PAGE SIX EDITORIAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS LETTERS PATTER
Government Helps Prostitute Farming
Swarms of bogus-farmers have invaded the once respectable occupation of farming. These men are not farmers, never have been, and so long as the government continues to support them, never will be. A few days out of the year, these farming frauds make pretenses at stirring up the group, using methods similar to those of savages, and the remainder of the time is spent in a supine position in some dirty hut living off the government and blackening the name of "farming." It is upon this class that our more lecherous politicians thrive. It is the bogus-farmers who keep the "humanistic" crackpots in office to give them handouts.
Farming, once considered the occupation of a man's man who contained his security in his land and the hands that tilled it has degenerated into a racket whereby a living is derived not from farming but by voting for the politicians who offer the most. Never was this made more evident than in the current dependency upon federal subsidies to agriculture.
This mendicant dependency exists because of a variety of evils. Marginal and submarginal land is kept in production when, under the most optimum conditions, it could not produce a profit by itself. Continued subsidies from the government is the only reason for not returning it to its virginal status. So long as money is paid to men farming this worthless land, so long will it remain in production, keeping its tillers from becoming something besides wards of the federal government.
The ardent devotion to the growing of a standard one-money crop has added to the miserable mess. In good season or bad the result is always the same: low prices for an abundance or high prices for nothing. Many wheat farmers, in Western Kansas particularly, possess not even a milch cow. They buy their milk. Likewise cotton raisers of the South do not even raise their work mules, but buy them from Kansas.
Not all farmers have prostituted themselves to the politicians or let their characters erode completely. In every agricultural region reside men who accept no charity but work their ground well, watch their orchards, where conditions allow them one, and tend their flocks. They know that this is the occupation of a true farmer.
Superior vitamin content of foodstuffs in George Washington's day made it possible for the average man to consume twenty-nine ounces of ninety-proof whisky a day without ill effect, according to Dr. Norman Jolliffe, associate professor of medicine at the New York University college of medicine, but with the refined foods of today liquor consumption should be limited to not more than five ounces
The real farmer is being persecuted by too many malefactors. Upkeep has overburdened him with taxes. If the government could find some way to retire the worthless group, allow the bogus-farmer to starve or find himself an occupation more fitted to his inability, and secure a solution to the question of standard money crops, the true farmer would restore the good name of his profession. The easiest way back would be to let the farmer return to good old-fashioned farming.
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daily. Drinkers should consume an added supply of vitamins, especially B-1, found in foods not subjected to modern processes of refining.
Thus, Doctor Jolliffe's study will be of investable value to the average man of twentyeight years hence, who, algebraically, will face alcoholism on one highball a day.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Thursday, March 14, 1940 No. 111
A. S.C.E. & ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY: There will be a joint meeting of the A.S.C.E. and the Architectural Society tonight at 7:30 in 206 Marvin Hall, Mr.H.K. Shideler of the Portland Cement Association will give an illustrated lecture on reinforced concrete construction.-Leonard Schroeter.
A. S.M.E. MEETING; There will be an A.S.M.E. meeting at 7:30 this evening in the Geology Lecture Room. The program is by George K. Klein of Mackie Clemens Fuel Company, Kansas City, Mo.-Spud Bunn.
GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE. The third meeting of the Girl Reserve Training Course will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 in Spooner-Thayer Museum. Miss Beulah Morrison will speak on "Emotional Maturity." - Eda Paddock, secretary of Y.W.C.A.
NEWMAN CLUB: Reservations for the monthly Corporate Communion and Breakfast to be held Sunday, March 31, may be made after either Mass this Sunday. All reservations must be made by 7 p.m. Friday, March 29, and can be made after this Sunday by calling 338.-Albert Protiva, vice-president.
I. S.A.: I.S.A. members will be admitted to skate at the Roller Drome Sunday afternoon at a 10 cent reduction on presentation of their membership cards. Mary Gene Huff, social chairman.
K. U. TOWN MEETING: The regular meeting of "Town Hall of the Air" will be this evening at 8:30 in the main lounge of the Union building. The topic for discussion will be "How can Philosophy and Religion Meet Today's Needs?" Everyone is invited.-R.S. Raup.
MUSIC ROOM: The Music Room will be open toorrow from 3:30 to 5:30 and from 7:30 to 9:30. The entire Messiah will be presented at 7:30—Ernie Klema, chairman.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet this evening at 7:30 in the Pine Room—Evelyn Longerbeam.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet tomorrow at 4:30 in Henley House. Professor McCracken of the Philosophy department will be in charge of the meeting. All are invited.—Gordon Brigham, Corrine Martin, co-chairmen.
