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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MAY 17, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Our Daily Bread
The University food conservation committee began its work in earnest this week. They will make a concerted effort to secure full student cooperation in the program of saving food.
Their campaign will not be restricted to one particular plan but will try to attack the problem from every possible angle to accomplish the maximum good.
The primary aim of their campaign is to get all students to pledge to eat one breadless meal each day. Members of the committee will visit organized houses on the campus to obtain all possible support for this idea and to impress upon the students the necessity of eliminating food waste and conserving scarce fats and oils. Though independent students are harder to reach on such things, the committee hopes they will co-operate on their own initiative.
The Union cafeteria will be asked to eliminate the serving of cake and to serve only one slice of bread with each meal. It is also planned to have a plate of food on display each day at the cafeteria showing a typical meal in one of the famine countries.
The committee is preparing menus to be sent to houseothers showing how source food can be conserved and how diets can be supplemented with more plentiful foods.
Recognizing that the present shortage of food will probably last into next year, the committee will also ask organizations to cut down on banquets during the rest of this semester and during the next school year.
A special box will be provided at the I.S.A. dance Saturday night for food contributions in connection with the food collection drive.
The committee will endeavor to secure a convocation speaker for next fall who has a thorough knowledge of the world-wide food conditions.
Committee members will also talk with all Hill restaurant operators and ask that they co-operate by reducing the amount of bread they serve with meals.
This is the program that has been planned. Its success or failure will be in direct proportion to the co-operation given it by the student body.
There should be little doubt in anyone's mind about the seriousness of the situation and its magnitude. It cannot be solved by any group of persons or any government agency. The basic responsibility rests on every individual.
The University food conservation committee has made the kick-off. It is now up to you and me to carry the ball.
Chubb And Gagliardo Favor Welfare Fund For Miners
Favor of a miners welfare fund, disapproval of union administration of this fund, and possible government control of the mines were discussed by two University professors with a Daily Kansan reporter Thursday.
The two men were Prof. H. B. Chubb, department of political science, and Prof. D. Gagliardo, department of economics.
Professor Chubb felt that it is unreasonable for Lewis to want sole control of welfare fund management. "It will give unions more control of the administration of the mines and a whip-hand over the miners."
"Very desirable," Professor Gagliardo replied when questioned as to his feeling about the fund. "My major objection is that it is intended to be administered by but one person. Every one is interested in a problem of welfare."
Professor Chubb favored the plan of putting a sum equal to 7 per cent of the payroll into a welfare fund, and also favored government mediation.
"The government has got to be the arbitrator," he said "because it is the public that is being pinched. Unfortunately, we always wait until a crisis and then pass prejudiced legislation."
The question of what should be done if the matter is not settled during the "back to work" truce brought an emphatic answer from Professor Gagliardo.
"It is foolish to say that our
government cannot operate the mines if necessary. There may be less efficiency but it can be done," he declared.
"Do you mean to suggest that in a nation of 140 million people a mere 800 thousand can force their will? To say that a nation that has just won a war could not run a few coal mines is silly!"
Professor Chubb took the other side of the argument and felt that were the miners to refuse to work for the government, nothing could be done to force them.
"And what if the miners refuse to work?" the reporter asked.
And who will pay the price of the strike, the increase in wages, and the welfare fund royalty?
Toneka Teacher Retires
"The consumer," both men agreed.
Tale of the Teacher
Topka—Miss Gertrude Crandall,
teacher in Topeka schools 32 years,
was honored at a reception Monday
by the Potwin school Parent-
Teacher association. Miss Crandall
will retire at the end of the semester.
First Place: Post-War Problems Speech Contest
Education Restricted To Books Produces 'Educated Fools'
She is formerly of Clay Center.
By KENNETH BEASLEY
Some years ago the heir to the throne of the Middle East country came to the United States. His purpose was to avail himself of the wonderful opportunity that existed here in the line of education. After a somewhat lengthy stay, he went back to his little backward country, and with him went some five different degrees which he had received from some of our leading universities.
