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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942
Commentary by the KANSAN Editorials * Features * Patter
A Pioneer Passes
With the death of George O. Foster last week, the University lost one of its most beloved pioneers. He was more than just a registrar; to the students, he represented the magnanimity and sagacity that is Kansas.
When George Foster came to the University, a mere lad of 20, in October, 1891, he found a barren hill with four buildings and a student population of 474. In his 51 years of association—44 as registrar—with the University he has helped nurse it from a small group of students and a building or two to the 30-odd building institution, teeming with some 4,000 students, that it is today.
A new student's first impression of the University was the reception he got from George Foster; the registrar was kind, and the student never forgot. Although he shouldered responsibility for thousands of students each year, George Foster was not too occupied to give aid to any individual who requested it.
A teacher and leader in the Christian church for over forty years, a prominent member of the Masons, George O. Foster lived a full and useful life. Perhaps in the future a building will be named after him or a statue will be erected to him.
To the faculty and students of the University, however, George O. Foster will ever be a warm and living memory.
More That Just Words
National Newspaper Week, October 1 to 8. to many indifferent Americans is nothing more than a week in which newspapers boast of their record achievements and attempt to push the circulation beyond an already too high goal! These persons believe the observance is only a profit-making scheme worked out by the most shrewd advertising men and circulation managers.
"Create another week of some kind," these persons cry, "and let the news men have something to write about. We'll read about newspaper week for seven solid days, and then they will start on something else—Fire Prevention Week or National Doughnut Week." This is a popular sentiment among those who do not understand or appreciate the things which today, more than ever, mean life as we know it.
The idea that censorship "can't happen here" has taken a terrific jolt during the past week. While the President of the United States toured this vast nation inspecting war plants, newspapers from coast to coast sat silently by with their hands folded until the Go signal was given. Correspondents who accompanied the President took notes and details concerning his journey, but released nothing until the Commander-in-Chief was back in the East.
Naturally, in war times we must take precautions and expect drastic measures to protect and secure our actions pertaining to the war effort, but this event does prove that news can easily be concealed from the American public without its realizing that such a thing is being done.
What would the morning cup of coffee or the big easy chair by the fireplace with slippers and pipe close by mean if today's newspaper were missing? What good would it do to have the paper there if the chief news were
Just Wondering
We are beginning to wonder if the University Senate has ever heard that old aphorism, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
controlled in the most strict degree and censored down to scant proportions?
How silent our cities would be without the shout of the freckled face newsboy who has grown up on the corner. How queer a print shop would be without the smell of thick printer's ink and the roar of a free press. What American wouldn't be stunned some day if he were to stumble into a newspaper office and be confronted by military agents and censors
"It will never happen here"? "Our Constitution guarantees it"? Perhaps so, but what is the good of a guarantee—a slip of paper with words printed on it—when most Americans do not know whether this right is still in practice. Indifference and negligence will not protect a free press—neither can a Bill of Rights in the Constitution when it is left to do it alone.
Isn't one week out of fifty-two little enough time to appeal to Americans to stand guard over such a basic institution in our democracy? If only a small number of persons are led to appreciate and value this precious heritage, isn't National Newspaper Week still worthwhile?
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Thursday, October 8,1942 No.12
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week,
and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
KAPPA PHI—There will be a pledging service at 7 o'clock Friday evening at 1209 Tenn. St. All actives please attend. Eleanor Fatty, Publicity Mgr.
STUDENT DIRECTORY—All students who have changed their addresses since Registration, please notify the Registrar's Office immediately in order to complete their records for publishing the Student Directory. G. St. Aubyn, Editor.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS—Dr. E. J. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4:30 p.m. for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of Student Health Service.
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Pat Scherrer, Sigma Kappa, and Sam Crawford, Kappa-Eta Kappa, are said to be "sorta going steady."
Tuesday night the Sigma Kappa's held an hour dance at their house for a Hill fraternity. In about the middle of the dance the phone rang. The call was for Pat.
"Hey, is this Pat?" the voice wanted to know.
"Yes, Sam," she replied. "We're having an hour dance now, so I'll call you back later."
"How can you call me back later when you don't have my telephone number?" the voice asked.
"Isn't this Sam?" she asked.
"Who is it?"
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