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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 24
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTE
With the country as worried over defenses as it now is, that party which evidences more interest in the welfare of the nation than in party politics will be standing aces high with the lectorate next fall. Both the republicans and the democrats had better play ball with the nation's best interests because the one that doesn't is going to get flunked out of Electoral College.
Play Ball, Boys
Landon, Knox, and fellow-travelers have followed a wise course in refusing to form a coalition government. If their object in doing so was to preserve the 2-party system they are to be praised. But if their refusal was based on the theory of blackmail—we've got something you want, so give us what we want and we'll make a deal—then they should get a raspberry from everyone who is worrying about the state of the nation.
While any attempt of Roosevelt to use the critical foreign situation as a political bludgeon to make stooges out of the Republicans is to be looked upon with disgust, it is just as distasteful to learn that the Republics are using like pressure to make Roosevelt renounce his political future.
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If the democrats wish Roosevelt to run again this fall they have a legitimate right to have him as their candidate. If, after the administration's record of the past years, the Republicans can't defeat the New Deal chieftain, they had better give up the ghost and hand the emblematic pachyderm over to the socialists. The people are crying for an efficient handling of the defense program; that alone should give the business-like Republicans a large enough selling point without trying to use underhanded methods in getting Roosevelt to withdraw.
This nation may be rich in economic resources but it certainly must be poor in leadership. Just think: only one man out of around 130,000,000 persons seems to be fit for the presidency.
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Terror May Reign
It looks as though anyone who doesn't agree entirely with the administration is going to be branded as a "fifth columnist" and burned in effigy—or in the newspapers. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is the first of many Americans to come who will be branded unpatriotic, Nazi sympathizer, and un-American if their personality does not happen to please a certain group of over-zealous pseudo-patriots.
The increased FBI seems adequate to take care of un-American activities. If it isn't, additional like governmental bodies should be set up to take care of the situation. This business of one neighbor taking it upon his own personal shoulders to burn his neighbor as un-America is extremely dangerous. It is very likely to turn into a wild witch hunt with all America being weakened by the orgy.
--big brother to a divider. Citizens of this country have expressed a desire to fight only if the homeland is invaded. Obviously this is an understatement. The United States cannot afford to let any foreign, hostile power get a foothold anywhere on the North American continent. Only in this way might invasion be successful. Yet before the administration effects any entangling alliances, it should realize that 50,000 airplanes are not enough to defend over 25,000 miles of open coast line from Labrador to the Archipelago. Rather the state department should give special interest to the defense of Hawaii and the Panama, Alaska and Greenland. Canada and Mexico can manage with little help.
Undoubtedly there is a good deal of hostile ideas being swept about the country. The disseminators of these ideas can be dealt with only by competent, experienced bodies. Unless these groups are allowed to deal with the situation, some well-meaning but foolish Americans are going to set loose a reign of terror in the United States at a time when sanity and level-headedness is desired most.
YOU SAID IT
No Bluffing Allowed
Y, MA
Editor, Dany Kansan.
Now that the Nazis have driven deep into the Allied strongholds, the New Deal has suddenly been thrown from considerations of relief and social legislation to appropriations for airplanes and rearmament. As yet not much has been said concerning just how much of the world these "items of defense" will be expected to defend. While there is still time, the administration should take a lesson from England and France, who have found it hard to live up to agreements made in good faith to other countries. The people of this country should realize before South American "goodwill" plans go too far, that the United States cannot hope to protect the whole of the Western Hemisphere.
No one can deny that in case the Nazis triumph in the "total war" it would be highly desirable to keep Hitler completely out of this portion of the globe. President Monroe was the first to express such a desire in his famous doctrine. Yet should this country pledge to protect South America from invasion, it might be drawn into a conflict that it might otherwise escape. For instance, Germany might claim rich ore and oil deposits in British, Dutch, and French South American possessions. Argentine and Brazil might even find it convenient from a commercial standpoint to join the Berlin Axis. Could the United States play "big brother" to a divided continent?
can manage that South American soil is foreign soil. It is just as bad to die or squander money in Venezuela and Peru as in Flanders and Lorraine. The United States has enough on its hands here on the North American continent without getting involved in a system that it cannot maintain under pressure.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Friday, May 24, 1940
Vol.37
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.
