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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940.
The Kansan Comments-- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
Business And The War
Inventory purchases shot upward throughout the United States yesterday indicating the possibility that business is repeating its mistake of September in being optimistic over the expected increased exports to Europe coming as a result of the spread of the war to Scandinavian sections.
True. Germany's occupation of Norway and Denmark will accelerate purchases of war materials by the Allies. The tremendous amount of materiel and war supplies destroyed in the current battles will be replaced in great part by purchases from the United States. Should action along the various fronts increase French and British plant productive capacity, now sufficient, will require more and more supplementary aid from the United States' factories.
The purchases, however, will be highly selective in accordance with an Allied war policy designed to conserve the French and British savings as long as possible. Importation of nonwar materials will be eliminated by careful planning. United States industries producing peace commodities will receive less and less European orders in an Allied attempt to balance expenditures. Naturally, this will produce severe dislocations in these industries.
What Officials Started Students Can Finish
With the date, May 4-5 spiking official University calendars as the year's first Mother-Father day, it's stop-watch time that Josephine and Jo. Summerfield and P.B.K., jellier and library haunter prove that the strength of family bonds aren't dead. Surely the 2 or 3 thousand mothers over Kansas and adjoining states are more than recipients of laundry bags to University students. Surely the like number of fathers are more than footers of checks. A letter home now would prove it.
Parents like to be spoiled. They like to be treated as the family potentates they really are. If they get an invitation soon, they will make plans to come for the week-end. If they are invited late, like popular girls, they may take offense and say they're busy.
The University will be as expansive as the circus fat woman. Its tentative plans for mother-father entertainment will include a Dramatics Club rehash, Saturday afternoon; food gala-mode in the banquet style, Saturday night; Sunday dinners at organized houses; and Sunday afternoon listen-in at the interfraternity sing.
There's a big welcome sign on the University doormat. Possibly it will serve as a reminder to individual students.
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The death knell sounds again for a wheat crop in Western Kansas. Just how much longer will this hope that "springs eternal" retain its elasticity.
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Just to pidgeon-hole all the statesmen who fought the Hull reciprocal trade agreement program why not call those of the house, Misrepresentatives, and those of the senate, Senators.
This means that, nationally, business does not stand to gain much from the war.
All this makes it seem that American business is watching the wrong part of the world. With Germany and other European nations out of the Latin America merket, the gate is wide open for business negotiations that will last permanently. Backed by Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, the Latin American countries have increased their purchases here since the first six months of the war 47 per cent over the period 1938-39.
A dependence upon the "fool's gold" of European war markets can bring us trouble-first, perhaps, a repeal of the Johnson Act, then involvement in the war. Cultivation of the Americas' gardens can bring us permanent prosperity, peace, and good will. In addition it will leave us in a position to resume normal trade with Europe when the war is ended.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol.37 Friday, April 12, 1940 No.127
BOOK EXCHANGE MANAGER VACANCY: Applications for W.S.G.A. Book Exchange Manager are due in the Office of the Advisor of Women, Room 220 Frank Strong Hall on April 15, 1940. The applicant should preferably have some experience in a book store or exchange, or business training. References should be included.—O'Thene Huff, president of W.S.G.A.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: PERSONAL RELATIONS COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission and the Personal Relations Commission will have a bicycle hike Sunday afternoon, meeting at 14th Street and Massachusetts at 1:30. Bicycles will be rented after the group meets. Everyone is invited—Marjorie Wiley, Charles Yeamans.
JAYHAWKER BEAUTY QUEEN CONTEST: Entries must be in the Jayhawker office by Monday, April 15. Pictures may be any size or style.-Richard MacCann, Editor.
SENIORS: All seniors who wish to reserve space in the senior section of the Jayhawker should fill out application blanks at the Jayhawker office before May 1. Chad Case, business manager.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Marilyn McBride
To the horror of the book-burning California Chamber-of-Commerce outspoken Eleanor Roosevelt saw the Okies in their squalid, stopgap camps and commented: "I have never believed that 'The Grapes of Wrath' exaggerated."
