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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
KANSAN COMMENTS
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1944
Unfinished Business Left As Death Takes a Great Politician
On Sunday morning, a great American and one of the greatest internationalists since Woodrow Wilson died. His death was a political tragedy . . . for he died without a party. He was, of course, Wendell Lewis Willkie, of Indiana.
In a broadcast Sunday, Drew Pearson, a veteran Washington press correspondent, said he thought Willkie died of a broken heart. He had been rejected by his party because he was too liberal for its members . . . and yet he was in fundamental disagreement on some issues with the leader of the other party.
Though he never held a political post of any kind, he was one of the
great politicians of his time. He has done as much in the last five years to popularize internationalism as any other person on the national scene. One might have hoped that he would have had a great deal to do with the making of the peace at the end of the war . . . had he lived.
From amidst a seething melange of politicians shone a light of that evasive thing which we call Americanism . . . Wendell Willk. If we have not done so before, we can well stop now and devote a little thought to the man and to those things for which he stood. $ \rightarrow $ N.W.
Students Indifferent to Benefits Derived From WSSF Donations
Considering the goal of the drive and the number of the University's enrollees, every student is asked to give less than one dollar to help someone else. This is surely an insignificant amount to the donor, when he considers the good that his contribution will do.
Apparently the attitude of most students to the War Chest and World Student Service Fund drive, which started officially on the campus yesterday, is that it is just another of those things for which people want money. It is not just that. All students must realize that their money is becoming much more important as they give it.
Last Thursday night, when members of the committee which is putting on the drive visited the eight Navy Pt's, the amounts of money received were surprisingly small, considering the number of
Navy men on the campus. In one Pt, for instance, the men, "forewarned," signed out to the library, and only about half the men in the PT were present when the representatives were there. This is not an indictment of the Navy, but merely an indication of the general attitude.
It is not a matter, then, we hope, of convincing students of the worthiness of the cause they are asked to support. It is a matter of persuading them to give. One student expressed the spirit of this wartime drive well in a meeting of the committee for the drive last week. He repeated a Persian proverb, which says, "I was without shoes and I murmured, until I met a man without feet." Surely, we who only occasionally do without cannot be blind to those who have no feet—N.W.
Graduate Is Convicted For Induction Refusal
Arthur Goodwyn Billings, a graduate of the University in 1933 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, and a former teacher of economics in the University of Texas, started a two-year federal prison sentence last week as the result of his conviction in a federal district court in Kansas City for refusing to submit to induction in the armed forces.
Billings had previously won a supreme court decision that the army did not have control of him when he refused to take the oath and that his case was that of a civil court.
The draft board at Salina refused to consider Billings a conscientious objector because his refusal was on rational rather than religious grounds.
Billings told newspaper men his refusal to enter the army or accept a war job was not due to his unwillingness to serve the country,
but to the belief that war and conscription are harmful to the best interests of the country.
"It is my conviction," he said, "that a few years from now it will be seen that the war has created more problems than it has solved, and that the democracies have strengthened a dictatorship at least as dangerous to them in the long run as the dictatorships which will be removed by war."
After leaving the University, Billings, who was born at Delphis, spent two years at the University of Paris, and served as a clerk in the American embassy at Moscow. He was preparing for his doctor of philosophy degree at Harvard when he was called to the University of Texas to teach.
Major Raymond C. Moore of the army, state geologist and director of the Geological Survey, who is on leave of absence in military service, is expected to arrive tomorrow for a short visit here in Lawrence. Mrs. Moore will accompany him.
Moore to Visit Campus
ANGEL FOOD DONUTS WILL
Buy your picnic pastries
Top off those fall picnics in fine style
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Wanted: one sweater stretcher-
quick! "Wash 'em out, wring 'em out,
hang 'em on the line;" yeah, but
look what happens!
By LIZ BAKER
If there is one thing which Gamma Phi Hazel Jones makes a habit of doing, it is washing out her sweaters. The railings are plastered with wet masses of wool, which sisters now automatically associate with Jonesy.
The other night, Hazel had just wrung out her prize super job, and rushed down the hall to answer the phone. She walked back into the room, and right then let out a big, fat scream. The wet wool was hanging there, all right, but it had shrunk down to the baby sweater size.
(Later research finds that it was a baby sweater, substituted with lightning speed by friends of Miss J.)
