EDITGRIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940.
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an extract from Paul De Kruff's Public Affairs Pamphlet "Toward a Healthy America."
Paul De Kruif Says-
Seventy thousand of our people are still dying every year from tuberculosis. But out of 130 millions that is not so many, you say! You point out the gratifying decline during the past generation in TB's death rate. Yet, as a murderer of Americans between the ages of 15 and 45, the TB germ is surpassed only by accidents. But you say that tuberculosis has dropped to seventh place in the race of America's champion killers. Yet, for every one of the 70,000 dying, five others are actively sick with consumption—totaling 420,000. Then there are unknown hundreds of thousands whose consumption has been "arrested"—but who can't do a man's work, who must live under wraps, not as vigorous citizens.
Labor on the Warpath
With John L. Lewis intimating decisions for a Lewis party innovation, with crypt-hidden facts of the Dallas Ford case zooming into the New Republic spotlight, the country, for a moment, has switched eyes from war news to national events. The object of recent gazing is November-election's closest rival, labor with its unions and its problems.
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Problem No. 1 is the big club of violence. Rough play thwarts the working ideal. It comes primarily from a mistaken public policy. According to the Institute of Public Opinion, violence is the only outcome when the public reaches for three entirely different moons simultaneously: trades and labor unions, the open shop, and observation of law in labor disputes.
H. R. Knickerbocker is screaming for intervention on the Allied side. Thank heavens he's screaming here and not writing dispatches from Europe. He'd have us fighting the "baby-butchering Huns" in no time.
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Since the arrow trend points toward membership, the worker must join and pay the price. Membership is always costly. Initiation fees, monthly dues, special assessments, car fare to meetings, depreciation on the pig banks during strike-time all these must be wedged among food and rent, clothing and knick knacks in the family budget.
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The problem then to be handled by this awakening interest is to get all opinion on one side of the fence. The group thumb must be placed either on or off the vague sanction of collective bargaining. The uncertainty between the nation's vacillating belief in the collectivist right to strike and the individualist right to work must be decided permanently if there's to be any solving of labor's problems, now or ever.
Thus "peaceful inducement" is a void in appeal to picket-line possibilities. Picketing is almost necessarily coercive. Few men will leave their jobs and their Saturday night pay checks for the good of a cause not sure of successful culmination. No such thing as peaceful picketing can be more than chaste vulgarity, peaceful mobbing, or lawful lynching can be.
What's this about an investigation to find out why "Sing 'n Swing" kicked up its toes at
the box-office? From what we can gather the show flopped because the demand for tickets didn't meet the supply. That's always fatal. Of course there's always contributing causes for any show's failure; bow-legged usherettes, no chinaware or cash nights, cast doesn't have enough friends, tickets weren't free, and the show itself was on the odoriferous side. These didn't have anything to do with "Sing'n Swing" laying its egg in the W.S.G.A. lap, but they might do to investigate,
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, May 1, 1940 No. 140
A. S.C.E.: A.S.C.E. will hold its last meeting this semester on Thursday at 7:30 in Room 210, Marvin Hall. Kansas City meeting will be discussed, amendment to National Constitution will be voted on. Mr. Matthews will speak, and money will be refunded for luncheon held in Kansas City.-Leonard Schroeter, president.
DRAMATICS CLUB: Dramatics Club picnic will be held Friday, Cars will leave Green Hall at 4:30. Please notify Elizabeth Kirsch if you plan on going, unless you did at last meeting—Gordon Brigham, president.
BACTERIOLOGY CLUB: The Bacteriology Club will hold its annual spring picnic Friday afternoon at the State Lake at Tonganoxie. The group will leave Snow hall at 3:00 p.m.-Virginia Christie, secretary.
ENGLISH MAJORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS: The Chaucer Exhibit in the Kansas Room will be open from 2:30 to 5:30, tomorrow. Tea will be served in the Old English Room, 3:30 to 4:30—W. S. Johnson, chairman.
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. Canuteson.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The last examination of the regular term will be held Saturday, May 4, at 8:30 a.m. Juniors and Seniors who have not passed an earlier examination should take this one. None but Juniors and Seniors are eligible. Candidates must register in person at the College Office, Room 121 Frank Strong Hall, between April 29 and May 1.
