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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936
Comment
Will Neutra city Keep Us Out of War?
Editor's note - This ed. iti. tial was written by a Kansan
University student an. tian , entered in a national contest.
We pass it along to ye u., believing that it goes far in
answering this vital qu'it stm. on
The American plee who have acquired a reputation abroad for being I deal. its. It is said we have an "everything will turn out all right in the end" attitude.
Our citizens may 'feel a glow of satisfaction at this classification and may murmur "quite true" in a pleased lone of voice.
But perhaps it is not 'dealism which prompts our thinking and acting. It may be just plain mental inertness!' It is time to snap out of it and face facts. While we have been gazing rapidly at the sun a cloud has been seized ing acos the sky —a war cloud. How are we to avoid becoming embroiled in another conflict?
There are, broadly speaking, two a answers to that question. One is that we should stay at home and mind our own business. People call this neutrality.
The United States has long prided itself on its "strictly isolationist" policy. Our first declaration of this principle was made by Washington in 1783 when the new French republic was at war. France ignored it and we paid damages to Great Britain for the activities of French ships which had been outfitted in our ports.
Our citizens actively aided Canada during her rebellion of 1838, in spite of a strong neutrality law
Pressure from commercial and agricultural groups forced us to repeal our neutrality during the Napoleonic wars.
Although Cleveland issued a neutrality proclamation during the Cuban revolution of 1895-98 we went to war with Spain.
In 1914 Wilson asked the people to be neutral in thought as well as action, and we entered the World War April 6. 1917.
The fallacy of our policy is obvious to any thinking person. But it is not enough to point out that it has never worked. We should ask ourselves why it has never worked.
With all due respect to the powers of the munition makers and other big industrialists, it is not, in the final analysis, these men who involve us in war. It is the merchant on a smaller scale, but multiplied by thousands, and his brother, the farmer, also multiplied by thousands. These are the people who clamor for vengeance and profits, especially after lean years like the present ones. How many times have you heard the expression from one of them "What this country needs is a good war?"?
Our citizens would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to be separated in any real sense from the rest of the world. Even now we are on an import basis with wheat and other commodities. Ships are constantly leaving our harbors filled with goods destined for European consumption. Daily, our newspapers are filled with stories of persecution of Jews in Germany, regimentation of children in Italy, and rearmament throughout Europe.
The League of Nations is just what its name implies. No nation loses its individuality when it joins the League. It still has the same needs and desires. A country will continue to co-operate with the League only so long as it is to its interests to do so.
All of this is expected to roll like water from a duck's back, leaving us unimpressed and impartial!
The feeling in the United States being what it is, it is doubtful if we could join at present. But even if we could, would it be wise?
It is quite evident that we cannot be isolated. But it is still possible for us to be neutral if we desire this. Neutrality is a much abused term. The real meaning of the word has been brought out by our良师 act which expires May 1, 1927. In this law we waive all claims to freedom of the seas. We realize that we cannot transport supplies to countries at war without fear of reprisal. But we are left free to act with other countries in times of peace as we see fit.
When the League pronounces judgment, it must punish. Theoretically, it applies economic
The act is not perfect. We must define "implements of war" to mean anything that a warring nation needs. In the last war even food was declared contraband. But, most important, we must make the act mandatory. The records show that a President and a Congress are swayed by public opinion. Their jobs depend on this opinion. The pressure of interests would be too strong for them.
But who can set himself up as an authority on the guilty or innocence of any nation? Many facts do not come out until long after the war is over.
The opposition's main argument is that we should not tie the President's hands by such an inflexible policy. It would mean that we would be punishing the innocent as well as the guilty.
This leads to a second answer to our question. We should join the League of Nations and work collectively for peace.
sanctions. Meanwhile, the citizens of these countries are straining every muscle to avoid these sanctions and the aggressor country feels a bitter hatred that may take centuries to outgrow. If the economic sanctions are successful, they must eventually be backed by military sanctions. No country is going to sit passively and starve to death. War is still the final outcome.
But the League is a step in the right direction and should be encouraged. Nations at least have the chance to arbitrate if they so desire.
We can draw certain conclusions from these facts.
While the world is at peace, the United States should do everything in its power to strengthen and encourage peaceful settlement of differences. If peace is renounced, the United States should be protected by mandatory neutrality laws until the world recovers from its hysterical, unreasoning state of mind and is ready to try peaceful methods again. With these laws we can play no favorites and there will be much less bitterness in the end.
If neutrality as here defined is unable to keep us out of war, nothing can. It is our last hope.
The Republican party is going to raise a million dollars from a million persons at the rate of $1 each. That's an election year version of the "share-the-wealth" movement.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
I want to attach a rider to your library step bill when it goes before the state architecture, for I believe in your elation on the steps victory, you have overloaded another sorrow needed improvement. I refer to the sorry story of my grandmother, who was a bibliary. Many students have been spiked uncompromising hard on their posters by this door. Doubless a few minutes of tinkering with a screwdriver would suffice to remedy this situation, but I never find myself with a screwdriver up there. You must know that the door displays a most regaligence ignorance of the niceties, for it is impossible to get to the door just as it has its victim well within the trap, it swings violently, with most embarrassing results.
