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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
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The Mexicans are expected to
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present a fast moving array of
and if they should hit a hot
streak they may prove a troublesome lot. Most of their shots are
of unorthodox variety, but at times
they hit them with amazing consistency.
They are on their annual trip
throughout the United States, with
this year's tour consisting of a
schedule. Their games range
all the way from Texas to Boston.
Other teams beside Kentucky that
w ill be met include outfits like Yale,
Northwestern, and other outstanding
colleges.
M)St TO MOREHEAD
The lads from "south of the
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have already visited Kentucky
on their current jaunt. Tuesday
night thev took on Morehead State
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Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, director
Frontier Nursing service at
for granting
The requirement
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rredita to students entering mill- - Wandover. will open the second
mester's work of the defense program
tary service w be reconsidered by
the University Farulty Friday, ac ing uii women in uie
cording to President Herman L. En:ergency at 4 p.m. Friday, February 8. in Memorial hall.
)iiovan.
Mrs. Sarah B. Holmes, dean of woThe resolutkm enacted by the
s
student legislature requesting re men and chairman of the women's
vision of the policy toward drafted defense program, will preside at
oi var- a.nd volunteering
students will be tne meeting, nepreseniauves on
ious women's organizations
the
presented to the body by President campus will be seated on the platDonovan.
form.
In the requested revision, the legDEAN SARAH B. HOLMES
Another contribution the Univerislature asks for full credit for sity women are making for national
aniioiiiu c.v nipearante of
all "satisfactory" work taken by a work is the Victory
Book campaign,
student in a semester, regardless sponsored on the campus by the resi- - M is. Mary C. lirecltinritlge,
f the time he was drafted, and
dents of Patterson hall. It is a part frontier nurse.
also full credit for a student who
of a nation-wid- e
undertaking to provolunteers provided that "he regis- cure
10.000.000 books to be distrib- with the intention of complettered
uted to army camps for the use of
ing Jiis semester's work."
the soldiers in training.
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By this resolution
the legisla
All campus living centers, organiz- seeks to abolish the measure
ture
Prof. J. B. Shannon, acting head
previously passed by the University a,ions' and departments will be
ntral of the political science department.
requiring students to com- - iu"d for ilfts of books- - Bnd
" be established will make two addresses to units of
12 weeks of the semester be- - reding P'"t
Hire reruwng full rredit for their 111 Lne ijiorary mnere coiiinuuuons i the tjmted States Army during the
win of scccptcd.
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next two weeks, it was announced
Fiction, biography, travel, adven Russell Patterson, president of
yeMerday.
the student body, delivered the t"re. mystery, and text books pub- Professor Shannon's talks, on "The
since 1935 are especially de- proposed revisions to Dr. Henry
H. Hill. Dean of the University, sirpd- The campus slogan is ' A book Propaganda Technique of the Die- Friday. Dean Hill in turn pre- from a student for a soldier.
tators," will be given as part of
sented the resolution to Dr. DonThe regular Friday afternoon war the army's recently inaugurated proovan.
discussion forum, also sponsored by gram of lectures on the backgrounds
Patterson said that he had been the defense work, will be postponed of democracy and the war for milithat the matter would be to prevent a conflict with Mrs. tary personnel. The addresses will
speech. The next be made at Bowman field, January
piven careful consideration by the Breckinridge's
will be February 13.
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Stale Colleges Form Policy
For Present War Emergency
Resolve To Keep

