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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24. 1940
Kansan Comment
Finals Here
Final examinations begin tomorrow. The interesting point about finals is their finality. Until the week of finals is actually at hand, there exists a hope that some natural phenomenon as, for instance, an earthquake or tornado, may occur to stop the inevitable. But tomorrow comes—and with it, finals. No last minute miracle may be expected. Only resignation is left.
The only ray of hope that can be offered is that, generally speaking, the unhappy effects of finals are soon forgotten. By the time finals roll around again in the spring, this week's exams scarcely will be remembered.
But in the meantime, this is the season when the Phi Beta Kappas and all the other honor students can rest on their laurels, and survey the uncertain, the haphazard and the chronic worries with disdain. For they are the wise ones, the students who know that an ounce of preparation is worth a pound of last minute cramming. They have learned early the primary lesson—that foresight is not only better than hind-sight but also superior to post-final weeping and wailing.
Their moral is one that all students should heed, epitomized in the famous phrase, "It is easier to keep up than to catch up."
--ever, for the American Student Union looked just a ridiculous when it sided with the Soviet government.
YOU SAID IT
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Free Speech Loses With Browder
With the sentencing of brother Browder, fellow Kansan, to jail for four years, the cause of justice may or may not change.
Certainly the nation could feel much safer if it were sure that Browder had been entrenched only for the crime for which he was indicted and not for the crime of being an extremely audible Communist.
The Communist leader was guilty—but why were his crimes not exposed until now? No investigation of Browder's record was made in 1938, when he was run down by a mob. In the United States and uttering the same political heresies.
The jailing of such men as Fritz Kuhn and Browder offers further proof, if my is needed, of the strong nationalistic trend now apparent in this country. Stiffing of the two voices of free speech and free press is done, legitimately it is said, only in time of war when the need for a united nation is believed to supersede individual freedom of expression. On the other hand the need for freedom of speech must be subterfuge of the moment. The converse may be true—perhaps if freedom of speech and pres sure firmly maintained, no war can be fought.
If for the preservation of freedom of speech and press, nuisances must be tolerated, then for the sake of democracy, they should be tolerated. No one is forced to listen to the rattings of a Kuhn, Browder or Coughlin, and democracy, undoubtedly will survive their kind.
The truly democratic view of free speech is that truth emerges only through free presentation of all sides. To maintain the right of free speech for those who disagree is the paramount feature and tenet of democracy. Only through the peaceful clash of views can be the best be found and maintained.
--ever, for the American Student Union looked just a ridiculous when it sided with the Soviet government.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Socialist Looks At Russia
Edition: Dolly Kernan
It seems to me that there is much confusion on both sides in the current discussions of the Russo-Finnish war. Whether or not "Socialism works" in Russia proves nothing regarding the problem of aggression. Whether or not Hoover would like to crush socialism is beside the point. So is the fact—if it is a fact—that the working people of Finland are oppressed. So, on the other hand, is the calling of names like "imperialist."
The question must be settled on the basis of objective facts. The Russian plea of self-defense appears not to be sustained. So far as we can now learn, Russia refused to continue negotiations, and invaded the smaller country unprovoked. Confirmatory evidence is found in the sympathy of Norway and Sweden—two of the most democratic countries on earth—for Finnish territorial integrity. The seniority of the Finns eager to be Sovietized or to combine with Russia, it is unlikely that they could put up such an extraordinary resistance.
I am a socialist. I have regarded the Russian experiment as one of profound value to the world—in so far as it aimed toward true socialism. But a democracy like this would be by fire and sword looks like a conelation in tempest.
On the other hand, the mercia of communism per se are neither proved nor digested by unjustifiable acts.
Granted that our own record shows dark blots, and that we have intolerable evils to remedy. These unhappy truths throw no light on the Finnish situation. The human spirit being what it is, they cannot prevent our being deeply moved by this dramatic conflict. If for once our emotion is grounded in fact—well, from premise different people will draw different conclusions.
