PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS ED;TOR-IN-CHEEP __ CHARLES D. BROWN Associate Editors Robert Robinson Genevieve Hagn MANAGING EDITOR HARRY VALENTINE Senior Compass Editor | Herbert Mcveen Makeup Editor | George Moore Nootka Editor | Jerome Furnish Seattle Editor | Jordan Finn Secret Editor | Francisco Elmora Elmora Western Business Manager ... F. Quent's Brows Harry Valentine Leon Wright Steve McClain Boris Brotherton Julia Markham Carolyn Harper Margaret Hunt Charles D. Brown Christopher This document is not available. Business Office K.U. 6 News Room Night Connections, Business Office 270K Night Connection, News Room 270K Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1918, at the post office at Lawrence, Kan. MAY. Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 24, 1986. The department holds holidays by decision in the department handbook. The position is on the Board of The President of the Department of Journalism. The salary is $25,000 per month, payable annually, $12.55 on payments. Single copies, en- closed with application. THURSDAY, MAY 2. 1935 "GO AHEAD. SUCKER" Dime letters just don't seem to be Jim Farley's kind of gambling. Stamp sales or no stamp sales, Jim does not care for the inconvenience that it is putting him to. There must be something wrong when the post office department is not looking for business. There is something wrong with dime letters other than what Mr. Farley says, and that is the same thing that is wrong with slot machines and other gambling procedures that you cannot beat. There is no use in telling people that they cannot participate in the chain letter craze. It would be better to say "go ahead, sucker," but it does seem that it would be better to throw the letters into the waste basket with the rest of the trash. It probably is not being done, but it could be naively suggested that perhaps someone in this whole United States is playing the chain letter game a little dishonestly. Why not ask a dollar chain? Put your own name at the head of the list, and cash in on your friends. You wouldn't do that, but your friends might. PIONEERS OF 1935 The cry has been heard often of late that the handy pioneering spirit once characteristic of Americans is gone. Pessimists point out the ready acceptance of a form of dole under humiliating conditions as proof. They say that America has become less soft and can lose the hardships and privations our ancestors endured; no longer considers the goal worth the price in human courage and endurance. So America should be proud indeed of the little band of adventurers and their families who sailed for Alaska yesterday to carve homes and a decent living for themselves from our last frontier. Their task will be a hard one, worthy of any of those pioneers who crossed the Alleghenies two hundred years ago. But their reward in self-respect, health and a better living will more than justify their efforts. America can look with confidence to the future while such a spirit still endures within the hearts of her people. HOT STUFF Chairman Nye of the senate munitions committee refused to give out information as to the committee's investigation as to what degree the United States was brought into the great war by private banking interests, because the findings were too "hot." The committee has been studying whether loans by American banking houses to the Allies had a direct connection with our entrance into the war. The financiers sold millions of dollars' worth of foodstuff and munitions to France and England. The allies became so deeply in debt to those companies, that the United States had to favor them or cause huge losses to the investigators. Such loans also led to our shifting away from Germany and allowing England to take in goods to the Central nowers. This is just another episode in the economic phase of the war which would make the world safe or democracy. Morgan and his associates were not patriotic or idealistic; they were hard-headed business men who saw their investments slipped out of their fingers and resorted to the only method they could see to save them—war. The soldiers who fought and died in the fields of France for liberty and patriotism also fought and died for the financiers of Wall Street. We wonder why the findings of the committee are not published. Perhaps the same money which we have in war has something to do with it. CAMPUS OPINION Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Daily University Kansa* Articles over 200 words in the editor. Cutting is by the editor. Can Editor Daily Kansan: There were those of us who were not particularly pleased by the efforts of the Peace Strike Committee to promote so-called interests for peace by means of the Student Peace Strike held recently. However we granted these individuals their sincerity of purpose and the promise that they might show their efforts toward the promotion of peace in other and perhaps more reasonable methods. Since the advent of the peace strike little has been done by the group, so far as we know at least, to further the interests