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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1908
Comment
Rooming houses in the student area have been given a mid-year inspection by the University Housing Committee and a pamphlet containing suggestions and instructions for better housing conditions and better relations between student and house keeper has been left in each student room.
The work of the housing committee is going on under the original plan pending a petition of the Men's Student Council asking for compulsory housing regulations. This petition, while of merit, will probably be bitterly opposed. In the meantime, much of the objective of compulsory housing rules, and perhaps more, can be obtained by intelligent student co-operation with the housing program.
Some houses have been eliminated from the approved list and some have never qualified for approval. Mid-year is both a considerate and convenient time for student moving. Each student who lives in an unapproved house should consider seriously moving to a house that is approved. A list of the approved houses is available at either of the student advisers' offices.
It is recognized that there is an element both among landladies and students that cannot be brought to co-operate with the housing program, but these individuals constitute a small portion of the total and probably could not be dealt with even by compulsory measures.
It is then up to the majority to co-operate and enjoy the benefits of the program.
Let Those Fight Who Want A War
Down in Austin, Texas, an American Legion Post has brought forth a peace plan so simple and pure in its insane clarity that it shames the puny efforts of the statesmen and diplomats at Washington, London, and Geneva. The veterans suggest that in case of war with Japan that only the old men be sent abroad. There are few places in industry for the aged, their life work is practically completed, so it is no more than right that they instead of the young should fight the next war, the Texans argue.
It is more than a truism that the youth of the world seldom make or desire war. It is the elder statesmen, safely past the age for military service, who get excited about honor, prestige, and freedom of the seas. It is the old men of America—in the village barber-shops as well as in the city clubs—who today are saying that we need to teach Japan a lesson. Youth naturally is skeptical of phrases. They see too clearly the bombast and tinsel which lurk in high-sounding words; young America has no wish to exchange the chance for a successful career for the mud and vermin of the Chinese trenches. Having seen the ravages of the last post-war depression, he has no desire to imitate the boys who were heroes in 1917 when they went to war, but unpatriotic in 1929 when they asked for a bonus.
Today it is usually the fathers and grandfathers of the land who say that war is inevitable, we think that sooner or later America must fight Japan so it might as well be done while we are prepared. They seem to have no qualms about sacrificing their sons and grandsons to the cause. The most jingoistic talk in America can be heard from the mouths of old men with one foot in the grave. The most militaristic editorials drip from the pens of middle-aged editors safely passed the danger of military duty. They are not demanding a war, but they re doing little to stop one.
Here then is the material with which to build an army. Too young for the Spanish-American war, exempted by the draft in the World War, these men have been frustrated all their lives by dreams of parades, drums, riffs, and medals. They have given up all hope of glory, but it is still not too late. If war breaks out, they should be given the first chance for a room in Valhalla.
There will be no need of propaganda to popularize the war; they are already aroused. It will be unnecessary to spend money for new uniforms. The old blue coat that father wore at Bull Run or uncle at Manila Bay is still hanging in the closet. The old fellows can dust off the one that fits best and march down Main street with a musket, knowing that he is carrying on the traditions of his ancestors.
The casualty list would be high, of course. After the first wave of volunteers it might be necessary for a draft. First, all over sixty-five, then sixty, then fifty-five, etc. The old boys wouldn't last long, but neither would young men. War is war, and old men make just as good cannon-fodder as the young. Big Berthas aren't particular. As Sir John Falstaff said, "they are good enough to toss; food for powder; they'll fit a pit as well as better."
they in a pit.
When the war finally drags to an end with nothing settled (as all wars always end), there will be little need for soldiers' bonuses or pensions. The few who survive will need a pension for only a few years. There will be no young men with warped and disillusioned mental outlooks; there will be no great wave of unemployed men to be thrown on the labor market, which might ease the ferocity of the inevitable depression to follow the war.
Best of all, the young men who stay at home getting rich while papa and grand-pappy defend America from the Yellow Peril will sympathize with the veterans. Those who kept the home fires burning won't repeat their elder's error of starting a war when they are old. They'll know that when next the bugles blow it will be themselves and not their sons who will march forth on the Road to Glory.
The possibilities of the Texas idea are illimitable. If ever anyone deserved the Peace prize it's those Texas veterans. The Nobel Peace prize for one year isn't enough. They should have a standing order for the reward for the next decade.
