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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941
The Kansan Comments -have to boom about the inevitability of German-American conflict, about how the dirty Germans may be walking victoriously down the streets of Hillville in six months, about how the attack may come any time.
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AMIDA STANTON
Miss Stanton was a mmber of Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi, honorary French fraternity; Kappa Kappa Gamma; Modern Language Association of America; American Association of Teachers of French; Association of University Professors.
"Always a perfect lady," is the tribute paid Miss Amida Stanton by her colleagues. "She could tell you off and you hardl knew it. Boy, she was swell," is the tribute of her students. Miss Stanton, associate professor of Romance Languages, died January 4.
Miss Stanton taught at the University from 1910 until 1940. During her thirty years here she served as freshman-sophomore adviser and as departmental adviser. She was chairwoman of sophomore advisers from 1937 on. She directed the annual French play for about twenty years—until the production was discontinued in 1936.
Students have lost a real friend. The University has lost a splendid teacher who sought all through her long period of service to continue to improve herself. Just one year before her death she received her Ph.D.
Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri has more than once struck out against crooked politics in his own party. His is the kind of leadership we will need in the fight that is ahead for democracy in our own country.
Miss Stanton was graduated from the University in 1904. After studying in France in 1908 and 1909, she returned to Kansas and received her master degree. She received her doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1939.
The news that there are as many persons in insane asylums as there are in universities might be considered a redundancy.
GREEN AND RED
A newspaper recently printed a picture taken in Camp Elliot, Calif., where marines are being trained. The picture showed the men kneeling on the ground, firing rifles at a moving target. The target was a box-kite affair strunk on overhead wires so that it would pass quickly over the soldier's heads. The idea is to train them for firing at strafing dive-bombing planes.
Just above the marines' picture was another shot about a fracas is San Pedro, Calif. A sailor was arrested, charged with knifing a woman. In court, he testified that a small Nazi flag in the woman's home had made him mad, so he stabbed her.
Maybe we do need that ten billion dollar budget for defense. The green light is on here.
Troops resort to rifle fire only when they have no other defense available, of course. Firing a rifle at an armored dive-bomber is like shooting a slingshot at an elephant. That troops should ever need to resort to such ridiculous tactics in self defense as a straw to the drowning man--shows in glaring relief our desperate need for equipment and material.
This picture shows what is happening to the rambunctious American public. The big guns of the nation who are talking about defending America aren't content with pure defense. They
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So what happens? Along with our huge national defense program we get a hysterical anti-German movement. People kill Dachshund dogs, threaten German professors, de-nationalize German measles. We drive headlong and hysterically into war.
Better turn on the red light here.
Die-hardest of all die-hards, the Kansas City Times on the morning of the first thirdtime inaugural in United States history, ran a front page picture of Wendell Willkie, none of President Roosevelt.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol.38 Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1941 No.75
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.
EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING: There will be a meeting of the School of Education faculty at 3:30 on January 28 in room 115 Fraser—Dean R. A. Schwegler.
ENGLISH MAJORS: English majors may consult the English bulletin board in Fraser for conference hours of English major advisers.— J. W. Ashton, chairman, Department of English.
SENIORS: Seniors graduating at the end of the present semester who wish to enroll in the Graduate School for the second semester should make application for admission at the Graduate office, 225 Frank Strong, as soon as possible—E. B. Stouffer, dean.
KAPPA BETA: Kappa Beta will meet this evening at 6:30 in Myers Hall. Mrs.R.F. Gallup will talk on the symboles of the Church.-Lois Betherrell, reporter.
TRANSFERS: Students who plan to transfer from one school of the University to another at the beginning of the second semester should apply for their transfers at the Registrar's Office before January 30.—George O. Foster, registrar.
TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet tonight at 7:30.
—Carolyn Green.
W. S.G.A.: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock in the Pine room tonight.—Doris Twente, secretary.
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the oath of office of President of the United States; and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Many Past Inaugurals Break Traditions
Yesterday for the thirty-eighth time a President took the oath, but he is only the twenty-seventh man to go through the public ceremonies. Franklin D. Roosevelt had the distinction of being the first person to be inaugurated for a third time.
In the thirty-seventh inaugurals that proceeded yesterday's there have been a lot of other firsts.
George Washington, of course, was the first President to be inaugurated. That wasn't his only first. He was also the first and only president to be inaugurated in New York City, which was then the capital of the nation. Before his second inaugural the capital was moved to Philadelphia, and he had the honor of
being the first president to be inaugurated there.
The capitol still hadn't settled down for life; soon it was moved to Washington, D.C., and that year Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated. Inaugurations have been held in Washington ever since.
With Ulysses S. Grant came the custom of a president choosing a favorite Bible verse to symbolize his policies. In 1933 Roosevelt chose I Corinthians, chapter 13. It was, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal."
Before 1908 horses played a big part in the ceremony. William H. Taft broke the precedent and rode in an automobile. That was the first, and by the next inaugural there were few horses in the parade. With the coming of the automobile the ceremony lost much of its formality, although it is still impressive.
In 1925 the stay-at-homes got a break. That year Calvin Coolidge's inaugural address was broadcast.
Not many radios were in the homes of ordinary American then.
These are only a few of the firsts. Perhaps soon we will see the first president to be inaugurated by television.
Freedom of Library Replaces Dartmouth Rigid Regulation
Hanover, N.H.—(UP)—In the early years of Darmouth college, founded in 1769, the library was open only one hour every two weeks for withdrawal of books by each class.
No one could remove books from shelves without the librarian's permission and not more than five students were permitted in the library together. Freshmen could borrow one book, sophomores and juniors two and seniors three.
Today undergraduates have daily access to 500,000 volumes and may withdraw as many as they wish. Smoking is even permitted in some reading rooms.
ROCK CHALK TALK
A trial was under way at the Pi K. A. house last night. Charles McVey sued Lane Davis for fraud and breach of contract.
It all came out of a grade bet. The boys had laid money which would have the highest grade average for the semester. Then it suddenly turned out that Davis was planning to get an incomplete in one course and concentrate on other subjects in order to boost his chances.
"Unfair!" yiped McVey. And so the trial.
Counsel for plaintiff McVey is Bill Mathews. Arguing for the defense is Walter Needels.
Judges are Howard Dunham, Dick Grayum, and Ken Moses.
Battenfeld hall nearly had a suicide the other day. Leo Goertz had spent painstaking hours for days completing an elaborate chart for one of his fine arts courses. He had it all laid out in the front room.
Then one morning he came downstairs to find a big ink spot running his masterpiece!
It took six men to quiet the struggling Goertz and persuade him that the spot was artificial, a metal trinket plopped on the chart by Chuck Weber.
Last Saturday night Loren Wither, Templin, borrowed black shoes to wear to the band dance. His date was a dream (at least, that's his excuse) and he was just a bit flustered when he dressed.
At the dance, he got a lot of stares, finally realized that he had on one black dancing pump and one black shoe of the seven-years-in-a-drug-store variety.
The worst thing that could happen to a radio producer right now is to find that Stephen Foster belonged to ASCAP. According to an unofficial statement, a record was broken last week. Foster's pieces were played more times during the same period of time than any other composer's ever have been.
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