PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS DECEMBER 13, 1945 University DAILY KANSAN Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the National Advertising Association presented 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 journals, Kan, every month during the semester. Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered in second class matter 17, 1810, at the University of Kansas; Kan, under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF ELEANOR ALRIGHT Managing Editor VIRGINIA VAN ASTER Assistant Editor ALEXANDRA GANNON Maker Editor BRYCE JENNIE Telegraph Editor PATRICIA PENNEY Editor BILLIE H. HAMILTON Assistant News Editor MARGARET WENKI Society Editor MARGARET WENKI Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF NANCY TOMLSON ... Business Manager BETTY BEACH ... Advertising Manager Assistants: BOH BONNEHAM, MARY BRANKIN, ALENA, ALEXANDER, SOLLYVA THOMPSON, THOMPSON Ex-Extremists Now that returns are in from the several European elections, it is enlightening to evaluate the trends which these results indicate. Most striking is the fact that not a single extremist group, excepting those in Portugal, Spain, and the Russian sphere, triumphed. This contradicts most predictions based on political tendencies after the last war, when Europeans were either duped or beaten toward one extreme or the other. This time Europe's plain people, abused for years in the Right-Left struggle, knew what they wanted and expressed it in their ballots. Six years of World War II proved to them that neither extremist group was insurance against the evils of the other. Emerging as most representative of Europe's political complex today are the moderately progressivist parties in France, Austria, Hungary, and Scandinavia, where a challenging new vitality was exhibited in the recent elections. Conceived on a liberal religious basis of social justice with little semblance of prewar reactionaries, these parties are economically left of the U. S. New Deal, but still represent a strengthening of the center in European politics. At least it is plain that the old Right is smashed and the Left is not victorious. Old notions have been scrapped as Europe's people move, at least temporarily, from the dilemma of extremism. It remains to be seen whether the Communists, now thwarted or assuaged in Europe, can effect a reemphasis of radicalism through their present policy of cooperation with the new democratic governments—F.F. Right This Way Last Saturday members of the student body underwent the unusual experience of enjoying en masss the same social function. Their mutual activities began early in the morning and grew in scope till midnight. The party—and it was that—included students who hadn't been together at a social event all year. Dancers and non-dancers. Daters and non-daters. Those who danced patronized the band, those who didn't rung ducks or took toy train rides. The daters stayed close to their companions. The stars played at professional wolfing or ran mid-way events. Every student found something he could do and in that discovery recognized himself as a member in good standing of a very wonderful bunch of people. That bunch is the so-called student body—plandits to anything, side show or Santa Claus, which unites it for even a one-night stand of compact existence—M.M. Rock Chalk Talk By RODNEY MORRISON Convenience. A Battenfeld lad stopped in at Miller hall just a few minutes before closing hours. While waiting for his g.f. to come down-stairs, he did some small talk with the phone girl, mentioning that he'd really just stopped off on his way from the library "to get warm." The Parisian Touch, Herbie Ray, back from several years of war duty, asked to be excused from Phi Psi intramural practice the other evening—he had an appointment with a manicurist. It's an old French custom, he explained to the fellows Look Who's Talking. For months now Muriel Stember, Watkins hall president, has been delivering long sermons on "taking groceries from another kitchen's supply closet." The disappearance of staple goods continued from the closest of K-7... and, at last, the president, a member of K-1, discovered she'd be using K-7's groceries since the semester began. Beauty between blankets. Several Corbin hall girls bought a family-size box of oatmeal for facials (they read the recipe in a beauty mag). It didn't cause a lot of improvement and the box was still pretty full—so the oats are being spread nightly between bed blankets of friends. (No reference to the "sowing of wild oats" is intended in this item.) What Do You Think? Fatigue. A local commercial photographer spent the better part of an afternoon taking pictures of Potter lake. He got back to his office, picked up the phone and absent-mindly asked the operator "Potter lake, please." When she told him there was nothing like that listed, he told her he had the negatives to prove there was. Why We wilt. The latest, says a campus character, to get away from a meeting early is to say, "Sorry, boys. Gotta go. Get a date with an egg and don't want break it." Cinema News. A sequel to the movie, "Kiss and Tell," will be "Beck and Shut Up." On the evils of drink. A friend of Horace, the type louse, said once that "Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into." That may be a matter of opinion. Horace says. But both he and his friend agree that if you drink hair restorer, every dram should be followed with some good standard depilatory as a chaser. