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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
After Richard MacCann's lugubrious farewell tale in the Jayhawker—the one with the "My Son, My Son" sob effects—it's going to be pretty tough to wring another tear from the students today.
So Long!
All kidding aside, this time of year does have a sobering effect. Not the "Hearts and Flowers" variety, however. Most of the sensors are glad to get out of school. Some of them are pretty disappointed over their four year attempt at an education. Some have jobs waiting. Others don't. A few have had an all-around happy time while for many it has just been plain, unadulterated work. But to most of them, their time on Mt. Oread has been well spent.
We can try, however. Yesterday we thought we saw a man and his son leaving the University campus forever. They drove slowly up the drive toward Frank Strong hall. Suddenly the son leaned out of the car and with a sob pointed toward Haworth hall. "Look, dad," the son said, "there's where I used to take geography from Professor Posey." Well, they must have thought that was pretty sad and before you could say "George the Cop!" they were crying on each other's shoulders. The car, out of control, smashed into the College office and disturbed a conference. Now, wasn't that sad? You see, it was the first time in four years that boy had ever been there.
So without letting too many tears drip, the Daily Kansan wants to bid the seniors goodbye. We've enjoyed serving you as a student paper to the best of our abilities and facilities. Come back and visit the University sometime and we'll put your name in the society columns. So long!
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Sacrifice From All
Even with the necessary imposition of taxes to meet national defense needs, and the handful of industrialists placed at the disposal of the second-rate new deal cabinet, it is still difficult to become enthusiastic over the way the administration is conducting the affairs of the nation.
The proposed enactment of a tax program is promising. It means that the Washington politicians have decided to treat the people as adults instead of children. The taxes came as soon as it became apparent that public opinion was strongly in favor of everyone taking part in the burden to defend the Western Hemisphere.
The administration and Congress does not seem to realize, however, that sacrifices other than those of taxes must be made. While it is a moot question whether all the "social gains" Roosevelt insists must be maintained are gains at all, it is clear that labor as well as industry is going to have to sacrifice in the coming months.
Now that the politicians have gotten around the old superstition of voting taxes in an election year, these other things should be faced. The billions that have been voted during the
Industry will cooperate. It must or it would have to be supplanted. If longer working hours are necessary, the working man will have to work longer hours in preparing for national defense. He, too, must sacrifice.
present congressional session are only the first of many to come. Programs which are not absolutely essential must be discarded. To continue the extravagant spending that goes with New Deal "social gains" would mean that the nation would be saddled with an impossible burden—too great for a democratic people to carry.
Roosevelt and developments in the war abroad have convinced the United States that it is in danger. The United States is a country of farmers, laborers, small merchants, big industrialists—and politicians. All will have to subordinate their special interests to the task of making this country safe—or else . . .
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The German Library of Information in New York might as well give up. There is absolutely so chance that their publications exonerating Nazi politics will become best-sellers here—at least not until the Stuka planes begin mistaking the Statue of Liberty for a military objective.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, June 5, 1940 No.162
UNION BUILDING BALLROOM: All organizations wishing to use the Union Building Ballroom for the School year 1940-'41 will have the opportunity to sign up for it Tuesday, June 4, from 11:30 to 1:00 in Miss Zipple's Office in the Union building. Dates will be signed on "First come first serve" basis.—Carter Butler, president student union activity board.
FACULTY MEMBERS: All members of the Teaching Staff are requested to call at the Business Office to sign the regular payroll, on or before June 6th, 1940.—Karl Klouz, bursar.
KFKU ANNOUNCER TRYOUTS: Tryouts will be held at the studio Thursday at 3 o'clock. Those interested in trying out should get in touch with Miss Seaman between 4 and 5 o'clock this afternoon or Thursday morning from 10 until noon—Mildred Seaman.
W. S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE: W.S.G.A. Book Exchange will pay cash for used text books until Thursday, June 6—Helen Pierce, manager.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Jim Bell
★ Four Years in Quandary ★
The Private Papers of a Graduating (?) Senior
(Being an overview and backward glance at a college career. No references were used. These are the things which have stood the test of time and stand out in the memory. Any resemblance to articles in "True Confessions" is purely coincidental.)
