University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Jack Gove casts glowing glances at Eddie Brass during a Tri-Delt-Phi Gam hour dance. Early morning band practice shows a telling effect as three drummers pound away with closed eyes. Adrea Hinkel, Georgiann Bennington, Ber- niece Hughes, Virginia Powell, Virginia David, and Mary Crow crowd around the 013 Music Box at a Miller Hall Pajama Party. Glen Kappelman and Bill Guil- foyle, officers of the Young Demo- crat Club, get detailed instructions from a big wheel-horse before a gath- ering of the clan. Jeanne Gorbut, Jane Owen, a rushee, and Pa- tricia Kelly receive Rush Week coffee from Mother Baldwin, who is entering her twenty-fourt.5 year as housemother for the Gamma Phi ' s. Chancellor Mallott watches the game as Governor Schoep- pel eyes the crowd which gath- ered to watch the K.U.-T.C.U. clash. Not Egyptian slaves working on a pyramid, but workmen re- fitting the catacombs under the stadium for veterans. Bewildered freshman looks desperately about for raisin pie during the lunch hour. Dorothy Brewer, Trumpet major from Olathe, adds volume to the old adage, He who tooteth not his own bazoo, the same shall not be tooted.

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Grades rise as the grass goes down under t w o sidewalk bookworms. Dick Tracy points a menacing whistle at re- calcitrant pedestrians caught in the between-class traffic jam. Mabel Baker learns how to write out No books today in eight different languages for the benefit of exchange students in the Union Book Store. Georgia Lee Westmoreland, Donna Mueller, Mary Lou Mathews, and Bonnie Oswald decide to sit down and call a spade, a spade. WORN 1111111011111--- George Francis waivers undecidedly as he is caught up in the Old Party Line before the Young Republican ' s booth in front of Frank Strong. Maxine fiddles while Professor Geltch burns a trium- phant smile into the next page of Beethoven. Dick Henderson, Mary Jane Holzman, Jim Sa:!ee, Betty Bacon, Bill Lytle and Virginia cop- pedg glide to some smooth platters at a Wed- nesday night get-together at the ADPi house. Corbinites, Virginia Wickert, Mar- ion Mills, Louine Brown, and Nor- ma Jean Pyke, compare notes after closing hours.

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26 THE JAYHAWKER An - i ooks at the uture commoni,ail OK a 4ww4s, hdt cll. %Li-Wel over this country this fall it will be said that educational institutions are opening under the most unusual conditions in their history. Of course this is true, but one wonders how much this means to the student body and to the public. If education functioned as it should, every institution in the coun- try would be devoting its major efforts to helping young people understand the complex and forbidding conditions that face them and the world. The second phase of World War II, ending with V-J Day, is but little more than a year past. For a few weeks immediately following the use of the atomic bomb the people of the world seemed to have been shocked into a realization that war must not be permitted in the future. Now many look at the atomic bomb as another inevitable aspect of war, just as the airplane and the submarine, rather than an indication that war must end. Frequently in the last few weeks there have been startling press releases—one to the effect that in France another war is being accepted as inevitable and other statements of similar import. Very re- cently you may have read of preventive war. True enough, some editors have scathingly indicated talk of warfare as criminal. this we can agree, if it is talk calculated to produce or bring it about, but warning against warfare and warning against the trend of events that might precipitate war, such as that recently made by Professor Urey, is not criminal. In the year that has passed since V-J Day there have been incidents and reports that make many un- easy about the conduct and outcomes of the recent world conflict. A metropolitan paper recently carried a powerful editorial dealing with the well-known fact that during the past great conflict human life was conscripted but the producers of the sinew of war had to have their profits. Already there have been investigations of war profiteering in our own capitol. We have read how soldiers were killed by defective ammunition and defective supplies. Many people question seriously the happenings in China, holding that the part that our country has played there is not in accord with principles of true democracy. Cyni- cism and criticism of what appears to be rampant imperialism is common and widespread. Within our own country many events have given further concern. Much is said and written about pro- duction strikes. Prices have risen rapidly and there seems to be no adequate program of adjusting scar- city of materials to demand; black markets abound. Some reputable writers say that a very dangerous type of inflation is already here and reputable periodi- cals predict a depression—soon and severe. Among a multitude of other incidents one might mention the election in Athens, Tenn essee; the fact that at the time our government was demanding free elections in a foreign country, thousands of citizens in one of our states were petitioning for a free elec- tion in their own state; the rapid development of race prejudices; the increase in lynchings; the turmoil in labor management relations. No exhaustive catalogue is necessary. There is nothing new about the situation except that with the coming of the atomic bomb there is an urgency that never existed before. It really seems to be one world or none. The old formulas do not seem to