. Students took lessons at the Lawrence Municipal airport, new to the community at that time.
A Flight Frat In 1935
In 1935 the flight group became members of the Tau Omega, national aeronautical fraternity. In 1937 it again reorganized, this time free from all fraternity ties, and University women stepped into the picture for the first time. This group of 40 air-minded students carried on successfully until the spring of 1939. The new civilian flight course then began to draw the interest of the men students.
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY HEIDI VIETS
Marjorie Thies, Alpha Chi pledge, presents a brightite for saving time and money. She and her roommate will install an electric range in their room. As everybody knows who listens to WRAF's early morning musical program, an electric range saves seconds and shekels.
Theoretore, Margie figures, life will be rosy as soon as she has a room with a range.
Rhetoric classes of Norman Rehg are writing themes with a punch. Popular topics are "How to Avoid the Good Night Clinch." "How to Execute the Good Night Kiss Expertly," and "How to Glamorize Your Puss."
Would you be surprised to learn that Roscoe Born, "tramp journalist" and managing editor of The Kansan, is soft on a little yellow pussy? Well, he is.
Ajax (that's the cat) even has the privilege of drinking milk from a private paper cup on a table beneath The Kansan bulletin board.
But everything's been done before. Edgar Allan Poe also had a cat, Born.
When Phi Phi pledges were asked to name their "secret passions" this week, it is said that they sighed mostly the names of Phi Psi's. Who said so? The Phi Psi's?
Who said so? The Phi Psi's?
On Thanksgiving Day, newspaperperm should all remember Elliott Roosevelt as they gawn on their drumsticks, because his sudden captaincy plus his recent attempt to wriggle out of it have pulled down more column inches lately than the rest of the R. family put together.
Now he is as famous as Adam Lazonga. But surely the game is over. After all, enough is enough. The next step should be to see what play-up he is given in future history books. Napoleon has been plugged for years as the "Little Corporal."
If touching a universal hearstring in an art, Eileen Griffin, Watkins hall freshman, was an artist when she declared, "I never get all my lessons." Such an honest statement should be respected.
Says Dean Paul B. Lawson, at regular intervals of three days, "If such-and-such happens, I'll grow hair." And at regular intervals of nine months someone does the impossible such-and-such, forcing the Dean to respond by appearing with a wig.
The latest is a mop-texture George Washington job, which he jovially donned at the Alpha Chi house because he once had beamed that whenever that sorority crashed the top scholarship three he would grow hair.
Last year he slipped up on the Phi Gams with the very same crack, and fear, it was gag me been in the groove, but after so much wear and tear, it is so disgusting the ditch.
We demand something new and different.
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