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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 17,1947
Kansan Comments
Sunnyside Irked By Barking Dogs
The students and faculty members living at Sunnyside have a legitimate gripe.
The dogs confined nearby in a pen behind the University power plant are creating a definite disturbance that can and should be corrected.
The physiology department says that the dogs are adequately fed and cared for. But dogs will be dogs and because of their confinement any disturbance in the vicinity of the pen brings a noisy response.
The dogs are the property of the physiology department and are used for various experimental purposes. Some of the dogs have been given to the department by their owners for that purpose and others have been picked up by the police department as stray nuisances and have never been claimed.
Under present conditions the residents of Sunnyside are plagued by a din of howling and barking at all hours of the day and night. This especially bothers those who have small children.
For some time the physiology department has been trying to secure different housing for the animals, for the welfare of those who live nearby and also to afford dogs better care.
It is time the administration took some action to correct this condition.
As we see it, there are two alternative solutions:
One. Different housing could be provided for the dogs at a place where they would receive proper care and where there are no nearby residents whom they would disturb.
Two. If different housing cannot be provided at this time, the physiology department should be instructed to "debark" the dogs. A relatively simple operation can be performed to render a dog barkless. It does not effect the dog in any other physical way. The physiology department is not doing this at the present time because staff members lack the time necessary to perform the operations.
If members of the staff actually do not have the time, someone from off the campus should be engaged to do the job. The residents of Sunny-side need a rest.
Who's A Witch?
The currently popular witch hunt for Communists in this country is a direct outgrowth of the war-propagandized public mind. The French revolution was followed by a bloody purge, out of the Civil War rose the brutish Ku Klux Klan, and World War I was followed by its witch hunts.
When a nation is surrounded by the threat of war, its people suddenly become aware that they are patriotic. With war comes overdoses of glory halluujah propaganda, and patriotism becomes intense nationalism.
As peace returns, nationalism becomes chauvinism for a time and the victor gets blind drunk on the stuff. He's ready for a witch hunt. But he ought to be careful.
He ought to know a witch when he sees one, instead of deciding that everyone who doesn't agree with the majority is a Red and a radical. He ought to remember that laws which place a bar on free speech,
no matter whom they are calculated to muzzle, are a positive step toward destroying what he seeks so nively to protect.
Certainly the Communist is no white-livered panty-waist. Many of us cannot countenance his revolutionary methods, his passion for the ordered state, and his share-thewealth philosophy.
But legislation won't get rid of him. It will only drive him underground where he can work clandestinely, out of the public eye. There he is a real threat.
A witch hunt usually pets itself out. But history testifies that someone usually gets hurt, and reading between the lines of history will show that both the hunter and the hunted suffer in the end.
William T. Smith Jr.
Dear Editor---is now
K. U. Should Participate In Swimming Competition
I was pleased to see the letter in the April 1 issue of the Kansan regarding a plea for a swimming team at K.U.
Last fall I watched patiently for announcements concerning swimming activities but learned that intercollegiate swimming was not scheduled.
In 1936 as a member of a team from a university in the Southwest Conference, I participated here in a swimming meet against the K.U. team. I recall that the Kansas team gave us some keen competition and that we exhibited before an overflow crowd, although an important basketball game was scheduled for the same evening.
It seems to me that if a swimming meet was received with enthusiasm at that time, the same would occur today.
Rollin H. Baker,
Graduate Student.
Texas Professor Discounts I.Q.'s
Austin, Texas.—(ACP)—As long as the trend toward creating a hypothetical "average" man instead of studying the far-reaching differences between individuals continues, we shall continue to deal ineffectively with society, says Dr. Roger J. Willems, present chair of the University of Texas. Society is composed of real, not hypothetical individuals.
In the field of personality, Dr. Williams said little emphasis should be placed on intelligence quotient tests. Intelligence is not a unitary quality, but a mosaic of separate abilities.
"Science can, if it will, make tremendous contributions to a better understanding of human beings," he said. Satisfactory human relationships must rest upon human understanding. This understanding cannot be fully attained without the utilization of all the tools of science to study real individuals.
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