PAGE TWO
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 10, 1945
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.
aaiut subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in the law school year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as class class of September 17, 1910 at the Post Office Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
ELEANOR ALBRIGHT           Managing Editor
ADRIENNA O'MALLEY        Asst. Editor
GARRY MARGAN             Makeup Editor
BETTY JENNINGS            Telegraph Editor
PATICIA PENNEY            News Editor
BILLIE M. HAMILTON      Asst. Editor
MARGARET WENSKI           Society Editor
JANE ANDERSON            Feature Editor
JOHN BURRICK            Research Editor
ANNABELLER SAYLOR       Research Editor
MARIAN THOMSON ... Asst. Feature Editor
JOY HOWLAND             Copy Editor
Staff Assistants:
JOAN VEATCH DIXIE GILLILAND
BARBARA EWING
NEAL SEHEAN
PAUL CONRAD
EDITORIAL STAFF
DOLORES SULEMAN
[ ] ___ Editor-in-Chief
LOREN KERN [ ] ___ Editorial Associates
BUSINESS STAFF
NANCY TOMLISON ... Business Manager
BETTY BEACH ... Advertising Manager
Assistants: BONTE BORNEKE, MARY BRANIGAN, ANN REDING, ANNE COE, SVILIA
Something Extra
Among students and faculty members alike, the War Memorial scenic drive suffers considerable unpopularity.
"The University needs new women's dormitories, new laboratory equipment, better paid teachers—so we pay $400,000 for a drive to display the campus ascans."
This criticism is generally that of an individual who heard of the memorial drive one minute and gave his opinion of it the next.
The drive, first of all, will not be ugly. Anyone who has taken the time to walk around the rim of the Hill along its proposed path can see that. The trees are beautiful, the bell tower which the drive is to pass will be beautiful, certainly the view it will command of the stadium and the valley is beautiful. The drive will be no back alley affair.
In the second place, the drive isn't preventing the University from having a new dormitory or from obtaining new laboratory equipment. It isn't that we have $400,000 and are trying to decide what to do with it. The $400,000 is coming from alumni who are contributing it for a specific purpose—a war memorial.
The memorial is not taking the place of a more practical addition to the campus. If it weren't being built, the $400,000 would not be donated.
The drive won't be unattractive, and it won't be harming the University by blocking better things. It is to be what its name implies, a memorial—something apart from the ordinary run of University planning. It is something extra in gratitude for something extra which men of the University of Kansas have contributed—M.M.
How About It?
If every high school in the state can produce an average of two plays a year, why can't the state university get up at least one?
Nobody asks for a Broadway production. But honestly, Mr. Dramatics department, students at K.U. would like to see some kind of drama during the year—just one workshop play would help.
American engineers are working on plans for dams and other flood control projects for the cantankerous Yangtze river in China. We are wondering who will be, the first American politician to urge T.V.A. fo the Yangtze.
Don't Forget That Book Comes In Two Volumes
Chemistry-Physics Building Suggested as Memorial
University Daily Kansan
Dear Editor
The buildings housing the chemistry and physics departments are characterized by inadequate classroom space, crowded laboratories, and meager office space. Safety conditions, due to the antiquity of the chemistry building, are deplorable. Fire, with a few minutes start, could ruin far more in equipment and work than the building is worth and would stop all chemical research work at K.U., and would slow science majors down.
What could be more appropriate as a memorial than a new chemistry-physics building? Such a building would help this country keep its place at a time when science is so important.
Dear Editor;
Thoughtfully yours,
Lawrence J. Gundy
Words of wisdom appeared in this column Nov. 29 when "a friend" considered the erection of a sadly-needed science building as being far more practical than the construction if the proposed scenic drive.
—Cartoon From The St. Louis Star-Times
Indianapolis (UP)—Patrons of a local bus line were astonished recently when the two cents they offered for a transfer also brought them a loaf of bread. The driver explained that he had found the bread in the street after a bread truck accident.
A.S.C. Commends Walkout Committee
An open letter to the walkout investigation committee:
Free Bread to Fares
The All-Student Council, upon hearing the report of your committee, wishes to express its appreciation for the work you have accomplished.
University Daily Kansan To the Editor
The fair-minded action taken concerning the accused leaders of the walkout and the proposed action for future walkouts, we feel, will meet with the approval of the student body.
Sincerely,
Leonard Brown,
Secretary, A.S.C.
German People, Pre-Nazi Leaders Also Are Guilty, Keemle Points Out
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
(United Press Staff Analyst)
The hands of the German people and their pre-Nazi leaders are not clean of war guilt.
That is the evidence being piled up at the Nuernberg trial of 20 German war criminals by an international tribunal of justice. Thus, not only the vicious Nazis are on trial, but in effect the leaders of an entire nation
The facts being brought out have a bearing on the argument over whether there are "good" and "bad" Germans, and whether a German who is not proven to have been an active Nazi is thereby exonerated from responsibility for Germany's assault on civilization.
