PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1940 FIVE Kansan Comment Lynching Must End Once more Kauans and Kankans have struck a binding blow for Democracy and equality. When Representative Ed. H. Rees of the fourth congressional district took the floor of the House yesterday to urge the passage of the anti-lynching bill, he was backed by the gem-studded history of a State, fearless in its fight for Democracy in practice as well as in theory. Comparable to the State's fight against the pro-slavery forces of the South, and its vote for the fifteenth amendment was Rees' speech yesterday. "The bill," he said, "is intended to prevent so far as possible the inexusable, and indefensible crime of lynching. Regardless of where lynching is perpetrated, it is one of the lowest forms of barbarism". Congressman Rees was speaking in behalf of the Gavinon Anti-lyching bill which has been before Congress in some form for the last twenty-three years. It came closest to becoming law in 1938 after its passage by the House, only to encounter a strong Southern filibuster. Proponents of the bill that year boasted 73 votes for the bill if it could be brought to a vote on the Senate floor. The Gavagan bill would seek to prevent lynchings by imposing a $5,000 fine and five years imprisonment upon peace officers who fail to protect prisoners from lynch mobs. The act would also make municipalities or counties liable to damage suits by lynching victims or their dependents. Southerners in opposition contend that the bill is unworkable, unconstitutional and unenforceable. Concerning one of the objections to the bill Congressman Rees had this to say: "Those who oppose this measure say it takes power away from the states. I cannot agree with that view. If the states perform their duty, the federal power is not invoked." Proponents of the bill asserted that it would accomplish its purpose of preventing lynchings. Prediction has it that the bill will pass the House easily, with the help of ninety-eight percent of the Republican vote. Blocking the passage of the bill at the moment is the Senate and the inevitable Southern filibuster. But here again Kansas has a champion in its senior Senator, Arthur Capper, one of the authors of the bill, who voted for closure of the filibuster two years ago. More power to Kansas in the interest of Democracy and equality. ... New York University provides its faculty members with a special weather forecasting service -Associated Collegiate Press. A Leaf From Gulliver For Interned Sailors The natives of Liliput scarcely approved of Lemuel Gulliver, a sea surgeon whom storm waves washed from a wrecked ship onto their shores. Marking him a clumsy and thick-wounded dunce, the government placed certain restrictions upon the sailor's physical freedom. He could not depart without official consent, nor could he walk on any but principal roads of the dominion. Now this Gulliver, just out of Britain, was both homely and gluttonous according to Lilliputian Society. He had his own way of doing things. He couldn't speak the language, he couldn't add figures correctly, and he broke everything he touched. Certainly, he did not fit. Nevertheless, G. Illiver was a diplomat. He may have fumbled in obeying the rules, but he obeyed them. He was shrewd; and, knowing that the Lillupts were sensitive about their diminutiveness, he flaunted nary a bicep. His good behavior, in fact, weakened his disfavor of him. Thus, Gulliver got along, and despite his longing to return home, he felt no urge to scruff himself. Now, if the one thousand Graf Spee sailors avail themselves of Brother Gulliver's experience, they will concede that no amount of climbing from them or their Fuehrer, who has just sent his weekly threat to the Latin government, can attain their release. South American officials claim that the sailors were men at war, and, as such, they must remain in the country until hostilities end. Who knows? If the sailors will forget mine planting, they may find domestic life in Latin America a happy substitute for the dangers of the sea. Perhaps they may decide to settle down in connubial bliss with the famous Latin beauties. An alternative solace lies in the South American scenery, not to mention entertaining night spots. Of course the Nazi mind might not approve. Partaking of material pleasures in South America might mean that the welcome on return to Germany would resemble that given the model son who selects a wife from the wrong side of the tracks. The situation, therefore, paints an ironic picture of the Nazi. Much as the Germans dislike English traits, they are forced to display one of that nation's most famous characteristics. German eyes at home would pop in surprise if they knew that their interned sailors are obliged to "muddle through" in the English way. --on the Savannah River in Georgia, which he obtained several years ago. Dr. Speck said he had met several persons on the University staff interested in Indian life, among whom was Miss Nellie Barre, assistant of English, who owns a large collection of Indian songs and poems. Social misfit: The man who doesn't have an opinion on the European situation.The Oklahoma