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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950
The Editorial Page-
A New Era?
For years the older generation has been crying for a return to the "Good old days," claiming that the present generation is living too fast.
With the advent of the second half of the 20th century, it looks as if Mom and Dad will have their wishes granted—at least in part.
The time is fast arriving when the young people of today particularly the young women-won't be able to look at pictures of their mothers, taken during their hey-day, and laugh. For according to the fashion experts the 1920 look is returning.
After following the Gibson Girl styles of the "Gay Nineties" for a few years, the modern woman is advancing to the styles set during the "Flapper Age."
Snort hair has returned; shorter skirts are returning; and soon young women are expected to dress in the fashions which offer so much entertainment to the owners of family photograph albums.
In some cities the dances of the middle 20's are popular and for several years young people have been singing the songs the parents sang.
The girls of 1950 now need only un-zip their stadium boots, (the sign of the Flapper was unbuttoned galoshes) and swing into a fast Charleston to see if they can keep up with the pace of the "Roaring 20's"—"The Good Old Days." —Kay Dyer
Finals Ahead
Seventeen days elapse between the carefree escape of the Christmas vacation and a period called final week; thus named because it is the final blow of the semester. These 17 days of anti-climax to the vacation can be divided into two periods. The first period the student spends awakening to the bleak reality that the monotonous grind has started again. The second period begins when the student becomes more and more worried, confused, and bitter about his studies. During this period the tension mounts gradually until the last day of classes. By this time the atmosphere of most classrooms resembles the feeling current among the crown five minutes previous to storming the Bastille. And then comes final week!
At the time the students are studying for their finals, the average professor is figuring out what the students are least likely to study or is making out questions that camouflage what he has studied. Final week is the time when teachers have a chance to get even with students for cutting classes and asking questions the professor couldn't answer.
In these seven days enough anti-sleep potions are consumed by students to make a bundle of nerves out of Rip Van Winkle. The daily routines of students become completely distorted; not to mention the sleep lost during the frustrated activities of final week. But, of course, studying is not the only way of coping with final examinations. There is always a certain group of students who have the last three finals the teacher has given, and who reap the benefits of their ingenious predecessors that got away with a copy of the quiz. Then there is always the group which spends the time their classmates are using to study in efforts to get hold of the final. The schemes of some of these students would make the Russian atomic spies seem unimaginative.
After taking a final, the behavior of almost every student will fall into one of the following categories. Some students will stumble home in a state of mental exhaustion and sleep until time to begin studying for the next final. In this case, it is not uncommon for the taker of "anti-sleep" remedies to sleep through his next final. Other students, usually the more methodical type, immediately resume the horrible cycle of study all over again. But a considerable number of students either rapidly organize a huge "party," or hurry to a local tavern, where their tense nerves soon become happily paralyzed.
But regardless of the mass-suffering that occurs each final week, the evil custom will continue. Soon the days of terrible tests will be upon us. And when it's all over, we can look forward to the confusion of another enrollment and then starting the whole thing over again.
—Bill Graves
Senator Talks To KU Club
Comparing the rise to power and prominance of the United States to that of the early Roman empire, Sen. George K. Melvin told the Young Republicans club Tuesday night that unless there is a change of administration we will suffer the same rapid decline and disintegration that was the fate of the Roman empire.
The Lawrence attorney who is state senator from the fifth district, including Douglas and Jefferson counties, was state representative from 1933 to 1937.
Pointing out that 65 per cent of the voters in the last federal election had reached the voting age since 1932, when the Roosevelt era began, the senator said that many of these were voting the Democratic
"People used to want to keep the government, but now they seem to want the government to keep them," said Senator Melyin in referring to what he called "the present trend toward statism."
ticket simply because it was the thing to do.
The club passed an amendment to their constitution stating that the club's chairman would be a member of all delegations to state meetings. An election of officers will be held at the next meeting, which will not be held until the spring semester.
With respect to Mr. Greenberg's letter in Monday's Kansan, I wish here to answer his charges and to explain to Mr. Greenberg some things he ought to know.
Spain
Dear Sir:
The value of the annual mineral production of Kansas now totals more than 400 million dollars.
In his letter, he states that Franco's fascism 'is not shared by millions of G. I.'s of this and other lands who fought and perhaps died to rid the world of Franco's axis henchmen."
In the first place, other lands include Russia, do they not? The Soviets were fighting not a war for democracy, but one in which they hoped to rub out their next of kin Fascism. They did this in an attempt to impose their own brand of totalitarianism. Secondly, he says "perhaps died." I'd like to see Mr. Greenberg probe into the recesses of a dead soldier's grave in order to ask, "You fought against fascism, not communism, didn't you?" This play on words is meant only to show the opposition how its method of attack appears to us.
Mr. Greenberg next refers to Franco's "axis henchmen." He was truly a remarkable henchman. Franco refused to join forces with his "buddies" against the allies in the war and kept the secret of his "enemies" the Americans, when they were passing troops through Gibraltar prior to the invasion of Africa and Sicily. Spain had ships torpeded by the Nazies. True henchmen indeed!
As to my statement that "the Spanish people aren't ready for democracy," it is obvious that Mr. Greenberg is not acquainted with the true situation in Spain. If he were, he would realize that my statement about the bad effect of democracy in present day Spain are not a "flimsy rejection" of democracy, but, on the contrary, an advocacy of a lesser evil than the one which could exist—communism. A Spain free from external as well as internal interference could achieve a democratic state to compare with ours. This interference is communism.
James Sunye
US - Mexico To Exchange Flags
Washington (U.P.) It will be sometime after next September before this country and Mexico can carry out a proposed exchange of flags captured in their war more than 100 years ago.
Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen, (D.-Tex.), gave that estimate today after conferring with Mexican embassy officials. He previously had hoped to arrange the ceremonial exchange in Texas sometime in February.
Bentsen said he had invited both President Truman and Mexican President Miguel Aleman to take part in the ceremony. Both have expressed an interest and hope to attend, he said.
The delay. Bentsen said, stems from the fact that the Mexican Con-
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