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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939
Kansan Comment
But College Students Aren't Interested
It is not surprising that a majority of the college students of America favor a war referendum law for the United States. The astonishing fact of the Student Opinion Survey is that the proposition is upheld by such a small majority—only 54.3 per cent.
To those whom a war would affect the most, college students, the bill offers a strong measure of security against going into a war unwillingly. A decision of such great importance should be referred to the people, not to politicians who are concerned more with diplomatic causes and the demands of lobbyists than with the shedding of the life blood of their fellow Americans. The last word on war should rest with the solid, independent-thinking persons who pay the taxes, who keep in motion the complex machinery of the nation—and whose children it is that go into battle.
The bill, of course, provides for emergencies. If either North or South America is invaded, Congress and the President are empowered to act at once; then rights in this instance are unquestioned.
The young men and women of college age are the ones most concerned with the question of war referendum. They have their lives before them; it will be they who lose their security, their faith in their fellowmen, and their lives. But that only a small majority supports the referendum bill is another evidence that college students take all too little interest in world affairs—that even university men, supposedly the best trained, are concerned all too little with what concerns them most.
Missouri Gives Negro Equality---In Theory
Despite the court decision in the Gaines case, a recent action of the Missouri legislature shows that that state is not going to allow Negroes too much of a chance to gain a professional status comparable to that of members of the white race.
The court decision ruled that a Negro youth, who desired to attend law school in Missouri, had a right to do so. This ruling meant that either (1) the University of Missouri would have to open its gates to Negroes, or that (2) a school of law would have to be established in Lincoln University, the colored state school in Missouri. Even after the decision was rendered, the University of Missouri refused to admit Lloyd Gaines, the Negro who brought the whole problem up.
The legislature came to the rescue of the University of Missouri on this point. It passed a bill appropriating $200,000 to "equalize" Lincoln university with the University of Missouri. But the point is this: considering that Lincoln University does not have the buildings or equipment that Missouri has, that Lincoln University cannot get the professors Missouri can, and that Lincoln University must build up from nothing a school of law, a school of engineering, and possibly a school of journalism, $200,000 will not be near enough to "equalize" in anything but theory Lincoln University with the University of Missouri. The legal "equal opportunity" may be there—but that the Negro has an opportunity for as good a professional education will be an exaggeration.
The best solution to the problem would be to allow the University of Missouri to admit Negro students. Then Negroes would have in practice, as well as in theory, the "equal opportunity" that they deserve. But Missouri is a Southern state, and race prejudice dies hard.
The CCC Should Remain A Constructive Agency
An unnecessary step toward militarization in this country is Senator May's amendment offered in Congress that CCC boys be given required military training. If the United States were in danger of military invasion, the bill might have some necessity. But the United States, in spite of Orsen Welles' radio programs, is not today in danger of military invasion by any major power—Martian or otherwise.
Because of their fear of aggression, foreign countries, demand that every able-bodied man spend from one to three years of his early manhood in learning military training. Some countries have tended to go even further—even to the extent of tearing the child from his cradle to teach him to play with mock machine guns and gas masks. The main education of a youth today in many nations is how to drill and fight. By such training, the European countries have prepared for war.
The principal problem of the United States is not, as in other countries, to prepare for war. The main problem facing America is unemployment—and this is especially prevalent among the youths of the country. In place of recruiting these youths into some army reserve
organization, Congress established the CCC to give them jobs bettering our country.
In the last six years, the CCC has done more creative work than the standing armies of Europe have done in the last fifty years. To review a list of some of the accomplishments: the CCC has planted 1,500,000,000 trees, constructed 100,000 miles of roads and trails, built 40,000 bridges, strung 70,000 miles of telephone wire; built 5,000 large dams, erected 3,600 fire lookout stations, and sown 300,000 acres of wind-swept grassland.
The purpose of the CCC was to help the young unemployed of the country and the United States. Whatever measures to militarize it are proposed, the CCC must remain a creative, constructive agency rather than a drill training organization.
Being Careful Is
The Smart Thing To Do
Speaking from a safety-first point of view, this spring weather has its disadvantages as well as its good points. The motorist can't complain about the visibility of the wet pavements. But there's one driving hazard that gets worse instead of better during the spring months—namely, keeping the motorist's mind on his driving.
Of course, one can't blame spring for all the lapses of mind that cause automobile accidents. The excessive amount of reckless and absent-minded driving about the Campus and Lawrence cannot be attributed to any one cause.
At a last week's meeting of the Lawrence City Council a policeman with fire in his eye told the council members that, by goll, he was going to clamp down on these wild drivers, and that he'd see to it there was no more of this racing down Massachusetts street at 50 per. The policeman must have meant it, for the number of fines paid for traffic violations has gone up within the last few days.
