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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JANUARY 29,1946
University
DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association,
National Editorial Association, and the
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 Law and Literature. In school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
DOLORES SULZMAN
ELEKANOR ALRIGHT
NANCY TOMLISON
BETTY BEACH
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Are We Afraid?
A student at Northwestern university writes, "We young people are afraid. . . that uncertain, nauseated feeling somewhere in our stomachs won't quite go away. We look around us for comfort and can find none. So we laugh, or sing, or swoon in front of our radios over a crooner we don't care about—we laugh and sing because we are afraid to stop and think."
How many young people at the University of Kansas are laughing and singing because they are afraid to stop and think—or how many are laughing and singing because they are unaware that there is anything to think about—any reason to be afraid?
Do we find enough time between adjusting to life in peacetime and reinstating the good days to wonder seriously if we have the strength to use the power right bestowed on us by high policy and technology to make the world a rational, civilized place?
We can remember the wealth of scientific knowledge of the Nazis and how it was used for specific and concrete purposes. We read about the results - human bodies tossed in a heap like so much rubbish. The piles of dead in Nagasaki, results of democratic scientific knowledge, were just as dead and unindividual as those in the Belsen camp. Do we have the strength to be different?
Freedom from want and freedom from fear need not be assigned exclusively to war-torn countries. We can go many places in our country where fear and want lights the eyes of our own people. Fear of hunger and deprivation. Fear of understanding. Fear of lack of justice. Fear of a jobless tomorrow. And fear of being just a little less than human in the eyes of more fortunate men. Do we have strength to displease these fears for all men?
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Are we afraid that our desire to get back to normal will make us too weak to hold on to gains made in war—gains like cooperation overseas, like enough money in the pay envelope to buy a laborer's wife the icebox she never had?
Do we sing and laugh because we are afraid to stop and think—or because we have the same confidence and strength that kept our men and women from being afraid during the war years.
Even if reconversion were coming along on schedule and the economic situation were looking up, man still would have no rest, according to a well-known designer who claims that the feminine curve, as fashion will show it this year, will be definitely dangerous to man's peace of mind.
Parents of some teen-agers hardly could say theirs were problem children—the kids aren't home long enough to give them any trouble.
This "business of your own" deal like the one Wallet and Bobble of Gasoline Alley have invested in is all right, but we know a lot of families who'd starve on the money they are making.
Rock Chalk
By RODNEY MORRISON
Final fling fatigue is fast becoming a blanket excuse for all the dumb things that would happen anyway. For instance—
In recitation. Prof. Karl Mattern asked what is a wounding band. Sydney Letson replied, "A band that plays at breakfast dances."
In poetry—
"I've been working on my finals
All the live long day.
I've been working on my finals Just to pass."
In definitions. Some Phi Psi read through "John Brown's Body" for an English composition course. He still thinks Harper's Ferry is a boat.
In humor. The freshman who says he's majoring in math because he goes in for figures.
In fact. Writing on a term paper one of our intellects decided, "Td better start typing faster or I'll run out of paper."
In Confidence. Some foreign language students spent the weekend calling out-of-town libraries for English translations of term reading projects.
In memoriam. Last year's two-hour finals.
In a rut. This column.
In fancy. Someone said the Kansas Jayhawk claims to be a relative of the P-80 . . . at least a lot of them speed back and forth across the
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In the pink. The slumbering sophomore who answered, "Present," three times before the professor convinced her he was conducting class recitation and not taking roll.
In closing. Remember, finals spelled backward is Skanif.
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