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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
A PAT ON THE BACK
American newspapers will take time out this week from the wearing task of news gathering to pat themselves on the back. For this is National Newspaper week. A public weary of weeks for the glorification of cherries and chess; of laundries and of labor, should be willing to devote one week to praise of the press.
Is there another institution in America so representative of the whole fabric of American civilization? Where else can you see the daily life of the American presented clearly; his opinions and prejudices aired, his fancy humored, and his curiosity satisfied?
Many readers curse the papers—damn them for their invasion of privacy, for their baseness, for their lies, and for their bias. But they continue to spend two or three or five cents daily that they may be informed as to events of importance in the troubled world.
Only on the American continent today does the reader have the opportunity to read opinion and fact in his paper, untouched by the hand of the censor. In Germany, as in many European and Asiatic countries, only government-approved papers are sold. The sale of foreign papers is prohibited. Any punishment short of death is attendant upon the German who listens to a foreign radio station or is caught with a back issue of the New York Times.
The reader may be weary of the news. He may be sick of tales of strife and carnage. He thinks he doesn't care whether Smolensk is in German or Russian hands. He does, however like to think that he is capable of maintaining his end of a conversation about priorities or Russia. So he buys more than 41,000,000 papers every day of the week; more than 32,000,-000 every Sunday, and more than 20,000,000 weeklies in communities all over the nation. He is willing to pay for those papers, because he wants news and he wants the studied opinion of the experts who gather and edit that news.
So, this week, the press will accept congratulations upon its constant service and devotion to the nation and the community.
THE THREE NON-ARYAN PIGS
The German radios are busy at present reporting great victories on the Russian front, but let's just suppose they were to take off a little time to broadcast a kiddie program. Here is how it might sound:
At the same time lived a gentle wolf who wished nothing more than to live at peace with his neighbors. However, his neighbors were constantly attacking him, and it was with difficulty that he was able to defend himself against aggression and devour his foe in the end.
Once upon a time there lived three greedy little pigs, who, if the truth be known, were non-Aryans in league with the capitalists who were plotting world domination.
The pigs, who were also allied with the international bankers, tried to encircle the wolf by seizing all the bricks and mortar they could find and building a house. The wolf wanted to build a house, but he spent so much time defending himself against the sparrows and chipmunks who tried to starve him by staying out of reach of his claws that he didn't get around to any construction work. The Wolf had once lived in a nice house, but he wanted a bigger one, and worked so hard drawing plans for it
that the old house tumbled in decay about his ears.
But, seeing the evil plan of the pigs, the wolf, still wishing peace, went to the house of the pigs and asked to arbitrate. The pigs, wishing to lay a trap, asked him in. So, the kindly wolf, in spite of the economic strangle-hold the pigs were preparing, was generous and agreed that he would be content to sleep in the kitchen. The wily pigs agreed, too.
The trap was cleverly laid, but the wolf saw through it. The kitchen was too small and there was not enough food in the icebox. Again the pigs were trying to starve him. Seeing no alternative, the wolf pounced upon the pigs while they were sleeping and encircled them all.
Russia now has America's moral support, anyway. The Anglo-American delegation to the Tri-Power Economic conference at Moscow arrived today.
A woman in Iowa shot her husband because he was tickling her. Which was a rather drastic means to show her distaste for such frivolity.
A girl recently robbed two M.U. coeds on the campus. We wonder for whom the belle stole.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Friday, Oct. 3, 1941 No. 15
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.
RHADAMANTHI. Rhadamanthi will meet at 7:30 Tuesday evening in the Pine Room of the Memorial Union. All students interested in verse are invited to attend.-John Waggoner, president.
KU KUS; There will be a meeting of the Ku Kus at 0:00 p.m., Monday evening in the Union lounge. All members, except the new initiates, bring your dues. It is required.-Roy Edwards, president.
DIRECTORY: Copy for the Student Directory is now being prepared. Students who have not filed addresses and telephone numbers at the Registrar's Office should do so at once. James K. Hitt, assistant registrar.
UNION ACTIVITIES: All people interested in Student Activities Committees apply at Student Activities office, Union Building, between 2:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon.—Fred Mitchelson, publicity manager, Union Activities.
