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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1936
Comment
"Safe Driving' "
Editorial writers are seldom speechless. We are—almost.
Directly on the back of the story of the accident yesterday was an editorial on "Safe Driving."
Now, with friends gone, we realize that nothing we can say, nothing we have said, could do any good.
Propagandists' Picnic
American newspapers are again becoming the dung heap for the offal of propagandists. The Spanish civil war reports, spread inches high on the front pages of our dailies, reveal little maggots of incendiary reactionists digging and creeping and weaving through these foreign dispatches, giving us good red blood and nice raw human flesh to eat on their headlines.
This condition is consistent with the same methods used to sway public opinion and to drag America into the last war. The outstanding difference is that our more up-to-date propagandists are improving the techniques once used in writing those stirring "baby-killing Hunt" stories.
We quote from the Sept. 19 issue of "The Nation," which has collected some of the rarest newsheads from New York papers.
New York Daily Mirror, Sept. 3
REDS SLAY 129 GIRLS
Thirty Priests slaughtered
By Radical Mobs
New York Evening Journal, Sept. 9
REDS TORTURE SOLDIERS,
WOMEN, CHILDREN,
BERLIN PAPERPORTS
Spanish NPAEed Nalized Prisoners
And Pierced Women and Children to
Fences and Then Set Them Afire
New York American, Aug. 31
Pede Soleil Launched With Friends and Nana
Heroes
New York World Telegram, Aug. 17
500 HOSTS BURNED ALIVE IN SPAIN
No matter what one's sentiments—reactionary, conservative, liberal or radical—it takes only a fair amount of intelligence to realize that there are two armies fighting and that they both use guns.
War is never a picnic outing and queer, inhuman, dastardly things are done under the influence of its psychology. These things are as closely linked with war as are lice, typhoid, gonorrhea, rape and the slitting of throes. If we must deal with war, we must expect its bed-felows to be alongside.
What the foreign representatives or the editors here at home evidently are forgetting is that the Rebels (the Facists) are in the fight too. We know that they are not a group of baby-blue moralists with nice, shiny band uniforms. We also know that they do not fight their side of the war, dying gloriously, giving quarter to the enemy, living lives of celebacy and stopping their Sunday advances so as to attend the local mass.
It is the old propaganda-sentiment machine all over—in Spain, this time, instead of France.
They are soldiers in the same fight and are undoubtedly committing the same immoral and terrible crimes that the press so roundly and exclusively accuses the Loyalists (the Reds) of doing.
If America is going to avoid repeating the command performance to propaganda and the military money-mongers in the coming international arms display (that is now having its first European showing in Spain) she must take the civil war reports, not with a grain of salt, but with a whole box-full.
Life Is Earnest
Here is the torch; be yours to hold it high! It took the Rust brothers many years of hard inventing to learn that their cotton-picking machine would wreck the southern economic system by displacing agricultural workers, so they refuse to sell it in numbers. The trouble with labor-saving devices is that they save too much labor Good hard work never hurt anybody.
It also took the army several years to design an attack plane that would mount seven machine guns with which to destroy enemy planes that carried only five guns with which to destroy our planes. Hurray! We're two guns up on the Japs.
If we continue to progress Father Time will be running a mowing machine.
"Let the Dead Past . . . "
Probably the most pathetic sight in the world is that of old men fighting over what they should have done in an earlier day. Old soldier quibbling over the merit of their chieftans at Shiloh, San Juan, Chateau-Thierry with never a thought of the present, do little to prevent the recurrence of
such wierd canvases. This is a notorious common place of history.
At the present our more "respectable" newspapers and some of our older statesmen are fighting the war again, stirring up hatred by taking issue on the merits of General Pershing's command during our last attack of world-wide social D.T.s.
Only Friday a large metropolitan newspaper cartooned the situation showing the Peace Treaty tattered and torn, blaming Lloyd George. On the other hand in chauvinistic ego was shown the "victory" of the world war as a shining spire. The cartoon was entitled "Pershing Botched His World Was God"—Lloyd George."
