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Harmless Halloween
Chief of Police Jude Anderson asks the cooperation of all University students to preserve the peace on Halloween. There is a medium between hobbing for apples and destroying property. The ancient bromide that "college students are old enough to know better" is always trotted out in an appeal to a venerated maturity which has a tendency to evaporate on occasion.
A University town can hardly use the Chamber of Commerce method of corraling the pranksters for a party. Halloween fun can be both enthusiastic and harmless, if a little judgment and restraint are exercised.
Seeing the U.S. Through Candid Eyes
"Tobacco Road" and "Grapes of Wrath" have opened the eyes of the American public to some domestic tragedies that have existed unpublicized for years. Writers of the candid-camera variety have turned their searching eyes on many sections and localities, and the Middle West, unfortunately, is in a defenceless position if a novelist of this type is hunting for a plot.
Drought-suffering farmers in the South and Middle West are "naturals" for the human-struggle type of study. But these Americans are more than interesting case-histories; they are citizens in need of help. Mass migration of stricken families in northeastern Texas and Oklahoma has already begun. This fall has brought one of the worst drouths on record in thirty states. As a result, many families are giving up the land.
A committee of legislators from the unfortunate douth states will ask Congress for at least $50,000,000 in relief funds before the present session adjourns. Even this amount will not remedy the desperate situation.
The southern states of Mississippi, Arkansas and parts of Alabama have suffered the most. Spring floods devastated many farms. Those farmers who managed to get in a crop after the waters had subsided are now faced with a drought and a cropless future. Many southern farmers are now having to sell everything they own just to get enough to eat.
The Farm Securities Administration estimates that 115,000 families are in need of direct and immediate relief. The agency also reports that it had, at the beginning of the fiscal year, $118,000,000 for grants and loans, but it also had applications from 400,000 families who were not included in this budget. The FSA will need a much larger fund in December and January when crop loans are made.
America has been concentrating its attention on a European war while a major disaster happens in our own neighborhood. Nations in glass houses should put their own affairs in order instead of posing in the international mirror as a potential arbiter.
--this increase, said, "I believe that lately students are coming to the hospital for actual treatment in order of treating themselves at home."
University Is Fishbowl
The University will be a large and well-lighted gold fish bowl next Friday when approximately two hundred thousand visitors flood Lawrence for the National Cornhusking Contest. Newcomers will take mental note of the campus and the collegiate and their observations will be critical and vocal. The University will be publicized by word of mouth, and such a voluntary campaign can do much toward building good will toward the school if the impression is favorable.
In order that strangers shall receive a truer and more complete picture of the school than a casual drive around the campus would bring, some University groups have organized student-guided tours. Such a scheme will eliminate numerous unnecessary traffic evils which will result when the thousands bring their cars on the Hill following the contest and before the football game. Above all, the visitors will carry away a feeling of having been welcome on Mt. Oread.
Certain campus groups stand especially fitted for handling such a task. They are well organized and have had experience in helping with University crowds, and such work falls among their purposes for existing. Twenty-five University men have been chosen from the Ku Ku's, K club, and the Owl society. In their hands will be the main responsibility of making a success of the sight-seers invasion.
--this increase, said, "I believe that lately students are coming to the hospital for actual treatment in order of treating themselves at home."
The End And the Means
What Emily Post is to the debentate so Machiavelli is to the modern dictators—a guide and mentor. "The Prince", written nearly four hundred years ago by Niccollo Machiavelli of
Florence, is the Bible of Europe's strong men. "God is a lover of strong men, for one always sees that the weak are punished by the strong."
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler have all read the book. Soon after he gained power in 1922, Mussolini went so far as to write, "I believe Machiavelli's 'Prince' to be the statesman's supreme guide. I cannot depart from his conclusions."
Machiavelli lived in a transitional period in history when 16th century Europe was throwing off the ascetic garb of the Middle Ages, and ambitious men were starting to grasp power He found his doctrine in the reality of actions in his world, where cruel usurps of states by armed force were the history-makers. He watched Savonarola oust the reigning Medici family from Florence; he observed diplomatic fraud and relentless cruelty while envoy in the camp of Cesare Borgia, and learned that "egoism concentrated in one ruthless man could build not only the man but also a state."