Daily. Employers Win Over NLRB Order In Chicago recently, when the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed a National Labor Relations Board order, it partially satisfied the demands big business has been making on the Wagner Act and at the same time severely criticised practices of the labor board. The court ruled that the Wagner act does not compel an employer to sign a contract or agreement with a labor organization. The decision, handed down in reversal of a labor board order of 1938, required the Inland Steel company to bargain with a labor committee and to put any agreement into writing. That was the first time a company had been directed to sign a contract covering its agreements with a union, and labor leaders gave it great acclaim because demands for a written agreement were the salient factors in the 1937 'little steel' strike against the Inland company and three other independent makers. For some time employers have been seeking Wagner act amendment to gain for themselves the right which is now only accorded labor; the right of appeal to the board for investigation of grievances. The court's ruling, therefore, is a set-back for both the AFL and the CIO, but primarily for the latter. John L. Lewis' continual demand has been for stricter regulation of employers. Court rulings such as this one, however, and proposed revision of the Wagner act, are much more than measures for satisfying capital's interests alone. They are measures designed to balance the responsibilities of employer and employee—protecting both from losses and damages resulting from unnecessary work stoppages. Intelligent correction and interpretation of the act will provide "even-handed justice" to both disputing parties. --on the Savannah River in Georgia, which he obtained several years ago. Dr. Speck said he had met several persons on the University staff interested in Indian life, among whom was Miss Nellie Barre, assistant of English, who owns a large collection of Indian songs and poems. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN Vol. 77 Thursday, Jan. 19, 1940 Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 4 p.m. on weekends. 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. I. Canteson. REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION The Reinterpretation of Religion Commission of YMKU will discuss the Rev. John Bowers will lead a discussion on "Religious Trends in Germany Today" - Corrine Martin RHADAMANTHI: Rhadamanthi, poetry society will have its headquarters in the Union Building—Gordon Brigham, president (3) UNIVERSITY WOMEN: The W.S.G.A. election board will interview applicants for secretary of the W.S.G.A. council and vice-president of the junior class, today from 4:30 to 5:00 and from 7:00 to 7:30 in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Applicants for secretary may be a junior or senior woman. Applicants for vice-president must be a first semester junior. All applicants must be onsite in 12 hours of work - Velma Wilson, president W.S.G.A. SHAWNE COUNTY STUDENTS: The county club meeting scheduled for January II has been postponed until Friday. Jerry Krause, from Everywhere from Shawne County, sat at 7:00 a.m. on the Men's Lounge of the union - Charles Wright, Jr. The story of a quest for lost tablets which bear the history of the Delaware Indian tribe over a period of several hundred years was told Tuesday by Dr. Frank Speck, head of the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. A northbound him to Lawrence to interview institute in an effort to uncover some clue as to their present where-abouts. Y. M.-Y.W. FRESHMAN COMMISSION: Molly Yard, chairman of the far eastern student service fund, will discuss the lives of Chinese and Japanese students before a joint meeting of the Y.M.-Y.W. at 4:30 in the jounal office of the Memorial Union building. All freshmen are invited—Ken Martin, publicity chairman. WESLEY FOUNDATION: Wesley Foundation will act as host at a joint party with the Westminster Foundation on Saturday evening at 6 o'clock at the Methodist Church in Birmingham, where groups are invited. Donald DeFord, publicity chairman. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Rafinesque said that when he saw the wooden tablets they were in the possession of a Dr. John Ward, who lived about a century ago in Indiana and Kentucky, Rafinesque presumed the tablets had been preserved by the Indians as an appreciation for the medical care given the tribe. Dr. Speck said the tablets were supposedly seen by an eccentric American-French student, C. S. Rufinesque, one-time president of an American philosophical society. Tablets Presented To Dr. Ward. Managing Editor Walt Meininger Bartley Editors Bettie Kelly Campus Editors Bettie Coulson, Hugh Wright Society Editor Elizabeth Kirch Bartley Editors Bettie Kelly Make-up Editor Dale Heckendorf Telegraph Editor Eugene E Kuhn Kerry Editors Kay Brown Picture Editor John Balzow Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Design Richard Reagan, Richard Reagan, Feature Editors Mary Lou Rendall, Linda J. Although there is a possibility that the tablets no longer exist, contemporary anthropologists