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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943
---The Kansan Comments---side for a 10-minute intermission. Hearing a sudden "screech" which sounded like brakes being applied, they glanced over their shoulders in time to see what looked like a male ballet dancer pireouetting through the air. In reality, it was none other than Jim Mordy, Delt pledge, who slipped while reclining against the wall. Efforts to save himself from landing flat on the floor were futile.
Magazine and newspaper readers are occasionally treated to a type of bond-purchasing advertisement in which a soldier about to drop from an invasion barge or jump from a Guadalcanal foxhole pauses to deliver a monologue on what he is fighting for.
Soldiers Need Purpose in War
Maybe the boys find out when they get across; maybe in the last few moments before a man jumps from safety into danger, his reasoning powers are keener, his thoughts cleaner, and he sees the things the ad writer depicts in such moving fashion.
(Editor's note: The following editorial was written by a former editor of the Daily Kansas, now in the armed forces. While visiting the campus on furfurlough last weekend, he was urged to write on some problem in military life that affects the student and military trainee.)
Aims Not Explained
But most soldiers who have been observing their comrades at work or in the idle evenings, are impressed by the fact that an appalling majority of the service men have no conception of what our war or post-war aims are, no knowledge of what they are fighting for.
Soldier Can't Define 'Freedom'
These men are taken from their homes, given uniforms, and trained in the most scientific methods of destroying the Nazi hordes and the little yellow fiends, but why they are at war and what sort of world they will come back to—well, that just isn't in the "curriculum."
Some feeble effort was made in basic training to explain "Why We Fight." The Versailles treaty, the infamous "war-guilt" clause, the indemnities heaped upon defeated Germany for pure humiliation, were completely ignored and the training films degenerated into howling propaganda. Next, some officer, looking much like a sacrificial goat, tried fultily to lecture on the global war and its background. He lasted all of 15 minutes, then suggested the men go out for a smoke.
One pertinent example of how the soldier thinks: a bunch of rather cynical fellows were gathered about a campfire in the Louisiana woods, talking on the subject of "Why We Fight." Into the firelight stepped a boy from North Carolina (he might have been from any state.) "What are you fighting for?" he was asked. North Carolina looked at the circle of men with amazement. "Why, freedom," as though the question were too ridiculous to ask. When urged to elaborate, he was at a loss. He had simply accepted without question the flowery generalities tossed his way, and found he had actually nothing but a word he couldn't explain.
War Needs Concrete Aime
Granted, we all want freedom. But when a soldier surrenders his accustomed liberty, risks his life in war, with only airy words, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, as his assurance of a better world, something is wrong.
When the time comes that the soldier wants something besides promises for his efforts, he won't be put off with a Henry Wallace pamphlet. The government must not only provide some concrete information on our post-war aims, it must see that those aims are known to the soldiers and civilians who are fighting and backing the war—W.J.F.
O'dest Musical Instrument The drum is the oldest of musical instruments.
Rock Chalk Talk
By HANNA HEDRICK
Whistler's brother: Will Allen, senior medic, was sitting by the telephone in the Phi Bete house when it rang. "We are testing your line. Would you please stand back three feet and whistle?" said a pleasant voice. Willingly did Will oblige. After several minutes of this, he stopped to take a breath and was interrupted by a raucous "gawff gawff" of the practical joker on the other end. Will's friends retired to the next room to discuss his IQ.
To prove that the Navy is in a perilous position: V-12er Sparky McSpadden was explaining to an attentive young gob why navy britches laced up the back. According to the doubtful theory expounded by Sparky, when drowning in the briny deep, one pulls the string—which acts as an emergency ripcord—and swims away unhindered by bell-bottomed trousers.
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What goes up must come down:
After finishing an hour quizz in medieval history, students stepped outside for a 10-minute intermission. Hearing a sudden "screech" which sounded like brakes being applied, they glanced over their shoulders in time to see what looked like a male ballet dancer pireouetting through the air. In reality, it was none other than Jim Mordy, Delt pledge, who slipped while reclining against the wall. Efforts to save himself from landing flat on the floor were futile.
Strictly feminine: Gayle Mott, owner of the K.U. stables, was sitting in his station wagon looking most dejected, near Fraser hall. He had just returned from Dean Meguiar's office. (The general belief that only girls visit the Dean of Women appears false.)
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The above space is dedicated to John (known to his closer associates as "Swatskkk") Sawatsky, army medic, who feels that he has been neglected because his name has heretofore been unpublished in this column.
JOHN SAWATSKY
AMERICAN TROOPS
(continued from page one) be making our disposition for the grand assault by all arms next year."
grand assault by all arms next year.' The raid on Skolpje, the first carried out from North African bases against a vital point in'Jugoslavia, was staged to coincide with growing activity by Jugoslav patriot forces who have been asked by King Peter to bury their individual differences and unite against the Nazis.
98 More Jap Ships Sunk
The Royal Air Force went out in strength from England against the
bomb-battered city of Hanover, while Mosquito bombers raided Berlin for the second night in succession.
Steady progress was made by Soviet troops on Kiev, Gomel, and other points east and west of the Dnieper.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that American submarines had blasted more than 98 Japanese ships to the bottom of the Pacific, bringing to 319 the total number of enemy combatant and merchant ships sunk since Pearl Harbor.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday. October 19. 1943
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Sigma Xi: The first meeting of the year will be hold in the Lecture room of Blake hall, Thursday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. Dr. Olaf Larsell, Professor of Anatomy and Dean, graduate Division, Oregon State System of Higher Education, will report research on "The Development of the Organ of Corti with Relation to the Inception of Hearing." Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend. Beulah M. Morrison, secretary.
Student Council: There will be no Student Council meeting this evening, however members will meet at 1 o'clock Wednesday on the steps of Dyche Museum for the Student Council picture. The picture will be taken unless it is actually raining.
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Applications at business office: Those interested in editing the student directory may apply with Mr. Calvin at the business office before Saturday noon.
J. W. Twente, Dean.
Any student who wishes to do practice teaching during the Winter Term should make application at once at the Office of the School of Education. 103 Fraser.
Washington, (INS)—Overwhelming sentiment for the Connally postwar resolution was reported by members of the senate foreign relations committee today after a closed hearing.
Senate Favors Conally Bill
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