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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1940
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
A Gentleman Passes
With the simple dignity that characterized his life, the Universities of Kansas and Indiana paid homage Sunday to the memory of the late Chancellor-emeritus Ernest H. Lindley. It was at the University of Indiana that he was graduated and began his teaching career; it was at the University of Kansas that his true greatness as a leader and educator was realized.
Words of eulogy somehow fall short of conveying adequately the loss sustained when he died suddenly between Yokohama and Honolulu as he and Mrs. Lindley were returning to Lawrence, their home for 20 years, from a world cruise. Those who knew him can never forget the shock they felt when news came that August day that he was dead.
Another great Kansas, William Allen White. the Emporia editor, a friend of Doctor Lindley for many years, summed up all that need be said in his tribute: "He was one of the few men whose standing as a scholar was still enhanced by his standing as a gentleman."
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, whose status with the American public has varied as much as the business graphs of 1929, again has taken the air—this time using a microphone instead of an airplane. His latest lashing out, which was broadcast last night, was a declaration that the nation's leaders were taking the country "steadily toward that climax of all political failure—war."
Lindy Again
--their shotguns on the rack for a good oil and polish job today in preparation for the opening of duck season tomorrow. And an even larger bunch of hunters are polishing and cleaning pens as they prepare for open season on drafttees the same day. Both duck and draffee are taking on similar appearances - harried, haunted and altogether chased.
Evidence that his ostracism from the public's good graces, following his report of military preparedness in Europe, still rankled could be detected at times. Ostensibly, according to the broadcasting network over whose chain the speech was delivered, Colonel Lindbergh was to make an address on national defense.
Pulling no punches, Colonel Lindbergh stated: "We question that the men who were unable to foresee these conditions in time to avoid them, who could not foresee the war in time to prepare for it, who refused to believe the reports of rearming abroad when there was still time to take action, are now competent to carry this nation successfully through a great crisis. Under their leadership, we have alienated the most powerful military nations of both Europe and Asia, at a time when we ourselves are unprepared for action, and while the people of our nation are overwhelmingly opposed to war."
Yet it appears that Colonel Lindbergh has failed to take into account the great variable of public opinion, which would not have permitted an extensive national defense program a year ago. Congress, it will be remembered, adjourned without so much as turning a hand toward defense, chiefly because the late Senator William Borah stated that he was in receipt of information as accurate as any the state department had that there would be no European conflict. And Colonel Lindbergh, who has been acclaimed and denounced by this same variable, should by now have experienced enough at its hands to at least give it some consideration.
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Vol. 38 Tuesday, Oct.15,1940 No.22
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.
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JAY JANES: Jay Janes will meet at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building tomorrow.-Ruth Spencer, president.
"K" MEN: All "K" men report to the east stadium at 3:20 Wednesday afternoon for Jayhawker and football program-picture.—Bill Bevan.
KAPPA BETA: Kappa Beta pledging services will be held at 6:30 this evening. -Lois Worrell.
PHI SIGMA; Dr. N, P. Sherwood of the department of Bacteriology will give an illustrated talk on "Allergy," tomorrow evening at 7:30 p.m. in room 101 Snow.-Hal Smolin, president.
RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi poetry club will meet at 7:30 Thursday in the Pine room of the Union building. Miss Margaret Anderson will speak on "The Interpretation of Poetry". Miss Ilse Nesbitt will discuss the Poetics of Aristotle.
REGISTRATION OF STUDENTS: All students of the University of Kansas who are required by the provisions of the Selective Act of 1940 to register on Oct. 16, may do so in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.-George O. Foster, registrar.
TAU BETA PI. There will be a meeting Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Hydraulic Lab, for consideration of new members. Also for report on the convention.—L. Schoreter, president.
Anyone interested in the reading, writing, or study of poetry is welcome.-Bob Humphrey, president.
TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet this evening at 7:30. Carolyn Green, president.
W. S.G.A.: There will be no W.S.G.A. tea tomorrow, but all women are invited to the Gingham Frolic in the Ballroom from 4 to 5:30.—Jean Klussman, social chairman.
Y. W.C.A.: The Y.W.C.A. Membership Banquet will be held this evening at 5:45 in the Union ballroom.— Margaret Learned.
DELTA PHI DELTA: There will be a meeting at 8 o'clock at the east end of the Union ballroom.-Betty Ann Leasure.