Editor Daily Kansan;
H. G.H.
In spite of his past, we feel it our duty to recognize "Mitt" Allen as the most colorful basketball player on the Jayhawk squads in several years. Though his first two years on the Kansas squad were rather inoobleuse he has pulled through with the same stuff that must have been in his father in younger days. He has been an active member now, students, and more observers, as the "spark-plug" of the entire Jayhawk team for the past season.
Athletes is becoming more and more a business and the attendance at games is a very important item. In order to draw good crowds it is quite necessary that a team have a certain amount of color, as well as efficiency on the court. "Mitt" has certainly added color. Are there, however, various ways of displaying his color but sports writers for the Big Six evident do not recognize this. "Mitt" was not included in any of the Big Six selections.
Although considered by his team-mates as being the "brains" of the team and by spectators as the "spark-plug," he was still neglected in these selections. Because of the selections alone, it appears that those sports writers do not recognize "spunk" when they see it, yet they have seen Chuck Hyatt, who has made the All American teams for a number of years, tell the referee which way he should throw the ball. He has slid into a base. Also they have seen Dirty Doen make his temperamental outbursts and these men are considered immortals in their field.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Thus we wonder if color is not, in spite of its various advantages, a detriment to the young athlete as far as his physical fitness is concerned.
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33 MARCH 20, 1936 No. 119
DER DEUTSCHE VEREIN: Der Deutsche Verein versammelt sich Montag den 23 March um half fuehn im Zimmer 313 Fraser. Bernadine Berkley, Schreutzer.
FENCING CLUB: The Fencing Club will meet Tuesday, March 24, at 4:30 in the Gymnasium. Important business will be discussed. Members please be present. Grace Pearson, Secretary.
Herbert G. Allphin, Swimming Coach
FRESHMAN SWIMMING TEAM. The Freshman swimming team will report Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 a.m.
Mistaken Ideas Concerning Dutch Dating Plan Cleared Up by Writer
NEWMAN CLUB. There will be a meeting in the Church Hall Sunday a.m. after the second mass. All Catholic students are urged to take advantage of this new convenient time for the club meeting.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet Thursday, March 26, in the W.S.G. Laua. Central Administration building, at 7:30 p.m. Initiatives are requested to bring national dues and initiation fee. Charles Zookes, President.
By Hugh Hadley, c'36
Katherine Aston, Secretary.
SIGMA ETA CHI: Sigma Eta Chi will hold its regular supper meeting at 5:15 o'clock on Tuesday, March 24 at the home of Alice Coobaugh, 612 West 17th Street for days for does. Thursday night. Evangeline G. Clark, President.
A number of mistaken ideas concerning Dutch Dating have arisen as a result of the proclamation last Sunday. The resolution is in no sense law, and even if enforcement were possible, the student government bedded would not undertake anything so sily as enforcement. The students will register their opinions by following the plan or not following it.
What the councils do ask is that everyone, not just steady couples as some have weekly suggested, co-opted their advice to tend not necessarily as a means of financial release to a few "steewed couples," but as a means of bringing about better relations between all men and women in anything they may do together.
Many Questions Raised
Now you have asked the following questions about girls and boys who do not know each other well? Won't it take the romance out of dating? Doesn't the woman have personal expenses men don't have? Should the woman date boys on dates? Will girls go out with certain boys on the "Dudh" basis? Is there any real reason for a change anyway? Have we asked this question? Will it work?
Many Questions Raised
The above questions cover practically all objections that have been voiced by the few who have objected. We shall answer them in order.
What about boys and girls who are first dates? The aim of the girl paying her way is to place dating on a basis where a boy asks for a date and the girl accepts solely because they each want the same. The girl simply wishes to be taken some place. Some women have said that if they have to pay their way to show, etc., they wouldn't go out with a lot of men who ask them for dates. Well, it rather proves the point. If the sole man in the room is because they'll pay for her entertainment, and would go out otherwise, such dates aren't very romantic affair; in fact they are on a rather material basic. The M.S.C. and the W.S. that material; rather, that they would welcome an opportunity to be with men because of the man, and not because he merely takes them around. Which, in effect, is the very answer to the question. "Will it take the romance show that it will work quite to the contrary."
Gifts to Women All Right
Of course, the romantic aspects of men showering gifts and favors on women as signs of affection etc., is all very fine. The Dutch Date resolution doesn't cover that; it in a way encourages them to show their affection to show them in a real way. After all, there's nothing romantic about buying a girl a show or a dinner or a cake; there is, definitely, about her flowers, candy or a book, "it can't happen."
