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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1927
Comment
Not Worth Conquering
Der Fuehver's well-disciplined journalists, after their first attack on American "culture" as personified by the Negro population, found a topic made to order in Mayor La Guardia's speech. It was, according to their mores, highly improper from a representative of the people. Moreover, it was delivered by a man unashamed of his Jewish blood!
Now the Germans are not preparing their people psychologically for an attack upon the United States. They probably are not even paving the way for war. It is a well-known fact that when a group becomes restless—say from participating in a revolution in which they have no real interest or from dieting involuntarily that guns may be manufactured—then, their attention had best be diverted.
The preferred method of doing this is by righteous indignation. Demanding an apology is effective, and even more excellent is the opportunity to arouse anger against a nation a safe 3000 miles away. But the cleverest device of the German journalists in keeping public opinion within bounds was their final remark about American civilization. They denounce—reasonably, if with half truths—kidnapping, gangs, and lynchings. They add:
"The American civilization is not even worth conquering."
Without any wish to defend this nation's real barbarianism, citizens may grin that the Nazis so believe—and thank their stars that the Teutons have not taken—the burden of their culture as consciently as the Anglo-Saxons once took theirs.
The Unity of Nothingness
"I'd rather see than be one" Goetle Burgess concluded some time ago about purple cows. That was after he lost his job as instructor at the University of California, but before he invented a machine that does nothing, as "News-Week" records.
Mr. Burgett explained, demonstrating his apparatus of tomato cans, toothpicks, and miscellany, that almost anyone can make something that works. He might have added that almost anyone can say something resembling sense. He, Mr. Lewis Carroll, and Gertrude Stein stand among the select few to whom his "Goops and How to Be Them," the beloved, "Twas brillig and the slithy toves," and "A rose is a rose" are comprehensible. It is not a case of intelligible.
Alas, however, the enjoyment of this art, so much more subtle than poetry and less mechanistic than music, is limited. Unimaginative sophisticates listen with admiration as unfigured as that they feel for Einstein. A few sneer—a little fearfully—and accuse the Nonsensors of profiting by public gullibility.
No one would dare to think that in describing a unique members of the animal kingdom, Gelett Burgess could have meant personally and a little sadly: "I'd rather see then be one."
And the colleges? Can their teachers, sworn to pursuit of Truth, not grasp the beautiful unity, the utter completeness of something which makes no sense? Do they not glimpse the supreme philosophy?
Heresy!
Discord—the soft sweet-note of spring and the strident call of mid-sementers.
Propaganda
The Journal-Post, among other papers, is running a series of cartoons and faked war photographs each Sunday. The page is an expose of World War propaganda, and it makes one think.
Propaganda—and the more false the better—has always been a superb means of twisting people's minds to a line of thought their common sense should tell them is entirely wrong. But perhaps you think you are immune to such tripe?
Well, suppose we were at war with Japan. The boys would get out the Yellow Peril idea again and really put it to work. Perhaps they'd print genuine (retouched) photographs of American children with their ears cut off—by the heathen Japanese, of course. They would issue choice stories on what horrible things the Japs were doing to OUR CITIZENS. They might even dust off the old story of the soap factory. That was always a swell one to get the suckers going.
Ah, you'd have a hard time resisting these delightful things. What with a prevailing war
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1. A well-rounded variety athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
spirit and the sound of tramping feet, you'd be consumed with the desire to fight for the country. It's too bad, but there's little that can be done about it.
Doubtless you've been warned before, and there is little sense in re-warming you, but there's just the chance that keeping in mind the absurd untruths all propaganda is based on might enable you to resist the coils of this dread octopus just a little longer.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan
A Cynic Speaks
The other day I picked up a leaflet "My
Beacon For Life" that the week's discus-
sion about I became a Christian.
This made me think of the good old days, and when I went to work at her shop, laden them, and on one had sawn off my horn yeast. Then, I began going with the preacher's daughter. She was quite a girl and the competition was mighty. We hadn't had much to get ahead of several times to sell his product (religion -pie in the dish) but she kept coming through customer. I hesitated to join an organization which had stifled free thought from Gallico thru
Finally he made his master stroke. Calling at the house one day he announced that Richard, Floyd, and didn't I think to come to the allair" next Sunday and didn't I think to come to God?" Now these three boys were my closest rivals for exclusive nekiviles privileges to stay in the city with me,器idered quickly. It had taken seven months and had cost me big money and three mighty fine poems to get that gai, and I still wasn't very far ahead of the other men.
We eventually drifted apart (the girl and I) and I could cease being a hypocrite. We now am out after a teaching job and knowing that a hearty "Amen" would mean more. I can have I will soon be in there again doing my stuff.
A Champion
A Potential Convert
Wellsville Glon,
Wellsville, Kans.
Honorable Editor;
A
Please don't get me wrong--I'm not a student of journalism at Kansas University. I am a senior in the capitalistic school of Business. Outside of read-earners, Daily Kansan I have no other contacts with it.
I am writing this, my first letter to an editor, in prote-
tion of (2) to the Kansan which was reprinted there today.
Never has a Kansan editorial been tinged with the slightest bit of "pink." In fact, I had personally considered them rather reactionary. And of the Kan-tsen thousand readers you are the first to cry "Companion."
You mentioned that it might be difficult for these "matured" journalism st students to obtain positions on the staff of news-organisers. Recent graduates are on the staff of some news agencies, Capital (Capper's Communist Chronicle); Topoaka State; Kansas City Star; Lawrence Journal; Salulu Journal; Salt Lake Tribune; Hutchinson, and Ottawa; Kansas City Kansas; Chicago Tribune; New York Times; Los Angeles Times;—and believe it, the editor, two workers for work in the newspaper.
It must be a great satisfaction to your ego to know that
to enter your avowed profession-except possibly
to enter your avowed profession-except possibly
R. A.
(A Capitalist Apologist)
The Wellsville Globe—Indeed! R. A.
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--purpose. This was true for physical and social science and all of the criteria that he studied. From all this information, he opened, and though still far from completion, it tends to prove the professor's belief that everything is one integrated pattern that all is symmetric and logical geographic conditions.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club is at Westminster, March 19 at 8 meet at Westminster. Secretary: Terry M. Cox.
SIGMA XI: The regular March meeting of Sigma XI will be held tonight at 730 in Blake hall. Prof R. A. Russell of the School of Engineering and Architecture on Railways on Railways "R- W. H. Schucz. Secretary."
Y. M.C.A. CABINET MEETING: There will be a meeting of all Y.M.C.A. Cabinets members this afternoon at 4:30 in the Y.M.C.A. office—Harold E. Gregg President.
Y. W.C.A. CABINET MEETING: Rabbi Baron will speak at the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet meeting at 4:30 aftternoon at Henley House. All members please be present—Martha Peterson, President.
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