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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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MARCH 4, 1940
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 the school week, coats and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class on September 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Missions from Moscow
Prime Minister MacKenzie King's announcement on Feb. 15 that the Canadian government had begun an investigation into the disclosure of "secret and confidential information" to members of a "foreign mission" in Ottawa, was only the prelude to a shocking and far-reaching trend of events which led to the revelation that, to put it bluntly, Russia was trying to steal top military secrets, allegedly, those pertaining to the atomic bomb, from Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.
But the matter's real significance lies in Russia's attitude toward the western democracies. With Russo-British relation at the critical stage (and the rest of the world largely under Russia) the life and success of the UNO in doubt, and the peace of the world in danger, we suspect the recent activities of the Soviet government show a serious distrust of Britain and the United States, and a desire to be prepared for conflict.
The Kremlin on the one hand issues glowing statements of Russia's desire to work for the success of the UNO and the elimination of war, and on the other hand surreptitiously carries on espionage and propaganda activities which can hardly be considered friendly.
The Canadian exposure, made after contact with Washington and London, came as a blow to those who hoped to keep Russia peacefully in the UNO, and at the same time hoped to keep Anglo-American counter-espionage activities on a "non-antagonistic" basis toward Moscow.
Recent Russian criticism of British and American "imperialism" may have some basis in fact. But a policy of international rapprochement is a two-sided proposition. The Soviet's recent activities have amply demonstrated that they, too, have a finger in the pie of international politics
O. R
One report says nylons will be plentiful by July 1. We hope the manufacturers will not be disappointed if the demand is not equally plentiful. By July 1 milady will have been going barelegged for at least a month.
Although "Hay Fever" may be slightly out of season when it is presented March 7 and 8, we rejoice that once more the activity book ticket marked "Dramatics" will have some significance. We rejoice equally that there are four men in the cast.
According to PM, the $5 a ton price increase will net the steel industry a total of 90 million dollars, clear, more than, over and above, and in excess of the amount necessary to meet the wage demands agreed to. Wonder who won that strike?
Farewell To Arms
The Douglas county commissioners, acting to prevent the sale of beer in places which allow dancing (or vice-versa), are taking a step comparable to the nation's pituitical binge after World War I when the 18th amendment was passed.
Speculation is profuse concerning the backing and desired effect of the resolution. Rumors have it that the churches back the resolutions for moral upgrading; city tavern owners back it through jealousy of the outlying establishments, doctors back it on some theory for resultant better health; and bootleggers back it for the possible good business ensuing.
Probable effects of the resolution, however, lie more within the realm of accurate speculation. Proprietors of the establishments concerned do not hesitate to say that of the two attractions, dancing will go if the new rule is enforced. Dancing is not directly remunerative; beer sales are.
The student who likes to relax will either resume the pre-tavern era practice of spending many weekends in Kansas City, or he will drop the "immoral" pastime of dancing and concentrate on beer drinking.
In 90 days, students may be faced with the possibility of having no place to dance in all of Douglas county. The results, although seemingly obvious, can hardly be what the county fathers had in mind.
He has about one other choice—that of staying home every night and carefully dividing his time between thumb-twiddling and the study of a foreign language. J.C.
A minority faction of New Orleans bobby-soxers hung a new label on Van Johnson recently—d.d.d. or dismal, dehydrated, drip. So young to be bitter.
Grief
I watch her walk away. My eyes
Know peace in her familiar movements.
For an instant, I do not know whether
I am seeing . . . or remembering . .
Her kiss . . . her presence beside me on sultry nights . .
The way she tossed her head and looked at me,
As if she were queen, and I a common vassal.
When she opens the gate, her silhouette stands
In bright profile against the setting sun.
Again I dream . . . or remember . . . her modesty . .
Her passing fancies . . . moments of conversation . .
Idealistic moments of our love,
Where her sensuous nobility made my adoration
Seem a wondrous idol of heaven.
As she closes the gate, her profile fades . .
Tidal waves of melancholy and despondency sweep in,
Overwhelming me in a slough of ditchwater hopes
And thoughts that seem lugubrious
Beside my bright love of months past.
.
JAMES NELSON
American College Quill Club
Letters to the Editor
G. I. Opposes
Anti-Conscription Letter
to the Daily Kansan:
"An "omniscient" G.L. writing a "NO" to conscription in the Feb. 18 Daily Kansan, contradicts himself all through his argument.
First, he suggests a "compromise"—the nation devoting its primary energies toward world peace and at the same time maintaining our national strength in case peace efforts fall. That is not a compromise. It is a two-pronged attack.
