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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1940
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spiritual force of moral knowledge.
Religion or peace can't thrive without reason. The love of God doesn't follow a goose-stepper or a Tommy as he bombs an enemy hospital. Human brotherhood doesn't ride the sky in a plane battle or steam with a warship or dive with a submarine. The Kingdom of God is hardly in evidence now in Flanders, or Calais, or Bologne.
America now needs to proceed slowly with the yellow stop-light of caution. She would be wise to give absolute freedom of speech and of the press to religious pacifists. She should stifle hysteria with reason—to let a cool head choose the logical course.
Editor, Daily Kaiser.
As Hitler's squeeze-out of Allied troops seems eminent with the surrender of King Leopold, as America is awakened to a possible Reich victory, this country, panicked, turns to the vanguard of religious pacifism. Pacifism says, "When your blood boils, add a pinch of reason."
Editor, Daily Kansan:
A PACIFIST.
Pacifists, on the other hand, don't advocate a do-nothing policy. They merely refuse to let their consciences be regulated by the state. They part company with non-pacifists upon the kind of force to be used rather than the need of force. The pacifist wants a spiritual force of moral idealism.
Those who so readily cried "betrayal!" when Leopold III ordered his Belgian army to surrender the other day to the Germans should think twice before they condemn the young king of the Belgians. King Leopold's act under the circumstances might well be considered courageous and humane.
Yes, the most important armaments for this country are reason and a cool head. Clear thinking must come before effective action. Muddled thought led to the shameless profiteering and waste of the last war. If logic is downed by hysteria, government may again be turned over to what H. G. Wells calls the "forgod-sake" school.
Judas or Savior? Editor, Daily Kansan:
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Under the circumstances it is very possible that the young Belgian king, realizing the great cost to his subjects and his country as a result of the Nazi's formidable drive across Belgium, decided to surrender to save them from further catastrophe even in the face of disapprobation from the allies and his own people.
The World War I made Belgian its battleground in 1914 and Leopold, a lad of twelve at that time, was old enough to remember the debacle his country suffered then. This second world war has already proved more catastrophic than the first. As commander-in-chief of the Belgian army, as well as king, Leopold holds a great responsibility for his people.
From the first Leopold desired to keep his country from the perils of war and broke his country's military alliance with France, only relinquishing all hopes of neutrality when his country was invaded.
The true purpose of this unexpected move of Belgiums Leopold III, only time can tell. But until then cries of "shame" for the young king should be withheld lest the shouters find themselves denouncing the most courageous and humane act of this bloody war.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
WAKEFIELD.
The rebuke to Lindberg and withdrawal of the award of honorary membership in the Lafayette escadrille would make some wonder whether the honor once conferred, then rescinded, is an honor after all.
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The present furor arose after the flier's speech of May 19 in which he voiced his hope and belief that the United States by not meddling in European affairs
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Col. Charles A. Lindberg has spent some time in the past several years in Europe studying the European countries' lines of defense in the air. Then when he brings what information he has garnered to his own country and holds out hopes for continued peace and neutrality here and in turn is taken to task for his remarks by all except those who fervently desire peace and order for America.
could keep free of any danger of foreign invasion. That this attitude should be taken as an "insult to the memory of the comrades who fell on the field of honor and who rest in the crypt of the Lafayette escadrile monument at Garches" instead of a hope that great masses of young Americans need not share the fate of the escadrillie comrades can only seem ridiculous and unfortunate to this country's peace-loving citizens.
Lindberg did not lose an honor when his name was removed from membership files of the world war association of pilots. Rather he received condemnation because he sought peace for his countrymen instead of death in fruitless battle.
A LINDBERGER.
Pool is for Fools
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Next year the Memorial Union building will be renovated. The basement will undergo a complete rearrangement, according to the Kansan.
The Union building needs some re-arrangement. For a long time a pool room has been conducted there which amounts to a subsidization of less than a hundred pool players. In other words, a few select students have had themselves a cozy little club in the basement of the Union building. Membership is very limited since very few students care enough about pool or billiards to learn.
Why should so much space be given to pool-players? Why not turn all that wasted space into an amusement center where all can seek entertainment instead of a few loafing pool sharks?
