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EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1940.
Kansan
Do Bacilli Curl When Students Kiss?
University students are not likely to let the advices of learned doctors sway them from any amorous paths into which they may have fallen. Those who kiss only as an experiment or those who kiss for reasons of wider scope will have little interest in what medical authorities have to say on the matter.
The issue between Dr. Simon L. Katzoff, San Francisco physician, and Dr. J. F. Hammond, assistant editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, therefore holds little interest for college students the country over. Dr. Katzoff recently advocated a diet of soulful kisses as an aid to physical (if not moral) purification, for as he told University of California students, kisses traded with enough fervor will kill influenza germs. He added that use of lipstick is a further deterrent to the spread of cold bugs.
Dr. Hammond immediately threw cold water on Katzoff's theory when he announced that there is no medical justification for the belief that the heat of kissing will direct Cupid's arrows at influenza bacilli. Hammond further disagreed with Katzoff's statement that lipstick aids as a preventive of contagion.
But students who kiss are not likely to raise their heads long enough to listen to the debate. For students who kiss are primarily interested in kissing for kissing's sake alone.
--either indicate several more weeks of wintry winds and low temperatures. Many of an iconoclastic nature will disregard the warning of the groundhog, but only the foolhardy will allow a day or two of respite from freezing temperatures tempt him into doffing the heavy coat and ski suit. The way of the cynic is hard indeed.
Columnist Lippman Versus Democracy
When Walter Lippman wrote in his column recently that democracies are lacking in moral energy and steeped in materialism, it was only another outburst on the columnist's part, another vain attempt to impress the American people with a line of war ballyhoo.
For Lippman is beginning to realize that the country is at long last awakening, sensing a repetition of what it heard once before, back in 1917. Lippman knows now that the American people can no longer be bullied into believing something high sounding and idealistic.
Thus failing to impress the nation any longer, the columnist is beginning to have his doubts about democracy itself as a political system. His statement that "democracies . . . lack moral energy because they are enervated by materialism, distracted by petty matters, intoxicated by words, softened by a false sense of security and disposed to shut their eyes to dangers that are not yet close at hand and immediately present" shows that Lippman is seriously considering junking democracy as an obstacle in the path of world-imperialist war.
After all, what good is democracy if it cannot be used to deceive the people? The so-called "war for democracy" is the deadliest enemy there can be of whatever democracy is still left for the people.
--either indicate several more weeks of wintry winds and low temperatures. Many of an iconoclastic nature will disregard the warning of the groundhog, but only the foolhardy will allow a day or two of respite from freezing temperatures tempt him into doffing the heavy coat and ski suit. The way of the cynic is hard indeed.
Mr. Groundhog Went Back to Bed
While the ability of the tiny groundhog to predict accurately the weather has long been debated, it is certain that the sleepy animal which ventured forth last weekend did not find conditions favorable for the heralding of an exceptionally early spring.
Whether one has more faith in the groundhog or in the government weather observer, there can be little doubt that the predictions of
Comment ◆
--one say we coeds are on equal basis with the men when they ring a curfew on us at 10:30?
Young Bill White Is No Softy
At the rate he is progressing, W. L. White, the young son of William Allen White, is likely to turn out to be the idol of the American reading public. At the same time, however, he may be exceedingly "persona non grata" with the Hitler regime.
Recently White turned out to be no Sweet William when Nazi guards quizzed him on his present intentions. The Germans, through practice, are masters of the third degree; Bill White, both through practice and inheritance, is master of the spoken and written word. If any person exists in Germany able to match repartee with the Emporia Gazette's offspring, he is probably in a concentration camp for being too smart.
"Maybe it surprises you Americans to see so many German soldiers, no?" asked a pimply-faced sergeant. "It does not surprise me at all to see German soldiers," Young Bill answered. When asked where he had seen so many of the gray-green clad, the pride of Emporia cracked, "After the last war. Then I saw a great many German prisoners surrendered to our American army."
Young Bill is the type of American who should travel abroad. Not for him is that disgusting, superficial, continental air of the transplanted American. He has the down-to-earth quality of the true American who both commands and demands respect. He probably does not desire to antagonize the Nazi powers, but when a flunky sticks his neck out with "Maybe you don't like the regime," you can expect the son of Willia mAllen to say "No, I don't like the regime."