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The first examination of the four to be given this school year will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 8:30. Candidate must register in person at the College Office, 229 Fram Strong Hall, Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1. Only juniors and seniors are eligible. Seniors who pass this examination may qualify for graduation in June, 1942—J. B. Virtue.
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Rock Chalk Talk
And so the Hill makes ready for its first football victory weekend of the year! Four thousand Jayhawkers can't be wrong.
If the charm of Kansan contest campaigners has not yet been turned on you, be prepared but don't be wary. A good line about the charms of Sun Valley and the Rose Bowl has its points, is fun to listen to, and might help pull your best friend to that holiday excursion choo-choo.
Many students are sending the Kansan to their parents as a means of saving on stationery, stamps, ink, and energy. Remember that when somebody pushes a book of ballots in your face and asks about your subscribing.
A new organization is sprouting on campus to be known as the "D Club." Anyone who has received the beloved fourth letter as grade in a college course is eligible for membership. Seniority of members is to be decided by the number of "D" each has to offer. Students with "F" on their transcripts may enter the inner circle of the group from which officers will be recommended.
It's such a cute little thing, and so difficult of cultivation, that he is considering experiments with make-up to hide it during drill so that the rest of the time he may have its charm to help him keep a stiff upper lip.
Sorrow has hit Keith Christwell hard. As a student of military he has been required to shave off his mustache, quote Sergeant William Kollender and other big and burly officers.
Sig Ep freshmen thought they had something in a super walkout last night when they planned a bang-up affair to be held in Topeka with an assortment of Delta Gam and A. D. Pi pledges. They were all meeting downtown when Sig Ep actives got wind of the plan. They rushed to the scene and went into action. Along Massachusetts street each pledge received one board by way of send-off, with a promise of greater things to come.
Mother Goose Uses Subtle Propaganda
For information regarding requirements and plans, see Dave Whitney.
I want it understood at the outset that I have nothing against children. They are an understandable phenomenon of our social system, and since I was once a child myself, it is possible to forgive them many trespasses.
I may thing as G. B. Shaw that youth is such a wonderful thing that it is a shame to waste it on children, but it is not a statement I bandy about in the company of fond mothers.
Having just come from my new psychology class which is 171, Why We Behave Like Monsters; open to seniors only, I should like to postulate a few ideas concerning the underlying schism in our social order which has produced a species of behavioristically irresponsible people such as children.
After looking through my new textbook, which was written by my professor and looks authoritative, I can see with the clarity of enlightenment what is at the bottom of the trouble.
It seems to me that one can trace everything back to the decadent influence of the nursery rhyme. These degenerate little quatrains are the first literature committed to memory by children. They prate them over and over through the formative years until the stanzas are engraven deep into the subconscious, where they influence the child's pre-adolescent behavior.
For instance.
"Little Miss Muffet sat on a
tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider and sat
down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away"
is as unhealthy a thought as ever came out of a reform school for strayed young women.
And how about
"Hickory dickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
Hickory dickory dock."
The mouse ran down
Hickory dictionary book.
If that isn't engendering a fear psychology in our youth, psychoanalysis is in its dotage.
Then there is the delightful stanza about "Hey diddle diddle," . . . need I go on? This all boils down to surrealistic dream analysis which is good for no one.
It is comparatively easy to see by these few examples that Mother Goose was the perverted head of a Ku Klux Klan for Corrupting Children, and that a rigid corsorship along these lines is the only hope of saving the next generation.
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Dr. Paul Weaver, professor of philosophy at Stephens College, will be guest speaker at the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. Membership banquet in the Memorial Union ballroom at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday.
All students who signed for membership in either of the organizations are requested to attend the banquet. Tickets are on sale at the Y.M. office or at Henley House for 50 cents.
Harry Q'Kane, new Y.M.C.A. secretary, will be introduced at the banquet, where he and Miss Roberta Tucker, Y.W.C.A. secretary, will outline the semester's program for the members. Each member will be given the opportunity to indicate in what phase of the program he is interested in working.
Dr. Paul Weaver Will be YM-YW Guest Speaker
As the highspot of the banquet, Dr. Weaver will address the membership on a topic chosen from problems of ophy at Stephens College.