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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY,APRIL 26,1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Dr. Robert McNair Davis Professor of Law
If we Americans wish to remain a free people, of course we must win the present war. But merely winning the war is not guaranty that we shall then be free or continue to be free. The task ahead of us is much greater and farther away in point of time than military victory. We certainly are not defeatists but we must realize that America is this minute confronted with the most terrible menace in its entire history. We need to realize that fact now and to become really frightened. Of course if we should be defeated in this war our voice will not be a weighty one in the postwar world. In case of our success the first post-war phase will be a long period of rehabilitation which ultimately must be developed into world settlement and world organization. But in all these settlements we should avoid formal treaty-making and resort to executive agreements supported by ordinary legislation if for no other reason than to escape the constitutional barrier of the two-third rule in the United States Senate, the unamendable mistake of the convention of 1787.
We can at least assume that eventually we shall win the war. Upon that assumption, at this moment thousands of thoughtful citizens of the United Nations both in and out of government are seriously making at least the outline of plans for the assumed post-war world. Such planning is not visionary but is just practical, hard-headed, common sense. If we could be so short-sighted as to assume that we will simply win the war and then stop our efforts, we might almost as well stop now. The United Nations are fighting not only to save themselves from brutal domination but also for an opportunity to carry on the organization of governmental institutions that can, in the interest of all, relieve such economic stresses and strains as preceded and finally precipitated the present conflict. War has been called a disease, an epidemic, a pestilence that spreads. The sources and causes of epidemics must be ascertained and removed. Any plan of preventive medicine or preventive statesmanship proceeds in that manner. What are some of the sources and causes of the present war? Anyone who is familiar with the evolution and significance of world commerce during the twentieth century will realize that the shrinking globe on which we live has become in large measure an economic unit and that each part of the globe is very much dependent upon every other part for the material things needed even to maintain if not to improve the standards of living thus far developed. Surely we have had sufficient demonstration of that dependence in recent months. The economic life of the world has outgrown its existing political institutions. It is just common sense to accept facts and search for ways and means to correct and improve existing political and economic institutions and practices.
No one can rightly object to a stronger solidarity of the American republics. However, that is but one obvious phase in the greater work of political and economic organization. Mere American solidarity without more will only divide the world into two antagonistic camps and probably lead to war. The Americas do not make a natural or logical economic
unit. They cannot be made into a self sufficient source of raw materials nor into an adequate market for American surplus products. Limitation of space forbids statistical proof of these demonstrable facts. Anyhow, South America is a far-away, over-seas region much more inaccessible to the United States than Britain and Europe.
No, it is not visionary to plan and work for the establishment of limited global organizations to regulate the world's commerce and currencies. A little of that kind of thing has already been accomplished. Much must and will be undertaken in the future. The United
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. Sunday, April 26, 1942 No. 126
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.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The next regular meeting will be Monday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.-Bob Coleman, secretary.
There will be a meeting of the Faculty of the School of Education on Tuesday, April 28, at 4:30 o'clock in Room 117 Fraser Hall.-George B. Smith, Dean.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB will hear Prof. T. D. Jones of the art department speak on and demonstrate his color machine at its next meeting on Monday, April 27, at 4:30 in room 314 Frank Strong.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB PICNIC will be held next Tuesday, April 28, at 5:45 p.m. Please see Mary Lou Holloway by Monday if you plan to come.
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.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS. There will be a Newman Club Corporate Communion and Breakfast this Sunday. The breakfast will follow the 9:30 Mass. The Rev. E. J. Weissenberg will preside over the meeting. All Catholic students are urged to attend. —Lloyd Svoboda, Vice-President of Newman Club.
Sophomores who have made application for admission to the teacher training program must appear for examinations either at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29th, or at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 2nd in Room 306 Fraser Hall. Only sophomores who have made application and have taken the examination may enroll this fall in any education course.—A.H. Turney, Chairman, Committee on Admission and Guidance.
Students who expect to enter the armed forces before the close of the semester and who plan to receive partial or full credit for their work are urged to consult with Mr. Woodruff in the Registrar's Office at an early date—Raymond Nichols, Executive Secretary.
Tau Sigma will meet at the following times. Attendance is absolutely required.
Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 Fraser
Anna Jane Hoffman. Pres.
SENIORS! Order your announcements now. Deadline is April 27.-Fred Robertson.
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There was a riot at the Teke house Wednesday night. The freshmen of the house, feeling they had been subjugated long enough, made careful and secret plans to surprise the active chapter, take them captive and carry them off to the country—leaving them to hike it back.
But by some manner or means the actives got wind of the plot afoot and, as the freshmen met in secret conclave about midnight Wednesday night, ready to begin their rebellion, the actives attacked them and hurled them out of the house, locking the doors.
About 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning the freshmen returned to the house, gained entrance (the actives were sleeping peacefully) and took every pair of shoes in the house, along with some blankets. They made camp on the lawn of the Delta Gamma house, after serenading the women several times.
The freshmen attended their morning classes without returning to the house, leaving the upperclassmen to hoof-it to class in whatever sort of foot-apparel they were lucky enough to find.
Becoming soft-hearted, and not a little fearful of the consequences apt to arise, the revolutionists returned home with the car-load of shoes in time for lunch Thursday.
Phog Allen's Community Recreation class met last week to play games —fourth and fifth grade games such as "Flying Dutchman," "Tag," and "Black Man."
The casualties for one session of the class playing such "childish" games amounted to 1 broken nose, 1 bloody nose, two black eyes, and numerous scratches and bruises.
"Do or die" is a good motto, "Do or die."
Dr. of Psychology Herbert Humphreys returned Thursday from Ft. Leavenworth, rejected by the army.
"The trouble is," stated D. Humphreys emphatically, "The army doesn't know a good man when they see one!"
Harold Van Slyck, will never again trust women. Betty Grable hasn't answered his invitation to the Delt party yet—and the party was held Friday night.
Tooth Paste Tubes Are Drafted for War Effort
Toothpaste tubes may win the war. Retail druggists throughout the nation have been enlisted in the front lines of a campaign to get American consumers everywhere to save the collapsible metal tubes in order that the tin may be reused.
The committee, under the direction of Lund, has set up special tin recovery and smelting equipment in Hillside, N. J. The entire plan has been organized on a nonprofit basis and the reclaimed tin
It is no longer possible to purchase such things as toothpaste, shaving cream, or other drug products packaged in metal tubes unless you have an old used$\textcircled{e}$ tube to turn in to the store.
Authoritative estimates have placed the weights of collapsible tubes being wasted every day as from 20 to 24 tons. One tube may seem very insignificant but the aggregate amount of metal used in the tubes is rather staggering. At the present time there are 6,000 tons of tin in use in collapsible tubes. This supply has virtually been shut off by the war in the Far East, especially in the Malay peninsula, source of the bulk of the raw material.
The public has been asked over the radio and through the newspapers to save used tubes and to take them to drugstores so that the nation can conserve the small supply of tin available in this country.
The campaign has been called to the attention of radio listeners through the coast-to-coast network programs of seventeen national advertisers and users of collapsible metal tubes.
According to the plan announced by Joel Lund, chairman of the "Tin Salvage Institute," the 60,000 drug stores in the United States will set up collection boxes for the used tubes. The collection boxes are identified by a placard bearing the organization's slogan, "America Needs Tin."
is subject to allocation by the government.
All types of industries have been contacted to aid in pushing this plan for tin conservation, but the retail druggists constitute the largest and most important class because it is estimated that 85 per cent of all tin in collapsible tubes is used in drug store products.
Where retailers are within trucking service areas of wholesalers, collections of used tubes can be turned over to the truck drivers. Outside of such areas, the druggists hold the collected tubes and ship freight collect to their nearest wholesaler in quantities of five pounds or more.
It requires a little stretch of the imagination to think of your old shaving cream tube helping to provide the transportation for tons of bombs, but it is entirely possible. Those people who used to be regarded as a little bit queer because they saved tinfoil in order to "keep it from being wasted." have now enlisted everyone in their hobby.
Canuteson Takes Medicine Course at U. of Minnesota
Dr. R. I. Canuteson, Student Health Service director, returned yesterday from a three-week visit to the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, and the American College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Paul. At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Canuteson took a course in internal medicine in the continuation center.