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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939
Kansan Comment
Street Signs Might Help Strangers -- and Us
Though the Lawrence city council met last Thursday and accomplished several things, among them a continuance of plans for a new sixty-five-thousand dollar armory and a request for a report on plans for six traffic signals to be placed on Massachusetts street, it ignored a need which has been evident for as long as most students can remember—new street markers.
Each fall more than a thousand new students come to the University to locate rooms for the school year. At home basketball and football games throngs of strangers swarm over the Hill and its environs searching for the homes of relatives and old friends. Each spring, Music Week and weekend conferences draw even more visitors. The confusion of these persons, who are trying to find their way around a town in which the streets are unmarked, is evident to University students and townpeople alike, but the city government seemingly has not yet noticed this need.
For not-too-many dollars, stencils and enough paint could be purchased for street names on the curbs at intersections. For a little additional money, signs similar to the few old markers still on the telephone poles could be purchased. Perhaps if the situation is brought to the attention of the city fathers, they will add this little item to their list of courtesies to out-of-town visitors.
Hitler Really 'Loves Peace'
Ludicurus to the extreme is Adolf Hitler's May Day statement, "We love peace." Yet there is a kernel of truth in what Der Fuehrer says. Of course he loves peace, for through the world's attempt to preserve peace he has succeeded in getting almost everything that he wanted.
Herr Hitler would love to continue "peacefully" his aggression. It wasn't at all difficult for the German goose-steppers to step across the border and take control of large sections of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Italy did very well in Albania, too. And there is peace within Germany because people who want to voice any protest value their well-being too highly to create any disturbance over it.
But now the Nazi leader has about reached the limits of peaceful aggression. He would like very much to have the Free City of Danzig, which is governed by the practically defunct League of Nations. Danzig is vital to Polish economic welfare, and Poland won't see it taken over without putting up a fight.
Of course, Hitler would like to have Poland, too, but he will do a great deal of thinking before he sends his legions into Poland. France and England and Poland signed a mutual protection pact against aggression when Chamberlain and Daladier finally realized that the time had come to call a hait to Hitler's territorial grab-bag.
Since the Anglo-French-Polish pact European diplomats have been quite busy pulling for their respective side. Right now it looks like the democracies are ahead (at least in the number of countries won over). A fairly good sign that the axis countries are losing out is Hitler's complaint that France and England are trying to cast a diplomatic net around Germany.
In explaining his love of peace, Adolf goes on to say that he wants peace in order to complete enterprises that need from 10 to 20 years. This may be translated to mean that Germany is in a bad way financially.
The voracious appetite of Hitler's war machine and the constant pressure on funds in order to support the Nazi party and its activities have seriously crippled Germany. She is also suffering from an unfavorable balance of trade; Germany is steadily losing foreign exchange and is resorting to more desperate methods at home.
It is therefore understandable that Hitler says "we love peace," and then modifies his statement by adding "we need from 10 to 20 years." If he attempts to do anything further, he'll have to fight for it. And it means a fight with an imposing array of armies outfitted by countries that have a lot more actual gold in the till than Germany does.
Temporarily, Hitler may love peace, but he bears watching. He doesn't seem to qualify as the constant lover type.
Limited 'Clean-Up' Won't 'Wash Up' the K.C. Machine
The nation has watched closely the Kansas City "clean-up"—and many are wondering if it will really come out a "clean-up"—or just one of those periodical reforms within the machine.
It does not look well for the "clean-up" that Mayor Bryce Smith of Kansas City, a machine
Democrat, has taken charge of it. For nine years, Mr. Smith has served as mayor, and either was so easily duped that he did not know what was going on in the City Hall or so lacking in courage that he did not want to fight the graft and corruption that he must have known existed. It took indictments of T. J. Pendergast and R. Emmet O'Malley on charges of federal income tax evasion, the introduction in the Missouri legislature of a Kansas City state police bill, and a mounting tide of public opinion to force the Mayor to take any steps. Considering this, one wonders whether the Mayor is trying to "clearn" Kansas City or just trying to save the Democratic machine. It looks much more like the latter.
Mr. Smith has been too close to the machine to be effective, we fear, as a clean-up man. What probably will happen is that all the patronage and pork will temporarily be cut off the city rolls. When the Federal heat is turned off, it will gradually grow back on again. In the meantime, the Democratic machine will have the chance to repair its fences. Will the best chance in many years for a real clean-up in Kansas City be lost under the present set-up? It looks that way.
won't the World Please Say 'Ha-Ha'?
