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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941
20 Year Old Prophecy
(Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from a Pampa, Fla., newspaper dated Feb. 25, 1921. The Notre Dame student, Malcolm Hatfield, to whom it refers, is now a nationally known educator, lecturer, and a columnist with the McNaught Syndicate.)
A few editors have commented on the theories which were advanced over at South Bend, Ind., regarding the future of trend of affairs in the United States. The entire matter would have died a normal death had not a reporter written the following story.
A strange new banner has been hoisted to the philosophical breezes which may in time shatter everything that Nicholi Lenin now advocates, for it holds that the greater portion of all social problems are basically psychological and not economic or political.
Materialistic Factors Dominant
In one sense of the word this is rank heresy and the eyebrows of the Notre Dame University professor who corrected the paper must have lifted as he read on: "We are permitting materialistic factors to influence our social thinking and are paying too little attention to the important and fundamental question of developing and preserving the mental well being of our one hundred and five million citizens."
"If we are not to see an enormous increase in the size of our penitentiaries and asylums" the paper continued, "we must start with the home and train prospective parents to give as much attention to the mental side of children's lives as to their bodies."
A Consuming Society?
Strange doctrines these. But listen to the next paragraph. "In neglecting the spiritual side of life and emphasizing the acquiring of material wealth, we are slowly but surely forging a new kind of society. If enormous quantities of goods are to be produced, they should be consumed by the masses we have taught to desire them.
"Under our present plan we stress the matter of production, but leave the question of consumption unsolved. Unless we turn to psychology, science, religion, economics, and sociology for the answer to this problem we may in time see a repetition of what happened four years ago in Russia.
"Greed for things material and the lessening of spiritual values is so undermining the basic security of the individual that government may be forced to intervene. Here again, a dangerous new factor is rearing its head for we must not forget that such
Just a Philosophical Dreamer
supervision is costly. Good government is always that which is required to govern least."
While space does not permit us to reprint more of the story which was written regarding the theories of Malcolm Hatfield, the Notre Dame student who hails from Milford, Indiana, it can readily be observed that the embryonic Hoosier Philosopher is even more of a dreamer than Nicholi Lenin.
The University of Notre Dame, instead of encouraging its students in flights of unrealistic fancy, would do well were it to limit its teaching to more practical matters. As for Malcolm Hatfield and his doleful theories the harm has already been done. We prophesy that he, like many others whose minds were warped in college will end up by becoming a janitor.
The trouble with a woman who is a wonder at talking is that wonders never cease.
Boundary Lines on the Level
This is college tennis season. Tennis is one of the few active spring sports in which students may participate with out having to wait for the intramural board to schedule contests and line up players.
The tennis season should be well under way, but how can one play tennis on a court that is about as smooth as the Rocky Mountain terrain, and where the boundary lines are always putting on the disappearing act?
While the athletic supervisors may fondly imagine that intramural sports give every student a chance to participate, they are sadly mistaken; only the best are chosen to compete, and the majority of the students are left to get their recreation by doi daily dozens.
It may take good sportsters to compete in intra-murals, but any punk can bat a tennis ball across t net at another punk and have a good time doing it —if the courts are just equipped with the official number of visible lines, a net that doesn't sag too badly, and the surface is kept at least somewhat smooth.
In more ways than one you're safer getting health than wealth. No one tries to borrow it.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
America's colleges will lose about 11 per cent of their students in the draft before next fall.
At the Pi Phi house yesterday the worm turned. For a day the freshmen took over upperclass prerogatives and made the actives hit the narrow road.
All afternoon members of the lowly class were boss, and at dinner they had the actives entertain them.
Then last night the Pi Phi freshmen went out on their annual serenade. Among other things, they had their annual wetting down at the Phi Psi house, and another water fight at the Phi Delt house.
They must have felt at home in the rain today.
Those in the know say that the boys whose number is 1986 were not the ones who placed the ad. It is all part of a practical joking feud.
Spice of the evening came when Catharine Boyd lost the keys to brother Phi Gam Jim Boyd's car, temporarily holding up the serenade.
Ralph Kessler, whose home is in Monticello, N. Y., was baffled when he found a basket of lilacs and tulips on his door yesterday morning. When it was explained to him that handing maybaskets is a commonplace custom, he was amazed.
Perhaps the most widely read item in yesterday's Kansan appeared in the want ads. Telephone 1986 was busy all night with application calls.
"I never heard of it at home," he said.
At the Delta Chi house the team that came in first on Dandelion Day is keeping in practice by whacking away at the front lawn every noon after lunch.
This morning in his History of Ornament class T. D. Jones was showing slides of early Christian architecture. Suddenly a picture of Radio City flashed on the screen. The students expecting the Catacombs, it was a startling sight.
Will anyone who knows the meaning of "Persipacity," a popular song, please call K.U. 25 and report. A sizable reward consisting of back issues of the Kansam is offered.
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are the only Greeks to take a child.
When a donor gives $30, he may specify whether he would prefer to "adopt" a Belgian refugee, a Dutch refugee, a Jewish refugee, an English refugee, or any other type refugee who found shelter in England. Later, the donor receives his ward's name, a brief description, and a picture of the child as promptly as war conditions permit.
David, Bettina, and John, adopted children of Prof. and Mrs. Domenico Gagliardo, have 'adopted' Belle Wood 8 years old, of London, as a memorial birthday gift to Miss Alberta Corbin, for 40 years a member of the University of Kansas faculty, who died in March, and whose birthday was April 24.
Some young pupils of a grade school in Oklahoma City have pledged $30 to take a child for a year. They pledged themselves to give up lollypops, etc., and save their pennies to help meet the expense.
The local, temporary branch of the "Save the Children Federation" was started by Dr. Florence Sherbon, professor of home economics. A. J. Mix, professor of botany, is the chairman of the committee, and Mrs. George Hood is secretary.
The Theta's, Alpha Chi's and the Women's Faculty club have each adopted an English refugee child. Letters have been sent to all of the "Hill" organizations to ask if they would adopt a homeless war baby. So far, the Theta's and the Alpha Chi's are the only Greeks to take a?
on in close coordination with the government.
For $30, a British child is taken out of a bombed area, and kept for a year. Nursery homes are in the country, and accommodate about thirty children. The care and food rationing of the children is carried
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"godmothers" is not mailed across the Atlantic, but it is cabled direct to the committee in England. The SCF cabled $10,946 as an Easter gift from American contributors to help needy British and war refugee children in England. The total so far transmitted overseas is approximately $242,000. The number of British and other children in England who now have American "godparents" through SCF is just 7,000.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, May 2, 1941
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
FRESHMAN Y MEMBERS: Pleite on Saturday, May 3, 4:30 to 7. Bring 20 cents. Last meeting of year. — Thornton McClanahan.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial hospital—Ralph I. Canuteson.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZAZTION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room of the Union building—Betty Charles.
SENIORS: Seniors who have not filled out activities cards for their Jayhawker senior pictures please do
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SQUARE DANCING: There will be square dancing Friday at 8 o'clock—Ruth Hoover.
so at the Jayhawker Office before May 6.—Bob Woodward, business manager.
SYMPOSIUM: The Symposium will meet in the Pine room of the Union building Sunday at 7:30 p. m. J. I. Nelson.
Students, Faculty To Attend AIChE
Fleven University students and faculty members expect to attend the annual regional meet of the Kansas-Nebraska section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Manhattan tomorrow.
Schools represented will be the Universities of Nebraska and Kansas and Kansas State college. Several student papers will be presented at the meeting, which is sponsored by the state chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.