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RUSSIAN SCIENTIST VISITS K. U. MUSEUM
Demetrius Borodina, Former Gossack Stops Here on Inspection Tour
HONORS K. U. COLLECTION
Was Once Chief of Bureau of Entomology at Poltava, Russia
Mr. Demetrius Borodina, formerly Chief of the Bureau of Entomology at Potravia, Russia, is spending today at Dyche Museum, on his tour of this country to inspect insect collections and entomological experiment stations.
Mr. Borodina was a member of a Cossack regiment in the war and was twice wounded. Upon his return to Poltava he found conditions such that scientific work was impossible. Everyone was engaged in raising food and even then existence was barely possible for them.
Fifty Russian scientists have committed suicide in the last six years because they could barely keep themselves alive and there appeared no hopes of ever continuing their life work.
Four months ago, Mr. Borodina left Russia with the intention of continuing his work in the United States. He does not intend to re-embark there, but he continues, such that he can take up his scientific investigations there.
He states that science in Russia is not taught in any highly specialized courses as it is here and that one must study a great deal before branching out in any particular type of work. Mr. Borovina has published a book on pathology, bacteriology, and entomology, specializing in the latter.
Mr. Borodina has visited the notable entomological collections and stations throughout the western and central part of this country and expects to spend the winter in the south doing similar work.
STUDENTS AT OXFORD ON OWN INITIATIVE
Instructor in English Here Tell f Life in Great English School
Life at Oxford as described by Miss Rose Morgan of the department of English, is decidedly different from that at the University of Kansas. Here at K. U. a student is very often delighted to find that there are fifty or sixty, perhaps eighty in his class. He may be on the same course, on that the work will be mainly lecture, with no definite assignment to be quizzed on from day to day. At Oxford, according to Miss Morgan, the student, or undergraduate as he is called there, is assigned to a certain tutor before whom he appears three or four times a week and learns more theory, lecture courses which may be attended and over which examinations are given at the end of the term.
The school year at Oxford is divided into three terms of eight weeks in length, with a vacation period of six or eight weeks between each term. Unlike most American students at vacation time, the Oxford student takes his books, goes into the countrie and there studies.
the 5,000 students at Oxford last year, approximately seven hundred were women. NSo individuality of dress is to be observed on the Oxford cannus. Before appearing for a dress the student will wear shirtwait, black tie, cap and gown.
Great formality is observed in the matter of quizzing at Oxford. Miss Morgan, told of one her friends, who while up in Scotland on her vacation, attended the final examination or "viva" as it is called there. The nervous girl hurried down to Oxford, appeared before the examining authorities and was asked the year of the discovery of America and was dismissed. Miss Morgan, the only examiner by no means as simple as this particular one.
The Minnesota Daily of the University of Minnesota tells of the laying of the cornerstone of the new $500,000 music building now being erected there. Prof. Caryle Scott, one of the principal speakers, announced that the building was procured as a gift direct from the state. Question—How long wilt it be before the State of Kansas will be presenting the University of Kansas a and separate Fine Arts building?
new dormitory for women at tni Arbor, Mich., was opened this semester. This home is the culmination of hospitality offered students at the university, and Adelia Beesher who had occupied the residence since 1879.
U.S.Economist Believes World Must Disarm Or Be Ruined. Public Sentiment Must Star
By ALFRED CROZIER,
(Written for the United Press.)
New York, Sept. 29. — A new
drive for permanent peace has been
started. A tidia] wave of public senti-
mence must be put in motion. The
power of the people to get what they
want must be used and that is a
need to help. It is feared that the disarmament conference will be a failure unless this is done.
A patriotic endless chain of correspondence is proposed. Every man and woman is asked to write three letters, and then get three other persons to do the same. One is to be to the President, one is to a ten-
ator and the other to a congressman.
Letters to local papers also is advised. The movement may spread to other countries. It may become an irresistible demand by the world's peoples on their governments for disarmament and permanent armaments; they go at it in earnest. The alternative is to prepare for another and greater world war.
The nations should (1) reduce all national armaments and forces in concern at least half; (2) merge and use the discarded armaments to create one mutual world police power; (3) organize a representative Association of Nations to manage and control such mutual power and use the discarded national armaments and protect every nation against attack from the outside. It is the only way to abolish war and get permanent peace.
Primarily, the move to reduce or limit armaments is economic. It is merely an attempt to save dollars. It is not a plan to get permanent peace. It is however entirely justified and necessary for economic reasons. The war increased the bonded debts of nations from 35 to 200 billions and the debt from 10 to 10 billions. It increased the public debt of the United States from one to 25 billions and the annual interest from 20 to 1000 millions. In thirty years this country has spent over 8 billions, or more than the world's entire stock of gold, on its navy alone. Nearly 90 per cent of all our government collects and uses taxes to pay for things caused by war. No sane country would disarm and leave envious neighbor nations armed to the teeth. Disarmament must be in concert or at all.
The world's suffering peoples must not be deceived. They should know that limitation, reduction or even complete disarmament would not rigr permanent peace. Unless restruptions can be prevented nations will be obliged to again increase armaments. The moment one big
nation starts to rearm, all other nainspend will spend ten billions on new armaments for each one billion they now throw away. Of course that would mean another and greater world war. There would be no way to avoid it.
Re-armament cannot be prevented by mutual agreement. Treaties are "more scraps of paper" when an ambitious nation ignores them. It can not be done by an alliance treaty. The allies of today are the enemies of tomorrow. If some other nations come to mind, other nations to stay disarmed, that would be war War can not be abolished by more war.
The only way re-armament can be prevented without involving part if not all of the individual nations in any other war is to create by a merger of armaments a mutual world police power that would be ever ready and strong enough to prevent re-armament by any nation. That would end war, because nations can not fight unless they can arm. If they arm they will fight. That is human mature and it is history.
The American representative system would be the best model for the proposed association of nations. It can be modified to fit the limited field Every nation should be represented on an agreed fair basis. Its assembly would enact all international laws. Its world court would enable nations to get justice without resorting to war. Its council would contend that it is unnecessary power for the impartial protection of all nations and to prevent any national re-armament. That is civilization's best machinery.
The whole responsibility and duty of maintaining peace and preventing re-armament would be on the association. Individual nations would not be involved at all. That makes it safe for every nation. Under the League of Nations' plan, it is the duty of nations to nibble and apply force. That would be war. It might involve all nations. That plan is dangerous.
There are just two alternatives. Hereafter the family of nations will be policed and guarded by one orderly mutual power or it will be terrified and wrecked by the forty national competing powers in a world war that would necessitate immediateization and mobilization. The nation now must abolish war or they will be destroyed by war. Red anarchy then would rule the world.
Hereafter the entire world must not be left to depend for its peace and security wholly upon the will of one mad monarch, nor upon the action of one ambitious or frenzied people.
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