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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940
The Editorial Page-
To Lead And Not Force
You know, if you read editorials often, that such writing ranges from the what's-right-and-wrong-about-the-world type to the editorial pun, usually a harmless figment of the editor's mind.
In a discussion of editorial content, Don Ewing of the Shreveport Times, said he believed editorials should not be aimed at those with whom the writer agrees, but at those with whom the writer is at odds. "Editorials should be vigorously worded, and their subjects should be controversial."
Following his own advice, we have found an argumentative subject, and we are at odds with Don about his flat rule which calls for feudin' and fightin'.
Common sense, logic, and the facts being fine co-workers with the power of suggestion, we'd rather lead someone to the right answer—if fortunate enough to know it than to push him. Suggestion, sometimes, will work.
Then, there is enough good in a community, and enough kindness that goes unrewarded, that a gracious editorial of recognition should always have its place. We think the editorial page which quarrels and corrects too much inspires no less confidence than the mugwump variety which has no nerve.
We believe one should never run from a fight, never hesitate to pick one when necessary, but that one should never hunt up a fight for the sake of a controversy, or fail to state an honest conviction.
—Richard Jones.
Another Look
We have had the "new look" and the "big stare" in clothes and now we have the "bold look" in American dinner and glassware.
It seems that imaginative designers have created dinner sets of colors and shapes that agree with the "modern" home interiors. They hope that style-conscious women will want a different set of dishes and glassware for each season of the year.
Aside from the fact that a man may go bankrupt buying dishes to fit into a new arrangement of the room or to match the new drapes, there are some good points to the "bold look."
drapes, there are some good work When you come home from a hard day's work at the office and are ready for a good dinner, there sitting in front of you will be a large green plate surrounding a bite-size bridge sandwich. Probably if that dark green plate were not there to help you relax, your blood pressure would take a year off your life.
pressure would take a year. Then too, when your wife burns the roast and you don't want to hurt her feelings by telling her it is burned, you put the black plates on the table. When the meat gets to you, you take a bite and then say, "I guess we'll have to go out to dinner. The glaze from this plate stuck to the meat."
Another good thing about the "bold look" is that after your wife has so clumsily broken all the plates that you were washing, you can combine the different sets and have a look all your own called the "rainbow." —Gerald E. Edgar.
Co-ordination Necessary
The situation could get confusing. The United States has been one of the leaders in a protest to the Netherlands government concerning the Indonesian problem, but at the same time we have been considering a military alliance with the Dutch.
The Dutch have termed their activities in Indonesia "police action," but international diplomats are looking toward Washington where formal requests have been presented for political and economic support of Indonesia. The small republic has also asked serious consideration as to the possibility of the United States cutting off Marshall-plan aid to the Netherlands. An American member of the United Nations has charged the Dutch with violating the truce agreement signed last January.
On the other hand, the countries of the western European union, which includes Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg are negotiating with the United States on more permanent military arrangements. The diplomats of these countries are working with state department officials to draft a north Atlantic region security alliance by which the United States would be committed to help any member nation that should be attacked.
The state department could easily find itself in an embarrassing position unless some co-ordination of policy gets under way. The United States can't logically protest the military actions of a country and, at the same time, enter a military alliance with that same country. —John Riley.
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