PAGE SIX EDITORIAL UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940. The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER Hitler: World Saviour Der Angriff, which was founded by Minister of Propaganda Paul Goebbels, and other outlets of the National Socialist regime are beginning to propound a new German ideology, an ideology which a few months ago, perhaps, might have seemed too fantastic for credence. At first, Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler professed to be seeking to unify in the Reich only people of German blood; then, for a time he declared his aim as nothing less than the destruction of the British Empire. But at the present time it appears that Hitler has turned to a far greater project. Confirmation anew of an ideology which recognizes no limitations except those its fanatical leaders choose to set for it was expressed in another article in Der Angriff, headed "We March." Written by Robert Ley, German Labor Front leader, the article described Hitler as fulfilling a "God-given natural mission" to "bring Europe and the world to reason and thereby make Europe and the world happy." Continuing, Ley stated, "We German men of the present therefore must march as flagbearers of a new and better world, a world of reason and intelligence. For us there is no retreat." The ideology is supported by a faith which despises liberalism and the individualism achieved only after earlier centuries of war and strife. It is a creed based on iron displine and the sacrifice of the individual for the whole or the ruling class, should it be successful in establishing its proposed order. Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi party philosopher, recently declared that "the war which began before all the world on May 10 is the greatest of revolutionary wars. An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army." Thus, the present war may have more ramifications than simply a war of rival imperialisms. A change in fundamental aims on the part of the Germans is becoming more and more apparent. Toward Equality Of Education ★ ★ ★ History books with accounts of the educational systems of 150 years ago express the Jeffersonian ideas for education and culture: freedom of the mind, social mobility through more schooling, and universal education. These democratic beliefs of Jefferson, so integral a part of the American ideals are today on the wane. To avoid stratified society and the neglect, therefore, of those illusive roads to success, the American people must expand Jefferson's ideas. Americans must make education accessible to the youth that has the necessary intellectual capacities. Jefferson hoped to see men with ability rise to the professions of law and medicine rather than to be relegated to the laboring classes. He opposed the Etonian idea of education by class. Such an educational system, he believed, slayed democracy with its own jawbone. State-supported universities, endowed colleges, scholarships impartially granted, are a wedge to open educational opportunity. But the task must be carried farther. Outside of metropolitan areas and college towns privileges of professional training are hard to win. More scholarships are needed and a more farreaching basis of selection is imperative to give an equal opportunity to students. Universities should not only provide for the intellectually gifted, but they should also prepare the less brilliant individual for a useful, constructive life. Let the musician able to give aesthetic pleasure be discovered. Let the artist able to express beauty in color and form be trained. Too often these neglected but potentially great fail to realize their place in life because of lack of necessary training facilities. The American educational system must open new horizons for the talented. ★ ★ ★ Filing of a statement by the National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights and the Greater New York Conference for Inalienable Rights requesting an investigation of alleged violations of the Constitution by agents of the Dies committee, leads one to speculate on how the lambasting representative from Texas ever overlooked an organization with a name as long as that of the N.E.C. for D.R. and the G.N.Y.C. for I.R. ★ ★ ★ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Friday, May 17, 1940 No. 150 ROGER WILLIAM FOUNDATION: There will be a combined bike, picnic and farewell meeting this Sunday evening. May 19, from 5 to 8:30 for all Baptist students and friends. Meet at South Park at five o'clock. Assessment, 25 cents. Phone reservations to 1429 by Saturday noon..Alice Boylan, Bob Johnson, co-chairmen. MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club will have its spring picnic Monday at Lake Shawnee. Come to East Strong hall at 4 o'clock for transportation. Make your reservation at the Math Library on or before Friday.—Marlow Sholander, president. WESTMINSTER FORUM: All those who are planning to go to the picnic at State Lake please be sure to sign up at Westminster by this evening—Bob Talmadge, president. