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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MAY 16. 1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester. $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the school week. Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Enclosed at second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor .. Patricia Penney
Assst. Management Editor .. Bill Haage
Telegraph Editor .. Jane Anderson
City Editor .. Marian Thomson
Sports Editor .. Bill Sims
Society Editor .. Martha Jewett
Asst. Telegraph Editors
EDITORIAL STAFF
Asst. Telegraph Editors
Billie M. Hamilton  Bruce Mullenberg
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Editor-in-Chief .. LeMoyne Frederick
Editorial Associate .. John Conard
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager . Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager .. Anne Scott
Assistant (for national)
Administrator Thompson
Assistant (for classified)
... Patricia Manley
Circulation Manager .. Edwin Ham
Promotion Manager .. Anne Young
Assist. City Editors Marcelia Stewart, Reverdy Mullins, Jr
Inconsistent Diplomacy
Recently President Truman proposed to Congress that we enter into extensive military collaboration with the rest of-the Americas. It is difficult to see how Mr. Truman can square that proposal with the foreign policy he has repeatedly proclaimed.
Such a military collaboration would almost certainly be viewed by many foreign countries as a proposal to set up a military bloc in the Americas. Such a bloc would be in direct contradiction to the spirit of the Atlantic Charter which we are pledged to support.
Regardless of how high our moral aim in such matters may be, we should remember an important point in international diplomacy. It is not only how a nation looks to itself but how others see it that often weighs heavily in international relations.
Mr. Truman's plan would make it possible, among other things, for us to sell or transfer military equipment to any nation in the Americas. The aim of this is to have American armies equipped, in so far as possible, with standardized'weapons. Furthermore it is advocated that a close military liaison be set up between the chiefs of staff of the separate American nations.
The plan is based on the existing mutual-aid treaty among the American nations, on the presumption* that a strong military collaboration between those nations is a rational adjunct to such a treaty.
We have consistently frowned on Russia for trying to extend her sphere of influence, and yet this proposal amounts to our doing much the same thing in this hemisphere. The fact that we, and not the Russians, are doing it does not automatically make it more correct.
It is common knowledge that Russia hates fascism and it is also apparent that she has little love for the British Commonwealth. Yet, in this one proposal, we suggest the establishing of close military ties with a South American country under a fascist regime and with Canada, a member of the British Commonwealth. And all this, only a few weeks after we disclaimed any desire for an Anglo-American military alliance and condemned the fascist regime of Juan Peron.
By the advocacy of peace-time military collaboration superimposed upon our treaties, we would only add momentum to the struggle for power positions in the world and promote a consequent armament race while adding little to the promotion of world peace.
To adopt a plan such as this one may well be interpreted as a lack of full faith in the United Nations and the international armed force which is to back up its decisions.
There's at least one bright note in the nation's economic picture. Your share of the national debt is now only $1,959.28, a decrease of $38.24 during the past 60 days. At that rate it will only take eight years to wipe out the debt.
The campus memorial drive is still $7,000 from its goal with the spring semester rapidly drawing to a close.
Then And Now----20 To 1
The response of this year's student body is in sharp contrast to the support students gave to the World War I memorial project. In fact, the contributions in 1920 seem nothing short of amazing when compared to the very light donations so far given in the present campaign.
In the former campaign, the schools of the University carried on a contest to see which school would contribute the most. Law school students won the contest with an average contribution of $71.26. The medics trailed with an average of $33.50 per student.
In the present campaign, the student quota is only 2 per cent of the total amount needed. Thus a student body that is larger by 1,400 students has been asked to give only one-twentieth as much money.
The student body contributed $200,000 to the World War I memorial; that was 20 per cent of the total cost. At that time the enrollment numbered 3,342.
The average student donation after World War I was $53. Today students are being asked to give an average of two dollars.
It is evident that the present campus quota for K.U.'s World War II Memorial is very moderate. University students after the first world war met their somewhat staggering quota. We should emulate their spirit and generosity in meeting a much more modest goal before the spring semester ends.
The war isn't over. It has just changed form from bombs to eight-cylinder cars. Kansas highway fatalities for 1946 are already 100 per cent above the same period last year.
The recent cloudy weather should have been welcome to many of the University's coeds. Those sultans were getting pretty red.
