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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS
City Must Act Against TB!
With many Hill fraternity and sorority houses sending their food handle to Watkins hospital for tuberculosis examination or making arrangements for such examination, and with several boarding houses and clubs on the Hill similarly agreeing with the T. B. program, there yet remains a significant step in the move toward achievement of the goal desired by the Student Health Service, the Douglas county Tuberculosis association, the Daily Kansan, and other groups.
That goal is the passage by the Lawrence City Council of an ordinance requiring the examination of all food handlers in the city.
It is a certainty that efforts by the medical groups desiring this legislation and by the Daily Kansas will soon result in the examination of all student food handlers, and also all non-student food handlers working in fraternity and sorority houses and boarding clubs on the Hill proper.
That is not enough. Every food handler in Lawrence must be examined, whether he be a student worker, a non-student worker in a student eating house, or a worker in a city restaurant or eating house.
Only by such all inclusive methods can the danger of the spread of tuberculosis be curbed. Active cases found among both student and non-student food handlers show the urgency of completing the program.
The City Council of the City of Lawrence must pass this measure without further delay!
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Individualism vs. Mass Hysteria
Just how mass meetings and oratorical hotair are going to preserve democracy is difficult to say. Democracy seems to be a rather slippery thing to cling to these days. The Finns preserved theirs for some time by hard work.
Foes and critics of democracy must sit back in their chairs and chuckle with glee when such pressure groups as the United Student Peace committee make the solemn announcement that upon April 19th at 11 a.m. its one million members will strengthen democracy and keep the "Yanks over here." Mass meetings, parades, chapels, radio broadcasts, and sundry rabble-rousing implements are to be used in bringing about this commendable achievement.
straight thinking, and a minimum of rhetorical gabberwocky; they salvaged a part of it by some straight shooting and hard fighting. It isn't difficult to imagine what would have happened to Finland long before this had it been under the protection of the airy-nary beardless tripe dispensers who shoot off their mouths for youth movements.
If the youth of America were inclined to save democracy—and no one is certain that they are—there are a few things they could do. They might keep out of pressure groups whose chief aim is the wringing of more and more subsidies from a government which is practically hanging on the ropes. They might think less about improvement of the mass and more about the individual. And they might do something for the government instead of begging the government to do everything for them.
Let the youth of today seek himself out alone. Let him develop his own thoughts unhampered by propaganda and mass hysteria. Let him seek confidence in himself by plumbing that great reservoir of righteousness and wisdom which lies beneath the materialistic wants of less work, higher wages, and more subsidies. Then when he is assembled with his fellows, he can become a useful, efficient part of the progress toward democracy—a democracy that is attained not through massing in stupid mobs, but through the hard and intelligent labor that will gradually eliminate the social and economic ills of America.
Farley May Not Know Students Send 50 or 60 Laundry Packs Each Day
By Uarda Sherry, c'40.
Jim Farley, rotound postmaster-general, may not know it but Uncle Sam is in the laundry business at the University of Kansas.
Students send between 50 and 60 laundry packs daily by parcel post from the University mail station in the basement of Frank Strong hall.
If student laundry mailings are any indication, Monday is losing ground as the most popular national wash day.
"Peak days for sending laundry home are Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays," says R. C. Abraham, superintendent of the University station. "On these days more than a hundred laundry packs often are mailed."
Little regard for dirty shirts is shown by the majority of students who do not insure their laundry. Weight of laundry varies widely with individual students. Smaller packs weight between three and four pounds. Larger ones total between 15 and 20 pounds.
In addition to its cooperation with home laundry service for students, the University mail station serves the University in other ways, Mr. Abraham revealed. Stamp sales in 1939 totaled $24,715.23. Use of air mail stamps is constantly increasing. The best post office customer on the Hill is the University Business Office.
The University mail station is a classified station of the main post office in Lawrence.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Thursday, March 28,1940 No.116
EDNA OSBORNE WHITCOMB SCHOLARSHIP:
Applications are open to women students who are
majoring in the department of English and show ability
in creative writing. Manuscripts must be submitted
by May 10th. For application blanks please see Miss
Persis Cook, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids
and Awards, Room No. 1, Frank Strong Hall—Persis
Cook.
NEWMAN CLUB; The regular monthly Corporate Communion and breakfast will be held at and after the 7:30 Mass next Sunday. Reverend E. J. Weisenberg, S. J. of St. Mary's will be here and requests that every Catholic student be present at the breakfast as he has a very special message for them. Reservations can be made by calling 338 by 7:00 p.m. Friday. Non-Catholic students are welcome—Albert Protia, vice-president.
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.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet Friday, March 29, at Henley House, at 4:30. Corrine Martin will discuss "Heavenly Discourse". All are invited—Corrine Martin, Gordon Brigham, co-chairmen.
SIGMA XI: Professor Douglas Johnson of Columbia University will give an illustrated lecture on the "Mysterious Craters of the Carolina Coast" at 8:00 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of Frank Strong Hall. The public is cordially invited.-W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be an important meeting this evening at 8:00 o'clock in the Kansas Room of the Union building. The speaker will be Mr. Glenn Hicher, assistant secretary to the governor.—Bill Douce, president.
W. N.A.A.: Please meet at 7:20 tonight at the Union building. Transportation will be furnished to the skating rink—Helen Hay.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per mester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the schooc matter, as second as class matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ROCK CHALK TALK
-BY REGINALD BUXTON
In the spring a young man's fancy —or at least he thinks he is, chirps a bright young lad on the Topeka State Journal.
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The Hutchinson News thinks Lindsborg, and not Emporia, should have the title "Athens of Kansas." Lawrence already has that honor. At least the University is Greek to most of the tax payers.
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A. P. Kansas Weather Reports:
"Disappointing." That's what we call terse, concise, and complete.
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In an editorial on increased farm purchases, the Parson's Sun comments, "When farm land moves it is a good sign—a good sign that we haven't lost faith in ourselves." But when the land moves in Western Kansas best you put your faith in a dust mask.
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The Salina Journal suggests that the unemployed spend their spare time in training the wolf at the door to frighten the stork away. According to our family doctor the unemployed are starving the stork instead.
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Kansan sports page headline:
“五Fraternity Men in Hoosier Lineup.” What! No substitutes?
Dear Rock Chalk:
I am despondent. I asked a girl whom I have gone with for some time for a date the other night. She turned me down because she said she had to study. But while I was working despondently at my job in
a cafe who would walk in but my dream girl, looking lovelier than ever, and in the company of some louse. I had to wait on them. What should I have done?
Deep Green.
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In the absence of prussic acid we would have advised hot, spilled soup, a knife well thrown, or a howitzer as a last resort if her skin is as tough as we think it is.
THU
Logic: All donkeys are jackasses but not all jackasses are donkeys—some write sports . . . Hens and Easter bunnies lay eggs but not all eggs are laid by hens and Easter bunnies — sports columnists insist upon making predictions.
Deep Green:
Museum Receives New Fossil Fauna
The Dyche museum has an entire new collection of fossil fauna, Claude Hibbard, assistant curator of the museum, announced today.
Mr. Hibbard recently returned from the National museum at Washington, D.C., where he compared mammal fossils taken from the upper Pliocene bed in Meade county with those of the same age found in other states.
The collection is one of the few of its age in the United States, and is the second to be uncovered east of the Rocky Mountains. It includes species of horses, mas todons, camels, antelope, pigs, dogs, cats, and many rodents.
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