YOU SAID IT
Editor, Daily Kansan:
May I invite Dr. Paulin's attention to certain errors in his comments a week ago Sunday, on my article of the Sunday previous? Evidently Dr. Paulin feels it necessary to teach me "lessons in definitions." He would do so, first, by accusing me of misusing the term, liberalism. We agree perfectly upon what liberalism is, according to his own account of it, which means, in brief the extension of individual liberties in the social order. But socialistic movements, although they may begin with the opposite intent, have always been, and still are, associated with absolutism and tyranny in government. Whether these movements occur at the proletarian or only at the academic level makes no difference. In the nature of the case they are symptoms of reactionary and decadent conditions in society, while democratic movements are symptoms of liberalism and a revitalization of society.
There have been many absolutistic and socialistic movements, including the present one. during the course of history, not one of which has failed to do one or more of at least four interrelated things: (1) to limit individual freedom by a reduction of the franchise and the setting up of excessive despotic governments; (2) to promote fanatical, evangelistic, nationalism, (3) to promote a lethargic, voluntary capitulation to the state, of that individual responsibility and initiative upon which the vitality, stability and integrity of the social order depend; (4) to require, eventually, civil strife, often civil war, for the restoration of freedom.
All this may not be the "intelligence" for which Dr. Paullin is looking, but it is fact; it may not be the "clarity" which he so sollenly requires, but it is the truth. Anyway, I am afraid I failed to get what was wanted of me in my first lesson.
Second, "A socialist," Dr. Paullin says, "is one who believes in some economic system in which the people are banded together for the common welfare." Since when, Mr. Teacher, has socialism not also been a political system? All of my previous history teachers must have been wrong. Moreover, it seems that socialism cannot be distinguished from democracy. Would Dr. Paullin say that a Democrat or a Republican was not one who believes in setting up an economic (or political) system in which the people are banded together for the common welfare? I am to be taught a lesson in defining socialism and am as much as told that there is no distinction between a "Socialist" and a "Republican". Of course, if there is no difference between having less freedom and having more freedom, what is the use of defining either view, or even of caring? So there goes lesson number two. I flunked.
Third, Dr. Paullin's insistence that liberalism and democracy date only from the 19th century is academic, artificial and contrary to fact. (Thanks, Engineering Student of "You Said It" last Tuesday's Kansan.) I would skip the matter were it not that Dr. Paullin presented himself as my instructor in history. Democracy and socialism, freedom and tyranny, as methods or aspects of collective living, are all as old as history, academic definitions to the contrary notwithstanding. What we need is fewer definitions that don't define, and a closer look at the facts of history, and at the psychological, as well as the economic and political and, yes (oh, heaven forbid) climatic reasons, for those facts. And, as for individualism existing without democracy, at times in history, well, that is just too much!
I shall just have to flunk the whole course
RAYMOND H. WHEELER
ROCK CHALK TALK
BY HEIDI VIETS
Heard around: If Beethoven wrote great music without hearing, why can't we write term papers without research.
Going backward—those who remembered that Saturday, Oct. 12, was Columbus Day were disappointed. Nobody at the game yelled "Yea Christopher! yea Columbus!" year, yea, Christopher Columbus!"
And looking forward—there's a good deal in campus spice coming up this Friday. You guessed it. Another "Sour Owl" is perched to fly off the roost.
Owl-house tender Buxton promises a killer in this issue. It seems that campus gossip will be reprinted from 'way back in 1919, when it was dreamed up by a lad who now keeps office hours in Frank Strong hall and resides in Lilac lane.
Incidentally, after this little hotcake number gets into everybody's claws, scandal-shooter Glee Smith had better hide out. They say that his page says what his best friend wouldn't.
Swiss flag wavers in practice Sunday afternoon looked promising in an awkward sort of way. Swishing those Alpine dishtowels is no cinch. Something like performing jiu jitsu on a sailboat in a November gale.
From a letter written by last year's grad Richard Boyce to Prof. L. N. Flint, "K.U. students who had courses under Henry L. Smith and who remember his faculty for using odd names such as "phuphga' and the like may be interested: while slowjourning through western Kansas after summer session, I ran across a gink near the Colorado line whose name was Bickensdorfer. That's about as close as I ever hope to come to Smith's Bickensderfer."
Last week a lookover of general geology map-quiz papers discovered a new state—Minneapolis.