1946 Carruth Poetry Contest
Third Prize
Time's not alone the ticking of a clock,
Nor plodding days extending on to years;
Nor waxing moons and setting suns; nor tears
And smiles whose very inconsistence shock
Our weary hearts, confuse our minds, and mock
The steady beat of hours. Nor yet are biers
And cradles time. Each when my love appears
Time sounds a tick; each when she smiles, a tock.
Then ask me not to count the hours with grains
Of sand on sand; nor shadows from the sun;
Nor gears and springs, two hands upon a face.
But let me mark the time each second gains
By knowing that I love you twice again
As did I when that second took its place.
Letters to the Editor
Bibler Isn't Appreciated In Fine Arts, Art Student Says
GEORGE E. OSBORNE
Graduate Student
To the Daily Kansan: Someone is getting a raw deal, and I want to complain about it.
Dick Bibler, the Daily Kansan's clever cartoonist, is also an art major. Instead of being proud of his achievements, however, some of his fine arts professors are reluctant to give him credit for the fine job he has done and the promise he shows. Instead, they go to the opposite extreme to make him uncomfortable.
Bibler walked into an art class one recent morning, only to have a professor point to him and say, "That's Bibler. His-stuff stinks."
That's not the way I've heard it. Maybe the so-called artists don't recognize genuine talent. Or maybe the so-called artists don't like seeing Bibler making a bigger name for himself and more money then they'll ever make.
An Art Student (Name withheld by request)
Twelve miles from the earth, the temperature is lower over the equator than it is over the north and south poles.
K.U. Housing Units To Come From Texas
The 186 demountable housing units allotted to the University by the Federal Public Housing Authority will come from Abilene, Texas, rather than Wichita, Kan., as originally planned, Irvin Youngberg, director of housing, has announced.
The Wichita units were already filled with G.I.'s there and the federal authority asked permission to switch the K.U. allotment to the Abilene houses.
The units to come from Abhene are four feet wider and 20 feet shorter than the Wichita units.
Southbridge. (UP) — Nearly every other American has blue eyes.
Tearing down of the units was to have begun yesterday, according to the contract, to prepare them for delivery to KU. immediately. The new type of building will fit the site which has been* prepared south of the University, Mr. Youngberg said.
The (Blue) Eyes Have It
A nation-wide survey by the American Optical company revealed that 48 per cent of the nation is blue-eyed, 37 per cent brown-eyed and 15 per cent gray-eyed.
Rock Chalk
By PAT FOSTER
And it was cold too. Hoyt Baker kept his date waiting the other night about an hour. The reason? Someone stole all his trousers, at least that's his story.
Insubordination. Nancy Jackson and Helen Harkrader, "Bring 'em back alive" hunters, succeeded in getting out of a two-hour study hall Wednesday night. After teaching up the entire Gamma Pi house in their search, they finally admitted that they really hadn't seen a mouse after all.
Everything's up to date in Kansas. Bonnie Oswalt has her dates or modes of transportation lightly mixed. In an oral report in geography she said, "In 1889, a group of people in the east packed up their stationwagons to come to Kansas."
Initiation consists of kneeling behind a booth while an active member pours a bit of coffee on your head. Dues are 10 cents a day—five for the coffee and five for the juice box. (Note to Sigma Nu actives: bet you can't find them.)
How did she know, Becky Vallette was very unpopular Tuesday afternoon. Someone left a jar in the Daily Kansas news room of what Becky thought were white grapes. They were small white boiled onions.
Shucks. Koli Amini, the Persian Lamb from Iran, is working a new trick on the campus. He lures an unsuspecting person by telling him that he has a sensational picture to show him. After unfolding a piece of paper about ten times, the victim practically loses an eye when a big spring pops out of the contraption.
The library is too dull. The latest exclusive club to form on the campus is the Sigma Nu pledge class Coffee Club which meets every morning at an undisclosed cafe.
Isn't nature wonderful? Elmer Beth, head man of the department or journalism who teaches Law of the Press, was holding a review section for a quiz outside the "Shack" or evening when a flock of birds flee over. He interrupted his lecture momentarily to say, "$'+]*"**! those birds," as he brushed his hand across his head.
Face To Face
—From the St. Louis Star-Times