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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1941.
America and the War
Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles written by a group of eight University students in which the varying possible war policies of the United States will be discussed. The articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Kansan.
In an article on America and the war in last Sunday's Kansan it was shown that, under the guidance of men who protest their hatred for war, this nation is edging close to military involvement in the European conflict. A small but voluble group have stated the arguments for participation. Compressed into solid substance, these arguments become pleas for security. The people of America fear a united, hostile Europe. A Germanized continent, they are warned, would menace the territorial and economic security of the United States.
It is easier to theorize than to demonstrate. Hitler has spent some months attempting to demonstrate that the English Channel presents no barrier. Military experts point out that the wider Atlantic involves a proportionately great increase in transport difficulties. Seven and a half tons of shipping are required for each soldier and his equipment. Considering the present shipping shortage, the problem of any invading nation would become one of reassuring difficulty.
Even airplanes yield to distance. Bombers ordinarily operate within a radius of about 500 miles, with an extreme range of 1000 miles. There are two to seven thousand miles of ocean between the two hemispheres which, for an effective attack, would have to be bridged daily by armadas of planes.
The Atlantic serves as our ally only so long as we remain on the defensive. It would operate with equal strength against us if the United States should attempt any invasion of Europe. During the World War, even with the help of the British navy and with friendly port facilities, the United States was never able to supply completely the needs of the A. E. F. America's geographic position acts as protection and should chasten the eager advocates of offensive participation in the present war.
Less spectacular than any threat to territorial
security, but more convincing to some observers is the economic menace of a united, hostile Europe. Before shuddering at this threat, however, more and more Americans are critically examining is validity. Even if Britain wins the war, the United States will not dominate world markets; the economic stake abroad will not fluctuate directly in accordance with the fortunes of battle. Furthermore only about five percent of the national income derives from foreign trade. Even in the best of times we sell less than five billion dollars worth of goods abroad, and during the last decade our annual exports have fallen as low as $1,600,000. The lease-lend program alone already calls for an expenditure of seven billion dollars, a sum larger than the annual value of the country's total foreign trade in peace times.
Entrance into the war for the purpose of gaining territorial security is needless. Entrance into the war for the purpose of gaining economic security overlooks the enormous economic cost of war. Every nation every so often has a Rubicon, narrow or three thousand miles wide, which it may decline to cross. A little more than twenty years ago the United States entered a war in Europe to gain security. The results are before us.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.-Oscar Wilde.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.-George Bernard Shaw
Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.—Manchester Guardian.
After a four and a half month cat-and-dog fight, ASCAP music is again on the air this week. Students will no doubt appreciate hearing the good old "St. Louis Blues" while they get in the groove for those fast-approaching finals blues.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
--the engines as they cross the Rocky Mountain range. Trucking service is preferred to that of rail when the order has to go long distances which would necessitate the changing from one railroad car to another.
It's the pre-final spree this weekend. If you don't celebri
you deserve to get a 2.8 average.
Finals are only ten days away, so make hay while sun shines and then hibernate.
The boy who did a hula for the girls when the Chi serenaded the A.T.O.'s the other night was Vincent Trun formerly of the fan dance.
For the Kansan Board banquet Friday night Bob Truc edited a "Fee Wee Kansan," miniature gem edition of the sheet. For the latest news see it sometime next year.
Potter's lake got cheated Thursday. Ed Hall was still large.
Hall was chased from the house, was cornered in the sign department in Frank Strong hall, got ambushed Brick's, rode the bus a round trip, and escaped in a friend car about midnight.
There is a tradition among the Delta Chi's that the pled shall throw the seniors in the lake. Thursday Ed was hunted man. Probably everybody in the Kaw valley he the commotion.
He didn't go home to the Delta Chi house at all Thursday night. The pledges lost their cross-country race, and whereabouts of the winner remained a mystery.
About noon Friday he showed up, the worse for the we and ready to let the freshmen give him his dousing when they chose.
