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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1939
Kansan Comment
Lesson Number Four:
A Great American
Today is the birthday of a great American. We refer, of course, to George Washington, the "father of his country."
Today we are going to tell a story about George Washington which demonstrates his Americanism.
Once upon a time, on one of his birthdays,
little George was given an axe.
George looked around for something to use the axe on, but without any success.
There weren't any WPA workers drilling a sewer outside his father's plantation.
For the WPA and pneumatic drills hadn't been invented yef.
So George had to leave that job to Dr. Clendening.
George Washington cursed his luck. "Fiddlesticks," he said, "I'll never become great this way."
And then George spied the cherry tree in his father's orchard.
He seized his axe and rushed out and chopped the cherry tree down.
When his father came back that evening and saw the chopped-down cherry tree, he was very angry.
"Who," he demanded, "chopped down that cherry tree?"
"Father," said George, "I cannot tell even a white lie. I did it with my little axe. The tree was producing RED cherries."
George Washington's father was pleased at this. "My son," he said, "it is easy to see that you are filled with the true spirit of Americanism."
George never forgot this and when he grew up he chased all the redcoats out of America, making America yet more American.
Departmental Libraries More About the Matter
In today's Campus Opinion, the Kanans is printing a letter from a professor on the campus who takes issue with a recent editorial in this paper. The writer seems to have misinterpreted the editorial as an attack on departmental libraries. That was not the intention.
The editorial in Sunday's Kansan was not a criticism of the library or of its staff. It was meant in no way to be an attack on departmental libraries. Undoubtedly such branch libraries are good things. We would welcome their extension.
If the library is the heart of the university, such books should be made as easy of access as possible.
Of course, one does get tired of walking to a departmental library and then have to come back later because the library isn't open, but this might be rectified by posting the schedule of hours in Watson library. And sometimes one does get curious to know what a book like Clarence Day's "God and Father" was doing at the engineering library, or why the library doesn't consider a book like Einstein's history of physics of general enough interest to keep in the Watson library instead of in the physics library.
Freedom of Speech For Fritz Kuhn Too
Fritz Kuhn and his storm-trooper amateur Nazis raised enough money to rent Madison Square Garden for a meeting Monday night. Boiling with wrath, thousands of New Yorkers petitioned Mayor LaGuardia to prohibit the meeting, but the "Little Flower" refused. Although he had no sympathy with the bund, he was determined that the Nazis should have the same rights of free speech that every American is entitled to receive. And so the meeting was held
Almost 2000 policemen were assigned to guard the entrances to the Garden. The mayor's foresight was proved when a great crowd gathered outside and demanded the right to picket the meeting. Mounted policemen drove them away, while inside the auditorium Fritz Kuhn and his cohorts told their followers the virtues of "American" Nazism. Washington's picture was painted on a banner between an American flag and the swastica. Still the agents of a democracy protected the agents of a totalitarian state. Freedom of speech was summoned to guard an organization which would ultimately abolish freedom of speech if it had the chance.
Of course the Nazi government in Germany was not grateful. The German papers attacked the United States anew. Hitler claimed the German-American bund as his own, thus reversing a statement he made some months ago. He pointed out that "Jewish agitators" almost broke up the meeting and that hundreds of policemen were needed to repel the Jews.
It didn't matter that one of the leading Jewish organizations in the nation petitioned the Mayor to allow the bund to assemble. It didn't matter that New York policemen were forced
to use their nightsticks over the heads of citizens in order to give the bundists the protection they were entitled to under our constitution. None of these mattered—only the fact that the event could be easily warped into another powerful bit of propaganda back in the Fatherland.
Nothing can please a dictator. Nothing fair and honest will ever please Hitler. Yet unless America wishes to adopt the very methods of Hitler, we must allow these imitation Hitlers to fret their little hour upon the stage. Let them rave and rant. The good sense of the American people will laugh them out of existence. Although we may not believe a word they say, we must fight for their right to say it. That, too, is freedom of speech.
Campus Opinion
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Editor; Danny Ransom
Referring to Sunday's editorial on libraries.
