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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY NOVEMBER31 1920
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1926
CAST YOUR BALLOT
It is the job of every student of voting age to vote tomorrow.
Two outstanding paradoxical facts mark tomorrow's election as unusual. The first is the keenness with which critical political observers are watching the outcome and the second the laziness of the voters.
The observers are interested for several reasons. This is the first election in almost a decade in which the element of chance is rife; anything short of an indefinite is predicted, and the possibility of a change of control in Congress is looming largely. The party in power always suffers most through dissensions, internal issues, and localized questions, while these very things unify the opposing party. Consequently the Republicans suffer through differences over the prohibition question, money scandals, and the Ku Klux Khan, while the Democrats are fairly well qualified for no other reason than to deflect the party in control.
There are just enough doubtful memorial contexts to be settled tomorrow that the control may swing either way. The control of the Honor will remain as it is, but the Senate is the battleground with 34 more than one-third, of its total membership up for election. Were there one national issue the results would be clean-cut in one direction or the other as it stands it is a process for the observer to dwell upon.
Against this view is the contradictory fact that the localized issues, scandals and what-nots have so badly muddled the average voter's mind that he cannot vote intelligently. Even those who might do so are left in a quaranty as in Illinois, where to vote for prohibition against sendal will be certain to seat the wet candidate. Also the shortening of the campaign period, the reduction of publicity, and overlapping issues give political scientists ground to predict that this year the percentage of voices cast will fall below 50 per cent of those eligible. In short the minority will rule as it has done in the past elections.
This is a direct challenge to students of voting age to go to the polls and exercise their franchise rights. Having the opportunity to study the political situations as well as any citizen coupled with a budding sense of citizenship, no student of legal age should fail to visit the polls tomorrow and three cast his ballot as intelligently and hopefully as he will.
ONLY THE ALLIED FLAGS
The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, built in memory of those who died in the World War, will be dedicated Nov. 11. The executive committee handling the dedication plans has announced that only flags of the allied nations with the American flag and those of the states be displayed at the services.
A suggestion that the flags of al
the nations, including that of the Gera-
man republic, be flown, was disap-
proved by the committee, which feel
that this would not be "appropriate."
Eight years ago on the day of the dedication ceremonies, the Armistice closing the war was signed and peace was declared by the bellergents.
Now the European unions have joined in a league the purpose of which is to settle disputes by peaceable means. Germany, the enemy, has been admitted into that league and accepted on an equal footing with the allies. America alone has remained aloof, in its refusal both to recognize the position of the struggling German republic and to join
the council.
The nations which suffered the most during the war have seen fit to accept Germany in the connexions of peace. But in the words of the committee, after eight years it would not be “appropriate” for an American city even to display her flag. It is a new flag representing a new republic that would be flown, not the imperial flag of the old empire ruled by a Kaiser, should only America retain the animosity which Europe has discarded for a new friendship and sympathy?
It seems a petty thing to make this distinction against Germany, in spite of the circumstances. Would not those in whose memory this building was erected wish the emitters to be forgotten in the face of that so frequently mentioned bigger world brotherhood? Would not their souls ask for the more Christian spirit of forgiveness for a mistaken foe?
"Quiet prevails on Mars?" an astronomer reports. What's the matter up there? No school spirit!
KANSAS VS. SYDNEY
The debate tomorrow might between the University of Kansas and the University of Sydney, Australia, promises a relief from a humidum atmosphere. Unlike the majority of the contests in which the University teams engage, the incentive to win is the least important characteristic.
The Oxford plan of permitting the audience to render the decision is to be employed, which is the nearest approach to a no-decision debate in vogue. The question, "Resolved, that the results of the Great War have tended toward world peace," is a disputation one, but one which will appeal more to reason rather than the emotions of the auditors for few have fixed opinions on either side. Regardless of the merits of the arguments, a false sense of school spirit may impel the judges to decide in favor of Kansas, but the Sydney men have no doubt encountered that at all of the schools at which they have appeared, and so should not feel badly about it.
The facts that the team represent countries which were allies during the war, and that one of the Sydney men served in the fray, will do much to enhance the livelihood of the clash. The Kansas team, while not as old per man nor as experienced as the visiting group, is composed of veterans who should be able to meet the advancements of their opponents with effective counter-arguments.
The debate is probably the most important of the season for Kansas, and will attract a large gathering without the aid of cheerleaders or a rally the night before. It is its own drawing card.
The chain gang singing "The Prisoner's Song" in front of Green Hall the other day might be explained by the fact that the participants were criminal lawyers.
"It's a small world," people are always saying. They mean that transportation and communication have made it small.
THIS LITTLE WORLD
When the steamship came, the circumference of the earth was greatly lessened for travelers, and, with the laying of the first ocean cable, news was obtainable days, even weeks sooner than before. More recently airplanes have further bridged the gap in transportation between continents, and radio has made news events accessible almost simultaneously in all parts of the world.
But after all, is the world any smaller than before? Have not other phases of life progressed as rapidly as transportation and communication? Speed has penetrated even into the backward parts of the earth. Everything everywhere is in
CONVOCATION:
There will be an all-University convention at 10 a.m. Tuesday, in Hebron gymnasium, as a part of the program of Iliadians Week. Mr. Allan
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII  Monday, November 1 1997  No. 4
The University Women's club will give a tea at 3 o'clock Thursday, Nov. 7, in Myers hall, Mrs. F., E. Koster and her committee will
E. H. LINDLEY.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB:
Perella, by William J. Locke. 82 New York:Dodd,Mend & Co.
