SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
COMMENT
In the Far East
Concerning the recent unrest in the Far East there has been much discussion as to what policy the United States should pursue. To date the state department has taken no definite action. Some groups, becoming impatient with the governmental procrastination, have inaugurated an unofficial boycott against the aggressor nation. This action may have some value in indicating the attitude of the American people towards the eastern situation, but, unfortunately, it fails to achieve its purpose as an effective deterrent for the reason that it is not complete. There are many who elevate their needs above their principles.
The supporters of the boycott plan urge an official declaration of economic non-intercourse. It is questionable whether the ends desired could be reached by these means. Probably such an action would create an impasse that would this country no other alternative than war. Nations, despite their much boasted progress, still react as primitive tribes whose first law is self-preservation. If there is something a nation requires and another stands in its way, it will not stop short of force to take what it requires.
The boycott also seems an attempt to evade the issue. The answer to a problem as serious as that which has risen in the east cannot be answered so easily. Any solution must be final. Either we must make a complete economic and political withdrawal or adopt an aggressive policy that will leave no doubt as to our intentions. As long as we have an interest in the far east, we must be either willing to drop this interest despite what it may cost us or we must be prepared to protect our interest to the fullest extent of our powers and with whatever force may be necessary. The time is fast approaching when we must cease our efforts to hold an uncomfortable and dangerous middle road and abandon it for a more definite course.
What Next-?
Some readers may grow tired of hearing about Norman Thomas's unsuccessful attempts to talk in New Jersey. They may even agree with President Roosevelt who declined to comment on the matter with a remark that Mayor Hague's suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City was "purely a local matter."
What was "local" to Jersey City soon became "local" to neighboring Newark, scene of a week-ago riot in which free speech was denied to Norman Thomas, three times the Socialist party candidate for president. Newark mobsters drowned out Mr. Thomas with a brass band and silenced him by pelting him with eggs and tomatoes.
Like many other diseases of man this "local" infection is proving contagious.
Intolerance, bigotry, repression—those words express the spirit of northern New Jersey's mobs. The same spirit, after the World War, revived the Ku Klux Klan, which started as a "local" movement in the south but spread until it scared every state in the nation—just as the Jersey mob menace will spread unless it is quarantined.
The outrages in Newark and New Jersey are a warning to every American community and to every minority group. Labor organizers and
Communist agitators were the first victims of the Jersey terrorism. Then liberal congressmen who undertook to defy Mayor Hague were threatened and driven out. Now a man for whom hundreds of thousands have voted for president has been humiliated by a shower of tomatoes and eggs. Another man for whom 17,000,000 Americans voted—Alfred M. Landon—has publicly expressed sentiments like those Mr. Thomas tried to voice last week. If Mr. Landon ventured into the New Jersey to repeat his words he would be subject to the same menace.
Unless the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all Americans are enforced for all, there is no guarantee that they can be preserved for any group or for any citizen.
Campus Opinion
Previous to this summer a junket, to the average University of Kansas summer session student, was a preparation which one could miraculously prepare into a dessert. This summer the word takes on new meaning, not for Webster but for us. The University greets us with an entirely new version, "Campus Junkets."
Letters to the Editor:
These conducted visits to interesting and worthwhile spots on the campus are only one of the many new features which have been planned for the summer students "Campus Hour" from seven until eight each evening.
To add to the pleasure of this hour some unknown friends of the bewildered and fever-ridden summer students have planned forums in the Union, entertainment and dancing each Monday evening (a hitherto unheard of pleasure for visiting schoolmarms), musical events, and an all-school picnic.
The junkets that we are to know this summer are more highly flavored, have a better consistency, and promise great delight for those who learn to indulge. What is your choice—chocolate or lemon?
Elsie Penfield.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Such "Pollyanna" creatures as the person who claims that "There ain't nothin' to kick about" in the first issue of the Summer Session Kansan should be excommunicated from the campus for their lack of common knowledge. Of course if it is this person's first summer here, her lack of knowledge is explainable, but scarcely justified.
Anyone who has spent one summer at the University of Kansas knows good and well that before the first month is gone, he is practically worn out and ready for the nearest hospital (which brings up the question of why don't they keep the hospital open in the summer?) I ask this optimistic individual to wait until the thermometer reaches 110 degrees in the shade, when every room becomes a Dante's Inferno, when you begin to appreciate the torture of a 7:30 class, when even the professor comes to class without a tie, when everybody wants the seat nearest the window, when each breeze is a hot wind, when your hand sticks to the paper on which you are taking notes and your clothes stick to the seat, when the basement loses its reputation of being the coolest place in the library,
when a fly incessantly buzzes around your desk in the day time, and when bugs swoop around your lamp a night.