Returning to School You object to books being kept in departmental libraries; spend enough time in research, you may find the location of the departmental library and . . . time it is open.
It seems that anyone intelligent enough to be in college should be able to find a departmental library within a few seconds after entering the appropriate building because the location is usually indicated on the library's website. The libraries are open five to eight hours daily, an amount which should be adequate for a serious student.
Probably 98 per cent or more of the references made to department-library books will be made by members of the department staff or by students taking courses in the department. And these people will be in the particular building nearly every day anyway. Any possible gain of time is lost, and it will be fully filled by the value of the time which would be lost by those people who USE these books going to Watson library from their own building.
Personally I have had considerable experience with one of the departmental libraries. I suppose that it is not markedly superior to any of the other libraries. Yet I have been very favorably impressed with the library itself, and I am confident that it is a library. Probably this question for my satisfaction has been the fact that the books are NEAR AT HAND.
While I sympathize with the editor of the Kansan who would like to have Jean's Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (a book by Watson library) or Analyze Mathematica (a book constantly used by mathematicians) made available from Watson library, I doubt that the general interest in "light reading" profitably to pursue these demands of "light reading."
Therefore I conclude that:
(1) Library service in Watson library is to be comm-
municated by (a) and (b); and
(2) Having departmental libraries in the departments where the books are used is the best solution of this problem.
Yours truly, S.C.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 30, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, No. 19
VOL. 36 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1999 NO. 38
Notes at Diceean's Office at 11 a.m. on date
of publication.
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION: An all-uni-
versity convocation, Feb. 23 in cocktails in Hael Audubonium, Steg-
feder Fowler Chadwick will speak on "Americanism and the Responsibility for Women to Ameri-
cation," Chancellor.
DIRECTORY CHANGES: Members of the staff whose residence or telephone numbers have changed should notify this office immediately in order that the director, Raymond Nichols, Executive Secretary,
ENGLISH LECTURE: On Thursday, February 23, at 3:30 in Spooner-Theater Museum Miss Lynn will speak to English majors and others interested on "William Shakespeare" and the use of lantern slides and pictures. Mr. Paden will have a selection of books printed in the 18th century on display in the auditorium of Spooner-Theater—W. S. Johnson.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION: The second of this year's three examinations will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 9:00 a.m. Registration at the College Office, Room 121 Frank Strong Hall, Feb. 20-22. All students who are for admission to all. All students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who expect to graduate in June, 1940, or in February, 1941, must pass the Proficiency Examination this year in order to qualify for enrollment in their last thirty hours of course work. Only such students can participate in the examination at this time. John Virtue, for the Committee.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: There will be a meeting at 4:30 Thursday, February 21, in Room 203 Frank Strons Hall. Bruce Cobtree will speak on the "Four Colour Dodds" that is invited to attend--Dorothy Bubali, President.
FALL SEMESTER GRADES Grades for the fall semester may be obtained from the Registrar's Office at 212-683-7490. Students must name: Thursday, T to Z inclusive; Friday and Saturday, those unable to appear at the scheduled time.
WOMEN IN EDUCATION: All women interested in taking the course in Girl Reserve Training should remember to sign up for it in the Education Office, 103 Praser, or at Henley House before 5 o'clock Friday. Feb. 8, the first meeting will be Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the beginning of Spooner-Thayer Museum. Elizabeth Meek.
SOCIOLYCHM MAJORS: There will be an hour meeting of the sociology majors on Thursday evening, Feb. 23, at 7 o'clock in the Union Building, All areured to come. No charge. Leona Hoffman.
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The experiment is conducted with only one variable—the amount of air given each plant. All the plants are trained in the same way; they are set in beds of excelior with root in the soil. At night, the same amount of heat and light.
By Marjorie Van Nice, 'cunel.
They have nothing to eat but water and chemicals—but they could live forever. About three dozen common tomato plants grow in the University's botany greenhouse.
Interesting Facts About The University Tomatoes
Donald Durell, instructor in botany, is using these tomato plants for the only known experiment on aeration of fruit trees, which differences in the difference in fruit production).
