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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBERR 1, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
Another Step Forward
Another progressive step designed to safeguard student health has been taken this year by the University through the facilities of the student health service in requiring faculty members and employees to report for tuberculin tests. Thus far, more than half of the 700 persons affected by the ruling have taken the tests.
Rumors were current the latter part of the last school year that the tests would be required this year, and the rapidity with which the plans crystallized is gratifying. This year's tuberculosis examination program—for faculty, employees, students and food handlers—will be the most extensive in the history of the student health service. And it will also afford the most effective precautionary health measures ever undertaken here, measures which should benefit the entire University community.
Now It's Legal
General Manuel Avila Camacho has been elected president of Mexico, the populace has been given to understand. Sunday, citizens of every city, town and hamlet were called to their local city halls to hear the official proclamation announcing Camacho as the winner of the July 7 election. As such, unless some not too improbable incident occurs, he will succeed Lazaro Cardenas as president of the republic December 1.
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Cardenas has assured General Juan Andreu Almazan, the independent candidate who also claims to have won the election, that all has been forgiven, that he and his followers "never were considered rebellious" after all, and that he may return to Mexico "with assurance of full guarantees." General Almazan abruptly abented himself immediately after the bloody July election, when it became clear that assassins were seeking him as a target.
However, despite the proclamation that recognizes Camacho, the government-backed candidate, as president-elect, it is still two months before he will occupy the uneasy presidential chair. And many things, including a major revolution, may happen in two months—particularly in Mexico.
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S--O--S
Many an SOS call from the North Atlantic is being ignored these days by merchant ships which pick up the distress call, according to a correspondent of the New York Times. The reason?
Some of the ships that recently left their courses to help ships in distress have themselves never made port. The sailors say that when the rescuing ships reached the positions given in the SOS all they saw was a German submarine which had evidently sent out the borgus signal.
Of course, the Times correspondent might have been duped; this might be only propaganda hatched to gain more sympathy for Britain.
If it is true, it shows to what depths a nation at war may sink. It is another showing that "total war" is a fight to extinction, no holds barred.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1940 No. 12
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday yfor Sunday issue.
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A. L.M.E.; The local student chapter of the American Institute of Mining Engineers will hold its regular meeting Thursday at 4:30 in room 101 Haworth hall. A sound film, "Mineral Resources and Scenic Wonders of Arizona", will be shown. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend.-Oren C. Baptist, president.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E. J. Weisenberg, S. J., will be at the Pine Room of the Union building every Thursday from 1 to 5 for personal conferences. Albert Protiva, vice-president.
FENCERS: There will be a combined meeting of the Fencing Club and the Fencing Team tonight at 7:30 in Robinson Gymnasium. Both men and women on the team or in the club are requested to attend. Preliminary tryouts for team positions will be held. Anyone interested in beginning or advanced fencing is urged to attend—Haven Glassmire, president.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting this afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room. All students graduates, and faculty members are welcome—Patricia Neil, secretary.
A.S.M.E. SMOKER: There will be an AIS.ME.
Smoker at 7:30 Thursday evening in the men's lounge
of the Union building. All mechanical engineers are
invited. Refreshments will be served.-Dick Large.
DRAMATIC CLUB. All newly selected apprentices should meet in the Little Theater in Green hall, for a brief meeting Wednesday at 4:30.-David Watermulder, secretary.
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN STUDENTS: Will those women students who wish to be called about opportunities for part time employment please file their class schedules with the Women's Employment Bureau, 220 Frank Strong Hall, not later than Friday. Failure to file the class schedule will indicate that the student is no longer interested in applying for part time work. —Women's Employment Bureau.
FRESHMAN MEMBERS INTRAMURAL BOARD: Men wishing to be considered as candidates for freshman members of the Intramurial board of managers must state qualifications in a written application addressed to Senior Intramurial Manager. Applications to the Intramurial Board will be sent to 2. Lee Hiddleston, Sr. Manager, 197 Johnson Gynn.
JAY JANES: Jay Janes will meet at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building Wednesday.—Ruth Spencer president.
PHI DELTA KAPPA; A business meeting and election of officers will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Oread Training School.-Russell Mosser, acting secretary.
PHI CHI DELTA: The first meeting of Phi Chi Delta will be held Tuesday, October 1 at 5:30 at Westminster Hall, 1221 Oread—Dee Ellen Naylor, Jean Dooley, Co-proc chairman
W. S.G.A. COUNCIL; There will be a meeting of the W.S.G.A. council at 7:00 in the Pine Room, this evening.-Doris Twente, secretary.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: There will be a proficiency examination October 5 at 8:30 a.m. Register, in person, at the College Office, 121 Frank Strong Hall, September 30, October 1 and 2. This examination is open to Juniors and Seniors in the College of Liberal Arts, provided they have not passed an earlier examination. Seniors who pass the examination on October 5 may qualify for graduation in June, 1940. Other examinations will be held December 14, March 1, May 3—J. B. Virtue.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE: All students wishing to sign up for work on subcommittees of the Student Union Activities Committee are urged to call in person at the Student Union Activities office in the Union Building between 2 and 5 p.m. Junior men and sophomores are especially wanted. There is opportunity for typists, carpenters, artists, and others of special talent—Carter Butler.
