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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
God and Adolph Hitler
Saint Peter is going to have a mild surprise soon, as he goes about his work as guardian of the Pearly Gates. A fellow with a swastika armband on his shirt is going to come up and inquire whether he is an Aryan.
Perhaps that is stretching things a trifle, but news has come from Germany that Alfred Rosenberg, one of Hitler's more competent aids, is designing a new religion for the German people. The 30-point program is aimed frankly at the destruction of Christianity in Germany, and its "colonies."
One of the provisions is to replace the Bible with "Mein Kampf." Anyone who has wandered through the pages of incoherent screaming at Jewry and lost himself in the labyrinth that is Hitler's political viewpoint, can readily see the inadequacy of Rosenberg's substitution.
There will be no clergy in the new religion. National Reich orators will explain "Mein Kampf" (and we don't envy them the job), and handle any oratorical work needed. German people will pledge themselves to the Nazi conception of God, whatever that is. Marriage will be solemnized when the couple take an oath of loyalty with their right hands on the sword, but, as you know, marriage in Germany is optional, just so enough future soldiers are produced. Parents of new-born children must swear their Aryan descent before an altar, and promise to bring the child up in true German spirit. The hakenkreuz, or hooked cross, replaces the cross of Christ.
Important are the numerous negative provisions. Amnog the practices forbidden are baptism, confirmation, and communion. Use of the Bible, crucifix, holy pictures, or any religious symbols is also verboten. On the ironical side is the provision that no German is forced to belong to the new religion, but that every move possible will be made to gain possession of the last German soul.
The wisdom of such a program is dubious Loyal Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, will forget their differences and present a united front against the attack. Catholic Italy, war-weary, may attempt a desperate escape from the Axis. If the Germans believe they can smash Christianity, they are foolish. Christians have been driven into catacombs, into caves and secret chambers, but have always emerged stronger and surer of their faith and power. The faith will stay in the hearts of the people, where no Gestapo can reach it.
An Idea About An Idea
"We could be beaten by an enemy who had just one research worker with a great idea!" declared Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, speaking at convocation. In that simple statement lies an awful prospect, an enticing challenge — and a brilliant hope. Somebody in Hoch auditorium that morning might be that "worker with a great idea"—some future scientist, or essayist, or business man, or journalist who, for the time, sees a new and significant relationship between things as they are, or as we think they are.
Some chemist with a great idea might produce a synthetic armor that no known projectile could pierce. Some physicist with a great idea might invent a "death ray" which would shrivel tanks, and battleships, and ramparts.
en. Some entomologist with a great idea bring horrible agony to millions of "the
That's what Dr. Wilbur apparently had in mind.
enemy”—agony borne on tiny, scurrying feet or on fragile, fluttering wings.
Some humble housewife with a great idea might inspire millions of hopeless people to crumple the bloody bars of terrorism which now keep them prisoners in their own homelands.
We are sure of only one thing: the "great idea" will be simple. Thousands of us have already almost thought of it!
That's what we had in mind.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, Oct. 31, 1941 No. 35
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.
STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION: The Federation will meet 4:30 Tuesday afternoon at Myers hall. All ministers and representatives are urged to be present. Dave Watermulder, president.
DRAMATIC WORK SHOP—There will be a meeting in Green Hall Monday at 4:30. It will be the first Monday meeting in November. Please bring all dues. The apprentices who tried out in September will have some kind of entertainment either individually or collectively. Jane Beal, secretary.
W. A.A. There will be no hockey pray day, Saturday Signed, Mildred Wells, Hockey manager.
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.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4:30, Monday. Nov. 3, in room 21, Frank Strong hall. Miss Leona A. Handler will speak on "The Status of Children in Transylvania." Everyone interested is invited to attend.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Next regular meeting will be Monday, Nov. 3. Pine room, 8 p.m.-Fred Lawson, secretary.
SYMPOSIUM: Symposium will hold a meeting on Friday evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room, Memorial Union. The question to be discussed is "Should Student Labor Organize?" All interested are invited to attend. John Waggoner, chairman.
Prospective teachers may obtain junior memberships in the Kansas State Teachers Association at the office of the School of Education, 103 Fraser Hall—Signed, R. A. Schwegler, president K.U. Unit.
Faculty members who have not yet called for K.S.T. A. membership cards may obtain them at 103 Fraser Hall.-Signed, R. A. Schwegler.
PRACTICE TEACHING: Students desiring to do supervised teaching during the spring semester should make application at once in the office of the School of Education.—Signed, George B. Smith, Dean.
ESTES MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY: A membership assembly of the Y to discuss the Estes Conference will be held in the Kansas Room of the Union building, Tuesday, Nov. 4. at 4:30. Everyone is invited.
