PAGE SIX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY,SEPT.28,1941 The KANSAN Comments... FOOD FOR THOUGHT By COLONEL JAMES S. DUSENBURY U. S. Army, Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Kansas. "We are in it now up to our necks. We can't back out now nor do I hope that we will try to." You heard these words of former Governor Henry J. Allen in Hoch auditorium Monday. Now, the question is: what are you and I going to do about it? You have heard the motto: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Let us suppose for instance that we are R. O. T. C. students. Now is the time to get that ounce of prevention. Let us apply ourselves diligently to absorbing instruction. The writer passed through three offensives and one defensive in the first World War and thanked God nearly every day for the fundamentals of war learned at West Point. These fundamentals may be learned anywhere but unless we apply ourselves they will not be learned and then the blind will lead the blind. Let us solemnly resolve now to do something every day to make America stronger when the storm strikes. If we apply oursleves to our daily tasks with no shirking and with genuine hard work, we will make ourselves better and it follows that we will make our country better. These thoughts apply to every student at this University. A song well sung or played is an inspiration to others. Work well done is always an inspiration. Let us be enthusiastic about our work for enthusiasm is contagious. Let us not say a word that will injure another for "Many a dart at random sent finds mark the archer little meant and many a word at random spoken may soothe or wound a heart that's broken." Truly, for us this is the time for labor, and when we read the glorious history of General Frederick Funston and hundreds of other graduates of Kansas University in preceding wars and know that history constantly repeats itself, we realize that opportunity lies ahead for the present men and women of the University. "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." Students, we grey heads envy you. Our race is about run, our opportunities are nearly over, but for you, the opportunities are ahead. --to carry guns and lead half-military, half-industrial lives. They called themselves Kazaks (Cossacks), which means free-warrior. JUST ANOTHER INVASION Ukrainians must have sighed as they prepared to defend their rich oil fields and fertile plains against Hitler's panzer divisions. To them it is just another incident in the series of battles for freedom which has occupied them since the Middle Ages. In the 13th century the Tatars under Genghiz Khan swept down on Kiev, the capital, and left the city a ruin. The plains were desolated and citizens were carried off to become slaves. Those who were able escaped to the west, to return when the invader had left. In the meantime Slavic states had risen in the north which were to dominate the Ukraine for some 200 years. The Slavs coveted those same fertile plains which Hitler views with longing eyes today. They neither knew of nor could have used the oil which is such a vital factor in the present war. Poland and Lithuania had joined forces to defend themselves and the Ukraine, but were unable to protect the region against the Tatars. At last farmers, hunters, and fishermen began In the 17th century these Cossacks formed their own government near the Dnieper river. They stressed absolute democratic equality, obligatory celibacy, and duly-elected officials. All Ukrainian peoples regarded them as the natural defender against Tatars and Polish political aggression. A number of Cossack revolutions culminated in the great Ukrainian revolt of 1648. The Polish yoke was thrown off, but it was found that Ukraine coundn't stand alone, so a treaty was made with Tsar Alexis of Muscovy. In 1667 all of Ukraine west of the Dnieper was ceded to Poland, and all territory west of the river was suppressed by Peter the Great, son of Alexis. Ukrainians were reduced to serfdom. It was in the middle of the 19th century that Austria began to encourage a free Ukraine, because of need for a buffer state. The Russian revolution of 1905 strengthened the movement against Polish domination. During the World War the Russians overran the Ukraine, and were driven back by the Austro-German army. In 1917 a Rada (assembly) government was set up in Kiev. It hated Bolshevism, because it feared that land-hungry Ukrainian serfs would become infected with the Russian idea of nationalization of land. Germany had signed a separate peace with the no wRussian-dominated Rada, which invited the German army to evict the Soviets. Rada was re-established at the point of German bayonets In 1923 the Ukraine and other Socialist republics formed a new constitution, and the Ukraine became a part of USSR. --you to put on that second coat of fingernail polish. OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol. 39 Sunday, Sept. 28, 1941 No. 11 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. HISTORY CLUB: There will be a meeting at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon in room 110 Frank Strong hall. You need not be a history major to come; anyone interested is invited. Officers will be elected at this meeting. - Helen Kay Moore, acting 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. Y. M.C.A.-W.Y.C.A.: A meeting of freshmen interested in Y.W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A. commission will be held Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union building. Election will take place, so all who are interested please attend.