Campus Opinion
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Editor, Daily Kansan:
I am not a frat man and I am not interested in Greek affairs, however I am a student of the College and a resident of Lawrence and have both college and civic pride and interest which the University Daily
The students, the people of Lawrence and vicinity are much more interested in the activities and improvement at the college than in the British plan to carry out the division of Palestine and news concerning one of the many battles on Hendaye. Spanish frigate Escutilla fought the French's strike in Seattle and a lot of other such accounts.
I have been extremely interested in watching the building of the new Theta house this summer, and I feel this imposing structure a fine addition to our Campus. I am sure there are a great many people who want to be inside the furnished building (like myself), but who are interested in its furnishings, its plans, etc.
I have never seen one word in your paper concerning the beautiful building other than a few glib remarks from your so-called humorous section concern that it is a 30-piece brick house with a telephone.
The fact you have made no other dignified mention of the issue is proof that we do not share its general interest. I cannot understand your policy.
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Vol. 35 Wednesday, January 12, 1938 No. 75
A. S.M.E. The A.S.M.E. will hold an important meeting in 206 Marvin on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. Mr. H. L. Dixon of the Ehiel corporation will give an address at 100 North Park Avenue for Motors." After the lecture, election of officers for next semester will be held. The meeting is open to all enquirers and are urged to attend - Donald A. Barnett. Secretary.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TABLE. The German Language Course is designed for students in the Union building Lounge. All who wish to speak German or to improve their knowledge of speaking are invited to come. There is no further obligatory course.
STUDENT FORUM BOARD: There will be a brief meeting of the Student Forum Board on Thursday, Jan. 13, at 3:30 in the Pine room—Dean Moorehead, Chairman.
W. S.G. A.TEA: There will be a W.S.G. A茶 this afternoon from 3 until 5 o'clock in the lounge of the Administration building. All University women are invited—Bette Wasson, Secretary.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: There will be a meeting at the Administration building, Mr. A. L. Badwin will speak on "The Algebra of Logic": Visitors are wel- lled and attendees will be served—Charmé E. Rikert, President.
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The first public exhibition of what will probably develop into a new school of American art is now on display in the newsroom of the journalism building. Schiller Shore, father of the nebulous but promising new school, is the painter of all the 13 pictures now on exhibition.
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Use of Lights Is Striking
The predominance of true color might lead the critic to believe that the artist was restricted by his medium, but when he so desires he has achieved wide variation in both value and chroma.
The paintings, which range from entirely fine landscapes to impressionistic—even expressionist—interpretations of modern moods, display a new and surprising technique. The artist uses only printer's ink and smores his color on heavy paper with an oil-based fluid and blending of color are inconceivably true and authentic, in spite of the crudity of method.
By Morris Thompson Kansan Art Critic
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Revolutionary Technique Revealed in Shore Paintings
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Shore's use of light is as unusual as it is striking and unconventional. With utter and highly successful disregard for the rule book of the classics and the mandates of the crucible, Shore has a background or from any angle at either side. The effect is both impressive and thought-provoking.
Entered as second-class master, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kane.
Outstanding in at an outstanding
exhibit are: "Self-Portrait" in
which a mastery of light and shade
and liberal use of black and cold
colors achieve an Esquirion effect;
"Old Woman Fights Hell" in which
contrasting subdued and high-value colors give emphasis to the peculiar half-silhouette technique rarely but profitably used by the artist; and "Modern Madonna", in which Shore has given a striking luminosity to a composition entirely in the drab. Originals and Translations
Some of the paintings are original while others are translations of subjects done in the conventional manuscript form, an expressive new mode of presentation.
Shore, the artist, is already known as Shore, foreman of the bindery in the Journalism Press, Shore the philanthropist, and Shore the warden of Potter's lake. This critic's prediction is that soon Shore, the artist, will outshine the rest of this versatile gentleman's distinctions. The author will fulfill the rights of basement experimentation with the crude tools that have become liquid and expressive in the hands of the artist.
Monterey, Cal., Jan. 11—(UP) American's giant bombing planes and flying fortresses may have one more great advantage over the "potential" enemy as the result of a "supersilent" exhaust invented by Sergt Frank Newton of the Ordance Department of the Monterey Presidio.
New Device Hushes Airplane Motors
Tests just made of the "super-
silent" exhaust have demonstrated
that it will cut off entirely the rear
armor of the army's largest bombers.
Army as well as automobile con-
structures who have been present at the various tests here declare the invention marks one of the greatest automotive engineering in recent years.
Patents for the exclusive army use of the exhaust have been taken out by the adjukt-general of the army at Washington.
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