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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
Indications now point to the inclusion of Japan, as well as Fascist Spain, to the Rome-Berlin axis for possible world domination. Whether Japan and Spain actually will become antennae to the axis or whether only such an impression of cooperation is intended should be revealed shortly, possibly within next few days.
Where Russia will stand in case Japan actually is to be included in the paet is difficult to predict. The air-tight censorship which obtains on Russia at this time has prevented any leaks of information as to what position Russia will take. Japanese-Russian relations have seldom been amicable, yet Russia also has an agreement with Germany. England recently has apparently made some headway in her efforts to improve relations with Russia. Russia appears to be simulating a half-asleep bear, able to stick out a heavy pair when the time arrives.
Quiet Bear
According to the usually well-informed II Popolo di Roma, Spain apparently has decided on active aid to the axis powers in the war against Britain, and Eiji Amau, Japanese ambassador to Rome, and the Italian foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, have reportedly discussed the international situation with "particular emphasis on the Japanese advance into French Indo-China." Just how firmly Japan is entrenched in the negotiations is a matter of speculation, although it is understood that Japan has agreed in principle on a defensive alliance with Germany, becoming effective should the United States and Great Britain collaborate on defense bases in the Far East.
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Help Wanted
Over one-third of the women entering the University seek employment, either temporary or permanent during the year. The Women's Employment bureau helps these new students find jobs best suited for them. Last year, 428 girls applied for the 265 jobs offered. Despite the difference in these numbers, practically no girl was forced to leave school because she was unable to secure a position. This fact alone suggests the persistency and initiative which the members of this bureau exercise.
Miss Marie Miller, director of the bureau, keeps data on every working girl during her four years in college. This in a small way serves as a personnel department for those individuals upon graduation. It is Miss Miller's opinion that such a department should exist for the whole student body. The question of job placement would then be practically nil.
The University helps the bureau by offering women positions in University offices. Even though student employees are not always well trained, the University lays particular emphasis on trying to aid the struggling newcomers. The popular clerical jobs, however, are not numerous enough to go around. The remaining girls must be satisfied with such work as nursing, selling on commission, tutoring, poster making, housework, waiting tables, caring for children, cooking, ironing and cafeteria service. The girls who go home because of lack of employment are those who refuse to do any kind of a job. The opportunity of a job often depends upon the willingness of the employee. The bureau does not encourage those girls to stay who are dissatisfied or who do not wish to take certain positions. It is often better to go home.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 Thursday, Sept. 26, 1940 No.9
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday yfor Sunday issue.
A. I.EE. . A.I.EE. Smoker, student branch meeting at 7:30 this evening in the Men's Lounge of the Union building. All electricals invited. Refreshments!-Martin Stromst. secretary.
NEWMAN CLUB: Next Sunday is the Newman Club Corporate Communion Sunday. The students will offer their communions for James Hail, past President of the Newman Club, who was killed in an army air crash last summer. Rev. E. J. Weisenberg will be speaking on Thursday at 10 a.m. mass. Reservations by non-Catholics can be made by calling 338 by 7:00 p.m. Friday—Albert Protiva, vice-president.
DIRECTORY: Students who have not filed addresses and telephone numbers at the Registrar's office should do so at once so that the information may be included. Copy now being prepared—George O. Foster, registrar.
FRESHMAN MEMBERS INTRAMURAL BOARD:
Men wishing to be considered as candidates for freshman members of the Intramural board of managers must state qualifications in a written application addressed to the Faculty. Applications not to be accepted after Wednesday, Oct. 2. —Lee Huddleton, Sr. Manager, 107 Robinson Gym
FRESHMAN Y.M.-Y.W.: There will be a Freshman Y.M.-Y.W. meeting in the Kansas room at 4:30 this afternoon.-Mary Ewers, Ernie Klema.
READING CLASS: All students interested in improvement of reading habits come to room 18, Fraser Hall, as soon as possible for registration in the reading class this semester.-Dr. Bert Nash.
PHI CHI DELTA: The first meeting of Phi Chi Delta will be held Tuesday, October 1 at 5:30 at Westminster Hall, 1221 Oread—Dee Ellen Naylor, Jean Dooley, Co-program chairmen.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: There will be a proficiency examination October 5 at 8:30 a.m. Register, in person, at the College Office, 121 Frank Strong Hall, September 30, October 1 and 2. This examination is open to Juniors and Seniors in the College of Liberal Arts, provided they have not passed an earlier examination. Seniors who pass the examination on October 5 may qualify for graduation in June, 1940. Other examinations will be held December 14, March 1, May 3.—J. B. Virtue.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMS: A make-up psychological examination will be given Saturday, Sept. 28, at 9 a.m. in 112 Fraser.-A. H. Turney.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION (Baptist): Dean Paul B. Lawson will speak on "The Tools of Religion", Sunday, 9:45 a.m., to the University class at the First Baptist Church, corner 8 and Kentucky Streets. The campus street at the Student Center, I24 Mississippi at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. Chas W. Thomas, director R.W.F.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE: All students wishing to sign up for work on subcommittees of the Student Union Activities Committee are urged to call in person at the Student Union Activities office in the Union Building between 2 and 5 p.m. Junior men and sophomores are especially wanted. There is opportunity for typists, carpenters, artists, and others of special talent...Carter Butler.
