SUNDAY, M ARCH 23, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Special to Kansan
Features State Oddities
Believe It or Not
Believe-it-or-nots happen in Kansas just as much as they do anywhere else.
That is what Frank A. Cooper, graduate of '26, thought in 1935 when he started an oddity cartoon feature called "It Happened in Kansas."
The Kansan received special permission from Mr. Cooper to run this feature. In his letter he wrote, "I request that not be used before the Sunday, March 23 issue. I hope you boys honor the release date. This will willl
the release date. This mat will not appear in the JournalWorld, so rest easy."
Six years ago Cooper hit upon the idea of a "Belleve It or Not" feature for Kansas. He does the drawing and lettering himself. He obtains material for the feature from readers, from salesmen who sell the feature, and through occasional visits to the state historical society at Topeka.
"It Happened in Kansas" was being printed in more than 50 weekly and daily papers in 46 counties in Kansas by 1937.
WHAT'S THE SCORE?
Cooper received an art degree from the University in 1926 and returned later for more study. Going to New York, he worked in commercial art and became an artist with Printer's Graphic Arts.
BY J. F. BROWN
For the past seven weeks we have been discussing barriers to Utopia—or, if the reference must be up to the minute, bottlenecks in the production of the Good Society of the future. We early became clear on one point. The present crisis is due to the failure of neither physical nor biological science.
Physical science is certainly in a position to assure at least a fairly decent standard of living to the marginal man of today and it promises a handsome one to the man of tomorrow. Wild animals are rarely encountered except in zoos, termite control functions fairly smoothly in California, the average life span has increased nearly 11 years in the past quarter century. We don't know exactly what causes aging but we do know that death is not inevitable at any specific chronological age. It is not nonsense to suppose that the life span of the man of tomorrow will be nearer ten score and three than three score and ten. The crisis lies in social science.
Science Arises From Necessity
Historically sciences have arisen out of society's necessity. Science, however pure in purpose, mirrors human needs. And it is almost inevitable that a powerful and constructive social science will arise. But it will not arise out of thin air and it will be based on natural law. Already some of the general limiting propositions of social science have been uncovered. And in this uncovering we see the possibilities of making the world a better place in which to live, even if Utopia and the really good society are centuries away. In this series of articles we have enlarged on some of these basic limiting principles or bottlenecks. And in every case we saw the bottleneck could at least potentially be overcome.
Thus we saw that while human inequality was inevitable, neither its range nor the position of the average man was fixed in nature. The future may see less discrepancy between the dull and the bright than we find today and the average man of tomorrow may equal the bright one of today. We saw that man's rational mind depended on his animal body and that this animal body harbored hostility and aggression. But we also saw that some of this
destructive energy could be redirected and some of it displaced. We saw that cooperation was to some extent dependent on competition; that efficient cooperation was maximal when competition is also maximal. But again the possibility arises that the final cooperating group may be humanity itself. We saw that the leaders are all too human, but we also sow that human frailty was more and more understood and that devices might soon be available to prevent the choice of the potentially most dangerous leaders. We saw that emotional indigestion threatens society's equilibrium, but we also saw that it is cureable. We saw that education lags behind science but that we are beginning to understand the cause of this lag. Of course there are many more sociological barriers, but these are some of the chief ones.
What's the Score?
What's the score? The team of the unknown forces in psychological and sociological nature is right now ahead by a couple of touch-downs. But the team of social science has nevertheless scored. And even if it is later than you think, there still is some time before the final whistle blows. Most important of all, the very promising passing partners, socio and psycho dynamics have graduated from freshman status and have just gone into the game.
The tenth annual post-graduate clinic sponsored by the University of Kansas School of Medicine and Extension Division, will be held at the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, for four days, April 7-10.
