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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1943
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The Editorial Page
Battleship Would Be Fitting Tribute To Quiet and Proud People of Kansas
A battleship for Kansas—why not?
It is true that Kansas has done some things to distinguish herself in her short history, but she has mostly concerned herself with the common ordinary things that belong to any state. Quietly nestled in the center of the middlewestern plains, the state has not stepped forth with great financial power, political power, or exceptional culture, but her deeds have been strong and her efforts have been as determined as the tanned, hard-working farmer who has made her what she is today.
Kansas, the backbone of the nation, stands unbending and proud in the war emergency as she assigns her factories, military bases, crops, and resources to the duty before her. Outliving the title, "the little state in the sticks," Kansas has come to the front with all the ability and power that she possesses to take her place with the other states in defeating her enemies.
Leader of the national scrap campaign, Kansas is a state of little people. Here live typical examples of American mothers and fathers who have watched their sons lay down the plow, say a hesitant goodby, and then, with finality, close the squeaky gate at the end of the front walk as they went to join the forces. Here live the examples of the generation which is stepping back to the plow to replace that youth and to give the fighting lads the backing they need. Here are the typical farmers, the mechanics, the welders, the politicians, the buck privates, and even the Eisenhowers. Kansas the crossroads of the continent, the bridge between the East and the West-between the farmer and the industrialist.
Kansas history has always been one of struggle. At the beginning, the free-staters fought to win over the slave-staters after a long contest for supremacy. For nearly ten years after Kansas was made a territory, fraud and outrage were commonplace; nor did these troubles end with the admission to the Union in 1861. Drought and famine came in and soon upon the impoverished new state came the strain of the Civil War.
Recently Kansas has been struggling to develop into an industrial state as well as an agricultural state. Though progress has been made, Kansas is not satisfied, and she continues the hard pull to bring herself to the top to give her nation the best of her benefits. The war has aided Kansas in productions and industries, but Kansas is paying, giving, and sacrificing as much as any other state.
Her proud and silent people ask nothing except to be given the opportunity to perform a duty that can later be termed as "well done." To what group of people would a battleship be a more fighting tribute?
Great Britain Sets Example For Future of United States
Prime Minister Winston Churchill began his much heralded speech Sunday with a cautious statement that he could not commit his government to any large scale post-war plans—and then proceeded to commit himself to practically every social security proposal that Eng-
--ish liberals have worked for in the past decade. If such words had come from the mouth of the United States' Henry Wallace, scoffers would have sneered their old answer of "impractical"—in reality only a less embarrassing substitution for the admission of an inability logically to refute the arguments. But this was not far-seeing Henry Wallace nor Norman Thomas speaking—it was the leader of England's conservatives.
Just Wondering
If it isn't time for the Lawrence police to come up to the campus and round up all the stray dogs that are running about getting in the way of traffic, pestering the marching navy platoons, and snapping at students walking across the hill.
It should bring home to Americans just how far we are behind the other great Anglo- Saxon nation in matters of social interest. We find the English conservative leader making and praising plans that only the most radical of the left wingers in this country would dare to suggest.
It was significant that Churchill in his speech gave military affairs a secondary place to social planning—and yet he is indisputably the chief planner of English grand strategy. The American Congress, in the meantime, feels itself so vital to the continuance of our war effort that it cannot pause to give consideration to social programs such as that recently expounded by the President.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
It should be interesting to note in coming years, if the present political trends continue, just what paths Great Britain and the United States will follow. With only a near-sighted view such as at present this country is almost certain to repeat the disastrous performance of the 1920's and 1930's—while for England there is hope—hope because her leaders look ahead.-J.D.K.
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