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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939
Kansan Comment
'I Don't Want to Die,' Writes Kansas Editor
The Kausen believes that the following editorial by John P. Harris, editor of the Hutchinson News, is of sufficient importance to University students to deserve reprinting in part.
I am 37 years old. If war comes the boys in their twenties will be shoved into uniforms first, but my health and circumstances are such that I'll be subject to the second draft call . . .
Because I am 37 and want to live, I hate those who have brought the United States closer to war today than it was in 1915. I wasn't old enough to fight then but I was old enough to watch the war hysteria being roused until it tempted the United States into a ruthless struggle for power in Europe. And I was old enough to see what it cost us then and since.
That's why I hate those who today are deliberately stirring emotions in favor of one side or another in that bloody European conflict, which again is on the verge of breaking out of council chambers and onto battlefields. Officials of our government who already have taken sentimental sides, members of the Communist and Fascist organizations alike, those with munitions to sell, open and secret agents of other nations, professional busybodies, and all others in this country who have been knowingly rousing passions, I damn alike, because I do not want to die.
These passion-roussers have done their work well. There are tens of thousands whose dreams tonight will be filled with fieldgray clad legions marching down through Canada to spread desolation in their wake, with skies black with bombing planes and with battleships flying the flag of the rising sun shelling the whole west coast. They are almost ripe again for that old catch phrase, making the world safe for democracy. These I do not hate; I pity.
Because there are so many with such thoughts as these, I am personally afraid. I fear their emotions have betrayed them far so far there is no turning back. If that isn't true there is only one thing that will save them and me. One thing alone can stop all of us from repeating even more tragically the tragic mistake of 1917. That is some rational thinking . . .
Logic explodes the fear the United States can be directly attacked by the totalitarian nations which by the national hysteria have been placed in the role of our enemies. Even if military logic didn't, political logic would. Germany, Japan, and Italy, singly or collectively, have goals to gain nearer home which will take them half a century if not eternity. Only after they have grabbed the things before their eyes and absorbed them can this country conceivably come within the range of their ambitions. . .
Granted the fascist nations are up to funny things in South America which are gaining them new markets at our expense. By barter and by enlarging their number of personal contacts, they will probably increase their commerce still farther in those directions at our expense. But battleships are no defense against it. These battles are to be won not by tactics of generals but by those of traveling salesmen . . .
Forget these imaginary alarms. The menace to those of us who must die to preserve misconception remains. The President and his advisers have decreed that the United States must play the role of big brother to England and France for a second time. They, Washington has decreed, are the first line of defense and we, a sister democracy, must see they have whatever it takes to hold it. It sounds well, but as one of draft age, it is a death thrust.
Yes, France and Britain are the first line of defense of the United States if you want to call it that. But their defending is not in our interest but in their own. They're scared. The specter of the bombing of London and Paris haunts them constantly. It caused their venal sacrifice of Czechoslovakia last fall. "It causes them ignominiously to grasp at any aid the United States has to offer them. But that's all."
France and Britain are not our first line of defense by choice but by accident. They hold it not in our interest but in their own. From our standpoint, to subduce the United States, any other nation must subdue England and France first. From their standpoint, they come first, and whatever there may be after doesn't matter.
If these first line defenses of ours could make one, do you think they would hesitate ten seconds to accept a Fascist offer of peace and their present possessions in return for their non-interference with a German drive on this country? Their answer would be Yes before you could take the furl out of Chamberlain's umbrella. ...
Our government has so missed this point that it is trying to persuade its people that the United States has an obligation to furnish our sister democracies planes, guns, and other war supplies to whatever extent is necessary for them to hold the line. We solve our conscience by placing the transactions on a strictly cash and carry basis, but the result is the same. If
the emergency comes, the supplies must include me and a million or two other men who don't want to die, but will . . . .
It's a fool's paradise now, but let Europe plunge over the abyss again. Let the propaganda start in which the British are such past masters and the Germans such dubs. Let the cards begin falling against the mis-called democracies. Does anyone in his right mind think that the United States as supplier-in-chief to the gang can remain aloof? We who must fight know better. . . .
The United States is still pretty dumb as far as European politics is concerned. It continues to be a push-over for the old ones about preserving civilization and protecting democracy. Then, without a catch in its conscience, it begins considering Russia the other great menace—as one of its play-fellows in the battle against Fascism. Europe hasn't any such illusions. Its only delusions are those it has to sell the United States.
What's stirring Europe today is the same old struggle that has been going on since before the days of Napoleon. There is no moral defense for any of the participants. Democracy, Fascism, Communism, and the rights of individuals and minorities are utterly beside the point. It is unrestrained lust for power with no holds barred.
Over and over again they have been fighting to determine whether France or Germany shall be top dog in Europe. Each time England plays off one against the other to maintain her strangle hold on world trade. The little nations are sacrificed ruthlessly according to the dictates of any moment. To the chief battles in this endless struggle, the United States is only another little nation . . .
I hate Nazi-ism and all it stands for, but it's none of my business and I don't like my government trying to make it my business. The British empire is a fine thing and its future is threatened, but its fall is none of this nation's affair. Why, then, should my country be leading with its chin in a dirty business of which it doesn't know the first rules?