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MEN WEARING WEDDING RINGS? Opportunity. This winter precipitation means something different to each of us. Some think of it only in the light of cold feet and chances for pneumonia. Then there's the V-12 who recalls that snowball fights with women's houses last year led to some mighty fine acquaintances. Don't think they should. My daddy never has."Bonnie Jean Holden, College sophomore, Pitts- burg. "Never having married, I couldn't say how I'd like it."—J. B. Rader, junior engineer, Howard. "Yes, I think they should wear The double-header lecture program given by Ely Culbertson and Lewis Browne Tuesday night was one of the most thought provoking things offered at the University so far this year. These two men offered the stimulus that makes students actually want to read and to understand. Just about any time now we can officially hang the crepe for the peace conference which, with its suggested modifications, now must be crowding the entrance to the great beyond. As for its foster parent, the student forums board—may it, too, rust in peace! We won't comment on the cause of its death, nor do we intend to write an obituary describing the various phases of its short but turbulent existence. Yet scarcely a handful of students were present to grasp this rare incentive. Only a few had courage to face professors Wednesday morning empty-handed or felt they could afford the lowered grade such unpreparedness would warrant. The rest dutifully went to the library (it was packed) or stayed at home, busy with Wednesday assignments. In Memoriam We wonder at those professors who actually thought the assignment they made for Wednesday would be more valuable to their students than the Culbertson-Browne offering in Hoch.-M.M. The student it seems is almost forced at times to resolve into a prototype of the tuba player who was so wrapped up in his own "um-pa-pa" he was never able to hear the melody of the overture. --them. Girls deserve that forewarning so they won't waste an approach on some family man".—Sue Blessington, College senior, Wellington. No Go, Gotta Study "Well it's a little binding—but as long as it's sort of a bond of friendship symbol, I guess it's all right." *Dean Corder*, senior engineer, Welda. "I think it looks nice—as if there were more there, somehow." Irene Sewell, College junior, Kansas City, Mo. "They should. When I have a husband, I want him to be every bit as married as I am." —Violet Conard, education senior, Coolidge. "I think it should be required—especially if they're going to school." *Martha Jo Easter, College sophomore, Abilene.* "Most women buy wedding rings for their husband because they don't trust him. My husband doesn't have a ring - I trust him." Mrs. Marjorie (Skeen) Parmiter, Fine Arts junior Eskridge. "I'm agin' it. It gives women an extra advantage in the game of love." -Owen Peck, college junior, Kansas City. "Not being a married man, I hate to say. But I guess it's a good thing. Lots of folks are doing it."—Cecil "Tex" Langford, junior engineer, Killgore, Texas. "Since women do, men should, too. It's a form of mutual protection."—Mary Wisner, College sophomore, Howard. "I think it's a good idea. We like to know when we're playing with fire."—Mary Franklin, Fine Arts sophomore, Liberal. "A swall idea. Very good. It binds the two together, figuratively speaking" -Caryn Pryor, College junior, Little Rock, Ark. Indian Skull Given to Dyche By Mount Hope Man Dyche Museum has received a skull of an Indian which was taken from a sandpit along the Arkansas river near Mount Hope. The skull was a gift to the museum from Mr. Bernard Lauterbach of Mt. Hope, who found the skull 20 feet below the surface while working in the sandpits. Letters to the Editor Jayhawker Editor Answers Council's Charge Dear Editor: The old bird was a hit and run victim Tuesday night. The Student Council has found a new bayonet-practice dummy in the Jayhawker magazine. This, unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise was dropped into the collective lap of the Jayhawker staff Wednesday morning when an inquiring reporter from the Kansan made the tip-off. Anne Stevens declared at council meeting that there was not enough Independent representation and too many feature articles. We have yet to see Miss Stevens set foot inside the Jayhawker office and present her case to the staff. We'd like to point out to Miss Stevens — and other Independent students; 1. Two of the three editorial associates are Independents. 5. A page devoted to orientation week, in which Bonnie Cunningham, Corbin, is pictured. 2. Seven of the 10 veterans pictured in the opening article are Independents. 6. A number of Independent candid shots. 3. Thirteen independent houses with their freshmen are pictured. 4. A story about Independent housing and operation. 