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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951
Thought for the Day
There are few brains that would not be better for living on their own fat a little while. —James R. Lowell.
The Editorial Page-
Au Revoir, Mon Ami
Dear Reader:
Dear Reader:
Comes the time now when we must type the newsman's traditional "thirty" at the end of our copy. Editors of the Daily Kansan have been doing this in one way or the other for more than 40 years. Some of them grew cynical in their work and signed off with a factual, polite editorial. Others were sentimental—as the cubs usually are—and wrote a maudlin, lyrical swan song. At the moment, we tend toward the latter.
But first, we would like to tell you some of the things we have found out about you, Mr. Reader. You are not easily hoodwinked. You want us to supply you with facts to back up our opinions on the editorial page. Even when we do this thoroughly, you want us to print the other side of the story before you make up your mind. It's a hard job to court your favor and influence your decisions, Mr. Reader. It's an even harder one to get you to change your mind. We have found the challenge inspiring and what little success we have had has been infinitely satisfying.
Once we thought of an editor as a supreme director of public opinion. We have found that he is but a servant hired by the community to express its will and make a record of events. We have found too, that any paper that moves too far afield from the basic, fundamental values and interests of its readers is either playing the role of clown or is heading for extinction.
The weird complexities of our scientific age have caused many of us to lose sight of the moral problems involved in living as a social unit. We take refuge in the unimportant details of driving our materialistic civilization madly down a darkening highway with no idea of where we are going or why. Yet, looking back at the past record of your decisions when you had all the facts and considered all the opinions, you have acted wisely in most instances. So we have come to regard your considered judgment with a deep and sincere respect.
Life is ambiguous. There is usually a germ of truth in every side of any question. The major problem in our lives today is resolving these conflicting issues into a workable synthesis and then adapting our lives to be able to live harmoniously and happily within this structure.
This synthesis can only be arrived at by the existence of a free press. Newspapers are the only means of communication that can supply sufficient, detailed information from day to day that society needs in order to make decisions and take action on the problems that confront it. In filling this need, newspaper reporters find a purpose in life.
Sometimes a newspaperman has the rare privilege of supporting some public issue that is so fundamentally right that "a blind man could see it riding on a horse backwards." Such an issue was the F.E.P.C. and the Daily Kansan is proud to have given House Bill No. 259 early and active support. Although the bill died in a Kansas Senate committee after receiving overwhelming support in the House and an endorsement by Governor Arn, we have no doubt about its future resurrection.
And we said some things about student politics. We believe that student politics should not only be honest but offer a working demonstration of the very best in the democratic process. We have said what we felt needed to be said responding to no restraint except our conscience.
During the past eight weeks, Francis Kelley, as managing editor, has been responsible for news content and make-up of the Daily Kansan and what a wonderful job he has done. Using imagination and ingenuity, he and his four assistants, Billie Stover, Faye Wilkinson, Harold Benjamin, and Marvin Arth, have improved and enlivened the appearance of the Daily Kansan immeasurably.
Arth has been elected as your editor-in-chief for the remaining eight weeks of this semester and Benjamin will serve as managing editor. Although we go reluctantly, we know that we are leaving the Daily Kansan in capable hands that have your interests at heart Mr. Reader.
Edward J. Chapin, Journalism senior.
An expert on women's fashions says the fairer sex should wear clothes to suit their personalities. Rodney Nipnap wants to know what happens if they don't have any personality?
"Sleeveless and almost-that-way blouses are also in the picture this year." And here we've been thinking "almost-that-way referred to current styles in swimming suits.
It's irritating enough that smoking in University buildings is forbidden, but it's double-irritating to read that the A.S.C. "orders" the restriction.
Sportswriters are tearing their hair to find they've almost run out of teams to call "Cinderella kids."
There are an awful lot of skunks shying away from mink coats these days.
Did-you-know-that: Boys and girls matriculate together at K.U.?
Student-Teacher Grants Offered
Two student-teacher scholarships are available to University juniors meeting the qualifications as set up by the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers.
and teachers. The scholarships will be for $150 a year, or $300 for the entire scholarship. The fund is financed by honorary life membership in the K.C.P.T., or scholarship gifts from individuals, associations, councils, or the state P.T.A. congress.
Students interested in applying for the scholarships should apply within the next three weeks at the School of Education office. 103 Fraser hall.
To be eligible a student must have completed two years in any accredited college in Kansas. The student should have a high scholastic record, show special aptitude for teaching, possess a pleasing personality, have high moral and social standards, and be a resident of Kansas.
Students must plan to teach in the public schools of Kansas for at least two years in order to qualify, and must show need for assistance.
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