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Leland Stowe
Leland Stowe, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, is one of the few journalists in the world who has had what might be called a romantic career.
When the present European conflict broke out, Stowe's employers decided that he was too old; that a younger man should carry on. Everyone agreed that Stowe had had a brilliant career, but now he was "washed up" and through.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1941.
Everybody agreed but Stowe, himself. He got a job with the Chicago paper and promptly got to work scooping not only the younger men in Europe, but all correspondents over there until he has been acclaimed the greatest correspondent of them all.
Now Leland Stowe is back in America on "vacation." This vacation consists of rushing about the country giving lectures and writing a series of daily articles for his newspaper syndicate.
But perhaps we should be happy that Leland Stowe has not been taking a real vacation. The old idea that we should have no interest in European affairs has been discarded. The fact that our Congress passed the Lease-Lend bill shows where we stand. Whether we fully realize it or not, we are in the war. The President made that clear last Sunday evening in his radio talk.
Stowe's comeback success has been remarkable, but from another viewpoint, quite understandable. This correspondent, with his rich experience in observing and writing, was eminently qualified to continue his work.
Since we are in the struggle would it not be well for us to have some real first-hand knowledge about conditions over there—and the chances of the British for success?
To function properly, the citizens of a democracy should be informed. Leland Stowe can inform us, and he is doing his best to do it.
On this campus it is a simple thing to hear this famous man. You have only to come to the auditorium. It doesn't cost anything more than you have already paid.
Honors Day
A college, like a factory, is known by the products that it gives to the world.
Both are given the basic material to work with. Both have trained men and women who attempt to mould and polish and retouch until the job is ultimately finished.
Too often, we fear, the scholars are not given their due in accordance with the recognition they rightfully have earned. The football and basketball players are publicized in state newspapers; the campus "big shots" are the subjects of fraternity and sorority discussions; but usually the scholar goes on pretty well unsung and unhonored by classmates.
Today we give recognition to scholastic honor groups in the University. These organizations represent the best efforts at Arkansas. By their very existence and being they indicate to the world that superiority and real worth are still values that merit consideration in these days of war and turmoil.
It is well and fitting that we should have Honors Day. The students in college who stand out from the ordinary are usually divided into three major categories: those in general campus activities like publications, politics, and clubs; those in athletics; and finally those who by their hard work and studying rank highest in scholarship.
There are sixteen honor organizations at Arkansas which offer to every student in school the opportunity for membership. From Phi Beta Kappa, in the College of Arts and Sciences, there are others in every college designated for the same purpose.
Mathematics, English, medicine, law, agriculture, education, and many more are all represented in the Honors Day program.
All are ready to take as members the students who have shown a willingness to work, a willingness to study, and a willingness to strive ahead of the common herd.
Hats off to Honors Day honorees.
—From the Arkansas Traveler.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, March 17, 1941 No.108
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
APPLICATIONS FOR MANAGER OF THE W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE: Applications for Manager of the W. S. G. A. Book Exchange should be left in the Office of the Adviser of Women, 220 Frank Strong, by Monday. Applicants should have had some experience in business or sales work.—O Thene Huff, President W. S. G. A.
FRESHMEN: There is to be a meeting of the Y. M. X. W. freshman group at 4:30 today in Henley House. This is an opportunity for all freshmen to participate a discussion led by Viola Kroche and members of the race group on "Interracial Problems of College Students"—Betty Brownice, Walker Butin.
GRADUATE WOMEN'S CLUE: Graduate Women's Club will meet this evening at 7:00 in the women's lounge of Frank Strong Hall.-Dorothy Pollock, President.
JAY JANES: There will be a Jay Jane meeting in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building at 4:30 Wednesday.-Ruth Spencer Ashcraft, president.
W. S. G. A. COUNCIL: The W. S. G. A. Council will not meet this evening—Doris Twente, Secretary.
W. S. G., A. TEA: There will be a W. S. G. A. tea in the lounge of Frank Strong Hall, tomorrow from 3 to 5. All University women are invited to attend.—Joe Klusman, Social Chairman.
