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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 6, 1945
Kansan Comments False Spring Wrought By Nature Reminder to Man of Futile Wars
Nature wars against herself and so does man.
We looked with apprehensive eyes at a belated onslaught of winter against a newly-blossomed spring. When had there been such splendor of redbud—such gold of forsythia bushes? When had the lilacs drooped so low with unopened clusters? And the orchards! The orchards and fruit trees that dot the countryside—the lilting fragrance of peach and plum and pear—when had they held such promise of bounty?
All this we saw and loved, then winter returned momentarily. In one freezing night with wind and ice Nature fell on herself and ravaged the pregnant spring. Black were the lilacs and barren the trees in the morning. Why must the forces of nature conflict? Why with one hand should she cut off the other?
Nature destroys herself, but there's man—what of him? This creature of nature endowed with intelligence
—what of him? What of the spring-time of man? What of the manhood that strives for the stars through test tubes and microscopes? What of minds that have sought to understand and live the ethics of Jesus and Socrates? Surely here, in a wisdom that has bull-dogged the elements, man has proof of his ascendency over those elements.
The answer? You know it too well! With his hands in a strangle hold about his neck, man is killing himself. Nature is not so vicious as he who would lop off an arm or a leg at the expense of the rest of his body rather than find the cause of the malady and remedy it. The intelligence that might be finding better ways of life has turned to more effective means of death—means of blasting to bits the work of man's hands and the flesh of his flesh.
Blackened buds and blossoms, broken lives and dreams—neither will ripen for harvest.—R.E.
Newspaper Collection Records Main Events in World History
(Editor's note: This is the second in the series of two articles showing newspaper headlines recording history.)
The newspaper collection in Prof. Elmer F. Beth's office, in the "Shack," contains many other records of recent world history.
There is a Nov. 14, 1931, edition of the San Francisco Call Bulletin with the front page devoted to a life-sized picture of the largest baby born in San Francisco. The baby weighed 14 pounds and 7 ounces.
There are Paris editions of the Chicago Sunday Tribune; bound copies of the Chicago Sun which were published a month before the newspaper actually went on sale; copies of the Hartford Newsday which experimented with offset lithography (this permits the inexpensive publishing of pictures because it does not require engravings), extras of the Daily Kansan telling of the Anatomy building fire, the Pearl Harbor attack edition, and a 1937 April Fool edition shouting in black headlines, "Faculty strikes" and "No classes until decision is reached."
Although there is no complete file known to exist of the New York Evening Graphic, called the most sensational New York tabloid, Mr Beth has four copies including two Saturday editions with the rotogravure section. One of these copies contains the story of Celia Cooney, notorious woman ganster. There are also copies in the collection of the New York Evening Post when it was a tabloid in 1933.
One of the most unusual-looking front pages of the collection is the front page of the Oct. 5, 1942, edition of the Emporia Gazette, published by William Allen White. A small amount of printing is on the front
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page, giving the weather report and unimportant local news but the other columns are marked "censored." Mr. White had set up the front page as it should have been printed, with the national and international events filling the columns. He then had marked out all this news to show what stories could not have been printed if the paper had been published in any of the Nazis' nations.
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There is a copy of the Detroit Daily which is important for its editorial without words. The column this edition with the exception of reserved for editorials was blank for two pictures in the center. The top picture showed coffins of four high school students and, beneath it, the picture of the three men, who had murdered them, behind prison bars. The editorial is entitled "Michigan Justice."
Mr. Beth says that these newspapers are just a few of the many in his possession but that they are among the more interesting. The history of the world, as well as the history of journalism, can be found in such collections of newspapers.
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen spoke at the Wyandotte High school basketball banquet in Kansas City, Kan., last night.
Dr. Allen will speak at the high school All-Sports banquet in Burlington tonight.
Dr. Allen Speaks at Banquet
Rock Chalk Talk
By PAT PENNEY
Saga of a sailor—One KU V-12, it seems, has succeeded admirably in getting his wires crossed. The gregarious gob had been writing to two nurses for some time—one who lived in Lawrence and is now in Kansas City and the other from his home town. And each girl has been getting the same ol' line from the amorous seaman. Twas all very well and good perhaps, until the two girls, who had been friends all along, got together during a vacation here in Lawrence and started comparing notes. Determined to repay the V-12's generosity, the two plotted, and the result was one embarrassed sailor.
The Lawrence nurse called the V-12 immediately on arriving in town and asked that he come down. Being the co-operative type, he compiled, and was greeted affectionately at the door. During the greeting, the other nurse walked in, and the two girls laughed at the plight of another man, foiled again.
For further details, call PT-9.
Appropriate appropriation — Then, there was the student who suggested, quite seriously, that the profits from the Sour Owl be used to start the Danforth chapel fund.