GRADUATE STUDENTS: Graduate Students expecting to receive advanced degrees at the coming commencement are reminded that the diploma fee is payable at the Business Office and the application card due at the Registrar's Office by May 25. The thesis must be on file at the Graduate Office by June 4.-E. B. Stouffer, dean.
NEWMAN CLUB: Next Sunday, Rev. E. J. Weisenberg will be here for the Corporate Communion and Farewell Breakfast for Seniors. Reservations for the breakfast can be made by calling 338 by 7:00 p.m. Friday. The Mass will be at 7:00 Sunday morning and breakfast immediately after mass.—Albert Protiva, vice-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 May 26 and June 2—Bob Johnson, president.
SENIORS: Seniors expecting to enter the Graduate School this summer should come to the Graduate Office as soon as possible to make application for admission.—E.B. Stouffer, dean.
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Chancellor Snow Found Way To Fight Chinch Bu
By Lyle Eggleston, c'42
Back in the latter 80's the tiny, silver-winged, ill sninchin bugs were laying waste to vast acreages of Kansas. According to the 1891 annual report of the University of K Experiment station, it was while reading the reports of the Board of Agriculture that the former Chancellor F. H. noticed a definite check on the insects during wet seasons reasoned that some disease was causing the decrease, for not natural that the bugs would die so suddenly without a def- 2,000 sent Of these 1,657
not natural that the bug we die so suddenly without a definite cause.
By studying the dead bugs Professor Snow found that a white parisite fungus was killing the insects By further experiment he found that healthy bugs could easily and quickly be given the infection.
When the news of his experiment appeared in the newspapers, he was deluged with requests from farmers in all the adjoining states for a few of the "sick" bugs. The state of Kansas appropriated money for an experiment station here at the University, and hundreds of little jelly glasses containing the infected bugs were sent out to farmers all over the state. With each jar went a list of instructions, and also a request for a full report on the effect of the insects. During the summer of 1891, 1399, replies were received out of
2,000 sent Of these,1,071 we ported to be successes, 181 wereures, and 147 were doubtful.
But experiments in the following years began to show discursive results. It was found that afection spread very little until weather conditions were favorable. Finally entomics discovered that the white fungi present in any soil, and the transmission to the bugs wound place automatically if co-were favorable. In view of facts it was useless to contain artificial infection of the insect
After the experiment's farmers were advised of varic chanical ways of preventing sects migration into their field none of these have been as as Professor Snow's theory p to be during the early 90's.
ROCK CHALK TALK
One Minute Interview: "If you really want to find KU.I's Fifth Column, look on the right side of the Daily Kansan's front page."—Alan "Diddle" Asher.
By Jim Bell
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Propaganda Blues
The Allies swear they can't be beat.
The Nazis say they'll win in a walk.
From where we sit and hear this, bleat.
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talk.
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Senator Byrnes' assertion that Col. Lindbergh is unqualified to speak on aviation matters, seems about as silly as telling "Phog" Allen that he doesn't know anything about basketball.
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Business Item: Opportunist of first water is the enterprising engineer who is renting his telescope for spying on sun bathers atop the sorority house across the street from Marvin hall. For the infinitesimal sum of one cent, you can see feminine pulchritude in various stages of undress. Not exactly nice, but a good idea, you must admit.
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The coalition cabinet proposed by news analyst H. V. Kaltenborn last night, has all the ear marks of an All-American political team. Some of the selections for the all-star aggregation are: president Cordell Hull; vice-president, James A. Farley; secretary of state, Herbert Hoover; secretary of
ture, Alf M. Landon; and
of labor. Senator Wagner.
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Athletic Hopes Department less than six K.U. football among those who passed the lish proficiency examination didn't get their signals m this time.
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That Little Black Note said that the Gamma Phi exactly appreciate the skills efforts of the indolent Phil night . . . instead of wasting efforts, the Edgehill ladies phonograph recording of "Phi Delta Theta" while stood by feeling very cheer Highbrow note: recommend your "must" reading list is Butler Yeast's "Last Poor Plays" . . . The most unpopular on the campus between the 4:30 and 6 o'clock each are those poor guys who intramural softball games in local police thought they had live Nazi spy the other night they found that his tie wated with swastikas . . . covered, much to their disement, that the ominous sym of the innocent Indian var In our humble opinion, Jama Cromwell (Mr. Doris Du) wise gent to vacate the ministry in favor of a shy United States Senate, wife's money may do good.
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