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glassy-eyed bleary-eyed even-toothed Buildings Erected on K. U. Campus since Chancellor Lindley came in 1920 «« 1921 = Commons Building erected, formerly used as cafeterias now houses the Department of Anatanye 1921 = Power Plant erected 1921 = Six sections of Stadium erected 1921 = Elece Engr. Laboratory erected 1923 - Central section of Frank Strong Hall erected 1923 =~ Corbin Hall (women's dormitory) built 1923 « First section of Watson Library built 1924 = Greenhouse erected 1925 = Two additional sections of Stadiun erected 1926 - Memorial Union Building erected 1926 = Watkins Hall (dormitory for self- supporting girls) built 1927 = Stadium completed 1927 = Hoch Auditorium built 1929 = Snow Hall erected (replacing old Snow Hall) 1931 = Watkins Memorial Hospital built 1937 = Miller Hall (dormitory for self- supporting girls) 1937 = Watkins Home for Nurses of Student Hospital Staff at Gm (652. / 4 2 soe y ee ee “Everybody Knows It But Us" American Ideas Will Lead the World for 4,000 Years, Says Ambassador Johnson—Ancient Des: potism Now Is Making Last Stand Against the “New Order” of Free- dom. Spreading From This Country, Veteran Observer Insists. The Star’s Special News Service herewith presents one of the most thoughtful and forceful expressions of American ‘faith and American position in the present world crisis yet to come from a representative ' of our government. It was obtained by Clarke Beach in an interview with Nelson T, Johnson, who has just returned to Washington from the American embassy in China and whose observations are based on thirty-four years of. service in the United States diplomatic service. (By The Star’s Special News Service.) - MERICAN ideas will lead the world for 4,000 years. This war is the last stand of the old order against American ways and A ideas. “The wave of the future lies right here in the United States of America, and the funny part is that everybody in the world knows it but us. : “All the world is watching us. No American can travel in other countries without seeing that. “Before the war, when you stood on a street corner in the busy sections of Paris and London you could feel the throb of the energy | coming from the American dynamo, All the vital things you saw were an expression of the American spirit. We are doing the things that they want todo, We are the heart and epitome of the new order which has been on the way for 2,000 years, “In the United States we have a new world with new foundations, with human freedom as a basis. Nelson Trusler Johnsen, who has* spent thirty-four years in the China service of the state department and has just relinquished his post as United States ambassador to Chung- king, thus sums up his analysis of the struggles in the East and the West. “Fascism is a revival of ancient despotism, making its last stand against the new order,” he continues. “In the United States we have given expression to the spirit of human liberty, and we have found that in- dustry, progress and better living goes along with this. In the history of the earth, human beings never have achieved so much in so short (a time. “Our new found belief in man’s ability to govern himself is opposed to the belief of the Nazis that man is the victim of environment, cir- cumstances, with his life in the hands of an angry God, and all he can do is to get on his knees and placate that God through some high | priest—Mr, Hitler. “Essential in the struggle between China and Japan is the cause of the |' old oriental order which Japan cham- pions, and this order which we have given to the world and of which China was rapidly becoming the champion. Japan is trying to im- pose its ancient Wang Tao (the kingly way) on China.” Real Democrats in China, Mr. Johnson pointed out that most of the Chinese who are prominent in | government, industry and science got their ideas from the United States, and many of them were educated here. The Chinese people, he added, “are essentially individualists, in one | sense the most democratic people in| the world. They are the only oriental people who have shown a deep inter- est in democratic government.” The ambassador compared the vi- (Continued on Page 5A.) “Everybody Knows It But Us” (Continued from Page 1A.) tality of American civilization to, new government’s long, bloody fight China’s age-old culture. — for survival. _ “In my lifetime these American} He was standing on the banks of people have huilt the greatest em-|the Yangtse river one day in 1911 pire the world has ever seen. Chi-| when he saw a curl of smoke rise cago, Kansas City, Denver, Seattle,’ from the military barracks on the — Shanghai two years later when Sun Yat-sen rebelled against the gov- ernment of Yuan Shih Kai. A few years later, when the war lords were fighting, he was in Changsha the night the provincial forces evacuated the city. There were no lights, no police, no