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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 30,1943
Swayze Advises Students To Keep Eyes On Nearest Goal Until It Is Attained
"Work toward your goal in steps."
This was the advice given by John Cameron Swayze when he spoke to journalism students at the recent Kansan Board banquet. With graduation nearing and with many students planning to leave school and join the forces or accept positions in war plants or with other necessary industries and professions, this advice could well apply to all.
That today is the time of action when a man can reach the top of the ladder in one great leap might be true—such miracles can happen—but to the common person, they are only dreams. One seldom leaves college and then enters into the very position he wants, attains his highest ambition, or becomes the person of the world he wants to be. Students can not graduate or leave school today and with one sweep defeat the enemy and end the war tomorrow. Youth fired with ambition to lick the world is a dangerous thing unless it is directed in the proper manner. Such day dreams of heroism are all right as long as the person realizes they are dreams, but he must understand that such events seldom become realities.
To take life as it comes is the best policy. No matter what the task may be, work toward it gradually and steadily. It is best to set a goal a short distance away and then concentrate every effort to attain it. Then set it up another notch and advance another step. It can't all be done in one move.
Mr. Swayze told of two old friends who once met in New York. One of the men was prospering very well, but the other had been tramping the streets of the city for weeks trying to find a top place for himself. He was tired and defeated. When his friend mentioned walking to his hotel, which was 60 blocks away, the tired man said it was too far.
The friend then said they would walk to a delicatessen only about eight blocks away. That they did, and after they had been there a while, the friend suggested to the jobless comrade that they walk about six blocks where he liked to watch the people. They continued their journey from place to place until finally
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If students and faculty members will get everything they have to do finished before May 17.
--to the surprise of the discouraged man, they had reached his friend's hotel.
From this the man learned a lesson by which all might profit. To look at a goal with a long range view seems hopeless, and it is impossible to attain it immediately. But by a slow step-by-step process, it can be done.
Men With Hoes
A great number of the University professors have devoted time and trouble this spring, aside from all their other work, to the planting and raising victory gardens. Snatching moments whenever they can, they have entered inot this patriotic movement with enthusiasm and interest. For undertaking such projects when the speeded school program is demanding more and more from them all the time, the University professors should indeed be commended.
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No mustache, either, Frank: The ATO's were comparing each other to persons of note. Someone told Frank Rush that he was really just like Errol Flynn. "Ah, go on," said Frank modestly. "You know darn well I don't have a yacht."
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A likely story: The Kansan news room was its usual clacking pandemonium. Suddenly the entire reporting staff arrived at a common stump. There was a moment of silence—complete silence—except for Frances Abts, Corbin, whose voice rang plaintively across the room;
"Will you please leave my sweater alone?" Bob Schulthelts says he was just twiddling with the back edge and the sleeves.
Watch that D. G. pledge class next year: Several devoted men in the service gave Jessie Farmer, Gerry Shaw, and Barbara Hahn, Delta Gamma's and roommates, two baby chickens for Easter. The fowls, formally christened D. and G., are being fattened with care. Comes mid-summer and the two will give their lives for the good old anchor. D. and G. baked crispy brown are expected to be high powered talk in the foodless world.
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What a snake must put up with: The snake which Sterling Hess plante in Clay Hedrick's bureau drawer got away. It slithered out the hall and encountered Dean (Honey) Huebert. Dean threw his arms in the air and with a blood-curdling yell, ran frantically for his room and locked the door.
The bewildered snake then meandered into Joe Elliott's room. Joe screamed.
When a freshman rescue squad arrived, the lanky junior was crouched on top of his bureau, face buried.
He was unable to bear the sight of his frenzied roommate, Mike O'Donnell, jumping energetically first on one foot and then the other as the reptile struck playfully at his trousers.
The reptile was a foot and a half long.
Threat To Bricker Puts Woman in Jail
Washington, (INS)—FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announced today that Mrs. Frances Mary McAratzes, a Columbus, Ohio, laundry worker, has been arrested for writing an extortion note to Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, and for threatening his life. Mrs. McAratzes, according to Hoover, "had warned Governor Bricker that she was watching his every move and had orders direct from Hitler to kill him."
Pres. A. E. Janzen Studies South American Chaco
President A. E. Janzen of Tabor College, a graduate of the University, is now studying conditions in South American countries, according to word received in the School of Business office today.
Mr. Janzen, who received his master's degree in economics at the University in 1928, has obtained a leave of absence from his position at Tabor College and is now studying the economic and social conditions of the Chaco of Paraguay for the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
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