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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
The War Comes Home
America's huge defense program was brought more closely home yesterday when the war department ordered out the 35th Division, comprising National Guard troops in Kansas Missouri, Nebraska and Arkansas, for a year's active duty. The citizen soldiers, among whom are a number of University students, will be mobilized at Camp Robinson, Ark., Nov. 25 The call came only two days after the first transference of more than 60,500 National Guardsmen in 26 states from state to federal service.
Induction of the National Guard into the federal service constitutes the nation's first mass mobilization of her land power since 1917. The conscription bill, also a precedent-shatteref, provides the first peace-time draft in the history of the United States. Historic days these past several weeks. But no more historic than the past twelve months, which witnessed the fall of nations which were as free—and as unprepared—as this country.
To the average person, particularly those of this generation to whom World War I was only a conflagration of nations their parents witnessed, events of the past few weeks have moved with almost bewildering rapidity. Unprecedented legislation, the National Guard bill and the Selective Service Training Act, were passed by Congress, only a matter of days separating the two.
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Shining Star
Sixty years ago, on September 18, a small. four-page newspaper first appeared in Kansas City. Its competitors dubbed it The Twilight Twinkler, for William Rockhill Nelson, its founder, had named it the Star. Kansas City then was a raw western town, and Nelson was a newcomer.
Today, the Kansas City Star is eminent among the great dailies of the world, and Kansas City is a foremost American metropolis. Much of the credit for building both rightly goes to Nelson; he led crusade after crusade to clean up and build up the Kansas City area.
He coached his staff to produce an independent, honest and aggressive newspaper. Throughout the yellow journalism period, when hundreds of newspaper publishers seemed to lose their balance in the wave of sensationalism, Nelson and his staff kept the Star on an even keel.
After Nelson died in 1915, there were those who predicted the Star would dim—that the Star had been Nelson, and nothing more. For 25 years, however, the institution the man built has lived after him, reflecting his enterprise, his courage, and his honesty—but not as in a stagnant pool.
That the Star continues to be one of the bestknown and most distinctive dailies in America is a credit to those dozens of anonymous editorial and business workers who make the Star. They keep the Star bright.
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Transition Period
For several years now student counsellors have helped wipe out a freshman difficulty: the transition from high school to University, from boys into men and from girls into women. It is their duty to get freshmen acquainted with the
University, with the teachers and with each other. It is also their duty to plan meetings, parties, and get-togethers that serve this purpose but yet are not dull.
In the summer men counsellors each write introductory letters to 12 new students, women counsellors to six new women. More than one letter is written to the freshman. The real work begins in the fall when arrangements are made for each student to meet his counsellor. From then on through the year the counsellor keeps in touch with his proteges, helping them in any way he can. The outstanding students chosen to be counsellors are usually qualified to do this. For their unselfish donation of time and energy these upperclassmen deserve the gratitude of the University.
Democratic party members are requesting free radio time for President Roosevelt's answer to Willkie's Coffeyville speech. If the rebuttal is worth hearing, it should be worth paying for.
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Facts in Review, the organ of the German Library of Information, states that an English laborer was fined for betting that "Adolph Hitler would be in London by September" and for listening to foreign news broadcasts. The pamphlet neglects to say that the same conduct in the Reich would mean more severe punishment and possibly a concentration camp.
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Vol. 38 Friday, Sept. 20, 1940 No. 4
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
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.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KAPPA PHI: Girls of Methodist preference, who are new to the University, are invited to a Kappa Phil picnic on Saturday afternoon. We will meet in the main lounge of the Union building at 4:00 p.m.- Kathryne Sechaake.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Dean Lawson will be the speaker for the meeting on Sunday evening at 7:30 at Westminster Hall—Robert Talmadge, president.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By Reginald Buxton
A Friend Dies
We don't know a lot about Miss Persis Cook. We do know that she was Mr. Werner's secretary; that she was an alumnus of Alpha Chi Omega; and that she died yesterday morning.
There is something else that we know about Miss Cook, however. She was the first person we met as a reporting I student whom we immediately liked—immensely. About two years ago we arrived in Mr. Werner's office, coming from a professor who didn't like us because the Kansan had once (or twice) spelled his name wrong—either that or because our hair was dirty. We were told that he had right to be alive we rated her A-1. When she searched around to find a little news—notices, squibs, etc., all which was manna to a reporter who needed inches for a grade—we liked her even more.
The point of it all is that Miss Cook was entirely different from any University secretary we've ever known. She was full of fun and still efficient; she was human and still a secretary of excellent caliber. She was devoted to the University and the students. That isn't pious pap; we know we were supposed to news every day for one semester and we missed few opportunities to drop in the basement office whenever we had an opportunity and excuse.
That Man Gibson
Ultimate of assiminity: Wearing a Willkie button to Hilden Gibson's Political Parties. One dope did just that yesterday and sat on the front row with an ever-reddening fact as the puckish witted prof poked fun at the GOParty candidate. Half way through the hour the Willkiette palmed the button.
Biased as we are there's no getting around the fact that Williek is bogging down and unless the Hoosier starts "cooking with gas" instead of electricity soon he'll be lucky to get the dry vote in Kansas. Spoiling for a fight he lost his usual quickness when he ordered "To hell with Chicago." That's really slow! According to the Willkie Belt concensus, Chicago's seen in hell ever since Mrs. O'Leary stroked her cow daisy the wrong way.
Note to Miss Mumford
According to Emily Mumford, the Joinal Woldl's journalism femme fatale, a "newspaper popular on the Campus" forgot to print the Chancellor's greetings in its first edition last Friday. The item needs two corrections: first, the word "popular" needs some qualifications, not much, but some; second, the Campus newspaper did not forget to print the greeting inasmuch as it did not receive it until after the Friday's form were locked up in the afternoon.
When local National Guard units are called to active duty on Nov. 25 for a year's training at Camp Robinson, Ark., about 45 students who were enrolled last year and belonged to the local National Guard units will be called into action, it was indicated today.
Several To Answer National Guard Call
As far as is known most of these students have not re-enrolled in the University this semester.
Among those to be called from the campus this fall are Schiller Shore, Bureau of Printing employee, and Donald Dowers, draftsman, in the Geological Survey office. Both men belong to the Thirty-Fifth division, Shore being affiliated with Company M-131st infantry-machine gun and Dowers with Troop I of the 14th cavalry soon to be changed to the 155th motorized battery.
Kenneth Postlethwaite, c'40, has been transferred from the Thirty-
Fifth division and is now located in Wyoming.
Slayer of K.U. Grad Gets Life Sentence
Jack Russell, Oklahoma desperado, was sentenced to 199 years imprisonment in federal court at Chicago Thursday for the kidnapping and murder of William Scott Hamilton, '38, of Arkansas City.
Hamilton while at the University was a member of the Men's Glee Club and the Dean's Choir. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. While employed as a salesman in Arkansas City in June, 1939, he was kidnapped by Russell near Pittsburg, Kan.
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