The KANSAN Comments
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1941.
America and the War
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles written by a group of eight University students in which the varying possible war polices of the United States have been discussed. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Kansan.
There is not now, and, many believe, need not be, any desperate resort to armed conflict for the security of America. Yet there is one menace which is recognized by every thinking American and against which American opinion is unanimous. The danger is not military or economic, but idealogical; not Hitler from without, but Hitler's principles from within. American democracy is threatened by the march of hungry, dissatisfied men, aroused to pseudo-patriotic fervor by false hopes held forth by war-hungry agitators and panicky statesmen.
A Nazi officer in the foreign office, a man who had been in the United States after the war, has summed up authoritarianism's challenge to democracy:
There's only one way to beat us and it is beyond the power of your so-called democracies to do it. You would have to extend democracy to an extent that is impossible to do with your plutocrats. You would have to make it clear that the people in a democracy get more than the people in Germany.
War in the past has been so futile and ineffective because most of its action has been fought on an artificial battle field instead of on the grounds where lies the true conflict. Meanwhile, the greatest threats to democracy go unnoticed in the slave markets of the Bronx where Negroes are hired at ten or fifteen cents an hour; on San Francisco Bay where "hungry men, the fathers of hungry children, dump oranges in San Francisco Bay"; in churches where labor is excluded in favor of "respectable" congregations; in the curtailing of civil liberties on the picket line, in the poll tax, and in our educational systems, where too often bullying and passive obedience are instilled rather than incentives to experiment with and gain confidence in democratic methods. By ignoring such threats to democracy and by taking up military arms we permit Hitler to choose his own and our weapons; then we meet him on his own field of conflict. Instead we must force him to meet us on our grounds.
Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, says:
There is current in the democratic world no theory of the peace . . . Today even hope is dimmed and faith is all but absent. That is why the totalitarian faith in conquest is for the moment triumphant. That is why they can define their 'new order' while we flounder without a program. It is our absence of faith in any contrary process which gives them the victory.
We must define our purpose and then work consistently for it. And out-Hitlerizing Hitler will accomplish nothing more than making us a more thoroughly fascistic state than Germany itself is. The program of preparedness of "impregnability" will not deliver us from militarism and fascism; it is a program of capitulation to militarism and fascism; it is defeatism, a counsel of despair.
Military effort paralyzes the evolution of democracy. During war people are forced to conform rather than to think constructively. It has been said of soldiers: "Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do and die." Militarism and democracy are therein absolutely incompatible — furthermore they are detrimental and deteriorating to each other. "War and violence are the prime causes of war and violence" Anything permanent in the way of democracy will be brought about by removing the basic economic and social causes that pave the road for a Hitler.
Hands Off, Kiddies
Ah, ah! don't pluck that rose, kiddies.
We know. It would look so nice tossed in a vase and placed on the piano. It would pe nice to carry and sniff, Ferdinand-like. It would be a romantic touch on that date tonight.
But lookie here. If you pluck a rose, the next guy will pluck a rose, and the next, and so on, until the roses would be a memory, just like New Year's resolutions. Imagine walking around a campus upon which not one rose lifted her crimson head to greet the dawn. Imagine the monotony of seeing nothing but green grass, and an occasional dandelion which eluded the clutches of the student pody. Imagine not having that fragrant scent on the air to make that tough final a little easier to take Imagine walking by the circle and the triangle on the campus and finding the good, bare earth staring at you, instead of nice roses.
And besides, if they catch you,you lose five hours.
ROCK CHALK TALK
When Ada Lee Fuller got off the train Friday night she looked for a cab to cart her to the Gamma Phi hous Spying what she thought was a taxi she climbed in an waited for the driver to show up.
Glen Perkins, D. U., came back to his car after the trail pulled out. He didn't know Ada Lee, and she didn't know him, but they soon figured there was a wrench in the works she explained the situation, Perkins said, "I'm not a car driver, but I'll take you, anyway."
Ada Lee blushed all the way home .
If you like bright colors, hang around for the Coronad Entrada June 5. Judging from the gaudy garb being wor by those who herald the Entrada, the actual presentation should be brilliant.
On the Hill, several bright red shirts are being worn notably by Art O'Donnell, Chuck Wright, and Marvi Goebel. Wright also boasts a white cowboy hat. He says h chews tobacco in his spare time.
The postal romance of Ralph Adams and Neva Garre culminated last night when they announced their engagement at the Jayhawk Co-op. Rock Chalk Co-op came over to go in on the smooc line.
Neva is a student at Kansas State. Although she is from Adams home town, Clay Center, he never quite worked up to that proposal until he sat down one night to write her letter. Then he was so excited that he addressed the envelope, "Lawrence, Kan." instead of "Manhattan."
The letter came back to him. He readressed it. Agail it went through the mail. When Neva read the delaye missile, she sent back a favorable answer.
Now the postman can pat himself on the back. And Adam can retire to write his memoirs, or "Love behind a three cent stamp."
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Again Coronado was dismayed to find nothing he could use. These Indians lived in dome-shaped, grass-thatched houses, and were agriculturists and hunters. After searching around and spending nearly a month
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They traveled up the river and finally reached the permanent settlements of Quivira—about where Lyons, Kansas, now stands.
Isopete, the Indian guide, led the party many days "north by the needle." Eventually they crossed a river which Isopete, who claimed to be a native of Quivira, said he recognized. The stream, called by the
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Spaniards "Saints Peter and Paul" because it was reached on that day of the Catholic calendar, has since been identified as the Arkansas, and the point of crossing was not far from Dodge City.
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With a new native guide, this little group followed a well-established Indian trail of barter, one that later was followed by white pioneers and even today is a main motor thoroughfare—the old Santa Fe Trail route.
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! Mexico. What a disappointment!
Marching up from Central America, through dense wilderness, across treacherous rivers, and over burning sands of the Arizona desert, this Spanish army of approximately 1,000 men finally reached the Seven Cities of Cibola—the Pueblos of New
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After wandering many days in the wrong direction, only 36 picked men followed Coronado in his trek north and eastward. The others took shelter again with the Pueblos.
Over four hundred years ago, beards and mustaches were the vogue, as well as brilliant banners and flags of red and yellow silk. Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, a little band of Spanish adventurers set out from Mexico, seeking the Seven Cities of Cibola—and gold!
Dress For Coronado
By LILLIAN R. FISHER
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The highways are marked every few miles with red and yellow signs, depicting famous incidents in Kansas history. Road maps of Kansas are printed in bright red and yellow colors and show the natural resources of each town as well as the relative position and population. Even
The red and yellow used in everything pertaining to Kansas this year, are the colors of Old Spain. It was a Spaniard who discovered and explored Kansas before our "Pilgrim Fathers" were born.
BY LILLIAN R. FISHER
Students visiting their home towns find strange things taking place these days. Where only a month ago was a town of friendly, respectable, law-abiding citizens, now is a town of strange whiskered hombres who walk bowlegged in boots and carry "six-shooters" on each hip.
It makes no difference whether you go east, west, north or south—from now on, until the rest of 1941 is over. Kansans will be “pioneers.” There are hitchin' posts in Hutchinson, rodeos in Russell, waterin' troughs in McPherson and “Opry” Houses in Leavenworth.
license tags of automobiles carry these bright colors.
During the winter, Coronado heard of the-beautiful lake, the cities, and the high civilization of the Kingdom of Quivira, farther beyond. In the Spring of 1541, therefore these intrepid explorers were ready to go again in search of the "pot of gold at the rainbow's end."
These Indians had a form of civilization, but they possessed none of the wealth that Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his gold-greedy followers had anticipated.
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