Preserving national strength h through "disciplined compulsory high school physical training" is so much nonsense. Real discipline just won't exist in high school p.t. unless army officers with full authority are trained and disciplined, they can it tried. And if you are going to have army officers empowered to supervise, you are getting back into your military compulsory training.
The whole idea the bright G.I. expressed is only a half-hearted attempt toward a desirable end which could be attained a thousand times more efficiently through pure and simple conscription.
Let's give our boys a year in the army. We need the military reserve, the experience, and the those young men that are good than years of college, ANOTHER G.J.
University Needs P.A. System, Student Says
To the Daily Kansan:
Why doesn't K.U. have a public address system? An institution as large and supposedly as up to date as this one needs an efficient intercommunication system.
The Daily Kansan carries news every afternoon, but there is no way of making important announcements in a hurry when the need arises.
If there had been a public address system last fall so that the announcement could have been made over the entire campus that the walkout was not officially sanctioned, most of the students involved would have left it.
I have attended two high schools and worked in one large industrial plant and all three had public address systems installed for quick announcements. All three combined had about half the number of persons now enrolled at K.U.
Why has an institution of KU's size and reputation so long neglected its equipment for quick, efficient collection of information to the students?
ROBERT M. CLAVE College Freshman
Read the Daily Kansan daily.
Extend That Roof
Cartoon from St. Louis Star-Times
Rock Chalk
By Bunny Lawler
Purl One, Drop Three—Oh, U,
Sig Alphs won their game, the S.
Alphs won their game. . . (to be
sung to the tune of "The Farmer I
the Dell") . . . and if any of you wish
to know how they did it, lend me
thine ears, er, eyes.
You see, to be a good basketball player, one must have strong hands and flexible fingers with which receive and pass the ball. Well, S.A.E.'s have discovered the power method to develop such technique. Knitting is the answer. Kellis Wheat and Page Brent have taken it very much to heart and knit determinedly every day in the library. Practicing on their team work, or hold the varnish while the other kni-
Of course, the fact that Cherry Henry, Alpha Chi, got tired of knitting her own yellow sweater, and needed a little help on the side, may have had something to do with the whole affair.
Theta Derby—The ensuing tale is a trifle confusing. It seems that traditionally, once a month, the members of the Theta senior class present a skit for the entertainment of the rest of the house. This month things got a little upset when Ginny Neal, Lolly O'Leary and Elaine Wells decided to do a take-off on Max Schulman's Zebra Derby.
The story is one of a veteran who returns to find matters not at all as he left them, so he goes into a terrible fit, pawing the ground, etc. (That doesn't sound quite plausible, but maybe he turns into a Zebra or something. We confess that we have not read the book.)
Anyway, Elaine was the veteran and rushed around tearing up paper, stomping on the floor, tearing her hair, and, most important, breaking records. There was dirty work afoot, for the issues Neal and O'Leary had with the record. "I dissolved the record 'E-Ba-Ba-Loo.' I and one which the rest of the chapter cannot stand, for the record she was supposed to break.
Thursday night, in tribute to his will-power, abstinence, and all that sort of thing, he actually was served a piece of meat. However, he commented that it was the first piece of transparent beef he'd ever seen. It wasn't really transparent at all... but it was sliced thin.
Incidentally, if anyone thinks he sees either Eddy or Jack in the Union, simply gorging, chalk it up to hallucination. They're not really there, you know.
Elaine is now wearing black crepe and the other Thetas are wearing guilty expressions.
Footprints in the Sands of—What K.U. woman has not been bewhistled as she passed the steps of Green hall? If you dislike the whistling, singing, yelling, screaming etc., don't ever walk up the steps.
We did not see this happen, but we heard it all the same. Some poor misguided maiden was evidently entering the law building for the first time, for we heard the familiar masculine voices counting thusly: one . . . two . . . three . . . four . . . fifesixsevenightineten.
If You Want a Loveliest—Feminine figures aren't the oniv ones being watched these days (Profound statement of the week.) The male species gets out of line, too, say Eddy Brunk and Jack Parrott, who have both gone on very rigid diets. They seem to be taking it quite seriously, too, because when tremendous dinners are served to the rest of the Phi Psi brothers, Eddy and Jack are brought a dish of carrots, or maybe a piece of celery.
It seems to have had results,however; Eddy has lost 11 pounds.
Mabel Elliott Writes Criminology Textbook
A new textbook on criminology is being written by Miss Mabel Elliott, associate professor of sociology. It will include special research on juvenile delinquency and women offenders.
Published this summer by Harper and Brothers, it will be one book in a series of which Dr. F. Stuart Schapin, of the University of Minnesota, is the editor.