in which we have committed our goal. The Peace Strike interests in which their burning贝al displayed itself at the Peace Strike. He was held in our student paper carefully reflecting due credit upon those who took part in this supposedly forward movement. But in any event they seemed to be an unfortunate set of institutions for furthering their supposed sinicore efforts. For example we should like to call attention to the current state of the peace enterprise entitled "The March of Time" wherein the horrors of war together with the uncirculable methods of these responsible for wars are offset by the horrors of traveying a message a hundred times more effective and more sinicere than the Peace Strike—in its denunciation Thus if the fire of the "Peace Strikers" burns as zealously as it did when they were so anxious to cut classes and have their speeches in direct opposition to the administration, who, it is understood, offered to aid in this effort, would not be able to resist it; it would only co-operate with them; would it not be reasonable to expect of them that they might recognize the effectiveness and sincerity of other forms of anti-war efforts and possibly comment upon them in the editorial columns of our student paper? Or would the space taken up by these papers be necessary for such editorials as "In Defense of Heart?" Would it be asking too much then, for the members of the Peace Strike Committee to be willing to give other groups a little credit for striving to do themselves as they themselves, and possibly alone so that equally rational and sincere? E. R. We're glad to hear that the Memorial "union suit" has been dropped. It's getting too warm to wear such things anyway. The late demonstrations for peace on our own campas and throughout the country have been given added significance by recent dispatches in our daily newspaper. It becomes increasingly evident that we need to mount an effort. Our program of new naval construction is already under way; the War Department announces its intention of doubling our standing army; in addition to our existing forces, we are establishing a National Guard and R.O.T.C. unit, it is proposed that the Civilian Conservation Corps—to number six thousand thousand men next year—shall be given military training; we are planning an air force mission to attack enemy territory and vertically to military use, will make us the strongest air power in the world. WBAT KIND OF WAR? By Prof. John E. Hankins Now welf-defense is a natural and desirable aim, national security a thing to be prized. But we must recognize that preparation. It is important for me to attack or attack, and that the distinction is not always clear even to ourselves. It should be obviated that any war fought by America in the immediate past will not end up in foreign territory. No country or probable combination of countries can send to this hemisphere an armed force of sufficient size to cause the United States to be at air attacks, but of what use is infantry against air attacks? To increase the size of our regular army is simply to announce our intention of using it as an expeditionary force against us. There are not lacking other invitations that some of those in charge of our national battles contemplate a foreign war. Admiral Stuart, commander-in-chief of the naval committee that the navy now considers itself strong enough to repel any hostile attack likely to be directed against our coasts, but does not want to risk losing major campaign in foreign waters. To many this would seem a navy of ideal size; but our big navy advocates are asking and securing from Expanse large numbers of marines the hayman finds it difficult to see why defense of continental United States should require war games, such as those now in program, extending twelve hundred miles dangerously close to Jansewyn waters. The proposed fortification of the Aleutian islands will illustrate what our military authorities have in mind. The fortification of these islands, which extend westward from Alaska, has been urged as a defense measure against possible invasion by Japan. In a map, we observe that the more westerly islands would furnish an excellent intermediate base for a mass flight of planes from California to Japan. In the present stage of aviation, a stop for refuelling would be absolutely necessary on such islands; however, we could threaten Japan from air. But could Japan threaten us in turn? Her nor no naval base in the Aleutians nor any territory on which to build one. Her airlines cannot make a non-stop flight to America. Her ability to land in such places and our ability so to attack her from an Vulcan base is very real indeed. Suppose, however, that Japan were able to attack our west coast from the air. While she might cause us much harm, she would not do so property, she could do the nation no vital damage, since our industrial plants lie most east of the Mississippi River and are fairly well decentralized. On the other hand, if Japan might imperil Japan's whole national economy by bombing the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka, all