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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 30,1945
University DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence) add $1 a semester postage). Published in Law and School school your except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Kanker,伞, under act of March 3, 1879.
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ASSISTANT: BORE BONDERKAK, MAJNY BRANI-
ANK, ANN RIBING, ANNE COO, SOLLYA
In Small, ELEGANT THROUGH
In Charge This Issue Anne Scott
Whose Move?
You haven't heard anything about the campus peace conference since the initial blow up in October, and it isn't because the conference has been progressing behind closed doors. The conference, to be truthful, simply hasn't progressed. Orphaned at the age of five months, the project was never solicited by its foster parent, Forums board, whose members announced at the beginning that they "didn't have time to think about organizing it until after mid-semesters."
Now at last, with a few professors, they have started to thing, and a few indefinite ideas rattle around in the projects, void. First of all, the board has concluded that we do not need a conference as such. They favor a series of movies, panels, discussions, and chatty affairs at professor's homes.
One proposal which should excite students even if a lasting peace doesn't is a week-end get-together at Lone Star lake.
But the way things stand now, these ideas will spend themselves soon. The Forums board is only mildly inspired. Apparently, even with mid-semesters behind them, they find it hard to become enthusiastic over the prospect of making a 3-man stand against the problems of the world. And professors have been fed up for some time with planning things for students and then sitting around talking to themselves.
But we also know that a substantial percentage of students is sincerely worried about the state of the world. These students are eager for any crumb of understanding, any hint of solution.
What the project must have before it can or will be carried on is student support, active student participants. Even a hundred in the beginning would be enough.
We have heard an appalling number of undergraduates admit that they aren't interested in world problems.
They have the interest to back discussions of peace; they are the key to the whole campus project. We call upon them now to make themselves and their interests articulate, to indicate to the Forums Board chairman, George Caldwell, and to professors of the political science department that any word on world affairs will have an audience.-M.M.
There's More Than Japan Attached
Throwing in a Towel
While we look forward to a prewar Christmas holiday, unrated meat and butter, nylon hose, and better service in cafes and department stores, masses of shifting, homeless Europeans are facing a winter of famine, cold and disease
Since then several Y.W.C.A. groups have "adopted" European families and have introduced the "Togs in a Towel" plan to organized houses.
Several weeks ago Miss Myra Lou Williamson, youth secretary of the Kansas Institute of International Relations, gave W.W.C.A. members a hint as to how they could help needy children in Europe.
The togs are wrapped in a towel and sent to the service committee for shipment to a child in Europe. The donor's name and address is pinned to the towel.
Paul' West, training officer from Veterans Administration in Kansas City, will meet with K.U. veterans from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, in Frank Strong auditorium. Appointments may be made through the local veterans office with Mr. West to discuss any questions not answered Monday or questions of a personal nature.-George Parmelee, secretary, Jyhawk Veterans.
The plan, sponsored by the American Friends Service committee, makes it possible for persons in the United States to send clothes and presents to European families. An individual, club, or organization selects a child of a certain age and buys an outfit of clothing for him.
Delaware retains the whipping-post as a punishment for criminals.
As we set out to do our shopping for Christmas and for luxuries we were denied during the war, a thought about our European neighbors who are without the bare necessities of life should prompt us to throw in a towel—with togs for needy children.
Notices must be typwritten and must be in Public Relations office, 222A, Frank Strong, not later than 6pm. No messages accepted.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Cartoon from St. Louis Star Times
University of Kansas Nov. 30, 1945
Rock Chalk Talk
By RODNEY MORRISON
In the interest of art? Just about the time the man shortage seems to be letting up, something happens to indicate that the situation tends the other way. There is a well-built statue of a man in Fraser hall entitled, "The Dying Dying Gaul." Over the weekend the Gaul acquired a suspicious coating of lipstick.
Chi Yeah! Some enterprising young man was rather startled the other evening when he called for Connie Cloughley at the Chi O house. Joan Larsen answered the phone and went to find Connie. Connie was taking a bath and wanted him to call later. In her haste to say the right thing Joan blurted out, "She's out of the house right now, but she said to call back in 10 minutes."
Laundry blues. Sig Alph men are still wondering why laundry men can't be convinced that Fran is a boy's name and that brother Fran Pierpont lives at the S.A.E. house—not the Chi O lodge.
Alah! It Sad? The hanging of a black crepe on a door at Jolliffe hall notified residents of the death of a thoroughbred Gupple fish three-eighths of an inch long. An appropriately short sermon and a soft rendition of "Asleep in the Deep" over the body of the deceased cinched the funeral ceremony. Among the mourners of this leviathan of the deep were companion Guppies, Eustacius and Gertrude, who, themselves, expired a few hours after their friend's rites.
