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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS
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Little Man, What Now?
The tragedies of Denmark and Norway bring home stronger than ever the dread realization that no small nation, no matter how neutral or how inoffensive, can survive in this war whose ravaging flames reach ever outward.
Tiny Denmark offered little threat to the Reich. Its only sins were the butter and bacon she sold to England. Possibly these exports were not entirely essential to the British war economy, but they were the life blood of the Danes. From overseas came feed for the livestock of Denmark. With Germany in control, Britain's blockade will no longer permit food for Danish cows and pigs. A few million Danes will suffer a strangulated economy—perhaps starvation, for Germany can aid them little even if she were so inclined.
Norway is a small nation, neutral in every respect. Her large merchant marine has served the British well. Territorial waters helped Nazi freighters slip through the British blockade. But with British invasion of her neutral waters came German invasion. A Finnish news agency, unintentionally sarcastic perhaps, reported yesterday, "Norway is at war with Germany and Great Britain." Germans on land and Englishmen on the sea. What a fate!
Sweden, too, will fall prey to the warring nations. Her rich iron ore is essential to Nazi foundries. Swedish shipping cargoes are important to England. Both Germany and the Allies are trying to cut each other's throats, but Sweden has possibilities of greater blood shed.
None of these developments came as a surprise. The fates of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Finland, all served as a grim omen. Half-hearted, futile attempts were made to save them. They are past saving for the present.
Only until the forces of war, conquest, and hatred have subsided can there be restoration. That restoration will require the herculean efforts of a great nation kept strong in peace.
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Wanted: New Pilots For the G.O.P.
If the Republican senators who led the fight against the extension of the Hull reciprocal trade agreement program think they have a campaign issue for the G.O.P., then they either underestimate the intelligence of the voters, or they are still the well-meaning but ignorant leaders who have kept their party in the dumps for many years.
One of the senators believes the reciprocal agreement will make a nice issue in the Middle West. The agrarian states may be turning toward the conservativism of the Republicans, but they have yet to go reactionary. That cash farm income has been increased appreciably since 1934 and stands to increase still more is a well known fact. It cannot be shouted down as juggled New Deal statistics. The Hull program helped this price tendency.
Do these miguided sena-tories think the farm groups will fall for their suggestions to fight these agreements? Two of the strongest groups, the Farm Bureau and the Farmer's Union, have already approved the Hull plan. Agreements approved by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and State will also
play a large part in promoting and framing trade agreements.
Few newspapers whose editors form their opinions from reason and not from self interest would support an attack on the prescnt trade agreement program. From the Kansas City Star to the New York Times, almost every one has applauded Hull's trade agreements as a great step toward economic sanity and world peace.
A history of their own party should serve these Republicans as a lesson. Since the war, G.O.P. worthies such as Henry L. Stimson, Colonel Frank Knox, the late Ogden Mills have taken a low tariff position. The defeat in 1892 was chiefly due to the Tariff Act of 1890. The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 helped put the skids to Taft in 1912; in 1932 Democrats capitalized on the Smoot-Hawley Act. At the moment when Republican leadership could contribute so much to the country, this is certainly a dangerous time for such history to be repeating itself.
Republicans such as the twenty senators at whom the common-sensical Alf Landon tossed his sharp barb in his recent speech are the trouble makers. With their almost pathological affection for tariff embargoes, such politicians are off the beam, flying blind and upside down. And it's best someone take the controls out of their hands before the whole G.O.P. smashes up.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, April 10, 1940 No.125
A. S.C.E.: A.S.C.E. will have a meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Marvin Hall, Room 210. Purpose is to discuss plans for Kansas City Convention. It is very important that all those planning to attend the Convention be at the meeting—Leonard Shroeter, president.
BOOK EXCHANGE MANAGER VACANCY: Applications for W.S.G.A. Book Exchange Manager are due in the Office of the Adviser 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'Theen Huff, president of W.S.G.A.
BOTANY CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Botany Club tonight at 7:30.—Robert Schmidt, secretary.
MUSIC ROOM: The Music Room will be open from 3:30 to 5:30 tomorrow afternoon, and from 7:30 to 9:30 tomorrow evening. A special program of solo-artist music will be played from 4:30 until 5:30—Ernest Klema, 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.