Yours very truly, "Reconsider"
In Defense of the Press
Editor: Daily Kangaroo
From the remarks made by Mr. Horoko one would be led to believe that Russia was an innocent lamb being cruelly harassed by ravenous wolves. Yet does a lamb rush upon and seek to devour a creature smaller than it is? If we are to win, we must when he tries to make us believe that Finland, not Russia, is the "big bad wolf." He is not alone, however, for the American Student Union looked just a ridiculous when it sided with the Soviet government.
An oppressed people will not give their all in sobly and courageously resisting and driving back an invading enemy when they know that their cause is almost hopeless. If they were trading one form of oppression for another they would offer no such opposition; rather they would fight only half-heartedly. It is hard to imagine a scene shown by their half-hearted cooperation with their country. Even if they win they can hope to gain little.
If Socialism must have an iron fist to rule and a rilef squad to "liquidate" all who think and act against it, who wants Socialism even if it is said to be working in Russia. Perhaps the people own the means of production in Russia, though I doubt it. Certainly they do not control the means. They can only do as commanded or suffer as a result. Many narrow-minded people fail to see and appreciate the many good things about the government of this country. They can only make a contrast between the virtues of other forms of government and the faults of our own while overlooking the many faults of the other form.
Why does Mr. Horroko still "harp" on the Spanish war? Certainly Franconia is giving the so-called Loyalist refugees much better treatment than refugees of the Nationalist side would have been given had the Communists won. The Communicistic Loyalists had no mercy on their victims, at, and during the war.
The press is no more unfair concerning the Russian-Finnish war than it was with the Spanish war. Then the press was definitely pro-communist; now it is on the other side. Mr. Horako should be more tolerant himself before he calls anyone else unfair. Besides quote George Skides as an unpruced authority?
JOSEPH A. ZISHKA, e'40.
Press Attacked Again
Editor, Daily Kansan
Any attempt to refute all the fabrications and lies spread by an entire army of bourgouche newspaper reporters and services about alleged exploits and non-existent "victories" of the Mannersch军 army in Finland is utterly impossible. Lit at times the sources of bourgouche news screen which hide this news kitchen and its vil odors.
I can cite, however, a recent example. On January 14, the Dutch radio station PHOH-1, apparently suffering from moral heartburn resulting from the overspread splash hail in Munichausen which certain radio stations and bourgeois papers have been dishing out to the public of late in the form of stories about the "valor" of the Mannerheim troops, broadcast the following:
"A whole army of press reporters is now in Helsinki. Sitting in their hotel rooms these gentlemen write descriptions of 'exploits' by Fimms whom they have never seen."
Evidently the Dutch gourmands are not the only ones who are fed up with these spicy but rotten-smelling "sensations." The same station reports that Mainerheim officials themselves had come to consider such preposterous lies as harmful and have therefore established a censorship.
The Dutch station cited the instance of one reporter who wired his papers that a certain young Finn climbed a fur tree and shot 57 Russians single-handed. The reported claims this occurred in Petamo, but he was out of luck this time, said the broadcaster, for there is not a single fur tree in Petamo.
But the reporters of the major papers found a way out. According to the Dutch radio, they go to the border regions of Sweden and Norway to connect their wild tales at a good distance from the censorship authorities. Some of them have even managed to combine this with modern comfort. They simply stay in Stockholm where they write thrilling stories "from the front."
P. K. A.
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Vol.37 Wednesday, Jan.24, 1940 No.81
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--cal in your thinking and reasoning. The infant is credulous. He lacks any critical faculty. Tell him anything, no matter how unreasonable, in a sufficiently positive and authoritative way, and he will accept it as the truth. To what extent is your thinking colored by your emotions — prejudices, hunches, or by rumor, susicion, gossip?
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Doctor Meender admitted that none is fully mature emotionally, but warned that to the extent a person is fully mature, he is, missing the best in life.
Tests for Emotional Maturity Compiled by College Professor
"To get the most out of life and to contribute the most to life, you must be your age physically, mentally and emotionally."
