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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
Ready or Not Here We Come
Anyone with enough sense to pour water out of a boot will realize that the rising tide of sentiment to aid the Allies "short of war" is but one step further toward the United States' ultimate involvement in the war.
Front page editorials are appearing in the great dailies, booming with HELP THE ALLIES SHORT OF WAR. That voluminous, sanctimonious sheet, The New York Times, weeps that the outcome in Belgium and Holland "...is also victory or death for decent standards of international conduct and the democratic way of life." Research would probably prove that the Times moaned the same thing back in World War I. Yes, the Times, the Chicago Daily News, et al, have their messianic typewriters out of hock and in action.
The aborigines of the neutrality act country are on their way! Congressional leaders agree that, although the time is not quite ripe for the repeal of the Johnson act and the revision of the neutrality statutes, increasing war fever will demand action in this direction.
Helping the Allies "short of war" is just one more step. If it proves to be insufficient—and it looks as though it will be—the United States will take the last, irrevocable step—WAR. At the moment, the Allies are getting all the warplanes and munitions this country can produce for them. If, within the next few weeks, that proves not enough, what more can the United States do besides send military aid? This war is not progressing in the slow fashion of 1914-18. That which took months to decide is now determined in a few days of blitzkrieg.
The determination to protect the Western Hemisphere at all costs is plaudable—by itself. But when it is proposed by those who insist that the Allies must win, it is only a wedge to shove the United States into the conflict. If those who wish mainly for the integrity of the Americas alone were certain that the increased army and navy were to protect our land and our neighbors then it would have their support. But where can one find such assurance? Superimposed above the demand for radically increased armaments is the governmental slogan "The Allies Must Win."
The United States is far too weak in economic, political, and morale factors to engage in a foreign war. A nation that has been struggling to consolidate its democratic position would do well to continue those attempts. To saddle itself with the woes of Europe would break its back. To continue the strengthening of democracy in the Western Hemisphere is its only chance. Therein lies hope; in Europe lies darkness and oblivion.
Whenever the belief becomes absolutely accepted that the culture of the Americas is so weak that it cannot stand inviolate without the British Empire then the United States is doomed to participation in the European war. Within a short time that belief will become personified by the cry "Is the United States to perpetrate another Munich?"
Roosevelt says he's a pacifist. Yep, and Steinbeck's Lennie just wanted to stroke the woman's pretty hair, too.
What say we all agree that the plaque bearing the names of the war dead in the Memorial Union building is impressive enough without adding the names of the class of 1940,'41,'42 and '43.
A lot of K.U. professors have us in the war already. It will serve them right if the government uses their theses to make wadding for the shells we may shoot.
The foreign situation is pretty dark but at least it's still foreign.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Tuesday, May 14, 1940 No. 149
JAY JANES: Jay Jane pledging services will be held in the Pine room tomorrow at 4:30. All girls are required to come.-Ruth Spencer, president.
MATH CLUB MEMBERS; The Annual Math Club picture will be taken at 4:00 Thursday afternoon. Meet in front of south central Strong hall—Marlow Sho-lander, president.
MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club will have its spring picnic Monday at Lake Shawnee. Come to East Strong hall at 4:00 for transportation. Make your reservation in the Math Library on or before Friday.—Marlow Solander, president.
MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club has its last regular meeting Thursday at 4:45 in room 203. Professor G.B. B, Price talks on "A Survey of Mathematical Progress." The club will first meet in room 222 at 4:15 for refreshments. You are invited—Marlow Sholander, president.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: There will be a picnic on Wednesday. For tickets and information, inquire at the Psychology Office. The cost is thirty-five cents. Members may bring guests. Election of Psi Chi officers will be held—Mari Horn, secretary.
SASNAK CLUB: The Sasnak Club picnic will be held Wednesday afternoon.—Gene Billups, presl.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Westminster Forum is holding their annual picnic at State Lake, Tonganoxie, this Saturday. There will be two groups leaving Saturday. One group will leave at 2:00 p.m. and the other at 5:00 p.m. A fee of 25 cents will be charged to cover expenses. All are invited—Bob Talmadge president.
