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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12. 1939
Kansan Comment
University Alumnus To Be Chancellor
In the appointment of Deane Malott to the Chancellorship of the University, the Board of Regents bestows upon a distinguished graduate the highest honor his Alma Mater has to give. With congratulations are in order for Deane Malott, regrets must be expressed again that beloved Chancellor Lindley is leaving the administrative service of the University.
It will be a difficult task to succeed an outstanding educator as E. H. Lindley has shown himself to be throughout his 19 years on Mount Oread. But Deane Malott is a Kansas boy, a University man and a Harvard professor. With that background, and with the co-operation and help he will receive from a capable faculty and administration, Deane Malott in his new position will bring added honors to himself and to the University.
To the Board of Regents should go the praise of all Kansas citizens. Charged with a difficult task—one that carried heavy responsibility—the Regents conducted a moriforous search. They would not be hurried. They investigated scores of candidates, interviewed dozens. They gathered every available scam of information.
And with the aid of faculty and alumni groups—both of which coogenerated wholeheartedly, the Regents have made a choice in which the state, the University and the student body place the utmost confidence.
Welcome. Dean Malott.
Responsibilities--
Here or Abroad?
"No country with such economic power (as the United States) can avoid international political responsibilities." This empty trump is from the pen of Dorothy Thompson, columnist.
What, actually, are the responsibilities of this country to the world? Must we help the powers police the world; must we preserve universal peace at any cost; must we boycott the "bad" nations and help the "good" nations; must we act as judges of the world and deliver justice—if we can decide exactly what it is—to all?
Reforming the world for international justice and peace sounds good, but international justice and peace cannot be obtained until the other nations desire to attain it—and right now one cannot say that the other countries have shown much desire for attaining it.
If one scans calmly the nations of the world and considers their actions apart from their professed creds, he finds their actions determined not by noble thoughts and actions toward their brother men—not by their "international political responsibilities"—but by their own national interests.
The United States, it is presumed, could continue on its economic campaign and perhaps even start a military campaign to bring the dove of peace to the world, but after all, has not Hitler beat us to it? It Hitler is possibly the greatest peace-lover of the day; he claims that he desires to unify Europe in order that there may be no more war.
Idealism dies hard. If the same self-centered policy as practiced by the other nations is suggested for the United States, it is called cowardly and selfish. Such a policy is admittedly cowardly and selfish, but it seems to be the only remaining rational policy. It is useless in the world of today to be heroic and idealistic. The Spanish Loyalists tried it. The United States would put up a better fight than they, but even such a policy would be foredoomed to failure because of lack of international support. The only realistic policy in the chaotic, unorganized world of today, it seems, is to be "cowardly" and "selfish."
The United States may not be able to avoid international political responsibilities—but in the present world the main responsibilities of the United States must be to the forty-eight states and territories within her natural boundaries.
Man Progresses Some in Safety
A glance at the headlines of the average daily paper assures one that the world of today has progressed beyond the place where man can control his own inventions. That point is driven home by the alarming number of traffic-accident death accounts that appear in the newspaper. The extended drive that has been in progress in many American cities under the sponsorship of the National Safety Council seems to have had only a minor effect on the national total of traffic deaths.
But more thorough investigations of the traffic deaths than those recorded by reporters shows a gratifying decrease since the drive was started. For sixteen consecutive months, the number of persons killed in the United States by traffic accidents has decreased steadily. The
first two months of this year had the lowest rate of traffic fatalities since January and February of 1933.
Statistics also show that the cities from 250,000 to 500,000 population have made the biggest advances in cutting down the number of traffic deaths. The traffic of these cities did not seem to require as careful planning as the larger cities. As a result, safety campaigns of the cities from 250,000 to 500,000 population were usually spasmoid—resulting in little permanent value to city safety.
This condition contributed much to the alarming total of traffic deaths in 1933. Since these cities have been co-operating with the National Safety Council in hiring safety managers and conducting serious, sustained traffic campaigns, the number of lives lost each year due to laxness in traffic laws, has been reduced.
Perhaps this remarkable record in traffic death decreases over the last sixteen months indicates that Americans are at least adjusting their driving speed to city regulations. Whether this is true or not, the National Safety Council deserves recognition for its constructive work.
Goldfish Swallowers
Rate Above Whangdoodles
(The following editorial deserves reprinting from the Financial Gazette, although does not address any specific issue.)
Kansas University has the live goldfish eating championship of the United States. Last week a KU. undergraduate, at a public demonstration, swallowed 50 live goldfish and took the rag off the bush that had been waving proudly before Harvard.
