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UNIVERSITY. DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday. March 17, 1939
939
Kansan Comment
To Combat Propaganda One Must Know It
For years propaganda has flourished over the world, but never has it been so organized and insidious as it is today. While people have long realized that propaganda existed in the United States, they have never realized that propaganda plays such a vital part in democracy as it does today.
Leading the fight in an effort to combat the propaganda disseminated by the 800 odd Nazi and Faeist organizations active in America today, is the Propaganda Analysis Institute. It's publication throws the destructive light of publicity upon the subversive activities of Nazi organizations.
Life, Look, and other magazines are beginning to recognize the necessity of educating our people in the methods of propaganda and, more important, what to do about propaganda.
Here at the University, the department of journalism offers a course, Prapaganda and Censorship, which deals with the underlying psychology of propaganda and censorship. In these times when an understanding of this phase of modern life is helpful in protecting the ideals and institutions of a democracy, college students will find such a course helpful in making them better citizens.
This is not an advertisement for the department of journalism. If taking this course interferes with a planned schedule, students wishing to acquaint themselves with propaganda can find ample material at the libraries. Any one desiring the address of the Propaganda Analysis Institute so that he may send for the bulletin, may obtain the address at the Journalism building.
Subversive propaganda thrives in darkness. Publicity destroys it. College students, who will guide the United States tomorrow, must educate themselves in propaganda, which they will meet often in days to come.
Poland does not want to be another Czechoslovakia, reports the New York Times. Doubtless the country feels that its destiny should not be carved out.
Chamberlain and Pitt Have Much in Common
Prime Minister Chamberlain compared himself to William Pitt the Younger in a recent radio address, because each was diverted by European war possibilities from pursuance of his interests at home. *
Mr. Chamberlain failed to consider other points of comparison, which are even more conclusive than the one he so modestly mentions. His confession to the resemblance is strong proof that his interest in international affairs has always been secondary to his home interests.
Chamberlain is an expert on affairs of local government. And no doubt he intended only to hasten the settling of matters when he forced out Anthony Eden and attempted to run England's foreign policy singlehanded, so that he could get back to his home duties.
Both Mr. Pitt and Mr. Chamberlain had distinguished fathers. Mr. Pitt had the gout. So has Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Pitt was one of the poorest war Minister in England's history and made a quite a mess of things. Does Mr. Chamberlain intend the comparison of himself to Mr. Pitt to continue this far?
A child wrote the General Electric Company asking for a "sample of electricity." It will be a shock to her if she gets it.
Hearst Topples
On Wobbly Throne
Hearst, one of the mightiest of the press lords, reigns now from a wobbly throne. The vast Heart properties are saddled with debts accumulated by the luxurious living of the perennial playboy. In addition, many Heart papers have been losing money consistently.
The Hearst empire is in such a precarious position financially that Mr. Hearst has been put on a salary as editorial director of his newspapers. His salary, however, was cut 80 per cent this year, and he no longer dictates a blanket editorial policy to his newspapers. At last his papers are allowed to show a little individuality in the hope of recovering some of the lost advertising and circulation figures.
Were it not for the shrewd business management of a Manhattan lawyer named Shearn, the Hearest Consolidated Publications most likely would have gone completely under. When Mr. Shearn took over the reins that Mr. Hearest eagerly thrust in 1937, he realized that the zero hour had come. Speedily he set about mortgaging and selling, so that he might pay off some of the bonded indebtedness that his client had piled up. While things look better now than they did then, they are still shaky.
Despite his troubles, Mr. Hearst still keeps
open house. He still eats from silver plates and entertains numerous guests at his huge California estate, on which property a $600,000 mortgage was recently extended. At 76 he is enjoying life to the hilt and hopes that something of his former wealth will be left for his three sons.
For 50 years Mr. Hearst ran his newspapers with an iron hand; for most of the 50 years he made a tremendous amount from his sensational type of journalism. The evil days came; now he hopes they will disappear under the management of Shearn.
Campus Opinion
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to editing and proofreading, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
Editor's Note: The Kanaan did not mean to cheat any Hill political parly *out* of any credit he had taken. He was not proposing a proposal. But we still replay: "The proposal for a men's dormitory should not be made a burden."
Editor, Daily Kansan;
In view of the lack of attention to the University dormitory plan in the past years, the Kansan's editorialpledged yesterday to "keep politics out of the dormitory" and to "criticize the civilism of Hill political parties—and for this reason:
From year to year the dermointory proposition arises and gained only half circulated interest, each time it was used. When a candidate's great was made, it remained for one political party to state the policy definitely and concretely as a plaintive statement.
Through the hullabaloo raised over party planks and platforms each spring is generally unnecessary, credit should be given where credit is due—and the political group which gave the dormitory plan its credit.
