Editorials
New Kansan Staff Aims For KU Forum
A new staff takes over operation of the Daily Kansan today. It is the continuation of our policy to give as many journalism students as much experience as possible. We change every eight weeks.
We of the new editorial staff have laid careful plans for what we think will be a readable and interesting page. Our thoughts will be primarily devoted to campus issues, but we allow ourselves an occasional dip into the realm of national, maybe even international, affairs. Still, though, we feel we know our own campus best.
We hope to make this column full of that proverbial "vim, vigor, and vitality," and to do so we will occasionally have to step on somebody's toes. So if your digits get smashed, feel free to retaliate, for that is the spice of an otherwise flat page.
We will run letters from our readers, but they must be signed and of reasonable length. We will print or omit the name as we see fit. More important, however, is that we feel printable letters must be intelligent, and not mere outbursts of emotion. These last we will not print.
So sit back and enjoy yourself. When you feel mad, tell us, and when you feel glad, tell us that, too. Let's have a forum of student opinion.
Alan G. Marshall.
short ones
Just when we thought most veterans were graduated and the housing shortage eased at KU, we see that the situation is really bad—"Applications Open For Women's Rooms."
It seems the Protestants protesting President Truman's appointment of Mark Clark as ambassador to the Vatican have stirred up a chain reaction. We hear the National Association of Spaghetti Manufacturers are going to ask for the recall of our ambassador to Italy.
- If you see a bunch of political science majors standing around scratching their heads, it's not a dandruff epidemic. Time magazine's letter column this week carries several notes accusing it of supporting Leftists.
The Southern Methodist university press is being subsidized by the SMU athletic department with money from football tickets, and we envision Fred Benners throwing a touchdown pass, yelling "This one for the Southwest Review!"
The University of Rhode Island Beacon threw a stock question at assorted students; "What do you think of studying in the library?" Answers included:
"I go there because I like to meet people, and you never can tell who you will find underneath the tables."
"The heavy reference books make good pants pressers."
"After studying for fifteen years, it is too hard to concentrate with no noise."
Plenty of men have said they wouldn't run for President unless they were drafted, but Eisenhower is different—he 'might be elected.
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Birth Of The Jayhawk
Editor Daily Kansan:
Your story about the Jayhawk reminds me of something I have been trying to find out for years. At just what game did the bulldog stop functioning as the emblem and this bird wearing shoes take its place? Our class graduated without having seen anything but the bulldog going along in the parades.
Even after the shoe bird had been kicking around in The Daily Kansan for almost two football seasons the bulldog still retained his portfolio. At the rally for the last game of our senior year (the one with Missouri in November, 1913) we used the buldog on the parade down Massachusetts and had him stand and watch us burn the tiger in front of Fraser.
Then the Missourians had their parade after we got to Columbia and instead of a bulldog to represent us they had a live bird with a man inside. They had him in a big cage drawn by horses and he looked as nearly as possible like that shoe bird they had evidently been seeing in The Daily Kansan. There was no other place where they could have seen him.
This may seem strange . . . that the bird wearing shoes was used as a functioning emblem by the Missourians before it was used by us. But it is absolutely correct and the information that they did use it on that date is on the front page of the next issue of The Daily Kansan published after the game. I have one.
So what I am trying to find out is did we start right off the next year using a Jayhawk in parades and so on, or did the bulldog continue to do business still longer. If we did not use the bulldog any more after seeing the Missourians use a bird with shoes, then that game with Missouri in 1913 marked the mid-point in the change-over from bulldog to Jayhawk.
Victor LeMere, who was a year or two behind our class, probably in the Class of 1916, dragged the bulldog along in that last parade. As a rule when I mention this bulldog, people think I am completely nuts. They have been so thoroughly drilled in the story of how the Jayhawk had been in a state of gradual development since 1856 that they can't believe it could be any other way.
Not any of this stuff is in the
records. The only place any of it can be found is from students here at the time. Some who were in the class of 1915 might know if they saw any Jayhawks in parades during their senior year. Ours was the Class of 1914.
The reason for the shoes was so he could kick a farmer's dog better. It was in October 1912 when the Aggies came here that I decided to try out the pun with a "J. Hawk." The caption for the cartoon was, "Every Time I Come to Hown the J. Hawk Kicks My Dog Aroun."
