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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1908
Kansan Comment
Is 'Totalitarian Efficiency' Worth Price Proposed?
Before the chamber of deputies in France accepts the plan to make Premier Edouard Delatier virtual dictator for three years, it should consider how much of the democratic ideology it is willing to sacrifice for the sake of "totalitarian efficiency."
For, above the mass of political experiment being tried in the world today, democracy has risen, vindicated itself, and proved its superiority to other forms of government. It has been tested side by side with other governments, according to the degree of attainment of the chief ends for which the governments exist, and it has captured the blue ribbon almost invariably.
Twenty-five years ago, after measuring the democracies of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Switzerland, Lord James Bryce reported that they have attained safety against external attack as fully as most non-democratic governments—and in at least one respect more successfully, in that necessary preparations for defense have not given reasonable cause for fear of aggression to other nations.
He found internal order to be well maintained, and justice capably administered. Civil administration was conducted with efficiency in France and Switzerland and was improving in the quality of service rendered in the other democracies.
No evidence has since been uncovered which would indicate that Bryce's observations are not essentially as sound today as they were when they were made.
And outside of the sphere of definite duties assigned to the government, and in which lies the strength of the machinery of state, the democracies are also far in advance. Thucydides said, "The strength of a city is not ships nor walls, but men." Self-government is an intellectual stimulant, and in it lies the best guarantor of freedom of thought and speech. It is still "the best breeder and educator of men."
Perhaps rhetoric instructors who find in the themes students hand them striking resemblances to something they have read before, should give the embryonic "authors" more time before condemning them. They may be tutoring future doctors of philosophy. According to Prof. V. P. Rapport of Connecticut State college, "Copying one book is plagiarism; copying three books is research."
Who Will Be the Next German Scapegoat?
The be-mustached tyrant of central Europe has cracked his whip again, and again it is the Jew whose back is smarting from the lash. Even now, Hitler is drawing back his arm for another stroke at the helpless minority race, and while the Berlin government is planning another blow an outraged world is seeking a haven for the Semitic sufferers.
With England and the United States in the lead, humanitarian statesmen are devising some means of taking the Jews from Germany and settling them in other countries. The start has just been made; no definite or feasible plan has been arrived at—but at least the humanitarian nations of the world are striving to remove the Jews from the grasp of a degenerate government. The idea is sound; move the Jews to a peaceful land.
But will Adolph permit such action? Will the removal of the Jews be the end of a horrible episode in a mad Europe, or will it be merely the beginning of new horrors?
A dictator must keep two ingredients in his tyrannical cook-pot: a target for his people to focus their hate upon, in order to insure an inraged populace and promote unity; and an ever-tightening system of government.
The Jews are the target in Germany. Would the removal of them end the debacle or would Der Fuehrer shift the spotlight of persecution on the Catholics or some other creed or group? This must be considered. Just as the Munich Pact will fail to end Hitler's land-grabbing, so will any settlement of the Jewish problem fail to end the reign of persecution. Germany is an impoverished country. Its ruler desires to use the target until it is completely worn out.
Pick up a double handful of sand—to use a Kansas editor's analogy—and notice how one must continually tighten his grip in order to keep the sand in his hand. So it is in fear-ridden Germany. Hitler, who has his hands around Germany, must gradually tighten his hold to suppress the opposition. Hitler and Goering and Goebbels must be more vigilant every day; they must make their rule more absolute every week. It is logical that such a process cannot go on and on. There is a limit to human power, a limit to human cruelty, and a limit to tyranny.
So the democratic powers should move to relieve the Jews. If Hitler begins a persecution of the Catholics, these same countries should endeavor to allay their pains. The truly civilized countries should spare no effort to alleviate suffering wherever it is found—and they should wait—wait until the great day when Hitler will find one more hole in his rotten system than he has fingers to plug. What a hell of an explosion that will be.
And he's got only ten fingers!
Anyone can see eye to eye with the Dies committee. All one has to do is color up that pair of rosy glasses one is supposed to look at the world through.
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The scene: intramural field during a touchfootball game. The action: One team has just made a touchdown and is attempting to pass for the point after touchdown. The pass is completed over the goal line, but the play is called back because both sides are ruled offsides. Argument—offensive players contending that since both teams were offenses the play should merely be run over; referee ruling that no second chance for conversion shall be given. Why? Because while both teams scored three goals, the three men across the line when the ball was snapped, whereas the defensive team had only two. Thereafter, the advantage should so to the defensive side!