govern- ment. Everyone was waiting tense and breathless for the national forces to enter. He went out at midnight to see what was going on, and he came upon a scene which he has never forgotten. Old and New China. On the street in front of a temple he found a long-whiskered scholar organizing a home defense force. Youths stood around armed with the only weapons they could find— tritons, halberds, spears and swords. A boy with a torch stood behind the scholar and in front of him stood an- other boy holding up a board from! which the old man was calling the roll. Ancient China was carrying on. The Japanese poured into Man- churia in 1931, and the next year they bombed Shanghai. From the roof of a cotton mill Johnson watched the bombs crash down.|: Year after year he followed the gov- ernment in its retreat.into the in-, terior, a few miles ahead of the ar- tillery. The refugees halted in Chungking, and when he left there a short time ago the bombs were raining rather frequently. One fell within 200 yards of him. “But I never felt I was in any daiiger in China,” Johnson says F “y, “I fear for my life more in “fic here in Washington.” NELSON JOHNSON Has Breen Up FRONT AT THE SCENE oF MucH FIGHTING IN CHINA—THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS HIM STEPPING OUT OF His Ducour ON THE EMBASSY GROUNDS IN NANKING IN NOVEMBER, 1937, WHEN JAPANESE WERE ATTACKING THE CHINESE CAPITAL BY AIR, Portland, San Francisco, Los An- . geles and all the large eastern cities —each of them compared with centers of industry and culture in any of the great civilizations of history. “We have put into our building all |, the skill, resourcefulness, grit and faith that human beings are capable of. And our culture is growing. We have an American civilization—the material side of life—and we are building an American culture—the spiritual side. “We invent tanks, flying machines and parachutes and let other men use them. We move so fast we don’t have time to use what we make. We are creating things that the human race will use thousands of years from now—like the great inventions of Egypt, Ur of the Chaldees, Bab- ylon, China. “Anybody who tells me ‘that the human dynamo which created all this is going to run down in ten years Or so—just doesn’t know what ‘he is talking about, “We are destined to carry on the torch of culture through the ages, just as Chine has. The culture of America now coming and yet to come will dominate and inspire the peoples all over the world for 4,000 years.” ‘A Genuinely Dynamic Life. The American way of life, said Johnson, is dynamic, it means prog- ress, as contrasted with fascism “which is standardization, orthodoxy, with no freedom to change. Fascism | and nazi-ism become fixed, and they finally stop and die.” Johnson, in China most of the time since 1907, watched the death: strug- gle of the ancient Manchu dynasty, the birth of the republic and the ] far side, and that fire marked the outbreak of the revolution. There was more fire and smoke, and bul- lets flew around his head in "EVERYBODY KNOWS IT BUT US" by Nelson Johnson AMERICAN IDEAS WILL LEAD THE WORLD FOR 4000 YEARS, SAYS AMBASSADOR JOHNSON--ANCIENT DESPOTISM NOW IS MAKING LAST STAND AGAINST THE “NEW ORDER" OF FREEDOM SPREADING FROM THIS COUNTRY, VETERAN OBSERVER INSISTS. as The Ster's Special News Service herewith presents one of the most thoughtful and forecsful expressions of American faith and American position in the present world crisis yet to come from a representative of our government. It was obteined by Clarke Beach in an interview with Nelson T. Johnson, who has just returned to Washington from the American embassy in China and whose observations are based on thirty-four years of service in the United States diplo- matic service. American ideas will lead the world for 4,000 years. This war is tne last stand of the old order against American ways and ideas. "The wave of the future lies right here in the United States of “merica, end the funny part is that everybody in the world knows it but us. "All the world is watching us. No American can travel in other countries without seeing that. "Before the war, when you stood on a street corner in the busy sections of Paris and London you could feel the throb of the snergy coming from the 4merican dynamo. All the vital things you saw were an expression of the American spirit. We are doing the things that they want to do. We are the heart and Continued: "Everybody Knows it But Us". epitome of the new order which has been on the way for 2,000 years. "tn the United States we have a eee werkt WO new foundations, with human freedom as a basis. Nelson Trusler Johnson, who has spent thirty-four years in the China service of the state department and has just relinquished his post as United States ambassador to Chung-king, thus sums up his analysis of the struggles in the East and the West. "Fascism is a revival of ancient