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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,19
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Alliance With Britain Will Not Mean Peace
Both powers might attempt to salve their consciences by doles of food and supplies to the conquered peoples of Europe to be liberated at the end of the war, but it will be a futile gesture. The specter-thin shadow of the people crying out to take their places again as free countries in a council for the post-war world, would haunt the alliance table.
"World cooperation and collaboration should mean all nations," Alf Landon told the high school debaters gathered on the campus Friday for their annual institute. An alliance between the United States and Great Britain would result in isolation, he declared.
Mr. Landon might have gone further and, in the midst of one war, predicted another even more destructive conflict. If the United States and Great Britain forget their promises to the small countries of Europe, to the peoples who are basing the struggle for their very existence on those promises, and form an alliance exclusive of others, this war will have been fought for freedom and liberty in vain.
Churchille has bluntly admitted that the British Empire will remain "as is" after the war. Perhaps Mr. Churchill isn't aware that tens of thousands are dying of starvation this very moment in India alone, because of the near-sighted British colonial policy. An alliance with Great Britain would mean the United States had not only given its blessing but actual backing to an outworn nineteenth century policy of imperialism that has no place in the world of freedom and equality we are supposedly fighting for.
The British are worthy people with a long history of struggles for freedom. Americans have more in common with them than with the people of any other nation. They should, by all means, be preserved as friends and co-builders after the war, co-builders with all the other countries who want to help bring the world to a finer and final peace.
Col. Burdette M. Fitch, a former student of the University, is now adjutant general on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff somewhere in Australia. He heads the office of record and handles all official correspondence except that pertaining to combat orders and instructions.
However, for the United States and Britain to form an alliance after the war is comparable to two rich boys subduing two bullies with the help of a few telling blows from the poor, undernourished children in school, and then running off for a soda and the movies, leaving the poor children to nurse alone their broken limbs and even more hurt souls that saw equality for an instant and had hoped for too much.
Former Student Serves MacArthur
Col. Fitch was born in Kansas and attended K. U. three years. He left college in 1917 to enter the first Officer's Training camp and went overseas as an enlisted man in the AEF.
In 1941, he had just started a course at the Command and General Staff school at Ft. Leavenworth when war with Japan broke out and he was relieved from the school to became adjunct general. He was selected for his present post on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Command in April, 1942.
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Rock Chalk Talk
Championship bout-Chi O vs Sig Alph: Discovering at dinner Saturday night that—most probably because of a visit by their Chi O neighbors—they were without butter plates and other modern conveniences, the Sig Alph's, accompanied by their housemates, the Phi Gam's, staged a second raid on the Chi O abode. Entering on the ground floor this time, the mob swept up the steps to second and third, tearing up rooms and clapping paddles. They were disappointed with the fact that more girls hadn't already started getting ready for dates. Bob Noll, Phi Gam, traded resounding swats with Bev Bohan, president of the besieged. And then as a definite anti-climax, the peace pact was signed.
The genesis: This Chi O, Sig Alph feud dates back some eight or ten years to a time when the Chi O's had a beautiful wooden ship. One day it disappeared and almost simultaneously the report came out that the Sig Algh's had a beautiful new wooden ship. The scrap has been raging since, and although the ship is still prize booty, all things from sofas down to, and including,
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BY MARY MORRILI
The summer session at the University of Mexico was attended almost entirely by Americans. The teachers, however, conducted all but the beginning Spanish classes in Spanish. Walter's teachers were the exceptions to the rule. He enrolled in two hours each of Russian, Italian, and Portuguese.
When the teachers weren't speaking in Russian, Italian, or Portuguese, they spoke in Spanish, however," he explains.
Better that Barnum and Bailey were out of town: Liz Baker, ISA official, and Jess Roy, attractive Navy Day queen, bought Halloween mustaches downtown with the understanding that if the disguises didn't riot people they could be returned. The girls stuck the black fuzz on their upper lips and started off for Corbin down Massachusetts. They hadn't gone more than a block before it was apparent the mustaches were a bargain.
Four KU Students Enjoy Summer School in Mexico
Rita and Walter both lived with Mexican families. Rita had the advantage of being with other American girls, but Walter was the only English-speaker in his house. He soon became very conversant with Spanish, however. The fact that, as a junior college freshman at Amarillo, Tex., last year, he spent much time in the company of Mexicans accounts for his proficiency in the language. Even at that, he says, his first two weeks in Mexico he found it practically impossible to understand the Mexican idioms.
