PAGE SIX EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
America at The Crossroads
With II Duce and Fuehrer conferences fastening Hitler's belt of neutral nations more and more snugly around the German waist, it becomes increasingly necessary for the United States to sift facts, weigh issues, smother sympathy, hate, and prejudice—in short, avoid war.
Intellectually, the American doesn't want war, but his emotions are another thing. Gallup polls show a 96 per cent opposition. However, no man can predict how he will feel when the war situation itself is upon him. History, with its gory stream winding through the centuries, reveals Greek imperialism, Roman conquest, medieval feudalism, to be the result of man's glory in his ancestors.
Vigorous America is at the crossroad of opinion. Objectives disclosed in the Pittman act and in earlier neutrality legislation show that citizens want peace, yet yearn to help France and England. On the economic side, too, issues play hob with themselves. Economists say that we must "escape a war boom in American business," but at the same time they want the stimulus to business which comes with rising prices. At the moment, Americans should guard against the growing pressure to repeal the Johnson act.
Principles of 1914 are dead. Men know now that there is no war to end war. War can be cast into oblivion only by reduction of nationalism into veritable nothingness. Failure of the League of Nations, the World Court, and almost all treaties, prove that nothing can be gained by federation of selfish nations.
Only by avoiding embroilment in war can America be the one strong western nation to lead the way from the chaos that will come. This civilization, let us hope, will not lie in the dust of marble and bronze that represents all that remained of the greatness of Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Babylonia.
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If Bismark could behold the German of 1940, he would probably be pleased with the present situation. With the expulsion of thousands of Jews, Hitler, who is now even more powerful than Bismarck was, has succeeded in establishing what his predecessor had striven for—a more homogeneous nationality.
No Ten Commandments Guide Dictators
The measure of a politician is the number of people who delight in pointing out his past mistakes.—Publication Paragraphs.
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While nationality has played a great part in the rise of civilization, no one expects a Federation of the Globe. An international science of eugenics might suggest that various races aim, not at the extermination of each other, but at encouraging the improvement of each racial type without hatred and bloodshed.
But the Ten Commandments have played a very small part in the schemes of Germany's two greatest leaders. Bismarck ignored the Ninth Commandment, "Love thy neighbor as thyself". He attacked the "cosmopolitans" who said that all men should love each other regardless of nationality. Certainly Hitler is ignoring the Ninth and at least eight of the other Commandments.
Chinese nationalists, news dispatches say, have resorted to the circulation of chain letters asking for money to be used for assassination of Wang Ching-wei, who is scheduled to be installed as head of a Japanese-Sponsored government at Nanking. But the Chinese, always a practical people, have gone the United States fad of several years ago one better. Men who unsuccessfully attempt to collect the bounty and fall into Japanese hands will have the satisfaction of knowing that one per cent of the fund will go to members of their families.
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One of the favorite stunts of Frank Anneberg, the upside down man, is to stand on his head and drink a quart of water. We think it would be a great feat to drink a quart of Lawrence water in any position.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Wednesday, March 27, 1949 No.115
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 Protiva, 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.
SIGMA XI: Professor Douglas Johnson of Columbia University will give an illustrated lecture on the "Mysterious Craters of the Carolina Coast" at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night in the auditorium of Frank Strong Hall. The public is cordially invited.-W. H. Schoewe secretary.
W. N.A.A.: There will be a meeting at 7:20 tomorrow evening at the Union building. Transportation will be furnished to the skating rink—Helen Hay.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be an important meeting tomorrow night at 8:00 in the Kansas Room of the Union building. The speaker will be Mr. Glenn Hicher, assistant secretary to the governor.—Bill Douce, president.
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To Class at 8 a.m.?---- Hill March History Is Full of Sleep Threats
On a March morning four years ago, students read their morning papers to learn that morning sleep had received its biggest threat in many years.
Top stories in those papers told of a recommendation by the University calendar committee that classes begin on the hour instead of the half-hour, and that morning classes begin at 8 o'clock instead of 8:30.
Students visioned warm beds, cold mornings, and an alarm clock set half an hour earlier.
Authorities visioned an efficiency increase in that total class capacity of the University would be raised one-eighth by the new schedule.
Champions of the early-morning school pointed out that there would be more time for athletics, intramurals, and laboratory classes.
While waiting for the University Senate to decide the question, campus groups took up the issue. The Men's Student Council went on record against the proposal because early classes would make an added hardship for hard-pressed working students.
The Women's Self-Governing Association opposed the plan too, saying publicly that the new arrangement would handicap commuting students.
But when the early-alarm proposal came before the University Senate, little time was taken to end the debate. The calendar committee explained the benefits of the new plan, only to see the professors turn it down by a 41 to 23 vote.
Thus ended the last attempt to revamp the class schedule.
Thus ended the last attempt to revamp the class schedule. Earliest such attempts on record were in March, 1911, and again in March, 1912. Both attempts failed.
During World War I, the days' classes began at 8 o'clock to give men students more time to drill, and to give women students more time to make bandages and clothing for the war in France.
Eight o'clock classes ended with the war, however, and 8:30 has been roll-call time since then.
Geologist Is Organizing Unusual 'Cuttings' Library
In a tiny office far back in the down-hill end of Haworth hall a most unusual library is being organized. Raymond P. Keroher, of the state geological survey, who supervises the work, calls it a "Cuttings" library. In it, the drill cuttings of oil wells within the state, are being carefully filed. This library consists of thousands of little brown envelopes filled with samples of the "cuttings", or rock fragments made by the drill bit as it penetrates bed after bed of rock during the drilling of wells. These samples are saved as the well is drilled, and are placed in cloth bags, which are carefully labeled with the exact depth from which the samples come.
By chemical and microscopic examination the cuttings from the same stratum in various wells can be identified, and the bed accurately correlated from well to well. After the depth of identified beds is known, geologists are able to draw contour maps of each bed, thus showing the "highs," or domes where oil reservoirs possibly may be found.
To facilitate study, the log of each well is drawn to the scale of 1 inch
equal to 20 feet, on a four foot strip of heavy paper. Then NYA workers glue the cuttings in their proper place at indicated depths on the paper logs. This makes a complete and accurate picture of the strata in a given well from top to bottom.
The K.U. library is located under the sidewalk which leads to the stage entrance on the east side of Hoch auditorium. At present it contains the logs of 1,720 wells which represent nearly every county in the state. The survey also has a branch library in Wichita, at 139 N. Mead street. In it are cuttings from more than 1,000 wells.
Anyone is welcome to study these records, or in some cases the samples may even be checked out in the same manner that books are checked from a building.
According to Mr. Keroher most large oil companies have similar files of samples, but the one at K.U. is the most complete in eastern Kansas. Data and cuttings for this file have been collected for many years, but during the last three years sufficient appropriations have made it possible to greatly extend the subsurface study within the state.