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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
Business No Longer As Usual
Not enjoyable for Britain is the latest assurance from Sir Stafford Cripps to the Churchill government. It would seem that at last the English are beginning to realize the spot they are in, and are planning to treat it as the unprecedented problem it really is—not only to the British government, but to every government still free of dictatorship.
Britain has long been over-confident of her strength on land, in the air, and on the seas. This late awakening to the grave measures she must take should set the American nation yet another example. These two great world powers have, for the past century, been so completely cocksure of their own superiority as a race and as economic powers that the bewildering thing about the whole situation is its belated occurrence.
The United States should realize that her military power is not the overwhelming thing we have all believed. Ever since World War I we should have kept up on our toes, not disarming immediately, but ever increasing our strength in the navy, army, and air forces. Britain has learned her lesson—can't the United States profit by it, or will they have to be convinced firsthand?—T.M.
Natives of Pitcairn Island can lay good claim to the position of the world's most trampled folk. Someone sent them 27 tons of food. In the first place, they weren't starving. In the second place the cargo was sent collect, and it was only after they had spent all of one day rowing the stuff to shore that they were presented with the bill. They couldn't pay, so put the food in storage.
New Zealand and the War
Just 1400 miles east of Australia is an isolated little country which, though having a greater area than England, has a population approximating half of a London suburb. Composed mainly of two islands, North and South, New Zealand proper also includes Stewart and Chatham Islands, and several smaller ones.
New Zealand is at the opposite end of a diameter of the earth drawn from a point near Great Britain, or about 12,000 miles "down under." It is thousands of steamer miles from the rich trading centers and trade routes of the world: the path from western Europe to the United States, the route through the Mediterranean Sea to the Far East, and the North Pacific to Japan and China route. It is isolated in trade, in social migrations, and cultural contacts, as well as ideas. Why, then, need this peaceful little country fear invasion from Japan?
Just this—in the southern hemisphere, New Zealand has probably the best climate, for there are no extremes of temperature and only mild storms. So far as the climate is concerned, it might support ten times as many people; naturally, this point would be of supreme importance to overcrowded Japan.
The people of New Zealand are not entirely unaware of the precarious position it occupies. Since 1938, plans have been made and funds provided for increasing the effective strength of the armed forces, and for centralizing defense control. Nevertheless, Japanese financial interests have been steadily securing control of the basic resources of iron, coal, and manganese.
Its chief trouble is its interdependence with Britain. New Zealand is a pastoral land, producing milk, meat, wool and dairy products. It supplies Great Britain cheese, butter, mutton and lamb. All in all, 40 per cent of New Zealand's main products are sold in London market. In turn, Great Britain supplies many manufactured products which are indispensable to New Zealand. Although at opposite sides of the earth each country is dependent on the other—New Zealand, for manufactured goods, and Britain for her food supply.
Undoubtedly, New Zealand is the most vulnerable single unit in the British empire. Sir Andrew Russell, G.O.C. of the New Zealand Division from 1915-19, stated shortly before England entered the war that New Zealand's wartime position, in case of trouble in Europe which prevented the arrival of aid from England, would be hopeless.
That time, which no one thought could come, has arrived. No one knows what the future will hold for this obscure country which is just taking its place in the news, but it is certain to play an important part.-T.M.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Sunday, March 1, 1942 No. 95
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.
MEDICAL and ADVANCED PRE-MEDICAL STUDENTS who are applicants for Navy commissions as Ensign H-V(P) and who miss the examination by the Naval Board in Kansas City today may receive examination by reporting to this board at 9:00 a.m. Monday, March 2, at the University of Kansas Hospitals, Kansas City, Kansas—C. W. Asling
W. S.G.A. COUNCIL MEETING—There will be a W.S.G.A. Council Meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Pine Room of the Union Building—Mary Ellen Roach, Secretary.
ARCHERY CLUB—The Archery Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Robinson Gym.-Lloyd Johnson, Secretary.
All members of the Ku Ku organization meet in front of center Frank Strong at 1:00 Monday, for Jayhawker picture—Roy Edwards, Pres.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a special meeting Monday, March 2, at 7:00 p.m. in the Pine Room—Fred Lawson, Secretary.