Post-Graduate Medicine Clinic To Be April 7-10
IT HAPPENED IN KANSAS BE F. A. COOPER
JECENTLY RAVE. SMITH OF WICHTA STOOD ON A BUSY CORNER WONDERING SUDDENLY HIS DINNER PROBLEM WAS SOLVED WHEN A LOW FLYING SKIPPER MOVED ON THE SHOULDR AND FELL STUNNED TO THE PAVEMENT?
IT WAS CALLED THE DEVIN'S BACK BONE
DEVILS BACK BONE
THE PRESGN BRANCHED OFF OF
SANTA FE TRAIL
NEAR THE PRESENT TOWN OF
GARDNER AND THE TOWERING
DEVILS BACK BONE WAS THE
MAIN LANDMARK AFTER PASSING
THE PIONEER WAYSIDE STATIONS
OF SPY BUCKS AND WAKARUSA
THE NEAREST NEIGHBOR OF J. J. MREVNOVAL
BUT A LETTER WRITTEN TO HIM MUST
TRAVEL OVER 200 MILES AND BE CARRIED
IN ARMERIES, I MAIL BUS AND
3 TRAINS AWAY.
IT WOULD TAKE NEARLY 2 DAYS FOR THIS
LETTER TO REACH IT'S DESTINATION ~~
M.HREVENWOLODS GETS HIS MAIL THROUGH
IT, AND HE INDEXOR GETS HIS
THROUGH NATOMA
315 YEARS B.W. (BEFORE WHEAT)
Give Summerfield Preliminary Exams
WHEN CORONADO ENTERED HANSAK
ORIGINAL KANSAS FARMERS (THE
QUIVIRANS) BUSY WITH THE GROWS
OUT ~ THERE WAITN A WHATE FARMER
Preliminary examinations were given to 307 candidates for Summerfield scholarships Saturday in six cities over the state.
IN THE BUNCH ~~
UNKNOWN IN KANAS,
THE QUIRIVARS RAILED CORK, BEANS,
MELONS, GOURDS, PUMPKINS AND
SQUASHES ~~
Olin Templin, secretary of the Endowment Association, announced today that approximately 35 students would come to Lawrence April 21-22 for final examinations.
Approximately one-third of the candidates took the preliminary examination in Mervin hall.
The same test was given to 127 women who are candidates for ten scholarships provided by a fund separate from the Summerfield fund. Each of the women's scholarships is for $100. The ten women who score highest in the preliminary test will be awarded the scholarships without further testing Fifty of the women took the test at Lawrence.
Men candidates receiving scholarships will number approximately 15.
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Spring Fever Is Fun But Fatal To Quizzes
If you don't believe spring is here, just jump into your car (if you don't have one, try borrowing) and take out. Two to one says you can't drive three blocks without hitting a boy, a girl, a dog, or stopping a softball with the windshield.
But don't let it worry you. Ten minutes later the ball will be lying by the curb, the girls asleep, the dog likewise, and the boys draped around an open-air fliver.
This inactivity is known in higher circles as "spring fever," never fatal to anything but mid semester quizzes. since arguments lead to
Everybody gets spring fever at some time or another. But there are complications—especially when the professor slaps out a test that requires too much time for your comfort. At this point spring fever sometimes advances into mad frustration.
Several reasons can be given for not getting spring fever, but there are also arguments in its favor. And
since arguments lead to war! let's skip the whole thing. No one wants to fight when spring is in the air.
Dr. E. T. Gibson To Speak Dr. E. T. Gibson of Bell Memorial hospital, Kansas City, Kan., will speak before the Psychology club Monday at 4:30 p.m. in room 21 of Frank Strong hall. He will discuss his methods as a psychiatrist, and tell of his work with students and their problems.
POPULAR RECORDS
You Lucky People, You
You're Dangerous ... Tommy Dorsey
I Need Somebody to Love
Boogie Woogie Conga ... Will Bradley
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Number Ten Lullaby Lane ... Tony Pastor
Down by the Old Mill Stream
Sweet Georgia Brown ... Gene Krupa