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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS ★ LETTERS ★ PATTER
But the War's Not Over Yet-win the war, the name Germany will disappear from the map. All that would be left of a once powerful state would be the four regencies of Hanover, Westphalis, Pomerania and Brunswick, forming a loose federation under the control of British interests.
They're counting their chickens before they're hatched.
Two groups of British optimists are already hard at work laying the foundations for a new Europe after the current war is over. Both groups are depending upon Germany losing the struggle and upon British dominating Europe, but their peace plans have little else in common.
One group plans for a United States of Europe, such as Napoleon envisioned before Waterloo. Europe would be joined in a friendly federation of states, with tariff barriers removed and with uniform laws, customs, and regulations.
Such a system has much to recommend it, for the minority problem would then all but disappear, and the row of armed camps would slowly disintegrate.
The second group of British enthusiasts plans to "atomize" Germany. Under this plan, Czechoslovakia is to be revived and expanded westward over territory that has always been German. Poland and Austria, likewise reestablished, would gain territory at the expense of the Reich. France, Holland, Belgium, and Denmark would each get a slice of German land.
If the atomists prevail, and if England does
Complete breakdown of the negotiations between Washington on the one hand and Chile and Argentina on the other gives an effective answer to those seeking to promote closer economic, political and cultural relations between this country and Latin America. If this country had deliberately planned to curtail its trade with South America and to arouse new distrust, it could not have done it more effectively than when, because of domestic political conditions, it broke off trade agreements with Chile and Argentina.
Only Mutual Trade Can Endure
When Cordell Hull was compelled to sever these ties, he in effect told both those countries to sell their exports elsewhere. Rather than accept exports from them, the United States preferred to curtail the sale of its own products. As a consequence, Argentina must continue to sell her beef, hides, and other farm products to Japan, Britain, France, and other countries, and take in exchange Japanese, British, French, and other manufactured goods. So it will go with Chile.
What this country does not seem to realize is that it can increase its trade with South America only as it increases its purchases; that without buying, there is no selling. Only by taking goods in exchange can South American countries increase their United States trade.
Unfortunately, the adverse economic effects are only part of the story. Our hesitancy in trading with them drives South American countries directly into the arms of those nations who will buy from them. Economic ties thus developed promote both political and cultural relations—relations which the United States would do well to maintain. For no kind of trade can endure between nations who are distrustful of one another, or between whom there are one-sided trade agreements.
The second plan, say its sponsors, would remove the Nazi menace and forever crush the power of the German people. If properly carried out, it would do so. But the whole plan smacks of the Versailles treaty, and the mistakes that caused the present European situation. Minorities, still under foreign domination and the German people, no matter how squelched they might be, would burn with the injustice heaped upon them by a foreign power. Soon there would be more trouble for Europe, more oppression and race purges, and the world would once more go for a ride on the Mars merry-go-round.
And then, as usual, the persevering British would come out with a rival-squashing plan to make the world safe for British democracy.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1940 No.89
BOTANY CLUB: The Botany Club will meet at 12:30 Wednesday in room 417 Snow. Luncheon will be served. Robert Schmidt will review Fairchild's book, "The World is my garden." -Leo Franklin, president.
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE: Miss Blanche Yeomans will review "The General's Ring" by Selma Lagerlof at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon in 205 Fraser. While this lecture is primarily for freshmen, upperclassmen and graduates are cordially invited—W. S. Johnson, chairman, department of English.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Cercle français se reunira mercede le 14 février a quatre heures et demie dans la salle 113 Frank Strong hall. Tous ceux qui parlent francais sont invited.-Robert E. Pyle, president.
DRAMATIC CLUB: Tryouts for the University Dramatic Club will be held at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon in Green hall. —Elizabeth Kirsch.
MATH STUDENTS: The Math Club will meet Thursday, February 15. at 4:45 pm. in room 203强 hall. Robert Bullock will talk on "Mechanical Aids; Brains of Wood and Metal." There will also be a refreshment period at 4:15 in room 222.-Marlow Sholander, president.
W. A.A.: A meeting of W.A.A. will be held Thursday at 4 o'clock in the gymnasium. Following the meeting there will be a skating party from 4:30 to 6 o'clock. All members are urged to attend.-Lois Wisler, vice president.
MUSIC ROOM: The music room in the Memorial Union will be open this afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 and this evening from 7:30 to 9:30. A special preview concert of numbers from the program of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, February 19, will be played from 7:30 to 8:30. Ernie Klema, chairman.