ESTES REUNION: For all persons who have attended the Y Conference in Estes Park a reunion picnic is being held Nov. 1, 4:30-8:30. Price 25 cents. Meet at Henley House. Please make reservations before Friday, Oct. 31 with Marian Hepworth or leave your name at Henley House. Everyone is urged to attend!
NOTICE TO PREMEDICAL STUDENTS: Due to the abnormal situation there are some students desiring to enter medical school next fall who did not take the Medical Aptitude Test at the regular time last spring. For these students, the Association of American Medical Colleges is arranging to give a special test at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 1941, in Room 206 Marvin Hall. Those students who wish to enter medical school next fall should take the test at that time since the regular test to be given next spring will come too late. Will such students please register AT ONCE at the Medical School Office, Room 10 Frank Strong Hall. A fee of two dollars will be charged for this special test. For further information, inquire of Parke H. Woodard, Assoc. Professor of Physiology, Room 8B, Frank Strong Hall.
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By HEIDI VIETS
As freshmen as well as witches and zombies prepared to frolic tonight the campus buzzed with Spivak chatter. Typical dialogue on the subject was as follows:
"What dress are you wearing tonight?"
"Well, remember what I wore to the Freshman Frolic last year? That's the one."
Have defense priorities interfered with wardrobe turnover?
Wager hall, 1345 Vermont, awoke this morning to find that Hallow- t e'eners, jumping the gun, had already moved their porch furniture acrossp the street to Pierce hall.
The pranksters left on the lawns of both houses signs with such inscriptions as "Wager Henhouse," "Men Wanted," "For Sale," "All This and Not Heaven Too," "Fire Hazard," and "Pierce's Old Maids' Home."
Harlan Altman, Beta quarterback, is reported by Horace Mason, flashsite of the news bureau, to be going steady with four Kappas. Evidently he needs one girl each for the "diamond and three stars" on his pin.
At the A. K. Psi house they just barely don't say anything but "just barely don't."
If you hear a campus women bemoaning the fact that she "just barely didn't" make closing hours, your best guess it that she was out with an A.K. Psi.
A ghost walked in Watkins hall last night, but the tidings she brought were good. The ghost, Mary McDonald, announced a Hallowe'en party which turned out to be hilarious.
The tun fest was given by kitchen number two, one of Watkins seven housekeeping divisions. Tricky costumes at the spooky fling included loon nosed, braided balloon hair, and wastebaskets over heads.
All for Science; Cops Stand Treat
Wanted: Drivers who like to take a snort or two before taking the bus out.
A real opportunity is available to those "poor" freshman fraternity men who are not allowed to take the little "snort" they may like. The remarkable feature is that it is all free to the participants and is in the interest of science.
The Kansas City police department is willing to give them all the whiskey they want and start them out in automobiles to determine just how dangerous a drunken driver is. superintendent of traffic and safety
A synthetic road, complete with curves and markers, will be set up in the American Royal pavilion. Spectators—selected safety engineers, physicians, judges, highway patrolmen, and police officers, will serve as a board of judges to grade the drivers.
Sober at Start
At least 30 will be tested in a two day demonstration, Nov. 18 and 19 police chief Harold Anderson said. They will include some who drink occasionally, as well as habitual drinkers.
Candidates will first drive the course sober. After a dinner each will receive two ounces of his favorite whiskey. Twenty minutes later each will drive 200 feet forward, keeping the left wheels between two lines 12 inches apart, then reverse back to the starting point.
Half an hour later they will receive another two ounces of whiskey and each driver must follow a figure outlined by 16 poles, each bearing standard highway markers.
The course will be 50 feet wide at its widest point. Time limit to cover the course is 3 minutes.
Docs Alcohol Handicap?
Tests with the drunkometer, a device used by the police to determine whether a driver is intoxicated, will be interspersed with the driving.
More whiskey and more driving follows at 30 minute intervals.
The object, H. W. Johnson, police
superintendent of traffic and safety said, is to prove the efficiency of the drunkometer and to furnish visual evidence of how much alcohol hand dicaps driving ability.
For several years this shortage of water for domestic and stock use has been of major concern through out the state. In an attempt to locate areas in which additional supplies could be obtained from wells this investigation has been undertaken in Atchison county by the Federal and State Geological Survey in cooperation with the Division of the Kansas State Board of Health and the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
A new bulletin by John C. Fry entitled "Reconnaissance of Ground Water Resources in Atchison County, Kansas" has just been published by the Kansas State Geological Survey. The pamphlet was written as the result of an investigation into the problems of water shortage in Kansas.
Survey Prints Water Shortage Bulletin
Copies of the bulletin are available in the office of the Kansa Geological Survey in Haworth
Willis Jacobs, 27, is the youngest Ph.D. on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
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