SENIOR RED CROSS: Senior life saving certificates may be obtained by calling at room 107 Robinson Gymnasium.-Herbert Alphin.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room—Evelyn Longerbeam.
SENIORS: Seniors expecting to receive degrees this June or at the end of the summer session who have not filed application for degree cards in the Registrar's office should do so immediately—George O. Foster, registrar.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
The calendar says May, but the chilly breezes make one agree with the Kansas farmer who said: "Looks like it is going to be winter all summer."
By Marilyn McBride
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In protest to that inane and perpetual question, "How are you?" Roscoe Born has just completed a 27-page report on his condition. Inquiers who yell, "how-are-you?" are given a combined psychiatrist's, physician's, and auditor's report on Roscoe's condition. The volume includes:
1. Varying speed of pulse beat.
2. Extent of frustration.
3. Facility of early morning rising
4. Amount of electricity in hair.
5. Number of copy pages in wastebasket for the current week.
6. Estimated droop of eye-lids and sub-eye bags.
7. Standpoint on moral deliquency.
8. How badly subject needs a shave.
9. Opinion of Ghandi's sex life.
10. Reaction of subject when viewing an Ann Sheridan movie.
And then there was the co-ed who tired of walking and sighed for a new beau. A man with a car at K.U. is definitely an asset on wheels.
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An article in the Kansas City Star tells how FBI agents discovered twelve WPA nightwatchmen asleep on the job. This appears one of the easiest bits of detection the "Hoover-
men" have ever made. The twelve sleepers were allowed to get their forty winks, then promptly fired. Found By Investigators, Workless Payless Afterward (that is Bill Koester's brainchild).
Said Clarence Streit, author of "Union Now"; "In Italy, billboards bearing the slogan MUSSOLINI IS ALWAYS RIGHT appear everywhere, and under this statement is the signature, Mussolini!"
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Since the invasion of Norway a new phrase has become increasingly used, even replacing "third term" as the most frequently repeated words. Fifth Column is more than the title of Earnest Heminway's newest play; it is a significant and sinister term in a warring world. Original usage: during the Spanish civil war, Franco attacked Madrid with four columns outside the city, while the underground fifth column within the city walls hastened the rebel victory. Now correspondents are applying the term freely to designate the treacherous elements within a country which seek to open the gates to the enemy.
The strategy of the Trojan horse and the indispensable fifth column have become the by-words of modern farfare. And victory seems the pawn of the unscrupulous side. Efficiency in espionage, ability to captive treason in enemy ranks, and a propaganda machine. . . . . that is the 1940 technique of conquest.
Werner Selects 75 Freshman Counselors
Seventy-five outstanding upper-classmen have been selected to serve as Freshman Counselors for next year, Henry M. Werner, men's student adviser announced today. The entire bodies of the Owl Society and the Sachem, along with two appointees from each fraternity not already represented, comprise the selections.
The counsellors will each correspond with about eight freshmen when the University receives their transcripts, and will meet with them on the Friday before registration. They will be coached and prepared to give advice on all University matters except those pertaining to scholastic problems and the curriculum.
Ticket Sale Underway For 'Bowl of Rice' Dinner
Ticket sales for the "bowl of rice" supper to be held May 7 in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building is underway. Plans are being made to serve 500 at the dinner, according to John J. O. Moore, who is in charge of the University drive.
Booths at which tickets may be purchased will be placed in Fraser hall, Frank Strong hall, and the Library on Monday, May 6.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, and the freshman commission of the Y.M.C.A. are contacting faculty men; the freshman commission of the Y.W.C.A. is contacting faculty women; and individual workers are selling tickets to organized houses. Lawrence townspeople are being invited through service clubs of Lawrence.
One feature of the dinner will be the decoration of the tables with small life-like replicas representing persons of different countries. These are the property of Fred Montgomery, secretary of the bureau of visual education and are part of the bureau of education display.
The Far Eastern Student Service Fund has as its purpose the raising of a $35,000 fund by American students to insure trained leadership for Chinese youth.
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