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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 24.1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
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. Entered on Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class master Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Spain's 'Internal' Affairs
The Polish delegate to the U.N. Security Council has asked that body to investigate the activities of the Spanish government. He has charged that France's regime is engaged in activities that threaten world security. How this problem will be handled will establish an important precedent for the United Nations.
Secretary Byrnes has already said that he feels the security council has no real basis for going into Spain's internal affairs. He is of the opinion that it is a matter for the Spanish people to settle, saying that it is up to them to throw off the Franco dictatorship. He feels that at present the U.N. has no place in taking action on the Polish charges that Franco is massing troops on the French border and devising super weapons, probably based on atomic power.
This position is founded on the old principle of self-determination; the principle that nations have a right to their own form of government and that there should be no external interference in the internal activities of such governments.
In a larger, less integrated world this ideal had a plausible foundation but now the picture is changed. Today the world is a geographic, social, and economic interdependent whole. It must also become a political entity.
This does not mean that all governments must be identical but it does mean that there must be an authority above national governments that has the power to stamp out the seeds of war and aggression before an overt act is committed. The job of bringing about that unity is up to the U.N. But it cannot achieve that end if we continue to cling to the theory of self-determination and unrestricted nationalism.
The state department has proof that Franco was in active collaboration with Hitler. They likewise know that the Spanish government is the antithesis of the fundamentals of the U.N. If Poland can substantiate its charges against Spain, it is the responsibility of the Security Council to investigate fully the conditions in that country and take appropriate action.
There can be no assurance of peace if governments are allowed to build the foundations for aggression behind the cloak of nationalistic self-determination. The time has come when nations no longer have the sacred right to do as they please within their borders when those activities are contrary to the welfare of other nations and the world in general. There must be limitations on countries just as we limit the activities of our individual states for the common good.
The Security Council should take its stand on this issue now and show that the interdependency of the present world makes the principles of unrestricted nationalism and self-determination inconsistent with the aim of world peace and security.
61 High Schools In Journalism Contest
A total of 308 entries from 61 Kansas high schools has been received in the 26th annual K.U. contest for high school newspapers which closed April 10, Elmer F. Beth, journalism professor has announced.
The contest is divided into nine divisions: news, editorial, feature, human interest, interview, sports, service to school, business management, and miscellaneous. High schools may have one entry in each division and three winners are chosen from each Professor Beth said.
High schools from the following towns have entered: Fulton, Shawnee Mission, Newton, Manhattan (Sacred Heart), Chapman, Caney, Canton, Hamilton, Pittsburgh, Glau Elder, Westernmoreland, McDonald, Garnett, Bonner Springs, Ft. Scott, Frankfort, Burton, Oberlin, Bethel, Ottawa, Fowler, Burr Oak Rural, Kismet, Chetopa, Argentine, Ellsworth, Wakefield, Overbrook, Weir, Langdon, Bleem, Hutchinson, Coffeville, Colby, Manhattan, Lawrence (University High), Carbondale, Washington, Paola, Wichita East, Altamont, Altoona (Rural) Altoona, Holton, Otis, Topea, Emporia, Goodland, McPherson, Levant, Parsons, Arkansas City, Osborne, Scott Community, Zenda, St. Francis, Miller, Everest, Huron, Kansas City (Summer High), Kansas City, Mo., Manual and Vocational Highs.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
April 24,1946
Physical Therapy banquet at 6:45 tonight in Kansas room in Union.
P. S.G.L., independent men's party, will hold its primary convention at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Union ballroom. All independent men may vote.
Starkey Heads Veterans' Office
Giving counsel to veterans and approving "on-the-job" training institutions constitute the duties of George O. Starkey, recently appointed district supervisor of the Lawrence unit of the state office of veterans' affairs.
Mr. Starkey was technical supervisor of the University visual instruction bureau from July 1 to April 10; he resigned to accept his present position with the veterans' office.
This local branch of the veterans' affairs, is conducting a survey of veteran employment among Lawrence institutions. Mr. Starkey said that veterans may talk to him about jobs that are open both for regular employment and for "on-the-job" training.
His office, located in the Community building, will be open from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday and Friday and all day Wednesday.
Dr. Albert C. Spaulding, assistant curator of anthropology will speak to the Geology club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 426, Lindley. His subject will be "Early Man in Life."
Mr. Arvil Dixon of the Veterans Administration, Kansas City, Mo., will be on the campus today and tomorrow for conferences with veterans. Veterans may make appointments at Veterans office, room 2, Frank Strong hall.
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Letters to the Editor
Mathematics club will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union. Josephine Byerly will talk on "Number Theorems."