DRAMATIC WORKSHOP. Meeting Monday, March 2, at 4:30 in the Little Theatre, Green Hall. Edith Ann Fleming will present plans for casting the Palm Sunday play, "The Terrible Meek." The final report on the all-student spring show will be submitted by the play committee. Please be prompt—Dave Watermulder, president.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS—Dr. E. T. 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, health service.
NEW ADDRESSES FOR DIRECTORY SUPPLEMENT: Students who changed addresses between semesters and who have not reported new addresses to the Registrar's office should file these addresses at once so that corrections may appear in the Directory Supplement.—James K. Hitt, Assistant Registrar.
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First laughs in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" went not to William or to the cast, but to the Diogenes in the audience who lit a match and held it aloft during the very dark first scene.
That 7:30 C.P.T. class might mean a passport to heaven for some people, but to Vic Miller it's only the 'Yawn Patrol.' It's probably being in the School of Fine Arts that does it... no musician ever gets up before 5:30 p.m.
Since the great blizzard, the Phi Psi house has been in somewhat of a turmoil. Thursday, Del Campbell held open house for his brothers with a strictly gentleman's snowball fight in the Phi Psi living room. The following day someone found that the second floor French phone was not only out of order, but entirely missing, with only a few stumpy wires left to tell the tale.
Someone called the telephone company, which rushed madly to the rescue, but became rather dismayed when they found that the phone itself was not around. After the entire Phi Psi chapter had bloodhounded around for several hours, R. J. Atkinson finally dragged it out of a dark corner. But the fiend who got mad at his woman and pulled the phone out of its roots will never be known.
Orville Wright has gone visiting at the University of Arkansas this weekend. To make sure that things would go smoothly at Battenfeld during his absence he left his visiting address pinned up on the bulletin board, and told the boys to call or wire in the event that an emergency arose. Last night, a bunch of Battenfelders got together and sent him this telegram:
Dear Orville:
An emergency has arisen.
And the telegram was sent to the Kappa house at the University of Arkansas!
"Fifty Years In Public Service"
("Fifty Years of Public Service" by Daniel C. Roper, in cooperation with Frank H. Lovette: Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 1941.)
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, America was beginning to feel the first rumblings of the economic maladjustments that were to culminate in the depression of 1929 and the birth of the New Deal. This vital chapter in American history, from the events of the 1890's to the present World War, has been chronicled in rather textbookish fashion by a man who has lived in the thick of it, Daniel C. Roper, former Secretary of Commerce under President Roosevelt, in his recently published autobiography "Fifty Years of Public Service." $ ^{*} $
Mr. Roper, born in South Carolina in 1867, began his public service at the age of 25 as a member of the state legislature during the regime of reform-minded, one-eyed Governor Ben Tillman. Aided by his native ability and fortuitous circumstances, Roger moved into the Washington
political arena as a clerk of the Senate committee on inter-state commerce, during the second Cleveland administration. Advancing in various capacities during the McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft administration, the South Carolinian became a figure
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EDITOR'S NOTE. The University Daily Kansan welcomes letters from readers. These letters should be not more than 200 words in length, and must be signed with the name of the contributor. Names will be withheld upon request. The editor reserves the right to edit all letters to conform to style and length requirements. Opinions represented herein are not necessarily those of the Kansan, and the Kansan assumes no responsibility for them.
To the Editor of the Kansan:
Tuesday afternoon, on the "America Today" forum, Mr. Gagliardo said we must make sacrifices for production. Specifically, for the production of arms and ammunition. The sacrifice is of the things we can not get because we have to produce war implements instead. If, in orde rto produce more war implements, we have to produce less consumer goods, whoever is unable to purchase the consumer goods consequently suffers a reduction in the standard of living. But since consumer goods are sold only to those who have the ability to pay for them, the burden of the sacrifice will be felt by those who can't pay for them, lower income groups, labor, etc., rather than those who can, the higher income groups and capital.
If the standard of living is lowered, as Mr. Gagliardo advocates, for the war effort, capital will be forced to switch from imported to domestic champagne, and labor from milk to water.
I would welcome an answer from Mr. Gagliardo as to whether he thinks this reduction in the standard of living, which he advocates for the prosecution of the war, is an equitable and just sacrifice. P.S. Exceptions: sugar and rubber.—Ralph Kessler.
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