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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22, 1940
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
Practice-Not Theory
"A certain proficiency in the science of government might also be made mandatory for graduation!"
Those words, effectively addressed to the University, including students and faculty, Friday by Mrs. Elizabeth Reigart, suggests a partial remedy for one of the malignant growths on our body politic. Mrs. Reigart wants American students to be instructed in the responsibilities of individuals in a democracy, and she wants them to understand how to fulfill those responsibilities.
Proficiency in the science of government means having skill and workable knowledge in the field of practical politics—not just an academic appreciation of the form of government set up by the constitution framers. It means knowing how to force public servants to do their full public duty; it means assuming the serious duty of juryman although it interferes with business and golf.
America is suffering because too many citizens have been willing to let somebody else do the driving—somebody else trained to steer where he wants to take us—a professional politician who is throwing the clutch, applying the brakes, and stepping on the gas—taking us for a ride, in our own machine, at our own expense.
Having yielded responsibilities and powers to professional politicians, too many persons shun politics as if it always stunk. Too many students in too many colleges, playing with college politics, become cynical and hardened. In the words of Mrs. Reigart, for them "it becomes the smart and shrewd thing to do to get on the 'gravy train.'"
What students and their parents need to learn is that upright, honest, decent, and responsible citizens must engage in politics to make democracy work. Not once in eight years to "clean the rascals out." Not once in four years to elect a man who will do what he promised. The great need is good citizens who have the courage, the patience, and the skill to keep politics out of the hands of the relative few who make politics a business, a game, and a graft. Americans are needed who will get on the inside and make government work-day in and day out; there is no need of Americans who stand on the outside and hold their noses.
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Just why Spain should be included in the three-member pact, which includes Germany and Italy, aimed at a division of Africa is difficult to understand, particularly when Gibraltar reportedly has been mentioned as the price of her aid. The pact has all the earmarks of "Said the spider to the fly."
Fashion note: Press dispatches report that the resplendent Reichmarshal Hermann Goering took the day off to attend the Molyneux fashion opening. It was not stated whether he found this season's bullet-proof underwear to his liking.
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YOU SAID IT
Editor. Daily Kansan:
Wants Activity Tickets Transferrable
Now that most of us have become resigned to the fact that we've been elected to pay for the stadium, it seems to me that the Athletic association, which rules the roost so far as the activity ticket is concerned, might possibly make just one concession—just out of the goodness of its heart, if for no other reason.
Students, a large part of them anyway, are not always in Lawrence the Saturdays of home football games; or, if they are, there's a paper that can't be stalled off any longer, some unfinished business at one of the laboratories, or something that conflicts with the game. The average student, granting that any of them are average, goes to most of the games, but at times he is forced to miss at least one of them.
Why, then, can't the activity book be made transferrable? What difference does it make whether John Jones, who purchased the book that the stadium might not be padlocked, is sitting in the stands, or his friend, Tom Rover? Of course, I'm just an undergraduate and I'm not expected to know all the answers; but it happens that the undergrads, not the football teams, are expected to bring water and straw for the white elephant—commonly known as the stadium.
IN A DAZE.
With Mr. Willkie and Mr. Roosevelt riding on the same bandwagon, the general election in November might be settled much more easily if the two flipped a coin.
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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-program chairmen.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Dean Lawson will be the speaker for the meeting this evening at 7:30 at Westminster Hall.—Robert Talmadege, president.
Seniors Born Four Years Too Soon, Freshman Says
(By a New Student)
Born four years too soon were the seniors, for they thereby cheated themselves out of the thrill of becoming K.U.-pies (freshmen to you), 1940 style.
Those first days (bring your blue card with you . . . auditorium doors close promptly at nine . . . fill out each of the 27 cards, please) will always be standouts in memory.
From the very first we knew that here was LIFE, the real McCoy, dashing and efficient. For instance, we found our dwelling cell complete with radio. $ ^{4} $
roommate, and blue-checked wallpaper designed to limber up the geometric sections of the mind.
Experience Comes Early
Upperclassmen, who were lucky enough to meet us, smirked, offered advice, and pushed us ahead of them to the nearest soda fountain. Our pockets spilled neatly empty as we bombarded jelly joints and nickel-odeons. And those innards of our heads filled frothy with new experiences.
Among our first lessons were how to make a coke last through two rubbers of bridge, how to hold a ham sandwich in one hand and play a second hand low with the other, how to choose recordings from the nickel-odeon list as scientifically as though we had a speaking acquaintance with all composers and band leaders and had often week-ended with Tommy Dorsey.
Big moment number one came when a fellow classman asked us if we were a sophomore. From then on we felt less sheepish about asking advice on courses, professors, "fifteen hours in each of the first three divisions before the junior year." We even dared to admit that we had never seen Glenn Miller.
At convocation we learned we had been consistent in maintaining the old Kansas male-female ration. At the Nibble said ratio was proved when only colossal stamina saved many a lass from being fatally overwhelmed by stags.
So now we are full-fledged Jay-
hawkers. We had been inducted by
a running torch-bearer, like the Statue of Liberty on the warpath. We even know six separate and distinct ways to get down from the Hill. (Maybe next year we can figure out a strictly painless method of getting back up the Hill.)
We suffered those endless lines, listened with interest to the name and location of every town on the Kansas may of 13 or over, and bravely substituted conversation for sleep during the ice-breaking period. We deserve to be treated with respect.
We even enjoyed the first day of school. Professors are fascinating in a musty sort of way. In fact, if any-one should inquire, we like it here. That's that. Now to read the first assignment in that new fourth-hand book. College life—it's wonderful. And there are four years of it to come!
Seniors, don't you wish you were us?
K.U. Entries Win Art Prizes at State Fair
Four University students and several Lawrence residents won prizes in the Kansas State Free Fair in Topeka.
Bernard Frazier, K.U. sculptor, won first with his portrait bust; also, the sweepstakes in sculpture. He placed first in the open competition sculpture for the best collection of three pieces. Victor Kalin, fa'42, won first for a still life and an honorable mention. He also placed first on a portrait from life.
Violet LaMont, fa'41, won_second place in a portrait from life, also second on a landscape from nature.
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