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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNEDAY, OCT. 1, 1947
A $ ^{s} $ The Kansan Sees It
92 Years Ago
As far back as 1855 the peky Missourians had a habit of invading Kansas. Then it was not footballs and waterbuckets they brought but ballots and concealed firearms.
Oct. 1, 1855, was set by the Territorial legislature as the date for elections. On that date Missourians swarmed into the state, paid their $1 poll-tax, and cast their votes. The Free-staters, having set their election date a week later, stayed at home.
The big dance is coming up. But Joe Independent is worried. Shall he send a corsage to the girl he's taking?
Out of 2,738 votes cast, the pro-slavery candidate received 2,721. A reliable history, not noted for humor, remarks wryly that the pro-slavery candidate received more votes in the election than the Kansas census warranted!
If he were a fraternity member, the question would be automatically solved. The Inter-Fraternity council has made a ruling that no corsages will be sent by fraternity men.
Flowers For Milady
As an Independent he may send a corsage if he wishes. This applies to semi-formal as well as formal dances.
But that doesn't help Joe one bit. However, after asking around the house and among his friends, Joe comes up with this set of answers:
If the dance is to be held in a sorority house, he had best check with his date. She can advise him as to whether a corsage would be in order.
An Independent friend may advise Joe to get around the problem by sending a wrist corsage or a single flower to be worn in the hair.
In most cases Joe finds that it is up to him. He may or may not send a corsage as his judgment dictates.
Tears Or Boasts
"I shall win! The party will elect all its candidates by a landslide." Ever notice how a politician always says and believes that he and his party will win? He counts on such devices as the "bandwagon" device to roll in votes and constantly says so. Often this confidence means the difference between winning and losing an election.
On the other hand, the college coach says, "I don't see how we can possibly win," as he reaches for the "rying towel." Often the most successful coach is the one who laments the loudest.
How can the politician win as often with his self-confident statements as the college coach does with his periodic flood of tears?
Modern society by the way it governs itself continually finds itself in what seem like paradoxes.
The recent dispute among American authorities shows this well. The State department is urging tighter control over the Germans to make our peace work. The army, built on the principle of authority and discipline, opposes this plan as being undemocratic!
Poultrymen save from seven to 15 per cent in grain and mash feeds by growing pullets on good range pasture rather than on barrel range.
With all the guns of its combat ships, auxiliaries and coast guard vessel blazing at once, the navy could in 1945 hurl destruction at the rate of 4,500 tons in 15 seconds.
Public Postcard
Dodgers and Yankees
New York and Environs
Dear Ballplayers,
Go to it. May the best team win.
Sincerely yours,
University Daily Kansan
Dear Editor
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Comes A Brickbat
Dear Editor.
How fine! We now have a campus newspaper that can give us in banner headlines the latest scandal hot from the ASC and the telegraph wires of the Daily Kansan.
Compared to the fact that a humor magazine publisher inadvertently got into financial difficulty, it is relatively insignificant that, for all practical purposes, there is now only one men's political party on the campus. What poor news appeal that has when there's a juicy morsel of dirt to play up.
We will have that morsel even if it means relegating to the back page one of the most important and informed speakers that will probably hit the campus this year. The talk given by Martin Hall on the European crisis might well have been printed in full so that some of the students in the University might see what's going on outside this little dream world of ours atop Mount Oread.
It is little wonder that Europeans and other peoples of the world wonder what goes with Americans when a paper that purports to be a student newspaper rates its stories thus. First, it rates the financial backsliding of one of its students. Second, the death of the last political party on the hill that challenged Pachacamac. Third, comes a revealing look into Europe and the world situation.
God help us and the world if this is to represent the sense of values prevalent on our campus.
Name Withheld by Request, College junior.
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Managing Editor ... William T. Smith
Asst. Man. Editor ... Marian Minor
Asst. Man. Editor ... Allan Cromley
Assist. Editors ... Bill Barger
City Editor ... Alan J. Stewart
Society Editor ... Mark Hunt
Picture Editor ... Wallace Abbey
Wire Editor ... Charles Hayes
Traveler-Experts Dear Editor.
Now seems to be the time for a rash of travelers just returned from Europe. They've all been on some kind of a mission over there, sponsored by various committees and pressure groups in this country.
Business Manager Kenneth White
Manager Elizabeth Classified Adv. Mgr. Betty Bacon
National Adv. Mgr. Ruell Reddoch
British Adv. Mgr. Ibert Morris
Promotion Mgr. Bart Morris
They tell eye-witness accounts of what they have seen. Their American audiences listen raptly to what they think must be the "straight dope" from "over there."
When they come back to the States they immediately assume the stature of prophet and messiah, all on the basis of a hasty excursion through Europe.
Such a traveler was Martin Hall, who spoke in Lawrence under the auspices of the Kansas Institute for International Relations. Mr. Hall, with enough foreign accent to make him and authentic, told of his recent trip through most of western Europe.
His word picture of living conditions was vivid and well delivered. His description of European privations was probably accurate. His audience thus far was with him to a man, because what he said was logical and probably verifiable by many other accounts of the same things.
But with this introduction, Mr. Hall dropped the travelogue theme and began to play the part of political scientist and philosopher. He said some interesting things.
He said that Communist influence in England is almost nil, although all press services recently carried accounts of English coal strikes dominated by Communist union leaders.
He said that Czechoslovakia is not a Russian satellite, that it's a hands off policy between the Czechs and the Russians. But the American government is wondering why the Czechs did not take part in the recent European conference on the proposed Marshall plan.
Mr. Hall said that we fear the Russians more than they fear us, yet in the same breath he pointed out that right now we are far more
powerful industrially and have a greater military potential, powerful navy, and the atomic bomb. This preponderance of military might, plus American troops almost on Russian borders, would scare most Americans if they were in Russia's position.
Some of Mr. Hall's conclusion seemed logical, such as his reasoning that immediate aid to Europe is not only moral but also advantageous to our own self interests. We do need a future market for our exports.
Fresh viewpoints are stimulating, and men like Martin Hall should be brought to the campus more often. But audiences should remember that
travel does not give on a cloak of infallibility.
Allan Cromley College senior
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