As Secretary in the Second Chancery of Florence, he studied the men of his times and their methods. He observed and remembered the devious diplomacy of the period as he shuttled from one military camp to another on his diplomatic missions. Entirely unambitious himself, Machiavelli was more of a commentator and recorder of politics. His manual of suscrulpulousness may be taken as an authority on gaining power by whatever means necessary
Machiavelli wrote: "A Prince ought to be terrible in two places, at home to his subjects and abroad to his equals; a Prince is never to league himself with another more powerful in an offensive war; because, in that case, if he overcomes, you remain at his mercy."
Mussolini learned that lesson when he leagued with Hitler. Hitler is now learning the same relentless fact at the squeezing hand of Stalin. Machiavelli's three star pupils should read all the chapters.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939.
--this increase, said, "I believe that lately students are coming to the hospital for actual treatment in order of treating themselves at home."
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Sunday, Oct. 29, 1939 No. 32
Notice due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on
the afternoon of Tuesday, March 28, at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA. All members and plaques are urged to attend the meeting of the board and service february 6th afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room the Union building—Kenneth Cedaral, president.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to students, graduates, and faculty members, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C. Mover hall—Jack Dalby, secretary.
NEWMAN CLUB: There will be a regular meeting of the Newman Club at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in St. John's Parish Hall—James C. Gillespie, vice-president.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The Home Economics Club will meet Tuesday, Oct 31, at 7:30 at the Home Management House to initiate new members—Audrey Bateman, president.
PERSONAL RELATIONS COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 30, at Henley House for a discussion of faculty-student rulations and the held meeting to mark-Marjane Wiley, Church Yeemans, co-chairman.
PHI DELA KAPPA: There will be a special meeting Monday, Oct. 30, 1939, at 7:30 p.m. on Oreat training school. The membership committee will propose the meeting in regular November meeting—Reid Hembhill, secretary.
PSG.L. FRESHEN! There will be a rally of PS G.L. freshmen in the m'lounge at 7:15 Monday evening, Oct. 30. All freshmen are invited—Dan Merritti Press President Freshman Council.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB. The Sociology Club will meet
the students from Room of the Union
building — Jean Steele, president.
WESTMINISTER STUDENT FORUM: The weekly meeting will be held at 7:30 this evening at Westminster hall. Hal Ruppenthal will give a report of the Amsterdam World Youth Conference which he attended last summer. Marc Gunther Anderson will lead the service; Florence Flower will lead. Everyone is invited—Charles Yeamans, president.
W. S.G.A. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. Please remember to meet Tuesday at 110 in Central Adt to have the picture taken.
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Weekends Tax Health According to Records
By Eugene Kuhn, c'10
More than a quarter of a million students—209,920 to be exact—have been treated by the University health service during the past 10 years, an average of slightly more than eight calls a year for each student, Dr. R. I. Canutessen, director of the health service, said yesterday.
During this period, however, there has been a yearly increase in the number of students using the health service, and only about 15% of students were treated at Watkins Memorial hospital, an average of more than 13 calls a year for each student having the health fee.
Dr. Canuteson, who has been director of the health service over the entire period in accounting for
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Now is the time for someone to start organizing the Veterans of "Still in the Future" Wars.
By Roderick Burton
Sports note: The Topeka Capital reports that the moon's eclipse furnished an interesting sidelight for St. Benedict's night football game.
We are unable to confirm the rumor that the Society of the Rising Sun is going to change its name to Doctor Gallup.
One thing about the student directory—the members of the Kansas staff can always look up where they are supposed to be living.
The Dies Committee apparently believes in taking everybody down in black and red.
The United States has one automobile for every five persons and twice as many on Sunday.
Fine Arts School Plans First 'Fling'
Fine arts students will rattle the floor of Robinson gymnastium to the rhythm of Clyde Byason's music and the Arts Fling'ikes takes place Nov. 17.
More than 300 students are expected to attend the "filing," and plans for selling tickets will be made at a meeting in Strong Franklin hall tomorrow, Betty Lou Mechem, cunell, in charge of the dance, said yesterday. Informal dress will be the style of the dance, with sweaters and slacks expected to predominate. To be admitted, a member of each couple must be enrolled in a course in the School of Fine Arts.
This will be the first time the School of Fine Arts has ever sponsored such an event and, if successful it will be made an annual afair;
Delta Phi Delta, art fraternity; Phi Mu Alpha, professional musical fraternity; and Mu Phi Epsilon, professional athletic organizations have initiated the social event.
University extension division will start a class in Civilian Pilot Training at Kansas City. The first meeting was held by Fred S. Montgomery and extension Division Tuesday night at a night at A, with about 18 students attending.