I DON'T PLAY POOL.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Sunday, June 2, 1940 No.161
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 Klooz, bursar.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Forum tonight will be an informal meeting designed to be "the pause that refreshes." Coca Cola will be served, and there will be special music and games. This is our last Forum, and all are invited.-Bob Talmadge, president.
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 1:20 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 activities board.
W.S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE: W.S.G.A. Book Ex-
change will pay cash for used text books until Thur-
day, June 6.—Helen Pierce, manager.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Jim Bell
One Minute Interview: "A nation can't win a war any more than it can win a tornade"—Henry Werner, men's student adviser.
After hearing Wendell Willkie, GOP presidential hopeful, speak in Topeka Thursday, we are happy to report that the good old time political fighter is not GWTW. Said Willkie, shaking his hard fist, "I don't want to K.O. Tony Galento, I want to meet the champ—Franklin Delano Roosevelt!"
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One Act Play
He: Wake up.
Him: Can't.
He: Why?
Him. Ain't asleep.
Case of Rank Injustice: We wonder how Henry Ford feels now that his offer to produce 1,000 planes a day has been referred to William Knudson—president of General Motors—for consideration?
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Quote Department: We can't remember where we read it, but one Kansas editor remarked recently that that girl member of the Nazi parachute corps makes a good leap year item. Ouch!
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What goes on here? We see by the papers that three Allied divisions battled their way into Dunkerque. In the adjoining news story, we learn that four divisions battled their way out. Make up your minds, fellows.
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K.U. Items of Interest
That Little Black Notebook: Prof. Richard Eide and Restaurant Magnet Eddie Penchard were among those who sat out the Kiddie Review at the Granada last night. . . there was a better crowd in the lobby than in the theater during the performance. . . We understand that Sodie Soller wishes Bob Wright would sleep in a lower bunk following his finals celebrations. . . Art Wolfe, ace cameraman for "Far Obove Golden Valley," almost missed the premiere Tuesday night because of weighty problems. . . Mary Lou Ekstrom and Garvin Hall are the Hill's scrapingest couple, or so we are told.
Stadium and Union Were Gifts
Dyche Museum in Repair
The University of Kansas stadium and union were both memorials to the 130 men and women who died in the World War, 1914-1918. Both were built by subscriptions by students and alumni, the stadium costing in all $640,000 and the Union and its furnishings approximately $260,-000 to date. All students and alumni are proud of both structures. The stadium is useful for the spectacles that draw huge crowds such as football, Kansas Relays and Commencement. The Union with its beautiful lounge, banquet and dance hall and smaller dining and committee rooms is a place of great enjoyment constantly for the students.
University Services Over the State
The Dyche Museum of Natural History is now undergoing reconstruction of the interior, and it is hoped that at least part of the museum can be opened to the public within a year. The building has been closed since December, 1932, because of structural defects, and exhibits have been in storage and unavailable to the public since then. In the past Dyche Museum housed one of the most notable natural history collections in the middle west, and as many as 75,000 persons visited the museum each biennium. With the museum remodeled along the lines of modern practice it is expected that many more persons than in the past will visit the collections when the building is reopened.
A large number of state services are provided by the University. For instance, the state geological survey, the state water and sewage laboratory of the state board of health two of the food and drug anaylsi
laboratories of the state board of health, the standard weights and measures, and part of the entomological field work of Kansas are located at K.U. by legislative acts. Certain other services have been established by the Board of Regents such as the State Petroleum Experiment Station, the bureau of school service, the service bureaus of the extension division,' and the bureau of school service of the School of Education. These activities exist for the general service of the State.
Co-Operate on Development
The various department of the University are cooperating extensively with the Kansas Industrial Development Commission in the study of problems relating to the expansion of industry in the State. These include the State Geological Survey, the State Water and Sewage Laboratory, the Engineering Experiment Station, the departments of Chemistry, Geology, Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering, and the Bureau of Business Research. Most of these departments for years have been interested in and making studies of problems affecting Kansas industry. They have gladly expanded their efforts, however, in order to make as large a contribution as possible to the work of the state Commission. Of great assistance in their studies is a new legislative appropriation of $5,000 for industrial fellowships. Under this fund five ping in cooperating with the Federal work on the following studies approved by the state Commission: The Economics of Ceramics, Freight Rates as they Affect Industrial Development, Efficiency and Utilization of Coal, Production of Electrolytic Chlorine from Salt Deposits Using Natural Gas for a power source, Re-
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