W. S.G.A.: W.S.G.A. council will meet in the Pine room this evening at 7:00.-Doris Twente, secretary.
Now, When I Was a Boy-
Some time ago the men's student housing commission was thumbs-downed to silence on its plea to enforce compulsor housing. Compulsory housing, and an administrative vetoes would amount to babying the students, depriving them of the right to grow up like neo-Abraham Lincolns.
Considering the beauties of non-compulsory housing would give any cave man a headache. The rugged individualist student could live wherever he pleases. Luckily he could be open to all the wonders of room exploitation which range from bed bugs, typhoid, and eye-straining light effects to poor ventilation. He could support, with his weekly or monthly stipend from home the aristocracy of Milord and Milady, who rent out rooms little better than flop houses for bums—and little cleaner. Lastly the individualist laboring under a false economy could drive from the business all the honest room-renters who try to maintain a high standard at a certain increase of cost.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
If a student who has to obey compulsory housing rules is being deprived of rugged individualism, so is the consumer who buys according to the Pure Food and Drugs Act. So is the needy and willing-to-barrel student who receives a dormitory room on a silver platter. So is the woman who dashes madly under the 10:30 closing hours wire. So is the successful book-borer who accepts a fellowship or a scholarship. All these are as non-individualistic as compulsory housing.
On the other hand the "evils" of compulsory housing are appalling. Housing rules would protect a good number of land-ladies who conduct quality rooming houses. They would purge from the business Lawrence's carpetbaggers who can rent room at a ridiculously low price because they maintain a ridiculous, low standard. They would satisfy the demands of parents who are willing to sacrifice economy for the sake of health.
The argument was nothing more than a reiteration of the quaint, old log-cabin-to-president philosophy, or the now-when I-was-young thesis. The attitude quavered then and is still quavering now, as antiquatedly as Grandpa's horse and buggy or the barn that was built in '72.
Publisher ... Walt Meininger
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Editor-in-Chief Reginald Buxton
These reversed arguments on the issue are as far from the real truth as the administration's decision was far from answering the real need. Compulsory housing may come some day. It will come, however, only when those in authority realize that nothing but a rat is fit to survive in a sewer.
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Educators to Picnic In Fowler Grove May 22
Plans have been completed for the annual picnic of the School of Education, May 22, Dr. Bert A. Nash, who is in charge of the event, said yesterday.
Education majors, students working for teacher's certificates, and any students enrolled in education courses are invited to attend. There will be a charge of 15 cents for the lunch.
Fowler Grove and the intramural fields south of the gymnasium will be the scene of the festivities. The department of physical education will provide entertainment.
Brigham Directs Last Radio Play
The last radio play of the year will be Archibald Mac "Air Raid" to be presented over KFKU at 9:45 tonight.
The cast includes Shirley Ruble, c'41, Mac Wynne, c'40, Jim Hartzell, c'41, Loen Peterman, c'41, Bernice Randall, c'41, Martha Boyle, c'42, Mabel Lofeng, ed'unc, Jack Wassmer, b'40, Reola Durand, c'43, Stuart Walker, c'40, Jim Nelson, c'41, and Elizabeth Barclay, c'40.
Invitations will be printed and distributed to students enrolled in the School of Education.
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Tickets for the picnic will be sold by members of Phi Delta Kappa education fraternity, with R. W Browning, assistant in education, b charge; by Pi Lambda Theta, education sorority, under the super vision of Miss Mateel Rich, secretary of the School of Education; an by the Sasnak Club, with Gene Bl lups, ed 40, in charge.
Dorm Applications Due Tomorrow
Applications for residence scho arships in any of the three men dormitories must be in tomorrow Olin Templin, secretary of the endowment association, announced to day.
The three houses—the John Battenfeld dormitory, the Alumni Place and the former Chancellor's residence—will house, in all, 118 men. Selection will be made according to scholastic record and need of financial aid.
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