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Laundry Case Turns Aerial Crate
These are two of the many uses to which old papers, boxes and rags are put after they go through the Jayhawk Paper company. Huge stacks of old paper enter the processing plant and emerge as smooth sheets of heavy paper at the rate of forty tons a day. From this paper are made boxes of every description—egg cartons, chicken crates, boxes for canned goods, cookies, rubber hose, poultry, and a host of other products.
Did you know that that old laundry case which you just gave to the local junk man may become a banana box or a cylindrical box to crate the nose of an airplane?
The Jayhawk Paper company was started by Senator Bowersock in 1901 and is the oldest paper company west of the Mississippi. At first it was just a processing plant for straw paper, a product used by the local butchers to wrap their meat. The factory manufactured its own straw paper and purchased the liners or smooth paper with which to finish the article. When it expanded into a box factory in 1923, the policy was reversed. The processing plant
The factory maintains its own staff of artists who work out designs for the covers of boxes which do not have a specified cover design. Boxes are made from any color paper and are printed in whatever conventional or exotic combinations are desired by the consumer.
Boxes manufactured here on the banks of the Kaw are used in all parts of the United States. The largest buyer of Jayhawk boxes is the Kuner and Empson grocery firm in Denver. Hormel and other meat producers also buy many of the products. The busiest time at the paper factory is the canning season when one of its staple products, cartons for canned goods, are most in demand.
The factory has an average daily output of 100,000 boxes. Shipping is done both by truck and by rail. Each day three carloads of boxes are shipped to distant points in the United States. Boxes going to California are put in a box car which has been lined with paper to keep outinders which may get in from
The work of the processing plant is determined by the demands of the box factory. Because of the increased speed with which the boxes are manufactured, some of the paper must be purchased from outside plants.
When the old paper and rags enter the processing plant, they are put in huge tubs or beaters to which water is added. Here the paper is broken up into small particles of water-soaked pulp. From the filler beater the pulp is pumped to the refiners or liner beaters. These machines beat the pulp into a fine mixture which gives to the paper a better finish. From the liner beaters or jordans, as they are called, the fine pulp is carried to screens made of brass which force the water and pulp out into large vats. Any impurities which may be in the pulp are caught in the screen and disposed of.
now manufactures the liners and buys the straw paper from which is made the corrugated middle of the boxes.
After the refining and cleansing of the pulp, the paper begins to take
form. The pulp is caught up on huge cylindrical rollers and from there it goes onto a huge wool blanket. As the blanket goes over each cylinder a thin layer of pulp is deposited. The finished paper usually consists of six layers, but this may be altered to fit the needs of the consumer. The thickness of the paper is determined by the amount of water in the pulp and the speed with which the pulp is deposited on the blanket. Each cylinder which deposits pulp on the blanket also presses out some of the water in the mixture.
As soon as the paper has lost enough water that it can carry its own weight, it goes off the blanket and on the dryers. The dryers are huge steel hollow cylinders which are kept at a temperature between 200 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit. As the paper passes over each roller, it is dried and any roughness is pressed out. From the dryers it is rolled into paper cylinders which weigh between three thousand and four thousand pounds. The whole process, from the time the old paper is put into the first beater until the finished paper is moved into the
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Sunday, May 18, 1941
Vol. 38 No.1
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGAN ZATION: Meet Tuesday afternoon 4:30 in the Pine Room—Bet Charles.
Notices at Chancellor's office at 3 p. m.
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DRAMATIC CLUB: The Dramatic Club will meet for election of offcers at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday. Shirley Jane Ruble, President.
COLLEGE FACULTY: Meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Frank Storr Auditorium. —Deane W. Malo President.
EL ATENEO: Sign the list in th Spanish Office if you wish to attend the picnic Thursday evening.—Mer E. Simmons.
KU KU MEETING: MC4 tomor row night at 9 o'clock in the UniLounge.—Roy Edwards, President.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital from 2 to 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoons. "Appointments should be made at Watkin Memorial Hospital."—Ralph I. Caruteson.
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