Newspapers are filled with shouting and counter-shouting. Every literate person gets a morning shock with his coffee as Europe's fuse continues to sputter. The nervous systems and the digestions of the world's population are suffering from this strain. In times like this, what people need is more relaxation and more laughter.
Nations, and especially their self-conscious leaders, need to cultivate a sense of humor, and cease to take themselves quite so seriously. A slightly Pollyannish attitude would be a relief from war scares for breakfast and lunch, and an invasion from Mars for dinner.
The world has a bad case of the screening jitters. A sense of humor is necessary to get any sort of a perspective of this crazy scheme of things. Nations are civilized if they can tolerate differences in attitudes and cultures. The present soaring nationalism could be broken by a good solid roar of international laughter.
A Utopian day-dream perhaps, but it is a pleasant thought to fancy a world in which there were as many laughs a day as there were hymns of hate.
'Life is real and life is earnest, it is true, but a little gaiety would certainly not hurt a world taut with self-induced fears.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
No. 38 Wednesday, May 3, 1929 No. 143
Nates at dinner at Claminton's office at 11 a.m. on date
of publication of the article in *The Atlantic*.
A SME. A special meeting of the chapter will be held Thursday evening, May 31th at the library. The student papers will be presented. Also there will be special entertainment by Mimi Dumroch and those interested are agreed to join — Hail Whitaker, Seniors.
FENCING TOURNAMENT. The Fencing Club will conduct an all-university outdoor fencing tournament on Saturday, May 20, at 2 o'clock. There will be fun, excitement and competition. All the fenced vencers are invited to submit their entries either to Jim Rappor or to Kalman Rahm at Robinahuonium before May 14. -Kalman A. Oravetz, 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 Frank Strong Hall, May 8-10, is obligatory for all who wish to attend. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Science*who expect to graduate in June, 1940, should take the Proficiency Examination at this time in order to qualify for enrollment in these courses of course work—J. B. Virtue, for the Committee.
MATHEMATIC CLUB: A picture will be taken at 12:20 Thursday on the north steps of Central Frank Strong hall. All members please be present promptly — Dorothy Bublitz, President.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at Watkins Medical Hospital from 2 to 5 p.m. each Tuesday for consultation with students or faculty. Your medical care will be made through the Hospital office. — R. I. Camusett.
Harold Addington
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
by MATTEE SMITH
"A blind date does not differ h. physical makeup any more than any other date." This is but one of the witnesses found in the proficiency examination that were taken this year.
Students Pull Boners On Proficiency Exams
Editor-in-Chief
Edition/Martin McRibble / Marlon McRibble
Feature Editors
Amiu Mumma / Amiu Mumma
The proficiency examinations are not only the means of teaching one's knowledge of the English language, but are unusual in the amount of bithered unsuspected information they add to the annals of time.
Ludicor errors, which it is hoped in the sake of learning and for the most part unintentional, cover a wide range of subjects and present a seemingly authoritative light on numerous problems. They range from the part of the washing of a dog plays in one's social position to the fact that the best way to build a fire is to use one's head.
Bv Maurice Jackson. c'41
notes'n discords
Mistakes Welfare Prove Demanding
The flow of sophistication and self-
care in university
University students would diminish
greatly if they could see some of the
mistakes they make on the examinations.
It is easy to see, after read-
Managing Editor
Walt McGraw, Walt McGraw
News Editor
Walt McGraw, Walt McGraw
Night Editor
Walt McGraw, Walt McGraw
Picture Editor
Eton Torrance
Makeup Editors
Millard Ross and Harry Branson
Sports Editor
Mary Lowen and Jim Jellib
Mistakes Would Prove Deflating
Here it is May and the Kansas hasn't carried a single editorial or walking on the grass.
by John Randolph Tyei
Does anyone know how readers of the press can distinguish between the Norwegian and Danish royal courts now traveling in the United States?
Everytime we take an examination anymore we think of the old saying, "A fool can ask more questions than a dozen wise men can answer."
After a year's study of the Denver Clarion, student paper at the University of Denver, we have come to the conclusion that the secret ambition of every staff member is to write head-lines for the Denver Post.
Business Manager ... Edwin Browne
Advertising Manager ... Omar Wanooker
A student on the Hills refuses to attend the baseball games this year. "I saw a baseball game once," he says.