In just a matter of a few years his father died and he found himself at the head of the government. One of his ministers remarked to him that he should certainly be able to do something for his country, considering all of the education he had. The new ruler replied somewhat sadly; "I wish I could do something, but all of my knowledge is in books. I am just an educated fool."
These three words "an educated fool," are the greatest significant postwar problem that this university or any university has to face. It is a problem which has been greatly accentuated by various war developments.
We have been repeatedly made to realize the importance of education and how much the future of the world depends upon that one factor, an educated citizenry. In reality, its importance has almost been overemphasized to the point where we consider the road to eternal peace is the road leading through four years of college.
It has been so over emphasized that we now consider that success in the material or spiritual sense is dependent upon those letters following one's name. And those who don't have them, we say, are doomed to a position of just existing, incapable of progressive thought, incapable of giving service to the progress of civilization.
The strange thing about this problem is that this one is that cannot be charged to the administration, and it is one that cannot be charged against the faculty. We, the students, are responsible for this wrong concept of what education is and what its practical value is because we have failed to use our power of reasoning on the subject. Therefore,
since it is a student-caused problem, it must necessarily be a student-answered problem.
That this parasite of false conception of education is undermining this campus and daily recruiting new believers is evidenced by three particular incidents that have happened here. The first, since it is the most recent of the three, deals with the proposed United Nations conference here on May 18.
The committee working on this program, I have been told, are faced with the difficulty of finding 31 people out of the 5,000 enrolled here to serve as chairman of the various delegations. Seemingly no one has time to study the problems of tomorrow. Such percentage of interest among the leaders of tomorrow does not speak too good about what the future will be like.
The second reason that indicates that the students have strayed from the fold of the true meaning and purpose of education is the lack of attendance at many of the concerts and lectures given here by people of authority.
At these functions, the sole purpose of which is to broaden our cultural outlook, the proportion of townspeople and faculty members is altogether out of proportion with the attendance of the student body. This is just a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
The third reason that suggests that the student should re-examine the aims and goal of an education is the lack of support at the America at Peace lectures sponsored by the faculty to present general background material on our problem of today.
At one of these meetings, the chairman actually offered a public apology to the speaker for the small attendance that evening.
These are the facts. They can be substantiated by more if desired. The picture painted appears quite dark, but not so dark but that applied energy upon the part of each student could lighten it considerably.
No one denies that it helps to know that there were four crusades during the middle ages, that Milton
Letter to the Editor . . .
Capper Forgets Duty As Congressman, Says Sailor
To the Daily Kansan: In the May 10 issue of the Daily Kansan there appeared an article which was a bit amusing to me.
This article concerned the letter received from Senator Arthur Capper in reply to a telegram sent to him by the A.S.C. asking continuation of the O.P.A.
In the senator's letter he said, "Like you, I realize the danger inherent in any wild inflationary development especially when demand exceeds supply. However, I feel that the O.P.A. should be discontinued and bureaucratic controls relaxed."
I am not voicing a personal opinion either way on this matter, but I think that Senator Capper should be sent letters and telegrams informing him that he was elected to represent the people and to act as the people want him to and that he is not privileged to run the country any way that he himself sees fit.
It is my belief that a large number of the country's representatives have forgotten that they are representatives, and not rulers and that out country's government is still "by the people, and for the people."
CHARLES F. SMITH
N.R.O.T.C. PT 8
Fredonia. — Grade schools were closed in Fredonia Wednesday in an effort to check an outbreak of diphtheria described by state officials as "serious." Eight confirmed and five possible cases were reported, besides others who are under observation.
Fredonia Schools Close To Check Diohtheria
Liberal reported four cases last week.
wrote "Paradise Lost," that the purpose of Scene 2 Act 3 of "Twelfth Night" is primarily for humor and entertainment. But these have no meaning in themselves unless one has a general background of other knowledge, unless one has a general knowledge and appreciation of the cultural phase of life.
The future lies ahead of us and there each one of us must live. The question is how shall we live. Will we enjoy it, will we understand it, will we contribute something to it, or will we be, after four years of college, an educated fool?
Neat But Dwarfed
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From the St. Louis Star-Times