SUNDAY, MAY 4.1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
From 'Absolutely No'to 'Well, Maybe'
By ART O'DONNELL
Student trends of thought in regard to war and peace have changed much in the past three years. A recent survey conducted on the campus shows that since the invasion of Poland, students have gradually come to look at the possibility of the United States entry into war with less objection.
A survey was recently conducted among 20 students from different departments of the University. A question as to their attitude toward being drafted shows that the majority of the group would not conscientiously object.
Half of the group stated that they would enlist in the army if they would monetarily gain by it. Many of the members of the University R. O.T.C. will graduate this spring into
No One Mentally Neutral
All of the students interviewed showed that they were not mentally neutral as to the war's outcome by stating that they hoped that England would win.
the ranks of the army with the commission and pay of second lieutenants.
Three-fourths of the number interviewed approved of the lend-lease bill that was recently passed by Congress, but only half of the group approved all-out aid to Britain. The other half of the group did not approve of our entry into the war, or sending an expeditionary force to Europe. The whole group agreed that they thought the United States would be in the war within the next eight months.
As for the destiny of the United States if England falls the opinions are diverse. One of the students felt that our fate would be that of France; that the U. S. government would fall under the economic pressure that would be exerted by the Axis.
No Draft Wanted in 1935
In a survey conducted in 1935, 33 students out of a group of 77 declared that they would not bear arms in a war which the United States would declare, 15 would participate only in wars declared after the United States made utmost use of every agency of peace. None would enter a war declared by the U.S. as an internationally recognized aggressor, and only two would bear arms in any war which the U.S. might declare.
The majority feel that the United States does have a definite part in the war, and that we may eventually send an expeditionary force to Europe. Students feel that there is now no organized resistance against our sending an army abroad.
Peace strikes were in the vogue in 1935. A University peace strike group planned a meeting that would allow a one hour convocation so that the student body could attend a peace strike in front of the Fowler Shops. On the morning of the meeting, students found the campus covered with a multitude of white crosses each representing a grave "over there." Student speakers at the strike were: Kenneth Born, Lyman Field, and Charles Hackle.
but 43 were against such isolation. Sixty-four favored consultation with other nations in support of the Kellogg Pact and other peace agreements, while four dissented.
Should Be Doing Something
In the 1935 poll,65 wanted no compulsory military training while five favored the system. Five wanted a larger army, navy and air force, but 64 were against the increase.Eighteen advocated national isolation through strict neutrality legislation
Political Science Frat Banquets
L. P. Cookingham, city manager of Kansas City, Mo., will give the principal speech at the Pi Sigma Alpha banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening in the English room of the Memorial Union building.
Lymen Moore, assistant to Cookingham, and F. H. Guild, of the Kansas legislative research bureau, will also attend, Carter Butler, president of the honorary political science fraternity, said today.
The dinner is open to all those interested in political science. Tickets may be purchased at the political science office.
Initiation services for 14 new members will be held before the banquet and election of next year's officers will follow it.
Malott Plans Three Speeches This Week
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will make three speeches the first part of this week. On Monday night he will address the Rotary club of Humboldt; Tuesday, the University of Oklahoma faculty club at Norman; and Wednesday, Bethel college in Newton.
Campus Beauty Project Still Long-Range Idea
The long-range campus beautification project will be continued next fall, provided funds are obtained, with the planting of shrubbery in several small lots on the campus, Donald Durell, botany instructor, said yesterday.
Durell, who draws up the landscaping plans for the beautification committee, said that by planting the plots in shrubs and other yeararound vegetation, the cost of maintenance will be considerably reduced.
The triangular lot at the east end of the campus, the circular lot east of the hospital, the long rectangular strip in front of Frank Strong hall, the square plot in front of Hoch auditorium, and the circular lot at the west end of the campus will all be planted in hardy shrubbery next fall.
