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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1955.
by Dick Bibler
The Enemy Of'41 Is Our Ally Today
Fourteen years ago the United States was drawn into the most devastating war in history by the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor by units of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Today, 10 years after the end of that disastrous conflict, the men who died during that attack are all but forgotten. Indeed, 1,211 of them still lie at the bottom of the lagoon at Pearl Harbor in the rusted, barnacle-covered hulk of the ill-fated battleship Arizona.
Each morning and each evening the flag is hoisted to the top of a flag pole located on a part of the Arizona's superstructure. As far as the Navy is concerned the Arizona is still in commission.
In addition to the raising and lowering of the flag over the Arizona, every naval ship which steams past the sunken hulk on entering or leaving the harbor pays full honors to the sunken vessel.
Today most of the bitterness and hatred which erupted during World War II has been forgotten or has been transplanted to our former allies, the USSR. Our former enemies, the Japanese, are our most valuable asset in Asia. Japan is a nation that we can ill afford to lose from our side.
While Japan is currently struggling to regain her economic footing, there is not much doubt, considering the ingenuity and forcefulness of her people, that she will ultimately regain her role as the leading nation in Asia.
A strong, democratic Japan is our strongest opposition, outside of a costly, senseless, all-out war, to Communist expansion in Asia. China we lost through our own blundering and the fumbling of Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt Chinese Nationalist government.
Our economic aid to Japan, as well as to the rest of the free world, has been cut drastically during the current administration. Once again, the American people are failing to look into the future and are trying to save a dollar in the present which will cost us thousands of dollars more in the years to come.
It we are to halt the aggression of the Russians and allies we must remember the ideal for which those 1,211 men died on that fateful Sunday morning in 1941. We must sacrifice a little from our high standard of living to aid the under-fed, under-privilleged masses of Europe and Asia. No longer are we strong enough to stand on our own two feet against the rest of the world. We need our allies, even with their petty jealousies and internal crises, as much as they need us.
—John McMillen
a bit o' blarney
By LEO FLANAGAN
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Last Saturday night the Sigma Chi's had a formal dance. In preparation for this affair they decorated their house for Christmas.
These decorations consisted of lights on two Christmas trees at either side of the porch; a blue package on the front door, which has since been replaced by a wreath; blue spotlights shining on each of six pillars; and 12 lighted Christmas trees placed in large flower boxes on the porch.
But the appreciation of some was not shared by all—because two of the smaller trees were stolen on successive nights, Saturday and Sunday.
The decorations were so well accepted by groups of townspeople and students that the Sigma Chi's agreed to leave them up all during the Christmas season.
It wasn't bad enough that the trees were taken, the lights also were stolen. Each time it was the tree on the south end of the porch.
All in all, about $15 worth of equipment has disappeared. This amount probably won't bankrupt Sigma Chi, but it nevertheless will be missed.
If these raids were someone's idea of a joke, he must have a perverted sense of humor.
The loss is not only discouraging to the affected house, but to all others contemplating such decorations. It smashes a fine idea before it really can get started.
Maybe it's too much to ask the guilty person or persons to return the equipment, but we'll make an effort.
Let your conscience be your guide.
"OK, YOU 'PLEDGES'— IT'S TIME FOR BED."
... Letters
Editor:
in the course of my acquaintance with Mr. Vosper's well-stocked library, I have been struck by the frequency and variety of ways with which other book-borrowers have attempted to improve upon the value of certain books. I refer, of course, to the practice of underlining, circling, checking, and bracketing passages in these books. It seems to me that a subject of such apparently widespread interest might profitably be raised to the level of a science, or at least of an organized theory and method.
Pending the institution of courses such as Underlineation 6 and Theory of Advanced Paragraph-Checking 169, I think it might be of some value to your readers to set down a few basic principles of this comparatively unnoticed and little-understood educational practice.
Fundamental to our approach is Pummelwit's Principle of Pencil Parsimony. This may be stated as follows: "The value of underlineation (or other types of marking) varies inversely with the frequency of underlineation." In effect, Pummelwit has promulgated the doctrine that underlineation is intended to emphasize certain points, and that each point thus loses in value as more points are similarly emphasized. Theoretically, an underlineation reaches its ultimate value when it is the only one in the book. This, of course, as too impractical to be taken as an achievable goal; we are concerned with the more practical theory of chapter marking.
Related to Pummelwit's Principle is a point which is often overlooked by the novice underlineator. This is the fact that chapter titles, subdivision headings, and italicized words or sentences are sufficiently emphasized typographically so that underlineation is not required. In such cases, one seems forced to admit that the author of the book knew what he wanted to emphasize. This admission is at odds with certain undergraduate assumptions, but is difficult to avoid.
