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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1943
Today's Students Must Strive For International Viewpoint
The youth of today is preparing for war, if not already engaged in it. The energies of the young are being bent to the task of training their minds and bodies to martial trades. The farmer is beating his plowshares into swords; the student is trading his books for a bayonet. But there is more at stake today than victory alone. Youth must look to tomorrow. Youth must prepare for the peace to come.
The colleges and universities of the world throughout the centuries have been leaders in great movements - political, social, cultural. In them have first appeared the symptoms of a diseased society; in them have first appeared the spiritual and intellectual remedies and medicines. Universities have always been centers for discussion, for liberal thinking, for leadership. In Europe this tendency has been even more marked than it has been in America, but in the last few years various university groups have assumed a leadership in discussion in the United States. Perhaps the best example of this leadership is the University of Chicago Round Table, which has won a reputation for open-minded consideration of timely, pertinent topics and a following among the thinking population of the nation.
The student of today will be the leader of tomorrow. He must be prepared for that responsibility, for upon him will rest the weight of the future of a world. He must have an international outlook colored with humanity, a liberal viewpoint brightened with optimism. Movements are stirring throughout the civilized world; movements for a better world, a freer world, an integrated world; movements to revolutionize world commerce, government, culture; movements toward simplification and union. The backbone of these movements is youth, for only youth has the energy, the imagination, the resilience to conceive their purpose, to believe in their goals, and to carry them through to their successful completion.
This is the responsibility of the youth of today: to view the world with fearless eyes, to face it boldly with the knowledge that the world and its people obey certain natural laws and that these laws may be known, to recognize emotions for what they are, to think clearly about the things that matter most, to strive for the best, though their striving be tempered with the knowledge that the best can seldom be achieved, to believe in their ideals and fight for their faiths.
The day of isolation is over. The world is too small for walls and barriers. The seas have been straddled; the mountains have been leveled. We may well adapt the battle cry of Hitler to our own uses. Let this be the battle cry of freedom, tolerance, union, and the international outlook: Today the United Nations; tomorrow the world!—J.G.
Kansas City Faces Lack of Labor In Swing Shift Recreation Plans
The efforts of Kansas City, Mo., to provide organized recreation for war workers will probably be watched with interest by many other cities in the nation who are faced with
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Just Wondering
If students who claim they go to "K.S.C." know that their school is listed in the 1943 World Almanac as Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences.
--the same problem of keeping war workers happy even though they get off work after the usual bedtime hour of most citizens.
Kansas City proposes to have after-midnight baseball games, sunrise dances, all-night bowling alleys, cafes, meetings, and shows. Whether this experiment works depends very largely upon the city's chances of getting people to run the establishments after midnight.
To anyone who has been in Kansas City business places (or almost any town, for that matter), it at once appears that the business will have an uphill fight to find anyone to work during these "graveyard" hours. The labor shortage in non-war industries and businesses has been serious for many months, and it will not be easy to find people to work after midnight.
Junior high school waitresses, pinboys, and cleanup boys and girls have become the businessman's answer to the labor shortage up to now, but most parents will not allow their children to work at these hours. The possibility of finding older persons to do the work seems to be out of the question.
Kansas City and its war industries have the money and the buildings to provide this kind of entertainment for their workers. The big problem, labor, is still unsolved.—B.H.
Wonderful moonlight nights we're having these mornings.—K.C. Star.
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
NEWS STAFF
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Managing Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Sunday Editor ... Joy Miller
Campus Editors ... Alan Houghton
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
News Editor ... Florence Brown
Picture Editor ... James Gunn
Society Editor ... Phyllis Collier
Clara Lee Oxley. '
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager Charles Taylor, Jr.
Footnotes on our modern civilization: Prof. John Ise, in his Public Finance class, was telling how he used to get engineering students interested in economics. He put a ten dollar bill on the table and said: "There's money in this course."
Campus who-done-jit: The Delta Gamma's woke up the other morning to find their porch decorated with liquor bottles (empty, of course). Each bottle was inscribed with one of the girls' names. The arrangement and pattern on the porch was very pretty, but the artistry was somehow wasted on the girls. Rumor has it that it was the Delt's. P. S. A little birdie has it that it wasn't the Delt's.
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Statistics on theatre attendance: Clifford Reynolds, 1901 Indiana, reports that there was five Corbin hall girls at the Folly theater in Kansas City Friday night.
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Class room double-talk: With all these one word titles for names of magazines, lectures which concern them sometimes have the students going around in a semi-dazed condition (which may be natural) trying to (continued to page seven)
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