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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
12.07 2023年1月28日 星期五
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS LETTERS
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On Crowing Old
Three-quarters of the total increase in population of America since 1920 lies within the age group between 20 and 55. The group of Americans under the age of 15 is lower than it has been at any time in 40 years with the result that the workings of democracy depend more and more on the wisdom and normality of the aging. For this reason America should educate its citizens to grow old gracefully with less imaginative dwelling on "the good old days."
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The greatest men of the world serve others. They know no age limit. Each new generation hails the world as its own discovery and personal property plunging into the possibilities of life with an excitement that cannot be motivated by the more experienced. Fine though enthusiasm is,men must recognize that the tempering knowledge of maturity keeps the blade of social movement from over-refinement In glorifying youth, modern men develop a blind spot which shuts out the achievements of age.
What forty years have done to a man's physique means nothing significant about the man internally. Beauty of character comes only with years. In the findings of twenty-five biologists, psychologists, and physicians concerning the characteristics of age, one looks in vain for confirmation of the idea that age is necessarily accompanied by loss of the power to live an adequate mental and emotional life. Accident and disease, depression and worry will wear a man out, but careful living and a sane mental viewpoint rebuild worn bodies.
Without a source of dominance and pride, man retreats into the past to become socially but a child. For the good of everybody, the old should work, not in competition with the young in fields of heavyy production, but in supplementary directions. That every aging man or woman should attempt to rock the world with art of scientific discoveries is not necessary, but each should be made to feel his usefulness. No man should be made to retire unless he can find a better use for his time than to continue at some form of his life's work. In this way, the aging man can continue his productivity, retaining a well-balanced outlook on life and living.
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With the development of the Home Patriot Guard in Kansas City, fascistic terror rends the heart-strings of Midwestern democracy.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
In its first two days eight thousand signed the rolls of the H.P.G. The extent of the war hysteria signified by this event is amazing and terrifying, for the H.P.G. is an organization for the extermination of all fifth-columnists—which includes anyone whom it dislikes.
All who would deviate from the pattern condoned and sanctioned by the majority must now seek shelter on Long's Peak; otherwise, the H.P.G. will get you if you don't look out.
This surpasses in monstrosity even the excesses of the "Red" hunt. A Republican proved never to be a "Red", but even Henry Ford might prove to be a "fifth-columnist"—provided that H.P.G. wished him removed from the American scene.
THAT PROGRESSIVE AGAIN
Keep Off the Grass
Either a lot of students are in a perpetual hurry or they just can't appreciate the beauty of this campus. The verdant lawns of the campus take a beating every spring as thoughtless students cut the corners and wear out spots of grass.
Eastern Kansas rains and the buildings and grounds crew can't do all the work. They serve to build the campus up into one of the beauty spots of the Middle West and a few hurrying and scurring students trod down their work.
In the future, students should take their time. Classes will still be there even if they take time to follow the sidewalks. What's a half-minute in comparison to a beautiful, well-kept lawn?
The worn-down spots have been sodded. After this let students—and professors—keep their heels clicking on the sidewalks. Admire the lawns and take pictures of them, but for the love of Pete and the aesthetics class, keep off the grass!
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, May 29, 1940 No. 160
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will have its annual banquet at 6:10 this evening in the Kansas Room of the Union building.-Emile Weiss, Secretary.
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.
OWL, SOCIETY MEMBERS, 1939-40: Please see me for a slight refund from 1939-40 Owl Society budget. The address is 1132 Tennessee, telephone 3028M—Brent Campbell, treasurer.
W. S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE; The W.S.G.A. Book Exchange will pay cash for used textbooks beginning Friday, May 31, until Thursday, June 6—Helen Pierce, manager.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
The New Yorker magazine reports that the Allies are learning, much to their amazement, that Hitler really meant when he said in Mein Kampf. No one ever dreamed that he would keep a written promise.
By Jim Bell
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If you think that finals are causing a lot of headaches now, just wait until they're all over next week!
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Bill McGinnis says that the trouble with a lot of athletic heroes is that they let their four and one half inch chest expansions go to their heads.
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Another war-hater bites the dust; Henry Ford, who found in the last war that he couldn't "get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas", has come around with an offer to manufacture 1,000 planes per day. But just think of what malicious glee Allied aviators will have by shuting such Fordisms as "Get a Horse!" or "Watch the Fords go by" after unloading a ton of bombs on some poor Nazi . . .
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That Little Black Notebook: According to the LBN, everyone in the University behaved himself yesterday. . . . and anyway we had too much studying on our minds to peep through keyholes or talk to Dave Oberlin. . . Local professors, please copy!
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The United States is the only major nation left in the world where college men turn in their Reserve Officer's uniforms at the end of the school year and go home to work on the farm . . . Elsewhere young men are leaving schools and universities for battlefields where the dive-bomber and the tank take the place of the grasshopper and chinch bug as chief agents of destruction.
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One Minute Interview: "If prescription lists started at the age of 50 and worked up, there won't be any wars."-Dick Gheen, Prof. Robert Calderwood's speech class.
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Think It Over: If the United States doesn't stay out of the mess abroad, who's going to take care of the world's hangover when the big binge in over?
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Colonel Charles Lindbergh's expulsion from the Lafayette Escadrille reminds us of the kid who got kicked out of the Boy Scouts because he used paper in making his campfires—he said it was the easiest and most logical way. . . Anyway the Escadrille says it awarded the Colonel his membership under the same circumstances our fraternity claims to have given us the pledge button—"in a moment of mistaken enthusiasm".
Leopold of Belgium must feel terrible today. How would You feel with England, France, and the Kansas City Star calling you a good-for-nothing quitter?
All Work...No Play---
Final Week Puts Damper On Memorial Day Here
Memorial Day to most students on the Hill will be just another day to study for final examinations. No special observances have been planned by the University in commemoration, but finals have been suspended for the day.
Lawrence, however, will decorate graves of veterans Thursday morning, and have a special open air service in South park that evening as their organized observation of Memorial Day.
Speaker at the evening services will be Omar B. Ketchum, prominent in Kansas politics and chief of staff of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The service begins at 7:30 p.m.
A large American flag will be presented to the Memorial Park cemetery in a special ceremony at 10:30 a.m. The flag will fly at half mast until noon.
Memorial services for sailor dead will be Thursday morning at 9:30 in Robinson park with all patriotic orders of the city invited to participate.
Nearly all Lawrence stores will be closed for the day. No mail delivery but special delivery letters
and parcels will be made by the postoffice.
Final examinations for students will begin again Friday morning after the rest period and continue through Thursday. June 6. Closing hours of 12:30 will be observed through final week.
Forums Board Chooses New Personnel for Next Year
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The University Forums board has announced its new person as selected last week, Betty Kimble, c'41 chairman, said last night. It consists of Betty Jo Wilson, c'41, Barbara Koch, c'43, Mary Frances McAnaw, c'42, and Jim Burdge, c'41 Donn Mosser, c'42, and Charles Grutzmacher, c'42.
The board met Friday to draw up plans for its program to be carried out next year. The plans will be presented to the student councils next fall, Miss Kimble said.
Its business consists of helping with drives for funds, sponsoring the bi-weekly Forum board movies, and scheduling a series of lectures. The board financed the appearance here this year of T. Z. Koo, secretary of the Student Christian Federation.
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