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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
In This Corner
The bell has sounded, the seconds have left their corners, and the Russian bear and German wolf are striking the first blows in the third round of their fight to the finish, the greatest slugging match of modern times.
First round went to the wolf, who drove in close, bringing up haymakers from the floor with both paws. The bear was battered against the ropes and it looked like an early knockout, but he rallied in the second round, jabbing his opponent off balance and dealing no little punishment himself.
At the beginning of this, the third round, experts are hard put to pick the winner—odds are now about even—but they agree that the wolf is tiring and must score a K.O. this round or lose. He has plenty of power left in both those mailed paws, but the bear has shown he can take punching and come back for more. The latter looks like a sure thing if the bout is prolonged.
Referees, examining physicians, boxing commissions, and Marquis of Queensbury rules have been dispensed with. The winner takes the whole purse, which is a large one—control of most of the world.
Leaders of the United Nations group have announced that if their fighter wins, proceeds will be turned over to humanity.
American New Order
We live in a revolutionary age. All over the world, the old type of society and the old way of life are disintegrating. It is hard to visualize a new kind of society which will embody new social forces and which will yet remain democratic. Yet, we must try.
Our old order contains a principle which seems to have aided in deadlocking progress. It is the liberal principle of economic individualism and the sacredness of the capitalistic profit motive. As a result, powerful monopolies develop, which, from being merely non-social, may become definitely anti-social. In the rough-and-tumble of competing interests, planning for the benefit of the community at large is all but impossible.
Consumers, unorganized and without the force of the profit motive behind them, have found their interests neglected as compared with those of producers and distributors. In general, society fails to achieve corporate expression, and individuals, instead of finding themselves members of some greater whole, tend to become reduced to the level of the social atom.
The democratic idea of freedom, as we have known it, must lose its nineteenth century meaning of individual liberty in the economic sphere, and must become adjusted to new conceptions of social duties and responsibilities.
Individual liberty still has a very definite meaning for human beings in their capacity as individuals, and it needs to be safeguarded as one of the guarantees of democracy. Nevertheless, sectional groups have too often allowed material interests to override all other considerations, until they have become quite antisocial.
A few obvious examples of anti-social tendencies are demonstrated in those big corporations whose "duty" to make profits impels them to encourage trade with countries that are piling up armaments obviously aimed at their own countries; firms which deliberately
employed sweated labor and refused to install safety devices; and city administrations which permit vice and racketeering for the sake of graft.
In the organic society of the future, the individual liberties will mean the liberties of the individual as such—freedom of speech and opinion and belief, freedom of the person, and freedom of movement. But a man is no longer an individual in his capacity as business executive, as university president, and as government administrator.
He incurs social obligation, and his individual freedom must be balanced against his social responsibilities. Neither can sectional economic groups be permitted to allow their desire for maximum profits to override all other responsibilities. Here much can be done by legislation.
The responsibilities of the employer toward his employees can be imposed by regulations of space, light, and ventilation, of minimum wages, holidays with pay, prohibition of child labor.
In any case, social organization of every sort and at every level must be worked out in new terms-first and foremost in terms of people, of human well-being, and possibilities of personal development, instead of being in terms of property and profit.-P.L.C.
Gas mask wearers can now be recognized as individuals by their friends. A transparent frontpiece is the new improvement. There is also a defrosting device to keep the eyepieces clear.
A typewriter that uses no paper, carbon sheets or ribbon has been invented. As the typist taps the letters are photographed on a film which can then be reproduced in various sizes or quantities.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, May 15, 1942 No. 137
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.
NO REGULAR MEETING of the College Faculty on Tuesday, May 19.-Deane W. Malott, Chancellor
Students who have taken the courses in Home Nursing and Child Care are eligible for Red Cross Certificates in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. Former students who are interested should make inquiry at the office of the Department of Home Economics. Room 104. Fraser hall.