W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a W.S.G.A. tea for all University women on Wednesday from 3 to 5 in the lounge of Frank Strong hall—Jean Klussman, social chairman.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The W.Y.C.A. - Y.M.C.A. Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. at Henley House. The topic for discussion is "Christianity—How Come?" led by Reverend Edwin F. Price. —Mary Helen Wilson.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB TEA: The first tea of the year will be held from 3 to o'clock Thursday afternoon in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building—Mrs. E. R. Elbel, publicity chairman.
Trelawny: A Man's Life, by Margaret Armstrong, the Macmillan company, New York; 369 pages, $3.
Here is a book that deserves a prominent place on any collector's shelf of non-fiction works, preferably at the side of "Fanny Kemble," also by Miss Armstrong, which preceded "Trelawny" in 1938. Both books were assured of success before publication. "Fanny Kemble" was selected two years ago by the Book-of-the-Month club, and "Trelawny" will be issued this month as the October choice of the organization.
Miss Armstrong sets the pace of "Trelawny" in the opening paragraph of the book: "Now and then a man is born with a surname that fits him so well it might have been chosen for him by a poet or a painter. Edward Trelawny was one of these fortunate persons. There is a wild flavor in Trelawny that would lend a touch of romance to the most commonplace family; and that the Trelawns never were. They were courageous, adventurous, full of vitality, eccentric, unreliable, prone to extremes; never, to judge from the family records, commonplace."
The life of Edward Trelawny—privateer, soldier of fortune, writer friend of Percy Byshe Shelley and Lord Byron—is a virile biography just such a member of the Trelawny family. Edward, whose many-faceted character was imbued with a strong restlessness, had lived a "full life," by any standards, before he had entered his twenties, although he was destined to die peacefully, despite his wishes, only after all who were dear to him had preceded him in death.
Trelawny was imbued with an inherent hatred of tyranny, a hatred which was nurtured through his father's lack of understanding and the English school system of that day, which held that the rod was mightier than the pen. When he was sent to sea, his tendency to champion the cause of the weak and oppressed found out in a brave and resilient manner. He became a privateer through his chance meeting and instant friendship with De Ruyter, a Frenchman, one of the four persons who had a strong influence in shaping his life.
It was during the days he was sailing the Indian Ocean as a privateer flying the French flag that he rescued the daughter of an Arab sheik and was married to her as her father lay dying. Zela, his wife, later was poisoned, and with her death he returned to England. But his restlessness could not be stilled there and he went to Pisa to meet Shelley "for the exercise of my brain."
His friendship with Percy and Mary Shelley and Lord Byron gives the reader an intimate insight to another side of the Trelawny and to the poets themselves. Trelawny admired the genius of both men, although his friendship with Word Byron ended when he became intactuated with the poet's former mistress. After Shelley's death, it was Trelawny who undertook the cremation of the poet's body.
A reconciliation was effected between Trelawny and Lord Byron, and the two men went to Greece to fight for the cause of independence. Later, he came to America, and it was here the adventurer nearly lost his life when he swam the Niagara river just above the Falls. Here, too, his belief in independence asserted itself, for he purchased a slave in order to set him free. Returning then to England, his last years were spent quietly; and, at his request, his ashes were buried beside those of Shelley in Rome.
Miss Armstrong's "Trelawny" is reminiscent of Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." The latter, of course, was autobiographical, yet "Trelawny" also is more than biography. Miss Armstrong, in the short preface, explains: "There are no imaginary characters, events, or conversations in this book. It is fact, not fiction. The narrative is based on Trelawny's writings, corrected and amplified from reliable sources." Indeed, the subtitle of Miss Armstrong's book, "A Man's Life," was intended by Trelawny to be the title of his autobiography, although it was printed under the title of "Adventures of a Younger Son." Miss Armstrong's "Trelawny" is a scholarly piece of work well told. It is a worthy successor to her earlier biography, "Fanny Kemble."-G.K.
Lantern Parade 24-Year-Old Custom
Gaily swinging the traditional Japanese lanterns University women will observe the now 24-year-old custom of an annual nightly visit to the residence of the Chancellor, when they make their way to the home of Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott next Thursday night.
The W.S.G.A. and Y.W.C.A. for 24 years have joined to sponsor the yearly custom Started in the beginning for freshmen women only, the popularity of the event spread to include all women in the University. A dinner will be served at 5:45 o'clock Thursday afternoon with the visit to the Chancellor's home scheduled for about 8 o'clock fer, c'41, heads the Y.W.C.A. When the now aged treid younge
All University women will be invited as usual this year to attend the informal dinner at the Memorial Union building. After the meal, the long lines of women will proceed to the home of the Chancellor. As is customary, the presidents of the two organizations will lead the procession. O'Theene Huff, c'41, is president of the W.S.G.A. and Jean Stuf-
When the now aged tradition was young, it was customary to hold the event in two parts. One night two groups got together for a picnic lunch and another evening the lamp carrying was done. However, in 1926 the two functions were combined in the manner which they are at the present time.
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