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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937
Comment
Revenge and Ignorance
The week's news has taken on a definitely morbid aspect. Besides 200 holiday deaths, the Earhart business, and the usual run of murders and suicides, newspapers are giving great space to the story from California, where a WPA worker is held after allegedly confessing to the murder and attack of three little girls.
Granted that the man's confession was bona-fide and not beaten out of him, it is impossible to understand that any human being, regardless of how depraved he might be, could commit such a series of atrocities. The fierceness they would require is beyond ordinary human conception.
conception.
But if we can look at the case without any of the lust for revenge that naturally is felt, we see a pitiful picture. We moderns claim to be students of the mind, to understand sex and its motives; yet here is a man, living in one of our great metropolitan areas, who can commit a sex crime as terrible as any ever recorded in past centuries.
A Greek philosopher once urged man to "know himself," and succeeding generations have professed to follow that precept. But the story from California shows how inadequately the ideal has been realized. Let us be about the business of becoming better acquainted with ourselves and our inner workings, that these hideous things may be avoided.
Get set for a thrill. The Reverend Mr. Jardine, who achieved a measure of notoriety recently by reading the vows for the Duke and Wally—without benefit of Anglican church consent—has come to America. Soon, perhaps, the air waves will carry his voice as he "lectures" on his great adventure. And boy, oh boy, won't that be something!
Foolhardy
Comes now the phenomenon of the globe-girdling flier, the modern female Magellan who does it "just for fun." The reference, of course, is to Amelia Earhart, at last reports yesterday supposedly sinking in a water-logged plane in the south Pacific.
Any feeling but one of utmost solicitude and compassion for a person in Miss Earhart's position would be unforgivable. She and her navigator are two human beings in dire circumstances, and the hundreds of persons who seek frantically to rescue them are only too eager to succeed.
But there remains a word to be said about the reckless attitude which makes such rescue efforts necessary. Her eagnerness to risk the thing that has happened is difficult to justify. For where at most two lives were endangered, now many hundreds are placed in a definitely hazardous situation.
Commercial and military craft over a wide area have responded gallantly, and it is reported that the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington soon will reach the vicinity, ready to loose 50 planes in the search.
All of which is well and good, now that the situation has arisen. But the time when such foolhardy flights could be justified for their "contributions to aviation" is long gone, and the Earhart expedition, despite its unhappy ending, must
be viewed as a wild stunt, admittedly undertaken "just for fun."
tedy undertake that It is to be hoped that Miss Earhart and Captain Noonan will be saved. But if their rescue is effected without the sacrifice of still other lives, it will indeed be fortunate.
Ex-Senator Henry Allen's Topeka State Journal is responsible for the headline, "Harper Man to Wed," over a story telling of a Kansas' election to the presidency of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians. But perhaps it wasn't a bad slip after all. Any man mixed up in a job such as that should be married, it would seem.
THIS and THAT By KENNETH KITCH
The depression must be over. College graduates are once again "accepting positions" instead of "getting jobs."
A Nazi girl glided $18\frac{1}{2}$ hours the other day and claimed a world's record. Some of the young ladies of this community have been blissfully gliding for the past 18 years and never will come to earth until they find themselves with a cranky husband and four youngsters on a $20-per-week salary.
Amelia Earhart is evidently in hot water. That's what she gets for trying to follow the equator.
An Eastern motorist drove his automobile into a park lagoon and a university professor, who was driving behind, followed him right in. Without knowing the prof. it would be pretty safe to say that he's one of the type who munches his morning newspaper and looks at his toast.
There's one nice thing about defeating a Nazi athlete: you're assured of a safe place in German society since no one would think of declaring you a Jew.
A New Jersey marriage was annulled this week on grounds of "jacitation." It sounds like a morsel for a women's sewing circle, but it simply means that the couple was married "as a jest." Jest married, so to speak.
Things: The library spent a very sane and safe Fourth of July . . . Several of the boys drove over to Kansas City for a view of the Blues, who have finally started going a few places end doing a few things . . . Others of the gang spent the evening at Bonner Springs, where there was a big crowd and lots of "confusion." . . . Most of the students spent the week-end at their homes, however, with a pitcher of lemonade and the loving ministrations of "mother." . . . Talked to a Ford employee on the train. He said, "You can't tell how we're going to act on the CIO. Most of the boys are against it on the surface, but underneath they're all primed to go over to Lewis when the time comes!" . . . The Dallas exposition, folks say, is going just fairly well this summer; but better times are expected in August—especially the latter portion thereof . . . The University golf course is in fine condition except for the greens. When you putt, you have to jump around in front of the ball and beg it to
stop rolling . . . One of our national scientists has declared that if you put a clothes pin on your nose and close your eyes, you can't tell the difference between cream and castor oil. Why didn't our mothers think of that! . . . He also says that under the same circumstances you can't tell the difference between beef steak and leather. We're going to take a clothes pin with us when next we visit a certain restaurant in a certain town . . . Phi Delta Kappa initiation comes-off this afternoon followed by the annual swellelegant banquet at the Colonial tearoom. Mose Neis, chairman of the banquet committee, has asked the Colonial hostess to have 14 places set on the mantel.
Voices Confidence In Man's Ability
Addressing the largest Baptist church forum group of the summer, Prof. John Ise discussed the human being, his thoughts and importance. "I Believe In Man" was the topic of the discussion, the fourth in the weekly series of meetings held at the church especially for summer session students.
"One often loses confidence in human beings and wonders if they can solve their problems and what will happen if they can't," said Professor Ise. In spite of this questioning of man's ability, he voiced his confidence in the outcome and reminded the audience that "only in democracies are man or his thoughts given important consideration."
Education Students' Wives Will Be Entertained Today Allwives of summer session students enrolled in the department of
education are invited to attend an entertainment at 3 p.m. today at the home of Mrs. J. W. Twente, 934 Indiana. This is the second of a series of such events sponsored by wives of the education faculty.
The committee for today's entertainment includes Mrs. Raymond Schwegler, Mrs. F. P. OBrien, and Mrs. J. W. Twente. Similar events are planned at two-week intervals throughout the summer session.
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Condensed Statement
The Lawrence National Bank Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
At the close of business, June 30. 1937
RESOURCES
Cash and due from Banks $1,339,419.94
United States Bonds 512,740.49
Municipal and Other Bonds 315,390.89
2,167,551.32
Banking House ... 23.000.00
Furniture, Fixtures and Vaults ... 4.600.00
Other Real Estate ... 14.003.00
41,603.00
Loans ... 623,289.60
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Account ... 28.30
Total ... $2,832,472.22
LIABILITIES
Capital 100,000.00
Surplus 58,000.00
Undivided Profits and Reserves 127,435.76
Deposits 2,547,036.46
Total... $2.832.472.22
Above statement is correct GEO. W. KUHNE, Cashier.
Deposits insured under provisions of the Federal Banking Act of 1935.
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