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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1947
Kansan Comments ---
To The ASC
The future of student government here lies squarely in your hands this year. If you do a capable job, the theory of student government will be justified.
If you "botch" the job or voluntarily back down from commitments you make, the opposite will be true. No amount of smoke raised about "more student government" can screen a job poorly done.
A democratic government necessitates political parties and pressure groups. It is wishful thinking in student government as in any other to suggest "unity of action." Action in the All Student Council will come about by compromise and the merging of opposing ideas and plans.
So this appeal is made to the selfish and partisan interests of your various groups. Realize that your own ends can be gained only by compromise with the views of other groups.
Work against them or with them. But pass legislation that will give backing for intelligent talk for more student government. Lose no ground on projects which have been assigned you by agreement with the administration.
One of your first jobs will be to revise and rewrite your constitution. The project will be worthwhile if experience gained since its first writing is put into it.
But if this revision becomes only a springboard for endless debate, it will defeat its purpose. Certain aspects of the constitution can lead to just such time-wasting if judgment is not used on all sides.
The torch is handed to you. Instead of the smoke of indecisive action and puffs for "more student government," give the University a fire of progress and justification for more student participation in the control of University affairs.
He Could Be Wrong
Ours must have been an unusual army outfit. At least Lieut. Gen. John C. H. Lee, former commander of the Mediterranean area, would say so.
In a recent interview he said that in any army outfit those who complain "are nearly always in the minority. The well-adjusted person, on the whole, will not complain of normal service discipline and conditions."
General Lee has convinced us that our outfit was full of people who weren't well adjusted. Being Americans, we thought we had a God-given right to complain, and complain we did. It was not a minority which complained, either. The list of complainers extended from the company commander down to the newest private.
Maybe our outfit was all wrong. But somehow it strikes us that General Lee has made the same mistake that many "high brass" in the armed forces have made. He thinks all soldiers live in the same manner he does. And true enough, no one would complain of that.
Inflation what am inflation— France, where prices on some commodities has doubled since August 1st.
Then there was the freshman who was signing up for a class in Greek until he was assured he didn't have to take his fraternity that seriously.
Public Postcard
K. U. TRAFFIC OFFICERS CAMPUS
Dear Cops,
Nice going on your new plan to use student policemen. This should make it safer all around, for drivers and pedestrians.
Sincerely yours.
University Daily Kansan
Sign Of The Times
The recent "revolt" in the Solomon Islands has its humorous side. It also is a grim example of something which is becoming increasingly frequent.
The fact that star shells from a British submarine were able to stop this "revolt" gives the affair a ludicrous twist. But because it is a symptom of a strange unrest over the globe, it gives rise to serious thought.
All the trouble in India before the independence plan was worked out is a part of this. The political doings and the revolt in Indonesia could be called its kin. The continued stirrings in Europe which are hard to dismiss as mere Communist activities seem to fit into the pattern.
Is man, crushed and held down for countless centuries in many of these areas, rising to beat down the oppressor? Or is it merely a war against the white man?
Can it be dismissed as the work of organizers, Communist or otherwise, who have little backing from the masses? Or is it the result of hunger and the fight for miserable existence?
The answer probably lies in all of these. Certainly, it is the next phase in man's rise from his servile past.
Two ends lie ahead. Either all men shall bow to one master or oligarchy, or all men shall be more nearly equal. The unrest in the world is a search for the latter.
You don't have to be taking astronomy to need a telescope in some University classes. Sometimes you are sitting so far back you need one to see the front of the room.
Air express shipments in the United States in the first six months of 1947 totaled $1,747,295, more than 26 per cent above the similar 1946 period, while the gross revenue increased 47 per cent over the same 1946 period, reports Railway Express.
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There I was, trying to sleep by Potter lake Monday noon when that monstrosity flew right over my head at least 1,600 times, and I insist that something must be done to protect the intellectually saturated student —intellectually, that is—who is trying to catch a few winks between classes.
I had a trying weekend, and Monday morning is bad enough without some joke droning commercials into my ear from 500 feet. A dirigible with neon lights would be much more desirable.
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Managing Editor ... William T. Smith
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H. L. Miller
Union Plans 'Short Spin'
The first Student Union "Short Spin" of the year, an informal mixer dance, will be held Wednesday from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. in the ballroom of the Union building.
Charley O'Connor will provide music and there will be a program of additional entertainment. Refreshments and tables will also be available between dances. Admission is 25 cents a person.
This dance starts a new policy this year to have "live music" instead of a jukebox for the informal mixer dances held bi-weekly in the Union. Also planned for successive "Short Spins" throughout the year is entertainment to be furnished by various organized houses. The best program will be awarded a prize at the end of the year.
KU Renews Navy Contracts
Mr. W. H. Shaffer, representative of the Office of Naval Research, met with executives of the University Friday for the renewal of several naval research contracts with the University.
FOR 22 YEARS IT'S BEEN THE
BLUE MILL
Tryouts For Dancing Club Will Be Thursday In Gvm
Open 11 fill 8
Tryouts for Tau Sigma, national dance society, will be held Thursday, Sept. 25, in Robinson Gym. Glenda Luehring, president, said today.
Mississippi was the first state in the union to establish a state-supported college for women. The institution was founded in 1884.
The club held its first meeting of the semester Monday in the dance hall of Robinson gym. Miss Elaine Scle Covit, teacher of modern and social dancing, was selected as the club's new instructor for this year.
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