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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1947
As The Kansan Sees It
Foreign Policy?
We read and hear much today of America's "foreign policy." The term is widely used by all classes of people, and yet few realize its true meaning.
Actually we have no foreign policy. True, we are working toward one, but it is still in its embryonic stages. A foreign policy will develop, just as our policies for 171 years have done, by trial and error, success and failure.
Foreign policy, as one historian points out, is a course of action based on self interest which governs our relations with other nations. None of the policies that America has used and discarded during the years sprang full blown at its origin. Rather, each grew from a germ to full maturity and then died a natural death when the time came.
When our nation was young, the prime interest of the country was self-preservation. Thus its foreign policy was shaped for this purpose. "Nonentanglement" in the affairs of Europe became the order of the day.
In 1796 the Congress of the United States passed, by a small margin, a treaty with England which had been negotiated by John Jay. The treaty was considered a failure by most Americans, and Jay was damned as a traitor. Yet, out of the Jay treaty came one of America's strongest and most consistent policies governing relations with other countries. Here was the beginning of the peaceful arbitration of disputes in American history.
In 1823 President James Monroe sent his annual message to Congress. Buried deep in its text were two
Is School Tougher?
"School is getting tougher and tougher this year."
"I think so too."
Public Postcard
Dr. T. V. Smith, University of Chicago.
Dr. T. V. Smith,
Everywhere—over a soda, at a dance, in bull sessions, around the dinner table—every one is saying so. It must be true.
Dear Dr. Smith,
Sincerely yours,
University Daily Kansan
No, studies aren't getting harder. Students who come to school for an education are getting it at the expense of those of us who grew accustomed to loafing during the lesser-competition "war" years. Veterans can't be blamed entirely for the rise in high grades. Many veterans have dropped school because they, too, couldn't make the grade. It is those students who came to college for an education and not a lot of fun who make the rest of us gripe.
Thank you for the fine lecture on the Humanities which you gave here last night. You opened another door into the appreciation of the finer things of life.
Professors are giving longer assignments? Perhaps some are, but most professors are giving essentially the same assignments that they have been using for the past few years.
There is no time to study? There are still 24 hours in a day, and any college student should know when to study and when to go to the show.
So now we have plunged into the throes of development of another foreign policy. Ferhaps we have completed a cycle and are once again seeking a policy of self-preservation—this time for civilization itself. The actions of our state department during the past year have germinated the seed of such a policy. Only history will tell us whether the seed shall bear fruit or prove to be a dragon's tooth.
"Studies are harder. Professors are giving longer assignments. We have to attend more extra-curricular activities. Books are scarce. There's no time to study."
Allen D. Smith
As technological developments began to shrink the World, the United States slowly drifted away from these outmatted policies. The "open door" was advocated for the Orient. Pan Americanism brought a new set of standards to the New World. It took two world wars and the development of the long range airplane to kill isolationism in the United States.
small paragraphs separated by seven pages of "more important" information. The actions of other nations, however, made it necessary for the United States to build a complete policy around those two small paragraphs. What schoolboy doesn't know of the Monroe doctrine?
Stop and think.
Books are scarce? Yes, but the library is full of many newly purchased books. You've just as good a chance of getting an assigned text as I do. No one ever lost his chance for an education just because he couldn't get the exact book to which he was assigned.
It is easier to pay for an evening's entertainment at your father's expense than to open a book at your's.
Martha Jewett
Aggie Autocracy
Down with dictatorship!
The subject of today's attack is Kansas State College at Manhattan. Did you know dictatorship and autocracy in its worst form is flourishing there?
Third, the candidates for queen of the "Ag Barnswarmer" dance at the end of the week are having to pass certain tests to prove their knowledge of agricultural subjects. This is a gross assumption of authority as anyone knows that a queen should be picked only for her "sweet smile and the house she belongs to."
Second, cruel and unusual punishments such as being thrown into a horse trough have been devised. Oh, that a school in this fair land should descend to the level of Wichita and Independence, Mo.
First, they are telling the students just what they can wear this week. (Oh, yes, it's "Ag" week at Manhattan, and that constitutes a flagrant violation of the right of each individual to an uncluttered calendar.) Men are required to wear blue denim trousers and flannel shirts, and the powers that be have even made students in certain schools wear certain types of clothes.
Oh, that dictatorship in its worst form should so openly be carried on just a few miles up the Kaw. May we never, never come to such a pass!
The process of properly preparing bacon by the packing houses requires about six weeks.
Dear Editor
Paying Own Way
Dear Editor,
In Friday's Daily Kansan, there is an article about the foreign students attending the University. The fourth paragraph of this paragraph reads: "The students are here on scholarships from their governments, exchange scholarships, University grants, on through the Institute of International Education."
We would like to point out that a good number of the foreign students here, perhaps the majority of them, are here by their own means.
Because misinformation like this is quite often given through the Daily Kansan, the students signing below, and others who could not be contacted to sign, wish to make this protest. Because our parents are paying for our education, some of them making sacrifices to do so, we don't want that credit to be taken from them.
We hope this mistake will be corrected, and not be repeated.
Bolivar Marquez, jt., Raul Balda,
Ruben Valderamma, Gracie BalaDa
Newton Caldera, Rafael Balda, Jose
Portuguez, Isabel Moya, Bautista
Murillo, Aldo Aliotti, Phyllis Rust,
Marilyn Rust, Alvaro Chavarria,
Mario Vazquez, Luis A. Alexander,
Andrew Rubert, Pedro Antonioli.
Beards The Answer?
Dear Editor,
Women's groups throughout various sections of the nation are rebelling at the long skirts. Yef the modern woman is converting to the conventional style and stumbling along in her new skirt. I have met no woman of this modern age who likes the longer skirts (and certainly no man.)
The fad doesn't decrease, however. Worse yet, the men discuss the situation, and yet no action is forthcoming.
If our damsels are insistent upon turning back the years in their dress, why shouldn't we men voice our protestations by inventing a contemporary style of our own? For instance, a beard. Not only is a beard a completely inexpensive and practical mode of expressing our complete distaste, but an excellent method of bringing out the hidden personality.
Are we to sit meekly back and allow the opposite sex the privilege of walking over us in their usual manner? Or are we going to assert our indignation publicly and bristle the co-ed into inaction?
To those unable to produce a crop of whiskers, I can offer only my sympathy. Some way for them to show their distaste will develop if the movement gains momentum.
The University DAILY KANSAN
Edward E. VanDyke College sophomore
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Pan-Hellenic President
Names Workshop Committee
A committee of four will continue work on the workshop to be sponsored by the Pan-Hellenic council this winter. The committee appointments were made by Maxine Gunsoll, president of the council, at the meeting, Tuesday.
Members of the committee are Barbara Johnson, Carolyn Campbell, Shirley Grigsby, and Jane Ferrell. The next meeting will be 5 p. m., Oct. 21.
Jewish Union To Have Picnic At Clinton Park
The Jewish Student union voted Tuesday to have a picnic at 4 p.m. Oct.19 at Clinton park. Meetings will be held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 5 p.m., it was decided.
Elected to fill vacancies in the cabinet were Marilyn Marks, recording secretary, and Helena Q. Kourt, corresponding secretary.
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