PAGE SIX
40
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951
Thought for the Day
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. —Sinclair Lewis.
The Editorial Page-
A Job Well Done
Policy is hard to state, especially when one doesn't know in advance with what subjects he will have to deal. We believe, however, that if our judgment approximates that of our predecessor, Edward J. Chapin, we will have done a fine job.
Chapin wrote with a strong will, yet at all times exercised his extraordinary sense of fairness and his respect for the rights of individuals. Kansan readers the past eight weeks have followed with interest his responsible editorial page. We could wish for no more than to maintain the high standard set by him—Marvin Arth
Draft Favoritism
Perhaps we're becoming unduly alarmed, but it would appear that the new draft deferment ruling will place educators, local draft board officials, and draft-exempt male students on the hot seat.
Human nature being what it is, it doesn't take an elastic imagination to foresee the pressures that could be applied. Parents and/or friends and/or "interested" and influential alumni could exert such pressure on teachers who dole out grades. These same persons could exert pressure on draft board officials who actually pass on deferments. The draft boards do not have to grant deferments to eligible students. It gives them the right to legal favoritism.
Economic inequality could also become a factor. Deferrable seniors who can afford it could extend postponement of service by taking graduate work. If a man spends enough years in school, perhaps he could outwait the draft.
Draft-exempt men students could, if sympathetically inclined, settle for lower grades to help boost their less fortunate brothers into the upper grade levels.
Like we say, we may be unduly alarmed over the situation. It may be that our educators and draft officials won't be subjected to outside pressure. But it could happen—F. J. K.
Intra-state school rivalry usually is bitter. It grows into one of two things. It becomes so violent that it reflects unfavorably on both schools, or it reaches the other extreme with each school respecting the other.
Wildjaycathawker
Kansas State and K.U. have always been strong competitors. Their rivalry has yet to reach the point found in some states where two schools have been forced to discontinue athletic relationship. But it could.
The Kansas State Collegian recently published an editorial, "K.U. Leads The Way," lauding the friendly Jayhawker attitude toward the Wildcat basketball team during its fine showing in the N.C.A.A. tourney.
We agree with the Collegian that it would be to the credit of each school to encourage the other against non-Kansas opponents. We join it in giving orchids to individuals who have led the way in promoting inter-school good will.
Dolph Simons devoted the front page of a special-edition Lawrence Journal-World to wish K-State well in its game with Kentucky. Bob Nelson of our sports staff frequently pulled for the Wildcats in their contests with other schools. And many other K.U. students cheered for the Wildcats, representatives of the state and Big Seven.
The Collegian also mentioned the unfavorable conduct of K-State fans toward the K.U. team when it played other teams. And, of course, some K.U. fans have replied in kind. It is a regrettable situation, but not one beyond remedy.
The K-State-K.U. Peace Pact has initiated a better inter-school relationship, but it alone is not enough. It is the responsibility of each student, faculty member and graduate of each school to make the relationship one of which both schools may be proud.-M.A.
Francis Kelley
galley-west
We're happy to discover that one can occasionally find a government official who is intentionally humorous. A humorous bureaucrat is about as rare as a tongue-tied auctioneer. And we haven't heard of many lately.
Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle is our candidate for "the most intentionally humorous Washingtonian." The other day quipster DiSalle took on the Washington press corps in a no-holds-barred affair and emerged a hands-down winner. Run-of-the-mill DiSalles were:
On a newspaper account of his "seven" children: "I didn't mind, but I had a tough time explaining the other two to my wife."
On the cost of living; "For me, it's gone down. In Toledo I used to have my finger-nails manicured. Now I bite them off."
On his legal adviser, Harold Leventhal: "He'll never have to worry about his job—he drives me home at night."
Yale Head Says Draft May Actually Aid Red
Yale University President A. Whitney Griswold warns that channelling the Nation's youth into the armed forces instead of college may be playing into the hands of the Communists.
Writing in the April issue of the Atlantic, Dr. Griswold asserts that Communist aggression in Asia is requiring our colleges and universities to sacrifice their students, faculties and curricula to military necessity.
He adds: "If the long-run objective of Communism is to destroy our free society at its source, the farther we go toward stripping our colleges of students, dismissing their teachers and 'accelerating' their curricula, the nearer the Communists will have got to achieving that objective."
Dr. Griswold admits that such "desperate measures can be justified in the name of national survival," and he says that college students and professors have no desire to escape the fight for "our security and principles."
"But they have a mission in society," he asserts, "and the question is how much of that mission they can sacrifice without again 'losing the peace' and perhaps even losing the war."
Dr. Griswold says that "in the emergency, we talk of college education as a non-essential and an expendable" adding:
"While we lavish our ingenuity and resources on the weapons of war, we neglect and even handicap the men who will use them. This is a high price to pay for survival. And what price survival if we become a headless monster?"
While the United States is neglecting higher education, Russia is making use of it as a strategic asset,
PLUS
N.C.A.A. Final
Kentucky vs. Kansas State
And Color Cartoon
"Poor Little Butterfly"
Phone 132 For Sho-Time
Ends Today Fine Arts Presentation "SLEEPING CAR TO TRIESTE" (English) Adm.—25c - 60c
Friday - Saturday
DOUBLE FEATURE
Adm. 14c - 45c
Co-Feature Robert Dorothy Rockwell Patrick
"The Blonde Bandit"
—PLUS—
he says, citing evidence that medical,
scientific and technological institutes in Soviet Russia are full and their enrollment increasing.
Ch. 10 "Pirates of the High Seas"
Late News Events
Approximately 7,900,000 veterans have taken training under the G.I. bill.
Discussing possible remedial measures, Dr. Griswold pointed out that it may be necessary to shorten the time consumed in the eight grades of high school and college
BRING IN YOUR JEWELRY and WATCHES
The College Jeweler REPAIRS YOUR JEWELRY
Estimates furnished free.
ALL REPAIRS GUARANTEED.
809 Mass.
- Jewelry repaired
- Watches repaired
- Watch crystals inserted
- Beads restrung
Meet "Billie DAWN"at DAWN!
You think we're nuts? We pieced them up. No beidling for FUN! You can FREE BEEBLE—and have FREE BEEBLE work—and you game! You can play a party, you game! You can more of "us nuts" than you think we
ORANGE JUICE
DONUTS
Aird Coffee
BE THE FIRST IN TOWN TO SEE...
BREAKFAST STARTING
at 6:30 A. M.
SHOW STARTS
at 6:45 A. M.
(YOU'LL BE OUT BY 8:30)
REGULAR PRICES
Early Bird MATINOE SATURDAY MORNING
REGULAR PERFORMANCES
Feature Shown at 1:00 - 3:00 - 5:00 - 7:00 - 9:00