The organization will meet next Tuesday night when a film, "The History of Aviation," will be shown. This course is not open to students of the Kansas City Junior College which has a similar course.
Start Extension Air School in K.C.
Records at the hospital show that more students apply for treatment on Monday than on any other day of the week. Wednesday is another day. After that, hospital attendance dwindles until another weekend passes.
The number of students admitted to the hospital each year as patients has more than doubled during this 10-year period. In 1929, 711 students were admitted, as compared to 1,466 students last year.
Over this period, the average daily hospital census has jumped from 7.57 in 1929 to 17.66 for last year. The average number of days spent in the hospital for each patient has not shown such a marked increase. The average in 1928 was 2.8 days. In 1930, it rose to 3.7 days. During 1935-36 and 1936-37, hospital cases averaged more than four days for each student admitted.
Diseases of the respiratory system were responsible for a larger number of dispensary treatments and hospitalization of students than any other cause. Dr. Cautenus said, although the bulk of treatments were for colds. Last year, 4,487 dispensary treatments were made for these diseases, an average of more than one call for each student paying the fee. Three hundred and seventy-eight were admitted to the hospital
Teeter Speaks To Registrars
Miss Edna Teeter, assistant registrur and secretary of the advanced standing committee, spoke to the Kansas State Registrars' Association on the American Association of Collegiate Registrars' convention, which she attended in New York last April.
The annual meeting of the Kansas State Registrars' Association was held jointly with the meeting of the Deans of Kansas College at the University of Wichita Saturday morning.
Faul B. Lawson, dean of the College; J. H. Nelson, associate dean of the College; and U. G. Mitchell professor of mathematics, left: Saturday morning to attend the joint session.
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Jean Robertson, one of the Raleigh brand Robertsons, employs numerous devices to stir baldipate Kenny Postlewaite out of his complacent life as Lawrence Kansas City Star correspondent. Probably the most effective one used in where she sidets up to the tonnage, he tells me, is Harper Joe College, and copy remarks, "Where's my brother, Jimmy?" I want to go to the mid-week and I haven't a date"24
Our sympathy goes out to the harassed film exhibitor whose chief desire in Hollywood was to "hit Nelson Eddy on the head with Bobby Green." We know of two or three girls we'd like to hit on the juggin with Bill Farmer. Bill is not unlike the pixilated person who believes everyone but himself to be crazy. His psychosis, however, is the belief that everyone but Farmer is a louse.
Whereupon Posty is seen that night at the mid-week leaning against one of his namesakes . . . Although we won't vouch for its truthfulness, Jeannie the Enamored floats manually about these days humming, "I dream of Kenny wilt the slight brown hair."
Sibn's Most Embarrassing Moment—when our Sunday date wake up to a car containing our worst friends and best critics and suggests "Let's postpone the piicen until evening—besides it’s more fun at night." Just try convincing Gene Coleman she meant that steaks taste better over a fire on a cool evening.
Shy, ponderous Charles McDonald met Ruth Oatman at a party
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The University looked a bit more natural over the weekend with Dan Hamilton strolling the Campus. "You know, he'dn't get around for the last semester.
Hal Rupenthal, c42, attended a youth rally in Wichita last weekend where he spoke about his experiences in Europe this summer. Rupenthal was a delegate to the World Youth of Christian Youth in Amsterdam.
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It was a motley group that congregated at the Dine-a-mite Imn Friday night. Be-tuxed and formalized couples from the Sigma Chi shindig, persons in costumes recalling Barbary Coast, from the Alph party, and one pair from Corbin hallows Hallowen frolic gave the watering place a grotesque appearance.
'Other night, walked home with her, goodnighted her, and started to walk away before it occurred to him to ask her name. Charles should frequent more receiving lines—it's really quite easy after you catch on.
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Alpha Chi Marjorie Gaines' gamed off of a Kansas State Beta has caused Walt Megininger to quip, "What Marjorie Gaines is the K-State co-eds' loss." Ho-hum, anyway we didn't think it up.
Time, the great disintegrator, has laid its mark upon one of Lawrence's finest homes. Thacher house, whose massive 21 rooms and solid walnut woodwork were built in the early '70s by Judge Thacher, has been advertised for sale to satisfy taxes. There was a time when the walnut woodwork of Judy Thacher creeped over Mount Oread, furnishing their owner with excellent grapes for more excellent wine.
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