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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951
Thought For The Day —
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."—Carlyle.
Case Against War Nerves
As draft quotas go up and the war news sounds worse for the U.N. forces, the draft-scare, patriotic enlistment fever spreads on university and college campuses throughout the country.
It is a normal first reaction to the impact of the history-making events of our time, but it is definitely one which should be tempered with reason. Reason should tell the student who is contemplating dropping out of school to join up that he is making a foolish mistake and one which could ruin his life.
We are not advising anyone to evade the draft, but we are advising those draft-eligible students who are thinking of getting out of final exams by enlisting to stay in school as long as they can. Not only will such action be beneficial to them, but will increase their potential value to the armed forces, if and when the government decides they are needed.
In taking advantage of whatever time he can, the student is not hurting the war effort by depriving the government of his services, but he is giving himself the benefit of additional training which could make the difference between life and death. This is not the far-fetched statement one may think on first reading. It is within the realm of possibility that this short delay and additional knowledge, would enable the student to utilize his abilities for something other than stopping bullets.
Warfare today is a technical business and the more technical training one has, in any field, the better are his chances for survival. So, seize your days of respite, and wait until Uncle Sam is sure he wants you. —J. A. B.
The Chancellor is to be commended for his excellent remarks a few weeks ago with regard to the precarious situation in which you students find yourselves these days.
A Letter From The Chaplain
Many of you within the next few months will find yourselves, like me, involuntarily in the military service; some will choose it; none will be unaffected.
These are serious times. Careers are disrupted. Personal affairs and lives are greatly disturbed. Families are broken up. Lives are being sacrificed.
Your attitude toward these facts will determine their effect on your future. An irresponsible, cynical defeatist attitude can ruin not only your present student vocation, your possible term of service in the military, but your future if any career.
Your purpose for living need not be affected by the accidental circumstances of the present situation. An adequate purpose for living should not be confused with a specific career or profession, the power of position or material possessions or social and economic security.
An adequate purpose for living is a spiritual quality of life which enables the human personality to meet the vicissitudes of life: interruption of schooling, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, good evil, life and death with creative growth.
What are some elements of this spiritual quality of life? I would say one is the responsibility of a moral being; the ability to choose between right and wrong, the good judgment to see when decisions must be made and the willingness to bear responsibility for a decision once made until it must be changed on sound evidence.
A second element is a sense of purpose and destiny. Every situation is conditioned by a multiplicity of preceding events developing in a complex environment. You and I are in this time-space relationship. Are we accepting the responsibilities for our very small part of the mosaic of life? Do we feel the importance of addition or detraction which our thoughts, words and actions have in this total design of life? If you and I have comprehended, even in a minor way, our individual purpose and destiny, then the inconveniences of this moment will not seriously disturb our serenity and peace.
A third element is faith: in ourselves, in others, in God. Beware of blind credulity or gullibility which lacks the reality of fact and the vision of truth. Know yourself; what you can do and what you cannot do. Use the reason and insight which God had given you to honestly search for truth; weigh the facts and pass judgment on the evidence. Above all, lose not "the faith which is the ground of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
The possibility of meeting the confusing events of the coming day with composure and equanimity, with creative and dynamic power, with the conviction of strong character is greatly enhanced when you have developed an intelligent and intelligible faith in the living personal God who creatively expresses himself in the ongoing history of His created universe. This faith will not change the events of our time. It will change the attitude with which we face these events. It will change many personalities. It may change society in years to come. Let us, you and I, do our part to fulfill to the best of our ability the stewardship of the life that has been placed in our hands.
John H. Patton Chaplain USAF
Editor's Note: Chaplain Patton, who is a captain in the U. S. air force, is on leave of absence from the K.U. faculty and as K.U. Westminster Foundation Pastor for the period of his active duty to which he was recalled Sept. 24, 1950. It is expected that he will return to the campus by Sept. 1951. Mrs. Patton has been named active director for the K.U. Presbyterian student work.
More men have speech disorders than women but just why is a medical mystery, according to Dr. James S. Greene, director of the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, New York.
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Editing Students Manage Kansan
Editing H students managing the University Daily Kansan today are Harold A. Benjamin and William D. White, both journalism seniors.
Managing the newspaper for one day has been a practice of the Editing II class for several years. It is the duty of the managing editor to supervise the make-up, headline size and size of stories to be printed.
To Show 'Henry Eighth'
In Hoch Auditorium Tonight
One of the foreign film series, "Henry VIII," will be presented today at 7:30 in Hoch auditorium.
The film is English and was produced in 1933. The stars are Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lancchester, and Wendy Barrie. The student body and faculty may attend.
In July, 1912 Kansas was building a new state fish hatchery at Pratt which was to be the largest in the world. L. D. Dyche, professor of systematic zoology, was the state fish and game warden at that time and was supervising construction of the hatchery which would have 83 ponds from one-half to one and one acres in size.
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The new year is one of bright new prospects for the American public; war mobilization, higher taxes and a simplified income tax return that reads; "How much did you earn? How much did you spend? How much do you have left? Send it in."
The optimist is the person who reads the war communiques from Korea and says that MacArthur is moving the U.N. forces south for the winter.
The proposed cut in the University's budget is being opposed by many factions. The student is wondering if the proposed cut will mean an increase in the activities fee so K.U. can continue to subsidize athletes.
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