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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948
The Editorial Page
Red-Bloods & Mollycoddles
G. Lowe Dickinson, writing during the reign of Theodore Roosevelt's "gospel of the strenuous life," amusedly generalized on man's character in a clever essay called "Red-Bloods and Mollycodles."
Nations, like men, according to Dickinson, may be classified roughly as extrovert and introvert, or as Red-Bloods and Mollycoddles. The ancient Greeks, the Italians, the French, and the Russians he classed as Mollycoddles. The English, the Romans, and the Germans were Red-Bloods. However, the RedBlood nation of them all is the United States. In fact, Dickinson claimed that America was so strong a RedBlood that in comparison, all of Europe would be called Mollycoddles.
Action Men Are Red-Bloods
"Generally speaking," he said, "men of action are Red-Bloods: Not but what the Mollycoddle may act, and act efficiently. But, if so, he acts from principle, not from instinct of action. The Red-Blood, on the other hand, acts as the stone falls, and does indiscriminately anything that comes to hand. It is thus he carries on the business of the world. He steps (the Red-Blood) without reflection into the first place offered him and goes to work like a machine."
Thus G. Lowe Dickinson, an Englishman, described and pictured America in the early years of this century. Perhaps the picture he has drawn is exaggerated, but few of us would deny that it holds much truth, even for modern America. We're A Machine
We still remain a machine, driving forward with a rolled-sleeve forcefulness that has made us great. . . and unconquered. As we stand in world affairs today we captain the college eleven. What next?
There is a fear in many minds, both American and European, that we will jump feet-first into world leadership without reflection and do indiscriminately anything that comes to mind. Perhaps we have already done just that!
Let's Be Red-Blooded Mollycoddles
Let's Be Red-Blooded Mollycodies
Let's stop for a minute and look around before we take another leap.
Let's be Mollycodies for a few months. Let's reflect on past and
First we decided that Communism must be stopped, and that the best way to stop it would be to feed the hungry nations of Europe. Relief, $509 million of it, is on its way to Europe now. We've jumped in already!
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future action, and make sure that we are headed in the right direction .. to world peace.
We may be going the right way. . . or the wrong way, but it won't hurt to stop and think about it. Let's be Red-Blooded Mollycoddles.—George Shapley.
Booing Expensive
If booing won basketball games, the University would have romped over Oklahoma by a lop-sided score. We've never seen a Brooklyn baseball crowd on the Fourth of July, but the crowd conduct in Hoch auditorium Tuesday night must have reached about that pitch.
Basketball is no pussyfoot game, and no one expects Wimbledon tennis decorum on the part of the crowd. But out-and-out booing is still considered unsportsmanlike in collegiate basketball.
When the ref calls what you think is a rough decision, just remember that not only is booing unsportmanlike, but it can influence a referee against your team. He can even call a technical foul on your team for your actions.
Remember, referees are human, and psychology applies to them as well as to you. A noisy but mannerly crowd can make a ref reluctant to call a close one against the home team.
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