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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936
Editorial Comment
Then and Only Then
What about this WHEN Dyche Museum of Natural History is reopened to the public? What date does WHEN refer to? 1837 or 1957?
WHEN simply means just as soon as the state legislature appropriates the necessary expense money, or the gifts—large and small—total $47,000.
And, in the meantime, the specimens will continue to deteriorate rapidly, under the present storage conditions, even though the caretakers take the best possible care and precautions. It is humanly impossible to prevent this depreciation.
The damage to the specimens caused by mice, dust and moisture amounts to approximately $2,000 a month. However, that figure is somewhat a wild guess, because it is impossible to state in dollars and cents the loss, since some of the mammal and bird specimens are either extinct or very rare. The specimens are not replaceable. A gambler's chance is taken with the pre-historic fossils and skeletons, but chances are 100 to 1 that a dozen or more excavations costing thousands of dollars a piece will not unearth specimens of the sought-after species.
Getting back to the WHEN! As soon as there is any money at all in the Dyche Fund, reinhabitation of the building will begin. The interior will be completely redecorated; and a half-million dollars worth of specimens will be cleaned, repaired as much as possible, and moved back into the building. The displays and exhibits will be reconstructed.
Then and only then, Dyche Museum will be reopened to the public as one of the best and most complete natural history museums west of the Mississippi river, completely modern in every detail. No man will be capable of determining its value in so many dollars and cents.
The Museum will then be described as COLOSSAL, STUPENDOUS, GIGANTIC, when—when—WHEN!
Commencement Speaker
This commencement will mark the first time since 1891 that the address is to be delivered by the Chancellor of the University. However, this year, Chancellor E. H. Lindley is to deliver the commencement address, and this indeed seems quite fitting. Certainly, there is no one better qualified for the position than this tall, dignified man whom every student of the University is proud to acknowledge as the head of his Alma Mater.
Chancellor Lindley has grown to mean more than a University head to the students. He is a well-known individual throughout the United States for his services at the school, and has become a very definite part and symbol of the University.
Congratulations to the Alumni Association and the executive committee of commencement activities for choosing this man to give the farewell address to the largest class of graduates that the University has ever known.
League Security?
During its 16 years as an organization for peace through the means of collective security the League of Nations has established itself as a protector for the smaller nations. Now, through the chaos Europe has been thrown into during the past few months by the actions of two independent dictators of great powers, the safety and protection of these smaller states is being seriously impaired and they are bound to resent it. Their resentment will probably take the form of striving to keep the League's present status among the power worlds.
Because of that fear and resentment these smaller nations are to institute titanic struggles to play on the sympathies of the other League powers who still remain within its fold in order that its organization may be kept intact. It will have to be a greater effort than has ever before been shown, however, because the League, in its present status, is in grave danger of being disrupted.
The gravity of that position is illustrated by the fact that the South American countries are now attempting to organize a League of the Western Hemisphere. If this project is successfully carried out the whole idea of collective security will be lost among the jumbled relations between the two conflicting organizations.
It is imperative that action be taken whereby the present League can be kept intact and made to assume greater proportions in the eyes of the separate powers. Only in this way can world peace be made into a reality out of a Utopian idea.
No Bed of Roses
An open letter to the new editor of the Sour Owl: Sir, you are embarking upon a career of many pitfalls and little security. You will be face to face next year with the Hercules task of satisfying everybody who happens to come into possession of a copy of your magazine. This, as you probably realize already, is no small task.
Nightmares of deadlines and late copy will
hunt your nights, and many of your days will be spent in a conscious dread of the same. You will have to hound continually your lagging correspondents. You'll probably have to rewrite most of the copy when it does come in.
There will be a million and one worries in your job, mostly minor ones but fretting little problems nevertheless. You will likely pay a few drenched visits to the Men's Student Adviser's office, which will give you a truer understanding of how your publication should be run.
All in all though, you won't have anything to complain of. You'll have a position with a potential income and an office with fixtures attached. You'll be a big shot on the campus. Why, half the gays in school will envy and admire you. But it still won't be any bed of American Beauties. No, sub!
