University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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lx: 'L ,uw- THE JAYHAWKFR IHINK N THIS time of national crisis our country is arming, training, and preparing to defend it- self against the inevitable onslaught of the totali- tarian military machine. We are still divided as to whether England's fight is our fight, whether Russiais fight is our fight, or whether the United States of America is the only nation which is worthy of salvation from these hordes of barbarians. Some want to save America by aiding the allies. Others want to save America by staying out of foreign wars. All want to save America. To everyone the so-called American way of life is the end toward which all efforts must be directed. This brings the perplexing question, What is the American way of life? Some people who only follow symbols and do no in dependent thinking of their own have no answer for this question They have read it in their newspaper so often that it is a god which they worship and wish not to understand To others those who do attempt to define the American way of life its carries various connotations To the capitalist the American way of life IS the right for him to make as much money as possible without transgressing his own moral standard To the laborer the American way of life IS the right to vote and strike To the mid dle class shop owner this concept embodies his right to make a l1V11'1g in what he considers a decent way To the common man the Ameri can way of life is preserved in the Declaration of Independence while to the wealthy man it tees the right of property Here is an invitation to study these two documents and observe that they are fundamentally different and at the pres ent diametrically opposed The one thing which we all agree is worth fighting for is the American way of life And that one thing is a different thing to each class in our nation. At the same time, therefore, that we have the same end, we have different ends. Our means to the various ends must naturally be as various. Some men believe that our way of life can best be preserved by not going to war and others believe that only the defeat of Hitler will enable us to set our own house in order. Even if we all had the same end, in a nation of 130 million people we would necessarily have many different means, but we are faced with the obstacle of having different ends and a progress- ively proportional ntunber of means to those ends. In the face of this confusion, or should we say in spite of this confusion, our nation is being led along a definite path toward war People are giving money services and precious years of their lives toward the defense of our nation Amidst all our mental turmoil a dynamic IS gathering momentum leading us to war I do not charge one man not any number of men of skillfully plotting in smoke filled hotel rooms to push us into war It only appears that the people of this country individually feel themselves in capable of thinking a problem through This futility of self reliance breeds in turn an apathy toward war which is the fertile ground in which Mars can raise his best crop of death and destruction Brave people of America you have proved your ability to fight courageously but you have never proved your ability to think correctly If your own mind and the majority believes that war is the best solution then war may be justi fied But if you have given up trying to solve the problem from your own standpoint and if you have resigned yourselves to the decision of others you are not worthy of being a free people FQ ' 1 - ll . . . .... I t 12 7 - ' 'lg . . , . . . - Q l' ' , llli I . . ' . ' , , . . ., 3 . , in I - - , .T , v . . - - I l 1 l . l 24: . rl tg-1 ' - - - -. 7 V gill: is expressed in the Constitution which guaran- each of you have thought this problem out in I ' . Q . . . 111 - - . .- 1 - , ' ' I ' i . , . . Il Q A ' - u - . .,, . I lil i ' 'Z lil ,SEI Ag: -I I win- D milf - llllflll 2 H l l fllllh V wie T elsi lfzf li f,5,3..

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OCTOBER 1241 CSGFTJS passes including one which Miller converted into a touchdown by a 41-yard run, marked him as talented in every department. Called Red Dog by his friends and teammates, although his real name is Don, Ettinger came out of William Chrisman high school in Independence, Mo., two years ago to attract attention on a sterling freshman team and then claim the varsity fullback's berth. Treading on the heels of this set of starters were Don Pollom, last year's sophomore halfback ace who scored the only Jayhawk touchdown against Temple this fall, Ed Linquist, chunky junior fullback who blasted his way 18 yards for the winning touchdown against Washington University, Harlan Altman, Wellington quarterback who was kept out of action most of last season by broken ribs, Denzel Gibbens, elusive little halfback, and Dick Miller, whose 41- yard run after a sleeper play engineered by himself and Niblo was one of the features of the Temple game. Worthy of special mention among the linemen because of their play in early games this year were Jayhawk End Hub Ulrich, Guard Bob Fluker, and Center Bob Githens. Ulrich, who won Hrst and sec- ond team ratings on several all-conference selections last year, should spend most of his time this year in opposing team's backfield. Handicapped by a broken leg during his freshman season, Fluker, the only Summerfield Scholar ever to play varsity football at the University, blossomed into stardom late last season and is rolling towards an All-Big Six berths this