In the light of the disrupted structure of Europe with her peoples mentally warped and weary striving to escape from the torment of conquest and war costs by fascism, of Kansas dust storms resulting from the cultivation of grazing lands during the wartime flush of the market, of war debts eventually to be paid by America, in the light of all this and the first glow of another war resulting almost directly from the shining spire of World War victory, we hesitate to concur with our elders—to argue on their side. Nor can we waste time with senile, frustrated Lloyd George.
We are certain that the victory was not shining, but equally as ragged as the Police Treaty.
War is something for which there can be no justification, and to raise criticisms of technique, war policy and tactic is comparable to the argument of manacles concerning their methods after they have committed a heinous murder.
Yes, old men live too much in the past. "Let the dead past bury its dead." Rather a dead past than a lifeless future.
Praising with faint damns might be said of William Green's faint-hearted opposition to the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer's strike tactics.
A Gas Map of the U. S.
"I wish a hell of a strike get under way," an employee of the Lake Erie Chemical Company wrote to his boss. "I am in a position to do a lot of business if trouble develops."
The Lake Erie Chemical Company has done a lot of business.
Senator LaFollette's committee investigating alleged violations of civil liberties the other day gazed at a map of the United States which showed in detail where the chemical company had sold a half-million dollars worth of gas equipment.
The president of the company told the committee of a demonstration his firm had given to representatives of Pennsylvania Railroad, Jones and Laughlin Steel, Westinghouse Electric, Erie Railroad, and Carnegie Steel. He described the products demonstrated, including a K.O. gas which causes "violent nausea and severe headaches and a sense of suffocation," lasting sometimes the entire day.
The industrial leader also described explosive grenades which would cause severe injury to anyone within fifteen feet. He had advised against their use unless drastic treatment was desired. The grenades were sold, no doubt over his protests.
It is too bad, business men often observe, that labor leaders insist on forming class war.
Lloyd George's regret that Americans were not allowed to shuote the boots of British officers and die in the Blackwatch's skirts is what might be called a "Welsh rare-bit."
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. on Friday, May 28, 2014.
FRESHMAN MEN: There will be a regular meeting of the Freshman Council of the Y.M.C.A. Monday evening in the Y.M.C.A. office, basement of Memorial Union Building, at 7. Paul W. Moritz,
AMERICAN STUDENT UNION: There will be an organization meeting at 8 p. m. Monday, September 28, in 163 Administration Building. Former members of the Liberal Club and all other liberals are urged to come.
Vol. 34 SUNDAY, SEPT. 27, 1936 No. 12
HOUSE PRESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION: There will be a meeting of the House Presidents' association Tuesday, at 4:30, in the meeting room on the third floor of the Union Building. Barbara Pendleton, Chairman
Chairman of Freshman Council
K. U. PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE. The K. U. Peace Action Committee will meet Monday at 4:30 in the Pine Room, Memorial Union. Everyone interested is welcome. Henry Burker, Executive Secretary
Helen Corbett, Secretary
Petitions for filling this vacancy must be in the hands of the Secretary by 12 p. m. Wednesday, October 7, and must be signed by not less than fifteen (15) qualified electors of the Graduate School.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF VACANCY IN THE MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. A vacancy in the Men's Student Council is hereby declared because of the failure of the Graduate Representative to return to school.
ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION: Advanced Standing Commission of the T.W.C.A. will meet at the University of Pittsburgh.
William Zupanec, Secretary
rrreshmen Exhibit Amazing Knowledge In Answering Psychological Examination
By Tom Ellis, c'28
n. P.E. (describe) (things happening)
"And where are you going, my pretty maid?
Suit (smartly)  I'm going to college, sir," she
cid.
A.P. (After Psychobiotics)
"And where are you going, my pretty maid?"
Sit. (defectively) "If this is college—home!"
she did.