despotism, making its last stand against the new order," he continues. "In the United States we have given expression to the spirit of human liberty, end we have found that industry, progress and better living goes along with this. In the history of the earth, human beings never have achieved so much in so short q time. : "Our new found belief in man's ability to govern himself is opposed to the belief of the Nazis that man is the victim of environment, circumstances, with his life in the hands of en angry God, and all he can do is to get on his knees and placate that God through some high priest--Mr. Hitler. "Bssential in the struggle between China and Japan is the cause of the old oriental order which Japan champions, and oe which we have given to the ouvte and of which China was rapidly becoming the champion. Japan is trying to in- pose its ancient Wang Tao (the kingly way) on China." Real Democrats in China. Mr. Johnson pointed out that most of the Chinese who are prominent in government, industry and science got their ideas from the United States, and many of them were educated here. ‘The Chinese people, he added, "are essentially in- dividuals, in one sense the most democratic people in the world. They are the only oriental people who have shown a deep interest in democratic government." The ambassador compared the vitality of American civilization to China's age-old culture, Continued--"Everybody Knows It But Us". "In my lifetime these Ameyican people have built the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and all the large eastern cities--each of them compared with centers of ithdustry and culture in any of the great civilizations of history. "We have put into our building all the skill, resourcefulness, grit and faith that human beings are capable of. And our culture is growing. We have an American civilization--the material side of life--and we are building an American culture--the spiritual side. "We invent tanks, flying machines and parachutes and let other men use them. We move so fast we don't have time to use what we make. We are creating things that the human race will use thousands of years from now--like the great inventions of Egypt, Ur of the Chaldees, Babyion, China. ~ "Anybody who tells me that the human dynamo which created all this is going to run down in ten years or so--just doesn't know what he is talking about. "We are destined to carry on the torch of culture through the ages, just as China has. The culture of America now coming and yet to come will dominate and inspire the peoples all over the world for 4,000 years." A Genuinely Dynamic Life. The American way of life, said Johnson, is dynamic, it means progress, as contrasted with fascism “which is standardization, orthodoxy, with no freedom to change. Fascism and nazi-ism become fixed, and they finally stop and die”. Johnson, in China most of the time since 1907, watched the death struggle of the ancient Manchu dynasty, the birth of the republic and the far side, and that fire marked the outbreak of the revolution. There was more fire and smoke, and bullets flew around his head in Shanghai two years later when Sun Yat-sen rebelled against Continued “Everybody Knows It But Us". the government of Yuan Shih Kai. A few years later, when the war lords were fighting, he was in Changsha the night the provincial forces evacuated the city. There were “ lights, no police, no government. Everyone was waiting tense and breathles for the national forced to enter. He went out at midnight to see what was going on, and he came’ upon a scene which he has never forgotten. Old and New China. On the siveet in front of a temple he found a long-whiskered scholar organizing a home defense force. Youths stood armed with the only weapons they could find--tritons, halberds, spears ans swords. A boy with a torch stood behind the scholar eid ta front of him stood another boy holding up a board from which ‘the old man was calling the roll. Ancient China was carrying on. The Japanese poured into Manchuria in 1931, end the next year they bombed Shanghai. From the roof of a cotton mill Johnson watched the bombs crash down. Year after year he followed the government in its retreat into the interior, : few miles ahead of the artillery. The refugees halted in Chungking, and when he left there a short time ago the bombs were raining rather frequently. One fell within 200 yeards of him. "But I never felt I was in any denger in China," Johnson says blandly. "T fear for my life more in the traffic here in Washington." ji To Our New Prophets -Herver's Dec. 1940 Herper's Magezine always cerries es sectidn in the beck of eceh issue called The Hasy Cheir. Ever since I can remember, this section has been conducted by Bernerd DeVoto, a man of prominence as 9 writer of books, especially eo of description, (he loves Vermont). | | In the December, 1940 issue, his erticle, comprising the entire space of The Eesy Cheir