-Ed Price. FRESHMAN MEN: All freshman men wishing to be considered for positions on the intramural managers board must turn in written applications at 107 Robinson before Oct. 3.-Maurice Baringer and Bill Collinson, senior managers. MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Meeting Monday, Sept. 29, at 8 o'clock p.m., Pine room in the Union building.-Fred Lawson, secretary. 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. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, 229 Frank 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. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas "An elevator in the Gamma Phi house I don't believe it," everybody would say when pledge Mary Blanche Todd told of the special streamlined elevator shooting out of Mary Ewers' room. After the twentieth doubter had doubted, Mary Blanche began to wonder. She can't figure out why Adeline Cast fed her the elevator propaganda. Barney Chapman, Phi Psi, ran into expense when R. J. Atkinson formally announced to the brothers at dirner that Chapman was going steady with Sue Kaths, Pi Phi. The boys passed cigars and presented a corsage to Mrs. Nelle M. Hopkins, housemother, charging the items to Chapman. To make matters worse, the Pi Phi's tried to mob Chapman later for a quick kiss session. He soon persuaded them that all was false, but the bill of 4 dollars remains on the record. Last week the Sigma Nu dog had pups. A week before, their cat had kittens. Last heard comment was a violent threat concerning what pitfalls lay in wait for anyone who might dare to bring a skunk into the neighborhood. High moguls of Memorial Union fountain say that since Henry Skorga entered the race in the Kansan's Sun Valley contes4, he hasn't been worth a cherry coke as a soda swinger. However, so far he has restrained himself from giving out Kansan ballots with fountain tickets. Another fraternity suffered a candlelight evening Friday night. Acacia pledges walked out with the fuses, the silverware, the house mother, and two actives, leaving their house in a general condition of turmoil. They treated Mrs. M. M. Wolfe, the housemother, with respect, but the two actives fared not so well. Tommy Myer was let out at the Kaw bridge to find a friend, and Mel Adams went with the freshmen for a hectic evening. Sigma Chi freshmen have taken on the task of maintaining the reputation for fine music which their house enjoyed—but other Tennessee street houses didn't—last year. Whether or not their band will be German has not been announced. In order to gain more public favor, it is rumored that they may change their label from German (masters of the Berlin Boogie) to the Coventry Cats. The Powerful Press--- Frat House Libraries Are Made. Not Born Part of every well rounded college housing project is a library, both functional and decorational, the purpose of which is to dispense not only knowledge but a certain air of manorial charm. Sorority and fraternity houses rise to meet this need with Sampsonian resources which involve the amount of hook or crooking necessary to fill those barren shelves with something beside antiquated copies of Balfour's Jewelry catalogue. Silver loving cups are always nice to have standing around to fill in those blank spaces, but the acquisition of a trophy collection involves either physical or mental effort, and having been acquired demands almost constant polishing to keep in the pink of condition. Nothing is more discouraging than the sight of a tarnished little silver man swinging a tarnished little tennis racket atop an "Intramural Doubles Champion . . . 1908" While not every college library can boast an open fireplace, deeply piled oriental rugs, and atmosphere, a series of well padded shelves lends an air of authority guaranteed to impress rushees, alumni, and culture-conscious parents. Working up from the ground floor of five or six Webster's Collegiate Dictionaries donated by fleeing seniors, one can always fill dark corners with text books and filched Gideon bibles. One school of thought tells us that for the consideration of a letter, the federal government will send one assorted text on animal husbandry and vegetable cultivation. Government pamphlets on soil erosion will help one's date pass the long hours while he waits for Contributions from alumni consisting of selections such as "Learning Sanskrit in Easy Stages," and "How To Raise Toy Terriers," are also helpful in a bulky way. The matter of filling a library with encyclopediae and five foot shelves of books all of a dreary sameness is to be considered only as a last resort. Seventeen volumes of the "Life and Times of Phineas Lynch" are good only for throwing at other members of your organization in moments of great anger. Variety in selecting your college library is an essential consideration. Please do not bore those who shelter themselves in your library by making them look at what appears to them to be a wall full of discarded Greater Kansas City telephone directories. If best sellers are in your ken, a subscription to one of the local Book-of-The Month Clubs will keep you well supplied with bills, threats and circular matter which will glut your mailbox with regularity. At the end of the year you will have a psychosis against opening your mail, as well as a fine selection of books with pictures on the cover and sturdy backs designed to outlive you or your progeny. All this to the uninitiated may seem a long and painful process, but merely remember that culture is not acquired at the drop of Vol. II of The Book of Knowledge, and that if Andrew Carnegie can work up to a chain store hook-up of libraries all over this country, the least you can do for the kids is to get out and work!