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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1941
The KANSAN Comments...
FASHIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY
Chancellor Malott, in his speech of yesterday morning, touched upon the problem of isolationism vs. interventionism. He stated that isolation countries now seem to have less peace and freedom than war-torn England. He added that there is not much security in the world today, but there is much adventure. Democracy, he continued, is no inheritance, it is a faith, a code of life which each generation decides for itself. Hysteria or failure to face facts may destroy a civilization that was built in centuries. He thereby called attention of the University to the nation's most disputed question.
The trend among political leaders seems to be interventionist. Among latest recruits to this point of view is Governor Payne Ratner, who had been formerly staunchly isolationist, along with Alf Landon. In a speech to the American Legion convention in Topeka recently the Governor urged "all out" aid to Britain short of an expeditionary force. This change is made more surprising because only last winter he sent a message to the legislature which led to a resolution asking Congress to reject the Lend-Lease bill.
Wendell Willkie has announced that he will support only those candidates in the off-year elections who agree with the President on foreign policy. Willkie has for some time agreed on matters of foreign policy with the President, criticizing only inadequacies in production, and domestic policies in the President's platform.
Senator Wheeler, on the other hand, has stated firmly that nothing short of actual declaration of war will silence him. Obviously lacking in public support, he has been denied the privilege of speaking in several cities in the South.
Regardless of the sentiment of most Kansans, it is apparent that the trend is away from isolationism, as it daily becomes clearer that existence in a Nazi-dominated world is an impossibility.
HIGH-VOLTAGE PRIVILEGES
One of the most vital issues in our national defense program and in our economic structure is involved in the power strike carried out in Kansas City yesterday morning.
Selfish elements in American industry and organized labor have shown an unwillingness to cooperate in the national defense program. Expansion of the defense industries, and the vast amount of money put into circulation by this expansion, has raised the price of living enough to justify a reasonable demand by organized labor for higher wages. However, many of the recent strikes in important plants have not been for wage increases, but for sole bargaining rights for the union. To quote from The Kansas City Star a statement regarding the power strike by the vice-president of the K.C. chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "What the union wants in this strike is recognition."
For four years this union has attempted to gain recognition, and in a final effort they have taken steps that endangered the health and lives of nearly half a million people, and caused a considerable financial loss and delay in defense industries and other businesses dependent on a steady flow of power.
Here are two pertinent questions.
First, are industries that are profiting by the defense program so unwilling to share their
profits with employees that strikes are necessary?
Second, on the other hand, is organized labor so corrupt with gangster elements that it is taking advantage of the emergency to conduct strikes for bargaining rights, with the intent of using these rights to bludgeon unfair privileges from the industries?
Naturally, no dogmatic conclusions may be reached. Both of these questions can be answered affirmatively in certain cases. The National Labor Relations Board is intended to settle any capital-labor disputes, but either it is crowded docket of cases, or the inevitable delay of arbitration saps its efficiency. The administration will face a great task in revamping this board, and will undoubtedly have a battle in securing greater power for it, but such action is necessary.
In any event, the inability of the board to bring about settlements of disputes, plus the unwillingness of capital and labor to conduct peaceful negotiations, has caused drastic action like the seizure by military force of strikebound defense industries. Government control of these plants may cause people to scream, "That is socialism," or "That is fascism." Still, the groups in the country most likely to suffer by a fascistic form of government are forcing such action by their conduct.
As Calvin Coolidge, who was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike in 1919, said, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere any time." If we are making this huge defense effort in the interest of public safety and the American way of life, it is imperative that the defense industries remain in continuous operation.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 39 Thursday, Sept. 18, 1941 No. 4
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.
Announcer and master of ceremony tryouts will be held in the studio of KFKU on Friday evening September 19 at 7.30. If possible all interested persons should see Miss Seaman before that date in room 117, Fraser Hall.-Mildred Seaman, Asst. Program Director.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The first regular meeting of the Men's Student Council will be on Monday, Sept. 22, at 8:00 p.m. in the Pine Room.-Fred Larson, secretary.
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB: Former Girls' Glee Club members must report to Miss Peabody during try-outs to sign up for this year.-Virginia Gsell, president.
