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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
For the Job Hungry
After a poll of the campus conducted by the Y.M.C.A. showed that 781 students out of 1550 face problems concerning vocations, the administration recognizes the fact by offering the vocational guidance clinic to be held from May 14 to May 23.
The poll illustrates that many of the upperclassmen are still undecided as to a profession. Four hundred and forty-one juniors and 358 seniors are still debating the question of what to do after graduation. In the poll they asked for tests for vocational aptitudes, interviews with men in various fields, reading material on professions, and interviews with teachers about a choice of a career.
The vocational guidance clinic will answer these requests by giving students a chance to gain wider knowledge of the fields which might interest them. W. T. Markham, member of the Board of Regents and a well-known Kansas educator, will open the clinic with an address. Sixty business men and professors are offering their services to the clinic in order that students may consult them on their special problems. Shelves in the library, will be set aside for books dealing with vocations.
The success of the clinic, the first of its kind to be conducted upon this campus, depends upon the interest shown in it by students who need vocational help. Since unemployment is one of the greatest problems facing the country today, a clinic such as this one may help keep college graduates out of the bread lines.
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Mere Twaddle
With the advent of spring, sunbathing, tennis, picnics, and most of all crew cuts, the yellow-corduroy element of the University has the loaded-dice chance of defending one of the nation's most important institutions, the American Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Singing. If the nation is to be undefiled as Abraham Lincoln left it, buoyant in its freedom of speech and freedom of the press, then the Sweet-Adeline-warbling barber shop quartet must remain.
The crew-cut trend may be the key to the whole barbarous problem, which began when the "Dipsy Doodle" replaced the "Face on the Barrom Floor" as the nation's favorite. The crew-cut may bring order out of chaos. It's I-want-to-look-like-a-college man victim has to sit longer in the tipping chair and thus has longer to offer suggestions to the barber. It's subject has time to yell for the radio to be turned off and to get friendly enough to suggest a hair-raising rendition of the songs his father loved so well.
But all things included, the student must be loyal with his support. He must himself clear his throat and add a few flat notes to the singing. He must remember that the louder the noise, the more sweet it is to the passing ear. He must tip the hair tonic bottle with the best of them. He must never forget the dime in the barber's hand. He must get down out of his swinging chair, hair-catcher and all and open his voice to the heavens. Most of all, in the best barber shop etiquette, he must never suggest leaving the group until a fourth has come to fill his place in the lung-splitter's quartette.
If all the co-eds in the world that didn't neck were gathered in one room, what would we do with her?
The major menaces on the highway are drunken driving, uncontrolled thumbing, and indiscriminate spooning. To put it briefly, Hic, hike, and hug.
Low conversation is all that is permitted in Watson library.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, May 8, 1940 No. 145
A. S.M.E.: A.S.M.E. will hold its last semester tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Marvin Auditorium. Phillips Petroleum Company will sponsor the program. Upon the conclusion of the program the election of officers for the following semester will be held—Spud Bunn, vice president.
EPISCOPAL YOUNG PEOPLE: The Episcopal Young People of the University will have a Corporate Communion Whitsunday, May 12, at 8 o'clock. In the afternoon a picnic is planned. To make reservations for the picnic and for further information call Rev. Bowers, 1111, before Saturday.-Ralph Hammond.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; Dr. E.T Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital.-Dr. R.I.Car:uteson.
QUILL CLUB: Quill club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Pine room.Evelyn Longerbeam.
RHADAMANTHI; The regular meeting will be held tomorrow at 7:30 in the Union building. Mr.Humphrey will discuss T.S.Ellot. Election of officers will be held. All members please attend.-Gordon Brigham, president.
SENIOR RED CROSS: Senior life saving certificates may be obtained by calling at room 107 Robinson gym. Herbert Allphin.
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Heaven and Beefsteak
With the Houdini of modern warfare pulling rabbits out of his hat closer and closer to American interests, with thinkers and thinkers' works squirming under the thumbs of Gestapos or near-Gestapos in foreign countries, it is up to America alone to display any brand of hope. Solely in America can any cheerful vision of a future God-filled world remain. For only in the land of beefsteak for dinner and eight hours' sleep can optimism survive.
The average man isn't a Gandhi. He doesn't relish going past even one dinner gong without a meal. In China, Japan, Norway Germany, France, even Britain, that same average man is right now yearning for that of which war may have deprived him—his bowl of rice in a tea house, his herring and potatoes, his zweibach and beer, his poulet et vin, his tea and crumpets. And like anyone else, on an empty stomach, he's cross. He says, "there isn't any God who would let this horrible nightmare go on."
Likewise a too-great lack of sleep brings to him a horrible hoard of wakeful nightmares rather than a visit with the divine. Unconsciously he agrees with Rabelais: that undoubtedly the mystics had visions; that anyone without food and sleep long would have visions—whether they be of pink elephants or heavenly hosts. And the sleep-light soldier in foreign countries is having visions, never fear-not visions of beauty and gladness but of ugliness and hate.
Only in America are there no war guns, no screams of pain, no roaring planes to haunt the sleep. Only in America are there no war rations of tasteless carbohydrates to gnaw at the stomach. Only in America can there be forming the embryo of a new religion which tomorrow will lead hopefully out of chaos.
Every time a solicitor for some foreign charity shows up Americans fluff him off with "charity at home." When campaigners for the fund to bed down the boys in the two dormitories show up, there won't be a good answer except the largest contribution possible.
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