The dog was the Aggie team. The roughnecks up there like myself thought the shoe thing was all right; but those who could read and write regarded it the same as they would any other pun. And so in the more enlightened circles he got a nice kick in the pants and the bulldog kept right on going along in the parades.
But the next year after our class left school, Milton Nigg, an engineering student, made a plaster model of this shoe bird standing with his legs crossed (I still have one). He sold them for seventy-five cents for a white one and a dollar for a yellow one. This helped get him established on the Hill and he spread down-town from there . . . the Lawrence Paper Box Company being the first to take it as a trade-mark. Then in the midtwenties it was copyrighted. During all this time nobody had thought of doing that.
I guess this is enough; but there is a lot more to it. Incidently you ginks are mixed on the Jayhawk—Jayhawker business. Our teams were not called Jayhawks till lately. They were called Jayhawkers. A Jayhawker is a person. A Jayhawk is the bird derived from the other as a pun.
Henry Maloy (DaVinci)
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Students Favor Honor System
Students Favor Honor System Meeting on the campus of the University of Minnesota, representatives of 51 student bodies in American colleges and universities voted 38 to 15 in favor of the "honor system."
Students Want Extra Holiday
The University of Oklahoma student senate has passed a resolution authorizing that an extra day be added to the Thanksgiving vacation if the Sooners win the Big Seven football title.
Monday, Nov. 12, 1951
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Churchill Forecasts Talk With Stalin
London—(U.P.)—Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today there is a possibility of a high-level meeting with Premier Josef Stalin.
Labor member Norman Dodds raised the question of possible negotiations with the President and Stalin. Churchill replied cautiously, "There are at present no plans for negotiations on general problems with the Soviet Union, but the possibility of a high level meeting should not be excluded if circumstances are favorable."
Churchill To Ask For U.S. Aid
Washington—(U.P.)-Diplomatic observers predicted today that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will ask for new U.S. dollar aid and a greater voice in allied policy-making when he visits President Truman here in January.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will accompany Churchill to Washington, it was learned in London. Eden not only will take part in the talks with Mr. Truman, but have side conferences with Secretary of State Dean Acheson as well.
Says Eisenhower Won't Run
Paris—(U.P.)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will not be a candidate for President in 1952, according to U.S. Rep. George H. Bender.
The Ohio Republican, who is supporting Sen. Robert A. Taft's presidential candidacy, made his prediction Sunday following a long visit with Eisenhower.
The General denied "very emphatically" that President Truman had offered to support him for the presidency, Bender said.
Eden Speech Disappointing
Eden's address was a disappointment to some delegates. The speech contained no fresh proposals for a tense world and no clues to Churchill's intentions.
Paris—(U.R.)Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, appealed to Russia today to join the west in a truce on name-calling and abuse and concentrate instead on negotiating a peace settlement.
"We intend to persevere with out disarmament proposals," he said. "We ask our critics to study them. We suspect that our critics have been so busy laughing at them that they have not had time to read them." Eden was referring to Vishinsky's statement last week that he found the West's disarmament formula so funny that he stayed awake all night laughing.
The Washington Democrat said the development of radioactive "searchlights" which can be used to probe the mysteries of plant and insect life has been an important result of recent nuclear research.
Atomic Agriculture On Way
Seattle, Wash.—(U.P.)—Atomic Agriculture is on the way and it will result in a change more dramatic than old Dobbin's replacement by the tractor. Rep. Henry M. Jackson said today.
"The result of these experiments," he said, "will be the development of more efficient insecticides which will cut down the annual $3.000,000,000 lost to Agriculture caused by insect damage."
Senator Asks Red Probe
San Francisco—(U.P.)—Sen. William F. Knowland says that he will ask that the United Nations study an alleged extortion racket by which Red China has been victimizing Chinese-Americans.
"This Communist extortion cannot go unchallenged," the California Republican said. Hundreds of Chinese-Americans in the San Francisco area have testified they paid to keep relatives in China safe from imprisonment, torture and possibly death.
Peron Government Returned
Buenos Aires, Argentina — (U.P.) — Argentine President Juan D. Peron was re-elected today to a six-year term with an ample majority in both Houses of Congress and friendly governments the Argentine provinces.
Official returns gave President Peron a 2 to 1 lead over Radical Deputy Ricardo Balbih, the president's principal opposition in Sunday's voting.