EDITGRIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCSE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 194
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
TB Examinations Must Be Continued
Examination of food handlers for tuberculosis this year has been more successful than previous campaigns here, due chiefly to the realizations of the seriousness of the problem. The student health service reports that 325 student and non-student food handlers representing 50 eating places have been examined thus far, and that only 30 additional examinations remain before the conclusion of the program this year.
The continuance of the program for next year must be assured. The campaign this year has demonstrated that tuberculosis examinations for food handlers constitutes a more than feasible idea so far as student and public health measures are concerned. It has served as the groundwork on which a lasting and an even more far-reaching tuberculosis examination program must be built next year.
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In previous years, campaigns of this nature were attempted, met with half-hearted response, and finally died for this same lack of interest. That the Pan-Heillenic councils this year required organizations under their jurisdiction to have the examinations is commendable, no less so, however, than the voluntary action of independent organizations and boarding houses.
Doctor H. P. Cady, Scientist and Teacher
Dr. Hamilton P. Cady, who has resigned as chairman of the department of chemistry, effective July 1, is one of the most outstanding scientists ever to occupy a faculty chair at the University. It is to the University's advantage that Doctor Cady's resignation means only the relinquishing of administrative duties because of ill health, that he will continue as a teacher and a research worker.
Perhaps best known as the discoverer of helium in natural gas, a discovery that made possible for the first time the obtaining of helium in commercial quantities, Doctor Cady also has contributed much to the science of chemistry, research which in itself is enough to place him among America's top-rank scientists.
His ability as a teacher is reflected in the many alumni of the department, well-known scientists now in their own right, who have received their training from Doctor Cady during his forty years as a teacher at the University. The respect accorded him and his popularity among both students and faculty are tributes to a man who, fortunately, is a scientist and a teacher.
Mad Man or Genius?
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It is the goosestepping horde, not the individual German citizen, who actually is the object of Allied hate from Narvik to Istanbul. Hitler, like an H. G. Wells' mad scientist, shaped a vast number of harmless ingredients into a terrifying whole. He molded the respecter of authority, the sentimental, patriotic, tragic worshipper of his ancestors into a war machine component.
With what is left of the proud Teutons and Cimbri goosestepping their way farther and farther along what they plan to be a "world conquest" march, the hands of historic time point to reflection. Other peoples of the world would do well to take the theoretic hate knife out of Herr Hitler's back and pause to see what about the people he rules makes it possible for him to function.
The Fuehrer accomplished no such miracles over night. He began with small promises which somehow he never failed to keep—promises which voiced half-forgotten longings in the German heart. He began with totalitarian Fascism which gave him complete power. He took that power partly from capital to satisfy labor and partly from labor to satisfy capital.
Hitler can not be entirely blamed for his weird success as an opportunist. But he can and should be blamed for his exploitation of a people who looked innocently to him for world-reinstatement by peace, not war. He must stand to account for his selfish barter of a nation's sentimental love of heroism, land, ancestry, and respected authority to satisfy a personal lust for individual power.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Sunday, May 19, 1940 No.153
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be a very important meeting of the National Service fraternity at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon in the Pine room of the Union building. Initiation of new men will take place. All actives please be present—Kenneth Troup, secretary.
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 meeting, open to students, graduates, and faculty members will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C, Myers hall. Patricia Neil, secretary.
DRAMATIC CLUB: Dramatic Club will have election of officers Tuesday at 4:30 in the Little Theater of Green Hall. All members please attend.-Gordon Brigham, president.
EL ATENEO: The spring picnic will be Tuesday at 4:30. Meet at the Spanish office. Sign in the office by tomorrow if you want to go...Louise Bush, president.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. The M.S.C. will have a regular meet tomorrow at 8:00 in the Pine Room. Jim Burdge, secretary.
RIFLE CLUB: The annual picnic has been postponed until next Sunday.-Ann Rightmire, president.
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Men's Housing Not So Wonderful
(Editor's note: The following is a Campus Problems speech on housing conditions at the University recently presented by Richard MacCann, c'40.)
It's a beautiful word. Sounds so Utopian.
Housing.
I remember hearing it a great many times last spring. An remember getting into a pretty violent argument about it wi certain fraternity man.
He was, I imagine, a fairly typical fraternity man, except that he was supposed to be a little better informed than most. But he was obsessed with the notion that what this Campus needs is a large, opulent men's dormitory, with big lounges and recreation rooms and intramural programs and social dancing and all th
exuberances and excrescences and appurtenances and frills and so on.
I asked him, "Do you know that there are some 50 places on this Hill—you can't very well call them 'apartments' or even 'rooms' in most cases without straining the English language—about 50 places where three, four, or five boys are living together and doing their own cooking, their own dishwashing, their own housecleaning?"
"Whatdya mean—cooking, Boys cooking? I don't believe it! Cooking their own meals—like fixing up a dinner or something? Why that just isn't—I don't believe it! There might be a few cranks, but not fifty!"
Well—I tried to pack him off to see the Dean of Men and find out a few primary things about his own campus, but I'm afraid he never got there. He probably forgot all about the subject. . .
What's the matter with the people on this Hill? Don't they know what is going on? Is there, after all, an "overprivileged" class that doesn't know about living conditions here on this Hill? Don't they know what's of looks that way, doesn't it?
About a year ago I visited a room—yes, let's call it a "room" for purposes of definition. The room was located on an alley. It had a dirt floor, a table and a chair or two, a species of bed that might have been a castoff from a slum, a small portable stove, a sink, and a garbage pail. Now, aside from the dirt and the smell there was something else in that room—something couldn't possibly describe to you. For that room was home to three boys—three boys who were glad and grateful for the chance to go K.U.-glad to go to school all morning and work all afternoon are maybe part of the evening, steal couple of hours at the library the night and an hour or two more study and to bed dead-tired, and in between times, cook their own meals and do their own bed-melting and dishwashing and hot cleaning. Glad and grateful for a chance.
Is there, after all, an "underprivileged" class on this Hill that live as men shouldn't decently live at yet can't do anything about it? So of looks that way, doesn't it?
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ROCK CHALK TALK
(By Collect Cab to The Kansan)
By Jim Bell
(By Collect Cab to The Riverside)
One Minute Interview: "You senior men who haven't jobs, save your stationery." There will be plenty
to do before the end of the summer”—Prof. James Malin, commenting on the possibility of American participation i n the European war.
Only nation that appears to have learned any of the
Jim Bell
the past year is Japan. The little yellow men would like very much to play the role of "neutrality protector" to the Dutch East Indies, but haven't quite made up their minds whether or not to heed Cordell Hull's "Naughty, naughty!" warning.
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Quote Department: "It was Cham-
berain's theory that the German at
tack on Norway was designed to
draw Allied forces away from some
other point. He lost his job the firs
time he ever guessed right" . . .
"Everyone knows that a non-
aggression pact is the Nazi way of
claring war."-Howard Brubaker
the "New York" magazine.
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The principal difference between Napoleon and Hitler lies in the that Napoleon wasn't convinced it he was Hitler.
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. . . The announcement that French are using 75 mm. guns Nazi tanks at 100 yards seems to be the same thing as employing shot gun on lizards. . . . Nominat for the best cinema of the year: “R beeca” . . . . Just about the on things the Allies don't have to woe about are final examinations. . . . "Rain, rain, go away. Come again day. . . say about the mid of next January" - K.U. steel Fru
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