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Mr. Durrell, who has been working on this experiment for four years, planted the tomatoes on the first of January. Though only seven weeks old some of them are beginning to blossom already. Some of the vines will have ripe tomatoes on them in less than two months.
The heat is regulated by a thermatically controlled heating cable which keeps the temperature between 24 and 27 degrees centigrade
Add definitions of college: / place wheree can mispell Thurey. dides and no one will be the wiser but if you misspell the name of Gen Krupa half the campus will rise in wrath.
It doesn't pay for a girl to be too distant even if distance does lend enchantment.
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Mary Robelle Scott may be tops as an actress, but as a bridge player --tsk!` tsk! Reports claim that in a recent game, after an opponent bid two hearts, she was advised to double two hearts. "That means I have to bid four hearts; doesn't it?" she inquired.
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Wonder if it would be possible for someone to design ear-muffs that wouldn't look like an afterthought.
Paddy Wadley shouldn't worry because of the trouble she had trying to keep on the bicycle during the cycling days scene in "Cum Laudé" but she yet to see a girl who could stay on a bicycle for more than a block.
We hear that Phil Russell, not content with his recent article against women, is now contemplating a follow-up on why he hates men.
Does anyone know whether or not it's correct to call a thin red-headed coed a diet-Titan?
Dorothy Thompson and the thousands of others who tried to break up the Nazi meeting in New York Monday night undoubtedly were doing it in the spirit of free speech, but they had allowed the same freedom to the Bundists, all the trouble that would have caused them. would the Nazis have had a front page story on practically every paper in the country the next morning.
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Six tanks are used to this experiment—one with a mixture of air and water given to the solution, one letting compressed air bubble into it (maximum aeration), one using the addition of very small drops of a mixture of air and water, another tank covered so no air enters the solution, a fifth filtratory soil, and a sixth in which air reaches the solution only as it naturally flows through the exscler.
Healthiest girl at the University is probably Imogene Schenker. She goes to bed every night at 9 o'clock. Ranch life got her into the habit. No one will enter the University without having spent at least 18 years on a ranch.
(Continued from page one)
The writer who spelled it Croupa was John Tye. Until last night he thought a gob-stick was a baton.
Clark Myers and Bill Fey are arguing these days over which should go to the I.S.A. "LIT Abner" party on March 4 as "Hilarious Ice." Which is material and irrelevant so long as Mary Miller decides to go as "Daisy Mae."
One hundred gallons of this solution can be made for only 16 cents. A chemical analysis will be made of tomatoes produced from each lat.
Wonder if John Stratton bounced Lucille Gayne on the boards a couple of times before he threw her out the window in a "Cum Laude" scene last night. Instead of picking her up at one fell swoop he dropped her at Monday evening's performance. But that just made a funny part funnier as far as Ye Shinster was concerned.
Durell affirms that the commercial market for tomatoes grown thus should be good, for the tomatoes have no perceptible difference in taste from ordinary field grown fruit. Their value to cameras should be high and their size as many of these tomatoes to fill a can as does the normal kind.
In some places tomatoes are now grown in such a nutrient solution with air entering natural through excelerator. Durrell is experimenting to find the effect of aeration in all fruit production of this nature.
Viva les tomatoes!
The second edition of the book has now been published.
"A practical and sparkling manua-
ment of modern etiquette written by
university men in their own style, and
designed for every high school and
college man of the Middle West," say the editors of "Manners Make Men." official publication of the Witan.
Witan Publication In Second Edition
Will Visit Junior Colleges
The manual is divided into three sections: "Personal," "With Her," and "With the Public." An appendix contains the codes of conduct of some of the more famous forefathers.
The section on personal etiquette deals with conduct at home, how to write letters, and how to be a host or a guest. "With Her" is a compact dissertation on dancing, dressing, and dating. The third section considers proper manners in public. It also discusses the attained in local newsstands and bookstores and from members of the Witun.
H. E. Chandler, associate professor of education and director of the Teacher's Appointment Bureau, will visit junior colleges in southwestern Arkansas each week. He will be in Pratt on Thursday, and Dodge City on Friday.
Cornell University is conducting research into the methods of training vocational education teachers.
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