Such amazing reasoning powers might be a wonderful asset to a member of a rules-making body, but when displayed by one who is getting paid to administer the rules as they have already been drawn up and approved, it is proof of nothing but ignorance, stupidity, or extreme partiality.
If decisions such as this one were exceptions in intramural officiating, there would be no just cause for complaint. As Ed Ebel said last year, the "officating in intramural games is usually about as good as the ruling over, when such ignorance seems to be the rule rather than the exception, something should be done about it.
Isn't there some way to force these officials at least to glance through the simple list of rules pertaining to the game before they go forth to the fields to assert that the "official" word is law? After all, they ARE getting paid for their allegedly superior knowledge of the games they call.
IRATE INTRAMURALIST.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
36 Sunday, Nov. 20, 1938
No. 49
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting, open to all students, graduates and faculty members who are interested in Christian education, will be held in Room C, Myers Hall--Richard MacCann. Secretary.
GERMAN CLUB: The German Club will meet on Monday afternoon, November 21, at 4:30 o'clock. German songs and games will be on the program. Plans for further meetings will be discussed—J. F. Ebelke.
MEDICAL APITUDE TEST. The annual medical aptitude test given by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on December 2 at 230 in room 101, Snow Hall. All premedical students who pass the test will receive an award; either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere, should take it at that time, since, due to a recent action, the Association is discontinuing giving supplementary tests in the spring. A fee of one dollar will be collected from the institution. Students regarded the test may be seured from the under-signed—Parke Woodroom, Room 8A. Frank强 Hall.
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PHI CHI DELTA: Phi Chi Delta will have the regular supper meeting on Tuesday from 5 to 7 o'clock at Westminster Hall--Margorie Hetzel, Audrey Bateman, Program Chairman.
PHI SIGMA: The annual fall initiation banquet will be held at the University of Washington. A lecture by Dr. J. Bonfenbrenner of Washington University will follow at 8:15 in Praser Theater. Members and friends are urged to attend -Milled Purse, Sec-
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: Please note change of meeting place of the Roger Williams Foundation B. Y. P. U., until further notice, to the Baptist Student Center, 1124 Mississippi Street. A social half day on Monday. The meeting 4:50b will be addressed by Professor H. B. Chubb- Kele Cole, President B. Y. P. U.
SNOW ZOLOGY CLUB: Dr. C. V Kent will speak on "The Scope of Biophysics" on Tuesday, November 2, at 5:30. Members please make reservations by 4:30 Monday-Marsh Pinnee.
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Fencing Club Carries on Duels Without Dangers
By Mary Jane Sigler, c.29
When the University students adept in the art of fencing thrust and lunged at each other in the fence- determinedly cross their chinning blades in an effort to "touch" their opponents, they don't mean it, on the tip of each foil is a rubber cushion. When the match is over and the referee blows his whistle, they will cease their sparring and antagonism toward their opponents.
Fencing was, until the end of the eighteenth century—when dueling ceased to be a social necessity—an art whereby life and death depended on the movements of a blade. Today it is still an art, but has become a gentlemanly sport and has lost its deadly purpose.
An increasing number of colleges and universities are adding fencing to their physical education curriculum. In many metropolitan centers fencing clubs have imported European masters of the foll, and have introduced a greatly improving in this country. Naismith Starts Fencing Club
For many years fencing was not popular in America, and based its existence mainly on being taught in the United States Military and Naval academies. However, an Amateur Corps member from New York and enrolled in 1891, and he憋著
The present fencing instructor is James Raport. The first official squad was organized in 1835, and since that time the team has not lost
ganized in 1891, and has supervised the sport since then. Intercollegiate fencing is under the direction of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association.
The University of Kansas Fencing Club came into being in 1925 under the sponsorship of Dr. James Naismith, for many years professor of physical education and internationally know as the inventor of basketball. Dr. Naismith coached University fencing teams until three years ago. He yet gives young fenceers valuable pointers on how to acquire more skill, and acts as referee for some of the matches.
notes 'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
According to the Concordia Blade-Empire, the only red thing the investigators could discover about the average K.U. student was the smudge of *lippstick* on his collar.
A bachelor is a man who didn't have a car when he was young.
--a match and has tied only one. Each year it competes with nearby nearby schools and athletic clubs.
Anymore dances put in us a mood blue. We keep regretting that a few seasons ago we were so confident that swing was only a passing fad that we neglected to learn to shag.