of which lie within a comparatively small area. We would not resort to armed hostilities, it is unlikely that Japan would start them against us. These considerations persuade us that an Aleutian naval and air base would not be intended to attack Japan. United States but for attack upon Japan. My objection to such proposals as the one just mentioned is the concenal of their true purpose. It is possible that the threat of effective air attack might serve as a check to Japanese aggression in the Philippines. If so, let that be known, and we should not blame people decide upon its wisdom. We are now being propagandized by false fears of Japanese planes over California, of hostile air fleets crossing our borders Rebt. W. Chamber's Thrilling Romance of the North's Beautiful Spine in Love with a Captain of the Southern Army-sum Cancun,病因, unprotected enemies who menace our national safety. It is not to meet such improbable exigencies that our impostors may have no large on- gage it is made to them. In order to do so we should decide that that is necesi- ry. Lawrence's Bargain Theatre GARY COOPER MARION DAVIES 4 Mills Bros. PATEE 10c - 15c Shows 3-7-9 ENDS FRIDAY NOW! "OPERATOR 13" Todd-Kelly Comedy Riot Travel Talk With Ted Hoaly - Joan Parker OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN ORGANIZATION The Christian Science organization will meet at 7:00 this evening in room D, Myers hall. JAMESSE MISSENE National day at Umlawel (Saturday) Office at 9 p.m. prescott regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. for Saturday house, and 12:30 a.m. for Sunday house. Vol. XXXII Thursday, May 2, 1935 No. 145 El Alkoro tendría una sección ordinaria el jueves, el 2 de mayo, a las cuatroMedia de la teología en la nala 13 del edificio de Administración. Thursday, May 2, 1935 EL. ATENEO: CARLOS A. PATTERSON, Presidente. GIRL, RESERVE TRAINING COURSE: The first session of the Gift Reserve Training Course to be given at Henley house this weekend by Miss Frances Stone, state executive secretary, will be held from 7:45 to 9:45 on Friday evening. Registration may still be made today. FENA TURRELL, Chairman. There will be a K-club meeting this evening at 8 c'clock in the gymnasium Please be present. ERNEST VANES, President. R_CLR. There will be an important meeting of the Ku Ku Club in room 299. France at noon at 10:30. Shimkez will be given out. KU KU CLUB EDDIE RICE, Secretary PRACTICE TEACHING: Students wishing to do practice teaching in Oredo Training School during the fall semester should make application for such practice teaching in the office of the School of Education before May 10. R. A. SCHWEGLER, Dean. RED CROSS LIFE SAVING CLASS: The Red Cross life saving class will meet this evening at 7:15 in Robinson granatum. HUBBERT G, ALFILHN. The May too will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Mayhall. MRS. J. WHEELER, Corresponding Secretary. UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB One of the most salutary influences in American politics is the publicity attending our international treasures. We are spared the multiplicity of secret agreements which soothe the hearts of warriors in our armies and wilt the will of citizens. The same frankness should attend our military milius and purposes. The rest of the world is not deceived as to our motives; only we ourselves are confined by acts of self-preservation or self-sacrifice. And we cannot afford to be confused. The American people should determine our foreign policy in its broad outlines. The function of our military men is to fight wars, not to decide when or why they should be involved in war, or to make and they should know for just what kind of war their leaders are preying. Recently certain American newspapers and individuals have appeared to foster the war spirit among our people. A campaign against pacifists, approaching war times in bitterness, has been instituted, and unjustifiable charges made. Most intolerable of all was the report on American combatants whose prison stories were in the pay of Moscow. Clearly it is to Russia's interest that America arm against Japan. If we threaten Japan, we strengthen Russia; if we destroy Japan, we hasten the communication of China. Whether intentionally or not, our sword-tellers are of common Russia thus cut paper soldiers could possibly be. There are many individuals, this writer among them, who feel that national defense is a duty of citizenship. The War on Terror has America not fought a war of national defense since 1812. For wars since then may have been for widely causes. President Roosevelt has suggested that an aggressor nation be defined as one An Old Name in a New Shirt! ARROW is the old name, and MITOGA is the new shirt—expertly fashioned to fit the contour of your body. The shoulders are wide and roomy—the sleeves tapered and the waist shaped to fit. The collar, in keeping with the latest trend, is slightly higher in back and lower in front. Sanforizing insures lasting comfort and permanent fit. 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