is called To Our New Prophets. it & an neuter four pages long end should be reed by every Amer- iean before the rore prominently pleced erticles of the magazine ere touched. It is the entree for the entire issue. we, DeVoto, herein, proves himself to be en unadulterated Americans His idees of Americanism are so ckere He is not con- fused within himself by ideologies--ideologies which he thinks confused — Hilton, when writing The Inner Threet end Our Orn Softness, which I reviewed for this course from Sept. 1940 Harners. Mre DeVoto, is st variance vith Roy Hilton on the idea «* thet comfort and security sre ferinine iderls, and thet our “debilitated manhood" has gone sissy. He seys thet is exactly whet the Fuhrer is telling e despeairing people: “that only herdness is left them, that beyond the channel lies England, end that they will feed fat if they get Mesculine enough iv cross the weter." Mr. DeVoto believes that the desire to make one's life as easy es possible for oneself end one's children wes the Americen dream from the beginning and thet the pioneers yoked up their oxen and clesred forests to make this dream come truéee These men, he insists, could not have been "puling softies." Mr. DeVoto, blames severel agencies for the fact thet some of our youth are a bit reticent in offering to sacrifice their lives for their country. First, he blames our felse pro- phets, who up until nor heve been presching what they term "misteken doctrines." Now they about-faced end sdvise our youth to sacrifice their lives for the American way of life, "Surely we heve hed enough wernings thet American fascism a come in es the Seawectaiten of fescism," Mr. DeVoto warns uSe Really, do our youth ectually know fine these false prophets just whet the glory of sacrifice might mean, he says. From our Americen literature for the pest ten years re were told thet our American wey of life reas an irretrievable blunder--thet the game wes up--thet American treditions, recial stocks, institutions, ideesls and symbols vere corrupt end stupid ae tany intelligent men who hed sccepted such teaching," Mre DeVoto continues,"could naturally find no décorum in dying to seve such a country." Mrs DeVoto's éclution is not to’ burn such books but to "repeir the errors and expose the lies." Down our femilier Mein Streets, inhabited in no small pert by members of the American Legion and their families we can still find the seeds of our hopes for the future. trhere is no denying it," he seays,"the companents of our new democrecy, the seeds of its future, the liebility of failure, end the determinants of triumph are the people who live on Main Street and belong to the American Legion." From its beginning the Americen Legion has worked for Americenization and for the strengthening of defenses, but Mre j= DeVoto says,"the so-celled prophets, efter a period of twenty veaie have missed the point until now." Let us hove that these same prophets are not trying by e change of face, and = coup d'etet still to sell us down the river--thet the Americen Legion idesis, American habits and treditions, stronger end truer by test, will not perish end that we Americans heve not gone soft. Mre DeVoto believes thet "the goal is still attaineble end that the dreem holds. That if the future brings about a new birth on this continent it will be, es it has elweys been before, a nev birth in freedom, end under God." ley VP) SPOMmioL OS GP BER any headway. The hungry shovel’s teeth fail to grip. There is less than a peck of dirt with each bite. “Get a teaspoon!” somebody yells. The engineer notes that progress is stopped. He calls out an order to the No. 2 workman and waves the shovel aside. The workman comes with a pick. Compared with the shovel, it is like a tugboat beside the Queen Mary. But little tugs do great things. So does this little pick. Half a dozen blows are enough. The ground is loosened, the shovel bites and i is fed. Once more, David has slain Goliath. _ But how often do mighty enterprises fail for want of a common pick!—s. s. a oH When you asked for my. advice, I knew what you Bs really wanted was my approval. ee ee. Cle We ait mention his name because he is Feet already legendary in the Pigskin and Banquet League, a sort of Sacred Bull, or Old He-Coon about which one must speak or hear no evil. We were sitting at a banquet one night beside one of his All- American ends. The toastmaster was eulogizing his old coach, and telling us how clean he was, and what good sportsmanship he. taught his boys. | Now we had played against some of Old He-Coon’s teams and we had some personal recollections that told us some of his boys must have forgotten what they were taught between the dressing room and the playing ssn We suggested as much to the All-American. He grinned. Yes, he said, I get fed up on the Old Man's wings and halo. Maybe he had ’em, but I played . under him for four years, and they were whittled down pretty small by then. =. 