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Publisher ... Walt Meininger EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief ----------------- Reginald Buxton FRIDA' Associate Editors Better Colson ... Curtis Burton Better Kutten ... Jim Burton Feature Editor ... Virginia Gray NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Jay Simon Campus Editor George Sitterley Campus Editor Elizabeth Kirsch News Editor Stan Shamir Sports Editor Larry Winn Society Editor Kay Bazartz Sunday Editor Richard Boyce Habit Editor Rachel Bon Wire Editor Bob Trump Rewrite Editor Art O'Donnell Business Manager Edwin Browne Advertising Manager Rex Cowan REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. Publisher Publishers Representative 420 MOTHERHOUSE N.Y. CITY CHICAGO • DUTTON • LOS ANGELES • San Francisco Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school week, on Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class matter September 17, 1874. The most office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Students some years ago studied some of the educational artifacts in Spooner-Thayer museum—but they weren't paintings, or Oriental vases. No, in the "old days" and yet as recent as Chancellor Deane W. Malott's time as a student at the University—the old building was the scene of many a "last week final cram." Spooner-Thayer was the University library in those days. A picture and short write-up in the 1920 Jayhawker tells about students increasing their store of knowledge in Spooner-Thayer. Even the front steps of the building which today houses some of the most valuable paintings and pottery in the world were used for pictures of campus romance and spring leafing scenes in the magazine. Today they have lost their beauty, are crumbling under the effects of weathering, and are in need of repair. Spooner-Thayer Served As University Library Need for more space, both to house books and to provide more room for students to study, brought about the end of Spooner-Thayer's service to the University as a library in 1926 when Watson library was opened for reference work. Transfer of books from the old place into the new was carried out gradually in late 1925 and throughout 1926. In 1920 it held only one-fifth as many books and employed less than half as many workers as it does today. The third floor was the reserve room, where books could be checked out for overnight with the same type of cards now used for obtaining books for daytime study. Miss Carrie M. Watson, librarian emerita, for whom the new library was named, is perhaps the oldest employee on the staff, and was an important factor in securing many of the outstanding books for the old reference building in its early days. She is still rendering aid to the University, serving students daily in "her" library. ROCK CHALK TALK By Jim Bell The Nazi press reports that those nasty men in Yugoslavia are persecuting German school children and women. Adolph will probably sick Big Brother Benito on the unprincipled bullies if they don't stop! To Shirley Temple on Her Retirement from the Screen at the Ripe Old Age of 11: ★ ★ ★ Farwell to thee, my Shirley, Your tiny face we'll see no more But it you "comeback,' never fear We'll run out the nearest door. ★ ★ ★ ment from the comparative security of a London palace. At last we've discovered the reason the British fleet hasn't been doing so well in the current European dog fight. Yesterday one of the ranking British admirals admitted that he got sea sick every time he got on a boat! The Nazis will probably continue to do alright if Hermann Goering's tummy doesn't start turning over when he takes the air. ★ ★ ★ It's Easier Said That Done item: Leopold, King of the beuffeld Belgians, urges the defense forces at encircled Liege to fight bravely despite the fact there is a Nazi ring 50 miles deep about the forts. Needless to say, Leopold issued the encourag- ★ ★ ★ One Minute Interview: "If you don't mind, I'll refrain from putting out this pro-war propaganda. You see, I'm not as old as some of my colleges and the draft will get me if I don't watch out."—Ross Robertson, economies instructor. ★★★ From the Little Black Notebook. The congressman that got so excited speaking on the floor of the house "he almost swallowed the microphone," reminds us of one our professors who was so agitated over the war situation that he dropped his upper plate during a fury of Hitler denunciation . . . President Roosevelt's speech yesterday brought the war so close to the Western Hemesphere we could smell sauerkraut. . . We wish we could remember the name of that A. T. O, we bet $5 during rush week that construction on that fraternity's new house wouldn't start before this Summer. . . . Indignant were the Kansan sports editors when it was announced that in tomorrow night's initiation of Chancellor Malott into the "newspaper game," he will start at the bottom—the sports desk—and work up during the course of the evening. Copyn lah this wee solation way. 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