EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1940.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS
Congratulations, Mrs. W. A. White
Yesterday was the birthday of William Allen White.
Tribute is not paid to the famous Emporian, however, nor to his son, William Lindsay White, now making a name for himself as foreign correspondent in Finland. Instead, the birthday congratulations offered here are to that incomparable woman, Sally Lindsay White, who rarely emerges from the background provided by her brilliant husband and son.
April 27, 1893, Sally Lindsay married William Allen White. She was a school teacher in Kansas City, Kan. He was an editorial writer on the Kansas City Star. Two years later, White borrowed money to purchase the Emporia Gazette, went to Emporia to live.
Sally Lindsay White sets a good table in the Kansas tradition. But in addition to being a homemaker for a busy man, she has been his constant companion and aid, his listening post and his critic.
Hospitality, always the keynote of the White home, has been extended alike to the great, the near-great, and the plain folk, regardless of race, color, or creed. Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Hoover have been entertained there. Famous authors, critics, artists, the successful and the unsuccessful, the rich and the poor, have found refuge and encouragement at this home.
On her husband's seventy-second birthday, the may pause with pride to survey her work. Without her encouragement, Kansas could not have known the great, wise, and loyal editor of
Take a Wassermann!
For a third year, Hill students have been offered Wassermann examinations as a voluntary part of the hospitalization program maintained or them at Watkins Memorial hospital.
"Jeeter-bogus," says Morton Margolin in the Daily Nebraskan, is a term for jumping up and down in the same place without doing anything constructive.
Without reason last term, students failed to take advantage of this modern health service and, consequently, did not cooperate in a nationwide anti-syphilis drive. This year less than one hundred students have taken the test as compared with approximately one thousand at this time in 1938.
Personal advantages of the Wassermann plan can not be denied. The procedure of administering, treating, and recording data regarding examinations and cases is free both from publicity and from red tape. Cases of diseases not in an advanced stage are allowed to remain in school.
Although present statistics show only threetenths of one per cent of students are affected by syphilis and other diseases,only intelligent and consistent medical observation and treatment can keep this figure from becoming larger.
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Such figures do not compare favorably with the progress of the national campaign against venereal diseases promoted intensively in the past year. Five million dollars were appropriated by the government to increase the campaign fund. Kansas University students might well use their allotted share of this money.
the Emporia Gazette, whose kindly humor salts not only the daily reading of Kansas, but spices the Main streets of the country.
Take a bow, Mrs. White. You've done a good job, both with Old Bill and with Young Bill.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Sunday, Feb. 11, 1940 No. 88
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be an important meeting of the National Service Fraternity at 4:30 on Monday afternoon in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All Scouts and former Scouts are invited to attend this meeting—Kenneth Cedarland, president.
ATTENTION: All cases to appear before the Student Court should first be appealed to the Clerk of the Court. Bob McKay, telephone 2903.-Gene Buchanan, chief justice.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to students and faculty members, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C Myers hall—Jack Dalby, secretary.
DRAMATIC CLUB: Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 the Dramatic Club will meet in the Green hall little theater. —Elizabeth Kirsch.
FIRESIDE FORUM: George Waggoner will review "Grapes of Wrath" at the meeting this evening at 7:00 o'clock at the home of the Reverend J. F. King, 1100 Ohio. Transportation will be provided for those who find it more convenient to come to the church—Lorraine Polson, publicity chairman.
KAPPA PHI: There will be a tea for all Methodist girls interested in Kappa Phi this afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30 at 1527 Massachusetts. This will be considered a regular meeting for members—Mary Rohe, publicity chairman.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Because of the basketball game, the meeting for Monday, Feb. 12, will not begin until 9:15.-Irving Kuraner, secretary.
MUSIC ROOM: The Music Room in the Memorial Union will be open this afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00. A special preview concert of 5 numbers from the program of the Kansas City Philharmonic, Feb. 19, will be played from 4 to 5:00—Ernest Klema, chairman.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Dr. Seville Chapman will speak to the first weekly meeting of the Physics Colloquium on Monday at 4:30 in room 203 Blake Hall, on the subject "The Relation Between Physical Intensity and Subjective Loudness of Sound". Anyone interested is cordially invited to be present at any or all weekly meetings—Seville Chapman, secretary.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
-By HARRY HILL
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Friday's examples of professorial wit should be given this noteworthy addition. Prof. Bob Calderwood spent half an hour explaining a phase of the subject to a speech class and advised the students to remember his discussion. Said he: "If you get all this in your head, you'll have it in a nutshell."
From the samples we've heard, faculty wisecracks have been mostly well put. But the jokes that are being originated and perpetuated by the undergraduates seem destined to follow indefinitely the same rut. In fact, campus humor has reacted such a state of monotony that some student can become immortal by saying something which Confucius didn't.
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With the announcement of curriculum changes which will attempt to balance specialized and generalized study, we presume Harvard men now will be required to broaden their education, as well as their pronunciation of "a".
From the Michigan State News: "It may not be dangerous, but a little knowledge did not help the physiology student who wrote the following answers in an exam:
"Enzyme—Officer in U. S. navy.
"Red Corpuscle—Non-com in the Soviet army.
"Hormone—Fellow who plays halfback for Michigan U. First name is Tom."
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J. Edgar Hoover says his F.B.I. is found in Miami, Fla., evidence of local "graft, corruption and inefficiency." Miami apparently must suffer not only from Kansas City style weather but also from Kansas City style politics.
Pity the poor student who takes a course for a pipe only to find that it's a loaded cigar.
An item in the Daily Californian certainly is not complimentary to the mentality of this college world. At the California U. student hospital, staff physicians were efficiently performing a Wasserman test on a student. When the blood sample had been taken, he asked, "When will I know what the calcium count of my blood is?"
"Calcium count? This is a Wassermann test," he was told.
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"A Wassermann," the student ex- ploded, "I came in to have my dandruff cured."
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Chemists have perfected synthetic materials which make it possible to manufacture felt hats without fur, wool or hair. You'd think that science could contribute infinitely more to humanity by investigating the decorative monstrosities on women's headwear.
Dear Sir: Education is the process of convincing fools that that's what they are. F.Y.
We heard an argument recently in which two campus intellectuals of slightly different mental temperaments were debating the possibilities of American entrance into the war. One took the brighter side, holding that the war probably wouldn't last much longer. His verbal adversary thereupon branded him "an optimist and a fool," adding that "all optimists are fools."
The latter student, however, was mistaken. There is really a distinct difference between an optimist and a fool. For instance, an optimist is somebody who thinks he can beat a marble machine. A fool is somebody who's sure he can.
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--chains from which Daladier and Chamberlain pretend they will release the victims of Hitler.
FRENCH LIBERTY DIES
To the Editor:
The latest French decree provides sentences up to two years and fines of $110 for a person who opens his mouth and speaks some sentences which a policeman may find are "false assertions which, presented as personal opinions, correspond in reality to the keynote of enemy propaganda and which, expressed publicly, indicate the marked intention of their authors to injure national defense by attacking the morale of the army and population."
With this decree, the Daladier government places the last shovel of dirt upon the grave of French liberty.
This is the war for "democracy and civilization." It finds the French people shackled with the same
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PROGRESSIVE.
LET'S STUDY BRIDGE To the Editor:
Aside from preparing its students for the professional field, it is my conception that the main aim of a college is to create and stimulate an interest in the cultural side of life, in order that students may use their leisure time to greater advantage.
Of course there immediately arise questions as to what are cultural courses. For my purpose I shall limit myself to courses which pertain directly to hobbies and the spending of leisure time.
To meet an ever-increasing de-
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