W. S.G.A.: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in the Pine room of the Union building.-Velma Wilson, president.
PHI SIGMA: H. M. Trowbridge, of Kansas City, will exhibit a portion of his rare collection of pre-Columbian textiles at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, in room 206 Snow hall. Everyone is invited.-Gerald Pees, secretary,
JAY JANES: Please remember to wear uniforms for the jamboree tomorrow. It will be from 4 to 5:30 in the Union ballroom.-Winifred Jameson, president.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB: There will be an important meeting Thursday. Feb. 5, in the men's lounge of the Union building.-Bill Douce, president.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By HARRY HILL
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The opening of the new Dragatics Club play tonight comes at an opportune time for the Greeks. "Quality Street" will give them a new Hell Week torture for the neophytes.
Dear Sir: Confucius say pigeons on law barn put blotch on lawyers' character. S. S.
In the opinion of many fans, the three ring circus staged between halves of the Kansas-Iowa State basketball game last night was unsuccessful. There was just too much going on at the same time. The spectators were unable either to whoop it up for the Indians or to give the tumblers a tumble. And the poor unnoticed clown had practically undressed before most of the onlookers spied him.
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Friendly suggestion to the University business office: There is a line on the front of activity books on which students are supposed to sign their names. But the heavy stamp of the business office signifying fees have been paid in many cases so blurs the front of the book that a legible signature can't be written in the proper place. Why not stamp the book on the back?
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Again the Daily California carries a report from the California U. student hospital which varies no little from the ordinary run of medical communiques:
A girl waiting in the hall put her head wearily against the wall.
Struck by her attitude, a passing nurse put her hand on the girl's shoulder and asked gently, "Anything wrong?"
The girl sat up, "Oh, no. I'm just waiting for a friend."
Her friend arrived and asked, "Are you all right?"
--ner, or should it be a tool of propaganda in spreading favorable information over the state to make the good taxpayers think that nothing smelling of crime or vice exists on the University campus?
"For the love of Hippocrates," the girl burst out. "All I've got's a hangover."
"Feeling faint?"
With only slight annoyance, the girl repeated, "No, just waiting for a friend."
Another nurse paused before the girl.
YOU SAID IT
Announcing that he would train Radcliffe women just as willingly as Harvard men, a retiring Harvard drum major said that the sex of applicants will play no part in the selection of his successor. We don't know who will do the judging, but we've an idle two bits which contends that training also won't have much to do with the selection.
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To the Editor:
M. E. COOPER, c'42.
PROPAGANDA OR NEWS?
To the Editor:
I have not, as yet, noticed any written word expressing the appreciation which, I presumptiously assume, the student reading body feels for the good work the staff is doing this semester with its 8-page tabloid.
The staff as a whole, with special compliments for the editorial and sports departments, is putting out a paper worth a word of commendation—one which I, for one, take pride in and thoroughly enjoy reading.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to cutting, and all letters must be signed, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
LAUDS THE NEW KANSAN
To the Editor
With the recent printing of the Palmer bootlegging and the Gentry North fraternity robbery stories, the University Daily Kansan has come in for considerable criticism, both favorable and otherwise. A number of people on the campus are advocating that news of this type should be "played down", or better still, kept entirely out of the school paper. Others say that the proper aim of any newspaper should be "to print all the news as it happens, so long as it is kept free from editorial comment."
First to consider is the question: For whom is the paper written, the students or the people of the state? Should the Kansan print matters which are of interest to the students, in an unbiased and impartial manner, or should it be a tool of propaganda in spreading favorable information over the state to make the good taxpayers think that nothing smelling of crime or vice exists on the University campus?
The Daily Kansan obviously believing that "news is news" and crime and vice are inevitable, printed the accounts as they occurred and considered it only a matter of routine news gathering. Kansan editors, knowing that the city papers would print the stories, chose to stick to their policy, and at the same time scoop the other papers and keep their readers rightly informed.
The Kansan seems to maintain that printing the news in full means more than creating a good opinion by falsifying or slighting distasteful happenings, and I hope it will continue the policy of printing "all the news".
CHARLES SKIDMORE.
FOR EQUITABLE FEES To the Editor:
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Speaking of fairness, something should be done about out-of-state fee regulations at this institution. Either they should be abolished, or they should be enforced. There are students all over the campus who come from New York or Connecticut or other states, but who pay only resident fees, because they claim to live in Kansas.
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