NOTICE TO ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson is at the Watkins Memorial Hospital each Tuesday afternoon for discussion with students on problems of mental hygiene. Appointments may be made through the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. R. L. Canteson.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Westminster Forum will hold a St. Patrick-Easter Party, tomorrow evening at 8:30 at Westminster Hall. Admission is 15 cents. There will be refreshments. Come and enjoy yourself.— Dorothy Howe, social chairman.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS: All applications for loan and gift scholarships for the year 1940-41 should be filed before tomorrow with Miss Persis Cook, Executive Secretary, Committee on Aids and Awards, Room No. 1, Frank Strong Hall—Persis Cook.
SIGMA Xi: Nominations for members must be submitted to the secretary no later than Friday. The Board of Electors will meet on Wednesday, March 27.
—W. H. Schowe, secretary.
Y. M.C.A.-V.W.C.A.: All students are invited to attend the Western Frolic in the Girls' Gym, Saturday night, at 8:00 o'clock-Charles Wright, Jr.
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Lilac Blooms Bring Spring to Hill Lane Originated In 1878
Snow one day, blue skies the next that's March in Kansas. But spring doesn't come officially to the Hill until the lilacs bloom on the campu.
Winter-weary freshmen are sighing for the miracle of spring at K.U., curious to analyze for themselves the season others have mentioned, when Jayhawkers enjoy again the beauty of the Hill.
Few realize that their beloved Hill was a bleak ridge, a freak of nature rising treeless from the prairie, when it was chosen as the site of the state university. The beauty of the campus is taken for granted now but in 1866 the University was only a small building located on an ugly eye-sore of nature nicknamed by the pioneers "The Hog's Back" and "The Devil's Backbone."
Education was a grim business back in the '70's and no one thought of wasting motion on such frills as
landscaping and gardening. Then in the spring of 1878 Joseph Savage, a Douglas County farmer, grew tired of the grim aspect of the Hill and determined to do something to improve it. Farmer Savage hauled a load of young trees from the Wakarusa Valley. With the help of his friend Chancellor Marvin and a squad of students he planted the first trees on Mt. Oread.
Mr. Savage hated the ugliness of the windy heights and conceived the idea of planting a lilac hedge from cuttings of lilac bushes on his farm. The first lilac hedge was planted east of Fraser and forms what is now known officially as Lilac Lane. The campus is dotted with lilac bushes, and each year Kansans drive to Lawrence to see the lilac's of K. U. Sentimental grads write poems, and undergraduates continue to carry on in the Hill's best tradition. Spring on the Hill means lilacs.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HARRY HILL
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By Reginald Buxton, c'40 The law students did not sit on Green hall's steps and whistle at the girls today. The wind was right but the atmosphere was too cold. Nature's, we mean.
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How bereaved Finland must appreciate the eulogies of Chamberlain et al. She was brave even unto death. May her valiant soul rest in peace. All that is necessary now is to order an Unknown Soldier monument from the Empire Casket Co., Inc., send it collect and everything will be jake.
White House secretary, Steve Early, before the Finnish-Russian peace moves were concluded: "He (Roosevelt) didn't close any door, but he didn't open any door either." We always thought magazine call
We always thought magazine selling was his racket.
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Where our money goes: Coca-Cola company chalks up its sixth consecutive all-time record with a
$27,230,374.73 total volume of business for 1939. That last 73 cents is undoubtedly the sum we spent New Years Eve.
A tribute paid to Daniel David Palmer, founder of chiropractic, by a quite poetic disciple: "When he gave an adjustment, his manner was much like that of a composer playing one of his own compositions." Something like Jimmy Dorsey's drummer, Buddy Shutz, playing "A Man And His Drums."
Secretaries of the Y's were called on the carpet some time ago to answer to complaints from a devout Lawrence church and newspaper man. Basis for the complaints was that the Y's had sung songs employing the word "comrade" which to any wide awake red-baiter signifies communism. Somewhat taken aback was the devout soul when a special delegate was sent to show him that "comrade" appeared a number of times in his own church's hymnals.
Eaton lives alone on the mile-square island and the only time he sees and talks with anyone is during the brief monthly visit of an airplane pilot who brings him food, magazines and supplies.
NO MAN'S LAND, Mass. (UP)—A voluntary exile, Amherst Eaton is "master of all I survey" in pursuing his duties as caretaker of No Man's Land, an island 10 miles off Martina's Vineyard in the Atlantic ocean.
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Although Eaton, a graduate of Storrs Agriculture College in Connecticut, is a man of steady, philosophical temperament, the job is a
Caretaker Has His 'Green Isle in the Sea'
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strain on him because No Man's Land is a "Ghost Town."
What once was a thriving fishing community now is nothing but deserted shells of 20 houses, a church and school, a store and a boarding house for single sailors. On the mainland it is said that when the wind is high, "the ghosts of dead sailors shuffle and bump through the vacant island buildings."
The island is owned by Joshua Crane of London, a former resident of Dedham. He purchased it after the demand for salt cod dropped and forced the younger
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