For readers interested in derivations, we point out that the "mood blue" combination is derived from Neoel Conrad out of Joseph Conrad. Conrad started the fad of trailing the adjectives after the noun in an un-English manner, while Neoel Conrad adapted it to modern speech with his famous remark about "the crack dity."
The reason we've gone out of our way to explain this is that there is a deadline in ten minutes. Then, too, we don't want the man who plays me to tell us that the same thing is done in Spanish. We've had Spanish too.
Since the crooner who formerly entertained at Martins on the Plaza has gone with the wind, we are at a place of public number one, the position of public number one.
A joke, which someone passed on to us yesterday in the hope that we could use it, tells of a man who turned down an honorary D.D. degree. We're passing the note to where it belongs, the Shin, which lately has as well as hollow as a tomb and as wity as the epitaph.
For the William Saroan enthusiasts—and for the two or three readers of modern literature who aren't’ we hasten to report that the only trouble with his latest opus, *The Lovely Man*, is that it can't long enough. Saroan's short stories and Edna Milay's poetry have one thing in common. Each writer's work is such a treat that it only whets the appetite for more.
Educational note: Columns of publicity were given to the dispute at Stanford University about
schools and athletic cause.
Fencers Fall Into Three Ranks
The fencing club is composed of qualifying members of the fencing classes and of students who have already proved their ability. University fencers have one of three ranks—page, squire, and knight. Beginning fencers are pages, and if they are able to pass certain examinations at the end of the semester they may receive their squirre's emblem. Squires may participate in intercollegiate tournaments, and the rank of knight is attained usually after a series of tests and after further tests are passed
Three weapons may be used by bersers-fool, sabres, or duelling knives. They are larger and mainly the foll, which is smaller and lighter than the sword. Its blunt tip is usually taped, and the blade is four cornered and dull.
Five Touches Win Match
The duelling sword or epee, and the sabre or broadsword, are used more by professional fencers. The dueling sword resembles the foil, except that it has a sharp tip. The sabre has a keen, broad edge, as well as an untaped tip; the sabre is thus more spectacular because it can be used for cutting as well as thrusting.
The object of the modern fencing match is to touch one's opponent with the tip of the foil, while parrying or warding off his thrust. The match is won when one contestant makes five touches. In epee-fencing touches are valid on any part of the body, but in sabre-fencing the opponent must be touched above the waistline, and in foil fencing the target is limited to the region between 'he neck and waistline.
Tomorrow night many pages, competing in their first tournament will participate as well as the more experienced squares and knights. But no matter how enthusiastic their attacks may become, they will be unhurt, even though they are pierced "through the heart."
whether or not a high school girl should serve as drum-majors for the college band. Only a few papers printed the news-story released the same day which told of the experiments for a possible cancer cure that a scientist at the same institution was making.
--ugly mood today if I hadn't tried to beat those rackets们 out a dine by leaving at intermission without my cousin a first cousin to double pneumonia.
We have it on good authority that "Hay Fever," the dramatic club's next production, will not be a play to sneezed at.
On the Shin
Continued from page 1
Bob Ward went to a Scabbard amo Blade convention in California last week. When he returned he received a postcard notifying him that he had been fines 25 cents for not attending the local meeting.
Which reminds me in a round-about way that engraved on one side of Bob's saber is "E Pluribus Unum," and on the other side is "United of America." Up near the engraving says "Made in Germany."
Ex-editor of the Kansan Louis Fockele last week conducted a strictly legitimate lottery to get rid of Josephine, his 1825 Model T Ford. Charlie Long, of the "Blue Mill" Lengs, was the loser—won Jose-
Freshmen in one of Helen Rhoda Hoopes' class opened all the windows in her classroo mceently on a very frisky day. She must be getting soft because when she entered the room she merely warned them. It all brings back unpleasant memories of days when I was a freshman taking a literature course under Miss Hoopes. A bunch of us children were playing "freeze out" when she came in. Irked considerably, she suddenly decided to give an hour quiz over six weeks' work. So we sat there in the frigid atmosphere and flunked.
Johnny Dunn, a Pi K A, was the center of attraction at the Frocie Friday night when he entered the ballroom without any pants. While girls gasped and Fletcher Henderson stood agasth, Tom Bowlis clicked the shutter of his camera. (So now all pictures of the event can be seen in the Christmas issue of the Sour Owl on sale soon.—adj.)
Capricious Canine's Cavorting Causes Caustic Comment
The journalism department's animal society had a visitor last week, and this time is wasn't a cub reporter. It was a dog. After wandering around the news room for awhile and kibbzing on the bridge games in session, the dog quickly picked up another department
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