Fowl Play—Rosie Erwin and Mar-
jorie Bentley, Henley店, spent
Stork stuff. Carefully cradling a towel-wrapped hot water bottle in her arms, a Miller haller entered the sleeping porch to sleep off a common cold. An upper-bunk occupant observed the entrance, sat bolt upright, and asked eagerly, "Gosh, Doc, is it a boy?"
You should know—the lavestest campus pass-word and greeting is "Tovarich!"
a nectic quarter hour chasing what they thought was a bat. When the bird landed on a bed, the girls decided it was an English sparrow, anyway.
Happy weekend—If the "admitted to the hospital" list means anything, K.U. students had more to think about than preserving their health over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Toast of the week:
Here's to God's first thought,
Man!
And 'here's to God's second thought, Woman!
Second thoughts are always best—
So here's to women!
Heard on the Campus. "She has the most darling southern accent—where's she from?"
A shy lad of 21. Women in an organized house were voting to determine when they wanted to clothes in the "Togs in a Towel" plan for European children. They had their choice of boy or girl of any age. At least half the house held out for a boy, age 21.
"Wichita."
You know how is it. With everyone knocking themselves out these days trying to be clever, we hear things like: Exchange dinners between women's organized houses are a means of sibisternization.
Under Wrong Bed
Hammond, Ind. (UP)—Finding a man under the bed might have been an answer to a maiden's prayer, but it scared Robert G. Olwarez. Olwarez awoke one morning to find a stranger under his bed. He rushed out of the room, locked the door and called the police. The stranger couldn't explain how he got there.
'Kids' Are Vets
Evanston. Ill. (UP)—There are five real veterans on the so-called "Kid" football team of Northwestern University. The group is comprised of four former Army air corps pilots and one gunner.
An Editorial
Peace Is Not Absence of War
Adm, William V. Pratt, author of a current series of interpretative articles in Newsweck magazine, wrote for the Nov. 26 issue under the title, "Preparedness as a Weapon for Peace." Characterizing the public attitude toward national security as hazy and fallacious, he argued that indeed preparedness is a weapon for peace.
But, speaking of fallacies, Adm. Pratt's thesis is predicated on a popular misconception of the nature of peace. According to this widely held mistaken idea, peace is a thing to be fought for and that once gained, it can be guaranteed, protected, cradled, and coddled, by threat of war.
Under the influence of this misconception, we are logically led to seek weapons with which to secure the peace. We seem to learn from experience that preparedness will protect a nation from war, that is, keep the peace.
The fallacy in this is that peace is not the mere absence of war, it is a positive, though complicated, force within a national or international community. Peace as a force is the dynamic result of the component forces of communal vitality, cooperation, common ambition, and just plain work. These forces operate only under conditions of relative prosperity, security, and freedom.
America at peace was America after the Revolution when she was, with vitality, cooperating in the pursuit of her ambition to build a new nation on the shores of the new continent.
America at peace was America after the Civil war, energetically working to make-of that nation an industrial giant that continued to grow until today we are called the greatest sovereign power on earth.
Our conception of peace, then,
should be like that of a man riding
a bicycle. While he keeps up speed,
he is secure. But he keeps his speed,
not by trying to remain secure, but
by pushing the pedals, by working.
So the peace problem is a 'problem
of humanity as a 'whole and
can be settled only by applying on
a world-wide scale the forces that
are the components of peace.-LK.
And as the United States grew, other nations were growing, and today we are crowding each other. Frictions develop between us and must be overcome. And when the stuff of peace wears thin, when the constructive forces grow weak, wars break out. Man tries to fight out the problems that he cannot work out. But when the fighting is done, he finds that the problems are still there.
The annual Union carnival will be held Dec. 8 in the Military Science building, Alberta Cornwell, Union president, announced today.
"Organized houses that wish to erect booths should telephone Elaine Wells, Union secretary at 295, no later than Monday," Miss Cornwell said.
Houses Will Sponsor Booths at Carnival
Booths will be judged on originality, cleverness, and attractiveness she explained.
In the past years booth attracts have featured cokes, marriages, and shows, chance games, and games requiring skill in marksmanship.
"A small general admission fee for dancing will be charged," Miss Cornwell said. "Each house will determine the fee for entering its particular booth."
The first English-speaking white man to see Kansas was the son of Daniel Boone, born August 22, 1828.
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