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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1940.
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A Man's Man
With all the rest of the Republican presidential hopefuls fading cut like last year's tea towels, Wendell Wilkie stands out as an opponent capable of taking care of himself against Roosevelt and his New Deal janizaries.
Wilkie is a businessman and he's proud of it. He isn't like these other namby-pamby politicians who have been whining for Roosevelt to save democracy and the Republican party by not running for the presidency. This 48-year-old, two-fisted executive is ready and willing for the New Deal chieftain to run against him should he be nominated. "Let him run and I'll whip his pants off" is Wilkie's battle cry. It's the same attitude that made his business a success—something Roosevelt can't say without sticking his tongue in his cheek.
In his Kansas City speech Friday night, Wilkie brought out something that a frightened electorate seems to have overlooked: that an adequate defense plan can be had only when capital begins flowing into those industries where the implements of war are made. Roosevelt hasn't been able in seven years to make capital flow anywhere but into thin air. He has gone out of his way to show how he distrusts industrialists and businessmen — the sentiment is mutual, of course. Anyone will admit that there must be a re-approachment between industry and the government—Roosevelt can't and won't achieve this. Wilkie could.
Wilkie has as much personality and sincerity as Roosevelt. His radio voice is pleasant and he could match wise-cracks with the fire-side spieler any night. More, he has something which Roosevelt obviously hasn't; something to which the people, in the next few months, are going to attach a high premium—the ability to get things done and not just talk about them.
How sweet it would be never to hear that "My friends . . . ." again! Just the pleasant news of a chief executive getting something done for his country.
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Time Marches On
Perhaps at no time in the history of our generation has the importance of news coverage been more real than at this hour. Journalism has become a vital industry.
With the speed of light, around the world experts in the art of news-gathering supply the raw food hour by hour. Trained editors mix the ingredients, add a touch of salt here, and provide a well-balanced words-pictures diet, delectable or awful, depending on your taste. But always the food is fresh, the menu is vital.
This week marks the end of a spring series of stories run as advertisements every two weeks in the University Daily Kansan, in which the editors of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, hoped "to give College Students a clearer picture of the world of news-gathering news-writing, and news-reading—and the part TIME plays in helping you to grasp, measure, and use the history of your lifetime as you live the story of your life."
The spring series has told the stories of: the reporter who scooped the world in Norway during this world war; Huey Long's dynasty and how a newspaper insured its death; the country town editor; the world-wide press associations; the "man in the slot"; and Thursday, the story of the White House press conference.
Reception of these advertisements has been enthusiastic among students and members of the faculty at the University. In bound volume form they provide a convenient document of today's and yesterday's journalism industry.
Students and faculty members who have not made reservations for their free copies may do so by calling KU 66, or by making application in person at the editorial or business offices of the DAILY KANSAN.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Sunday, May, 26, 1940 No. 158
ATTENTION: All cases to appear before the Student Court should first be appealed to the Clerk of the Court, Bob McKay, telephone 2903.—Gene Buchanan, chief justice.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to students, graduates and faculty members, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C Myers hall.-Patricia Neil, 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.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, May 28, at 4:30 in the Auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong Hall. Deane W. Malott, President.
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.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: The combined picnic and farewell meeting, postponed from last week, has been called off. The Sunday sessions, at 9:45, continue today and June 2.-Bob Johnson, President.
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Class of '40 Parallels Group of 21 Years Ago
Twenty-one years ago in June graduating seniors of the University, the first class to emerge into a world of peace in four years, heard words to which a parallel might be struck on the tenth of next month, at the sixty-eighth annual Commencement program. For another war has begun to redden the soil of Europe, and more precarious becomes the position of those who leave college.
Dr. Giddings cited the dangers in
the social contagion of subversive elements brought about by mass, rather than individual thinking. He urged the graduating class to resort always to individualism if they would preserve the right to achieve.
On that day, June 13, 1919, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, of Columbia University, gave the commencement address. In it he pointed out how human progress was the product of individual minds and not of the mass mind. Quoting from an article on his speech which appeared in the Daily Kansan, he said, "Nothing could be more wild or more false than the doctrine, now preached throughout the world, that the only way to remedy injustice and extend full and economic opportunity to all mankind lies through the destruction of a social order that has slowly been built up by the thought and toil of the civilized world."
In showing the effect of war on social progress, he said, "‘Añ an and V discontent has spread among the peoples and attained disquieting momentum. A social revolution has been proclaimed and a world stricken by war is threatened now with chaos. To this turmoil of revolt must be attributed many new attempts to limit achievement and obstinate denials of the right to achieve.'"
Hitler has seconded the attempt of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm to conquer Europe. Will this year's commencement speaker second the remarks of Dr. Giddings in 1913?
ROCK CHALK TALK
By Jim Bell
One Minute Interview: "Absolute ignorance of music is one of the primary essentials for a good German band."—Lawrence Nelson, director of the melody murdering Sigma Chi outfit.
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"We'll Fight!"
"You can't bluff us!" The Old Men said. "We'll bomb your cities, Beat in your head . . ."
And then they cried, "We'll fight!"
Now in the fields
The Young Men lay
Their light, young lives
The price we pay
When old men cry "We'll fight!"
Third student - signed petition to end up in the waste basket was circulated recently by pharmacy students. The pill mixers asked the University to make one of their favorite professors Dean Havenhill's successor. Needless to say, the plea was ignored and a man from the East hired to fill the job.
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That Little Black Notebook: We always thought that the old line about Beta's being sissies was a lot of Phi Delt propaganda, but Bill Hogben, Pink and Blue pitcher, did wear a bobble pin to keep his hair out of his eyes Friday . . . Dick Amerine and Fred Littoo took a sound razzing during the course of the game . . . The Beta's were yelling "Put your skates on, Sonja, and take a bow" at Amerine, while the Alph's used the time-honored bromide "Glamour Pants" on Littoo . . . It is with considerable regret
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that we read that the Phillips we constabulary captured 21 head hunters . . . Some of the nicest people we know are headhunters.
Five hundred spectators and four dogs saw the Beta's beat the Alph's for the softball title Friday afternoon. According to some of the Alph's the estimate on the number of dogs is too low—especially following that umpire's decision in the sixth inning.
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Another abnormal psychology class went to Topeka to look at the inmates of the state hospital. We've always wondered who is the more amused at one of these meetings—the visitors or the hosts.
Stopl We Can't Bear It item; Worthy of ruthless court martial is the British official who named the volunteer guard against Nazi aerial troops, "Parashooters."
Spooner-Thayer Displays Work of Lawrence Woman
A series of 25 etchings, aqua-tints, soft grounds, and dry points, done by Mrs. Esther B. Ragle of Lawrence, is on display in the print gallery of Sponer-Thayer museum.
Choosing trees as her theme in most of her work, Mrs. Ragle exhibits landscapes sketched in Kansas, Michigan, and Kentucky. She does her own printing, and makes her own plates, and has published a limited edition of her works.
She has studied with John Helm at Manhattan, the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan, and at this University.