year. Probably the most difficult assignment of all was handed to Githens when he was asked to replace Don Pierce, - one of the finest centers in this section of the country last fall. But Githens, 'who was named all-state junior college center for Inde- pendence in 1939, paced the play of the Jay- hawk line against Temple and turned in an- other outstanding performance in the Wash- ington game. Other Hrst string linemen who have indi- cated that they may be able to do something about boosting the stock of the Kansas for- ward wall are Paul Hardman, Topeka junior, who held the other starting end post, Eugene Chief Long, Steve Crusher Meade, and photo by Bmnine 27 Jack Tenenbaum, rugged tackles who have been en- gaged in a threelway scrap for starting nominations, and Jay Kern and Monte Merkel, two experienced guards. - Back of these men are others who represent the strongest string of reserves a Jayhawk team has boasted in several years. Ends Ralph Schaake and Bob Hagen, Tackles Warren Hodges and.Bill Kern, Guard Joe Crawford, and Center Dale Lowery, should spend considerable time in action each Saturday after- noon. It is fortunate that Coaches Gwinn Henry, Vic Hurt, and Harry Lansing are handling the best ma- terial with which they have been presented at Kan- sas, for every team in the Big Six, with the possible exceptions of Nebraska and Kansas State, is rated as improved over last year. And the Jayhawk non- conference schedule maker who tossed the Kansans at Temple, ranked this year as one of the five best teams in the East, Washington University, a Mis- souri Valley leader, Marquette, tutored by the former Oklahoma coach, Tom Stidham, and West Virginia, always a power, saw to it that there were no soft spots on the season's slate. But the Jayhawks made an impressive start. Al- though they lost to Temple by a score of 31 to 9, they rolled up a total of 199 yards from passes as compared to 70 for their opponents and had it not been for three disastrous fumbles in the first 10 min- utes of play, each of which led to a touchdown for the Philadelphia team, the Kansans might have edged I Continued on Page 702

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ocroarzx 1941 Z9 Flying Jayhawkers arms Dear Dad: I got my private pilot's license today! I've been working hard all semester for this license, and so you can imagine how proud I am of it. For the past week, we have been flying about two hours a day in order to get our time turned in before the deadline date. I was fifth in the primary course to finish. The test was hard, too. The flight examiner spent about an hour with me, and he put me through those maneuvers in a hurry. First, I did 5 or 6 spot landings solo, and then he went up with me. He started by having me climb to 3500 feet and then called for spins, one right and one left. He then tested me on vertical turns and stalls. My stalls were good, smooth as glass, with perfect control. He liked them, he said, but he was unhappy about my figure eights and my power landing. He nearly scared me to death when he reached over and cut the gun at about 1200 feet and then just looked straight ahead and said, NWell, where are we going to land?n But I finally spotted a long smooth wheat field and came in toward it at just about the right height. I had a bad few minutes during the test, but he must have liked my flying, because he signed my test sheet and promised to recommend me for the secondary course. You see, there are four courses under the CAA program: the private pilot, or primary course, the secondary or advanced course, which gives you a commercial rating, the cross country course, and then another course which gives you an instructor's rating. The University of Kansas offers all four. In fact, we have the second largest single operation center in the United States. There are fourteen planes for our use at the airport. Seven of them are Aeroncas, four are Waco Trainers for the advanced course, and there are two Stinsons and a Beechcraft for the cross country course. They use ten or twelve instructors full time and train about 75 or 80 men in these courses every year. We got a good rating last year by the Civil Air Administration because of the large number of pilots turned out, and for our safety record---we haven't had a single flying accident at our airport. That's a good record, because we almost always have from 12 to 15 planes using the same runway during an hour. However, the instructors are very careful to see that we learn the traffic regulations before we ever get to fly solo. I remember my first solo flight. It came as a complete surprise to me early one Saturday morning when Rex, my instructor, stepped out of the plane and said, UOK, boy, do you think you can take her around alone?H I know I must have gulped and turned pale, and I couldn't say a word, but I did nod---feebly. So I took off, that was easy, and started to circle the field. The surprise wore off a little then, and I began to look around and enjoy myself. Gee, that was a thrill---up there flying around alone, depending on nobody but myself. The air is clean and cold and pure up there. I had a feeling of intense freedom. I wanted to laugh and yell and sing all at the same time. Nothing in the world was bothering me, at least, until I remembered it was time to make my landing. Just for a moment I wondered if I could make it, but not for more than a moment. It wasn't a matter of whether I could or not---I had to. I did not get the jitters until it was all over. Now I can go up and do spins, steep turns, stalls, and land fContinued on Page 681