are certain that the Rafflese reports were authentic. An original manuscript by Rafflese bearing what is believed to have contained on the lost tablstory of the Vatican's treasury at the University of Pennsylvania. Publisher ... Harry Hill Disclose Quest for Tablets Bearing Tribe's History Dr. Speck said that if the tablets have not been destroyed there may be some elusus to their whereabouts, and they would have been found in or around Philadelphia. Editorial Staff News Staff Business Manager ... Edwin Browne Tablets Told Of Indian Migration The story told by the copy of the tablets narrates the migration of the Delaware Indians. The records refer to time when they lived west of a great body of water. This may be Mississippi or one of the Great Lakes and later through famine and wars, the tribe pushed eastward to the seaboard and was broken into smaller tribes, including the Munsee, Nanticoke, Turkey, and Wolf Indians. Several students of anthropology believe that between Kentucky and those parts of Kansas and Oklahoma inhabited by the Delaware tribes there may be fertile ground for a search of clues. Speakers of one Delaware dialect are now living a few miles south of this vicinity. Do. Speak. the past week in law-recorded as "all the Indians of Indian speech and culture, and is able to speak many Indian languages. He is almost the sole possessor of authentic information or Business Staff Subscription notes, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at LaWrence, Kansas; daily during the school year except Monday and Saturday. Entered as second class student on June 29, 2004, at Lawrence at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. a Guest of Dr. Elesey The Pennsylvania is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Loren Eilesey. Dr. Eilesey, assistant professor of geography at Columbia, has received his doctor's degree at Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Speck. Although deeply interested in the lost tablets, Dr. Speck came to Lawrence primarily to trace the shift in speech habits of the Delaware Indians from the time they left the East until their descendants settled in Kansas and Oklahoma. He is expected to return to Pennsylvania. Gas Masks in Colors Soothe British Babies London (U.P.) — Fashion note: Gas masks in pretty pastel shades—pale blue, pink, violet, green and yellow — are being issued to children Authorities think they'll be less frightening to the wee ones. GRANADA NOW! 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Carman, associate professor of romance languages, as king, and Mary Gene Hull, c'43, as queen, the French club, Le Circle Francaise, celebrated La Fete des Rois, an annual French holiday afternoon at 4:30 in Frank Strong hall. The festival is known as Twelfth Night in English. Translated from French it means The Festival of the Kings. On Jan. 6, the day of the feast, a special cake containing a porcelain figure of a bean or a tiny doll is baked. The person receiving the cake becomes king or queen for the day, and is permitted to choose a part- Owl Show Saturday Night 11:15 And Sunday JAMES STEWART MARLENE DIETRICH Optometrist 911 Mass. Gustafson Make The STADIUM BARBER AND BEAUY SHOP Your Headquarters Personnel Joe Leisch Pierce, Frank Vaughan Phone 310 1033 Mass. Phone K.U. 66 for a Want-Ad Taker Kansan Want-Ad Taker Bill No. 10 Typewriters We have complete typewriter service. KANSAN CLASSIFIED ADS Phone K.U.66 nur to help reign on the festivities. During the feast the guests mimic the actions of their king and queen. The French Club was unable to hold celebration on January 6, but everything else about the celebration was done according to custom. Sales, rentals, cleaning and repairing An Amendment to Bill No. 2 of the present (1950-49) was approved. Associated Man of SKATES — SLEDS Guns — Ammunition Skates Sharpened Lawrence Typewriter Exchange 735 Mass. Phone 548 一 Attested, Irving Kurman, Secretary, Approved, Denne W. Maklot, Chancellor defined as all things of practical use to the office, of 14 of 14 one-half of section 601, of 14 of 14 shall be in all sections effect from the publication according to the Constitution. Passed this 13th day of December, 1928, of Section 601, of 14 of 14,受训 Iverson, Secretary, Attending Iverson, Secretary. SECTION I. "Valuable thumbs" materials in Section 25 of Hill No. I shall be defined as all things of practical use to the doce which cost one-half of he was elected to the Associated Men- sher of the University of Kansas, on the kane concerning campaign expenditures, inhtt ballets and basketball; he did not balance his latter heroin sounded PHOTOGRAPHS of MERIT E. GARICH Phone-2852 IVA'S BEAUTY SHOP Shampoo and wave — 35c Oil shampoo and wave — 50c 941% Mass. Phone 533 WOLFSON'S 743 Mass. Phone 675 Drakes for Bakes MONEY LOANED ON VALUABLES. Unredeemed guns, Clothing, for sale. C. F. O'BRYON DENTIST 45 Mass. Phone: Office-570 Res-1950 (Over Safeway Grocery) YOU wouldn't wink at a girl in a BLACKOUT ---because nobody would know about it but yourself ---SO IF YOU have something to sell--- SPOT-LIGHT it with advertising! "KANSAN ADS TAP DAILY THE $2,000,000 POCKETBOOK OF UNIVERSITY CITY!"