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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MAY 7, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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 year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Under act of March 3; 1879.
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Managing Editor Patricia Penney
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Editor-in-Chief  . LeMoyne Frederick
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V-E Plus 365
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of victory in Europe.
Because of the many complex problems that face the world, many people are becoming discouraged and pessimistic. They ask where the peace and security are which was to come with the end of the war. Faced with the difficulties of the world, some are again longing for a return to "normalcy." They want to turn their backs on the perplexing world issues before us.
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of victory in Europe. One year has passed since the "cease fire" order was sounded and yet real peace is still to be achieved.
On this day, one year after the end of war in Europe, it is appropriate that we take stock-of our position and the aims which we are seeking.
We must keep uppermost in our minds the immensity of the problem of achieving a lasting peace. The war had a dynamic effect on the entire world and the unity and cooperation needed to insure security must be on a world scale.
The American colonies, all located in one land, experienced many difficulties in gaining a peaceful unity. We must recognize how very much greater the problems of world unity are and not expect to achieve success overnight, but achieve that success we must.
It is therefore evident that we need to strengthen our patience, tolerance, and understanding for the long job ahead. That understanding must include respect for the viewpoints of others, even though those opinions seem to clash with ours. We must not assume that we are always right and that our opinions are indisputable.
But it is also important that we do not take the position of allowing the world to seek its solutions by the normal evolution of history. Our patience must be tempered by an everpresent diligent effort toward our goals. We must work actively for the aims of true peace and not become discouraged if our progress seems slow.
It is vitally important that we realize that the task ahead requires the active interest and effort of all. It is not just a job for our government and diplomats. It is a time that calls for greatness in the minds and hearts of all men regardless of their relative position in society.
It is appropriate that we pay homage today to the 155,000 young Americans who lie beneath white crosses in Europe. But it is also appropriate that we recall again the words of Abraham Lincoln: "It is for us the living, rather to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
If those who will never leave European soil could speak today, they would remind us that their deaths purchased only OPPORTUNITY for peace—it is our duty to LIVE for that peace.
What happened to the "queen promoters" last week? We've had a queen for practically every occasion but no one thought about a May Day queen.
Tell Your Representative
This places upon the voters the important duty of keeping their representatives informed of their opinions on important issues.
With this duty in mind, the All-Student Council drafted telegrams to Senators Capper and Reed at its meeting last week, recommending the continuance of price control without limiting its essential powers.
Many students will find a university education more difficult than ever next fall unless our economy is stabilized and the cost of living held in line.
Yet, in spite of the importance of public issues to college students, we are often prone to give them too little conscientious thought. Busy college life tends to restrict us to a routine which includes too little consideration of our responsibilities beyond the campus borders.
University students either are of voting age or soon will be. During college life is the time for us to develop a clear conception of the responsibilities of American voters.
Citizenship duties go beyond merely keeping informed on public affairs and legislation. They include discussion and fair appraisal of those issues and the communication of personal opinions to those charged with the job of law-making.
Now is the time for us to do what we can to frame the sort of society we want to work and live in after graduation. The number of college students is greater today than ever before, and still growing. Those students can exert a marked influence on congress by demonstrating a serious interest in its activities.
No intelligent legislator will discount the opinions of young citizens who take a conscientious and active interest in our government. It is our obligation to make our feelings known.
Come And Get It
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
Eight Hungry Students Enrolled in 'Birds' Have Found Everything, But a Jayhawk
In 1752, the English parliament adopted the Gregorian calendar, dropping 11 days from the earlier Julian calender.
The meetings of the All-Student Council are open to all students and are announced in the Daily Kansan.
Letter to the Editor.
Freshman Says All Students Should Share In Decisions
(Editor's Note: On June 7, 1945 the Daily Kansan carried on its front page a six-inch story, under a large double-column headline, which asked students to contribute suggestions for the proposed memorial project, thus giving ample opportunity for those in school to make their wishes known. The selection of the present project was made from those suggestions by a committee that included University students.
To Fellow Students and the Daily Kansas: It is true that a new project of any kind cannot be acceptable to everyone. It should, however, be favorable to almost everyone.
Has it occurred to any of you that the new war memorial, surely a major project concerning each and every student on the Hill, has been slipped in under our very noses? Now, when the decision has already been reached, we are being solicited for money for a cause which many of us do not believe is right and which more of us would like to consider more carefully.
I demand that more of our own school and student questions be decided, not at a meeting of some select group, but rather in an open recognized and revitalized student council. Major issues, such as the war memorial proposal, should be decided before a student assembly by the students themselves.
Are we, as students, so unimportant that 'we have no voice in major issues on the Hill? Or is our school run on some of the very principles which our democracy has been fighting?
BRUCE T. BATHURST College Freshman
Those eight hungry students who wander around the campus before breakfast aren't crazy. They're studying birds, for two hours credit
At 7:30 am. on Tuesday and Thursday, Dr. E. R. Hall and Dr. Donald Farner, zoology professors, take the members of their Birds class out-of-doors to study early morning bird calls, and to learn to identify the birds by sight. On rainy days, the class has a lecture or studies the skins of birds in Dyche museum.
The class has taken field trips to Lake View to study shore birds — ducks, grebes, and sand pipers. Usually, however, they stay on the campus, where birds are plentiful in the trees of Marvin grove.
The class is conducted informally on field trips, with the two professors answering all the questions the students can ask.
Werner, Nelson Attend Chicago Meet
Early in the semester, one student suddenly stopped and asked the class to listen carefully to the new bluejay call he had discovered. Investigation proved the sound to be a chain clanking against the flagpole near the stadium.
It's a good class," the students say,
"but we've been hunting since February
and we still haven't seen a Jayhawk."
K. U. now has 20 students from other countries. This is a small percentage of the 12,000 who are enrolled in schools all over the nation. The problem concerning admittance of additional students arises from already overcrowded enrollment and language difficulties which would necessitate special English courses, Dean Werner said.
Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, and J. H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate school, attended a three-day conference under the Institute of International Education, in Chicago last week.
The quota of foreign students admitted to the United States during the coming months was discussed, with special consideration given to those 25 per cent who attend universities and colleges under special scholarships.
Rock Chalk
By JOAN HARRIS
The name is "Assault." A betting official at the Kentucky Derby Saturday was taking no chances with Ette Bennett. She stood in line for over an hour only to have him close the window in her face when she finally got there. She'd intended to place her money on "Battery" or some such animal.
More sporting news. By far the outstanding event of the men's intramural swimming meet Wednesday took place in the shower room after it was all over, according to Bill Sinis. It seems a coed became confused and walked out the wrong door.
Do you chew? That was the question at the DG party this past weekend. Mary Ellen Small was passing out "Sparkplug" at the expense of Bob Combs, Sigma Nu.
Eeeekek. Alpha Delt loving cups were finally restored to their proper place Saturday after an absence of several weeks.
In the midst of the spring formal a taxi driver delivered two boxes to the door, saying they were the gifts of "Hannegan and his Handymen." The first box contained the loving cups, all brightly polished. and the second one was full of little white mice, which all but broke up the party.
May the best man win. While out "soap-boxing" for her candidate recently, Elaine Thalman, Independent party leader, asked Ray Collins his political preference. "I'm voting for Boyd Raeburn," he replied.
A crowning climax. John Conard, who should know better, wants to know why we can't have just one more queen to reign over final week. She would have to lead the styles with wispy hair, jeans, sneakers; and a sloppy shirt.
Washington. (UP)—President Truman today signed the 1947 fiscal year War Department Civil Functions bill, carrying appropriations of $333,000,000 for more than 200 flood control and rivers and harbors projects.