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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940
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Politics Is A Game What's the Score?
Like baseball, Hill politics is just a big game played by smart boys who get home, and not a few rookies who never seem to reach first base.
Politics being a game, the routine work of the Council scarcely fits in. But to real politician, that is part of the game. He's a gregarious fellow who likes to do things whether they're important or not. If anything relating to the good of the school and the student body comes up, he jumps at the chance at the drop of the hat.
At the moment, the politicians are just warming up. From headquarters candidates stream forth to collect supporters. Most of them know little enough about the technique of grabbing the other fellow's hand before he gets a grip start. But they will learn before the election is over; in addition, they will know a lot more about their fellow students, which is something even though they meet defeat.
- Politicians get a lot of criticism. It comes from annoyed disinterested students or cynics who are disappointed because they have not found the St. Georges of their high school civic books. Not a little of it comes from intolerant egotistical elders who want students to act like grade school students.
Hill politics isn't all shennanigans. Once elected to the Men's Student Council, by hook or crook, the politicians do much work indispensable to the welfare of the University. Council members serve on numerous committees whose work is seldom publicized. The average student wouldn't think of giving his time to the often dull jobs assigned to the M.S.C. representative.
Hill politics may have its Di Maggios,but the rookie,too,gets a lot of benefit out of the game.
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The burning of Lawrence will be shown in a movie premiere there Thursday, but it will be nothing like the burning Indiana gave K.U. supporters last Saturday night.-J. R. T. in the Topeka State Journal.
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Masses Get Medicine
Sediment left by the tidal wave of crocodile tears, mistaken by some as "humanitarianism," that has swept over the United States in the past ten years contains at least one solid, honest pebble—the recognized fact that too many Americans are not receiving adequate medical attention because they cannot afford it.
The federal government has its finger in the health pie also. Farmers complying with the Farm Security Administration may participate in a health service program by paying $30 into a common fund. Only a small part of the farm population, however, is affected at present by
As usual, the state took the first action in an attempt to correct a miserable situation. The New York legislature enacted a bill earlier this year providing for group health insurance. Contributions under this bill, drafted by the American Association for Social Security, come from the employer, employee and the state. Payments are based on a sliding scale with the employee paying more and the state and employer less as wages increase.
this plan. The Wagner National Health Act, which recently received a favorable report in the hands of the Senatorial Committee on Education and Labor, will cover a larger portion of the national population.
Since state and federal legislation means socialized medicine, it has given impetus to the forming of private non-profit insurance groups. These are backed by intelligent persons and groups who believe that private enterprise still has a place in the United States. The private organizations, devoid of governmental inefficiency and red tape, can supply medical attention cheaper in the long run and at the same time retain the individuality and personality of doctor and patient. The health of the citizen is the principle involved and not governmental power over him.
Whatever economic and social ailments remain to be solved, this one problem has received such recognition that it is now on the way toward solution. In the near future there may not be a car in every garage, but there is apt to be a doctor in every sick room.
First Congress was as economy-minded as a Republican banker but now it has the purse strings ripped wide open. We should know that when they roll out of the pork barrel it's "whole hog or none."
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vel. 37 Wednesday, April 3, 1940 No. 120
FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF Y.M.-Y.W. Freshman Commission of Y.M.-Y.W. will meet tomorrow at 4:30 in the Kansas Room. Bret Camel, Edna Earl Brooks and Mary James will speak on various phases of summer opportunities--Helen Martin, John Conard, publicity chairmen.
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. Cauteson.
MATH STUDENTS; The Math Club will meet tomorrow at 4:45 in room 213. Roderick Burton will speak on "Mathematical Philosophy; The Abstract in Abstract". Refreshments will be served at 4:15 in room 222. Visitors are welcome—Marlow Sholander, president.
RELAYS QUEEN: Candidates who wish to compete in the contest for Relays Queen may submit a photograph to 103 Robinson Gymnasium by Monday, April 8. The queen and her attendants will be chosen by competing varsity team teams. S. B. Sifers.
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Shades of Eleanor Roosevelt and Reginald Buxton!... they tell me I'm the new columnist. Punching out paragraphs is **one** way to spend spring semester. . . .
Advertising Manager ------------ Rex Cowan
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Lawrence was never like this; what this town needs is an annual world premiere. Teepes on the court house lawn, a new face on the plaster-movie-palace, and movie stars in droves. Quantrill really started something, and Hollywood finished it.
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America's Cowboy Gene Autry and his $2,500 saddle led the parade on Meyn's chestnut gelding "Buck". Haven't had my feet so well trampled (by the class-cutting K.U. pioneers not "Buck") since the Cornhusking Carnival.
Wonder how this premiere racket got started? It seems dubious that Chaplin will throw a first-night party in Berlin when his "Dictator" makes it belated debut.
Every attic and store-room in Lawrence must have been crammed with relies judging from the mother-of-pearl thimble holders, powder horn, 75 year old Bible stand, wallpaper in the 1860 style, china and crystal, 150 year old hickory rockers, daguerreotypes and portraits, and dozens of other antiques which have had the entire population squatting, stooping, and squinting into every shop window along Massachusetts.
Nominations for this week's Sounds-in-the-Night Club go to the corny sigma Chi bank that campaigned for "Glamor-Boy" Dick Mize. They made an unglody but apparently effective din with a two trombones, a trumpet, a clarinet and a waste-basket drum. Second bouquet goes to those medical minstrels, the Freshmen Nu Sig's who serenaded with that old Norwegian folk-song: "Whoopsie-Doodle."
Said Mrs. William Allen White:
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"There on the dock in Shanghai stood a little Chinese waif clad in a ragged fringe begging in a sing-song English refrain . . . 'no mama, no papa, no whiskey-soda' . . . the marines had evidently corrupted that child!"
All the radio announcers are filling their "Finnish" vocabulary and brushing up on the geography and pronunciation of the Balkans where the next big show is expected. The old refrain: Must every little country have a country all its own?
Stars Invade----
Those who will take part in the discussion: Harold G. Ingham, director of the extension bureau; Fred S. Montgomery, secretary of the bureau of visual instruction; W. B. Sommerville, teacher in the Lawrence junior high school; Mable Richardson, teacher in the McAllister grade school.
(Continued from page one) practiced eyes of Walter Pidgeon almost saw eye-to-eye with the unpracticed eyes.
"That brunet (Betty Bell) could hold her own against anything I've seen on the coast," said Pidgeon diplomatically. "She's a knockout." Pidgeon waved one hand to show what he meant and almost spilled some ice on the rug.
The University of Kansas Round table discussion will consider "Visual Aids for Education" on its regular broadcast over station KFKU at 9:30 tonight. The group will emphasize how visual instruction may be used in relation to class room work.
Roundtable on KFKU At 9:30 O'clock Tonight
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