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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 19
The Editorial Page-
Kind Americans
We Americans have always been perplexed at the fatalistic, unconcerned attitude toward death in India and China.
We cannot understand how people can seem so callously undisturbed while others starve in their midst; how a million deaths through flood and famine can be taken for granted.
We like to think of ourselves as a great warm-hearted people, yet let's take a look at ourselves and our record.
Twenty-two thousand Americans were killed in 1948 in traffic accidents. Another 22,000 have been killed so far in 1949. We have every reason to believe—in fact we know that at least that many will die on the highways in 1950, 1951, and so on throughout the years to come.
We know that these people will die, yet what do we do about it?
Everything but the one thing which would put an end to the slaughter—and that is, to slow down. Wouldn't all but a few of these deaths have been easily avoidable if all drivers maintained a top speed of 25 or 30 miles per hour? Blowouts, skids, glaring lights—none of these are excuses for wrecks. At slow speeds, such accidents are seldom fatal.
But to be realistic, we must realize that no one is going to drive 25 miles per hour (even though it would be an improvement over the horse and buggy) when cars will hit 80 with no strain.
Also, to be realistic, we must face the fact that, to us, the lives of at least 22,000 of our countrymen are not worth cutting our highway speed in half. But still, Americans are undoubtedly much more humane than the Chinese or Indians. We give our people much quicker, less painful deaths.
Hitler's Ghost
Judge George Armstrong was a very disappointed man last week.
Armstrong, you'll remember, is the rich old reprobate who offered 50 million dollars to an almost bankrupt military academy under the condition that the school teach the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race.
What a shock it must have been to the old man when the floundering little school rejected his generous offer (and in Mississippi at that).
Several lessons are to be learned from the episode. We learn that great wealth does not necessarily qualify a man to speak with wisdom on all subjects. We see that a man with 50 million dollars to give away can be as ignorant as a bum on skid row.
We also see encouraging signs of progress and tolerance in the South. The academy undoubtedly could have accepted the offer 20 years ago with little or no criticism from the neighbors.
But most of all, we see that wealth, position and power are not enough to buy off the principles of all men. With all his money, Judge Armstrong couldn't buy the consciences of the trustees of the Jefferson Military college.
Unfortunately we haven't heard the last of the judge. The 50 million will go to his Armstrong foundation, which will publish his anti-Negro, anti-Jewish writings. Yet legally, we must tolerate his kind. Armstrong is the rare, cancerous growth which, in America, must be spared, in order to guarantee freedom of speech and action to all.
'Small Things'
If Editor and Publisher really wants to get in touch with Mr. White, we suggest they darken their office, join hands, and rap three times on their desks.
Movie actress Lizabeth Scott says solemnly that "I'd throw away my screen career tomorrow if I could find the right man." Undoubtedly, the right man is one who owns a little enterprise like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, or Twentieth Century.
Local officials say that liquor has neither increased nor decreased crime in Lawrence, but aren't they overlooking all the liquor stores that have been held up?
Two buzzards were passed in mid-air by a jet plane. "My goodness," said one to the other, "that buzzard certainly was in a hurry." "You would be too," his pal replied, "if your tail was on fire."
Here's Why: If you think this editorial page is gloomy, come in sometime and look at the World War II headline exhibit that stares at us every day. "Bataan Lost!" "Normandie Burns" "Singapore Surrenders!" "Hong Kong doomed". Who wouldn't be sad?
The sophomore wolf tells us that the photographed nude in the last Esquire is an ex-K.U. coed. Since her back is to the camera, it's impossible to say for sure; but if it is the girl, he wants to thank personally the professor who flunked her out of school.
Library Bulletin Boards All That's Left Of Old Snow
Students hurrying by the stone bulletin boards in front of the library see only colorful posters urging them to attend this meeting or that dance. It never occurs to them that those two stone structures with their glass cases and shaded benches might mean something more.
When they were newly erected by the class of 31 they were the campus for them and they were all the students of the University's fourth building, old Snow hall.
Standing just north of where Watson library is today, old Snow hall was for many years the western boundary of the University. The campus road made a circle at its front door, and beyond it there were only a few trees, grass, and outcroppings of limestone.
Old Snow was stately, square and vine-covered. Students and faculty were proud of its stone steps—so proud, in fact, that when the building was torn down in 1933, they considered leaving the steps as a memorial to the University's past.
The cupola-capped structure represented a long campaign by Francis Huntington Snow, professor of natural science. This man, who was to become the sixth chancellor of the University, worked hard to convince the legislature of the need for a building devoted to the scientific study of biology and entomology. His battle won and in the summer of 1885 construction of the $50,000 building was begun.
Old Snow housed classrooms and laboratories and doubled as a gymnasium for 44 years. Professor Snows's collection of Kansas insects in the museum, Snow, and this museum became one of the show places of Lawrence
During the '20's, Snow hall wore out. Floors began to pull away from walls, doors sagged on their hinges, and powdery wood sifted down upon desks, chairs, and students. In addition, equipment and equipment were moved to temporary quarters until the new Snow hall was completed.
For three years old Snow was left empty and dark to the rats, which screwed over its rafters and through its halls. In 1933 an order to raze the old building was carried out, and it disappeared from the campus scene.
KU Offers New Course
Group Dynamics, a new course in psychology, is being offered by the University this fall. Dr. Milton W. Horowitz, assistant professor of psychology, is the instructor.
Group dynamics is being taught because present day life involves activity in many groups at all stages such as the family group, the community, school, occupational, social, club and religious groups Dr. Edward G. Nelson, professor of accounting, said. Dr. Nelson helped organize the project.
The University sent a research team consisting of Dr. Horowitz and two graduate students in psychology, Howard Pumpert and Joseph Lyons as research assistants, to conduct research in group dynamics at the National Training laboratory at Bethel, Maine the past summer.
"Dormitory living and instruction from housemothers is a four-year course in social work, which students' student's classroom work," said Miss Habein.
The benefits of entering into dormitory life were stressed by Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, in a speech before the Lawrence Kiwanis club.
Kiwanis Club Hears Dean Of Women
The importance of a woman's learning to make her own decisions was emphasized by Miss Habein.
Miss Habein said that such participation instructed the student in the "democratic process" by teaching her to be co-operative and considerate, and to be active in the interests of the group.
Thief Likes Haul So Well
He returns for Same Loot
Marlboro, Mass.—(U.P.)-Folice are looking for a time-conscious thief with musical ability. For the second time in two years, Mrs. Anna Guy, 81, reported the theft of two wrist watches and a trumpet from her home. The articles had been recovered after the original theft.
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