Requirements
For Entrance

Shannon To Speak
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vernor Keen Johnson, Lieut,
fiov. Khodes K. Myers, and members
senate and house of
of the
rrprr.seiitativs will be officially
to the campus today.
liusscll Patterson, president of the
Stii'li'iit Government Association:
Bill Penick, representative of Omi-rro- n
Delta Kappa, men's leadership
honorary; Tom Walker, head of the
Student Union Recreation commit
and Barbara Rehm. band sponU)Sf-sor, will travel to Frankfort this
morning to invife the state officials
to the Kentucky-Geoigi- a
Ter.h
basketball game.
Following the game, which is
for February 5. the Union
iHwrd. SGA. and ODK are sched-iilnia reception and dunce in the
I7nin building.
All students and members of the
fux
faculty are invited to the free, inL
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Penick said.
Hl'SSKI.L PATTERSON .
mix PENICK . . .
The legislators will be asked to
with I'mii Walker and tarhiiia Hrluii
in, lie the slate
Mine to the game and dance without
liilnis to tome to the cumpus suns wii'r.
their wives. Penirk added. Campus
sorority girls will be asked to come
President
Herman L. Donovan section at the game. IVini k declared.
to the da nee to entertain the
wrote letters Tuesday to the state
he said
At the fiance, the UK Troupers,
The student delegates will prob- officials asking them to attend the
student entertainment urSup. will
ably appear at today's session of ((ame
The approximately 150 officials to K've a floor show The orchestra has
the legislature to invite the members.
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resolution stating that the pres- ent college entrance requirements
should be maintained through the
emergency was passed by representatives of the 31 state colleges at a
meeting on the campus Wednesday.
Ten other resolutions were voted
by Kentucky college leaders, forming
a policy for their institutions during
the war period with its expected
docrease , enrollment.
headed
A resolutions committee,
by Dr. Paul Garrett, president of
college,
Western State Teachers
composed the resolutions and presented them to the conference Wednesday afternoon..
FEDERAL FINDS ASKED
A plea for more federal funds to
help students now in school complete their education was among the
proposals listed by the committee.
Deferment of
and ministerial students was
asked in another resolution. The educators also voted to call the attention of selective students to remain
in school if their study courses can
be considered vital to the war effort.
The government's tendency to set
up special training schools to train
defense workers instead of utilizing
existing facilities was viewed "with
alarm" by conference delegates.
The committee proposing the resolutions suggested that high school
principals ask their students to continue their education in college as
far as possible.
THREE-VEAPLAN
President Herman L. Donovan
of the University recommended in
the morning session of the conference that the schools represented
shorten their schedules in order to
allow students to graduate In three
years. The group passed this motion
In the form of a resolution.
No action was taken by the resolutions committee on Dr. Donovan's
proposal that the schools adopt the
quarter system, an action taken last
week
by the University faculty.
Transylvania college is also on the
quarter system.
It was voted necessary to maintain the present teaching standards,
although power to set new standards
to meet the emergency was granted
by the Council on Public Higher Education, the state Board of Education, and the Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
Another resolution introduced by
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tion for increased physical educa
tion program.
The resolutions committee com
prised of Dr. Garrett, Dr. Robert
McLeod. president of Centre college;
and Dr. J. L. Harmon, president of
Bowling Green business university.
During the morning session talks
were made by Dr. Donovan, Dr. R.
E. Jaggcrs of Frankfort, represent- ative of the state department of ed- ucation. and Dr. Henry H. Hill, dean
of the University.
Speakers during the afternoon
were Z. T. Johnson, president of As- college and Mrs. Sarah B.
Holmes, dean of women at the Uni- versity. Dr. Francis S. Hutchins.
president of Berea college, presided,
Dean Paul P. Boyd of the University
arts and sciences college acted as
secretary.

'Stamp Collection'
To Aid Hospital
Over 2.000 stamps collected at
the loan desk at the library before
the holidays will ultimately aid in
supporting
the Queen's hospital.
London. Dye and glue extracted
from the stamps is sold to help
care for sick and injured children
at the hospital.
Students are urged to leave cancelled stamps at, the desk. The
backing should be left on the
stamps so that they will carry well
in transit. Stanied envelopes cannot be used.
hospital
prefers
The
United
States stamps as the dyes are of
the finest quality and briiix the
tiip;lNt LV'ie';

$2,500 cut in the funds
came In December, the beginning or
one of the NYA program's quarters.
"At the end of the year we will be
operating-- on about 30 percent teso
money than when we started," Dean
Jones said.
In Julv, the dean of men's office,
dean of women's office, and the YM
CA and YWCA will continue to furnish employment service to students.
Dean Jones said.
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AIDED LAST TEAK
Last year the University's NYA
committee, composed of Dr. E. Z.
Palmer, chairman; Dean Jones and
Dean Sarah B. Holmes, aided about
450 students. A total of $45,900 was
paid them.
In the NYA program, students are

Kentuckians will be sent to those
seniors and other students who have
placed orders if they enter the armed
forces, Miriam Krayer. editor in
chief, announced yesterday.
"We will be glad to send the copies
if the men will just notify us of
their addresses." Miss Krayer said.
book
Eighty pages of the
have been sent to the Kernel print
ing shop. This included the Junior
and senior sections. The remainder
should be on the presses between
April 1 and 15.
The cover, which will be done in
blue and white, will carry out the
annivermotif of the seventy-fift- h
sary of the University. The diamond
jubilee will be emphasized by a huge
diamond in the lower right hand
corner of the cover. The flashing
rays of the jewel! point to the letters of "Kentuckian" that curve
across the upper left hand corner.
The figures for 1867 will be written above the "Kentuckian" in old
fashioned type, those for 1942 will be
very modern.
The dye for the cover has already
been ordered cut. Samples will be
sent to the Kentuckian staff for
them to choose whether the background will be blue or white.
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riations.
The first