Unfortunately, we have not the space nor the research funds available for a rigorous examination and evaluation of the various methods of marking (underlineation, circling, bracketing, etc.), but it is hoped that the need for this type of research will soon become
As we approach the meat of our subject, the manner of the marking process itself, we come upon Lumpworthy's Law of Legibility: "The value of underlineation decreases as the underlineation obscures the underlined lines." This may be seen basically as a clarion call for neatness; sloppy underlineation often manages to hide the very sentence it seeks to emphasize.
apparent to the Ford Foundation or some other such forward-looking organization with money.
In concluding, we should be amiss if we were not to mention the outmoded opposition philosophy of Freedom of Attention. This inately conservative and even reactionary doctrine holds that it is unfair for one individual to deface a library book in such a way to confuse or distort the next reader's comprehension thereof.
The implied assumption here is that underlineation or other marking tends to detract from the value of the book for future readers. We may state authoritatively that this idea is as unrealistic as the philogiston theory or the flat-earth theory. Underlineation is now universally accepted as the student's natural right and as another great step in the forward march of education.
Norm Storer
Lawrence Graduate Studem
It's Not That Windy, Even at KU NORTH HAVEN, Conn. —(U,P)—Two teen-age motorcyclists were arrested for going 30 miles an hour on a heavily-traveled parkway while lying on their stomachs across the seats. They explained, "The wind was against us."
He Wants His Own Course MUNICIE, Ind. — (U.P.) Evidently someone here intends to set up a private golf course. The Greenhills golf course reported to police that someone made off with half a dozen flags and flag poles from the greens.
He Wants His Own Course
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YouTooCanHelp Fill Stockings
Even with his newest jet plane, Santa will not be able to reach all the stockings which will be hung on Christmas Eve.
Again this year, three campus organizations are sponsoring a March of Toys drive to help Santa fill these stockings. He needs your help too.
Have you ever gathered a few toys and delivered them to a family with small children? The appreciation on the faces of parents who aren't able to provide extras at Christmas is worth all the time, effort, and money spent.
Last year 5,000 toys were collected for the drive. This year the goal is 6,000. These toys will be given to the Marine Corps Reserve. It will fix broken toys and then distribute them.
Christmas is an expensive time. There are presents to buy for family and friends. It is quite a trick to stretch that Christmas check to include everyone on the list.
But, if you have children or young brothers and sisters, you also have toys which are either broken or have been around so long that they have lost all of their appeal. A coat of paint on a fire-truck or a new wig on a doll can transform them into a Christmas delight for a child who has never had a truck or a doll.
If you don't have any old toys, take 50 cents to the dimestore. That small amount of money will buy jacks, a jumping rope, balloons, and a puzzle. Or if you prefer gifts for young cowboys, there are games, cars, and more balloons. It will probably take several trips around the toy counter before the final purchases are decided upon.
Maybe these small items will not seem like much to you, but they will mean a lot under the Christmas tree of a kid who doesn't get electric trains, walking dolls, and bicycles.
A half-hour of time and a few cents are relatively unimportant in the busy whirl of college life, but if they are spent in selecting a toy for the March of Toys drive they will mean a great deal on Christmas morning to the kids who find that Santa hasn't forgotten them after all.
-Darline Montgomery
(The following is a poem by a Japanese exchange student.)
3 American Soldiers
By ELJI TONOMURA
"You Devil Yankee" someone shouted; I glanced to the corner in a steamy train Where a husky, shaggy prisoner cowered— Where his blood-tainted head was drooping. A Japanese soldier stood before him jeering At his insignia of "mighty" wings of America.
"Here come Americans" a fearful woman shouted Running down the slope; Latches slammed fast. Rugged GIs rode by in a jeep, heavily armed. "Anybody there?" the husky voice echoed in a deserted street. Two women argued over the latch- They will kill you." "No, I know they won't" The GIs whizzed away. They are the conquerors.
"I'll take you to America,"
A slender red head promised me.
Is this the victor that I met before?
I knew "Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth"
But, "Peace, that's what we want,"
A smiling soldier said to me.
..Short Ones..
According to Red Sanders, UCLA football coach, the UCLA student body takes an adult view of hangings in effigy. When approached on the subject by Walter Stewart, sports editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, at the Look All-America dinner, Mr. Sanders replied, "There's nothing childish about our student body. If they decided to hang me, it would be for keeps."
Don't laugh at what you see coming from the beauty parlor. She may be your wife.
A smile is something that adds to your face value.
People will buy anything that is only one to a customer.