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University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 7, 1952
by Bibler
Daily Kansan Editorials
It Isn't Whether You've Won Or Lost . . .
In our own way, we want to pay tribute to the men who have earned a big honor the hard way—the two outstanding Kansas basketball teams. The Associated Press rated them in the first ten in the nation last week. Kansas was first, Kansas State was ninth.
State was minor. Together, these two teams have put the state of Kansas in the national limelight. Just as Big Ten conference football teams are feared, so is Big Seven basketball gaining well-earned recognition.
When KU went into the Big Seven pre-season tournament in Kansas City, they had won seven straight. But in previous years that tournament had always been their downfall. Twice defeated in the finals, the Jayhawkers had never able to carry off the crown.
o carry on the crown.
But now it belongs to us, together with a share
of national recognition as what the experts believe is the best team in the nation. The load is not an easy one to bear. Now every team that plays KU will be "up" for the game.
Basketball has had its ups and downs in the last year. Collegiate athletics as a whole have been attacked, persecuted, and condemned. But when teams such as Kansas and Kansas State can earn the recognition of fans all over the country as they have this year, it is doubtful that the game will suffer much from its attackers.
And so, you men who have won this honor for Kansas, we fervently hope you can prove yourselves worthy of carrying such a load. It will not be easy. But if you continue in the future as you have done in the past, the job should be in good hands. A.G.M.
What has happened to that "big stick" which we Americans used to be so fiercely proud of? Have we lost it or is it just that we have forgotten about it? One or the other must be true, if we are to take the recent case of Hungarian blackmail as any criterion.
It used to be that we realized our strength and weren't afraid to display it. Maybe it was a bluff, but it made people, both friend and enemy, aware of what we as a nation could do.
But no longer. Hungary demanded and got $120,000 in fines for four American airmen forced down in their territory. "Spies" they called the Americans.
Hungary, dear Hungary, simply grabs four Americans, calls them spies, and we pay for their release. Were the situation reversed, we would have given them a lengthy trial, costing thousands upon thousands of dollars, and then, if found guilty, deported them with the warning never to return again. My, my.
What's Happened To Our 'Big Stick'
This has gone far enough. Let's show the world who's boss and play tit for tat. "We can do anything you can do better." The Iron Curtain has dared us to prove it. So far we haven't, but we can. So let's dig up the "big stick" and use it.
The longer we wait, the more we lose. Let's not let the American lives lost in Korea be for naught. We're fighting for our heritage today. Let's earn it, not try to buy it. Money can't buy freedom for a nation.
We must show the world that we want peace. But we must also show them that we are not afraid to use force to attain that peace. If we continue to let them run over us, they will continue to use bigger and bigger trucks until at last we cannot get up.
Just how much effect upon dependent nations does it have to close two Hungarian consulates in the United States and to forbid our citizens further travel in Hungary? Isn't it sort of like telling Johnny to get out of our yard because his mother cheated in a bridge game? The place to stop the cheating is at the source. And a display of the "big stick" would do much to that end.
-A.G.M.
Parkersburg, W. Va.—(L.P.)—A local laundry official reports that the White Star laundry used the back of Confederate $100 bills for laundry tickets in 1898.
Confederate Money Useful
Charleston, W. Va.—(U.P.)—Three thousand pounds of bacon was Heretally "burned to a crisp" when fire swept a meat curing room of Armour and Co.
Bacon Overdone
Getting Back Into The Groove
Question: Do you find a difference in the reaction of college men to your act than the older generation?
The Los Angeles Collegian at L. A.
City College recently interviewed stripeaser Tempest Storm:
Tempest Storm
Answer: Even though the majority of the audience is made up of older men, the college boys certainly go for the girls more than the older type.
Q: Do you believe a girl should let a fellow kiss her on the first date?
Q: Do you believe that college kids should go steady?
A: Well, it certainly depends on the guy. Yes—if the girl likes him.
"The colonel advised the use of manure to block the entrance to the steam tunnels, and Wood says it's proving very effective in keeping the tunnels dry."
From the Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, comes this gem:
A: I most definitely do.
Ingenuity ...
Editor's Note: We shouldn't wonder.
First stanza of a poem printed in the Stoutonia, Menomonie, Wis.: "Twas the night after Christmas"
Longfellows . . .
and, boy, what a house!
I felt like the devil, and so did the
The eggnog and candy and turkey were swell
But ten hours later they sure gave me H---!!"
Little Man On Campus
"Consider yourself lucky--Marian says your blind date has a wonderful personality—wonderful personality!"
Inside The Student ...
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Arthur G. Phillips, associate professor of English at the University of Miami, Fla., recently wrote a guest editorial for the Miami Hurricane, in which he made the following observations about the species Freshman and Sophomore:
1. Freshmen believe that all of their professors are smart; sophomores believe that one or two of their professors are smart—the ones that give them A's.
2. Freshmen are in college to get an education; sophomores are in college because their fathers refuse to pay their fare to Las Vegas.
3. Freshmen aren't dry behind the ears; sophomores are always dry.
4. A freshman will take a wooden nickel; a sophomore will take a wooden nickel too, and five minutes later put it in the slot machine.
5. Freshmen write home once a week; sophomores write whenever they're broke.
6. A male freshman is looking for a girl like his mother; this is also true of the sophomore, if his mother happens to be Jane Russell.
7. A freshman believes the way to get good grades is to study hard; the sophomore has decided that a better way is to sit next to someone who studies hard.
8. A freshman's ambition is to get into "Who's Who;" a sophomore just wants to get called before the Kefauver committee.
9. Freshmen suspect that professors aren't human; sophomores know it.
10. Freshmen kiss their dates goodbye; sophomores kiss them hello.
Concludes the professor: "Everybody loves a freshman makes life so disillusioning to a professor is the thought that this year's freshmen will be next year's sophomores. Sie transit gloria mundi."
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