PAGE SIX EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
YOU SAID IT
Opinions expressed in these letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors of the Kansan. The editorial page will, each Friday, be given over completely to the publication of communications from students and faculty members.
Since my latest visit home, between semesters, I have wondered if there is real value to the County Club movement. It seems to me that students who are members of a County Club put on too many airs when they go home. At least, those from my home town do.
Just because one is a student at KU (and County Club members are not the only offenders) is no reason why he should feel so high and mighten when he goes back to the old home town, or why he should look down hjs nose at the home town folks. One K.U. student I know acts like a king when he goes home, as if being in K.U. lifts him above the common level and makes him too good for the folks back home.
To the Editor:
This certainly is not good publicity for the University. The idea of the County Club, as I see it, is to acquaint the people of the state with the University, to explain to them what is going on here on the Hill. It has also been pointed out that the Clubs can do much toward white-washing the school's face out in the state.
When You Go Home
But all of the good that may be done by the movement is undone when students go home and lord it over their fellows. Being a student here does not make one any better than anyone else, and does not give one the right to snub the home town gang, to act as if one were actually superior. It makes one feel that college has done such persons more harm than good.
After all, KU. students should remember that the people of the state made the University possible, and are continuing its existence by reason of the taxes they pay. If thoughtless students act too superior and intolerant they might very easily harm the state university.
RUDY KOVACH, e'40.
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No to the Public.
To the Editor:
There is no reason on earth why the Junior Prom has to be opened to the public. After all, it is a University dance, a class party, and should be only for University students. The general public should not be admitted.
I have nothing against the general public, but I think that if Mr. Littooy cannot induce enough University students to come to the dance to make up the contract guarantee (if any), then he should cut down the admission price so that it is more within the reach of students. We're not putting this class party on just to make money, and I feel that it should be limited to University students.
LEE WAYMAN.
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Bridge Course Is 86
To the Editor:
A recent letter in your You Said It department suggested that the University include in its curriculum a course in the study of bridge, a card game that is known to be quite popular among college students, both in their leisure hours and in those hours which are not supposed to be for leisure.
If one wishes to learn the game, he should do it socially. Only by playing the game can one become even fairly proficient at it. The game is not one which can be learned in a classroom. With an instructor, classes to attend, lessons to get, and exams to take, the game would soon loose its interest for many of us. And besides, students would then have no reason for cutting classes.
There is no doubt that many of those who play bridge are the worst dopes at the game that could be
I am sure that the writer of that letter was speaking with considerable levity when he made the suggestion. College is no place to study bridge, that is, academically.
imagined, and certainly need some sort of formal training in the various rudiments of the game. But it is better that they get this in a house or in a jelly joint.
SIDNEY ROTHMAN.
I want to commend the Kansan and its editorial staff on its excellent handling of labor situations and problems in recent months.
Labor Fan Speaks
To the Editor:
Especially since the adoption of the new tabloid size has the Kansan printed several worthwhile editorials regarding labor. Mr. John L. Lewis has taken new shape in my mind since reading these articles. I can see the meaning of some of the things that Lewis does, and their relationship to political and economic factors of vital interest today.
I am deeply interested in the problems of labor, and can see in the Kansan's editorials an insight into the problems and an ability at outlining them that is above the usual.
I sincerely hope the Kansan's editorial staff will continue its interpretation of the labor situation.
ALBERT SHELL, c'42.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Friday, Feb. 16, 1940 No. 92
EL ATENEO: There will be a meeting of El Ateneo on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 3:30 in 113 Frank Strong hall. All members and all others who are eligible for the Club are invited—Louise Bush, president.
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN STUDENTS: Will those who wish to be called about opportunities for employment during the semester please file schedules within the next week. There are openings available to women students who wish maintenance jobs; i.e., work for room and board, or work for meals—Marie Miller, Women's Employment Bureau, 220 Frank Strong hall.
"USIC ROOM: The music room in the Memorial Union will be open this evening from 7:30 to 9:30 for a violin concert, Ernie Klema, chairman.
