SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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War Brings Cooperation
COOPERATION
IMPLIES
COMPETITION
By J. F.BROWN
This is the fourth article in a series by Dr. J. F. Brown, professor of psychology, written especially for the Daily Kansan.
We hear a great deal about the advantages of cooperation between both individuals and groups. It is commonplace knowledge that if we are not able soon to devise some scheme of international cooperation a second Dark ages will be upon humanity. The mere paying of lip service to cooperation is popular but useless.
We must take a more realistic view of the conditions under which any sort of group cooperation is possible. Our society is not and never has been purely cooperative and it is highly unlikely that it ever will be. W. G. Sumner, the great American anthropologist, characterized our culture as one of antagonistic cooperation. One leaves the church on Sunday after hearing of the beauties of cooperation and shows up in the market place or economics class on Monday to hear of the equal beauties of competition. When competition gets out of hand
we have conflict and in Central Europe today even its virtues are sung.
Social Contract Theory
We used to think of man as being rationally able to decide his own final best interests and hence able to sign on the dotted line of some social contract. Thus the eighteenth and early nineteenth century theorists had the old idea of noble savages freely banding together. Actually man's original state was that of living in small groups where the strongest male was the dictator par excellence, who ruled as a real totalitarian until somebody stronger was able to take his stone axe.
From earliest times whenever members of the so called in-group cooperated with each other, they did so in competition or even conflict with the so called out-group. A general law of social dynamics states that in-group cooperation is greatest when out-group competition is likewise greatest. National solidarity is highest in war, union solidarity under the threat of fam-solidarity under the threat of family dissolution. Our brothers in Hoopa, Boopa, Doopa, never look so good as they do during Rush Week. Larger Conflicts More Serious
emergence of the modern national state blood was spilled most frequently about religion.
The larger the groups involved in competition and the more basic its control over social psychological functions the more serious is the outcome of conflicts between them. Thus in primitive rural communities feuds are little wars. Before the
In the antagonistic cooperation of of today nations are the chief integrating forces, and tomorrow 'it may be classes. Bloody as history has been the size of the dominant in-group has gradually increased. To most social scientists the next step must be towards some form of World State or true Federation of Nations. The League of Nations failed because it was based on the old idea of voluntary cooperation of the "social contract". Some real policing force will be necessary in a World Federation superior in power to the individual nations. Such is not impossible. We did accomplish it here through our Federal Government but it took time. Until then, despite the fact that this week's Time magazine says Mars is definitely uninhabited, an invasion from Mars would bode well for cooperation here on earth.
Deadline for applications for the positions of editor, business manager, assistant editors, and assistant business managers of the K-Book has been extended to noon Monday according to Charles McCreight, the chairman of the K-Book committee. The extension was necessary because only a few applications had been made before yesterday's deadline.
K-Book Deadline To Be Monday
The positions of editor and business manager are open to any member of the junior class. Compensation is $25 to each and experience is the only qualification. Any member of the sophomore class is eligible for an assistant editorship or assistant business managership. Assistant editor will receive $10, and the assistant business managers ten per cent of the amount of advertising they sell and collect.
The editor and business manager wil be selected by March 1, and the other officers a short time later, by the following committee:
Charles McCreight, chairman; John J. O. More, YMCA secretary; Roberta Tucker, YWCA secretary; Jean Robertson, W S G A representative; Agnes Mumert, retiring K-Book editor; Dan La Shell, retiring business manager; and a representative of the MSC who has not yet been selected.
Tourney
Starts
Tomorrow
In contrast to the first bridge tournament, which dragged through an entire month, the spring all-University tournament will last only one week, starting tomorrow at 7.15 p.m. in the Memorial Union building lounge.
"We realize how valuable the student's time is," said Hobart Potter, engineering sophomore, chairman of the tournament committee. "Consequently, we have shortened the time they will have to give to it. Teams that enter the finals will play three times."
Kansas Chief Justice Speaks At Phi Delta Phi Initiation
Describing the development of the Kansas courts, John S. Dawson, chief justice of the Kansas supreme court, spoke at the initiation banquet of Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity, held Thursday evening in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Before the banquet, Richard J. Hopkins, federal judge from Kansas City was made an honorary member of Phi Delta Phi, and 19 law students were initiated.
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