Written by the author of "The Beloved Vagabond," this is the romance of an English girl, studying art in Florence, and a young architect newly escaped to Italy from the drudgery of a naughty office job at home.
The Exquisite Perdita, by K. Barrington, 82.30, New York: Dodd Mead & Co.
A romance of a charming actress who captivated the Prince of Walla, Written by the author of "Glorious Apollo."
UNIVERSITY SENATE;
the race. Were it not for the astronomer, people would he want to believe that the old planet itself had quickened on its axis.
The Book of Marriage, arranged by
Court Hermann Keyserling, 85, New
York: Hearst, Brace & Co.
MRS, F. B. DAINS, Corresponding Secretary.
In Russia, if Sherwool Eddy is to be believed, the Communists are rebuilding faster than the telegraph wires told; in China, John Nipps says, the people have made great strides forward, but the rest of the world is taking months to discover it, and so on throughout all nations, changes are occurring more rapidly than one realizes.
No, the world isn't such a little town, ever now. The enlightened nation of a dirty newspaper has only brought a boyhole.
Book Notes
"Hackers Bent Psychology" says a newspaper headline after the Kansas-Nebraska game. It looks now like the department of psychology at the University needs revision in order that Kansas may have a winning team.
The University Senate meeting for November has been postponed. H. L. COXLEY
This book is addressed to college students who lack "feeling" for good written English and home are unable to construct clear, coherent, effective sentences. It provides guidance as a text to teachers who native to accuracy and clarity of expression. It is the record of deliberate experimentation with methods of correcting bad habits in the construction of sentences at the University of Georgia, an assistant professor in the department of English at the University.
The Negro in American Life, by Jerome Dowd. $5., The Century Co. A history of the black race, an analysis of its present political-economic condition, and a projection of its future in the nation. This work is the result of a quarter century of research by its author, a professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma.
The University of North Carolina is considering giving a course in the social, medical, and psychological economy of marriage.
Twenty-four world renowned writers have combined under Keyserling's inspiration to produce this book discussing the fundamental principles underlying the problem of marriage in modern society. Jiang, the psychobeholder, Tagore, the Indian; Hawkeel on Lawn or an Art; Jacob Wesson on Love; and the Japanese Marriage, and others make this book an important one of the year.
The Function and Mechanism of a Sentence, by Eder Rother Wilson. 212 pages. 81.50. New York; Alfred Knopf.
What Is Youth Thinking?
(Pediatric Science, Oral)
Editorials From Other Hills
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Our term of last week carried an announcement of five hundred dollars from the World War Two Museum, the World Tomorrow, for the right most significant essay on "When Youth Is Dead."
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Here, it seems to us, in a subject bristling with possibilities yet difficult to organize or present in a clear place. You might want to sit there, place it would have been wiser to have qualified the title by calling it "the world of youth." While all youth must of necessity have thoughts of some sort, the great majority is unfortunately too busy petty for this. The unfortunate lumbar stains of such driven an "Hot-Rot Marmaa," Kiss Your Papira, and so forth. We thought. Fortunately for the future of the world, young thinkers do appear from time to time even in situations where the production of moments seem to be the goal (doubtless they are by-product) of concern of the "World Tomorrow."
Youth today should find more care for thought then has existed in any other period of history. In the last century, when we had almost plentifully revolutionized the world mechanically, Society remained more or less stationary for the first accession to power than in the first brief century the Industrial Revolution so transformed it that today it has mechanically no more to it than it did in the second century than it has with Marx.
But these things are physical on, and spiritually they are not our resurrection. But we are only eight years away from the most evitable eruption in his story—a curse in which implantation of an electronically-enlightened pig, made the archery of his hands, Rosees rose child's play. Sciences would seem to be like first valuable in a servant but a destroyer when he is evil.
Witness our attitude towards the ecologically unorthodox. Despite the cultural beliefs of teenth century models still hold away among the museum and archaeology communities, a beauty is still about the greatest stigma that society can put upon a person.
Witness, too, the manner in which you did this. Our previous experience has given supply for all, yet due to our method distribution, cultivated and branded inventory. You can invite or躯ivate yachts while others search for crests in the gutters of dirty
Of late, mechanical progress has rather outstripped musical progress and raised the bar up, he can not be expected always to use his new playthings wisely. In many instances, his own earth "to do with it as it seen fit." It has been said that "with maturity, revolutionary youth re-establishes its future by meaning the bringing on of another world." When then grown in the shame of youth, we need energy in combating disease, ignorance and degradation, in raising shame, in giving opportunity to all, in providing education.
But we have said enough; already we have risked incurring the tranquility of the public press, which at the outset we would not be able to handle. We merely sought to show the magnitude of youth's problem when it started thinking of tomorrow. The world is moving.
The problems before us are many and complex. How can anyone tell "What Youth Is Thinking?"
The new Yale Naval Unit has been greeted with intense eardrums and interest. More than one hundred forty freshmen have applied for admission. The number of limited enrollment only 75 first year men have been accepted.
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