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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 14, 19
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Madison Ave. New York City. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 430 Madison Ave., New York City.
Mail subscription: $2 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 year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Submit by September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Patricia Penney
Manager of Content Jane Anderson
Telegraph Editor Jane Anderson
City Editor Marian Thomson
Senior Editor Martha Jewett
Socialist Editor Martha Jewett
Asst. Telegraph Editors
EDITORIAL STAFF
A. Ass. Tetraph Editors
Billie M. Hamilton  Grace Munenberg
ORACLE SYSTEM
Editor-in-Chief  Leland Frederick
Editorial Associate  John Conard
BUSINESS.STAFF
Business Manager .Virginia Van Order
Advertising Manager  Anne Scott
Assistant (for national)
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Assistant (for classified)  Patricia Manley
Circulation Manager  Edwin Ham
Promotion Manager  Anne Young
Ass. City Barders
Marcella Stewart  Reverdy Mullins, Jr.
Our Second Chance
One year ago this spring plans were begun for a campus peace conference to study closely the vital world issues that had to be solved to insure a lasting peace. This laudable project was aimed at giving University students a better understanding of the problems of peace and help to stimulate interest in international affairs.
It was postponed until fall. When the fall term arrived and the plan was revived, there was only a flicker of interest in the project, and it died as a result of that disappointing lack of interest.
But that conference was never held.
Now the student body has a chance to redeem itself for that dismal failure. A mock U.N. conference will be held Saturday in Hoch auditorium. The entire day will be devoted to a thorough discussion of the problems facing that international organization and the peoples of the world.
Such conferences are not new. Many colleges and universities have held them, and many of these conferences have become a real part of campus life, continuing throughout the school year. Kansas State college has already decided to continue its mock U.N. conference next fall.
Whether we like it or not, the United States must face the fact that its position in the world today places on its shoulders a tremendous responsibility. The future of world peace will be greatly influenced by our willingness and ability to meet that responsibility. We can ignore the problems of the world and invite world war III or we can recognize those problems and work diligently to solve them and thereby promote a lasting peace. The decision rests with every citizen.
But perhaps you think you know all there is to know about this complex and unsettled world. If you do, then you don't belong at the University. There are four men in Paris who can use you, or perhaps you would prefer to join these eleven diplomats at a semi-circular table in Hunter college in New York.
The groups sponsoring this conference have promised to exert every effort to present information of vital interest to all students. Various organizations have been designated to represent the member nations of the United Nations. But all this effort will be of no avail if the student body fails to give whole-hearted support.
Unless you're ready to present a formula for world peace to one of those two gatherings, your duty is to attend the University U.N. meeting Saturday.
This conference is for every student in the University, just as the problems of the world are vital to every student on the campus.
Saturday is the day to demonstrate that K.U. students have not forgotten the tremendous cost of the last war and that we are fully aware of the world calamity a third world war would mean.
It is your duty to spend next Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
To All Non-Voters:
Two months ago a poll was taken of student opinion concerning various campus problems. Eighty-three per cent of those polled said that K.U.'s student government did not have sufficient power and was not fulfilling its duties to the student body.
In the light of that poll, last week's election was a great disappointment. Less than one-half of the students went to the polls to cast their votes for next year's All-Student Council.
When Mortar Board and Sachem took their poll, 57 per cent of the students said that the University administration was at fault for the condition of student government. If this is so, it is easy to see one of the biggest reasons. Why should the A.S.C. be given any more power to serve the students when more than half of those students are too uninterested in student government to participate in its election?
If the A.S.C. has failed to fulfill its obligations to the students, we need go no further than the apathy of the students themselves to find a major reason. The student body has failed in its responsibility to the A.S.C.
We believe the A.S.C. has accomplished much in the past for the welfare of the student body. Whether it has accomplished enough, is problematical. But it has done enough to merit the support of the student body.
One of our political science professors often quotes the following axiom: "A people's government is only as good as the people deserve." The lack of interest in last week's election and the general passive interest throughout the year makes us wonder if K.U. students deserve any student government.
To those of you who did vote, we have no special praise, for you merely performed your democratic duty. To those of you who ignored the polls, we have nothing but sharp criticism. You have failed to demonstrate that you deserve the improvements and projects which you hypocritically expect the All-Student Council to carry out.
1946 Carruth Poetry Contest.
First Prize
Three Seasons
(Spring—The Arrow)
This is the knowing from the depths of time;
This is the germ wherein all life has birth:
The wisdom of the endless-turning earth,
The magic which inspires the poet's rhyme—
And to this theme of every pantomime
Ever there come all men, of drought and dearth,
And while the gods look down in epic mirth,
Each touches heaven—far, far above the grime.
This the enchantress knew of, Lilith, fair
As sunrise, and deceitful as the flame
That plays about her glowing, gleaming hair;
This is the ecstasy that none can name,
A bondage old when even earth was new—
The light-held blossom which this instant grew.
(Summer—The Spell)
Had I not marked when first this scroll began,
This wondrous dream, this burning bush as bright
As blazoned sun in shadeless noonday light—
Had I not kept a record of its span,
And traced its thousand parallels in man
Back through the coiled-up years till mortal sight
Grew dim; and had I not embroidered night
With heart-warm dreams of how old stories ran—
Had I not thuswise learned that time repeats
Itself, and lovers loved as now we do
In Helen's time and Deidre's, and Eve's,
I should have claimed that these undreamed-of sweets
Were self-created, self-immortal, new,
And sworn to what my spirit yet believes.