It is odd that such tomfoilery should come from our colleges. It emphasizes the need of two kinds of colleges in this country, one for students who want to know something, and one for exhibitionists, show-offs, smarties, nit-wits, rah-rah boys, Joe College addicts and well-placed economic cake-eaters.
As we sit here in our somber monastic cell, grieving over the evils of this world and particularly the unholy-whop-to-do of American higher education, the spectacle of that goldfish-swaller rises before us and leaves us with a gentle, yearning nostalgia for a big, bottle-shaped, brass-lunged, brainless football player, in sad contrast and gloomy comparison. As between a goldfish-swaller and a stadium gladiator, we should the kiss of our approval right on the smacker of the gladiator. Yet dear heaven knows he is the lowest form of education life above the extinct whangdooide.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Wednesday, April 12, 1939 No. 128
Notice that data on Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m., on date of
season, is午12:30 p.m. Saturday for Sunday issue.
--like that I'd enjoy digging some of grandpaw's kilts out of the moth balls.
ASME. A meeting of the ASME will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor E. D. Hay will give an illustrated lecture on machine design and power plant design—Hal Waltler, Secretary.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at Henley House Friday evening, April 14 at 7 o'clock. Work on the story of the original moving picture will be completed, in order that actual filming may be begun Sunday. Anyone interested is invited to come—Marion Wiley, Charles Yewmans, Co-char-
FLYING CLUB: There will be an important meeting of the Flying Club in 110 Marvin Hall at 7:30 Thursday evening. All members please be present—Betty Smith, Secretary.
FESHIMAN Y.M.C.A.: There will be a meeting of the staff and board in the mounia's客厅 of the Union Building. Mr Charles Schwibo, secretary, will lead the discussion. All freshmen are urged to come...Lloyd Eldes.
INDEPENDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION: There will be a meeting of the Council of the Independent Student Association at 7 o'clock this evening in the Union building—Ruth Warren, Secretary.
FRACTICE TEACHING: Students who wish to do practice teaching next fall in Oread Training School or in art or music in the city schools will apply online for the Education office, 46 Fraser, at once: R. A. Schwinger.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at Watkins hospital from 2 to 5 p.m. each Tuesday for consultation with students on personal problems. Appointments must be made through the hospital office.
SIGMA ETA CHI: The party scheduled for Friday was definitely postponed — Zen in Flower, Peterson.
STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS' COMMISSION The Student Correspondents' Commission will hold a meeting Monday, April 17, in 102 Journalism Building. A principal speaker, Velma Wilson, Chairman.
RED CROSS PRE-TRAINING SCHOOL The Red Cross Pre-Training School will meet at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in 202 Robinson gymnasium—Herbert G Allhain.
QUACK CLUB: There will be a swimming meeting at 8:35 this evening - Mary Learnard.
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Coed Conclave Brings Beauty. Brains to Oread
By Mary Jane Sigler, *c* 39
No one can say that the University is a dull place. Something is always doing besides run of the mill stuff. This week tongues are buzzing about the newly appointed chancellor, and last week we were hosts to four conventions.
The Independent Students Association convention, held from March 30 to April 1, was largely a man's show, for the male delegates were overwhelmingly in the majority. But the women had the I.A.W.S convention entirely to themselves. They attended the W.S.G.A. President-elect Velma Wilson, and their assistants managed it expertly.
Last of these conventions was the conference of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students, which brought 165 attractive coeds to Mount Oread for three days. The women were from 57 schools, and every one is a leader on her campus.
There was probably more beauty plus brains in one of the conference meetings that has been assembled in that many square feet on Mount Oread in many a day. A large percentage of the delegates were well-educated, swell girls, too—just ask any member of an organized girls house that " slept" some of the delegates—even if some of them didn't know the most graceful way to descend from the top of a double-decker bed.
The coeds in California and Washington wear anklets and disprove saddle shoes, pert hair bows, and gay scarves, too. And cramming, bulling, and apple polishing are frequently indulged in. Not to
Girls are pretty much the same no matter where they hail from. The writer learned this from talking informally with Baiye Rie Stone, president of the AWS, at the College of Applied Medra Williams, president-elect of the women's group at Washington State College at Pullman.
Coeds Don't Differ Much
On the Shin -like that I'd enjoy digging some of grandpaw's kilts out of the moth balls.
(Continued from page one)
Time magazine's two-column account of the goldfish gulping epidemic doesn't say so much as mention its不易察觉. Oh also transit gloria mundra!