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
In Sunday and Wednesday's issues of the Daily Kansas, the editorial page has carried re-printed articles discussing the merits and benefits of a college education. The former editor blames the increase in the number of college and university students on public opinion. I believe that the growing enrollment may be blamed on public opinion, combined with extensive propaganda. The salary average of college graduates compared with the lower wages of less educated individuals show the results of many, but they fail to relate the per cent growth of college students to higher graduation and decide to learn chemical engineering, when they are patterned to be good mechanics, not chemists.
A little individual consideration, before entering college, would, in later years, make many better satisfied. If college has nothing to offer, of lasting benefit, to the individual, he has no reason for going. A woman, who intends to marry as soon as she is graduated, has no place in the university if she doesn't intend to take the subjects which will be of value to her in her married life. A man fitted for farming, should attend a university, or a university with a law degree, than learning to be a lawyer for several years, and then forgetting all he has learned on his return to the farm.
Propaganda is be spend more and more each year concerning the necessity of a college education. However, it is up to each prospective college student to think of himself and his future, and, if he decides that the university could teach him to be a better farmer, or a better mechanic, he should attend with that purpose in view.
A. J.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Recently the Women's Pan-Hellenic society of this University will continue to quote a quotation, first published in 1943.
Out of the entire number of sororities which belong to the local Pan-Hellenic group, only two of these organizations voted against the system, and these were the largest two. Two of the big talking points used for the system were: (1) It will help the smaller groups, and (2) The University officials want the system continued.
In answer to the first argument, ti is difficult to see how the smallest groups on this campus, the ones who are in danger of falling under, profit from the system because they were not involved each, one organization took in three girls, and one owerior did no pledging. One hundred thirty-one girls were pledged this fall as compared with the 161 pledges of the previous rush week. Eligible girls were not lacking in computer skills left the University immediately after rush week.
Current discussion now is centering about the "officials" reasons for favoring the quota system. A few say they desire to turn the state institution into a university for men. Others believe these officials see an end to sororites at Kansas University if the quota system continues. A national movement is spreading to abolish sororities and fraternities, and perhaps some of our administrators feel that the quota system is the most powerfully effective tool for national or university through, whether national sororites are allowed or not there are always club, or social groups of some sort. It seems to be an impossibility for women to attend college without joining together and adopting a name.
During the recent band festival the organized houses on this campus heard a great deal about the University's enrollment, and the fact was mentioned several times that the University of Kansas was the only state university with a quota system to believe that the quota system has a great deal to do with this declining enrollment. State girls are afraid to come to KU, if they intend to join a sorority, because the quota system is too exclusive. These girls are going to Kansas State College and other universities where they live. Kansas City girls are raising Missouri's enrollment.
In my estimation the enrollment of the University of Kansas will continue to decline as long as the KU, scorers, and others are still in the game.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
COUNCIL ON RELIGION: Meeting today, 4:30, Meyer hall.
Ralph McKibbli, President.
Notices due at Cancellor's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. saturday for Sunday issues.
Vol. 33 MAY 15, 1936 No. 156
DER DEUTSCHE VERREN: Der Deutsche Verren-
nimmt sich mit Mortagg den Mal 16 um Halb ihrem fünf
Tage. Das Verben ist derzeit nicht erkennbar.
PSI CHI: Annual picnic Monday, May 18. Members wishing to attend sign the notice in the Psychology office, Room 11, Ad. building on or before Friday, May 15. Alfred Bradwil. President.
Editor's Note: The following is the second installment of another in the series of letters written to the Kansan German Exchange, Kc. U. German Exchange Scholar.
Hitler Toured Germany in Campaign To Secure Support of Rhineland Occupation
I don't know how the election was written up in the American newspapers but I followed the sequence of events. In 2014, I visited several polling places on election day, and would like to give my general impression of the whole effort.
Soon after Hitler had resuscitated the Rhineland with troops he announced that in order to prove to the world that the great majority of the German people would accept him, he would hold an election on March 29. It was not to be an election such as we in America know elections, between two or more candidates, but was some-what what it is in England when the prime minister of France evidence from parliament in regard to his policies. I don't believe there was any doubt in Hitler's or anyone else's mind as to what the general outcome would be, but he wanted the world to know that when he spoke he voiced the opinion of the major of Germans.