(Autumn—The Scar)
Now is it strange indeed that I should lie Unmoving, in a frozen emptiness,
While yet the idle wind, with soft caress,
Tangles the hair of long-stemmed grass and rye;
Even before the harvest time is by,
My heart, its store ungarnered, shelterless,
Knows winter over-soon; upon it press
The memories of a spring that promised high.
Well—nothing lives forever, so they say,
And something more but lately have I learned—
That joys first treasured are with surfeit spurned,
That moons and stars must die at break of day,
And weariest lesson, that when summer's gone,
That wind-swept heart still wakes with every dawn
BETTY JEAN NELSON College Senior
This Is Good, Oregon Congressman Decides As He Munches on Cast-Off Navy Food
Washington. (UP)—Rep. Walter Norblad, Oregon Republican, spurning a nevy warning that he would get dysentery, lunched in the house restaurant today on food salvaged from the navy's Astoria, Ore., garbage dump.
Norblad ate navy-stamped canned meat pork, dehydrated cranberries, and drank lemonade prepared fresh dehydrated lemon juice
“This is just a sample,” he said, “but it was all I could get in my suitcase. I could have brought a lot of things.”
"It's a lie. I think it's better food than you get in the house restaurant."
Asked about the navy's dysentery warning, Norblad said:
Norblad, a freshman house member and World War II army veteran, offered to share the food with other house members and newspaper reporters. All preferred to stick to the restaurant fare of diced beef goulash.
The navy said that people in Astoria who ate the discarded food got dysentery.
Norblad said the navy had thrown on the dump canned foods of all kinds, cereals, paint, new paint brushes, brass fire nozzles, cartons of toilet paper, powdered soap, and other articles.
Radar Device Makes Fog Landings Safe
Wilmington, O. (UP) - A radar device capable of guiding aircraft to safe landing approaches in zero visibility at a rate of 60 planes an hour has been placed on test at the Clinton county Army Air base, it was
announced today.
The new system will pick up and identify all incoming planes at a distance of 40 miles, then assign them to a place in the traffic circle of planes waiting to land.
Peanuts yield more oil an acre than cottonseed.
Missionaries Wail When Buying Army Surplus In India
By FREDERICK C. OTTRMAN.
(United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington. (UP)—All's well the ends well, I guess, but what he pens to a missionary when he be a horse from his own government is enough to make even a man God grit his teeth.
My story is one of those fantasies involving our government things it would prefer, to forget, you are a contributor to you church's foreign missions, you'll interested:
When the war ended, the army announced that it had $480,000,000 worth of surplus in India. I said later that the figure would have to be revised upwards to perha $500,000,000. American missionary operating schools, churches, hospitals and model farms through vast Indian nation looked covetous, upon it.
The medicines, the X-ray machines, the ambulances, and the out clothes could do wonders to help the Indians, the dominies decided. They formed a kind of purchasing organization known as the joint. Protestant - Catholic commission, to see if they could do some business
They discovered that the Foreigre Liquidation commission wanted them to pay the full wholesale price for medical material and to add 25 per cent for the freight bill from India to India. Then, to their amazement, the Indian government insisted on a 30 to 60 per cent duty charge.
He said he tried to buy a $4,000 X-ray machine, but his own government wanted $5,000. He needed a $251 microscope, but the FLC demanded another $51 for freight
"So it is," wrote one of the dazed missionaries, "that British firms can sell the same kind of new material; to us in India, but at a lower price with lower freight rates and lesser duties."
Another missionary wrote that the material was not guaranteed as added: "purchase of surplus in India is a very risky business," mentioned the hiring of coolies by the army to tear up mosquito nets and tarpaulins; he said could not understand this.
More in sorrow than in anger he added that sometimes the missionaries weren't even allowed inside army camps to inspect the goods for sale. Neither did this make sent to him.
Sen. James M. Mead, N.Y., chairman of the War Investigating committee, demanded that the state department give the missionaries a break. The FLC announced soon thereafter that it would allow them a 40 per cent discount. Our government simultaneously entered into an agreement to sell all its 'surpluses' to the Indian government. The missionaries didn't get to buy much stuff at a price, but still indicated they were grateful.
The Catholics got $423,362.35 worth of material, some of which was salvage, for $142,823.70. This included seven horses worth $295.75 to the army, which they bought for $369.67. They also bought thousands of shirts, pants, and bed sheets, which had cost the government $34,268, which were worn out insofar as the army was concerned, and for which they paid $190.67.
A commission from the Indian government is now in Washington, negotiating the price for all the surplus in India. This is a hush-hush operation, for reasons unknown to me, but apparently it will be a bargain. Terms include provision for the American missionaries to buy from India the American supplies they need to help the Indians. Presumably then they will not have to pay import duties.
I saw no list of supplies sold to the Protestants, but they made a similar deal. They mentioned 50,000 aided clothes they got for five cents each which they said were valuable to them, no matter what the army felt.
EI DO
In 1942, the United States produced 440 quarts of milk for each person.
I don't believe I'd make a good missionary. I fear I might say, d—n.