4d : ce ——— 9 Fifteen KVP PHIOL,O S';OP HRER I remember the last game of my senior year. We needed it for a perfect season, no losses, no ties, a na- tional championship. Maybe you remember the .......... team that year. They were tough, as tough as they come. was having his best year at tackle, AMG eens cneneeeneeeey Who made All-American left half that season, simply ran us silly. He made us look like Michigan against Red Grange. They scored two touchdowns the first half, and we didn't get the ‘ball past their 40 yard line. Boy, oh boy, did the Old Man lay into us between halves! Every word he said cut like a knife. We took it in those days. The boys nowadays are smarter; they don’t take so well to the driver type of coach. He had us crying mad. I mean literally. Then just before the time-up bell, he said: “And one thing more. If that left half back is in there after the third play, I’m jerking every man on the team. We'll finish with the water boy and the grounds keepers, if they lick us a thousand to nothing.” Well, it took all three plays to do it, and I guess two or three of their other boys got softened up pretty badly at the same time. Anyway. ............... went out, and we went on to win by a one-point margin. Maybe that’s why I’ve never been quite as proud of this solid gold watch charm as you might think. I don’t think the rest of the team has bragged much about theirs, either, after the first flush of the victory was over. Now don’t get me wrong. I still think the Old Man was the greatest coach that ever lived. But he wasn’t Sir Galahad, not by a long shot. I wonder if anybody ever really gets over the shock when he finds his idol’s feet are made of clay.—. Ss. Ox. ) Cr ——— iD Sixteen BIGHT POINTS POR PROGRESSIVE PARENTS I Teach the meaning of true discipline TlExemplify the dignity ef labor “TIT Create an ewareness of the value of money IV Stross self-relisnze V Encourage the development of curiosity ; VI Teach courtesy-that is, respect for others VII Promote playfulness — | VIII Provide religious instrustion I WILL TEACH MY SON -- "I will teach my son to respect his body and mind, to respect the abilities and rights of his opponents; to compete within his own ability; and to learn the fundamentals of the game he is playing, and to observe then." Taxes are rising faster than corporation earning which means that the proportion available for dividends to stock-h ders is shrinking. Profits during war will narrow further. Kiplinger Washington Letter ‘ ai The two conflicting purposes in the mind of youth regarding school and college. the Many coaches hold up to the boy the glory of conquest on athletic field. j that on Upon the field of friendly strife are a pe fields on other days are formed the fru sles Speaking antithetically of Mark Antony's femous funeral oration, permit me to say that "I came to praise feotball, not to bury it." Athletics in the American colleges are paradoxical. They are the most severely criticized activity of collage life, and they are the oa loved. They are iti -iaek nithinh aed take bhi en eo ome gies of youth, and they are, when improperly administered, the most danger- ous and discascd. They ere the most vulnerable activity of the American — eollege life, and ty are one of the most vital. Perhaps it is because we love them that we illtreat and punish them. The inherent Anglo-Saxon leve of conquest and combat in the sports and games endangers the very ebdject of its love. College students view athletics as an end in them selves. College professors steeped in habits of mind-training and hard work seo them largely as misspent effort. Werein are the wo extremes in over=- valuation, - youth in an overvaluatim of athletics, and middle age in an overveluation of academic training. These two extremes are still far apart. The problem of the modern administrator is to find a middle ground. Thirty-five years ago, when intercollegiate football was on trial be- cause of physical dangers to the participants, the late Theodore Roosevelt, ex-presiéent of the United States, saved the game for the good that he thought it possessed. Today, with the game on trial again, this time bee cause of alleged moral and spiritual dangers, there is need of another great leader to point the way ahead. The gane should be lifted up and out of its distortions into its truer plane of inspiration and effectiveness in college life. In reality there is little of ‘serious pee with athleties in the colleges themselves. The disease starts fron without, - among the men whose interest is misguided. | | ! | 4 4 4 | td Fosthalt wtalé never Glo but would continue to thrive, were it not for the football followers of Brutus who have stabbed the sport to near death. These pseudo friends of football are the genblers, the subsidisers, and the Pollyannas who state that, “football at the present, is enjoying sound health and is becoming more