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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943
Kirkendall Seeks Removal of Worn Concepts In Post-War Education
Lester A. Kirkendall, education guidance division chairman, in a recent report, following a study of the obligations of education in the post-war period, declared:
"Our schools will need to teach in a different way than ever before about the peoples of the earth, their ways, origins, and contributions to world culture. Each citizen must become a part of this international understanding or the results of this war will be even more disastrous and disappointing than the peace following the first World War."
Knowledge has too long been perverted in the interest of selfish ambitions and futile strivings for power to the detriment of the masses of people of the entire world, he warned in urging that old, worn concepts be tossed aside in favor of a more liberal, less selfish philosophy.
In his endorsement of a broader educational viewpoint following the war, the chairman has shown profound foresight. Perhaps in his words are pictured the schools of the future—particularly the universities which deal so largely with the philosophies and basic concepts of life.
Conflicts between racial, religious, and economic groups must be wiped out, he said, and schools must play a major part in that removal. If not, he warns, these differences will become even sharper in this country due to the readjustments following the conflict. Hatreds between nationalities must also become a thing of the past if we are to enjoy lasting peace, he pointed out.
Perhaps in the period following the war the truly liberal American university will be found. No longer will the prejudices and interests of small, impartial groups creep into the teachings and rob them of much of their value. Instead we will see more and more liberal instructors such as Dr. Hilden Gibson, Prof. R. H. Wheeler, Prof. Mapheus Smith, and others at this University who have already seen the need for a broadness of understanding on the part of the younger people of the country.
With the coming of greater liberalization and the passing of educational stereotypes, university students more than ever before will be able to receive for their tuition and time both knowledge and understanding.
Journalism Schools Cannot Meet Demands of the Press
Newspapers are faced with a serious problem in the replacement of men being called to the services. No longer can they write the nearest university for a promising young journalism graduate. Journalism departments are being deluged by calls for newspapermen at a rate they cannot hope to accommodate.
Members of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, the Southern Newspaper Publishers' association, the Inland Daily Press association, and the National Editorial association today began a meeting with representatives of 33 accredited schools of journalism at Chicago. Discussed at the meeting will be possible solutions for the critical manpower shortage situation.
While the government does not recognize
Just Wondering
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If a thermoregulator for University buildings shouldn't be one of the school's first purchases, following the close of the war.
--journalism as a necessary profession in wartime, the field approaches very closely to being such an "essential." Recently a strike held up newspaper distribution in New York City, and for days the city seemed paralyzed. There were few citizens in the metropolis who were not affected by the incident. The newspaper has established itself as a fundamental factor in American life, both in peace and war times.
One answer to the manpower shortage has been a great increase in the number of women being trained in the profession. A speed-up in journalism education has also been suggested. Nevertheless the problem has not as yet been solved.
In addition to the increased demand for graduates, the journalism departments are laboring under the handicap of a decrease in male enrollment due to the call of the services and industry, shortage of teaching personnel for the same reasons, and difficulty in obtaining many necessary supplies.
If John Q. Public is to continue reading his morning paper over his breakfast cup of coffee—if he is to continue being the best informed man in the world, then something must be done about this problem. To allow the newspapers of the country to decline or die through a shortage of personnel would be a mistake which would be only slightly less dangerous to the nation than military defeat.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... John Conard
NEWS STAFF
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
                Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
News Editor ... Dean Sims
Sunday Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Picture Editor ... Miriam Abele
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... John Pope
Advertising Assistant ... Charles Taylor, Jr.
Forewarned is forearmed: Max Kissell, Phi Psi, had some kind of a date with Marcie Peterson, Kappa Alpha Theta, the other day. When Max went after her, however, she sent down word that she was studying and couldn't come. With determination worthy of a better cause he went bounding up the stairs, shouting "man on second—man on third" up to the top story. There he thrashed through a number of rooms until he found the studious Marcie, and continued the cave man technique to get her out into the open air.
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Tactics on the home front: Dean Ostrum, Sigma Nu, has a cat named General Timoshenko and a closet full of dirty clothes (like so many other college men). The other day the two got together, General Timoshenko finding the place to his liking. But when Dean sent his clothes to the laundry—Does anyone want a good cat?
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady: Sue Elliott, a Kappa pledge with long, dark locks, went running out of entomology lab at 12:20 with a drove of other Kappa and Pi Phi pledges, headed for home and lunch. The usual group of sailors was standing at the corner waiting to be marched off to eat. One gob yelled: "Hurry up, gals. The first one here gets me." Sue was ahead when the group of girls reached the corner. "O.K., Hedy, you win," he said, making himself available. Sue hurried on to lunch.
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Any applications: Jay Gunnels, 1603 Louisiana, and Earl Pickerill, 1247 Ohio, have started a branch office of "Wolves Unlimited." an organization described in Tuesday's Kansas as begun on the UCLA campus. All wolves are invited by Jay and Earl to join the organization.
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A College Fable: During the scramble in the Journalism shack when precedes deadline, the telephone was knocked off the society desk by Milo Farneti, sports editor. The receiver fell into four separate pieces. Milo was trying to piece together the apparatus and at the same time pacify the operator with such pertinent remarks as: "It's all right, operator. I'm just trying to fix the receiver." He kept up a running fire of remarks into the mouthpiece for several minutes while he resorted to temporary expedients in an effort to mend matters. Scotch tape, among other things, proved ineffective. Finally, by sheer force, he screwed it together, and peace was restored in the shack.
Moral: Four hands are best, two hands are good, but think about poor Venus de, Milo.
American Weakness Economy Is Cheap
The average American house rare shrewdness and uncanny in grocers and their display arts; th does not know. That's why she w 25 cents. It's more economical grade soap plus a dishcloth, all for 50 cents. The dishcloth may sell 2 for a nickel on the retail counter, and when made wholesale represent a negligible cost-it is an added premium; it is something she didn't pay for.
The average American housewife possesses buying skill of rare shrewdness and uncanny insight. She is no prey to cunning grocers and their display arts; there is no tradesman's trick she does not know. That's why she won't take a box of soap chips at 25 cents. It's more economical to buy two boxes of a cheaper
Like Parents, Like Children
This is the clinching argument in any debate concerning whether to buy or not to buy. An inferior brand of canned green beans—five whole ounces larger and two whole cents cheaper—is irresistible. "But, dear," she admonishes Him when He protests the necessary labor of sorting strings, wormy beans, and comparatively edible pods onto three neat piles on his plate, "it was so economical."
"Economical" covers a multitude of sins, extending from the wife and her marketing to "He" in his office. Imposing executive behind an unnecessarily expensive desk He bought because the lamp came with it if you paid cash. He is monarch of all he surveys; three semi-fitted bookcases that came outfitted with three new books each, a dozen non-standard make typewriters that threw in two months' supply of paper, and special typing seats that charged ten dollars more for the free pads. "Well," He blusters, 'a good business man has got to take advantage of opportunities to get more for his money.' And no one can deny He does get MORE.
The sins and weaknesses of the parents are visited on the children, even in modern America. Daughter Josephine, an English major who dotes on Walt Whitman, writes home one weekend: "You'll just have to increase my allowance, I'm afraid. You see, the book dividend—that means it's free—was Whitman's poems (sigh), so I just had to become a member. Then of course, I'll have to buy two books, and then I get one free, and then I'll buy two more books, and so on. What if I do get a few books on headhunting and stuff I'm not interested in? Think of all the free ones!"
Bargains Are Irresistible
And small Junior, struggling away at model airplanes is not less afflicted. If the 10 cent cement is thrown in free, Johnny will gladly pay 20 cents more for the set. And if a col-
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