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mid-

winter meeting in Louisville. His
office is located in room 70, McVey
hall.
The bringing of the central office to the University is the result of several year's work, which
culminated in a request by a special K.P.A. committee to the Board
of Trustees that a faculty member
of the Journalism department be
relieved of part of his teaching load
in order to tike over the duties of
field manager and secretary.

William G. Bryson. Ashland, who
attended the University in 1937,
38. and '39. has finished his
training at the Air Corps
replacement training center. Kelly
field, Texas.

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Another $2500 cut in the University's National Youth administration
appropriation will go into effect in
March, it was announced yesterday
by Dean T. T. Jones, dean of men
and one of the campus directors of
the NYA program.
In the next government fiscal
year which begins
July I. there
will be no NYA help to schools
except for training in defense Jobs
such as riveting, welding, etc.. Dean
Jones said.
The government's
appropriation
for the next fiscal year's NYA program is $100,000,000 he added.
This measure will probably exclude
the University from NYA funds, unless the engineering college Initiates
classes for students similar to present defense training courses offered
townspeople by this college, it was
felt in campus circles.
THIS YEAR'S CUT
The University's NYA office begun
the year with an appropriation of
$36,000. which was 30 percent less
than the previous year's approp-

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central office for the Kentucky
Press association has been opened
in the University Department of
Journalism,
with Prof. Victor R.
Portmann in charge.
Permission of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees for
the lending of a portion of Profes- sor Portmanns time to the press
of real value to the University eight general convocations of the association made the establishment
to Dean freshmen in the college, at which
according
community,
central office possible. This
prominent speakers, on and off the of the was
Boyd.
action
taken at the Board meet- -'
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The 'lecturers were diosjen to campus, addressed the group.
ing last week.
or the press - association
Work
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will be coordinated throughout the
year by Professor Portmann, w ho
or

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Elimination Of
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Regular registration for the
second semester will be conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday.
February 3 and 4. in Alumni
gymnasium, according to the registrar's office.
following alphabetical
The
schedule will be in effect:
Tuesday morning :
8 to 8:50. A through B
9 to 9:50. C through D
10 to 10:50. E through G
11 to 11:50, H through J
Tuesday afternoon:
1:30 to 2:20. K through L
2:30 to 3:20. M through O
3:30 to 4:20. Miscellaneous
Wednesday morning:
8 to 8:50, P through R
9 to 9:50. S
10 to 10:50. T through Z
11 to 11:50, Miscellaneous
Wednesday afternoon:
1:30 to 4:30, Miscellaneous

College Series
To Be Held In April

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DEFENSE COURSES
TO BE SUBSIDIZED
Deans Of Women,
Men To Supply
Jobs After July

Just A Reminder
Of What Follows
Final Examinations

Gallaway, Duprc, While,
Webb, To Give Leclures

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Krrncl Sports Ktlitor
Milking their first appearance In
Alumni gym since the WifcL game
on January 2. the Wildcats, fresh
swing through
from a three-gam- e
the South, will meet the University
of Mexico basketeers at 8 o'clock
tomorrow night.