For bitter or for worse—A KU coed, we'll call her Ann Oynomus, left school last fall to be married, returned this semester, and was living happily ever after—until the mailman brought tidings from an ex-boy friend. The boy wrote that he was getting a leave next week and was planning on spending it with our Ann, who foolishly had neglected until March to write to him about her marriage. And Johnny came
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Independents to See Unorganized Students
Every student not living in an organized dormitory will be visited by an Independent representative within the next two weeks, it was decided at a meeting of the precinct chairmen in the Union Lounge last night. The Independent activities book and details of the organization will be given to all who have not yet had an opportunity to become an active member.
Students not otherwise organized to represent a country at the mock peace conference will be divided by precincts.
Plans for an all-Independent mixer this month were discussed.
McCracken Announces Engagement The announcement of the engagement of Julia Ann Casad and Lt. Ralph Dagenia, former aeronautical engineering student, at Miller hall Monday night was made by Miss Anna McCracken, of the department of physiology.
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McCracken Announces Engagement
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Hart Schaffner & Marx Worsted Suits . . $35 to $40
Varsity Town Young Men's Suits . . $20 to $25
Varsity Town Sport Coats ... $18.50
Carlbrooke Sport Coats ... $18.50
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For engineers only — Kirk Scott entered PT-10 Wednesday to find the whole second floor enveloped in steam. Hardly able to see his hand in front of him, Kirk groped his way to the shower room, where he was able to barely discern a strange form stumbling toward him, and to hear Jim Sanders gasping, "Delta U—I've found Delta U!"
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Delta U is the thermo-dynamic theory of internal energy, in case laymen are reading this.
"To the bacter—the entomol—the zo — Snow!" answered befuddled Woodie.
marching home from overseas in February! The letter had never reached him, and now, too late for breaking it to him gently, frantic wires and specials fly between Lawrence and a Florida base.
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Just make it short and simple—"Where are you going, Woodie?" hollered a Pi Phi pledge at pledge sister, Joan Woodward, on the campus yesterday.
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Present in mind—Mr. Davis went down the roll hurried in class one day, and called out, "Miss Cornwell!" From down the hall, an echo of "Here!" reached his ears, and minutes later, Alberta Cornwell, D.G., ran gasping into the classroom.
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Counsel to the council—At Tuesday night's meeting of the All Student Council to discuss a change in the elections system, students were amused to note the one piece of sheet music on the piano in the men's lounge of the Union was "Don't Ever Change."
Official Bulletin UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Friday, April 6, 1945
The University Housemoments association will meet in Myers hall at 2:00 p.m., Monday, April 9th. Charlotte, Nellis
Charlotta Nellis.
University Daily Kansan
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Business Manager    NANCY TOMLINSON
Advertising Manager    CHARLES KOUNN
Mall subscriptions rates from March 7 to June 18, 1945, outside Lawrence, $1.75; outside Washington, $2.00; $0.4 tax; and $70 postage. Yearly rates outside Lawrence $3.50 plus $0.7 tax; inexpensive outside Lawrence $3.00 plus $1.40 postage. Published in Lawrence Kansas, every afternoon during the school holidays, Tuesday and Sunday. University days, Wednesday and Sunday periods. Entered as second class matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under act of March 3, 1879
Jayhawk Stands As Kindly Bird For Orphans
The Jayhawk nursery for evacuated infants and war-orphans has been one of 21 such nurseries carried on in Great Britain under the Save the Children federation, explained Miss Margaret Lynn, chairman of the Jayhawk nursery committee in Lawrence today.
This nursery was undertaken by members of the University and alumni, and the Lawrence community. The British Ministry of Health matches the American gifts, so only half of the total maintenance has been provided by the sponsors.
From February, 1942, it was housed in Foxhill, a man-house belonging to the late Captain Fitzroy, speaker of the House of Commons. A few months ago it was necessary to give up the manor house at Rugby and to transfer the children to another place. The original name was transferred, and the new house wears the plaque which carries the Jayhawk picture. It is said that the children take a sort of merry pride in their connection with the queer, crusty bird. The new place is at Barnstaple on the North Devon shore.
"The 35 children in the nursery were mostly from the ruined homes of Birmingham," said Miss Lynn. "When the children reach the age of five, some can be restored to parents or friends, others are sent to schools adapted to their age."
Two out of every three persons in England, both men and women, are working full time in the armed forces, civilian defense or munitions, and their children are in great need of the care which these nurseries offer. Some of the children at the Jayhawk nursery have been orphaned by bombings of many of the cities in England.
The faculty, alumni and friends of the University donated $3,500 last year to establish and support the Jayhawk nursery for one year under the auspices of the Save the Child federation. "These children are given nourishing food and learn to play and sleep peacefully," said Miss Lynn, "and gradually the horrible memory of the bombings will be erased."
"Once more Kansas is being asked to keep alive its humane connection with the needs of our ally," concluded Miss Lynn.
Survey Set Up in 1889
Survey Set Up in 1889 Provisions for the State Geological survey was made in the reorganization of the University in 1889.
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