To the Daily Kansan: The editorial policy of the Daily Kansan in two recent issues (April 4 and 5) was so offensive that I hope you will excuse my including two criticisms in one letter.
Nickell Says Kansan Defends 'Childish Paddling'
Metallic currency in China is restricted almost entirely to pieces of 20 cents or less in value.
That letter was chopped into three pieces by the eager editor's insertions. Regardless of the arguments involved in the letter, this manner of treatment appears to be unjustified.
The first criticism is the treatment of the letter of George Caldwell in the April 4 issue.
I feel that the average reader remsts having anybody, editor or otherwise, abruptly interrupt such an article with interpolations and rebuttals. I am not acquainted with journalistic policy on this point. However, I cannot recall a single instance in which any other editor, Kansan or otherwise, has seen fit to treat his readers' letters in this way. The common, and most courteous, treatment seems to be the insertion of editor's notes after letters.
The second criticism of the editorial defense of the recent Interfraternity Council fiasco. Possibly the editor will object to the use of the word "defense," since he so painstakingly implied that his editorial was only an explanation. However, in reading this article, one gets the impression that the writer is taking a defensive stand and that he is effectively, if subtly, presenting the same feeble line given by other individuals concerned with the action.
I consider the Interfraternity council's action a "fasco" because it rescinded an intelligent, well met stand taken only three months ago. This stand, to eradicate the childish anties of paddling and so forth, was hailed on most sides as an enlightened Greek policy, and was met with sighs of relief from those who feared that such anties might prove a serious vulnerability to the fraternities, who were in the line of much criticism and discriminative action nationally.
Now that the storm has partially subsided, some of the die-hard Greek groups have succeeded in slipping in their favorite pastime of beating as one of the sanctioned rituals. They justify this, with the apparent concurrence of the Kansan, as a governmental measure to keep obstreperous members in tow. Isn't it odd that such methods should be applied to a group supposedly engaged in the serious pursuit of an education? A group, incidentally, with a large percentage of veterans in its membership.
The majority which supported this action was comfortably close. The obvious inference is that the Kansan is in the wrong boat, and that any defense of such a doubtful cause should have been made in a letter to the editor by one admitting his connection with the parties concerned.
As it is, not even a letter of criticism has been printed. They have been submitted. Odd, that a defense against such criticisms should be printed even before the criticisms are given voice.
WENDELL NICKELL College Senior
WANT ADS
(Editor's Note: No "letters of criticism" concerning the above-mentioned interfraternity action have been received by the Daily Kansan editor as implied in the last paragraph of the above letter. If such letters were brought to the journalism building they were not brought to the editor's desk.)
LOST—A lifetime black and white Sheaffer pen Monday 15th. Inscribed on the side, June Mallony. Finder please return to the Kansan office.
please return to the Kansan office.
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FOR SALE—1940 Buick 5-passenger coupe, Excellent condition. 33 Lane P, Sunflower Village, or call Mr. Maiden for information, phone 1408, in Lawrence.
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LOST—Brown leather billfold containing 11 dollars in cash a University checks, activity books, and other identification. Finder please return to Kansan office or call Shirley Keith 860.
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WANTED—Ex-GI for part time work who is familiar with army LB.M, record machine apply at 228 Frank Strong.
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LOST—Brown gold Sheaffer pen with Frank A. Howard encribed on side.—Reward.
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FOR RENT—May 1st room with private bath to a faculty member or graduate student located near the University call 3232.
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NOTICE—Finder of a green transparent showing yellow ringlets lifetime Parker pen which clip does not hug the pen. Please return it to the Daily Kansan office for it was a special gift.
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Will trade apartment in Kansas City, Mo., for apartment in Lawrence between June 1 and 15. Write: R. C, Fairchild, 115 W. 39th, Apt. 201, Kansas City, Mo.
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HELP WANTED—For summer, 2 waiters-wages plus room, board.
GREEN FEES
Lawrence Country Club
Due to the continued rise in prices of labor and materials, the Board of Directors of the Lawrence Country Club have set the following scale of prices:
Sat., Sun., and Holidays, $2
Other Days, $1
FORREST C. ALLEN, President
D. U. Guest
D. U. Guest Robert Hucke, Kansas City, was a recent guest of Delta Upsilon.
Lampoon Picks Worst Actors
Cambridge, Mass. (UP) — Johnson and June Allyson share honors today as the worst actor and actress of the year as judged by the Lampoon, Harvard humor magazine
"Weekend at the Waldorf" w
out as worst picture of the year.
An astronomer at the Harvard observatory, Bleomfontein, South Africa, discovered two comets in two months.
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