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margin.
lost by
Many of the Mexican performers
are in the states for the first time
on the trip, which, according to
their coach, is "primarily one of
good will to further the good neighn
bor policy between
countries." The trip is sponsored
each year by the University of
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BRIEF WORKOUT
The Cats, who returned Wednes-- ?
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day night, went through only a
brief workout yesterday afternoon
PROF. W. S. WEBB.
DR. J. HUNTLEY DUPRE
in preparation for the Mexicans.
- . . . were selected by their fellow pedagogues to speak at the arts
Several of the players were suffering from slight colds, which, al- and sciences college lectures in April.
though they weren't serious, caused
them to take it easy.
Assistant Coach Paul McBrayer
was absent from the drills because
of illness. A cold which he caught
on the weekend journey confined
him to his home.
According to advance reports a
rough game may be in the offing.
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KEN ENGLAND
25 fouls were called on the Mexi- fields into which the college is
divided: literature, philosophy and
. . . will iMiupx starting berth cans. The two leading Mexican per- ere
the arts; biological sciences; social
a.s 0t-rCots take on Mexico IoTmers galnst the EaBles
Labastida. with 17 points, and Riva- Planned by the committee on sciences-ai-l d physical sciences.
In,,,rr,m- night n, deneVia. with 13.
u,.;;.sity
Speakers were nominated by the
the encouragement of scholarship faculty of the college, under the
Ala trim vmi.
The proboble starting lineups:
in the arts and science college. direction of a committee compris- Kentucky
Mexico
four lectures by ouUtwiding schoU in
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White
Bnebesi
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department
way. Alien
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though they stayed close all the
tirvm are in the college will be presented of
German chalrman; Prof.
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Kln
Moran
they were unable to overcome Ellis England
in Memorial hall during April, ac Lunde, history department;' Dr.
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jonnson s strong tagie outni ana mer
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Rivadeneyia cording to an announcement by
Charles Barkenbus. chemistry ' de
Dean P. P. Boyd.
partment; and Dr. R. H. Weaver.
Dr. W. S. Webb, head of the de- - bacteriology department
partment of physics: Dr. M. M.
in addition to the series of open
White, acting assistant dean of the lectures which were presented by
college; Dr. J. Huntley Dupre. pro- - the college during the first semes-fessof history; and Dr. W. P. ter, a new matriculation plan for
professor of freshmen was inaugurated.
Gallaway,
associate
English, have been selected by
Under the new plan, the first
their colleagues to' give the leclures. seven meetings of the freshmen
10,000,000
The purpose of the series is to were devoted to group discussions
honor some of the outstanding under leaders specializing in
of the college, and at the ious fields. The last half of the

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permitted to earn $10 to $15 per
month at a flat rate of 30 cents an
hour. They are selected on the basis
of Information gathered from forms
sent them before the school term
begins, from testimonials, and from
school records.

Taylor To Attend Meet
Dr. Wm. S. Taylor, dean of the
education college will attend a meeting of all the administrators or
Kentucky schools and colleges Saturday in Louisville.
Dean Taylor will represent President Herman U Donovan, who may
be unable to attend the meeting, it
was announced.

Barbara Rehm Adds Guignol
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By BETTY JANE PL'GH

In a word, Barbara Rehm is versatile.
Miss Rehm, a junior in the arts
and sciences college and an English
major, will appear in a leading
role in Guignol's next production,
"Old Acquaintance." Thus she adds
little theater work to an already long
list of varied accomplishments on
this campus.
she is president of Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority, sponsor of the "Best
Band in Dixie," Sweetheart of
ma Chi. a member of Pitkin club.
al,d nas a standing above 2.
When asked if she liked the part
of Dierdre Drake, which she plays
in "Old Acquaintance" she answer- ed In the affirmative, but added
"It's very sophisticated. I have to
come in tight in the last scene."
Though this is her first Guignol
appearance. Miss Rehm has had
private training in dramatics, and
the leading role in her high school
senior play. "Anne of Green Gables."
Dierdre Is a girl of 19 whose mother.
Milly played by Mrs. Hugo Bloom-fielLexington, is a writer, un- fortunately not a good one. A friend
and contemporary
Dierdre S
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mother is Kit.
I.vons also of i,tnttwi Kit. VnH
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Dierdre are very fast friends, and
so an awkward situation arises
when a three-wa- y
love affair de- velops between the two and Rudd
Kendall, enacted by Jim Purser.
Arts and Sciences freshman.
Dr. A. E. Bigge will make his
Guignol appearance as Pres- ton urane. Dierdre s father. This
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Braauate student.
The three-ac- t
comedy by John
van Druten which oofiis FVhnmrv
9 for a ful, week s nm ,U8
Sat.
urday niatinee. wU1 be directed by
Frank Fowler with Leslie Betz,
training school instructor, assisting.
Costuming and sets will be
ern. the latter depicting
Kits
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Robert Kibfer,
junior "I think
as the quarter system has proven
its merits in many other larger
universities that it will be of great
benefit to the University of Kentucky."
Robert Adair. A AS Jmnior Its a
good thing- - for the University because they can play baseball all
summer."
Garry Hears, commerce freshman
"I think it will be a help to the
boys who want to get into advanced military before they reach
draft age so they can coinplet
their college (tlucation, fcnd at
the same time make themselves
more valuable to the army."
Earle Fowler. A.
S. senior ' It
will enable students to finish college more quickly."
Arthur S. Collins, A.
S. senior
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"I think it is a good thing because
as conditions are todav student?
benefit by getting through colleg- quicker. I think all colleges and
universities should have it."
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Marian Tarker, A. A S. junior
like the idea of taking rewer
hours and concentrating your ef"I

forts on
Colonel
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fewer courses.
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speeds up education,