The tribulations of being editor of the Kansas are beginning to tell on Roderick Burton. This morning he left a note to his staff, "If anyone wants me," the note read, "just try and find me."
Subscription rates, in absence, $3.00 per year, $175 per s master, Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the year except Monday and Saturday. Entered as second cd month, published on Monday, office at Lawrence Kansas under the Act of March 3, 1879.
If any drive ever deserved support, it is the present campaign now being conducted on the campus for the aid of Chinese students in the war zones of the East. If anything permanent can be built out of the chaos that is China today, it will be built on the Chinese students.
On the Shin -a few of the sentences, why
the University requires a student to pass
in this examination before he is
granted a degree.
A realist is the editor of the Oklahoma Daily. Recently he headlined a story "Goodnight Kisses aren't so hot."
Quoting Dierrell, Dave Prauer mee spoke of John R. Kyte as "an lequet erhebterian incrubated with exuburance of his own verbosity."
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my own stirring syllables to Aristotle, Voltaire, or Shakespeare.
"The class war is carried on between the laboring people and those people who have more leisure time—commonly known as capital. The laboring class believe they are being bullied by the capital."
Sandy, the Theta's Scotte pup, is dead. He was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver as he troted across Tennessee street. Maybe you didn't know Sandy. Maybe you won't miss him. But a lot of people miss him that probably wouldn't miss a dog at least. At least look out for little dogs like Sandy. In so doing you might accidentally not hit a person.
The following are some of the sentences:
Instructor Byron Saras walked into his personal management class yesterday respondent **in** mout that had quite evidently been kept in a closet since Easter. To stifle the ohs and whistling that eminated from the students he held aloft a sign for all to see. The sign: "You too can have a charge account at the Palace."
Advice to drivers, "Don't forget to use the steering wheel and if at night, turn on your lights."
Education Marches On
Why I wouldn't ever say a thing like that about Tye even if I knew what it meant.
"Education is growing, to gigantic proportions, and in these last years it is a stupifying figure of the children that are in school."
Peggy Dodd and Elizabeth Kemp, a couple of A. D. Fils whose pictures have appeared recently and frequently in Kansas City Star photos of Hill life, now have admirers they send to her from across the country; the girls received letters from two young soldiers at Fort Riley asking for dates the night of May 6.
"Building a campfire is something that is much easier said than done."
"Perhaps the most important thing about building a fire, handling a fire, cooking over a fire, or putting the thing out when you're through with it, is the simple business of using one's head."
"Washing a dog is a task by which one must become familiar with if he expects to remain a figure in our social world. For what his dog looks like, the person can be judged accordingly."
Now What Is A Football
"The football remains you a ball an oval ball which has been pulled at two points each opposite the other. Men often perfect themselves in the ability to play football and use it as a vocation."
"Being a wall-flower strikes terror from the tips of one's toes to the roots of one's hair and to fully be able to sympathize with a person in this condition one should have experience the same emotions or at least know the intricate details of the delicate situation."
Ten members of the department of psychology will attend the Mid-Western Psychology convention in Lincoln, Neb., Friday and Saturday. Prof. R. H. Wheeler, head of the department, will be in charge of the political and social attitudes secretary for the Department of Psychology a paper on "Applications of Gestalt Psychology to Problems of Social Behavior."
Ten Will Attend Psychology Meet
Others attending are Beulah M. Morrison, professor of psychology; Walter Varvel, Fletcher McCord; Richard Hoehn, Garth Thomas Lee, Helmine Glen Sarvis, Moore Mall, and Kenneth Moore, assistant instructors.
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"Midnight" starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, is the current attraction at the Dickinson theater. Claude Burns, this is your free pass. Present it with your identification card at the box-office.
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UNIVERSITY CITY
More than 4,500 young men and women at the prime of life, receptive to the new and different, associate and interact in hundreds of activities from dance to classroom—in a city within a city—on the hill.
They hold hundreds of thousands of dollars at their command to spend in Lawrence. . BUT WISELY! A recent survey$^{a}$ shows that 93 per cent of men's clothing bought during 1938 was purchased in stores which advertise regularly in the Daily Kansas. The official publication of the University of Kansas is the only medium which reaches ALL students, every day, with a medium of time and expense to the advertiser.
Mr. Merchant, are you receiving your share of business from University City?
$ ^{*} $Conducted by the division of Market Analysis of the School of Business.
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