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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FEBRUARY 21,1947
Kansan Comments
Washington Started Our Nation; It's Up To You From Here
Tomorrow we celebrate the birthday of our first president. We may not be around to celebrate the birthday of our last.
The idea that a world society must be organized if civilization is not to pass from the face of the earth, has been expressed before. In fact, it has been expressed so much that it seems to mean no more than to say this sky is blue. It has been subordinated almost completely to matters like three meals a day, brushing one's teeth, and coke dates after class.
Tomorrow another step will be made by University students in promoting public thinking on the details of international relations. That sponsors of the mock United Nations conference decided to publicize it more widely outside the University than they had a year ago is good because more than our relatively small group must be conscious of current affairs. It is regrettable that the necessity for going outside resulted from the fact that only 75 persons from an enrollment of 5,000 were in the audience at the May conference.
Discussion this year will attempt to give the view of the nations represented, rather than the student's opinion. The Puerto Rico delegation is made up entirely of its citizens who are students here. Foreign exchange students from other countries represented in the conference have collaborated with their delegations, although some feel that they are not proficient enough in our language to take part in the discussion.
More than 200 students have worked four months on the conference. Thirty-six nations will be represented, five persons acting for each small nation and eight for each large one. In addition, each group will have a national supervisor who will organize the points or questions to be brought up by that nation.
The University of Kansas City will send delegates to represent Great Britain.
Four Issues Covered
Four issues will be discussed at the Saturday meeting: World disarmament; control of atomic energy; the Dardanelles; and Franco Spain. One or two delegates from each nation have met on one evening this week to formulate the pattern of discussion for each issue.
Where the smaller group was not able to agree on what were the basic points, a minority resolution also was drawn up. All resolutions will be printed and distributed to the delegates to guide the discussion.
Besides a great deal of research into available background literature and news stories, the participants have utilized weekly reports of the real United Nations conference at Lake Success. It was decided not to have a speaker this year, so that time might be spent concentrating on the details rather than the theory of international relations.
A summary of the morning program and an explanation of the workings of the conference will be broadcast over station WREN between 12:30 and 1 p. m.
This conference is sponsored by the International Relations club Money for it was appropriated by the All-Student council in the Forums board budget.
"Wanted: Gray's anatomy," reads a classified ad. We don't know who this Gray is, but a lot of women on his campus wouldn't mind having Grable's anatomy.
President Truman has asked Congress to declare that the United States is no longer in a state of emergency. This doubtless will be good news to families living in garages, to labor-management combatants, and to states having two governors.
Holding It Together
Daniel Bishop in St. Louis Star-Time
The idea of a mock conference, to be held for two days, was originally suggested by the Student Religious council in the spring of 1945. Because time was too short then for extensive research, plans were postponed. In the fall, the Forums board suggested a discussion series in faculty homes to replace the plan because of a lack of interest in the conference.
Started In 1945
The UN conference last year was sponsored by the International Relations club, the Forensic league, Alpha Phi Omega, Pi Sigma Alpha, and Delta Sigma Rho. Ten colleges participated.
The conference tomorrow is your opportunity to benefit from the hours others have spent condensing and organizing facts which you should know. Sponsors of the project feel that even if no one gains from it except those who worked, it will have been worth while. But you also can receive big returns in knowledge for whatever investment of time you may make.
The University community, as probably the most responsible, intelligent, and informed group of its size in society, has a duty both to itself and to the rest of mankind, to be aware of world trends. If such a group cannot show vital interest in world organization, the future can hardly be hopeful.
It's Just Bad Luck So Navy Gives Up
Misfortune dogged the path of Capt, J. V. Peterson, professor of naval science, on a recent business trip to Memphis.
Captain Peterson and Lt. R. Rick's instructor in naval science, flew down to Memphis on Monday, expecting to return Tuesday. On the return trip they got as far as Springfield, Mo., but bad weather forced them to return to Memphis, where they were again delayed by a five-inch snowfall. Finally arriving in Lawrence at 5 p.m. Wednesday Captain Peterson is now confined by illness at his home.
"I just have a touch of the flu," Captain Peterson said. "I expect to be back in a day or two."
Cozier Will Give Address
To Lutheran Group Sunday
Lois Cozier, student director of the rocky mountain region of the Y. W. C. A., will address members of the Lutheran Students association at 6 p.m. Sunday, Norman Kunkel, president, announced today. The meeting will be held in the Southern church, 19th and
The meeting will be held in the Trinity Lutheran church, 13th and New Hampshire streets.
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