Then Miss "Pollyanna" will find that there is "somethin' to kick about."
An Experienced Summer Student
Contributor's Column A Letter Home
Deer Paw.
Well, I am in summer school now. I was looking in the dictionary the other night an saw where Oread means mounten nymp which Webster sez is a divinity of nature which dwells in the mountens, forests, meadoze, waters, etc. He sez allso that a nymp is a lovely mayden, girl. They are plenty of girls and they is divine an lovely, but they aint no mountens hear or forests or meadoze, though their is waters (Potters lake) but I have not seen any of the maids hear in the waters at Potters. I dont sea how he got the name. I think Webster should have looked intwo the matter better before he named this place which they naow call the Hill which is better.
I am rooming with Joe Leaf who is called Leaf because when he is studying he turns the leaves of his book so fast. He aint very smart. He sez he was five years old before his folkns new which way he waz going two walk. He is always late two class so he has too run; he runs so fast sumtimes, he has two run sidewaze two keep from flying. Of course, when he is two late, he just飞s. We waz having a bull seshun the other night in hour room an Joe sed where he comes from, which is Oregon out west. The trees grow fast out there. He sed won day he was climbing a tree which wuz growing. It grew so fast he got up reel high so he couldnt jump off. He yelled down two sum men who wuz choppin an sawing. They tryd too chop it down but it grew so fast, they couldnt hit in the same place twice. Well, Joe seed the tree when it got up so high it got limber. All he had two due is let it bend wright back down too the ground with him. I dont believe hit, but you never can tell, sum strange things happen like the other day in class when we were having a test. Phil Wilsun, a dumbbell if they ever waz won, who had ben flunking tests wrtight along, just looked over at Miss Stomps paper—just once—and when he got his back he got a A on hit. The next test we halve, I am going to due that on account of I am not doing so well on account of hit is so hot. Maybe I will due better. I hope so and I no you hope so so I will close this hear with love frou me an maw.
PeeEss. I will wright to mister Webster twonight about Oread. Joe come in just nawn (an him a high school principall), so he is not so fit two talk on account of he has just come from the city, but he says nymph halve wings. I will take the subject inthe my own hans twonight
your afheckshunet sun RODLLANDO.
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At the Theaters:
**GRANADA—Now, ends Wednesday: Louise Rainer in "Toy Wife" with Mélvyn Douglas and Robert Young. ●Thursday through Saturday: the "Dead End" Kids with Humphrey Bogart in "Crime School." ●For four days, beginning Sunday: "Gold Diggers in Paris" with Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, and the Schnickelfitz Band.
VARSITY—Next week: Sun-Mon-Tues.—"This Way Please" with Betty Grable, "Buddy Rogers, Fibber McGee and Molly, Ned Sparks and Mary Livingston; and the "Tip-Off Girls" with Mary Carlisle, Lloyd Nolan, and Roscoe Karns. ● Wed.-Thurs.: "Seventh Heaven" Co-starring Simone Simon with James Stewart; and "Women of Glour" with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce. ● Fri.-Sat.: "Mr. Moto's Gamble" with Peter Lorre as the world-famous "Mr. Moto;" and Tom Tyler in "Santa Fe Bound."
Patee—Now, ends Wednesday: Jeanette MacDonald in "The Firefly" with Allan Jones; and "Beloved Brat" with Bonita Granville. Thursday through Saturday: "Youth on Parole" with Marian Marsh; and "Stagecoach Days" with Jack Luden. For four days, beginning Sunday: "Prison Nurse" with Marian Marsh and Henry Wilcoxon.
DICKINSON—Today: Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Robert Young in "Josette." ● Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholemew, in "Kidnapped." ● Starting Sunday: George Raft and Sylvia Sidney in "You and Me."
AT THE DICKINSON
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Here the artist pictures "Vive l'Amour in Naughty New Orleans!" or Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young (left to right) in 20th Century-Fox's gay comedy, "Josette." Merry with Gordon and Revel tunes, the film also features Bert Lahr and Joan Davis. Today at the Dickinson Theatre.