Lawrence and its bewildering campus held a strange fascination for this freshman when he arrived on a very hot day in September, 1936. There was an intense bustle of activity. Rush week was on and big, shiny cars sped up and down Tennessee street which steamed under the torrid sun. The old timers said it hadn't rained since gosh only knows when. That night it poured.
After the enrollment mess, the freshman settled down to an unhappy football season. He can remember a lonely trip to Manhattan to watch the boys take a sound beating and to envy the lads in the baggage car who knew the Jay James and could get a dance.
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The freshman was not very happy. He knew only two people in the United States—one was in New York and the other in San Francisco. No fraternity tried to pin its pledge button on his lapel and only a few of the more democratic souls spoke to him. Among these were Bob McKay, Warren "Deacon" Anderson, and Harry Hill.
The winter was filled with sleet, a chemistry course which nearly drove him nuts, and homesickness. He did enjoy Prof. Theodore Paullin's lectures, and Prof. John Hankins taught him just about everything he knows today about the English language. The rest of the courses he took are now forgotten.
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Things began to look up in the springtime. He went out for track and though he wasn't worth a darr he made fast (no pun intended) friends in Coach B Hargiss and Harry Wiles. Social highlights was the Sigma Chi spring party. He took a Kappa rushee, who spent the evening looking for the Beavers.
He was a veteran at the college stuff when he returned in the fall of 1937. Worldly wise, the new sophomore went through rush week with outward indifference and sophistication and inward fear. One rainy day the Delta Tau Delta boys slipped up and have regretted it ever since.
That was K.U.'s good football year. The sophomore saw the Jayhawker gang, led by the bull rushing tactics of Clarence Douglass, beat Oklahoma and Iowa State, tie Nebraska and Missouri, and loose to Kansas State. The Nebraska game at Lincoln was one of the things he will never forget. It was there he felt the thrill of being from Kansas and the spirit that belongs to K.U.
This being a big fraternity man was great stuff. His friends started calling him Joe College and he learned to drink beer. In spite of this sort of thing, he managed to hold some of his friends and even make a few new ones.
His biggest thrill came the night Kansas won the conference cage title by beating Missouri, Fred Pralle, all-American guard, won the Big Six scoring championship, and they announced over the PA system that Glenn Cunningham had run the mile in 4.04.4 at Dartmouth. It was a great night to be from KU!.
That spring he went into the department of journalism and covered the intramural softball games. The boys at the shack still kid him about the way he wrote one inch stories with his hat on the back of his head and a cigarette hanging from his lips.
In the springtime he forget school and consequently flunked geology (of all things!). He doesn't remember having learned much that year. The only thing constructive he did was to drive a car the length of the campus steering with his bare feet. He also managed to build up a 23 pipe collection and lower his grade point average about one letter.
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That fall he took Modern Europe from Prof. Frank Melvin and reached the peak in his academic career. John Weatherwax was also in the class.
Just on the "brink of ruin," he found himself (?) and began to see that a fellow can't be Joe College all his life. He began to take his work on the Daily Kansan seriously and was thrilled to a purple pok-a-dot when he was appointed makeup editor.
The football season was a big success—Kansas whaled the living daylights out of Kansas State in what pre-game dope had called a breather for the Aggies.
He had his case of "sophomoritis" (that anti-social disease which most second year fraternity men catch) one year late and set out to drink all the beer in Kansas, as a new junior in the fall of 1938.
Springtime bloomed better than ever before and Dean Nelson spent the better part of his time warning the Junior that if he cut class just one more time, he would leave this time honored institution. Bob Stoland and Ray Harris led the Kansas track team through the first thing that resembled a successful season in years.
In the winter he sadly learned Kansas, minus the Great Praille not invulnerable in Big Six ketball circles. He was compensated to some extent when he learned that Schiller Shore was a real live person and not a fictious character
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He began his senior year not realizing how soon the whole (Continued on page seven)
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