PAGE FOURTEEN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS OCTOBER 18, 1946 The University Daily Kansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Editorial Association 20 Madison Ave., New York City. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Bill Hage Assist. Managing Editor Cassandra Anderson Jane Anderson Telegraph Editor, Billie Marie Hamilton City Editor Marian Minor Guitar Editor John Minor Sports Editor John Finch Women's Sports Edith Editors, Edward Swain Martha Jewett Society Editor Marianne Jewett Alverta Niedens EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager MELVIN Adams Manager Association AARON BURKE Circulation Manager ... BOB BENRAKE What War? The late Pres. Franklin R. Roosevelt tried to find a suitable name for the war that ended only a little over a year ago. Shortly after our entry into the war he asked for suggestions and they poured in. Out of all the names suggested he chose "The War for Survival," but that name was generally discarded for the less picturesque but shorter title "World War II." Many considered the latter name particularly apt, viewing the last was as only a continuation of the first World War and the year's between a period of uneasy truce. The deciding factor, probably, was the newspaper's eternal preference for saying the most in the fewest words. "World War II" stuck. Yet future generations and future historians probably will have little reverence for the fond classifications of their ancestors. Not only do different sides choose different names, as the Civil War was known in the South as "The War Between the States," but usually even the fighting generation doesn't know what it is fighting for or about until some time after the conflict is over. Today we laugh about "The War to Save Democracy." Even the "Revolutionary War" was an afterthought. So we cannot count on posterity continuing to speak of "World War II." More than likely future generations will choose some more fitting title, more appropriate in the light of events leading out of this war, just as we have renamed many preceding wars. We speak of the Punic wars, the Crusades, and the Napoleonic wars—forgetting even that the participants had their own names for them. The Greeks had a word for it, and it wasn't "Trojan War." Perhaps posterity may return to "The War for Survival." Or they may entitle it "The War Against Totalitarism." Or "The Battle for Freedom," Or "The War Against Agression, Or "The Hitlerian War." Or even "The War to Save the World for the Little People." But, we are afraid, they are more likely to call it "Atomic War I." The seating system at football games is far from being fair to out-of-town dates. With a little effort it could be improved greatly. The ranks of the International Vegetarian society will grow in the next few months. Even the babies won't be able to play "this little pig went to market." They won't know what a pig is, especially one that went to market. Rock Chalk Has Been Used As Identification During World War I, China's Boxer Rebellion The familiar "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, K.U." heard at the close of every K.U. football game has also been heard in many far corners of the world. As far back as the Spanish-American war, K.U. alumni in Company H of the Twentieth Kansas infantry carried the cheer to the Philippines in 1888. In China's Boxer Rebellion it became a well known battle cry. During the first World War the yell was used to locate Kansans who might be near. One group would chant the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk," and the answering Kansans finished with "KU." When a typical American college yell was requested at the Olympics at Antwerp in 1920 the Rock Chalk was chosen. The yell originated 60 years ago as an inspiration of dean of the college, Dr. E. H. S. Bailey, the first president of the university science club. The science club used the yell as he suggested it, "Rah! Rah! Jay-hawk, K.U." When it was later adopted by the University, Prof. A. R. Marsh, in the department of English from 1886 to 1899, suggested "Rock Chalk" for the first phrase. The yell then combined the colloquial name for the state and its inhabitants and a significant geological feature of most of Kansas including Mount Oread. Letters to Editor The final form emerged about 1905 when the slow monotone chant was added to the former staccato tempo of the vell. The late Pres. F. D. Roosevelt, a Harvard man himself, once called the Rock Chalk the greatest college yell ever devised. Our Environment Is Sexy, Sophomore Medic Writes Sex is everywhere and we are only what our environment makes us. Instead of idealizing grandfather's conditions why not do something constructive about the conditions of modern youth? To the Daily Kansan: Modern youth has taken lashing after lashing from the psychology department for its attitude of sex. The importance of the environment upon the individual is one of the basic principles of psychology and sociology. And who is responsible for our environment but our elders? We would welcome solutions to the above-mentioned environmental problems. Or perhaps it would be better to solve the great problem which is the basis for all others, namely the great difference which What is our enovation? It's something like this: movies which have numerous sexual implications; magazines and newspapers which feature pictures and stories of beautiful "sexy" women; professors in high schools and colleges whose eyes light up when their lectures are on sex; churches and homes where sex is a closed subject necessitating that knowledge on the subject be obtained from the gutter; home which are broken because of the sexual attraction possessed by the mother or father. Habein Speaks "The educated woman must be a more responsible citizen and take a more active part in community and national life." These were the words of Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, who addressed more than one hundred University women attending at a YWCA meeting Wednesday afternoon. The Y.W.C.A. elected Patricia Graham, college junior, as the treasurer. exists between the biological age of maturity and the economic age of maturity. Anyway, let's forget grandpa cause he's dead and can't help us. Charles E. 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