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1940 No.84
W. S.G.A. TEA: There will be a tea for all new women students in the Women's lounge of Frank Strong hall from 3 to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. All University women are invited.-Ethelyne Burns.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
By HARRY HILL
After watching at least a dozen students wander around Robinson gym yesterday as if they were hypnotized, we thought of presenting in this first column detailed instructions on how to enroll. But after talking with several veteran professors and reading the propaganda issued by the University we were still in the dark as to the correct procedure so gave up the idea.
This motion picture course (Speech 57, two hours, Monday and Wednesday, 3:30) was getting the heavy play by enrollees yesterday morning. The Wichita Eagle, however, predicted such a rush some days ago, commenting that another building or two would be needed to accommodate all the applicants.. The procedure of showing the class moving pictures in Fraser theater will have one advantage in that the projector won't have to stop every two minutes to consult its notes or outline.. On the other hand, there probably will be no end of scuffling to get on the back row.
From the events of the past few days, it seems likely that prosperity will return to the 700 block on Massachusetts street.
The Arkansas City policemen, who investigated a report of prowlers near the Catholic church, found a boy and girl wooing on the steps and ordered them to move on. It appears the Ark City Cops haven't heard that the Bible says to love thy neighbor.
The eyes have it.
Dear Sir: Last Saturday as I was walking between Eighth and Ninth on Tennessee I saw the most beautiful eyes ever to grace a female physiognomy. They were of that Heavenly shade that God puts in the sky, and seemed as soft and tender as the first tiny snowflake of winter. I know she was a college girl because she had on a reversible coat, anklets, brown and white saddle shoes and wore a red and blue scarf on her hair. Can you tel me her name? Sincerely Johnnie.
While Tin Pan Alley is still searching for new song ideas somebody might write one entitled "The Little Man Who Doesn't Scare" and dedicate it to Finland.
A veteran gold digger tells us that this discussion of the effects of kissing on bacteria is all the bunk. She says that kissing has got her plenty of gems but no germs.
Sally Rand has applied for a $100,- 000 insurance policy on her feet. That, with the bubbles, should make her virtually impregnable.
The Wyandotte High School Panda graph reports a student won the courtesy award when "seen picking up all the dirty towels that other boys had scattered around the dressing room." After seeing the Wyandette basketball team play Lawrence the other night, we have concluded that the Bulldogs are cleaning up in more ways than one.
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.
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YOU SAID IT
Ready and Willing Editor, Daily Kansan;
I appeal to you! What a life! Here is a coed dying to dance (and I do mean dance) and she reads in the Kansan; "Stag line limited to 200."
Does that make sense to you? I am sure there are other coeds in my same fix—sitting home Wednesday nights between 7 and 8 o'clock, envisioning the ballroom at the Memorial Union building, Dale Brodie or Clyde Smith swinging out—and then, "Stag line limited to 200."
WAITING.
What is the matter with these boys?
Surely they must like to dance or they wouldn't go to dances at all.
Why then don't they merely ask a girl to go with them and have some fun? Are they afraid?
Liberty, Equality—and Independence Editor, Daily Kansas:
The ratio of boys to girls on this Hill is two to one, according to the latest report. Shouldn't this scarcity of coeds raise their stock? Or should it? Anyway, carry on, Dale Brodie and Clyde Smith, carry on. I hope those 200 stags enjoy listening to your rhythms while we coeds sit at home twiddling our thumbs.
Who said this was a modern age?
Who has been spreading all this bunk about women's rights? How can anv-
What I want to know is—don't we have as much sense as men? Aren't we just as capable of taking care of ourselves as are the other sex? Of course we are. Otherwise, there'd be a national curfew law to protect all young women in the nation from the boogey man who stalks around after 10:30.
What are closing hours for? Surely not for moral reasons. Because, if so, they don't do any good. If a coed would do anything wrong, she'd have plenty of time and encouragement to do it before 10:30. Besides, prohibition proved that you can't legislate morals. The curfew, furthermore, can't be designed to give us "growing girls" more sleep. Because getting in before 10:30 doesn't mean going to bed at 10:30.
If we go to a middle-of-the-week show, we have to get there promptly at 7 p.m. or be forced to leave before the picture is over in order to make closing hours. If we should want to get a bedtime coke, we have to go to sleep and dream about it.
I think, by gosh, that we ought to have the same privileges as the men. They may be called the stronger sex, but they're no more sensible.
DISGUSTED (not dumb) DORA.
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