He spent the two weeks preceding the election touring Germany in an enormous pre-election campaign. (General Goring and "Reichminister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment" were born to him.) We every day in different cities for almost two weeks. Wherever he went he received tremendous ovations. There was no hall in Germany large enough to hold the crowds which wanted to hear him. I had the opportunity to hear when he spoke in Leipzig, March 28, 1945. He was the leader of the Leizig fair grounds before a crowd of 30,000 people. I paid the top price of $2.00 for my soot and even then I had to get it a week in advance. Five days before the speech not a ticket remained un Sold. More huge loudspeakers appeared all over the places all over the city where another 80,000 people heard the speech.
The whole city was wan bed-beded. Huge banners and signs were to be seen on every public building and hung across the main streets bearing such words as "the Rhineland is our word," "The Rhinehalf is our word"; free give your vote to its emmani-pator; "It doesn't concern any one single party, it concerns Deutschland—and she remains free;" "Freedom, we peace; Government wants peace." "Hitler will win now; now give him your vote of confidence," etc. In every store window was a large flag-draped picture of the "Führer." The newspapers in the tree preceding the election were filled with images and campaign literature of all kinds.
When Hitler was driven through Leipzig in the immense parade given in his honor the streets along the way were literally jammed with thousands of cheering people eager to catch a glimpse of him as he passed. What occurred in Leipzig was only typical of every other city in Germany where he spoke during the campaign. I have witnessed this at many occasions as was shown for this man. It left no doubt in my mind but that the majority of the people really do believe in him and approve of what he is trying to do for Germany.
The speech itself was quite an experience for me—the whole event giving one a splendid example of the love of pump and ceremony so dear to the Germans. It was scheduled to begin in June, but I was seated in the huge hall was occupied. The enormous hall was colorfully decorated with huge flags. There were two large Storm Trooper bands which played alternately to entertain the crowd. At one end of the hall was a large platform in the center of which were assembled the leaders of the stormtroopers. At 7:45 the flag-bearers, about 150 of them carrying large flags and other Nazi emblems marched down the center able to the pompous music of the bands, and took their places at the sides of the platform. (They remained at attention throughout the rest of the evening.) Promptly at 8:00 p.m. the Führer and his aides appeared at the rear end of the hall, and amid the thundering cheers and cries of "Heal Hitler," they pulled down the center aile and took his seat on the platform. The nplause itself must have lausted more than six or seven minutes.
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In the speech that followed, Hitler gave ample proof of his reputation as an orator. It wasn't so much what he said but how he said it. There was not much in the contents of the speech that he had not said before during the camp attack. But he continued throughout the speech he was obliged to stop to let the wild cutsbreaks of applause suisse. And after the speech there was another long period of cheering and cries of "Hell Hitler." This was followed by the singing of the Nazi song and the stirring of the "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Deutschland," which included an enthusiastic tribute to this man who has given back to the Germans their self-response and renewed the hope and ambition of the nation.
The Roving Reporter Conducted by Virgil Mitchell
Question: What do you do while waiting for a tardy date?
Wilson Redman (from his actions I would say he is beginning to feel the pre-exam pressure): "Cuss and wait." Elie Jean McLean (he tells to all one—she's looking for a job): "I stand up and say 'damn.'"
Dorothy Finch (She manages to make her 8:30 by 9:) "I don't remember having a tardy day."
Mastine Taylor (a whiff of Joan Craven-fitting about); "I don't wait." Winna Gloom (She doesn't have to wear a coat) "I'm not ready so I wouldn't know."
Bill Ahlert (He made three statements but he's bigger than am): "----------"
Bill Conner (one of the VOFW team) wait. I just walk off and leave her."
Jane Steele (She told me not to talk anyone she is from Oread high school): "I have been known to go out the back way to the library."
Rosalla Murphy (sitting in the Union
acting like a college girl): "I euss under my breath and try to keep from getting messed up."
John Nichols (suspenders fresh out of Esquire): "I don't date."
Nellie Anderson (more high school stuff): "I study—but mostly walk around in circles."
"Gerritude," I apologized to Guppy dear, "have I kept you waiting?" No dew. she sighled, "sit down and call the doctor--I'll be read in a few minutes."
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