This year the grounds around the Memorial Union building have been landscaped, and a new stone wall has been built south of Spooner-
Abstract Paintings Of Kann Displayed In Spooner-Thayer
A group of abstract paintings by Frederick Kann are now on display at Spooner-Thayer art museum. Kann is an instructor in commercial art at the Art Institute in Kansas City, Mo.
Most of these paintings have no meaning except as a design for color. The artist gets his ideas from music; then reproduces the ideas in colorful paintings.
Kann did not name most of the drawings, but to one he has given the caption, "The Lost Chord."
Thayer Museum.
The paintings will be on display throughout the month of May.
This was the year that young Bill White said on April 12, "When the bands start playing in 1940 or 1945, the newspapers, the big agricultural and industrial interest who profit, or think they profit by war will be whoooping it up as usual. So if these young men now at K.U. don't want to find themselves in five or ten more years, walking back from the front line trench through a winding communication trench to the rear, carrying their entrails comfortably tucked under their arms and wondering 'little man, what now?', they had better begin doing something about it. Maybe a strike isn't the most intelligent way to handle it. But at least it is proper to meet the hysteria of war with the hysteria peace."
Next year, if a committee to be appointed is able to raise enough money, the ground surrounding the hospital will be landscaped, Durell said.
Durell, who received his A.B. in landscape architecture in 1934 from Massachusetts State College at Amherst has a leave of absence from the University next year. He is planning to attend-Harvard and will work for a degree of Master of Landscape Architecture.
In 1936 a peace mobilization move was sponsored on April 22 on the Fowler Shop lawn. Roy Burk addressed the group under the auspices of the Emergency Peace campaign, a national organization, and predicted that unless some decisive action was taken immediately the United States would be involved in an European war which he said would occur within two years.
for a peace strike was asked. Permission was refused unless the word "strike" be withdrawn from the name of the demonstration. On April 22 a "peace mobilization" was held in the Hoch auditorium. The meeting was orderly and featured speeches by Fred Perry, Bill Fuson and Martin Maloney.
In the midst of the demonstration and speeches a tear gas bomb was thrown into the center of the group. The thrower of the bomb was never discovered. The peace strike continued after fumes had cleared away. Speakers were Kenneth Born, Roy Burk, Martin Maloney, Gevene Landrith and William Fuson.
All Week
In 1937 the use of Hoch auditorium
CARNIVAL
Shows, Rides, Concessions
Free Admission
Reynolds and Wells
Active Peace Organizations
Since 1937 there has been no student organized strikes or demonstrations for peace. This year a group of 30 students and faculty members is meeting one day a week in the Memorial Union building. They fast one meal as a war protest.
21st & La. St.
A small group of students dropped school in the fall semester to go into active service in navy and air corps. The national guard took another small group. Some students failed to return or quit school to take jobs in the stepped-up building and wau production program.
Dean J. H. Nelson told the writer of an article earlier this year that he had noticed much "uncertainty in planning courses. No one is making any plans," he stated. "The boys of the national guard units who were in school," he said, "were badly demoralized before they were called. They had little interest in their studies." The writer of the article found that Miss Miller, assistant dean of women, was of the opinion that the only influence national defense and the world situation had upon the women had been more marriages and great opportunities for jobs.
On the whole, the attitude of the student mind toward the war situation is moderate—they are neither greatly anxious to be in a war, nor are they convinced of the plausibility or worth of rabid peace demonstrations.
Other peace organizations that are now active on the campus are: the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which does not advocate demonstrations against war, but urges after war, the building of a system of governments such that war will not occur again; the Peace Education Committee, which aims by study, prayer and action to dig into the underlying causes of war
"DULCY"—The Gal Nobody No's!
The girl with the dulctet lips —Ann Sothern as "Dulcy" is coming to the Varsity theater Thursday for three days. The man who is not about to say "No" is Ian Hunter. 2nd picture on this program is William Bavid as "Hopalonga." Cassidy in "Doomed Caravan" with Russell Hay-