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AGE SIX
EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1940.
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At least one professor—possibly more—is getting a big kick out of flailing students with accusations of cowardice and softness because they don't seem to be enthusiastic over the prospects of going to war.
Aw--Shut Up!
Being afraid, however, is not an indication of yellowness. The youth of today is a lot more afraid that his one life will be thrown away uselessly. An American youth will fight to the last ditch to keep this hemisphere free from foreign invaders. Invasion is something that threatens the youth's material and spiritual future; he'll lay down his life to protect that future because without it his life means nothing. But, Prof., if men like you get the upper-hand, he'll be laying that life down across the seas where it isn't going to do any good.
Now let's get it straight, Prof., just what you and your colleagues are supposed to do in class. According to all rules and regulations you should be instructing youth how to think straight—you're not hired to do his thinking or to pump him full of hysteria. If you have a good logical argument in favor of going to war immediately, let's have it straight from the shoulder and presented in a clear light, and not muddled up by a lot of Hitlerian oratory.
No, Prof., the youth of today is afraid, but he isn't yellow. He's afraid that the whole world is tumbling down around his ears. He knows that to allow his thinking to become irrational by such poppycock as yours is suicide. He wants his country to be prepared to defend itself from any invader, and he's willing to throw his life into the balance when, and if, the showdown comes. But he doesn't want you to be using your advantage over him as a professor to call him yellow and to incite him to rash thinking. It's his future and his life that is being threatened—not yours.
Now listen, Prof., a lot of hale and hearty youths are afraid of war. Their fathers were afraid back in 1916. Anyone that isn't afraid of getting blown to bits is on the red side of the psychological ledger. You'd be afraid yourself if you weren't past the shooting age.
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Elmer--Who's Elmer?
Right now people are anxious to forget what the World of Tomorrow might look like; so the authorities of New York's fair have decided to bring their show down to earth. They're going to give it the old homey touch, redolent of the stock, product and housewives' preserves affairs of the country.
This year they're going to call it the Forty Fair. Gone will be those presumptious affairs where Grover Whalen met kings and queens—rulers are too busy trying to find a new country to live in. It will be billed as just another county fair a la Broadway. Elmer is being counted on to do wonders. He is the paunchy, wide-eyed folksy looking goof, grinning from thousands of posters and billboards. Elmer, in case people wonder, is New York's idea of who goes to the county fair and gets stung by the bees and the birds that are there.
Now in addition to changing the atmosphere to suit the rural tastes, the New Yorkers have condescended another notch and are even lowering prices. Room rent is lower, food is cheaper—and easier to find—and admission
prices are almost down to where they should be.
It really doesn't ring true, though. Those New Yorkers can slap a farmer on the back and shout "Hiya, Bud. How's the hogs' colera and little Daisy's chickenpox?" ,and the farmer will still have the idea they're out to clean him. To turn a trite crack: You can take the boys out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the boys.
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Remember, you prospective contributors to the dormitory drive, it isn't Chinese students you're being asked to help—it's your own buddies, right here on the Hill.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, May 22, 1940 No. 155
APPLICATIONS FOR DANCE MANAGER: Applications for Dance Manager for next year will be accepted at Dean Werner's Office until 5:00 tomorrow.—Jim Burdge, secretary men's student council.
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.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room.—Evelyn Longerbeam, chancellor.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. R. I. Canuthes.
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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French Doll of 1870's Shown in Spooner-Thayer
By Imogene Morris, c'42
A French doll, dating from the 1870's, is one of the most interesting exhibits for children in Spooner-Thayer museum. The 14-inch doll, found beside an old-fashioned trunk in a New England attic, was presented to the museum as a part of the Thaver collection.
Just who the original owner was is not known, but the doll was possibly brought to Massachusetts by some sea captain as a gift for his small daughter. According to Miss Minnie Moodie, curator of the museum, the doll is in excellent condition and has evidently never been played with.
When the doll was found, the trunk contained a complete set of what the well-dressed lady wore in the later nineteenth century. Her clothes are particularly valuable in a study of fashions of that period.
Blonde curls piled high on a bisque head and delicately painted features attract one to the show case in the basement of the museum where the doll and part of her clothes are on exhibition. She is dressed in flowing, lace-trimmed organdy dress and wears a tiny pearl necklace and earrings.
Beside her on the table are her blue lustre ware dishes, her deck of cards, and a book of poems, "The Faithful Sheep." Her parasol, sewing bag, and toilet case are shown, also.
There are dresses for every occasion, as well as linen collar and cuff
sets, paisley shawls, and jewelry. A tiny blue velvet poke bonnet and a ribbon trimmed white straw are carefully packed away in hat boxes. Rows of matching slippers are lined up beside them. Three fans, one of them a genuine sandlewood, tortoise shell combs, and an old-fashioned watch make up a part of the collection.
There are many other things still packed away in the trunk where they have lain for years. The haqdmade dresses are growing faded and the little gold slippers are losing their gleam, but the French doll still stands amid al the elegance of the 1870's.
Exhibit of Water Colors By Gritchenko Closes Friday
The 50-piece water color exhibit by Alexis Gritchenko, now being shown in the north gallery of Spooner-Thayer museum, will close Friday, announced Minnie Moodie, curator of the museum.
Gritchenko's work is quite well known in Europe, appearing in many of the better known galleries.
--like the S.A.E.'s for the softball title Spicy Sidelight on the War: In ... Finals start one week from today.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By Jim Bell
The only instance we can think of where someone was "given the air" and appreciated it, is Germany's case. Where would the Nazi blitzkrieg be if it weren't for Tubby Hermann's sky raiders
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No mental dullard is Emmet Park who waited until late Sunday afternoon to take newly pinned fiancee Maragaret Barber to the Sigma Nu shanty for the traditional kissing-the-lucky-girl ordeal. When the future Mrs. Park arrived, she found those lads who hadn't gone out for dinner weren't in the mood.
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One Minute Interview: "Of course you've heard of the newly formed Seventh Column . . . they are the guys who take to the hills when the shooting starts." Bill Fey.
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How Times Do Change Department: Six months ago Hillites who attended the re-showing of the cinema masterpiece "All Quiet on the Western Front" were saying how simply awful it was that German professors should have made violent pro-war speeches which led the young men to die for the Fatherland. Today you can hear word-forword repetitions of those "get-in-the-ere and-fight, son" blasts in at least a dozen K.U. class rooms.
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Germany they have started producing luminous stockings for women. According to the Nazi press, the things resemble common, garden variety hosiery in the day time, but in a blackout they light the shapely Nordic gams with a "soft, soft glow." Wow!
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From that Little Black Notebook We're sorry to hear that the long standing feud between the army and navy doesn't hold up here at the State U. . . navy beans are on the menu for tonight's R.O.T.C. barbeque. . . Asking a guy to go to that two-hour midweek tonight is just like telling a heavyweight contender, that he has to try to stay with Joe Louis for 30 rounds instead of the regulation 15. . . We're sure that you have heard about the nearsighted snake that eloped with a piece of rope. . . Radio script: And now, ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our war bulletins to bring you a musical program. . . Suggested theme for Adolph Hitler: "So Far, So Good" . . . How many of you can remember 'way back when the Kappa Sigs wore those white coveralls, the P.S.G.L.'s watered Pachacamac gas tanks, and the local good time boys got their kicks from pale? . . . Bill Perdue should either get a hairecut, or stay away from the intramural fields. . . they're too close to the Animal house. . . We like the S.A.E.'s for the football
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