Now that the first steps have been taken, the Kanman editors are justified in proposing a non-pollutionary approach. This means that they should be adept to the Pachiawmas and this year's Council for crystallization and developing the heretofore unabsolutable
ERNEST SHAW
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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--with several others by his capitors. There he was employed in herding sheep and swine, and devoted much of his time to prayer.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission of the Y.M.C.A. and W.Y.C.A. will have a roller skating party at the Rollerdrome from 18 to 12 tonight, March 17. Tickets are available at the Y.M.C.A. office, and the ride. Everyone is welcome as Marjorie-Wiley, Charles Yankenss, Co-chairman.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: There will be a meeting Sunday afternoon, March 19, at Henley House at 2:30. Work will be begin on the moving picture to be made during the next few weeks. Anyone interested in photography, or photography, or may watch is invited to this: — Marjorie Wiley, Charles Yeomans, co-chairman.
INDEPENDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION COUNCIL: There will be a meeting in the Union Building Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.-Ruth Warren, Secretary.
**INTEREST GROUP. WESTMINSTER STUDENT FOUNDATION:** There will be a meeting at 4:40 Sunday, March 15, at Westminster Hall. Miss Naoi Light, missionary to India, will speak informally and display materials on her work for a fifteen cent lunch, should make reservations immediately. - Vola Knoche, Theo Yannas, Co-chairman.
RED CROSS LIFE SAVING: The training school for
welfare will start Monday, March 20 at 3:00 p.m.
in 2022 and in 2023. The training is
required before Mr. Schlotterbacher's arrival. Please re-
quire Mr. Schlotterbacher's Alphim at Holmons
gymnastium - H. G. Alphim.
SENIORS: Appointments are being sent out by mail to the SENIORS office at 4600 N. 3rd St., immunization and laboratory tests included in the examination may be done now, as there will not be sufficient time to complete them if left until May - Dr. R. I.
**WOMEN IN EDUCATION:** Please remember the dedication of our students at 4:30 in the basement of Sponge-Thayer Magnet Attendance required for certificate. This week Champlain will speak on "Personality Development" - Elizabella Meek.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB. There will be a rehearsal Saturday morning at 9:00 in room 37, Frank Strong Hall
ZOOLOGY CLUB: There will be a meeting Tuesday at $30. Do stall until with "Coronary Circulation"
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Unpatriotic students who are not wearing green today apparently do not appreciate the sterling qualities of St. Patrick and the work he had to do to convert the stubborn Irish to Christianity.
'Wearing of the Green' Marks St. Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick was born in the latter half of the fourth century 1 CE and counted as a Christian, who was taken incarcerated by a miller by Milton to take it
notes'n discords
Jur. John Randolph Tyson
by John Randolph Tye
Makes On St. Patrick's Day
Purely Personal Puffie: If we have not been born in December, we would have been named Patricia Alejyns . . . we won a prize in the land that heIRD for it. He had come from there" . . . our mother coached us for a week so we could say "mother" correctly . . . Mrs O'Shamessey told everyone we were a chip off the old block . . . Mrs O'Connor thought so too . . . Mrs Farrell had a different idea . . . She said the Daleyes weren't such big shots in the old country . . Jimmy Farrell won second prize . . . The first school we attended was called St. Patrick . . . We have a cousin named Bridget . . . "Mother Marec" makes us cry easier than any other music. Our first girl was Gervasian Ryan. We need the Maypole together in the first grade . . . She ditched us for one of the Cassidy kids . . . We've never cared much for intrigues since . . . We never could truck but can do an Irish kid which is much harder . . . But it doesn't help one so much socially.
The last night our grandmother spent in County Clare she heard a bandleader wall . She and grandfather heIRD were about to banish him. He said it was another . . . Sometimes they got awfully provoked at each other . . . Have you ever heard two Irishmen being provoked? . . . If each of our second cousins in Ireland would send us a dollar, it would keep us in cigarettes for a year . . . The first dance we ever attended was the Irish-American Hall in K. C
You probably didn't know that most Irish don't appreciate William Butter Yets . . . Patrick is not an Irish name . . . The worst Irish song is "Killarney . . . The best is 'Come back to Eirn . . . Everyone has two Irish and Iceland. Potatoes planted on Ireland grow just as well as those planted on March 17 . . . George Bernard Shaw is Irish . . . And for that matter so was Oscar Wilde . . . The capital of Ireland is Baile Atha Claitish . . . And the name of the island is Eire. Next to funerals, the Irish like fights best . . . No two books on St. Patrick agree . . . St. Patrick conducted the first successful Keely cure. A surprising number of Irish-Americans are surprisingly like the manner in which charismatic Farrell's novels . . . The Irish dike like the Dutch . . . Real shamrock looks like eloquent . . Most of the Irish came to America because they didn't like Ireland . . . Their children and grand-children do not realize that. Three"out of four Irish-American's don't know what an Orangemen is . . . But they will fight if you call them one . . . Too much has been written about the Irish who settled in the cities . . . Too little about those who own the farms . . . Most Irishman are a drink on St. Patrick's Day . . . Ditto the other 304 days . . . It better be of Irish ancestry than Swedish, German, or French. For as the old saying goes, if we were not Irish, we would be ashamed.