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l' RV SlllMoKt
hose cliemisiiv lot mul.is mmi Ii.hI to rutin
orie . . . The sigh ol it Itel alter the linal exam
the pailv thai vou li.id that night . .
. And
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And how that lit t It- 111. 111 null the pneumatic
drill (Miuntled in 0111 head lhe next moining.
I he thrill ot seeing 0111 Ii.im1w.wmI
'Cits mop
up on lhe best teams in lhe tountiv . . How
six Icllows inhabited 0111 loom .11 the Sonih
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eastern contcrcnie loin name ill in I .ouisv ItAnd the fellow who got mad and sh pi in the
1. 11 hi lib.
M.i Naluie in tie- spiing with her big 1.111
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of green paint
ouplcs walking thiough
lhe Bolannital g.udelis holding hands . How
ilit- campus 1110M1I 1.1 l. h me slxi o
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Profits Versus Patriotism
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in. Mf
lie criminal hhmdcis
Pearl Hatlior have lx-el
America's Pig Business. production boards.
;iml procurement
bosses in string-hailinwar
ptocluciion in the ast vear and Ik 1.
Inlinilcly greater a blow ilia 11 the loss l the
An. 111. or Prince ol Wales or Repulse h.is lieeii
i lit-- loss ill
viial production hours and laeiliiies
bv Ik- tactics of the old OPM and
of ilie automobile,
die selfish ni
steel, aluminum, ixiwei. shipbuilding and oilier
basic industries.
Iiilitiiiclv more seiioiis than tlie I
of the
Philippines h Singaoic has been die lailutc
t
ol Amenta's indusirv 10 go
lor deleiise
piodue t ion.
Whether due to ignorance 01 to clelihciaic
iioim ooK-ra- t ion, ihe refusal of Pig Business to
make the sacrifices necessary 10 put Amenta's
giant production machine at top capacity and
the failure of the roK-- r authorities 10 lone it
10 do v should go down as the biggest clime ol
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lhe i miiis on American production bv Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold and
Senator Marrv S. Truitian's Congressional
bv
released last week and
all but a few newspajx-rs- .
jxiint an accusing
clan of OI'M offinger at the business-as-usua- l
ficials, the lxsses of the major Ameritan industries, and the arniv and navy biasshats in
thai go of procurement.
I he storv these reports have to tell should send
ihills up and down the spine of anyone familiar
with the collapse of the French Republic.
men
From the beginning, the tlollar-a-vea- r
have proven in far too manv instant es ineonie-teni- .
and jealous of their autlioi ity.
Manv have continued to draw salaries from their
c oi
Mirations, have worked more for the home
olfice than for the government, have placed the
interests of their own business ahead of the interests of the defense program. They have misrepresented or misjudged the railroad, steel.
jower. aluminum, and aircraft indiistt ies to
mention onlv the most notorious have made
misstatements too often
mistakes or delilx-ratto le excusable.
1 he armv and navv biasshats
have cpiibbled
authority, plagued manufacturers, with
over
changes, hamcred work in hundreds of
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And most notorious of all have bet 11 the
industries themselves. F.ver since the beginning
ol large scale defense production, the itoiis
declare, a sickening percentage ol American
industry has fought expansion, tearing to tlisiupt
the normal order of things, jealous ol its powcr
and profits.
Manv of the Kii firms which have 7"i eicni
ol all war contracts have concealed shortages
with optimistic predictions, hoping to keep torn
pcliiors out ol the field. They have hoarded
contiacts and let them pile up. rather than to
subcontract them to contract less, floundering
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hex have followed the policy of nickel (nst,