There is no dispute at all about the guilt of the Nazis. They have already been convicted in the minds of civilized peoples. The introduction of testimony and affidavits against them is mainly designed to put it on the record in indelible ink for history.
The revelations which are being made are about Germany's deliberate planning of a world war before the Nazis seized power in another matter. This evidence indicates, although it does not necessarily prove, that the evil was there before the Nazis, and that Hitler's gang was spawned by it.
The most significant evidence to the above effect was an affidavit by George Messersmith, formerly American minister to Vienna. The affidavit quoted from a secret report which Messersmith made to the state department in 1935, in which he warned that certain respected and supposedly non-Nazi diplomats were as dangerous to the peace of Europe as Hitler himself. The men named included Franz von Papen, Baron Constantin von Neurath and Hans-Georg Mackensen.
The world believed that the three were at heart non-Nazi and would be ready to support a move ment to overthrow Hitler if they thought it would succeed, Messersmith, however, wrote:
"Europe will not get away from the myth that Neurath, Papen, and Mackensen are not dangerous people and that they are diplomats of the old school. They are in fact servants and instruments of the regime, and
just because the outside world looks upon them as harmless, they are able to work more effectively."
Messersmith clearly disclosed the plot to rape Austria.
Other evidence revealed that Hjalmar Schacht, former head of the Reichsbank and a leading international figure, planned for Hitler the financing and carrying out of the plot for world domination. It was shown that Schacht moved in on a plan for re-armament and conquest which was worked out by the General Staff and the Prussian militarists well before Hitler's seizure of power.
The army, navy, and air force were being readied for Hitler while he was still little more than a "beer hall" outcast.
There was, for instance, the shameless trickery by which the German navy was at that time being reborn under the direction of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Foreign powers were hoodwinked on ship tonnage. Submarines were built secretly in Spain—later to become the Fascist proving ground for the World War—and also in Finland. The crews were trained in the Netherlands, under the pretext of getting theoretically ready for "defense" against submarine warfare.
Later, this process was stepped up as Hitler completed the work of tearing—the Versailles treaty to shreds—but the tearing up was well under way before Hitler became chancellor.
American Legionnaires treated themselves to a very dignified, orderly convention this year. Precautions taken by Chicago saloon, hotel, and restaurant owners who remembered the 1930 blowout were entirely unnecessary.
Rock Chalk
By ANNE SCOTT
And the cyotes howled says Earl Crawford, Phi Psi, Last Satus. Earl slumbered away on the bus slept right through his hometown Chanute. At 1:30 he woke to find himself in Cherryvale.
Drowsily climbing from the bushe Sigh boy set out to hitch-hike, but motorists wouldn't co-operate All in all, he covered seven miles in two hours. After the first hours fatigue, sore feet, and hunger se-in-not to mention the coyotes who bothered Crawford just some. His hair was even standing on end, (his crew cut had nothing to do with it.)
After reaching civilization, Earl called his "worried" parents and was home, sleeping again, by 5:30.
Public utilities: Some prankster has been working overtime out in West Hills because the light and water service was turned off last week.
At Locksley hall it seems that everybody was either covered with soap or brushing their molars when the water "turned itself off". Shirley Wellborn was very perturbed until pre-nurse, Jane During came to the rescue with her rubbing alcohol. Where there's a will there's a way
Wrong John, Joe. Two weary coeds boarded a Lawrence bound train after shopping in K.C. As there were no available seats, the conductor told them to go to the Ladies' lounge. The two girls pushed their way into the lounge only to find college Joe comfortably relaxed within. This surprised them a little but they took it in their stride am began to converse with the perplexed male.
After minutes had passed, I asked the girls just what they were doing in the MENS lounge. T coed's said, "Well, didn't you know this was the LADIES lounge!"
Result—The fastest disappearane act in history was then performed by the KU Joe!
Bringin' home the turkey. Some of you may have noticed 'home-ec student Wayne Hird strolling casually down the campus carrying a roaster with his prize roast her turkey simmering within.
Before taking his masterpiece home to dinner, Wayne stopped of for his psych class. Need we say that there wasn't much left for dinner?
Gift Suggestions
"It is more blessed to give than a receive." This sacred plattitude he become somewhat meaningles through frequent repetition—an somewhat musty through infrequent application.
If each club and organized house would prepare a bundle for a child post-war Europe as a substitutive for the unstentional practice "drawing names" for the exchange gifts, a new warmth would enter in Christmas celebrations on Mou Oread.
Through the "Togs in a Tower project of the American Friends Service committee K.U. students have an opportunity this season to prov the same idea, stated differently- "It is more fun to give than to receive."
Friends may find more happiness in planning an outfit of new clothes for a needy child than they would spending hours at notions ad pefume counters, buying convention gifts for one another.
Reports of 10,000 children in Europe who may die this winter for want of food, shelter, and CLOTHING. must dampen the festive ardors of even the most thoughtless of us unless we can ease our conscience by sharing our abundance with them J. C.
1