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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1943
President Has Been Voice of Masses In His Fight For Social Justice
President Lincoln was once asked by a friend how he liked being President. Lincoln compared himself with the man who, after being farred and feathered, was being ridden out of town on a rail. The man was asked how he liked it by a voice from the crowd and he replied: "Were it not for the honor of the thing, I think I would prefer to walk."
To be President at any time is to lay oneself open to hatred and execration, misunderstanding and misfortune; but to be President in wartime is to work harder than a day-laborer, and be thanked for less. At the best you will be execrated by the minority. At the worst you will be hated universally for your precrastinating weakness and for your unyielding strength, for the measures you have passed and the measures you have not passed, for the things you have done and the things you have not done. This is to be President.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been peculiarly fitted to the job of war-time President. Oddly enough he has been a man of the people. Born of the aristocracy, he has been the voice of the masses, crying out for social justices, speaking for the laborer and the farmer. Even in war measures he has done what seemed logical, what seemed like the thing to do to the thinking people of the nation.
Assuming office at a time when the nation was plunged into the depths of a depression, when the banks were failing on every hand, he led the people through the jobless valley into the light of a stable economy. And through this time he pressed the passage of social measures such as social security and the Wagner Act. For this he is hated by the many who have not been helped, those who call him dreamer and idealist.
Without his master's touch upon the psychology of the nation, without the calming effect of his carefully modulated voice, the nation would not be the unified whole it is today. Without the inspiration of his idealism and his sense of the spectacular, we would not be today so far along on our way to winning the war and winning the peace.
Hated by many, loved by few, President Roosevelt has won the admiration of a nation and a hundred battling peoples. How he will be judged fifty or a hundred years from now must be left to the future. This it is to be President.-J.G.
Canada and United States Form Basic Post-War Economic Plan
Discussion of the post-war world has been receiving great prominence in conferences between United States and Great Britain or Russia and other friendly nations, while few persons have heard of the plans for closer cooperation and closer living with the neighbor on the north — Canada. Although this question has been left mostly to Secretary Cordell Hull and the State Department, some definite steps have been made toward bringing the two countries to a even more advantageous relationship.
On Nov. 30 of last year, Secretary Hull wrote to the Canadian government, "The Governments of the United States of America and of
Just Wondering
How many University students will read carefully the new MSC-WSGA constitution and will be prepared to vote on it intelligently when it is presented to the student body.
--bring in additions to the language and invasions through the ages have added many new word forms, while mariners and settlers have been responsible for still others.
Canada are prepared to cooperate in formulating a program of agreed action, open to participation by all other countries of like mind directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic features, of production, employment and the exchange and consumption of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples."
Secretary Hull further pointed out the aims to eliminate all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. As an answer, the Canadian government under the action of Minister Leighton McCarthy agreed to the statement of aims and conclusions.
Thus was formed the basis of solving a problem of post-war economic settlements which will promote mutually advantageous relations between the United States and Canada. Conferences to discuss establishing the foundations for satisfying human needs in Canada and all other countries wishing to join will soon be started. In this way, the United States is taking a definite step to strengthen the already friendly relations of the two countries and to set examples and offer a plan to other nations so that the economic basis of future peace will be profitable and secure to all.
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Brotherly interest: Last week, before Jack Culler, Kappa Sig, was to leave for the service, he matched Margaret Fesler, Alpha Chi, for his ski sweater. Margaret won. Remaining members of the Kappa Sig chapter have finally gotten over their disappointment at not being willed the sweater themselves; however, they still profess a vital interest in the article of clothing Margaret put up.
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The underworld: Members of the Harmon women's Coop detective agency have reorganized into a knitting society. One night last week when Harmonites were out, the house was pillaged and every pair of pajamas in the place, except one pair of sleepers belonging to Mrs. Ellen Running, house mother, were stolen. The detective agency mobilized immediately. Using accredited super sleuth methods they had the crime all pinned on several members of the Rock Chalk Coop when Harmon girls confessed.
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The indecencies of Science: While walking toward the library from a lab, J. F. Kelsey, Sigma Nu, felt a distinct draft on his left leg. After pondering awhile on what made things so cold down there, he got up nerve enough to look. Never one to blush, Kelsey reddened to the ears. The acid of the lab had relieved him of an embarrassingly large portion of his trousers.
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How to develop indigestion: It didn't take long for Bill Woods and Frank Rush to discover that Mike Gubar, a fellow ATO, had supplied the information for the item about them which appeared in this column Thursday. The two boys accused Gubar of making them out as rowdies. In their anger they pinned him down on the carpet and forced him to chew and swallow the offensive clipping. As Mike strangled, they warned him that if their names ever appeared—in any connection again in the Kansan, he would be eating all eight pages. Mike refers to himself exclusively now as "Gubar, the goat."
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Ripley annex: Warren Harwood, president of Kappa Sigma, sent his laundry out for the first time this year last week. When the boulder-sized bag arrived at the laundry house, it is said many employees professed strange faint feelings. The bag contained 55 white shirts.
War to Enrich Speech What's a Jeep?
America will have many new words and phrases added to the language when the boys come marching home again from the far corners of the world. And the English language will be enriched by them, in the opinion of Prof. Walter K. Smart, of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
By Associate Collegiate Press
"Contacts with other races and other peoples invariably bring in additions to the language," Professor Smart said. "Wars and invasions through the ages*
From Indians we got such words as moose, hickory, hominy, skunk, persimmon, toboggan, moccasin, wigwam and squaw. During and after the Mexican war, when the southwest was opened to American settlers, we acquired a number of words from the Spanish, including adobe, burro, canyon, corral, coyote, sombrero mustang, and lasso."
With soldiers in every part of the world the words that they will bring home will be as varied as the battlefields on which the fighting is taking place, Professor Smart said. The war has already produced a number of words and phrases that seem destined to attain a place in the language.
He referred specifically to "quisling" when used to designate a person who betrays his own people. Other words which have sprung from war or related activities, are commanded, blitz, fifth column, fox hole, jeep, ersatz, spearhead, gremlin, black-out, paratroops, and ceiling. The latter has acquired a new meaning when referring to top limit.
Many words which became popular during the first World War are still in use 25 years later he said. Not only did the doughboks of 1918 learn to sing "Mademoiselle From Armentieres," and "Madelon," but they also picked up a number of French words that still live in our language. Among these are beaucoup, parley-vouz, and tout de suite, the latter being popularized by the Americans as toot sweet.
Some of the words that grew out of the first World War are now so common that we have almost forgotten their original source. Professor Smart said. Such word as dud, doughboy, pill-box, went west, carry on, shock troops, dugout, barrage cooties and defeatist were either war terms or grew out of the war.
Garden City Beet Growers May Use Jap Labor
Topeka, (INS) — Sugar beet raisers in the Garden City area will have to provide bathing facilities if they expect to get Japanese labor, Governor Schoeppel was advised today by federal authorities. Beet growers had stated they could use as many as 600 of the Jap laborers in the Garden City area where a manpower shortage exists.