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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 19
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Youth Movement Leader Inducted Into Air Corps
Upon the recent admission of Harris Wofford, Jr., into the army air forces, Thomas Hughes of Carleton college, Minn. has been elected president of the Student Federalist Union, an affiliate of Clarence Streit's Federal Union, Inc. Hughes duty will be to carry on the important work of the union, which is one of the few U. S. youth movements of recent years that didn't spring from left-wing promptings.
The student group, which celebrated its first anniversary as a national organization on Armistice day, is made up of several thousand students from some 102 high schools and colleges. The purpose of the group is so to influence all post war planning that a third world was will not result. To accomplish their purpose, Student Federalist members have set up as their three goals the attainment of 100,000 student members, 30,000 teacher members, and 25,000 student leaders trained in summer camps. The organization has established regional headquarters in 10 sections of the country and national headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The plan for a Student Federalist Union originated with Wofford, who, early in 1942, head Clarence Streit talk over the radio about a federal union of mankind. The idea made sense to the 15-year-old boy, and he decided that his generation should be a powerful factor in such a union.
The first student organization was made up of his friends at Scarsdale high school in New York. Soon chap- ters sprang up in 20 near-by schools and the campaign spread.
The next step was the publishing of a monthly newspaper, which today reaches 40,000 readers. The publication explains the purpose of the group and invites students everywhere to join.
Upon graduation from high school, Wofford, president of the union, made a nation-wide speaking tour and organized new chapters in 50 high schools and colleges.
On March 31, delegates from 75 school groups met at Columbia university for their first national meeting, and delegates declared their 100 per cent support of a strong world federation.
Of the philosophy behind the student group, Wofford said, "After a great war like this, there comes a brief time when world affairs are in a period of flux, and are malleable to the extent that the world can be molded into any form. If the world fails to make use of the opportunity this brief period of flux provides, affairs will go back to normal and will not be malleable until heated up in the crucible of a third world war."—D.M.
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Rock Chalk Talk
By PAT PENNEY
Charles Moffett, who was well on the road to recovery from an injury received in the Tiger fracas, is reported by Watkins hospital authorities to have suffered a severe relapse after reading in Wednesday's column of the plight he was in because of the Kappa and Chi O open house dates. But, Mof can rest in peace now, 'cause the Kappas have changed their open house to Jan. 6, a fact which we might mention also relieves Wally Rouse, Fiji, no end. Don't take these little things so hard, boys. Stay in there and fight. Hubba, hubba, Magic!
Et Bennett, Theta, was sitting at a cafe counter talking to Bud, when sisters Saddy Phipps and Babe Donovan came in.
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Babe and Saddy asked Et to come sit with them in a booth, and Et replied. "You all come sit up here. I'm talking to your boy friend, Saddy." Saddy proceeded to tell Et in undertones that she had not been going with Bud in over a month, and that he was dating Lois Bradstreet Et remarked loudly, "Lois Bradstreet? You mean that cute Kapppled?" while Bud's countenance attained a rosy hue. Just about that time, Lois got up from a booth a few feet away, and left with nary a look or a farethewell in Bud's chagrined direction.
Found: One size 15 (or larger) pair of galoshes on the Pi Phi front porch. Gene Kittle, please claim.
Some appreciative Music Appreciation student wrote the following ode to Miss Cass, Fine Arts School, on the blackboard before she entered class:
Sources in Washington, who are supposed to be "in the know," say that the Russians withdrew because they were not informed about the invitations to the conference officially, nor were the names of the countries to which the Soviet took exception mentioned. They say that the Russians feel that there is no "mutual confidence" among the great powers of the postwar planners.
Miss Cass is my instructor I shall always flunk
She maketh me to sit down and take dictation.
And so we must wait, for no indication has been made as to where or when Russia will be willing to talk world aviation. Perhaps pro-
She lowerth my average
Yea, though I walk thru
Yea, though I walk through the hallway to our classroom
halls to her classroom
I don't hear her alone
For my classmates are with me
Their low grades and high courage
She leadeth me to the brink of insanity
She preyeth on mine ignorance
She anointeth my papers with red
works
And blasphemeth them in the presence of mine classmates
ence of mine classmates
My assignments runneth over
Surely failure and flunkouts shal
follow me
All the days of S.S. and E.T.*
And I shall dwell in Miss Cass's
class forever.
* O sight Singing and Ear Training.
Russia had known for six weeks who was going to attend the conference, and had even appointed her own delegation. Why then, did she decide against attending the conference at the last minute? Some say that Russia had not been enthusiastic about the right of planes of any nation to fly over the territory of another and land to refuel, a doctrine which the United States and Britain do favor. Others believe that a main reason is that Russia is opposed to the British plan for an all-powerful international air commission, a plan to which the United States is also opposed. The state department had counted on Russia to help defeat the plan.
Russia Bows Out From Aviation Conference
The question of what sort of policy the postwar world should adopt on aviation, and how the postwar international airlines should be allotted and regulated was to be answered at a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Conference, headed by Assistant Secretary Adolph A. Berle, Jr., in Chicago, a few weeks ago. Three days before the conference, however, Russia withdrew, stating that countries such as Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain had been invited, and these countries had conducted a pro-Fascist policy hostile to the Soviet Union, for many years.
visional air routes, to be flown by private lines as soon as the war permits, could be mapped and allotted, and technical matters of standard controls for traffic could be worked out at the conference. The settlement of the major issues, however, must wait for Russia,
The British want a system of world control under an international commission, with authority to divide up routes and regulate schedules. The United States wants "freedom of the air," or 140,000 miles of global
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Letter to the Editor
"No seminary of learning is instituted in order to be incorporated, but the corporate character is conferred to subserve the purposes of education," said Chief Justice Marshall in his famous McCulloch v. Maryland decision. Translated, this might read, "No university is established to be only an institution as such, but rather, is given this power that it may be secondary to and better serve the purposes of education."
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Education for whom? One might suspect that it were for the students who happen to be attending the "seminary of learning." Is the sacred sacred institution of the university as it is and will be, more important than the development of the individual personalities of students in leadership and civic responsibilities? In the end, is the University of Kansas judged by the publicity stories it turns out, or by the lives and actions of the men and women who have received their training here? Only a mistaken sense of values could choose the first answer.
Chancellor Malott was right when he said, "Failure in student leadership is a failure upon the part of the entire University." What has the University done to develop that leadership? Has it asked the opinion of a student board on proposed curriculum changes? Has it encouraged
air routes under the treaset of competition, and an international air authority with only limited powers. The United States has stated that there would be no postwar monopoly, but rather that the United States, when the war permits, would make transport planes which other nations need to have available.
Americans are worried lest their immense technological advantage be scaled down, and with it the supremacy won by our military transport system during the war. And isn't this crippling of United States air development what Britain wants, until its commercial air force can be built up to equality? -C.S.
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"But students are unwilling accept responsibility!" administrate scream, and, in a way, we agree. Isn't it quite a lot to ask of studer that they be fully responsible a thing for which they fully responsible? It's more lot—it's a farce!
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