of stalling around, which has
already proved inlinilcly worse than any of the
labor strikes which incensed the people so highly
last fall.
Where the industries have undertaken the necessary expansion it has lecn by soaking the government well for what it gets. (The Truman
rcoit found the following "more or less astronomical" prices for airplanes: lxtmlxrs, 51,1 Id,
0(H); pursuits. $120,(100; trainers, $13..r(IH.)
Most obvious example of all has lieen the
nation's proudest production phenomenon: the
automobile industry, which continued at almost
noimal civilian production throughout Mill.
Despite plans offered by labor representatives
in Dec ember. HH0, for conversion of the industry
to war produi lion, at this very moment, less
limn 1(1 fieri erit of tlie manpower of this vast
nun lime is emfdoed in manufacturing military
iirt essitirs.
Meetings held in an attempt to convert Ford.
General Motors, and other plants into war production have resulted in nothing. Although
labor has offered to give up its only security
the right to strike management has refused
to make ccirresjxinding sacrifices, and old
OPM men have not taken action to
see thai it does.
l he same reluctance has been seen in other
basic industries steel, aluminum, )xnvcr, and
rails, for instance. It has proven more cosily than
the Philippine campaign, more inexcusable than
Pearl Harbor. (Where these have probably cost
a lew hundred airplanes at the most, the delay
of the Aluminum Company of America alone
in building new plants has cost 137 production
tlavs, equivalent to 50.000 tons of aluminum,
enough for 10,000 fighter planes, or l,fifi." bombers, according to Congressman Walter M. Pierce,
member of the old National Defense Advisory
Committee.)
While the Little People have lieen taking their
sacrifices on the chin and coming back for more;
wincing at the new lax bill
while thev have
digging for their pocketbooks: while
and then
thev have given up their auto tires without a
whinier. sent their lxys to the army with a
grin, put off buving that new suit one more year;
while they have been doing everything asked of
them to help in the defense of their country and
their form of government, the big war industries
have been haggling over profits and taking the
gove rnment for everything they can.
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Not so long ago we warned everybody ot the desperate and danger-

ous advertisers and it seems now that
we weren't a bit too soon. Last week
thev entered upon their most
campaign. Our last bulwark
has fallen.
the juke-boLike the screen, the radio, the
movies and the printed word now on
scattered over
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henceforth, be
informed about the attributes of ev-

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company
Iast week the Pepsi-Col- a
struck the idea, following a good
n nny requests for records of its
famous radio jingle that goes
Nickel-NickPoodley-ahh-pahh-

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Poodley-ahh-pnh-

hits the spot.
Twelve full ounces, that's
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tors who split the loot with the
druggist, barkeeper, etc.
Which brings us to the conclusion
that advertising has gone a bit astray. Advertising could be used to
strengthen our minds and hearts as
a unit working toward a single goal.
It could be used to help in making
our nation secure in title of war. But
this is mere daydreaming, since we
realise that advertising is still caught
in its customary dilemma, torn between its yearning for pure, disinterested service and the foul temptations lor commerce.
It was the old pitiful story of setting out to strengthen the people's
minds and hearts, and ending up by
wishing off on the public ears a bit
ol childish nonsense, or by volunteering for national defense and
with
assaulting our last strong-hol- d
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"Nickel. Nickel.
and other such.
Poodley-ah-pahh-

and so continue ad nauseum.
They took complete orchestrations
C.OOI BOOKS-T- WO
.t lie song, added a few more lines,
n
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band record it
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The book publishers have publishmid sent out the first few thousand
distribu- - ed recently some- very fine editions
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of popular and classical works at reduced prices. Among these are two
and unusually good buys
printed by Pocket Book Inc. They
are 'The Pocket Book of the War"
containing
articles and excerpts
from important publications on the
war. Among those in the collection
are Dorothy Thompson, Vincent
Sheehan,
John Gunther. Andre
and
Maurois. Winston Churchill
President Roosevelt.
The other Pocket Book is the 25
cent edition of "The Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam." It Ls unusually well
prepared and boasts illustrations
which are surprisingly good for a
cheaper edition.
Blue Ribbon Books, which has published for a number of years dollar
editions of outstanding fiction and
non fiction, have recently reprinted
three
volumes that
hit the best seller lists a few months
back. They are "Oscar Wilde and
the Yellow Nineties" by Prances
Winwar. Ogden Nash's "I'm A
Stranger Here Myself", and Miss
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DuMaurier's
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BY BOB AMMONS

That new sonj? "We Did It Before And We'll Do It Again"
sounds fine in the mouths of army and navy men, but tho
recent statements in American newspapers and magazines of
men of the same school of isolationists who sabotaged the
League of Nations last time make us wonder if they're not It may be accepted
singing the same thing too.
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