of an emeteur sport all the tine". I stated last winter that subsidized football and basketball had but 10 years to live. I revised this estimate downward somewhat this fall de- pending on the part that we play in this second World War which we are now in. Replying to my long-time friend, Major John L. Griffith, Commissioner of the Big Ten, may I say that I base my deductions on the following facts set up for the period of our National Defense Buergency. Living costs will be at least 25% higher sometime in 1942 and at least 50% higher in 1943. The Federal income tax payments of the people drawing salaries from $2000.00 to $7000.00 will be more than trebled. Taxes are rising faster than corporation earning which means that the proportion awilable for dividends to stecke holéers is shrinking. Profite during war will narrow further. Congress will be asked to vote the draft age reduction to 16 years of age when the time is ripe. The signal hae been sounded by General Hershey. It is an open secret in Washington military circles that there are plans for an American Expeditiovary Force when American bombers and fighter planes iia ten mata factured in sufficient quantities to control the air and to protect the con- voys from Nazi submarines. Therefore may I repeat that taxes and living eosts will be so excessively high that big time athletes who are not then in the service will not be carried on the state's payroll the year around, + during the time that they are attending college as well as on the state's highway department during the summer vacetion. State legislators will not be giving free legislative scholarships to big time athletes granting then free tuition at the state universitics, In some of our state universities at the present time this practice is followed, uit it does not exist in Kansas. (The State of Kansas is also a happy hunting ground for the athletic head-hunters from the Big Ten, the Southwest and Pacific Coast Cmferences. Coaches and athletic officials, or their emissaries, of these conferences annually pay profitable visits to Kansas and make away with much of our choice high school athletic material). Corporations will not be financially able to make good-will donations to these athletic slush funds nor will fraternities and sororities be willing to feed an extra ath- letic mouth for the glory of good old Siwash! Father and Mother will not be able to foot the bills. The vital business of whipping Hitler will be paramount to our over~indulgence of glorifies publicity and financial display neither of which are worthy lessons for youth to learn. Participation in athletics for the masses will be emphasized, but our gate receipts will fall off and there will be a consequent dimenution in the numbers of our high- priced coaching staffs. Many times more than double the money is gambled on football games each year than is bet on horse races in the United States. The big time gamblers cut on football parlays which they put out each Saturday is nearly 40% = leaving the easily hood-winked public the suckers share. While this situation is not the — of the college, nevertheless, the slimy hand of the rackateer has not edified these intercollegiate games which were once . academic. A high school or college teacher desires security the same as does the manual laborer. A teacher of young men desires security - anathletic coach desires security, but there can be no security with subsidized football and basketball because the followers of subsidized athletics demand a sure-fire MAIER i wea Schl winner every time. So-called athletic boosters pay their subsidized money rasa tidied into a secret fund to insure this. Every coach in the same conference cannot j win the championship for his team. Winning a championship is very uncertain. oo atone Naeem te, ii i And when successive losses accumulate then the emotional frenzy of the disappointed athletic booster demands a change in coaching per- sonnel. Five years is considered a long term contract in football or basketball coaching. But five years is a short while in a life-time of coaching. The mortality table shows that three years of coaching is the average tenure of a coach before changing positions. The subsidizing of college athletes works against the security of a coaches longer tenure. ‘Mew York University authorities resolution Students offered three policies: 1. The abolishment of football as an inter- collegiate sport (detriment of the school) 2. The arranging of a schedule to fit the ability of the players (University authori- ties admitted impossibility) 3. Open subsidization (only alternative) Chicago University students desired to adopt the Chicago Bears as their team and to make arrangements to be admitted to home games on an athletic activity fee basis. eg I a aU ais ak is al ca ea aa aa Li Nit vols ian ON Pee ee se seer GOA BARRENS nce git ty “Ne ea ONE eae eae PQs rece e ig : 2 <3 § & 3 ty