And this is how a good many freeshim feel after they take their psychological tests. To be sure, they are told when they have failed and the device to be used against them. Nevertheless, there is a certain sense of dependency in the breasts of many freshmen.
But, what of the papers they turn in?
What answers do they contain? What does the grader think of them as he works hours and bours grading and rating them? Let us look over the examinations, some of some of the last tests, recently given.
Ah, here is a definition that will surprise you: A word that means the art of employing discourse characterized by force, art, and perennisness is "democracy." (Then the politicians are wrong.) A contest for force between states is a "tax," a "din," and "air," or an "interstate."
and probably did not know that
that voice which is above man's natural
voice is a "soprano," in "also," a "whit-
er" and another, a "supernatural,"
and even a "converse."
There then is a pygmy which you may recognize in his various forms as a "moren," a "savage" a "Chitumon," or even a "man." It can be up with modern carpentry is con-
Voice is "Conscience"
While looking through the files of our exchanges with other college newspapers we ran across an item in the Daily Tar Heel, publication of the University of South Carolina. The article we feel is good enough to be passed on to our readers.
"The task of education is:
"Something which will broaden the interests and sympathies of people regardless of their daily occupation—or along with it—
"To lift men's thought out of the monotony and drudgery which are the common lot.
"To free the mind from servitude and herd opinion.
"To train habits of judgment and of appreciation of value.
"To carry on the struggle for human excellence in our day and generation.
To tommer passion with wisdom.
"To dispel prejudice by better knowledge of self.
"To enlist all men, in the measure that they have capacity for it, in the achievement of civilization."
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Steven David, Esq. c37
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BETTE DAVIS
In physiological terminology and definition their knowledge is amazing, even for freshmen. We learn that the back part of the neck may be called the "rump," "cranium," "axix," "skim" and "bone"; and that part of the body enclosed by the ribs and breastbone is either the "lump" or the "throat." We learn that a lymph node is a kind of malignant tumor may be a "stream," a "nimple," or a "store,
chisely proven by these definitions of a large nail; a "lack," a "screw," a "clear," and a "chiln." It may be noted that having has a touch of the modernist, too.
GEORGE BRENT
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Question: Once again, if you had your choice of orchestra, which would you choose to play at one of the Hill varities?
Ted Christophil, gr. "Ben Bernie, because if he were here Winchell would be somewhere about, and think of the dire consequences?" This fellow said something about announcing his ennciement he was referred to him to Miss Valentine.
NOTE! Come Early and Avoid the Crowds
Dor Woonhee, c'38. "Hal Kemp, of course. Compared to him the rest of the orchestra sound like Major Bowes, but might have said like major Bowes.
Lela Dott Douglas, c40:"Henry Busez—just for his theme song, 'Tell Lips.' And to her companion: "That's the sun on mine, Theodore."
Here we encountered innumerable members of the illusorious Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and at long last, received a couple of statements.
Jean Wyatt, c39: "Horace Heid—the Kappa's would like him." This is showing a true spirit of sisterly love, if you ask us—and if you don't.
Kay Cray, b38:"Ben Goodman. He's a good man for the job. Get it?" Well, as puns go this rates pretty low, but we'll let it pass.
That's all for today. We have reached the breaking point.
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One student defined that which is composed of two or more metals, or of n
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metal and a non-metal, as an "acid," but another declared it was a "still."
And here is a very interesting one. A feeling of weariness and daintiness for want of occupation and lack of insatiability. In perhaps it is fundamentally correct.
One student gave his home address as Topeka and said he was "communicating"
Each examine was asked to state the occupation of his father. There are some of the answers: "a good farmer"; "let's see if we read this one rightly; yes, there it is in black and white; a gas producer"; "de dead traveling salesman; an unemployed WPA worker." There's a vote for Mr. Landon.
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And what does the grader think of these answers? Well, what did you think? Of course you have seen but a few and he reads hundreds of them. He thinks that all of them elicit nothing more than a grant and a mark with the red penel.
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