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Rock Chalk Talk
By HEIDI VIETS
Richard Snyder's version::" I went to bed early and was awakened by Draper. He stood over me with a baseball bat, and demanded that I go to the show. When I refused, he threatened to tear up my best shirt. In self-defense I agreed to go."
Jimmy Draper, confirmed anti-theater man, came back to school this fall with a strong determination not to attend any shows during the year. Last night his resolution was broken. Conflicting stories are given of the incident.
Jimmy's version: "I was standing at the head of a flight of stairs when somebody sneaked up and pushed me. When I regained consciousness, I was in the theater."
Phi Beta Kappa Starts U.S. Fraternity Life
The South and the East are the birthplaces of most of the oldest American fraternities. Numbered among the grandfathers of our fraternities are the Kappa Alpha order founded at Union College in 1825, and Alpha Delta Phi at Hamilton College in 1932. Add to this Phi Upsilon also founded at Union College in 1833 and you have a running account of the first secret societies in American colleges.
All of the above fraternities were of an intensely secret nature, and it is this very secrecy which caused the first inter-fraternity conflict. Delta Upsilon, which was founded at Williams College in 1834, and bases its organization upon non-secret principles, warred with the fraternities founded at Hamilton and Union colleges as they gradually began to expand.
The first fraternity to be organized west of the Alleghenies was Beta Theta Pi which was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1839.
Another of the older Southern fraternities which has become national in its organization is Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, and now numbers over 100 chapters. Phi Kappa Psi was founded in 1852 at Jefferson College, and a split after a brotherly quarrel in a newly established Deke chapter at Miami University is the reason that the cross of Sigma Chi is nationally known in college circles today. Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta are fraternity twins in the sense that they both got their first start at Jefferson College in 1848.
The Civil War put a damper on the spread of these budding fraternities which had to put themselves on a figurative shelf until Lee gave his sword to Grant. After the war Alpha Tau Omega was founded in 1865 at the Virginia Military Institute and Sigma Nu in 1869. In 1857 the Kappa Sigma fraternity was founded at the University of Virginia. Also Southern in its origin is Delta Tau Delta which had its first formal meeting at Bethany College in Virginia in 1859. Pi Kappa Alpha was not far behind with its first chapter established in 1868 at the University of Virginia. Delta Chi, originally slanted toward a legal background, but later changed to a social fraternity, was founded at Cornell in 1890.
Tau Kappa Epsilon beat the new century with its first formal organization in 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University, and starting a new century of fraternity expansion were
Acacia and Sigma Phi Epsilon, which were founded at the University of Richmond.
As for the sororities, Pi Beta Phi, which was founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois in 1857, was followed by Kappa Kappa Gamma in 1870, founded at the same school. Also newly born in 1870 was Kappa Alpha Theta at DePauw University. Next oldest sorority represented on this campus is Delta Gamma founded at Oxford Institute at Oxford, Miss., in 1874. Syracuse University saw the founding of Gamma Phi Beta in the same year several months later. Sigma Kappa was also founded in 1874, and and saw its first chapter established at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Alpha Delta Pi, founded as the Adelphian society, became a Greek letter organization in 1905, when it dropped his former title and took of a policy of active expansion.
And so, little chums, you can place all your pledge training woes at the feet of the college joes who wanted to be joiners back in 1776 when all good college men wore three cornered hats and went to Midweeks with guns slung over their shoulders.
Alpha Chi Omega's mother school was DePauw University and the year of its inception was 1885. Alpha Omicorn Pi was established at Barnard College in 1897, and Chi Omega saw its founding the same year at the University of Arkansas.
HAPPENINGS On the Hill
Authoritative sources report that it took the Chi Omega girls only three and four-tenth seconds to reach the conclusion that they had no girl who could win the popularity contest sponsored by the Kansan so there will be no candidate from that sorority.
One University sorority sent a freshman over to scramble around under the seats of the auditorium after convocation yesterday to retrieve the votes for the Holiday Excursion contest dropped by some of the attending four thousand students.
New student Ruth Kelley is the official candidates for the free Sun Valley trip of Charles Rayl, Beta manabout-the-campus.
Jean Fees, who has just finished a strenuous week of rushing for Kappa, predicts that Bash Dodge, KKG candidate, will win the trip to Sun Valley hands down.
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