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OCTOBER 1939 continual case of dyspepsia. If he can ' t get mad enough at his neighbors to give him employment for his ugly disposition, he gets together a little army of dissatisfied malcontents to bolster up his limited field of hatred. Then political killing and con- quest only add to his conviction that the world is against him and he determines to annihilate practically everybody. We ' re not saying all this because we ' ve decide this is Utopia after all. Nor are we propagandizing for the privileged classes trying to keep the underprivileged quiet and satisfied. We ' re pretty certain we belong to the latter group anyway. But we do think that a lot of people are missing a lot of good things. They ' re missing them because they won ' t see them. It doesn ' t even take searching just a little more concentrated focus of the light of the body which is the eye. They ' re missing the cheerful brightness of the early-morning sun and the calm midnight brilliance of the Pleiades. They ' re missing the delighted curiosity of a blue-eyed child and the proud look of the fourteen-year-old as he gives up his seat in the street- car. They ' ve forgotten other people and other things outside themselves. Putting themselves in the center of vision has blotted out a great many far more beautiful things things that might brighten up the whole length of the day. It isn ' t particularly anemic or sissified to talk about such things. It ' s simply appreciating the good things around us. Life, after all, is mostly a question of emphasis. We can let the disappointing, bitter feelings predominate or else we can keep track of the other kind. We can pull a Scrooge and grumble all day long, or we can do ourselves some real good by dropping the weight of that sort of thing. That ' s more than practicing hazy Optimism about the future. It ' s simply concentrating on the good things we ' ve already seen and being glad, after all. that such things are possible. The idea is worth the trouble in a purely pragmatic way. as any psychologist will be glad enough to tell you. A person con- scious of the good things, aware of the beautiful things, is more likely to make good use of them. A person lightened of the load of doubts and fears by his concentration on constructive ideals, is a better worker and a happier man. There ' s no doubt at all about that. We ' re putting out a plea, you see, in our fumbling way, for a little more of that simple thing called gratitude. We ' re all fortunate in some ways in a lot of ways. If today is going wrong, yesterday was better and tomorrow is likely to be. We ' ve got a pretty wonderful country to live in and a pretty wonder- ful standard of living and a pretty wonderful school to go to. And whether we express our gratitude to the friend across the hall or say it directly to God, doesn ' t much matter. The important thing, for our own sakes, is to register our apprecia- tion now and then. And after all, come to think about it, the Pilgrims didn ' t have a lot more blessings to get excited about than we have. Ed Garich ' s coverage of boys ' rush week is nothing to sniff at, either. And note those cheer- leader pictures of his on page 59, plus the action shot of Sullivant go- ing over for a touchdown (p. 20) . We don ' t even need to call your attention to Andy Darling ' s draw- ings: they speak for themselves. Here ' s a fellow that can hear an idea, get it, and draw it in prac- tically the same hreath. He ' s re- sponsible for all the column cap- tions, for the pioneer picture, and for that remarkable drawing of the Chancellor. . . . We ' re con- siderably indebted to Don Fitz- gerald, too, for that poignant car- toon on page 36 and to Betsy Dodge for the flustered rushee (p. 33). Frieda Cowles has done a top- notch job of uniting statistical and anecdotal data in her fast-moving review of historical highlights (p. 16) . There ' s an almost unlimited field of interesting details about K.U., contemporary or otherwise, which we mean to exploit further. Agnes Mumert contributes several neatly-handled sidelights in the first edition of a new feature (see page 56) . Do you know any in- teresting stories along such lines? We hope you enjoy our big fresh- man section, including the ob- lique treatment of rush weeks thanks to Betty Coulson, Nancy Kesler, and Bob Hedges for their revealing comments. The pledge pictures are back there somewhere, too or were you interested? For excellence in writing, we further commend Harry Hill ' s Kansan story, Jay Simon ' s article on Gwinn Henry ' s past and present, and Jim Bell ' s notes on spring sports. For importance and time- liness we want to mention the articles on housing and on the air school, by Carter Butler and Mau- rice Jackson, respectively. For beauty of expression, finally, read Gene Ricketts ' descriptive lines on Spooner-Thayer Museum. We think they ' re swell. Editors RICHARD I. rr. . Business Manager: CHAD CASE
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THE JAY HAWKER I ' I It I I s ii i it I I I TIMES YEARLY BY THE s I 1 IU M s OF K N s s I M I KM It A KECORB OF 4 AMPIS LIFE, I II I. Mis. M IM ItsoN l I I II s OF 10.19-1O Fifty years ago William Alien A hiir was a M-nior in the Univer- -ii of Kansas. Ac an uppcrclass- iii. in half - a - i i-ntiii - removed, he |n-.ik- rcininix-ently to this M-.H ' - fn--liiM n anil give some a l i -r uliirli many a senior of today will sadly second. And he incidmtiilK .;i . - In- own explanation of a faet vtliieh .iiiiKiM-.l K.l . high-ups for years: the faet that he never grad- uated. . . . We wanted to call his generous eontrihution: From the Horrible Example I you ' ll note his emphasis on that ( . But we decided, after some cogitation, that his em- phasis was a little bit misplaced. Hope he won ' t mind our saying so . . . A pretty serious experiment is In-ill- tried this year around the Jay hawker office. We ' re using stu- dent photographers almost exclu- sively. It wasn ' t our idea, since it increases the editor ' s worries about 100 per cent, not to speak of the strain on the photographers during that particular week before presses start rolling. But Art Wolf has borne up well most of his work is good, and the rest of it positively scintillates. Note especially the cover, those enrollment pictures (p. Ill, the nightshirt parade shots (p. 43 1 , and the personality photo of Barbara Edmonds (p. 50). We ' re thankful, too, that Bert Brandt, honor photographic grad- uate of the 1939 Jayhawker, was around during that first hectic week when girls were rushing. As Acme Ncwspictures photographer (from Kansas City) he was cover- ing typical rush week for na- tional syndication, and be took some candid shots especially for the Jayhatckvr. ( See page 32. ) The vines on the Union Building are a hrilliant crimson now. Mother Nature has rewarded them for taking such faithful care of a thousand of her sparrows this year. Or had you noticed? And the hard maples this year have heen startlingly beauti- ful. Some of them are just changing green at the bottom, slashed through the center with red, crowned with glowing gold. Others are completely arrayed, matchlessly arrayed in a delicate yellow translucence so delicate that one thinks involuntarily of fairies. Have you seen them? Have you seen them, espe- cially, late in the evening, with the slanting sunlight across the treetops in Marvin Grove? Have you? We aren ' t trying to check up on you and make you feel aesthetic really we aren ' t. But they ' re worth looking at. And when it ' s one of those crisp, cool days that simply cry out for the hiker when the swallows call down their farewell as they angle southward in the sky when the squirrels scuttle gaily across the path without so much as a sideward glance- then it almost seems that there is no war in Europe and no hate abroad in the world. It almost seems that men could live with each other in peace and good will yes, even men. Why is it that man, the most richly-endowed of all creatures, is the only creature that bands together in groups to destroy his own race? He verily seems to writhe under Nature ' s bounty. He spends precious time trying to figure out ways of circumvent- ing her generosity. He isn ' t content to accept his share and be grateful for it and rejoice a little in others ' good fortune. (Others ' good fortune? He growls at it!) He goes along the street with his head down, muttering to himself about how bad off he is and how well off somebody else is and it never enters his head to enjoy what he has. What ' s the matter with the creature? You ' d think he had a
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