She Ain't Red Hot at Spooning,
but How She Can Sing. Nancy
(Pooh) McCleary and Carol Stuart
and their dates were amusing themselves in the DG living room playing "Spoons" last weekend. "Pooh," not being an old hand at the game,
"A thousand pardons if I embarrass anyone when I possibly show up to class in a barrel," Hird predicted.
Thetas Martha Ellen Woodward and Jody Veatch were walking along Oread when Jody stopped, exclaimed,
"My goodness, I've just got to run over to the Chicken Coop!"
Powerhouse Wayne Hird, Jay hawker football stalwart and Ph Psi, who was temporarily, at least, rejected for military service at Ft. Leavenworth last Saturday, said today that for over a year he had purchased no civilian clothing, and now, with no army career in the immediate offing, it'll take a small fortune to garb himself.
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missed out three times, and had to take a penalty. Which explains why PT-1 was later serenader by the soft strains of "Dream Girl," DG sweet-heart song, sung by none other than pledge "Pooh."
Letter to the Editor
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Editor's Note: All "Letters to the Editor" must be signed. The name will be withheld from publication upon request, but the editor must know who wrote it.
Said Martha, "What's that?"
"Henley House," cackled Jody.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Few people realize what the boys at the fronts are fighting for. I, as a veteran of more than one war, would like to tell what I fought for.
After reading your masterpiece of misinformation and painted truths, I would like to defend the actions of the organizations on this campus.
I fought because I wanted to protect the right to have fun and do as I pleased, to join any organizations I saw fit, to have a party, or picnic as long as I considered the next-door neighbor. These are only a few of the things a man at the front thinks of, but it gives a general idea of what we at home should do.
Don't lay down and cry just because there's a war on. Let's try and keep some of these things the boys are fighting for, and let them have something to come home to.
As for this last accident, it was not the fault of the students. (Ed. note—The following sentence had to be omitted because of dangerous libel.) This statement is backed up by the testimony of several witnesses.
Let's get these stories straight before degrading someone. It would save valuable space which could be used for an informative cartoon.
(Editor's Note: The Daily Kansan made every effort to check the facts and to give both sides of the story to which this letter refers. We believe the statements which were made in our editorial of last Friday are correct.)
Name Withheld by Request.
Featuring a Columbus Day theme, El Atenco, Spanish Club, will meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 113 of Frank Strong hall, W. H. Shoemaker, sponsor, said today.
Latin Americans to Speak At El Ateneo Wednesday
Several Latin American guests will speak to the club, including Dr Isidro Lemus Dimas, Guatemalan professor of sociology; Manuel Maldonado, holder of a Guggenheim fellowship in zoology; Mario Rodriguez, exchange student from Costa Rica; and Bolivar Marquez, exchange student from Panama and president of El Ateneo. Max and Eduardo Marquez and Horacio Salerno, exchange students from Panama, and Joseph Portugues, Costa Rican student, will attend the meeting.
The Guatemalan national anthem, the Mexican anthem, and popular Spanish American songs will be sung by the group.
The meeting is open to all student interested in Spanish, Professor Shoemaker said.
One thousand four hundred and eighty eight students have enrolled at Kansas State College this fall, for a gain of 136 over last year's figures.
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KFKU PROGRAM
Tuesday, Oct. 10
9:30 p.m. War Fund Program.
9:45 p.m. Music Program.
Wednesday, Oct. 11
2:30 p.m. Spanish Lesson. Maude El-
lott, instructor
hott. instructor.
2:55 p.m. Short Story Course "The
2:45 p.m. Short Story Course. "The Materials of the Short Story" Prof.
John W. Ashton, speaker.
3:30 p.m. Living Books. "On the Nature of Things" (Lucretius).
The student Democratic party will hold a rally Wednesday evening starting at 6:30 in the Union Lounge. Speeches and entertainment will be provided. All students are urged to attend.
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1944
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
The first meeting of El Ateneo, campus Spanish Club, will be held Wednesday, October 11, at 4:30 in Room 113 of Frank Strong Hall. The theme will be celebration of Columbus Day. There will be several guests from Latin America. The public is invited. Louise Hatch, Vice-president.
David Battenfeld and Eugenia Hepworth, Co-Chairmen.
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
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