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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3.19
The Editorial Page-
Crocodiles And Sheep
We've never been able to understand why wars come around every few years in this world. Nobody wants them. The political leaders of the world tell us that they work only for peace—certainly you and I don't want war. It's highly doubtful that the Russian people want it. Nearly half of their industry was destroyed and more than 120 million of their people killed in the last one.
We are unanimous in decriing the "futility of war." "It settles nothing," we say, "No one ever wins a war."
Yet for some reason, man continues to massacre his fellow man periodically; usually "for his own good."
What's wrong here? Either we're really fond of killing each other and are just being hypocritical, or else the political leaders of the world are out of kilter with the people. What happens to the universal desire for peace when it has worked its way up from the people to the conference tables of the foreign ministers? No one wants war, yet here we are, today, on the brink of another which could well mean the end of civilization as we know it. No one wants war, yet Stalin and Truman sit in their respective capitals, each with his atomic bomb, and like small boys, refuse to meet because neither will come to the other.
"My friends, we have failed. We just couldn't control your warlike passions."
David Low, the British cartoonist, expressed the helplessness of the common man in a picture which appeared in May, 1934 after the disarmament conference had disintegrated. Under the caption, "The conference excuses itself", he pictured a flock of sheep listening weekly to a weeping crocodile who was saying:
Behind the crocodile were several tigers and hyenas, all licking their chops and eyeing the sheep. Of course, these predatory animals represented the political leaders of the world. The sheep were labeled "common people of the world."
Never a magazine impressed with mere bigness, the New Yorker not only lists the United Nations under "Goings on About Town", but sandwiches it between "Trotting at Roosevelt raceway" and "Auction of 18th century furniture."
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Parlay cards are out, and Douglas county law enforcement stands ready to crack down—about the last of November, as usual.
Lawson Replies To Kansan Editorial On Federal Aid
A Daily Kansan reporter found that Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, didn't care to enter into any debate concerning his attitude toward federal aid to education, but felt it might be well to comment on two "glaring misconceptions" appearing in a Daily Kansan editorial.
Dean Lawson's letter to Sen. Andrew Sqoeeppel, which was read into the Congressional Record, declared that federal aid to education would lead to government control. The Sept. 28 Daily Kansan editorial, commenting on Dean Lawson's views noted that federal aid under the G. I. bill to veterans and federal research grants had not led to government control. Dean Lawson defined the points he felt were misunderstood:
"The bills subsidizing education, which are now being considered by congress, are by contrast intended to give continued aid to education. Their passage would mean adoption of a national policy which assumes that regardless of war or peace, regardless of hard times or prosperity, education will be in a perpetual crisis or state of emergency. I don't believe that emergencies should be considered normal."
"The federal aid through the G. I bill to veterans and the type of federal aid proposed in current bills before congress are two entirely different things," Dean Lawson said. "In the former case, the government is attempting to discharge a part of its obligation to men who participated in the world's greatest war. It is an attempt to serve these men in the personal crises and emergencies which participation in that war brought upon them."
On the subject of federal research grants, Dean Lawson stated. "The University has been glad to accept money for many projects but this is not federal aid to education.
"The federal government very properly must sponsor those research projects which are too large to be undertaken by individual institutions, or even by individual states. Some of these are so large that dozens of institutions must work together to solve them.
"Money paid by the federal government to the University of Kansas and other institutions is not money paid to give professors at the University a job or to keep them employed; rather, it is money paid by the government for rent of facilities and for hiring the brains of men capable of the desired research. In other words, it is money paid by the government for services rendered by the University to the government.
Dean Lawson emphasized that, "My philosophy has always been opposed to federal subsidy, not only for education, but to other things as well for two reasons: one. I honestly believe that the federal government is spending money so freely that our economic stability is endangered. I don't feel comfortable about our economic situation when I realize that it now takes 13 cents out of every federal tax dollar to look after the national indebtedness. Further subsidies would increase this indebtedness.
"This is a far cry from the so-called federal subsidy to education on a permanent basis."
"And too, even more important than the danger of economic failure, is the danger that as a people we will lose our personal and community initiative and our pride in standing on our own feet. That, I think, would be the end of the true American spirit which has made our country what it is now—the hope of the world."
The Jayhawker
Sir.
Thanks for the best laugh I've had in months. I'm referring, of course to the exchange of letters between Mr. Bud Rodgers and Miss Marian Rippeteau, Jayhawker editor.
If Rodgers' letter is a sample of his writing abilities, then the editor did the only sensible thing when she refused his generous offer to "write" for the Jayhawk.
yours.
Robert Kroesch,
graduate student
Hutchinson Pastor To Be Southwestern's President
Winfield is - (U,P)—A Hutchinson pastor is to take over as president of Southwestern college, a Methodist school.
The appointment will become official by action of the annual Central Methodist conference at Hutchinson, Oct. 4.
Dr. Alvin W. Murray has been selected by Southwestern's board of trustees to succeed Dr. Mearle P. Culber who resigned several weeks ago.
Dr. Murray, a former trustee both of Southern Methodist university in Dallas and Southwestern here, also has held pastorates in Boise City, Okla., El Dorado, and in Winfield.
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Experts In Figures And Languages Are Combined In Math Department
The most varied collection of linguistic talent at the University of Kansas is found not in any language department, but in the department of mathematics.
German, French and English are naturals. The ability to handle these three is almost a "must" for earning a doctorate degree in mathematics.
Dr. S. Chowla, visiting professor, heads the linguistic parade. He knows three of the languages used in the vast sub-continent of India.
Dr. Guy W. Smith, head of the mathematics department, is soliciting any translation business, but his faculty can handle 12' tann guages with some degree of facility and may soon add a thirteenth. assistant, had wartime training Japanese and may be considered be
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