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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943
Hitler Is Teaching His Youth To Carry On Nazi Doctrines
In an America at war, a tendency has arisen to consider in theoretical detail the construction of a post-war world. Several plans have been presented and are being promoted. They are, for the most part, based on the creation of a world federation.
Post-war theorists, in devising the framework of world construction, have ignored some of the most salient problems they will have to face. One of these is: What is to be done with Hitler's youth?
In the plans of world federation, the fate of defeated nations is disposed of with vague reference to disarmament and setting the stage for democratic processes. But more — much more — than that will be necessary.
In Nazi Germany today, Hitler is mobilizing his youth. Even before they are old enough to understand why Alsace-Lorraine should belong to Germany, they are sent to camps where they are disciplined to a reverent regard for the Fuehrer and the supremacy of Germany. They are taught to believe in Nazism and to fight for what they believe. They are given a distorted view of history—a view in which Germany has stood insufferable persecution throughout centuries. Yes, the younger generation of Germany is being indoctrinated with a fervent hate of England, Russia, and the United States.
Long after the war is won and Hitler is dead, that smoldering hate will still live in the hearts of those children, then full-grown, adult Germans. They will tell their children of the glorious days when Germany was a respected nation. Certain conditions of unrest may produce another Hitler out of the ashes of that hate.
This cannot be stamped out by mere disarmament or setting the stage for democratic processes. Putting out that fire of nationalism which will burn in Nazi hearts will require a sensible, tolerant campaign of selling the United Nations to the Germans. It will require unceasing vigilance of the revolutionary forces and extensive fostering and development of the conservative elements of post-war Germany.
Weeding Nazi concepts from German minds will be a big job. Yet, it must be done, and only by the application of internationalism can it be done. Isolation of the United States must be discarded in a world where everything depends on whether the United Nations can formulate and establish a peace that won't blow up in their faces.
Kansas Needs Reform In School System; Legislature Should Act
Perhaps it is the result of pressure on the part of growing parent groups throughout the country; perhaps because of the teacher shortage which has given smug constituents a jolt; or, perhaps, as one sociologist-philosopher suggested, "The most sweeping reforms in every field of life occur during the sweeping destruction of war." At any rate, someone — something has provoked a mass of legislation or proposed legislation for the reform of the public school system throughout the country.
Just Wondering
If the sailors picked up their Green hall steps technique from the laws. Or do sailors need any instruction in that sort of thing?
--lic school system throughout the country.
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It is about time. After years of wasting money and hiring poorly-educated teachers for each of her rural, one-room schools, Illinois is doing away with her "rotten borough" system of schools. Now, Kansas is attempting to meet her most crying need for reform—the unequal distribution of funds among the high schools of the state.
The Senate has recommended for passage a bill which will make the Barnes Law, now operating in 40 counties, the uniform state law. In Barnes county, regardless of the difference in evaluation of certain parts of the county, the funds are distributed on the basis of student population with the provision that a minimum of not less than $1,200 a teacher and $90 a student be provided for each school year. It is this last provision which is expressly stated in the bill. Only high schools in cities of more than 20,000 population were excluded.
Poorer high school districts would be aided by two state sales tax allotments annually, increased payments going to high school districts unable to obtain a minimum of $1,200 a teacher and $90 a pupil.
This bill, if it becomes a law, can mean that there will be an improvement in teacher tenure in the smaller high schools. It can mean that better qualified teachers can "afford" to accept positions in smaller high schools. It can mean that the home economics teacher will no longer be "drafted" to teach English or music. It can mean that the libraries, so long neglected for athletics and other "firsts," will be brought up to date. This, with the recent stipulation that librarians must have training, should do much to remedy a neglect which has been particularly outstanding in the smaller high schools.
If such a law can remedy all these defects in the state's high school educational system, there should be no doubt as to its value.—P.J.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... Bob Coleman
Editorial Associates ... Dean Sims, Joy Miller,
        Jim Gunn, Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Betty Lou Perkins
Rock Chalk Talk By JIMMY GUNN
They Are Freezing Frozen Foods
Once again across the nation
Once again across the nation
They have placed us on a ration—
They are freezing frozen foods and things in cans.
They are doing it again,
These bureaucratic men—
They are freezing frozen foods and things in cans.
They are halting frenzied buying
While a multitude is crying:
"Do not freeze our frozen foods and things in cans!"
But, alas, it has no hearers.
They are doing it with mirrors—
They are freezing frozen foods and things in cans.
Oh, it's frozen foods they're banning.
And to stop the canner canning—
They are freezing frozen foods and things in cans.
No, it's not that frozen fodder
That is giving me the bother—
Though they're freezing frozen foods and things in cans
Let them freeze the corn and pea,
Succotash and broccoli—
You can have my cauliflower and my meat.
Let them freeze them all, by jiminy!
I can do without the hominy.
I am going into service—where they eat!
Use Fifteen a Week...
Students Show Desire To Support Blood Bank
The fact that already about three times as many students have reported for blood tests and contributions to the blood bank as can be taken care of each week indicates the willingness of University students to cooperate in this drive. Members of the Coed Volunteer Corps have contacted the organized houses who are, if possible, to send $ ^{*} $
who are, if possible, to send five people a day to the hospital for tests.
Only fifteen donors will be used each week. If their tests are satisfactory the donors will give one pint of blood. The human body can completely replace this amount within about two days. The average person has about four quarts of blood and an much as a quart and a half can be extracted at a time with out serious effects.
The blood bank, one of medicine's new war weapons, has given the University the opportunity of contributing unselfishly to the war effort. The spirit in which that contribution is being made deserves commendation.
Until recently it was thought necessary to transfer the blood directly from the donor to the patient. When the process of treating the plasma was discovered it became possible to type and store the blood plasma until it could be shipped to civilian areas or to battle fronts where it is needed.
Destroyer Kimberly Launched Yesterday On Staten Island
Miss Elsie Kimberly of Bonita, Calif., daughter of the late Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly for whom the destroyer was named, was the sponsor.
New York, Feb. 4, (INS)—The destroyer, USS Kimberly, was launched today in the shipyards of the Bethleham Steel Co., on Staten Island.
Admiral Kimberly, a native of Troy, N. Y., was a hera of Civil War naval campaigns, and the commander of land forces in a Korean attack in 1871.
Landon Insists That Liberal Arts Not Be Sacrificed
Topeka, — (INS)— America's liberal arts colleges must be preserved and kept intact no matter how much this country may have to submerge other interests to make an all-out war attack, Alf M. Landon, former Republican presidential nominee, said today.
Landon, in a founder's day address at Washburn University said the liberal arts colleges will be called upon to do important work. when peace comes.
"As a result of war conditions," he said, "the liberal arts college is facing the crisis of its existence, but it will be a great disaster in the life of the world if it should be permanently eliminated."
Bowen Now Secretary Of Fine Arts School
Miss Jeannette Bowen, College graduate of 1938, former secretary to Henry Werner, adviser of men, is now secretary to Dean D. M. Swarthout in the office of the School of Fine Arts.
Miss Bowen is taking the place of Miss Ruth Vandenberg who left the Fine Arts office a week ago to take a position in the finance department at Fort Leavenworth.
Elected To Phi Beta Kappa
Louise McNutt, daughter of Max power Director Paul V. McNutt, was one of five senior students at George Washington University to be elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.