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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940.
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
Isolation Not Easy-of the Turkish republic and the recognition of women's rights until 90 per cent of the college is Turkish.
America should quit fooling itself. The sanity of September is needed in April. The British Lord Lothian must be balanced against the American Lindbergh, who saw his father sacrificed for the same cause to which the former American hero devotes himself. Which one has this country's interests at heart?
Unlike Lot's wife, the isolationist should look back now—not to be frozen into immobility, but in order to take stock of his position and to strengthen it against new onslaughts. He must keep the truths that were fundamental in September always before him and before the people.
A midwestern isolationist element proved a strong factor in curbing American war tendencies last autumn. Have the isolationists retreated or are their voices lost in the tumult? In September their position was fundamentally sound but not well organized or clarified. Winter war pressures have strengthened their opposition. The isolationists must act strongly, wisely, now, if they are to aid in maintaining peace in America.
Isolation is, primarily, the way of common sense, never the easy path for the individual or the nation to choose. It rests upon certain tenets, recognized but unused. The first of these is that no country wins a war. The second is that political ideologies change, and that war stimulates but does not halt that change. The third is that isolation for the United States does not mean economic strangulation or intense nationalism.
Isolation means the preservation of the democratic way for the United States in peaceful commerce with the non-warring western hemisphere. The isolationist must be prepared to sacrifice economic interests in the East in exchange for peace. He must face without prejudice any new political units that arise out of the European conflict. He must know that the price of peace is constant alertness.
Isolation is not the exciting way nor the emotional way. A future goal must be balanced against the expediency of the moment. No blare of trumpets heralds the way of peace, but until its difficult lesson has been learned, force and not reason will rule the policies of nations.
Ever since Hitler began his rise to power in Germany there have been two schools of thought regarding his actions. Those who screamed it's physically impossible and those who said don't be too sure nothing is impossible. So far Hitler has batted a thousand per cent for the Not-Impossibilitists by making the impossible possible. Now we hear rumors that he plans a land attack on England from the North. It may be true or it may be mere rumor, who knows? But if his past actions have any bearing on his future actions, it looks like the Lion may be in for a crew hair-cut.
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A hearty sneeze has a muzzle velocity of 150 feet a second, Prof. Marshall W. Jennison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently reported. The ballistics of sneezing should be a profitable study for those susceptible to colds and hay fever.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Tuesday, April 30, 1940 No. 139
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.
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 DEPARTMENT TEA: A tea will be given for graduate students, majors, and members of the English department in the Old English room of the Union building, Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 in observance of the Chaucer Sexcentenary. There will be a Chaucerian exhibit in the Kansas room, 2:30 to 5:00. Chaucerian records in the music room, and old English songs by a department group.—W. S. Johnson, chairman of department.
LEWIS PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST IN APPLIED CHRISTIANITY; Contestants for this year must hand in their essays at the Chancellor's Office not later than tomorrow.
JAY JANE: Jay Jane meeting in the Memorial Union tomorrow at 4:30—Ruth Spencer, president.
MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club will meet Thursday at 4:45 in room 203. Patricia Green will talk on "Curves of Constant Width." Refreshments will be served in room 222 before the meeting—Marlow Sho兰nder, president.
PHI SIGMA: Phi Sigma will hold its initiation tomorrow at Evan's Hearth at 5:30 followed by a banquet at 6:00. The guest speaker of the evening, C. Bertrand Schultz of the University of Nebraska, will speak on "Fossil Collecting in the Plains Region" which will be illustrated with motion pictures in color. The talk will be at 7:15 at Frank Strong Auditorium—Hal Smollin, president.
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.
PSI CHI: There will be an important meeting to-morrow at 4:30 in room 21 Frank Strong Hall.-Marion Horn, secretary.
SENIOR RED CROSS: Senior life saving certificates may be obtained by calling at room 107 Robinson Gymnasium.-Herbert Alphin.
SENIORS: Seniors expecting to receive degrees this June or at the end of the summer session who have not gled application for degree cards in the Registrar's office should do so immediately—George O. Foster, registrar.
TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet tonight at 7:30
—Gearidine Ulm, president.
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Modern Man - Pooey!
Last week when Dr. Arthur H. Compton, Chicago cosmic ray expert, scaled the entire development of the human race to the life-time of a 50-year-old fictitious citizen, he failed to mention that on such scales the 17 to 21-year-old student weighs only to the hairless, red-faced, just-reached-baby-blanket mark.
Compton's survey is a hard-slicing ego hatchet. The eminent expert has cut a notch out of the nation's over-stuffed policy-wielders, and as a side issue, the Hill's understuffed notebook scribblers. His words were a kick in the backsides to those who forget that there was ever a great happening not initiated in the 20th century—or anykind of a happening before the birth of Christ.
But Dr. Compton has proved with his Invisible man of 50 that this century or any century is but a little drop in a great big bucket. Mr. Man was 40 when the Stone Age was in rompers but 10 years ago. Slightly backward i neducation, Man learned his ABC's at the Phoenician kindergarten 6 week ago. Two weeks later he had absorbed so much that he started a great period of art and science in Greece. During this time, he paid little attention to the Fall of Rome. A week ago Young Man got into the swing of things by starting modern science a-rollin' with the refutation of Aristotle when Galileo dropped cannon balls from Pisa tower.
Such a group of events measure sky high in comparison to the achievements of any one would-be big shot in this school, this country, or this era.
They Like Gable--- Turkish College Girls Drop Veils, Don Shorts
Istanbul—(UP)—From veils to shorts in 50 years is the record of the Turkish students at the American Girls College of Istanbul.
This month the college is celebrating its half century anniversary of turning out Americanized versions of Turkish young women. Although there were only two Turkish girls in the first graduating class the numbers have increased since the advent of the Turkish republic and the ___
The leading Turkish families are eager for their daughters to have American educations. But even though the students appear in brief white shorts and bare legs for gym classes—a far cry from the days when they had to be veiled for commencement—the Turkish government and national customs tend to lessen the Americanization process.
Even though "Gone With the Wind" is the favorite Turkish student's favorite reading matter and pictures of Clark Gable and Tyrone Power decorate her room, she does not entertain men at college proms. Textbooks Are Censored
There is no college chapel and all allusions to Christianity as well as any failings of the Turks from time immemorial must be deleted from the Turkish student's school books and from any books she may find in the college library. Despite the fact that she's studying in an American school, she must take her history, geography, sociology and Turkish literature in Turkish from Turkish teachers.
Although new vistas have been widely opened to women in the last two decades of Turkish history, the average student prefers marriage to a career. None looks
forward to a movie or stage career because that still "isn't the thing to do."
She chooses her own clothes but doesn't have an allowance. She likes sophisticated clothes rather than casual sports things; wears her hair in a long glamour girl bob, favors snoods and costume jewelry but doesn't collect anything except stamps.
Wears No Makeup
Although the Turkish collegian speaks good English and studies with many of the same books as her American counterpart, she does not wear makeup, doesn't like to eat between meals, has never heard of a "coke" or "jitterbug" and prefers tango to swing.
Boys aren't allowed to call at the college so the dean isn't bothered with the ever present problem of petting in parked cars because the average Turkish youth doesn't own one, there being but 5,000 in all Turkey.
In common with her American sisters, the Turkish girl likes to knit, wear hair-ribbons and tennis socks and read movie magazines. Her ideal man is something on the order of Clark Gable. But she mustn't be seen unchaperoned in public with a man who isn't either a fiancée or a relative, and a large majority of the marriages still are arranged.