Safety campaigns have proved successful in cities and towns that have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into the spirit of the thing. The nation-wide safety campaign is beginning to show results. The national safety council recently reported that if the present motor car fatality rate continues, the death total this year will be the lowest since 1928.
It does pay to be careful. Not only that, but if one obeys the traffic rules and the laws of good driving one does not have to pay raid policemen for infringements. Being careful is not only the best thing to do, it's the smartest thing to do.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
*Notice due at Charleston.* Office at 11 a.m. on date of publication and 11.39 a.m. on Sunday issue.
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A. M.E.M. A special meeting of the chapter will be held this evening at 7 o'clock. Two student papers will be presented. Also there will be special entertainment by Mr. Shrimpy and the interested are urged to attend. - Holt Whitaker, Secretary
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at Henley House at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon to film the second hull of an original moving picture featuring the scenes from Marry's scenic scenes, so everyone interested is invited to be in the movie. Please wear school clothes and bring your coats. Carry—Maryor Wijeye, Charles Yeamans, Co-chairman.
FENCING TOURNAMENT: The Fencing Club will conduct an all-university outdoor fence tournament on Saturday, May 28, at 2 o'clock. There will be fail, loss, and withdrawal. At 4 o'clock, all vanced fencers are invited to submit their entries either to Jim Report or to Kalman Ortalam at Robinum in August before May 14. -Kalman A. Oruzett, President.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. The last of this year's three examinations will be held on Saturday, May 13, at 9 a.m. Registration at the College office, 121 West 40th Street, New York, NY, to wish to take the examination. All students of Liberal Arts and Sciences who expect to graduate in June, 1940, should take the Proficiency Examination at this time in order to quality for enrollment in college courses in hours of course work—J. B. Virtue, for the Committee.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Dr. Chapman will speak on "The Mechanism of Spark Discharge" at 4:38 pm Friday in room 203 Blake Hall. Everyone interested is invited—Sevilev Chapman, Secretary.
QUILL CLUB. Plocking and initiation will be held at Professor Hopkins house, 1234 Miss. at, 7:30 th evening.
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Sonnets From a Diary
by Kenneth R. Lewis, c'39
The Winning Carruth Contest Poem, 1939
Here in the book, conveniently arranged
With rows of shining figures set in squares
We mark the several ways the seasons changed
And how spring stole upon us unawares . . .
On such and such a day, at such an hour,
The first snow fell . . . And here's the evening when,
The moon being full, I found your face a flower
And knew the quest was ended . . . Here again—
But surely there were days before these days:
Mosaics of dawn and sunset, wind and weather,
Moons jostling moons in the accustomed ways,
Grey greees in flight, and stars singing together
On winter nights. . . Were all these not the same
Undoubtedly, before the night you came?
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Strange how the memory lets go of dreams . . .
Lost between sleep and waking, in the dawn,
The mind pursues its phantoms, breasts the streams
Of swift dissolving dark, and hurries on,
Perplexed by ghostly bugles, waiting in vain
For drudr trumpets from some distant beach
To tell the chase is done, the quarry slain . . .
Then, knowing the prize once more beyond all reach,
Turns futility, descends the trial, pursues
New glint of name, new evidence of hoof—
The spoon grown faint, lost in conflictful clues,
Sifting the sign to find some further proof—
Such dreams were all my days before you came,
And all my nights . . . I have forgotten them
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I have forgotten them in this, the last
Consummate dream: the meeting of lovers' lips . . .
Under the streetlight after the cars have passed,
Huddled in doorways where the brown fog stops
At the windows, with a plume of pliance.
Or hidden in corner booths who smoke erects
Recurrent screens, and ancient passions dance
To ancient songs, phrased in new dialects—
Wherever we find us out of the city's eyes
And you, half-smiling, lift your face to mine
I clutch the dream I sought to realize.
Mother of all dreams. A nine-year-old.
Asons ago, they say, a shepherd boy
For such a certain doomed the towns of Trov.
Yet when the year goes down in scarlet glory
And trees and hills, caught in the avalanche
Of crystal flame which follows frost's first foray,
Assume new trappings, every leaf and branch
Conspires to show me—wonder-struck, in awe—
How you, my Love, whom I so well believed
Heart's prisoner, subservient to my law,
Have slipped the bars. When, finally undeceived,
I watch you climb the bluff, eluding thorn,
Escaping all in that flamboyant place
Which would lay hold on you, I feel the scorn
Reserved for those who seek to cage your grace ...
And know at last, secured by love and rapture,
Ho wit was you, not I, that made the capture.
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Ice forms a ruthless setting for farewell—
Glint on the moon, and locks the dreaming town;
Prunes the old trees till cystal branches swell
The gleaming lawns; and drags the saplings down . . .