Unclassified information: Girls elected to Mortar Board don't have to keep closing hours but are given more time and powers to come and go as they please.
That name Mortar Board has always worried me just a little. It sounds more like an appellation for a auxiliary of a brick-layers union.
Sigma Chiarence Neal took part in a radio broadcast while holidaying in Kansas City last week, the program eminating from a north side courtroom. For the sum of 10 dollars he received from the judge and several thousand listeners just why and how he happened to be traveling 42 m.p.h.
We do not intend to cry into our typewriter about the fate of either Albania or Tom Pempergast. They will have to shift for themselves. It serves them right for getting into trouble. The Konan can't be published.
notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye
The more we think about it the more certain we are that the way Franchot Tone treated John Crawford is positively un-American.
The St. Mary's Star refers to one of the young men of that city who made good as a writer and a consum- mate wordster."
"The gentleman who wrote 'T'm Lucky, You're lucky to Be living in the U.S.A.' is indeed Right. In any other country he would be lynched if he attempted to thrust such a man as the people under the name 'f' music.
Students who have followed the work of the University of Wichita players during their annual visit here will be interested to know that the young actress named Reisier who has won so much acclaim here in other years will be back again playing in the lead "In Stage"
mention the more pleasant open houses, serenades, and moonlight nights.
The College of the Pacific is the oldest college west of the Mississippi. Betty Rae proudly asserted it was founded in San Jose in the late 1840s but eleven years ago the school was moved to Stockton.
The council members of Pacific A.W.S. own and operate the "Cub House," a sandwich-soda-coke joint where the students hang out. The Cub House is a profitable enterprise, according to Betty Rae.
The biggest social event of the year at Pacific is the Mardi Gras costume ball. This year Horace Heidt's orchestra set the pace for the fun-makers, which is doing well for a college of 120 students.
Cougar Matches Jayhawk
the A.W.S. at Washington State College, which Nedra Williams will head next year, is organized differently than our W.S.G.A. The president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer are elected by the student body, but the other council members are the presidents of other women's organizations. The most important events to be sponsored by the A.W.S. this year will be the annual May Day festival, and an address by Ruth Bryan Owen, American stateswoman.
The cougar ("a large quadruped of the cat family"—Welater) is to Washington State what the Jayhawk is to the University. When Butch, the cougar, died a few years ago there was much weeping and wailing. Then last year, at a basketball game, the Governor of Washington presented the school with a new cougar in an elaborate ceremony. Butch II is kept in a little house on the campus and his wants are attended to by the members of an honorary fraternity.
Both Nedra and Betty Race thought Kansans were extremely friendly, and they agreed that the Ored was indeed a hill with a view.
Twenty-six Haskell Boys To Attend New York Fai
Twenty-six Indian boys from Haskell Institute have been selected to make up an Indian guard of honor that will leave for the New York World's Fair in a few days, it was announced yesterday by the Institute. The boys will be under the command of Capt. James Lansing.
Rigid physical examinations and tests in horsemanship were given the boys before selections were made. Members of the group that will make the trip are from Troup I of the National Guard unit at Haskell and from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.
Dickinson Guests Preview 'Alexander Graham Bell'
A group of students and town-
people attended a special promirei-
show yesterday afternoon of
March 12. As guests at the Dickinson theater.
The film is a dramatic account of the life of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and tells the story of the eventful years of the young man's life when he was working on his famous invention.
Dam Amele plays the part of the inventor, Loretto Young is his wife, and Henry Fonda, the friend who works with him on the invention.
The University has granted a bachelor of science degree in education to Anna Janvie Fink, c'uncl., and Marie Wright.
Teacher's Diploma and A. B. Given
The University teacher's diploma has also been awarded to Loren Wesenley Ackerman, c©39; Anna Jamavie Fink, c©39; Saran Manga Glenen, c©39; Caroline Smith, c©39; Mary Louise Cairy, c©39; Geral Dean Sutton, c©39; and Marie Wright
WREN Promotes K.U. Grad
Vrl Berlat, University graduate,
has been promoted from program
manager of WREN broadcasting
and has become a distant manager of the radio station.
Bratton, who was graduated in 1934 with a bachelor of music degree, will be in complete charge of the station during the absence of Vernon Smith, manager of WREN and KOWH in Omaha.
Terry Takes Geophysics Position
Lyman Terry, Epialon, national geology faculty, recently withdrew from school to accept a position with the International Geophysics Corporation.
Walker Jesseyn, gr, was elected to succeed him. Other chapter officers are: John Ewers, gr, vice-president, Brown, Crown, *q* 40, secretary-treasurer.
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