Another of the Jones boys: Howard Jones of Battenfeld has been blessed with a new nickname—"Available." "Available" enjoys his reputation around Battenfeld for never during his residence there have refused to do anything from entertaining a little sister to hunting snipes.
"We hardly ever got what we ordered for dinner," Harriet says ruefully.
Incidentally, Walter studied German on the side while he was in Mexico, and at the university he audited several French classes.
Acting upon the premise that the way to learn Spanish is to go to Mexico, four students of the University of Kansas enrolled in the University of Mexico this summer. They were Rita Lemoine, Harriet Allen, Patricia Manley, and Walter Ballau.
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Rita took a course in advanced Spanish and another in diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico. Pat, who had taken only five hours of Spanish before going to Mexico, enrolled in a Span-
Here we go: The Shack hasn't run out yet. The latest follows: A V-12 in the chemistry lab saw a determined young woman mixing two very combustible materials. "Hey," he yelled, "Pestle Packing Mamma, lay that pestle down!"
Harriet Allen and Patricia Manley lived with three other Kansas girls in a house rented from a Mexican family who threw in their maid for good measure. She neither spoke nor understood English.
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salt shakers are considered worth swiping.
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US Policy Is Unpopular in Mexico
Extracurricular activities, needless to say, were the most interesting feature of going to school in Mexico. Rita met Diego Rivera and Delores del Rio one evening, and another evening she "bumped" into ex-King Carol of Rumania and his friend, Madame Lupescu, who, Rita thought, was very attractive.
ish course and also took anthropology. Harriet had taken only five hours of Spanish at KU too, but she studied art in Mexico and made the study of Spanish an extracurricular activity.
All of the four returned to KU this fall with the conviction that much more conversational practice should be given in college Spanish classes.
They are united in another belief—that Mexicans on the whole dislike Americans and that our Good Neighbor policy is one-way. Mexicans resent American interference in their politics and our "holier-thou" attitude. American tourists aren't always the best ambassadors, they admitted, although they like to think themselves exceptions to the usual class. At least if an admiration of Mexico and things Mexican makes one a good ambassador, they consider themselves very good ambassadors indeed. All of them want to go back to Mexico—manana.
Only Game Is for Homecoming
Because Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., is the only Midwest conference school with a football team this year, it was difficult for the school to find opponents to meet on the gridiron. It looked as though Lawrence would have to celebrate a football-less Homecoming until it was learned that Notre Dame's V-12 team had no game scheduled for Oct. 16. Lawrence College officials were successful in persuading the Notre Dame team to play that day so now Lawrence no longer looks forward to a barren homecoming.
"It stinks in Bailey chem, but it's Fowler across the street," That's the latest pearl of wisdom to come from Bob Walker, ASTEP. He has plenty of them.
Strictly G. I.
Bob is from Hibbing, Minn., where the biggest iron mine in the world is located. He worked as a loader in the mines for four months preceding his army life. After the war he wants to study aeronautical engineering.
An unusual experience in his life was being blind for a month and a half. This came as a result of a streptococcus throat infection. During his blindness Bob didn't know that his sight would ever return.
As a souvenir of high school he has four letters, two for football and two for swimming. Bob is in the A-12 group leaving Oct. 31.
Tau Sigma To Begin Practice Next Term
Capt. Robert M. Crawford, composer of the official Army Air Corps song, attended Case School of Applied Science and Princeton University.
Members of Tau Sigma, dancing sorority, decided to wait until next semester to begin practices, at the meeting Tuesday night. The next meeting will be at 7 o-clock Tuesday evening, Nov. 9. Tryouts for new members will be scheduled soon after that date.
Mrs. Dorothy Cutler Hunt, a graduate of the University of Illinois, will be the new sponsor for Tau Sigma. She will arrive Nov. 1 and will teach dancing in the physical education department. Miss Jean Bliss, last year's sponsor, is now teaching at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo.
Composer Attended Princeton
McCluggage Trains Minnesota V-12's
Lt. Marston McCluggage, who received a leave of absence from the sociology department of the University and received his commission the Navy in April, 1943, at Columb University, is now stationed with Navy V-12 unit at the College St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., Fr Ellsworth, alumni secretary nounced today.
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