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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
APRIL 11,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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 Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
F.D.R. Still Lives
It was 5:49 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 1945. The scene was the Columbia Broadcasting system studios in New York. John Daly was speaking, "We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin from C.B.S. world news. A press association has just announced that President Roosevelt is dead."
Even those who differed with him on lesser matters could not take issue with his fundamental ideals and aims. His greatness as a leader and his devotion to high principles was beyond question. His own words tell best his philosophy for a peaceful, secure, and democratic world:
With that terse announcement the world first learned of the president's death.
"Today we seek a moral basis for peace. It cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognize brotherhood. It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression, or starvation, or human life dominated by armed camps. It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbors. It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute. It cannot be an intelligent peace if it denies free passage to that knowledge of those ideals which permit men to find common ground. It cannot be a righteous peace if worship of God is denied."—Radio address, March 16, 1940.
One year has passed. Military victory has been achieved and the United Nations has been organized, two aims that occupied Roosevelt's uniting efforts during the latter years of his life.
"And I say that we must wage it in association with the United Nations with whom we have stood and fought—with that association ever growing."—Address in Boston, Nov. 4, 1944.
"Today as we go forward toward the greatest contribution that any generation of human beings can make in this world, the contribution of lasting peace, I ask you to keep up your faith. I measure the sound, solid achievement that can be made at this time by the straight edge of your own confidence and your resolve. And to you, I say. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." (These words were written the day before his death for a speech he was to deliver April 13.)
"I say we must wage the coming battle for America and for civilization on a scale worthy of the way we unitedly waged the battles against tyranny and reaction, and wage it through all the difficulties and the disappointments that may ever clog the wheels of progress.
Only the passing of time will show his real place among the leaders of history. But it is doubtful whether any other man in modern times has had the world-wide respect that was Roosevelt's.
It is altogether proper that we look in retrospect at the principles and ideals professed by Franklin Roosevelt. Not only because tomorrow is the anniversary of his death, but because those principles did not die with Roosevelt. Our devotion to these ideals must carry them on.
The world is beset with doubt and apprehension. The future of freedom is not yet secure. If we were to choose one of Franklin Roosevelt's precepts as a guide for the tasks ahead, we could pick no better than the one he voiced upon assuming the presidency, "The only thing we need to fear, is fear itself."
Bob Burns has his own theory of marriage. He says that it's like hash.
You have to have confidence in it to enjoy it.
IT'S
SEASON
So bring your clothes, rugs, and upholstered furniture to us for a complete moth-proofing service.
By PAT FOSTER
Eager beavers—Gamma Phi freshmen should be given a medal of some sort for meritorious service above and beyond the call of duty. Saturday night they were all confined on a blanket campus, each assigned to a definite cleaning task. After going over the house with a fine tooth comb, Beverly Fox, Barbara Byrd, and Marion Sheldon spotted a bit of dirt in the hall about 3 a.m. and ran the sweeper down said hall into the senior dorm. No, the actives weren't the least impressed.
Long hairs—Ray Hartlev and Evan Stevens, psychology lab instructors, have a perverted sense of humor, so their pupils think. During a musical aptitude test, they gave instructions to listen carefully to the last selection, for the next class assignment would be an essay on the asthetic qualities, balance, sensitiveness of phrases, and structure of the number. The selection?—a late boogie woogie, "Hey Bob, a Lee Bob."
Two's a crowd—The Chi O'is are learning by practical experience about soothing diplomatic relations. They graciously invited the Sigma Nu's for a dinner engagement Monday night. Everyone was having a lovely time until the Fiji's appeared at the door during dinner with several invitations for their Sea Island party Saturday night. As a little boy, clad only in a grass skirt, called the names, each coed had to excuse herself from a Sigma Nu to receive the invitation. The Chi O'is are still trying to smooth out the matter.
Guest of Press Club
Mrs. Edwin F. Abels, president of the National Federation of Press Women and associate editor of the Lawrence Outlook, will speak at a meeting of the Press club at 4:30 pm. today, in 102 Journalism building.
Let Spring go to Your Head
Indulge that fancy to have a new spring hat. The women aren't the only ones who need an Easter chapeau!
Select yours from our stock styled by Knox, Caxton, and Lee.
Design Classes Held For KU Village Wives
A series of classes in interior decoration and design, to be conducted on alternate Thursday nights by Arvid Jacobson, a returned veteran in the architectural department, is planned for wives of K.U. students living at Sunflower village.
The first of the classes will begin at 8 tonight in the club room at the village. All phases of home decoration, including the construction of furniture, changes in decorations, and the planning of decorating schemes will be a part of the course. Lectures by members of the University faculty are scheduled for the Thursdays on which classes will not be held.
Faculty Members Attend Geology Meet in Emporia
Dr. John C. Frye will be chairman of the Geology section of the Kansas Academy of Science meeting in Emporia tomorrow.
Members of the geology department who will give reports are Charles C. Williams, Miss Ada Swineford, Walter H. Schoewe, Bruce F. Latta, Claude W. Hibbard, L. R. Laudon, and H. H. Lane.
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