Y. M.-Y. W.: Study groups will meet Wednesday at 4:30 at Henley House...Mary Helen Wilson.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be a meeting this evening at 7:30 in the pine room of the Union Building. New officers will be elected for the coming year.-Bill Douce, Chairman.
Y. M.-Y. MEMBERS: All students interested in hearing the 1941 summer program for the Estes Park Y. M.-Y. W. Conference are invited to Henley House at 4:30 on Thursday—Alice Ann Jones.
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You Said It
The editor of the Kansan welcomes letters of opinion from students and faculty members to be published in the letters column. If the writer wishes, his name will be withheld, but the Kansan must have the names of all writers of letters—
The eminent British propagandist, Sir Thomas Angell, and his "conditioned" friend, our own Professor Ise, would persuade us that 125,-000,000 Americans are, or will be helpless, before a world of changed and possibly hostile idealologies.
Do they forget, or purposely ignore, the thirteen small colonies that carefully nursed and successfully reared a new born ideology of freedom and equality not only in the face of a hostile world, but in the midst of it. For during the adolescence of the American eaglet, England and other foreign countries were firmly entrenched on this continent.
And they were united in only one thing; their determination to conquer and control the tiny young Republic.
They also tell us that we are, and have been, dependent for our national existence upon the British fleet; that if it fails, we are sunk!
Will Professor Ise name one instance in history when the august British fleet fought for us? The British navy, it pains me to say, has fought against us alwas, beginning before 1776, 1812, and even so late as 1861 when England in pursuance of her centuries-old policy of "divide and rule" aided the South in revolt against the North.
So if the British fleet will even so much as remain neutral in our continued life as a nation, we will be that much the winner.
Another point of difference is in the continuing policy of England to divide-and-rule; whereas Germany's policy seems to be to unite the tiny conquered nations on the continent under German hegemony.
If the gentleman had ever troubled to read "Mein Kampf",to which they refer, they would readily understand that Hitler wants a united Europe to meet the dangers (to him) of traditional English domination.
It is into the current phase of the everlasting "rearrangements" that Sir Norman Angell and Professor Ise, would thrust the youth of this land. Professor Ise is most deeply concerner about the suffering and death in England, yet he would send millions of his own people into the same cauldron.
If the pressure of British propaganda, working hand in glove with Roosevelt, Morgenthau, Cohen, et al, fails to make Congress abdicate—the terms of the bill 1776 are virtual Congressional abdication—there will always be an America.
And I for one am dedicated to that ideal. It it quite secondary in importance, to me, that there shall always be a British Empire.
Respectfully,
A Student.
Four In Three Days---- 'Pink Eye' Cases Reported
Several cases of conjunctivitis (pink-eye to you) have appeared on the campus.
Since conjunctivitis is more common when there are many colds and since it is extremely contagious, students should watch for it. By all means, pink-eye victims should
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, reported today that Watkins Memorial hospital has treated four cases in the last three days. He said that this inflammation around the eye is not serious, but it interferes with vision, studying and the movies keep their fingers away from the eye
Marvin Sollenberger, education sophomore and guard on the varsity basketball squad, now leaves the hospital for one class day. He has been confined because of glandular fever since March 11.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
When the men's and women's rifle teams took a trip to Boonville, Mo., last weekend, they were accompanied by renowned baby-judgers Sergeant William Kollender and Lieutenant Wray Shockley, who were called to act as judges at a theater contest to pick Miss Boonville and Mr. Boonville. All entrants were under six years of age. Lieutenant Shockley, who coaches students to shoot sharp, turned out to be sharp himself on picking little cuties.
Dean Ostrum, Sigma Nu, sat on the back row at band practice Sunday night to toot his bass clarinet. Came a clarinet part with plenty of rests. Dan rested so thoroughly that he went t sleep and tumbled off his chair.
At Battenfeld hall the boys are practicing good manners. One of the requisites is to sit with the hands under the table between main course and dessert. But Tom Harris found out that sometimes good manners don't pay. When waiter Russell Mills came to him with the dessert tray, he passed him by because the only other time he ever had his hands under the table, he was hiding a dessert.
Sue Corson, Gama Phi, thought a "slipstick" was a paddle carried by vindicative fraternity actives until engineers told her at the Hobnail Hop that it is their beloved slide rule.