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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
France and Peace
The French government, totalitarian since its armistice with Germany, has little choice but to accede to whatever terms may be offered by the axis in the peace negotiations now under way, regardless of the consequences—chief of which would probably be a declaration of war on Great Britain and subsequent severance of Vichy's remaining ties with the United States.
Less than two weeks ago, Philippe Petain, chief of state, declared that Germany has the choice of a "peace of oppression or an entirely new peace of collaboration." The choice, he said, belonged to the victor, but its acceptance depended as much on the vanquished. Marshall Petain's message, it now appears, was intended as an offering of the olive branch in exchange for a second-table partnership such as Spain's relationship to the Rome-Berlin axis.
Berlin, however, has been silent on this score, although France, it has been reported, would be permitted to keep all her present territories, except Alsace-Lorraine, Nice, Tunisia, Jibuti and the German colonies acquired in World War I, at the cost of re-entering the war against Great Britain. The axis terms would leave France a large portion of her present overseas possessions.
These enticements, with the notable exception of the disposition of Alsace-Lorraine, are not the worst terms France could expect. Indeed, they are comparatively easy terms. But even in the face of the Nazi club there is cause for hesitation. It is doubtful if much of the French armed forces will go to war openly against Britain. And a declaration of war on its traditional ally would precipitate a breach of diplomatic contact with the United States and South American nations which Petain considers essential to France's welfare in regard to hoped-for and much needed food supplies, since adoption of urgent measures to forestall famine in the face of its worst wheat crop in 40 years already have been urged by the food ministry.
Japan and Mexico
That Japan has been hard hit by the United States' recent embargo on war materials is borne out by its negotiations to put through a deal with Mexico for scrap iron, oil and gasoline—both of which are necessary for the maintenance of a navy and an air arm.
Mexican politics being what they are, it is somewhat difficult to swallow the explanation by President Cardenas that refusal to grant such concessions to the Japanese was based on "continental solidarity" or a demonstration of its adherence to the policy of the American nations.
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The move may be a grandstand play for a perhaps a loan for more amicable relations isn't perhaps a loan for more amicable erelations isn't such a bad idea at that, for there is little point in facilitating shipments of materials that conceivably could be used against the United States, should the Japanese-American tension in the Pacific culminate, as it some day may, in actual hostilities.
A "seventh class" earthquake was reported in Rumania yesterday, and it appears that a first class explosion is in the offing.
--hall. Ticket manager, Don Dixon, has announced that the office will be open from 9 until noon and from 1 until 4 in the afternoon. He advises students to get their tickets early since ticket sales to date indicate wide public interest in the play.
YOU SAID IT
What the University needs is a couple of short blasts on the half hour!
Editor, Daily Kansan:
The long whistle blast at 20 minutes past the hour does an effective job of closing classes on time. The over-zealous, dawdling, or long-winded professor, who might ignore a class bell, seldom has the temerity to compete with the steam howler or to hold a class after the whistle. Generally, University classes are dismissed on time.
Many a class wastes five minutes or more at the beginning of the class hour, however. Since any pocket watch might be caught offside, many an instructor waits a few minutes before deciding, "Well, I think it must be half-past, now." Even best-intentioned students are tardy because they didn't know it was so late.
Why not have the engineer blow two short blasts at the half hour to notify everybody that classes should begin? It might even be better to have him sound off two minutes before class is to begin—to give the students warning to "step lively."
Sincerely. A.NEWCOMER.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sincerely.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 38 Wednesday, Oct. 23,1940 No.28
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 Stunday issue.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: The Reverend E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be in room 415 of Watson Library Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for personal conferences.—Joseph A. Zishka.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be a meeting Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room of the Memorial Union. This is the new meeting time. Everybody is welcome. Actives and pledges are requested to be on time.-Barrett Silk.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will have its first meeting this year on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church (12th and Vt.). People of all races and nationalities are cordially invited.-Emile Weiss, secretary.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: The K-State-K.U. peace dinner will be held at the Gillett Hotel, at Manhattan, Friday evening, at 6 o'clock. Any member seeking transportation, or who has transportation to offer, please get in touch with Presson Shane, 1337 Kentucky, 'phone 2953.—Jim Burdge, secretary.
EL ATENEO: The fall picnic of El Ateneo will be held tomorrow. Members will meet in 117 Frank Strong Hall at 4:30. Anyone expecting to go will please sign the list in the Spanish office this afternoon.-Merle Simmons.
HEALTH PROGRAM LECTURE. Dr. Richard Boyd of the State Health Department will discuss "The Health Program in the Schools of the State" in room 306 Fraser at 8:30, Thursday morning, Oct. 24. Everyone is cordially invited to attend—A. H. Turney.