... It was on St. Patrick's Day . . .
We've never heard an Irishman say "Begorra" but we 'know a lot who greet you unquestionably with "Top o' the Morning" . . . the only Abie's Irish Rose marriage we know of lasted exactly eleven months . . .
We never heard an Irishman tell a Pat and Mike story . . But we've heard many Pat and Mike stories . . .
Most of them are probably untrue . . Most of them are probable . . .
We'd rather attend an Irish wake than a movie, a Democratic convention , a prize fight . . A good wake walker is important . All the children in our neighborhood had American names like Jones, Johnson, Tye, or Ashley . . But everyone always referred to them by their mother's name . . . They would say: "He's a Malone, or a Daley, or a Gaughan" . . We used to think one of our relatives was old-fashioned . . Then we discovered he'd taken the Keely cure three times before he was thirty .
Notes On St. Patrick's Day
At the age of twenty-three, he escaped and returned to Britain. After a second captivity of about two months, he managed to leave Ireland and study in the best schools in the west of Europe. He was ordained as a priest and went to Ireland to preach the Gospel, to the Irish town, etc.
afterward. He labored 30 years trying to convert the pagan Irish, with little success. He attributed his failure to the want of episcopal ordination and Roman authority. He went back to Gaul and spent some time in study. Hearing of the failure and death of Palladius, who had been sent on a mission to Ireland by Pope Colonius, he was directed to take
Saint Patrick returned 4 second time to Ireland to attempt conversion of the Irish tribes. He visited his old master, Milius, but Milius burned himself and his house to prevent the triumphant approach of his former slave. This time St. Patrick converted many of the Irish chief fashions and caused numerous churches to be erected.
Lough Derg was acclaimed as an intermediate place for the dead. It is cut off by low mountains and the remains of Irish forests. Here Finn slew the serpent which troubled its waters. When Patrick came to Ireland the death of the serpent was attributed to him and thus from the shores of the Lough Derg arose the most famous story connected with the legend of the snakes out of Ireland. Because of this legend, every statue of Saint Patrick has been made with a smoke emmechmed under his heel.
An island on this lake was supposed to be the home of demons and spirits. According to the legend, Patrick closed with the powers of Druidry and passed a time of retreat in the dreaded cave which became his purgatory and the present national pilgrimage of Ireland. St. Patrick's purgitory has been the theme for many poems and plays.
St. Patrick died at the age of ninety on March 17, 463, and his body was taken to Downpatrick.
It was an Irish Teelief that men could save their souls and gain absolution from their sins by making pilgrimage to St. Patrick's purgatory. Most of them died, but those who survived the terrors of Lough Derg or Sutherland survived. The pilgrim to Lough Derg who returned successfully drew up an account of his adventures. This legend of St. Patrick can be traced through num-
On the Shin -the boys had any bok beer on hand.
The poor bewildered freshman stmmered around awhile before he finally said no.
Cowd the female voice in duel tones, "Awd, I thought you boys had everything." Then she hung up.
Came this pleasant note in the morning mail yesterday:
Dear Mr. Shinster, you rat
Dear Mr. Shinster you rat,
I shall drag your name through the
mire (include it in the next Soul Owl—soon to be issued—20 cents a copy—Adv.) You stated in your book that you would not water bottles to bring back to consciousness a victim of my hypnotic powers. I did not have to re-verify that victim died peacefully without any distress from me whatsoever. If you do not correct said mistake pronto, I shall be obliged to put the squish on you.
Yours, you rat,
Vincent Davis
Ye Shinster stands corrected, the rat!
Dan Hamilton fell asleep in the browsing room of the library at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, slept clear through the lunch hour, and did not awaken until 3 p.m. Being a Beta, Dan didn't miss lunch because they never have anything to eat down there anyway. However, to those of us who heretofore have not believed wild tales that Beta guest invaded the beds, it is convincing proof. I know how that's a Sigma Chi) who says he slept at the Beta house during his first rush week and he dreamed all night that he was a jar of jam on the pantry shelf.
Robin! Bah! Ye Shinister noticed one flitting about yesterday and in a moment of wild estace dashed off a bite of an ode called "To Robin Red-Breast, Harbinger of Spring." Poey in Robins.
Better he should write one called "To a Snow Bird, Harbinger of What?" As a matter of fact, Ye Shinter will refuse to believe that spring is here until a letter from home informs him that grasshoppers are devouring spirea bushes around the front pore.
erous musical and literary compositions and every seventeenth day of the green" in honor of the Irish Saint.
ROMANCE ON WHEELS
When robins are hoppin' and flowers start poppin' jolopies get the urge for the wide-open spaces---
Be sure your car gets its spring tonic and tune-up.
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