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In Blaine Grimes' P. and D. class Wednesday, Sigma Chi Dick Keene sat on one foot to conceal its nudity. Classmates, before the arrival of Grimes, had attacked Keene and having removed his shoe, threw it out the window. Even after the class was dismissed, he sat on his foot until one faint-hearted prankster went down and retrieved the shoe for him.
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When the Delta Gamma's serenaded the Teke's at an early am. hour Wednesday morning, both parties were about as sleepy as people can get and still stand on both feet.
The Delta Gamma's finished one song and were gathering themselves together to sing another when someone atop the Teke house threw down a dummy—Delta Gamma's went flying in all six directions. Surely, they thought, their singing had moved one of the boys so greatly he was committing suicide. Now they would all be murderesses.
mitting suicide. Now they would all be murdered Wednesday the Teke chapter sent the dummy to the Delta Gamma house, accompanied by a dozen roses. The card read:
'You killed him—take him.'
"You killed him—take him.
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Also in connection with this Delta Gamma serenade—the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity felt hurt because they were not serenaded along with the social fraternities.
"By gad," they said, "We go to as many parties as any of 'em." Anyway, they declared war on the Delta Gamma's Wednesday for slighting them. A formal declaration was sent.
The D.G.'s, scared half to death, quickly sued for peace—they, being smart didn't want to be used as cadavers by the young doc's.
smart didn't want to be used as cadavers by the Last night the two war councils met—the hatchet was formally buried and the Delta Gamma's sang songs to the now-happy pack of up and coming medicos.
Say—you Chi Omega's who have been taking midnight dips in Potter's lake had better wear shoes. That lake is just full of broken beer bottles.
Army Air Corps Offers Specialized Training
The formation of this enlisted reserve is but another step by our government in the building of the largest and best trained air force in the world, an air force that must, and will, defeat the air force of the Axis.
Recent announcement by Laurence Woodruff, registrar, that a representative of the aviation cadet board will come to the campus Saturday and Monday to make final arrangements for enlistment of University men in the Air Force Enlisted Reserve informs students that it is possible for them to enlist in the Army air force now and remain at the University until they receive their degree. $ \textcircled{*} $
The American Air Corps has long been famous for the excellence and thoroughness of its training of pilots, bombardiers and navigators. These airmen have all entered the Army by making application for aviation cadet training to the commanding general of the corps area or to the nearest Aviation Cadet Examination board.
After a young man has volunteered, he is first given a rigid physical examination that eliminates many candidates and a mental examination designed to determine whether or not the applicant has sufficient education to enable him to absorb and comprehend the technical instruction of the aviation cadet course. Formal schooling is not a prerequisite providing the young man can pass the mental test.
After the applicant has been accepted, he is enlisted as a private and is then immediately appointed an aviation cadet. He is then ordered to report to a designated replacement center.
Upon arrival at the replacement center, the aviation cadet is once again given a complete physical examination, this time to qualify for flying duty. Any cadets who do not qualify for flying duty, will be assigned to aviation cadet ground crew training with the Air Corps Technical Training Command, provided he can meet the requirements for this training.
Cadets who qualify for flying duty will then be examined to determine the type of air crew training for which
they are best fitted; pilot, bombardier, or navigator.
Cadets eliminated from the air crew training, may enter training in any other branch of the Air Force. Schools for giving ground crew training are located in all sections of the United States and turn out officers and men to service the airplanes used by the flying officers.
Upon successful completion of any of these courses, aviation cadets are graduated and commissioned second lieutenants in the Army Air Corps Reserve.
Training in the ground schools falls in the following classifications: armament training; communication training, engineering training, meteorology training, and photography training.
The lecture series for next year is being considered by a committee composed of students and faculty members, which plans to announce the series before the semester ends.
Faculty, Students Study New Lectures
The committee is composed of J. H. Nelson, assistant dean of the graduate school; K. W. Davidson, director of the News Bureau; F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law; Dolph Simons, of the Journal World; Mary Frances McAnaw, college senior; Merrill Peterson, chairman of Forums Board; Vernon McKale, president of the Men's Student Council; Marjorie Rader, president of the W.S.G.A.; and Raymond Nichols, executive secretary.