FIRESIDE FORUM: There will be a meeting at 7 o'clock Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sees, Eldridge Hotel. Transportation from the church to the hotel will be provided for those who wish it. All interested students are invited—Lorraine Polson, publicity chairman.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will receive Communion in a body at the 7:30 Mass Sunday, February 25. All Catholic students are invited. Reservations for the monthly breakfast, to be held in the parish hall after Mass, may be made after either Mass next Sunday or by calling 1027 before Saturday. Students of other denominations are welcome.-Joseph A. Zishka, vice president.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The second Proficiency Examination of this school year will be given on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 9 a.m. Juniors in the College should take the examination at this time if they have not already passed it. None but Juniors and Seniors may take it. Candidates must register in person at the College Office Feb. 19, 20, or 21.J.B. Virtue, for the committee.
Y. W.C.A. MEMBERSHIP ASSEMBLY: There will be an assembly at 4:30 on Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Kansas room of the Union building. A nominating committee will be elected, and Mrs. Le Seur will talk.—Marjorie Cook, membership chairman.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION: The make.up psychological examination will be given Saturday morning. February 24, at 9 o'clock in room 115 Fraser. This will be the last opportunity to take the examination this year.-A. H. Turney.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By HARRY HILL
A campus glamor boy is a male "battle of production" in 1940. And student with a new model car.-Texas where is all that Russian wheat?
Tech TM. advisor. ★
And with tickets to the Junior Prom.
Attention Dies committee:
Five students were kicked out of a Georgia college for leading demands for: 1. student body dances; 2. liberal dating privileges; 3. an additional sandwich on Sunday night's menu. The college president, announcing his action, said, "The faculty will not tolerate balsamism."
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You can tell when a composer of music is famous. They start listing only his last name on concert programs.
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When questioned about her reported remark, "Freddie Littoby is up to his beelish tricks again," W.S.G. A.'s Velma Wilson declared, "And I did mean to use double e."
More dance pass drivel.
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A University of Tennessee professor is going to conduct an experiment testing the "apple-a-day keeps the doctor away" theory. Students would get much more benefit from a scientific study of the effect of apples (well polished) on grade points.
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Field Marshall Goering has called on German farmers to prepare for a
Let Dorsey and Barnet acquire titles of all kinds
titles of all kinds
But two "kings of the saxophone"
We absolutely can't condone.
Why don't they get together and
take up their royal minds
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make up their royal minds.
"You Said It" yesterday carried a letter from "Progressive" who was amazed, startled, astounded and we suppose horrified by the arrest of persons in Detroit who are charged with recruiting men in America for the Spanish Loyalists. The writer probably also holds the opinion that the "ditty industrialists" are trying to get us into this "imperialistic" war by advocating aid to Finland.
NOTICE
Organizations desiring to publish announcement of their activities in the Official Bulletin are advised that beginning Monday, Feb.19, all such announcements must be left in the office of the Chancellor by 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for publication in the Kansan the following day.
No announcements will be included in the bulletin if received after that time.
In Wartime England--- Returns to Oxford After Fifteen Years
W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science, and Mrs. Sandelius missed the latest mutual play of European armaments when they left England but a few days before the war's start in early September.
Commenting on the British attitude toward war last summer, Prof. Sandelius said: "There was, of course, a good deal of attention to international relations. Several stressed the note that it was more important that in the end the war should be won than that Britain should appear not to be losing prestige in some of the earlier diplomatic crises of the pre-war time."
But the purpose of the trip, fundamentally, was that Professor Sandelius might attend the summer session at Oxford University. The Oxford graduate was returning to his alma mater after 15 years.
In fact they were in mid-ocean when Hitler refused to denounce his "all or nothing" ultimatum.
During Professor and Mrs. Sandelius' stay in France, they decied that the French were the most civilized people in the world.
Professor Sandelius had planned to study at the British Museum, but it was closed and collections were being stored as a preparation for war.
Thirty nationalities were represented at the summer session, a period of academic instruction for which professors in England consider it an honor to be selected.
"After we arrived, Sept. 10, with Jim Farley as a fellow passenger, our boat laid a whole night beside the Statue of Liberty. With the refugees all up early in the morning to have their first look at New York, it was a fairly thrilling experience," said the professor.