The officials of our government who are issuing inflammatory statements, those who talk of boycots, the ones who promote demonstrations against one foreign nation or another, the Joe Doaks who already are taking sides in a fight on the other side of the world that isn't any of their business, and the misguided zealots who are spreading hate in press, pulpit, and rostrum are guillierot of treason than Aaron Burr. Treason to those of us who may have to die.
It's a troubled world, and the United States can't isolate itself from the strife. But its defense isn't planes and battleships, or soldiers having their heads shot off on some other continent. Its only safeguard is to get so busy finding jobs for its ten millions out of work that it won't have any time for its neighbors' unconscionable quarrels. That alone will protect the American system and America's millions of young men of draft age.
They don't want to die. Nor do I
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CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Our monthly mass and breakfast will be held this Sunday, March 5. Mass will be at 7:30 and breakfast immediately following breakfast, please let me, please call 232W and give your name. Ivan May
FRESHMEN COMMISSION, W.Y.C.A.: There will be a meeting Thursday at 4:30 at Henley House Jeanne Riese will be an interesting discussion The Race Profit will be a sure and sure, Louis Webster, Publicity Chairman.
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Gee Whiz! Isn't March A Peacherino Month Too?
Did you turn over a new leaf today? Calender leaf, of course. Well, if you didn't you should have because today is the first day of March.
By Roderick Burton, c'40
March is a noted month—noted because it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, or comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion, or both or neither. This year it came in (conservatively) like a lion and goes out like a lion, is therefore, approximately a fifty-fifty chance of it going out like a lamb.
Another famous March feature is he Ides. The other months have des, too, but the Ides of March are his famous ones. This is apparent because Shakespeare once wrote a lay about the Ides of March and entitled it, for some reason unfathomable, "Julius Caesar." In this play, by the way, occurs that famous line: You, too, you Brute."
Marian Ellet asks whether the refusal of the DAR, to allow the famous contrasto to sing in its building was in the nature of a protest to Marian Anderson for daring to use the voice which God gave her, or whether it was a reprimand to the Almighty for presuming to give one of the greatest voices of our age to a non-Caucasian.
It was probably neither—just an afterthought that the ladies had after passing a few resolutions protest- against racial persecutions above.
Overheard in a restaurant: By the way, did that fellow who took my order leave any family?
We're not interested in the names of the amateur Pygmalions who created the snow statue of the damsel in front of the journalism building, but we are interested in their information about the person who posed for the work of art.
The Ideas of March happen on the 15th of the month, in case you want to call anybody a brute about that time. The Ideas of the other months occur on the 13th of the month—and don't ask 'as why.'
Another backdraw in being a senior is that one hesitates to mink wise-cracks concerning the W.P.A. for fear it might the chances to get employment when out of school.
On the Shin -it's March 21, it's spring and the first robin is due. (But if it's weather like this, the first day of spring probably won't be worth a bird.)
It is to be hoped that the boys invited by girls to the LSA. "Little Abner" dance Saturday won't make the mistake of the young lady who went to the Sigma Nu party last week with a boy she didn't know and then spent the entire time trying to discover his name.
Then, too, the first day of spring is in March. On March 20 or 21 the sun crosses the equator and spring is here. Even though there may be snow on the ground, and your ears may get冻冻—don't believe it. If
Clark Myers is a defeated man. He first had a date to the Junior Prom with Virginia Beverly. She later told him she had to sing with the A Cappella club of 73 voices in Kansas City that night so he got a date with Virginia Reese. Then Beverly said she had been mixed up, that she was not going to sing. So Myers broke down and tried to take it over. To top the climax, Beverly then told him that she was right the first time—she had to sing. Myers went back to Reese but she emphatically said No. Wimmen! Bah!
Harry's first date with any but Dorothy Shearer in four years.
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The students should be glad that time Marches on. Because the coming of March leaves only three more months until the end of the semester, they need to enjoy shopping starts, and hardly now at all until the 1940 census.
Zeke Cole saidallel forth to the Library last week to study the Marxian loctrine while Stephen Chadwick elucted the boys and girls on Americanaism. But don't start waving a red flag. He was just preparing a lesson for a course in recent political changes.
And speaking of the Westminster A Cappella chair, with the aid of a tricky nine-part arrangement and the direction of D. M. Swarthout they have converted "Oh Susanna" to "Oh Susanna". They radiated it from KFKU not long ago and gave the consumers new faith in educational stations.
ogrophy, ever filmed of a living world statesman and the only motion picture in which Musolini has ever taken part.
Beginning today the Varsity theater is presenting a novelty feature of the Private Life of Mussolini filmed by a former professor of Journalism here, Edwin Ware Hullinger.
Hallinger graduated from the department of Journalism in 1917 and returned from his would travel in France to become professor in the same department.
Life of Mussolini Filmed by Hullinger Now at Varsity
In these 20 years Hullinger had toured Libya with Mussolini, attended the first session of the League of Nations; traveled 300 miles in the city of Aleth in Rwanda to receive the region for United Press; heard Hitler speak in Munich; not Stalin when the latter was only the secretary of the Communist party; and was deported from Rusia for insisting on freedom of the press for foreign correspondents.
The feature is the first screen bi-
He is the author of "The Reforing of Russian," written in 1925, and "The New Fascist State," published in 1928. In addition he is the author of numerous articles published in leading magazines and newspapers.
This is his first venture into the land of moving pictures and gives intimate highlights in the life of the World's number two dictator.
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