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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 6.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newsaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated College 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 except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination days. Published in Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Thirst Amid the Righteous
Carnival concessions not long ago featured images of the "bad three," Benito, Adolph, and Hirohito. Patrons paid out the cold and hard for the privilege of throwing everything from baseballs to vine-ripened cantaloupes at them. Seven million Americans denned uniforms and hoisted riffles to get a closer shot at the real thing. Now the gruesome game is being revived on a modest scale, with almost as much fervor, and the Douglas county commissioners are the new targets. Penny, Griffith, et al, will not be subjected to atomic bombs. But baseballs and cantaloupes? Possibly.
Possibly:
This issue resolves into one question . . . Is this county better off with or without dancing in places which permit the sale of beer? The unique feature of the case is that the "good" and "right" people are on both sides.
Immediately after the passage of the beer-dance resolution, the commissioners received letters of commendation from many ministers of Lawrence churches, representing, say the commissioners, more than 5,000 residents of the county. Petitions protesting the resolution are being circulated at the University and through the city, and their backers say that they will eventually bear 5,000 actual signatures.
the petition movement is in effect a referendum, say the anti-resolutionists, and as such should carry greater weight than the presumed and questionable representation theory of the notes of commendation.
Reasonss advanced for the ban by the commissioners are interesting, if feeble. M. N. Penny cites the instance of a shooting in a place allowing both beer and dancing.
"Other unwholesome activity," he adds, has been occurring in "these spots." These activities are not defined, and the technique of leaving much to imagination after establishing a frame of mind is recognized as one of the primary methods of propaganda. Further, he advocates some place in Lawrence where young people might enjoy dancing, without the sale of beer. Fat chance such a place has of materializing.
Commissioner Lou Griffith takes the hostile attitude "if any organization wants to change the resolution, we will be glad to take it to court and hash it out there." But after all, the commissioners are only representatives of the people of their county. If their decisions, even though totally within the law, appear to be unpopular and undesirable with a majority of their constituents, recourse to the courts should not be necessary to change those decisions. It is the object of the petitioners to present evidence of that dissatisfied majority.
That beer consumption under the new ruling would drop appears to be a false and almost foolish assumption. The former beer-dance places now operating as beer-no-dance places continue to serve capacity crowds, and the crowds' capacity is not visibly reduced by the lack of exercise.
Douglas county residents continue to enjoy K.U.-provided entertainment: concerts, lectures, athletic performances. Yet through their elected representatives they deprive us of about half the reverse lend-lease. Nobody wants to heave baseballs and cantalupes, but reason, logic, and fair argument should be given the chance to re-establish dancing, a wholesome and desirable form of recreation, in the only places equipped for it. J.C.
Could there be a connection, we wonder, between the theory of international good will and the recent announcement by U.S. florists of a plan to extend speedy, American-style flowers-by-wire service around the globe?
They Also Serve
The recent brilliant successes of K.U.'s basketball squad is something in which every person at K.U. can take deep and justifiable pride. The fame of our alma mater has been greatly increased, and the University of Kansas has gained recognition and prestige thereby.
But so many people fail to realize the tremendous part that other elements of the University play in enriching campus life and winning enduring glory for this institution.
For instance, how many students know that last year the University debate squad enjoyed one of the most successful seasons in its history, winning national recognition for itself and Kansas, carrying off championship awards and honors at every tournament and conference attended? This record may be equalled again this year.
The debate squads also served in the non-competitive field, presenting programs at the state's high schools, before civic organizations, for women's clubs, and at University meetings. They represent the academic counterpart of athletic activities, and as such deserve the whole-hearted support of those who claim to possess "school spirit."
The debate squad is one of several organizations which carries on this type of work. The local chapter of the Carnegie International Relations association recently attended a Mississippi Valley conference-convention at Emporia at which 40 schools from the central United States and Canada were represented. A brilliantly conducted affair, this conference sent back to K.U. a group of students more keenly aware of the problems of political orientation and adjustment, and gave indirectly to the entire system of American universities a part in the molding of human affairs.
It would be possible to cite a number of examples, all demonstrating essentially the same thing—the University of Kansas has held its place as a leader in the academic and cultural life of the nation.
And so to the students who have worked and trained entilting K.U. to "brilliant successes" in another equally important, if less publicized field. a long overdue bouquet.
Washington. (UP)—Hitherto secret war files revealed today how the navy almost built a gigantic air-crash barrier of ice to use against Japan.
The fantastic "iceberg" ship would have been 2,000 feet long, 300 feet wide, and 200 feet deep.
WENDELL K. NICKELL
Cartoon from St. Louis Star-Times
Letters to the Editor
Unless the individual veterans are willing to assume some responsibility and interest in the transactions and commitments of their organization, they should take steps to prevent some few individuals from flaunting the banner, Veterans, in their own little parade.