Now, there is raised the question concerning girls and boys who are dating for the first time, worry of embarrassment, etc. Well, if a girl doesn't want to date you, she has her companionship, (she doesn't pay her way), then she should not accept the date. Frankness, in a polite and considerate way, will certainly be appreciated by the men because no one else would see it, because she sees nothing more in him than a free show. This may be true in many cases; if it is, then it's high time dating was placed on a better basis, much for first dates and romance.
Personal Expenses of Women
Don't the woman have personal expenses the men don't have? There are two ways of answering this question, going that regardless of what happens, asking them to like silk stockings these expenses; they like silk stockings and need beauty parls, regardless of the male. But that isn't a satisfactory answer. Isn't it rather that women spend money for shows, cokes and dinners anyway? Countless sorority women flick unscored to show, coke glasses, toys and dinnerware. They spend this money without knowing it. They, who to date, have relied on boys for Sunday suppers, shows and cokes, not would quit because the boys suddenly stopped, paying. Those being sent through school by families in is this position. Few boys want to go to the idea of their sons spending their money on girls for things the girls could do anyway. They wouldn't be grudging money for gifts to women of their sons' acquaintance. And to the woman's father they wouldn't relish seeing their conventions aside, of the idea of their sons going to shows on another father's money, would they?
Personal Expenses of Women
Easy on Working Students
As for the working students, it's really a shame to overburden a man with too much responsibility in silk stockings, beauty partners) with paying a girl's way to show, dances, etc.
if he desires the companionship of an attractive member of the opposite sex.
As to the working women, out of the office and the company, these crises have been raised in her behalf.
She will perforce have to budget her money, as working men have always done, to pay for her own entertainment if she desires the company of the opium addict. If you want to relieve each other? Only here is the beauty parlor, silk stocking argument applicable. Perhaps she had best be frugal, wash her own hair, be double careful of her stockings. Some Kannas men have gone through the entire year in neat and clean. Yet most of the men have double that each semester. The men can do it. And haven't woman always prided herself as being the neater, the better manager, as regards
Girls Ask for Dates
Should the girls ask the boys for dates? Of course. That is, if they know the boys. There is no natural reason why not. No one advocates the calling up of boys the girls don't know. Not even men, who to date have offered to pay all, have been so rude as to call up unknown women without arranging an introduction. It is a rather common woman from asking the companionship of the man she likes and knows, but of a certainty it would be impossible for a woman to call a boy and him to take her some place under the table. In this case, you do such, they should. There is no real difference between college men and women anyway, except that the man has always paid her佑eroe, and therefore has been the one who asked her to come out to the social convention. It's not a crime for the girl to call it; just isn't done now. Under the new plan a definite and certainly desirable camaraderie will exist between the sexes since as
End of Gold Digging
Will the girls go out with certain boys on the Dutch treat basis? The summary is this, for it has already been answered. If the girl doesn't like the boredom of going places then she has no business using him merely as a means of going place in order to escape the boredom at home. And if the women won't go out with them, they will be very bored should say, fine, that's the way it should be. Boys would welcome such
frankness, and appreciate knowing whether it was for the free show or for the boy himself that the date was accepted. But all in all, the Kansas girl has more than a meal ticket. And frankly, such being true, those who don't think so are either rather snoop, or are not familiar with the fact that K. U. men are a pretty good lot. But K. U. women are less useful if the K. U. women are what they crack themselves up to be, they wouldn't honestly go out with just a meal ticket. Such women don't see how their relationship could reconcile the woman who in one breath says she won't go out with certain boys and then says the plan takes the romance out of dating. The two objections automatically malify them.
Will It Work?
We felt the pulse of fashion and find you're a very sick man.
Will it work? So all in it, all bouts down to this, "it really is a good plan, but will it work? This is the only valid objection to the plan. Well, of course it will if everyone will co-operate. At least, after hearing these arguments and accepting them, be willing to give it a try, an honest try. What does an employer want you to do?" The girl being aggressive about her wholehearted. When asked for a date answer, "O, K., if I can pay my way," to take their own step, step up and for it herself, and be a good sport on doing it. To not ask the boy to help you with your homework, date, or "carry my money." Self-respective male would do such a thing. The counsels carry the suggestion. Rather carry her own money, order what she can afford, and pay for it. You can get what you need and thus putting the man at his ease.
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**Common Sense Needed**
Be sensible about the whole thing and regard yourself as a modern college woman. Don’t leave it to the boy to suggest your paying for it. Few will. If the Kansas women will own up to the bigness and sensibility that they do possess, and do it universally.
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not just steady couples, the plan will be a notable success, and the relations will be built on familiarity in an infinitely more reasonable basis. If the women indulge on taking the lead, have a good time in it doing it. But if they want to do it, the men will gladly follow.
It is in this spirit that the M.S.C.
and the W.S.G.A. present their resolution.
If you don't like the plan you
don't have to follow it, but give it
an honest try. After all, it's still leap
year.
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