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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942
The KANSAN Comments...
All Out For Defense
Dollars, dollars—in terms of millions, billions, hundreds of billions—furnish the crux of financial tongue-wagging from Maine to California and back again. It is estimated that World War II will cost the United States $200,- 000,000,000 by 1945. It takes money to keep bombers and pursuit ships flying away from factories and ships sliding down ship yard ramps.
The sale of defense bonds and stamps stands out most prominently as a method for raising part of these funds. People just naturally frown on taxation, regardless of its form. They tolerate it, but wince under its oppression. Inflationary tendencies result in tremendous howls from economists.
We at the University should engage in a community effort toward the purchase of bonds and stamps. It is being done at other Universities in the United States, Princeton for example.
The plan would work out successfully if each faculty member, each employee of the University, and every student could be counted on to do his share. The purchase of a fifty-cent stamp by each student once a week would alone provide Uncle Sam with $40,000 by the end of the current semester. This would go a long way toward a new cruiser or a fleet of planes.
Besides the patriotic gesture back of them, the sale of defense bonds and stamps serves as an economic stabilizer. Taking money from the channels of consumer spending power frees an additional quantity of resources for use in war production. Result: faster arms output. Then too, inflation can be better controlled, with a resultant increase in facility of postwar reconstruction.
Another manifestation of the will to win—a man in Cleveland, rejected from the marine corps because of a crooked finger, had it cut off so he could enlist.
A Tribune Misinterpretation
The Chicago Tribune is in its usual dither. From its first grand burst of patriotism after Pearl Harbor, it has retreated to the brush, and now contents itself with snipping at the Democratic party in general, and the administration in particular. This is not surprising, because Colonel McCormick has always been a member of the opposition.
The latest accusation, however, sinks to the depths. The Congress now in session has a Democratic majority. The President is a member of the Democratic party. That would, naturally, make for unity. There are, though, in Congress enough Republicans to act as a check on undesirable legislation. They are the dissenters. Dissenters are essential to our form of government, but if the dissenters assume the majority, progress is substantially hindered. Naturally, when we are faced with the most serious war of all times, congressional action is needed, and needed with all possible speed.
In a radio speech recently Edward J. Flynn, Democratic national chairman, stressed this point. He said that the election of a Republican Congress would destroy and disunite our people. These are strong words, perhaps too strong. It must be remembered that Flynn is paid by the Democrats to convince people that this party has more to offer than the opposition. In a limited sense his statement is true. Certainly loss of decisive and speedy action would result from election of a congress which would disagree in politics and policy with the President.
The Tribune, however, jumps in with both feet, closes its eyes, and emerges with the information that Mr. Flynn can mean only one thing—that we should abolish the election, and "thereby dispense with all the other institutions of free men." It is obvious that Mr. Flynn makes no such statement. Mr. Flynn is too experienced in politics to make such a statement if he believed it. Mr. Flynn knows, as the nation knows, that the people are united behind the administration and the war effort as they have seldom been before. He knows that the Democrats have nothing to fear in an election.
The next ridiculous statement of the Tribune is: "Speaking for the party which sought to destroy the Union, he has damned the party which held it together." Obviously, it is impossible to condemn one entire party as "seeking to destroy the nation," or to laud another as "the party which held it together." There are undesirable elements in any party, group, or society. There are also factors for good. A blanket condemnation of one party and accompanying blanket praise of its opposition is necessarily stupid.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, February 6, 1942 No.79
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Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY WEST
Bulletin . . . Flash . . . Communique: Jack Singleton wishes to announce that after three semesters of endeavor he is about to probe the inner mysteries of Phi Kappa Psi. This item, however, is not to be released for official publication until initiation day.
Adv: For rent—one room at 1325 West Campus Road. Northwestern ex- pose. Call Jack Singleton at the Phi Psi house. Recommended as a quiet home for fraternity men with deficient grade points.
Mary Marrs, having had some bad luck her first semester in school, was dickering with the College office for reinstatement. Things were going smoothly until the name of one Tommy Thompson, Peck's Bad Boy, came into the proceedings in one way or another. From then on, a hitch or two was reported in the mediation process.
Delt Dick Goheen has a sure fire way of impressing housemothers. When Chi Omega Muriel Henry stole the gearshift knob off his car the other night and made off into the Chi O house with it, Dick, according to the nature of the beast, gave pursuit.
The race ended in a photo finish into the Chi Omega house with Henry nosing out slightly in the last lap, and Goheen precipitating himself into Mother Martin's arms, who was nonplussed by the whole thing.
Sigma Nu Hillis Kennard made the mistake of sending his cords to the cleaner's last week. When he parted with them they were the required feelthy yellow color. When they returned to him some act of Providence and turned them a delightful shade of robin's egg blue. This is probably going to blight Hillis's college career.
Gamma Phi Barbara Koch, who is knitting a hug-me-tight for Maurice Jackson, now of the Navy, is beginning to have qualms about her project. Due to some miscalculation on the part of the architect, the sweater look more like an afghan or a pup tent. Koch has just about decided to turn it into a life boat cover and take up needlepoint.
Blessings on the Army Air Corps, if it was the Army Air Corps, who serenaded so thrillingly last night. Odd though, how much they sounded like the Nu Sig's operating room sextet.
Dykstra, Melvin, Lecture
The newly instituted lecture course, "The World at W is more than fulfilling predictions made when it was organized Already 365 students have enrolled, a record figure for any single class, and since the course is open to the public, Frase theater will probably be filled to capacity every Thursday evening during the semester.
In the summer of 1918, due to rather crowded conditions in army camps, the government requested several universities throughout the nation to allow soldiers to be quartered and trained on the campus. Consequently, a number of men were quartered here in Robinson gymnasium and were instructed in military tactics by regular army officers. Since these soldiers were here only about one month, and since most of them did not have high school diplomas, they received no college courses. However, a lecture program designed to give the men some idea of the background and issues of the war was offered. Clarence Dykstra, then professor of political science, later president of Wisconsin University and director-general of the National Selective Service Board, gave the first series of lectures, and F. E. Melvin, associate professor of history, who is on the "World at War" lecture course, the second series.
faculty members who lectured back in 1918 are also speaking in the present series.
In reminiscing on the old course Melvin says that the soldiers were too tired from their drilling to pay much regard to the lectures, and that most of them took the opportunity to catch up on their sleep However, several years after the war while he was attending a convention at Des Moines, Iowa, Prof. Melvin was approached by a man who introduced himself with the remark "don't suppose you remember me, but I used to be in the training bunch a the K.U. gymnasium," and then proceeded to talk about the different lectures.
"World at War" Course Had Counrerpart in 1918
This plan of presenting a review of the social, economic, and psychological background of the war, plus a discussion of present issues and future problems is not exactly an innovation or the Hill. Courses of this nature were presented during the first World War, and some of the $ \textcircled{4} $
In the fall of 1918, the campus was actually transformed into an army camp under the Student Army Training Corps program sponsored by the War Department, a plan designed to keep the universities of the country open and still carry out the war program. Of the 3,006 student enrolled at the University in the fa quarter of 1918 (the quarter system instead of the semester was used the year), 1,689 were in the S.A.T.C. among them a young man named Deane W. Malott. These students lived in barracks on and near the campus, were under strict military discipline, received military training and took certain prescribed course at the University. The government provided their housing, food, tuition and $30 monthly.
Chancellor In S.A.T.C.
Among the courses open to S.A.T.
C. men were American and modern
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