Mrs. K., Theta housemother, sums up the quick lunch hour of those with 1:30 classes: "The girls just gobble, gabble, andgit."
What's Behind the War News? Everyone speculates on this question, and four "insiders" discussed it last night over KFKU. Reed, Chapman, Murray, and Eide—the first three, active newspaper men, and the later a K.U. journalism professor. Said news-editor Reed of the K.C. Star: "The rapidly decreasing number of neutrals will necessitate sending complete war news from a more distant point to avoid censorship."
This bull-session type broadcast ranged from definitions of propaganda to comparisons of news gathering in past war. Scattered opinions from the experts: (1) Amsterdam is a flop as an accurate news source . . . latest example, the Bremen yarn; (2) Young Bill White writes unique angle stories with the Commercial-St.-in-Emporia twist; (3) Value of news depends not only on how it is written, but also on how
it is read; (4) Atrocity stories leave us cold; they are mere setting-up exercises for the propaganda masters.
Said Professor Ise in a pessimistic forecast: The late Swedes . . . apparently agreeing in spirit with one Tom Clough, an unemployed English miner, who reiterates time and again, "The world is in a turrible state of chassis" (In Knight's book "Happy Land.")
Glamour-voiced Franklin D. can croon sweet nothings into the mike and send the public back to their gas-lit firesides, comforted. Young Mr. Dewey is a competitor in not only the presidential sweepstakes, but as head political bedtime storyteller to the United Sheep of America.
Dewey is sweeping the primaries in a surprising fashion. He is living proof that it isn't what you say it's the way that you say it. The G.O.P. came whooping out of the elephant burial grounds when goldenvoiced Tom Dewey first murmured into the mike. This is the age of ear-conscious, radio dominates the public. A candidate may be a pillar in his community and a shiny political light, but if his voice has the mellowness of a buzz-saw and his diction and delivery offends the sensitive listener, his cause may be sunk on the ether waves.
Speech Program Nears Completion
The survey of curricular speech work in colleges and secondary schools in Kansas is nearing completion, Miss Margaret L. Anderson, assistant professor of speech, reported at the meeting of the Kansas Speech Teachers' Association last weekend. This research was undertaken by the department of speech and dramatic art and the extension division at the University at the request of the Association.
The Metalliferous Economic Geology class under Prof. R. M. Dreyer will spend four days on a field trip in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, from April 24 to 28.
Dreyer to Take Geology Students on Field Trip
By use of the most recently published school bulletins for colleges and junior colleges and questionnaires sent to high schools and junior high schools, Professor Anderson determined the number of credit hours in speech offered in
The tour will include the lead and zinc deposits in southeast Kansas, and the bauxite, diamond, and quicksilver deposits in Arkansas.
The nine members of the class who expect to go are: Winford Ferry, e'40, John Elliott, e'40, Eugene Maxwell, e'40, Jake Lemmons, gr., Dale Goodrich, gr., J. B. Waid, e'40, Conrad Besinger, e'40, Oren Baptist, e'40, and Stewart Ehrhart, e'41.
Miss Anderson's report brought the work of the survey, begun last September, up to date and outlined the plans for its completion and publication within a few weeks.
schools of secondary and higher education. The results are valuable to speech teachers and administrators as a source of accurate information regarding speech work available at the present time, and as a basis for further research.
Unification of the Kansas state speech program was the theme of the first annual meeting of the association, held April 5 and 6 at the Kansas State Teachers' College in Emporia, attended by Allen Crafton, E. C. Buehler, and Miss Anderson, professors in the department of speech.
April 16 is the deadline for freshmen and sophomores to see their class advisers concerning mid-seminer grades, Miss Veta Lear, assistant to the dean of the College, announced today. Unless other arrangements are made, she said, no grades will be altered for students who fail to consult their advisers about them by that date.
Lists of freshman and sophomore students in the College and their respective advisers are posted on the bulletin board adjacent to the College. office. Advisers' office hours are also posted in order that appointments for conferences may be made.
Set Deadline To See Advisor