7. An independent sophomore, Tina Fotopolous, pictured on a full page. 8. A full page shot of Dick Bertuzzi, also an Independent. It was from the very beginning—and is—our aim what there be no Greek-Independent politics connected with the Jawhawk. For those who oppose the "light touch," we advise them to read farther than the headline and the first paragraph on the stories, and they will find that 14 of the 24 articles are in a serious vein. Snappy, headlines and feature beginnings on stories is by far the most effective way of appealing to readers. If some of the dissatisfied members of the Student Council would step into the office for awhile each day, they might come to realize that editorial workers, office assistants, contributors, and others, are chosen not because of class distinction or groups, or "friends," but according to the amount of time they are willing to sacrifice, and the talent they possess. What better picture of campus life could be had than a magazine which included veterans, Independents, Greeks, football, intramural, rush-week, orientation week, the Memorial road, the Navy R.O.T.C., personality sketches of teachers, and a number of others? The main purpose of having four issues was to present as many activities as possible by the end of the year. All activities can certainly not be crowded into one issue. We select, on the basis of past experience with other Jayhawkers and current events, what will determine the contents of each issue. The contributors include the best that the University has to offer. We believe that if everyone who was in doubt as to the merits of the last issue would analyze it carefully, the majority would find the same sort of satisfaction we found just before the issue came off the press. We who burned the midnight oil for weeks on end, know that each page was carefully planned and written. HANNA HEDRICK, Jayhawker Editor. Canadian women have their troubles, too. In the last three years, 27,000 Canadian servicemen have married British women. Canadian-British marriages are continuing at the rate of 1,000 a month. Now the Canadian boys are asking permission to marry Dutch, French, and Belgian girls. Normal Times Are Unknown To Our Generation----- University Daily Kansan Dear Editor; "We'll soon be back to normal." Let's not be silly. No one of our age has even a vague idea of what "normal" means. Our generation has never known anything but huge problems. We were born in the hectic post-World War I era; we grew up during the deepest and most widespread depression the world has ever experienced; we have fought in the most catastrophic war of all time; and, we have been on hand to view the result of the greatest achievement of science. We have been "living in a great big way," and now it would appear that the time has come to solve some of our huge problems, or we may all be "dying in a great big way." Unfortunately, the answer by college students to the foregoing paragraphs would be, for the most part, "So what?" Nevertheless, we are faced with the tremendous task of establishing a workable internationalism. We must decide what to do with atomic energy now that we have it—potentially the finest constructive force ever discovered. We have before us the imperative necessity of maintaining peace in a world that seemingly is speaking only in terms of war. Can the two words, "So what," solve any of these problems? Are college students really so im-mature that, when faced with a need for action, their only response is two ambiguous words-of-one-syllable?-J.G. Students Should Make Their Opinions Known University Daily Kansan Dear Editor: During the American revolutionary history, colonial leaders formed committees of correspondence to organize resistance against the Sugar act, Stamp act, and other attempts to suppress American liberty. The idea of the committees of correspondence spread all through the colonies. The history of the committees is the history of the preliminaries of the Revolutionary war, United, they made the opposition felt. I think committees of correspondence composed of American college students could have as spontaneous a growth and far-reaching effect. It would be a way of letting our law makers know what we think of peacetime conscription, our Russian foreign policy, and the use of the atomic bomb. We wouldn't be the only university with the same idea. Mary Breed. Peace Conference— Where Is It? University Daily Kansan Dear Editor: How about that peace conference? Not long ago, certain persons on this campus were 'all excited about the Daily Kansan's story concerning this meet, but so far there seems to have been no one interested enough in the matter to do anything about it. Times marches by but the forums board and its plans for peace seem to have fallen out of the parade. M. T. We can start looking forward to the next V-day soon. The date, Feb. 14, was arranged by St. Valentine some years ago. According to Yank, the army weekly, official surveys have concluded that the CI of World War II is a more sober fellow than his father was. The survey failed to bestow on him the added honor of having the world's toughest stomach, say veterans who have sampled distillery products of many lands.