TAU SIGMA: There will be a meeting of Tau Sigma members Monday afternoon at 4:30. Attendance is required—Carolyn Green.
REINTERTPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Y.W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A. Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m. at Henley House. The topic for discussion is "Christianity—How Come?" led by Reverend Edwin F. Price.-Mary Helen Wilson.
GOSSIP, The Life and Times of Walter Winchell, by St. Clair McKelway,
The Viking Press, N.Y. 150 pages. $1.75.
Mrs. Winchell's little boy Walter has had the tables turned at last. Even with his eye and ear still to the keyhole, America's No.1 gossipsurveyor gets a thorough dissection by this caustic former managing editor of the New Yorker. The resulting introspective look at Winchell more often than not reveals him as the most interesting and quixotic of repulsive men. His portrait comes streaming in rather vivid purple.
Even more important than the notes on Winchell's home life, however, are the implications and overtones of this book on one of America's pastimes. Probably the one man responsible for the trend of modern newspapers to gossip columns of all kinds, according to the author, is Little Boy Peep. The New York Post, for instance, conservative in most journalistic respects, prints an avowed gossip release out of Hollywood today, where ten years ago such a breach would have been unthinkable.
If you follow the "Profiles" department of the New Yorker magazine, you have already read most of this book. The series of three articles, however, didn't give the more complete picture of the entire trend of gossip in this country which the book lays bare. It is interesting to note in passing, that a few days after the last article appeared, Winchell devoted an entire and lengthy column to debunking McKelway, Winchell, as usual in such cases, told his Stork club friends that night, "I let him have it."
Americans today are reading the inside story of the king's home life and the murderer's former gal friends and all the divorces of so and so with hungry interest—else Winchell and his hundreds of counterparts could not exist. But twenty, even fifteen years ago, the reading public would have considered such a column as Winchell's pure trash. What caused the change? According to McKelway the credit should go to a man with revolutionary ideas about what's news who started his New York career on the new extinct Evening Graphic. Readers suddenly found gossip on their liking. Winchell caught on and the Graphic circulation rose. Soon he had imitators everywhere, with an over-abundance in Hollywood, and the flavor of the gossip column was spilling over into the straight news story on page 1.
St. Clair McKelway isn't mad at Winchell. He is even sympathetic toward some of Walter's most egocentric oddities and his childish prattlings. McKelway seems to be the height of reasonableness as he tries to find what makes the Winchell mind click, what clicks the Winchell mind, and—most of all—why the Winchell column clicks—B.F.
Origin of 'Duke Street,' Religious Hymn, Obscure
"Duke Street," the hymn sung on many of the University's convocations and other events, beginning, "O God, beneath Thy guiding hand," has a much longer history than its traditional usage here. It has been sung for over a century in America.
Members of the faculty in the department of English have been spending some of their time in authorship.
New Books Out by K.U. Authors
Jolin F. Hankins, associate profes- department, is the editor of "Types of English Drama," announced for fall publication by Macmillan.
John E. Hanks, associate professor of English, is the author of "The Character of Hamlet and Other Essays," to be published by the University of North Carolina press. His "Life and Works of George Tuberville" is to be published this fall in the "University of Kansas Humanistic Studies."
One volume of the Humanistic Studies consists of contributions by various members of the department of English, "Studies in English." Among the contributors are W. S. Johnson, J. H. Nelson, Josephine Burnham, Clyde K. Hyder, John E. Hankins, John Virtue, William D. Paden, Harold D. Jenkins and Myra Hull. The volume is published in honor of Professors R. D. O'Leary and S. L. Whitcomb, formerly members of the department and editors of the series.
Three volumes will be published this fall by Edwards Brothers: "A
John Hatton composed the "Duke Street" tune in 1793. According to Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, the name "Duke Street" applies to the tune, not the words. All well known hymn tunes are identified by names whose origin, in most cases, is now obscure. This is customary since often many sets of words may be sung to a given tune.
Leonard Bacon, a Connecticut clergyman, wrote lyrics to the hymn in 1838. The Rev. Bacon, a Yale graduate, was pastor of Center Congregational church, New Haven, Comm., from 1825 until his death. He also acted as professor of revealed theology and a lecturer on American church history at Yale.
His "Duke Street" lyrics, grim but forward-looking, have been chosen by the faculty here for many years as appropriate for the more formal student gatherings.
Even the Civil war did not discourage his scholarly divinity, since he published a book, "Christian Self-Culture," in 1863.
Concordance to the Poems of Oliver Goldsmith" by William D. Paden and Clyde K. Hyder; "A Concordance to the Poems of A. E. Housman" by Clyde, K., Hyder; and "Outlining in Study and Composition" by Newell Bebout.
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