'Veterans' President Voices Own Prejudices'—Nickell
He who can claim the support or the veterans is properly accorded much consideration. When the group "supporting" him is but a mere handful of buddies, it is absurd to credit the organization with such influence.
To the Daily Kansan: The advent of the Jayhawk Veterans club naturally aroused considerable speculation. Some anticipated a powerful political movement, some saw in it a potent agency for improvement of campus conditions.
Most hoped this organization would be democratic, active in creative criticism, and outspoken in matters dealing with student life and University affairs. Some, however, feared that the power to be wielded by such a large and respected group would be corrupted and misdirected by ambitious individuals using the name of the organization as a tool for personal aggrandizement. Whether or not those fears are justified remains to be seen.
The president of the Jayhawk Veterans in a recent meeting of the Memorial Union Operating committee committed his group to a rather serious stand. In a debate concerning the allocation of space in the Memorial Union building, he "represented" the veterans as preferring a "place where they could dance in the afternoon" to the proposed student book store, even though the former meant the complete abandoning of the latter project.
I contend that this "representation" was highly inaccurate in that it constituted the personal prejudices of the president, and not the constitutionally determined opinion of a majority of the veterans.
The people's choice. Sarah Stuber, Briar Manor, has been the victim of a recent campaign to elect her president of a new geology club. Signs, such as "Stuberstein for President," "Elect Stuberstein, Laudon's Choice," and "Stuber Spelled Backward is Rebuts," all but paper the geology department.
It seems that Sarah isn't exactly the star student of the department, and Dr. Laudon knew nothing of his selection.
And he charged her only 75 cents. Sheila Stryker, Gamma Phi, spent half of Sunday afternoon trying to find five of her sisters and a picnic. After an afternoon date, Sheila phoned a cab to join the party on a sand bar. But although they raced frantically up and down the river bank hunting, neither she nor the driver could spot the group.
The elderly cab driver was practically in tears. "Gee, mam," he said, "I'm awfully sorry we can't find 'em. I know just how it is when you're looking forward to something and get disappointed."
So on the stroke of the half hour she gave the hotel operator the number she had been remembering all afternoon—617.
Roby's busy right now. In Kansas City last weekend Leovy Robinson, Phi Psi, took leave of Pat Penney, Pi Phi, to rest in his hotel room for an approaching appearance in the track meet. Pat was primed to phone him at 6:30-he would sleep until then.
You're just careless. A party of K.U. students were whiling away a Saturday evening in the better known spot of Wichita when an earring on one of the girls became loose. It was a heavy ornament and it fell—down the front of her blouse.
"Hell-o-o," a distinctly feminine voice answered.
Pat was still having hot and cold flashes when Rob walked up in the lobby. His room number—807.
The girl fussed around, obviously flustered but nevertheless appreciating the humor of the situation. "I'm sure I had two when I came," she said.
And the hand played on. The road to fame in generally a hard one to travel, but not so for Mary Ann
Sawyer, first chair French ho University orchestra.
The orchestra was scheduled play over the air last week, an Mary Ann informed Tri Delt sister that she would render a solo to enthusiastic radio audience. Really that this was probably bachance at fame, Tri Delt's broke a study hall for the evening so that a might delight in the performance. The radio was turned up, girls gatered about the loud speaker silent prevailed in the room while at the scene of the broadcast Professor Wiley mounted the podium, lifted baton, and—suddenly there were three quick blasts from a French horn ending in silence, except for the rumbling of a kettle drum. The solo was over.
Twice within a week he has reposed upon his beautiful antique be with a volume of Shulman's "Zebr-Derby." And twice within a wee! Carl has subjected the beautiful an tique to the strain of his "quiet re served chuckle" resulted in the complete collapse of the bed. The spring don't spring any more, slats are sho and the mattress was last seen i the front yard.
Washington. (UP) — Boabuildie Andrew J. Higgins, of New Orleans said today that except for the government's war assets corporation, he could be building beautiful, low-cost houses, at a rate soon to reach 500 a day.
Advice given to Carl from brother-roommates, Dick Hawkins and Corky Baker—give up Shulm, and try Aristotle.
Arriving home that night, Mar Anne found congratulatory message on her brilliant achievement poste throughout the house.
Well, Nero laughed, too. Opto- trists say that reading in a reclining position can be very harmful to the eyes. Carl Clark, Phi Delt, has found that the eyes are not all that an damaged.
Chungking. (UP)—China an France have signed a treaty calling for withdrawal of Chinese troops from northern Indo-China.
France agreed in the treaty to relinquish her extra-territoriality, rights in China, which the French have had for 45 years.
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