SUPERVISED TEACHING: Students interested in doing supervised teaching next year in Oread Training School or in music or art in the city schools, should call at the Education office—R. A. Schwegler, Dean.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB: The University Women's Club will have a tea tomorrow afternoon at 3:00, in the men's lounge of the Union building. An important business meeting will be held at 3:30 which all members are urged to attend. Each one is asked to bring a pencil.-Mrs. J. Kistler.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By Marilyn McBride
The sight of Aunty Mae West shooting a brace of pistols from a moving train at a band of cigar-store Indians was something to cheer a jaded audience's heart. W.C. Fields twanged off such nuggets as: "Let's toddle down to the local gin mill and absorb a beaker of firewater." This pair have assumed the sanctity of an orchid at the South Fole . . they are unique.
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Spotlights on a green field, shiny boots, clank of machine gum, swift movement of horses ridden by bronze soldiers . . . that was the picture at the Federal inspection of Haskell's cavalry troop. Granted that in 1940 war is nothing to be sentimental about, but a mechanized cavalry unit of gasoline-chewers and an over-all clad colonel lacks the verve of the regular cavalry with horses and men moving in unison.
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What they say: "It would be harder for him to yield to temptation than ever for St. Anthony to resist it."
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Once more a jittery world has nervous indigestion along with breakfast as the newspapers go screaming on a fresh scent leaving yesterday's rehash and propaganda mirages for a stream of bulletins from Scandinavia. Say the Germans: "We are protecting these countries against the aggressions of the Allies." Say the English: "Violation of neutrality." Said Roosevelt: "These events will make the people think of the potentialities of this war."
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The Sig Alph's staged their annual "bust" at State Lake without a mishap. After the return to the house two of the brothers engaged in a pillow fight and two of the brothers have black eyes. Jake Wyatt applied the traditional beefsteak to his eye, went to sleep, and woke to find the Annex cat eating the steak. Bill Belt says a pillow fight beats the old bromide about running into a door.
The Scabbard and Blade pledges have been brightening the campus with their pre-initiation farce. The infantrymen with their little red swords, and the coast artillery with their little red wagon. On the wagon was a little cannon made of stovepipe which became flat after a firecracker was fired in it; resourceful pledges made a new cannon of gaspipe and a piece of trench-mortar.
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Says Gertrude Stein: "There is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."
Display Greek Prints In Spooner-Thayer
This exhibition is from the extension division of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and includes prints and photographs of statuary, bas reliefs and Greek buildings.
A collection of 40 prints displaying Greek athletics and festivals is on exhibition in the Oriental room of Spooner-Thayer museum. This collection dates from the fifth century B.C. and represents the height of Greek athletics. At this period, the vase painter turned to the youthful athlete, whom he saw daily, for inspiration.
The outstanding etchings from the museum's large collection of prints is on display in the print room. Included in this group are prints by such well known print masters as Rembrandt, Whistler, and Durer.
Prints may be of two kinds, line or tone expressions. Etchings fall into the first classification and are made by an acid which cuts into a copper plate covered with wax. The line produced from this type of work is clean and fine. The word etching comes from the Dutch word 'etsen' meaning to eat.
Hill Arteries
Add Another 200 Feet To Campus Tunnels
The recently completed steam tunnel between the Thayer Museum and the men's dormitory has added another 200 feet to the artery-like tunnel system under the campus, which, if lined out would be approximately a mile and a third long, according to Art Whitney, steamfitter foreman.
All but a few of the passage ways are high enough to allow workmen to walk through them erect. They measure six feet high, and four feet wide. There are a few branches, however, that are only three feet wide and three high.
Running through the tunnel are two eight inch supply lines, and one
four inch return line. A 2 1-2 inch high-pressure line carries 85 pounds of steam to the cooking equipment of the cafeteria in the Memorial Union building. The main lines carry only about 22 pounds of pressure.
Mr. Whitney and two helpers are responsible for the radiators in all the buildings, and all the steam piping after it leaves the power house. As a matter of routine they are supposed to go through the tunnels once each week to check the pipes for leaks and disorders.
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