NEWMAN CLUB: This Sunday is the Newman Club Corporate Communion Sunday. The reverend E. J. WeisENBerg will be here for the breakfast following the 9:30 Communion Mass. Reservations by non-members and non-Catholics may be made by calling 783 by 7 p.m. Friday—Joseph A. Zishka.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS: Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin, and Spanish will be given at 10 o'clock, Oct. 26, in 107 Frank Strong, Registration for these examinations may be made at the College office on October 23, 24, or 25—W. H. Shoemaker.
PHI CHI DELTA; Phi Chi Delta, the Presbyterian Church Sorority, will have its fall semi-formal dance in the Kansas room Friday night at 8:00. All members may get their tickets at Westminster Hall—Grace Oliishi
QUILL CLUB: Feeh rume of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 Thursday evening in the Pine Room. All members are to bring their dues. Mary Elizabeth Exans, chancellor.
THETA SIGMA PHI: There will be a meeting of Theta Sigma Phi tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the sky parlor of the Journalism building—Polly Gowans, secretary.
QUACK CLUB: Quack Club will meet in Robinson gymnasium at 8 o'clock tonight.-Margaret Learned
THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Thomas for President Club at 4:30 Thursday in the west wing of the Memorial Union bailroom.-Lou Cook, secretary.
Tickets for 'White Wings' Go on Sale Tomorrow
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning for the newest Kansas Players offering which will open in Fraser theater next Tuesday for a four-night run. The play will be the Philip Barry fantastic comedy "White Wings" which carries a cast of twelve students and five faculty members.
Students have only to exchange their activity book stubs for reserved seats at the ticket office in the basement of Green
Cast members of "White Wings" are putting in strenuous hours of rehearsals this week preparing for the formal dress rehearsal Sunday. The play will be given four showings from Tuesday until Friday night.
In an age when the automobile replaced the horse as the usual means of transportation, not so many years ago, the humble street cleaner found his small world being swept aside. It is the street cleaner and the sudden adjustments he had to make in a changing world that Barry wrote in "White Wings." As always with a Barry comedy, there is an underlying serious vein which the play-goer invariably remembers. Students still speak of the gay and spritely "Spring Dance" and of last year's "Holiday," both plays by Philip Barry.
"Here is a gentle, fun-loving comedy, with a touch of the fantastic and the serious, and a genreous portion of the comedy and farce," said Prof. Allen Crafton, director of the show. "I feel certain that every students will enjoy it immensely."
Pharmacists Name Officers
At the weekly School of Pharmacy convocation Thursday the following students were elected officers; Jim Murphy, president; A. B. Gausz, vice-president; and Lloyd Roser, secretary-treasurer.
YMCA Finance Drive Nets $263
Two hundred and sixty three dollars of the $675 student quota set by the Y.M.C.A. as the goal for the three-day finance drive, was the result of a successful first night's work at the Y.M. banquet, held in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building last night, Jim Burdge, chairman of the drive said today.
The speakers at the dinner were Dean Lawson, Harold G. Ingham, treasurer of the advisory board, Paullin, advisory board head, and Ed Price, president of the V.M.C.A.
Of the faculty quota of $575, it is reported that $140 has been turned in. The faculty drive is being conducted by Dean Paul B. Lawson, Theodore Paullin, instructor in history, and Walter Sandelius, professor of political science.
It was announced that the first general meeting will be a membership assembly to be held at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 5, in the Kansas room of Memorial Union An Armistice Day program has been planned for this meeting.
At the hotel cheerleaders Bob Wright, b41, and Roy Edwards, c'42, will set off University yells. The K.U. delegation will get together outside the players' dressing quarters at 1:30 to give the team final sendoff before the clash.
BEAT KANSAS STATE !
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY HEIDI VIETS
Unless the average Jayhawker's blood contains three parts cambre tea, all of us ought to be "het up" over this football situation. The letter that circulated on Campus last Sunday and Monday, petitioning Chancellor Deane W. Malott "to do something to uphold our honor on the gridiron," expresses an opinion held by many a student.
We want a team we can boast about. We want a team so good that at every home game the stadium will be as pasked as a midweek. We want thirty or forty top-notch men instead of three or four. Anti-climaxing hysterical parades with losing scores is definitely not our dish.
But we can't get such a team by saying "Please" to our fairy god-mother, Why doesn't the University of Kansas wake up?
Helen Wilkins, Gamma Phi pledge, suggests that nickelodeons be installed in classrooms to alleviate the boredom of that before-the-teacher-enters lull.
Proceeds might be used to start an escalator fund for broken down Oread climbers.
News of the stink the University of Missouri is raising because a Negro may play on their gridiron Nov. 2, when N.Y.U. invades Columbia, reminds us that M.U. is famous for three things—racial prejudice, too many women, and pitchin' Paul Christman. Of which, from the feminine point of view, only the latter is an asset.
Jane Beal, Corbin Hall, waxed poetic yesterday under the spell of the afternoon sun. "Kansas looks so glamorous through a haze of distance," she sighed.
Yehoodi himself couldn't have said it "purtier."
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