PAGE SIX EDITORIAL UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS. THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1940. The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER Conning the books hasn't been Buchanan's only activity. He is chief justice of the student supreme court which, outside of holding one of its own justices in contempt, has been the most effective in the court's history. Buchanan is proud of his fellowship; the School of Law is proud of Buchanan; the University is proud of them both. Your more sophisticated persons would frown upon anything that smacked of praise for the local boy who made good, but if the surrounding press can prattle about beauty queens ready to take a one or a two way trip-as the case may be-to Hollywood, then the University has a right to brag about Eugene Buchanan's $1,500 fellowship for graduate work in law at Columbia University. Lawyers, freshly graduated from school, don't win these fellowships every year. Two years ago a Chicago University graduate won one, but usually they go to lawyers with several years of experience. Shut Up! You Gripers A Toast to Buchanan ★ ★ ★ With European nations staying awake nights to keep Hitler and his buddies from playing on their cellar doors, with the United States wondering what to do with its gold, its Joads, and its Father Coughlin, it is little wonder that some of the nation's most intelligent thinkers have joined the mass of misinformed pessimists who pronounce an impending doom for our civilization. Such an attitude is arrived at through hysteria and not research. Hysteria advances a group of supposed civilization pusher-overers which never could destroy the advancement of ages. Cynicism points out issues which have risen time after time in the past. The loosening of conventions or of conventional moralities happened to an even greater degree 20 years ago than today. Taxation was more crushing for the middle and lower classes during the Renaissance, a period of civilization advancement, than it is now. Lack of great men has always troubled the world as it troubles it now. One can hardly say that the power of Napoleon was relatively greater than the Paper-hanger, or that Galileo was a more influential scientist than Einstein. Not such points, but science and machinery spike the groundwork of our civilization. And that groundwork, far from shrinking in its influence, is steadily extending into agriculture and handicrafts. Science is not a class possession. It is owned to a greater or lesser extent by all social strata the world over. These advancements can't be blown up by war bombs. Machine civilization can't commit suicide. Its science, machinery, literature, art, and music are known by every man, woman In literature, art, and music, as well as science, the world today is marking up scores. Considered in relation to their environment, the best of modern writers stand equally high with the best of the Middle Ages and antiquity. The works of a Bohr or a Millikan do not necessarily fade in the presence of Milton's or Virgil's. New artists and musicians advance in a way appropriate to speed, mechanics, motion, railway stations, factories, office buildings, and public institutions. and child. The progress cannot be annihilated by war so long as one corner of the globe remains safe for those interested in progress rather than destruction. The sum total of progress may remain static during disturbances, but the nucleus will always remain, ready to increase with the slightest encouragement. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 37 Thursday, April 25, 1940 No.136 COMMENCEMENT EXHIBITS: Departments which are planning to show exhibits during commencement week and which wish to include description of exhibits in Commencement Booklet, please forward copy for printing promptly to Mr. W. H. Schoewe, chairman of Commencement Committee on Exhibits. I. S.A. FASHION SHOW: The women of the I.S.A. are presenting a fashion show of "Night and Day" this evening from 7:00 to 8:00 in the Memorial Union building. All women students of the University and interested faculty members are invited as guests of the I.S.A. The show will feature women's campus fashions for a week's period—Mary Gene Hull, social chairman. NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E.T. Gibson is at the Watkins 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. Camteson. REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet tomorrow at 4:30 at Henley House. Gordon Brigham will discuss Great Religious Teachers. All are invited.-Corrine Martin, Gordon Brigham, co-chairman. QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room.-Evelyn Longerbeam. SENIORs: Don't delay in placing your orders for announcements now on sale at the University business office. The deadline is April 27.-John Oakson, chairman. RIFLE CLUB: There will be an important meeting in Fowler Shops at 7:30 this evening. Election of officers and awards will be the nature of the meeting. —Ann Rightmire, captain. W. N.A.A.: There will be a meeting of W.N.A.A. this evening at 7:30 in the Union building. Please bring your dues—Helen Hay. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year. Sent Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class session. Send resume to office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Publisher ... Walt Meininger Gene Kuhn Betty Coulson Jim Bell Feature Editor Virginia Gray NEWS STAFF Editor-in-Chief ___ Reginaud Buxton EDITORIAL STAFF REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING by National Advertising Service, Inc. A2O Publishers Representative N.Y. CHOICAGO *BOSTON *LOS ANGELES *SAN FRANCisco Managing Editor ... Jay Simon Campus Editor ... George Sitterley Campus Editor ... Elizabeth Kirch News Editor ... Stefan Stuart Sports Editors ... Larry Winn Society Editor ... Kay Bozarth Sunday Editor ... Richard Boyce Magazine Editor ... Karen Bom Wire Editor ... Bob Trump Rewrite Editor .. Art O'Donnell Business Manager Edwin Browne Advertising Manager Rex Cowan ROCK CHALK TALK By Marilyn McBride The annual struggle is on to see which has the fewer cooperating Seniors . . . the free physical exams at the hospital or the pages of the Jayhawker which feature the graduating class. Both being neglected by the procrastinating class of '40. (me too). Mme. Perkins came to Kansas and wore the most becoming hat of her administration. . . . It was a miner's "hard hat" which she wore while inspecting a mine at Baxter Springs. The threatening to "blow the lid off the Big Ten," the University of Chicago fought and won its right to remain in the glamoren. Despite its unfortunate 1940 football team, the University of Chicago still has the edge on total number of football trophies won in Big Ten competition. The public who read and enjoyed Vincent Sheean's "Personal History" awaits the result of Hollywood's transformation factory. The picture will be called "Foreign Correspondent." Besides the handsome members of the cast there will also appear Robert Benchley, who makes movie shorts which audiences would rather see next to Mickie Mouse. Benchley's first and best short was "Down the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera." With the Hill bristling with straw hats, canes, pins, and assorted insignia and varying degrees of intergroup snobbery, the classless state of America (as revealed in the census) seems segregated to the great adult world which bristles with lodge buttons, fezzes, and assorted insignia. Immortal Lines: Hogamus Higamus Men are Polygamous Higamus Hogamus Women Monogamous. 1940 Definition Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor. Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk. Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; then the government sells you some milk New Dealism: If you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain. Nazism: If you have two cows, the government shoots you and keeps the cows. Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull. Last year 780 persons were killed in collisions between bicycles and motor vehicles. Almost 50 per cent of them were children under 14 years of age. Flower Fone 820 WARD'S FLOWER SHOP .