Last night, oh Delphic love, your dark eyes told me;
Recalled Persephone foreseeing winter—
Tonight, against farewell, your young arms hold me
Like mapes hoarder scarlet . . . Heart will splinter,
Blood congeal, and veins solidity,
Now you take leave for longer than tomorrow—
Where are those two who, when they said goodbye,
Claim to have found their parting such sweet sorrow?
Long are they dust, in some far paradise
That never knew the cruelty of ice.
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Now ghosts are in the street, I see them walking
Against the sun . . . They daily on the lawn ...
They prowl the corridors . . . whispering, mocking;
Inchoate voices threatening the dawn ...
Go where I may, there no escaping footfalls
Of these who pass in twilight, when the cold
Presses the windows, lingering in the halls—
I had no thought shades dared to be so bold ...
Oh Love, return! Come quickly if you cherish
The meory of our days, the dreams we shared—
Lest, living too much with ghosts, the wan heart perish;
And you, returning late, be unprepared
For spectral welcome, or the hollow laughter
Of curved white bones suspended from a rafter.
The barkentine of April rides in the street,
Restlessly tethered, fretting her anchor chair,
Velvet her sails, her lines are trim and rain .
Mera mats shoot green, her gripping dips with rain ...
You have returned tonight ... The guns of spring
Outsideand you. They echo in my heart.
Time could not keep you; space—nor anything
Fashioned of hemp or steel hold you apart.
April has brought you ... April, strong as death,
Swifter than youth, and more importate,
Took you by storm. Magie was in her breath;
Her sorcery has made me fortune ...
Lower the plank, or Love; your heart's escort
Returned you well to this, the destined port
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Later, when love and fame have ceased to burn
Twin lonely candles at the spent heart's shrine;
Desire and youth are ashes in an urn;
Faith a drained glaze, and hope a ruined mine;
Spring a brief hour of sunlight in the street;
Beauty a trick to make age catch its breath;
And the moon but a bum to help unsteady feel
More surely up the stairs to sleep or death—
The memory of this night, and all our nights,
May once again be dreams Beside a fire.
Something secure to cleave to when the lights
Wink on along the street, and flames grow higher . . .
We may forget the days, my Love, the years—
But not the sudden rapture, or the tears.
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Just as years of telephone research stand back of today's special broadcasting circuits—so the research of today is helping to solve the communications problems of tomorrow. Another Bell System contribution to your daily life.
Even before the earliest days of broadcasting, Bell System engineers developed means of transmitting sounds of all kinds by wire. These have been improved constantly to transmit the extremely high and low sound frequencies of music and entertainment.
Did you know that radio broadcasting stations from coast to coast are linked by more than 53,000 miles of special telephone circuits?
KANSAN CLASSIFIED ADS
Phone K.U. 66
How about to telephone call to Dad?
Rates to most points are lowest any time
after 7 P. M. and all day Sunday.
CRYSTAL Sandwich Shop Fountain and Curb Service
Try Our Tasterite and Tenderloin Sandwiches
UNION CAB CO.
Phone 2-800
When Others Fail. Try Us
Baggage Handled - 24 Hrs. Service
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FRITZTEL ICE CREAM
RANKIN'S
We Deliver
1101 Mass. Phone 678
HORSES FOR HIRE! Mott's Riding Academy 4 blocks West of West Campus Road Call 3201W and we'll come for you. A new kind of date. Ride for 5 miles on beautiful bridle paths.
WRIGHT and DITSON
Tennis Rackets
RUTKERS Restrugt
RUTKERS SHOP
1014 Mans. ST.
Phone 319
"They Made Me a Criminal," starring John Garfield and the Garnad End Kids is now playing at the Granada theater through Saturday. Lois Naylor, this is your free pass.
DRAKES for BAKES
Hamburgers and Chili 9th. and Vermont
HAL'S
We handle packages and baggage
Jayhawk Taxi Phone 65 handle pockets and hangers
Jayhawk Barber Shop
Shaves — 10c
Haircuts — 20c
C. J. "Shirley" Hood, Prop.
727 Mass.
START QUICK
with Standard Red Crown Gasoline
Hartman Standard Service
13th and Mass.
Phone 40
"They Made Me a Criminal," starring John Garfield and the Dead End Kids is now playing at the Grand剧院 through Saturday. Rex Sage, this is your free pass.
TAXI
HUNSINGER'S 920-22 Mass.
Phone 12
Castile Shampoo and Set ... 35c
Revita Oil Shampoo and wave 50c
Revinon Manicure ... 3 for $1.00
Seymour Beauty Shop
817½ Mass. Phone 100
PALACE BARBER SHOP
Haircuts — 25c
Haircuts and Shampoo — 50c
IN OUR BEAUTY SHOP
Shannon's Place
Permanents — $2.50 up
Machineless Permanents — $5
710 Mass. Phone 282
IVA'S BEAUTY SHOP Phone 533 941'1 Mass. St.
Tibbets Standard Service
BRIDGE STATION
Open All Night