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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942
The KANSAN Comments.
The Mystery of Life
One of life's deepest, darkest mysteries, and one that is, we fear, to remain forever unrevealed, is why, oh why, must people herd together in tight little knots and successfully and completely block entrance or exit from the library? It happens every hour on the half-hour, every school day of the week.
Horrible visions are called to mind. Suppose Watson library were to catch fire. The interior would become a raging inferno, and as the poor, smoke-filled student groped upward from the reserve room his exit would be effectively blocked by a leisurely, gregarious flock of alleged students, lighting cigarettes, discussing professors in bitter tones, and otherwise disporting themselves in the manifestation of some virulent ennui.
The thing does have its serious aspects, though. Many's the time some poor student, studying up to the last minute before dashing to class, has found himself trapped near the front door of the library, standing on one foot and then the other, as the smoking-room habitues light up, and stand discussing topics of the day. And, getting into the place is just as difficult, unless you play it cagey like, and slink in during the hour, when the loiterers have dispersed until the next time when they can get in someone's way.
Perhaps one answer would be to convert the place into a sort of den, and let them have it. You could always cut a new door through somewhere else. A place with the traffic that the library has, needs more than one door, anyhow. Conditions are nearly as bad at the exit to any other building on the Hill, but the library, being more frequently used is a sort of test case, as it were.
A boy in Texas was considerably startled recently when he tried to join the army air corps and was told that he was dead, and had been since birth. The poor, deluded creature is now scouting around for legal evidence that he was born alive and is still in the same condition.
---O--heard only stories of repeated victory; the successful conquest of the whole of Europe. They have supported their government, perhaps for this reason. No people is averse to power, if that power can be easily achieved and easily retained. What a crushing defeat, as climax to a war already much longer than they had expected, that some of the gullibility and blind faith in the word of the Fuehrer will be dissolved.
Apprehensive horses now have added proof that their time is coming: St. Louis police report the theft of four steel-rimmed wagon wheels from a livery stable.
And What of Russia?
Apparently Russia is to be the one battlefront in the world where the Allied Nations can hold up their heads. If the effort on other fronts is of no avail, the Russians, with little aid from anyone, are doing a magnificent job in the sub-zero winter of their country.
If they can continue to drive the Germans back with sufficient losses, it is improbable that Hitler will renew the offensive in the spring. He will be too busy on other fronts, and will have tasted the bitter gall of defeat for the first time.
The possibility of Russian invasion of German territory is not imminent. It would be extremely difficult for Russia to extend her supply lines far enough to support such a campaign, because of the "scorched earth" policy employed by the Russians in their first retreat, and because of subsequent stripping of the country by the Germans.
If the Germans are completely routed and driven out of Russia, the psychological victory may be more important than the military gain. To date, the German people have not known in this war what it is to be defeated. They have
A generous parent-teacher association in Massachusetts offers tea to any who bring sugar and tea.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, February 12, 1942 No. 83
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.
QUILL CLUB: Will meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in the cafeteria of the Memorial Union building. Please attend. Dutch dinner meetings will be held in order that the meeting time does not conflict with the World at War course.—Jean Sellers, chancellor.
Employment for Women Students: Additional opportunities are available for women students who wish to work for meals, or for room and board. Anyone who is interested may call at the office of the Adviser of Women, 220 Frank Strong Hall, for suggestions.—Women's Employment Bureau.
Shorthand and Typing Proficiency Tests: Women students who have had training in shorndash and type-writing will have an opportunity to take proficiency tests Saturday, Feb. 14, in room 312 Fraser Hall. Appointments for the tests may be made in the office of the Adviser of Women, 220 Frank Strong Hall.—Women's Employment Bureau.
There will be a makeup psychological examination for students who missed the regular test—Saturday, Feb. 14. at 9 a.m. in room 121 Fraser—A. H. Turney.
Social Pathology Field Trip: The social pathology field trip to Kansas City will be made Saturday morning, Feb. 14. All members of last semester's Social Pathology class are to meet at 8 o'clock Saturday morning in front of the Union building. Trip will be made by bus—Mabel A. Elliott.
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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.
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The D.U.'s not only possess a man who reads the newspapers, but one who is potentially a great statesman. Stan Kreider has a plan for helping our poor benighted congressmen; all he lacks is a committee. In utmost sincerity, he wants to place collecting boxes on campus corners to gather old clothes and cast-offs to send to Washington to our law makers. Any student interested in such a project should contact Stan.
Sigma Nu Bob Ackerman has a notoriously bad memory. He keeps forgetting that he has been forbidden, during Hell Week, to go either to Brick's or the Jayhawk. To help him remember this major point of freshman etiquette, he now carries about the campus with hi ma lovely red brick, and a stuffed hawk. Poignant, isn't it?
Monday night the Pi Phi freshmen took law and order by the scruff of its tired neck, and walked out. . . . the second time this year. They betook themselves to the Mill, then to the Varsity for the flickers. What happened when they betooken themselves back home is not being released. One authority says, "We were tired of it all."
This is a leg slapper: Phi Gam's Art Black, Jim Boyd, and Emmett Hook are taking boxing this semester.
There is a reason behind it all. . . . it seems these guys had a few knuckle brushes during the Christmas reprieve and between semesters, which convinced them that a few of the finer points of scientific boxing wouldn't do any of them any harm.
Theola McCool and Claire Arnold, members in good standing at Corbin Hall, are joint owners of a fancy, much guarded alarm clock. When it went off early Monday morning, both T. and C. sprang out of bed with a glad cry to shut off the little dear. They collided in mid-air, bashing foreheads firmly. Now both parties to this incident are head-holding with migraine headaches of an intensity bordering upon the supernatural.
Definitely Lost Department: One white and liver colored springer spaniel puppy, nie months old, belonging to Doris Twente. He doesn't answer to anything, unfortunately, because she only had him one day before he strayed.
Honest Abe Is 133--situation now as they were then.
Lincoln's Birthday Recalls Hope for Democracy
If Honest Abe Lincoln were to drop in on us today on this 133rd anniversary of his birth, he might be surprised to note that many of his oft-quoted statements are as true now as the day when he spoke them.
By FLORENCE BROWN
Abraham Lincoln, during his lifetime and especially during the Civil War, delivered numerous addresses and wrote many letters from which are taken well-known excerpts. Many of these can be repeated verbatim and will be applicable to the
In an address at Cleveland, Ohio 81 years ago, Lincoln said, "If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage." On a vastly different occasion on the same date, Feb. 15, these words would have a very definite meaning to every citizen of the United States. Liberty Needs Definition
His warning in a letter to Major-General Joseph Hooker during the Civil War is sound advice for any occasion. To the major-general he wrote, "Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories." How's that for sound official advice?
On another occasion, in Baltimore, Lincoln said, "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one." "Just now" could apply to 1864, the year the words were spoken, or to 1942.
A few months later he stated, "It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies." The question which perturbed Lincoln is
still unanswered. We are still wondering; still trying to find the answer.
Lincoln's Prophecy
"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good." Thus wrote Lincoln to a mother who had lost five sons in the war. He would, no doubt, be dismayed to learn that since that time, this country has been through one great world-wide conflict and is now involved in another. This fact, however, would only help to prove the truth of his words.
So, on his birthday, we can recall the words of another war-time president, an amazing combination of statesman, warrior, sage, and prophet, and add just a little more to our efforts to see that "government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall not perish from the earth."
Bibles Found in Waste Paper
Charleroi, Pa. (UP) — The Waste Paper Conservation Drive is producing more than just old paper here. Items found in one bundle included four women's hats, corsets, lingerie, a pair of silk stockings and seven Bibles.