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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1948
The Editorial Page一
Thanksgiving, 1948
This week, citizens of the United States will take off a day from their labors to celebrate Thanksgiving. 1948. It has been an eventful and trying year, but as a nation, this country is perhaps better off than any in the world.
A short review shows that this year has seen a bumper wheat crop and many other crops in the same proportion: 60 million people gainfully employed; schools crowded with students seeking to improve their status; and factories working at top production.
We, the people of the United States, express our alms in terms of shiny automobiles, television, and modernistic furniture and plumbing. We live in a country that has not seen the physical destruction of war with the disruption it brings. With us,privation and hunger is the exception rather than the rule. We do not have the austerity of the British,the civil war of the Chinese,or the governmental insecurity of the French.
On the other hand, many people of the world speak only in terms of mere existence and the source of the next meal. Nearly every newspaper today brings us pictures of the strained, uneasy face of the Berliner as he gazes skyward to catch a glimpse of the planes that supply him with food. His very existence hangs by the slim blade of the many propellors of the transports that have been put to use to nullify the edicts of a ruthless power trying to increase its sphere of influence. The whole air life can be perhaps classed as an example of the benevolence of a people imbued with the spirit of Thanksgiving.
Our blessings have not been without problems. Most of the problems we face, however, are those brought on by evolution and progress. We have released the power of the atom and its control is up to us. And, upon how well we succeed with this problem, may depend the very existence of the world. We also have the problem of high prices, housing, and the maintenance of a prosperous economy. Again, these problems seem to be the growing pains of a nation striving for maturity.
The United States, being one of the two great powers in the world, also has numerous and weighty problems of leadership at the peace table. For this, we, and all the people in the world should be thankful. At least we can assume that the decisions made by our representatives will be tempered by the sentiments of a people who see fit to use one day of the year for the express purpose of giving thanks in the name of a supreme being for the blessings that are ours. —M.C.L.
- Letters To The Editor -
Intolerance
Dear Editor:
I will add an "amen" to Mr. Reddock's communication of Nov. 17 to the Daily Kansan concerning the miserable manners of one of the local theaters toward patrons whose choice of ancestors was at slight variance with that of a majority of the people of this city. I had a similar experience the past summer while eating in one of the better restaurants downtown.
It has been pretty hard for me to eat in any downtown restaurant since that time. Every time I see the little notice, "We reserve the right—" the face of that nice young kid comes before me. In my eyes the business firms and perhaps most of the citizenry of this smug little city are about a un-American and intolerant as any this side of Alabama or Oklahoma.
The members of a softball team from a nearby town came into the restaurant to eat. They were all high school-age boys. The prophetor refused to serve the one little chap who happened to have dark skin.
Name withheld by request.
Illusions
Dear Editor: .
As a "peace dreamer" and "One Worldist" (Larry Abbott's terms), I am quite puzzled by his letter of Nov. 9. If he had quoted from the "several articles—in campus periodicals" perhaps I could comprehend how idealism is forcing us to live under monstrous illusions.
We all have illusions, it is true, and possibly some of them are fantastic. But, if the choice is between the illusion that we can solve our problems by power politics and military alliances, which
have solved nothing permanently, and the illusion that One World and lasting peace can be achieved by means of a world government. I find the latter far less monstrous.
I am not acquainted with the course Mr. Abbott recommends, but some course in history of political science is in order to teach him not to equate Isolationists and One Worldists. On this point, Mr. Abbott obviously does not seem to know what is really going on in the world.
Betty Compton Graduate school
Agreement
Dear Editor:
Incidentally, this being your (Nichols and Morgan) exclusive field, you might be the two people who bring this wonderful thing to pass.
I have read the comments on my letter to the editor and agree with the writers, Nichols and Morgan, in spite of the fact that they wrote in a number of ideas that were not mine.
What they say is true; We should and could live in peace. But, it is still a dream.
Doyle L. Buckles, class of '20, was among the members of Sigma Delta Chi for whom memorial services were held at the national convention of the organization in Milwaukee Nov. 13. These members of the professional journalism fraternity had died within the past year.
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Have you ever read Voltaire's "Candide?"
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Larry Abbott Engineering junior
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At the time of his death, Mr. Buckles was field representative of the Alabama Press association, and was a member of the faculty at the University of Alabama.
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French Scholarship Student Delayed in Reaching US
Andre Delamare, French student who received a University scholarship will not arrive until the second semester, J. H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate school, said today.
Delamare was unable to reach the United States because of transportation difficulties, the dean said. His scholarship was granted for the 1948-49 academic year.
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