There are six criteria, or tests by which one may gauge his own "feelings age," Doctor Meader told a Union College student group. They are: credulity, fore- and afterthoughts, sense of humor, hates, self-knowledge and unselfishness. Doctor Meader asked
Schenected, N. Y. —(UP) The person who aspires to a maximum of success and happiness must permit his emotions to mature space with physical and intellectual powers, says Dr. Laurence J. Meader, president of Russell Sage College. Emotional maturity has little or no relation to chronological age, but it is essential that "will never become the happy, successful and respected person" he might have been, he believes.
"Do you live in the present? Or have you a well-formulated plan for the future?" The infant lives only in the present. The past means nothing to him. Do you profit by the mistakes of the past? Do you work a plan?" He explained that his questions must be answered in honest comparison with an infant's behavior.
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"Are you credulous and gullible? Or are you discriminating and critical in your thinking and reasoning. The infant is credulous. He lacks any critical faculty. Tell him anything, no matter how unreasonable, in a sufficiently positive and authoritative way, and he will accept it as the truth. To what extent is your thinking colored by your emotions — prejudices, hunches, or by rumor, susicion, gossip?
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When finals come, can grades lag far behind?
By Roderick Burton
None of the Phi Delt's, it was learned today upon reliable authority, crammed for his lie detector test.
The ISA. hold an honest election Monday. The only catch was that it wan't an election.
Some students don't laugh at the jokes about finals because they never get the grade points.
The Soviet charge of Finnish invasion of Russian territory at the beginning of the war was not it, but it was because of its prevarication but of far sightedness.
Changes in atmospheric pressure work the hardest suffering on the young, old and sick. Ordinarily healthy persons, the doctor explained, can readily adjust their skin due to side influences like a thermostat.
In normal persons, Dr. Petersen said, high barometric pressure increases the blood pressure and with cold temperatures when the blood runs fast, you feel full of pep. However, when the pressure makes the blood sluggish the effect is to put you in the dumps.
"While the attitude of hatting people is somewhat higher in the scale of emotional control than the of hating things, it is still the carmark of an emotional adolescent. The adult who has reached full emotional maturity does not hate things nor does he hate people, for he knows that they are too often merely the products of a system.
A study of Chicago weather tables from 1915 to 1822, according to Dr. Petersen, showed that deaths increased as the barometer went up and decreased as the atmospheric pressure declined.
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stimulus of air pressure
He described the area in the vicinity of Chicago and Milwaukee as one of the world's worst climatic regions because it lies in the path of storms from both the Arctic and the Atlantic, which suffer great barometric changes.
"He therefore reserves his hats, for situations, issues, and conditions. He hates war and greed, intolerance, graft, crime, disease, and poverty."
"What is it that you consider funny? What do you consider as hateful? Have you accurate knowledge of your own strengths and weaknesses? Are you unselfish?" In the latter questions, Doctor Meader explained that children are amused by trifles. They dislike inanimate objects at first, later hitting persons during adolescence. The emotionally mature person has broader hates.
The adult who has reached full emotional maturity also weighs realities more successfully, Doctor Meader believes. He neither overrates nor underates, his mental and physical capabilities.
Spring fever, Dr. Petersen said, is the result of continually changing air pressures and temperatures throughout the winter. The constant need for adjusting the body to withstand the shifts in pressure and temperature is the same time the first balmy days of spring come around we are fatigued.
For the same reason, he added, March is a bad month for colds and pneumonia.
The conclusive test is that of unselfishness. Doctor Meoder asserte?
Blood pressure declines and temperatures remain more constant during the summer months and so with the first signs of autumn we once again feel full of pep and fit for the onlaught of another winter. In conjunction with air conditioning, Dr. Peterson expressed the opinion that some apparatus for controlling the air pressure in a sick room would be a great boon to medicine.
"The infant is wholly self-centered. The adult, on the other hand, is altruistic. He knows that he is a member of a group, and that he prosperms only if all prosper. He has learned to give and take. He has acquired the arts of reciprocity."
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