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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1930.
Kansan Comment
Letter
Letter To Santa
Dear Santa Claus:
Old Serooge said, "Christmas—humbug" but an editor of the New York Sun once said in a letter to a little girl named Virginia that you lived forever in the hearts of men.
This Christmas is not a very happy one for the world, Sante, but for that reason, we choose all the more to address you optimistically in the mood of the great New York newspaper rather than in the spirit of Serooge.
Our Christmas list of ten items, Santa, with some intangibles and some tangibles requested, includes the following:
First: please send the students here at Kansas University a cooperative book store. They have asked for it many times, but they have never received it.
Second: a new museum of natural history.
The one that is here can't be opened.
Third: a new dormitory for men, Santa, and if you have more than one on hand, please send two.
Fourth; please remember the Negro students, Santa, with additional social opportunities here on the Campus and with provision for participation in more school events, such as dramatic, physical training and other extra-curricular activities.
Fifth: for the independent men and women, please send a better system of housing inspection and regulation. A new model is needed. With it should come provision for committees from W.S.G.A. and M.S.C. to hear and act upon student appeals when specific problems arise.
Sixth. please send a plan for better meals at the cafeteria at lower cost to students.
Seventh: any new buildings you have to give away this Christmas will be welcome, but needed particularly are a new medical building and a single improvement for the journalism building. The poor medic students are crowded together without sufficient laboratory space; and in order to take examinations, they must scatter all over the Campus in whatever lecture rooms are left vacant. The improvement for the journalism building is important. Santa, and not very costly either. It is a downstairs women's lounge needed both for women employees and women students. It needn't be very large, Santa, but make it complete with plumbing.
Eighth: this is important. Santa- it is higher minimum wages for working students and better regulation of working hours.
Ninth a new course at the University, Santa,
with two sections, one a general course in
hygiene and personality adjustment for freshmen
and sophomores, the other a preparatory course
for marriage for juniors and seniors.
Tenth: the last thing, Santa, is not for toys or oranges but for more concrete action on some of the needs mentioned in our list which could be taken care of here at home. Send us that, Santa, and we will not ask you to worry about the other things. The need is for more committees of the kind which follow their recommendations through with definite action to replace those which study endlessly and never come to any decision.
Sincerely, The Editor.
Should Labor Incorporate?
When the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia handed down a recent law decision, there appeared anew a contradiction in Federal laws保护 the free flow of trade.
This decision upset a jury verdict awarding the Apex Hosiery company 711,932 in damages as a result of a sit-down strike in its "most aggravated and illegal form."
The Circuit Court ruled unions not liable under the anti-trust laws for illegal strikes, unless there is proof the strike was called with the intent of restraining commerce. No illegal restraint was found in the Apex case.
It was considered a restraint when members of the bosiery union seized the Apex plant, smashed machinery in it, and then refused to permit shipments of bosiery from the plant.
If an employer fires an employee because that employee belongs to a union, the employer is liable for obstruction of the free flow of commerce, under the National Labor Relations Act.
If he pays his labor less than 40 cents an hour, he may be "interfering with commerce", this time under the Wage and Hour Act.
The discrepancies between these laws are themselves an obstruction of the free flow of commerce. While unions are immune to the anti-trust laws, they cannot be held responsible for violence and damage which may happen during their sit-down strikes.
Morely being illegal does not make a strike a restraint of trade; but such damage as that done at the Apex strike holds up business, slows down production, and acts as a barrier between supply and demand, even though the
court may not consider it a restraint of trade "to an unreasonable degree."
Hence it seems rather improbable that, even though unions are not exempt from the antitrust laws, these laws can be used to check union activity when there is need to prove restraint of commerce.
Perhaps a better remedy would be to allow the unions to incorporate under the law. The unions are willing to do this; evidently they see the value of such a move. But the government frowns upon it. The Department of Justice at present is carrying on an anti-trus drive against unions, particularly those in the building trades.
Yet with unions immune to the anti-trust laws, as far as restraint of commerce is concerned, the department of justice can make no headway in holding unions responsible when it becomes necessary to show "substantial effect" on commerce. If unions were incorporated however, they would thus be held legally responsible for the acts of their members, and much of the contradiction of the federal law would be dispelled.
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When his sympathy is involved, the average American citizen's hand diss deep into his pocket, a national characteristic now being demonstrated in behalf of Finland. Governor Payne H. Ratner has proclaimed today as Finnish Day "for the invoking of divine protection for the Finnish non-combatants and for encouraging contributions to their aid."
The program for aid to Finland has arisen spontaneously from many quarters in this country. The administration has not recognized a state of war in Finland in order to exempt the country from bans imposed by the Neutrality Act. Semi-annual payment made on its war debt by Finland Friday will be held in a separate account for later relief work for the Finnish people, a move which will require action by congress. Herbert Hoover has organized the Los Angeles headquarters of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., to which contributions are coming from all over the country.
All of this is important work and gratifying to the national pride as well as a tribute to the esteem in which this country holds Finland. Nevertheless the gathering of contributions makes a strange commentary on American thinking, an acceptance of the idea that money will take the place of brain work. An equally strange anomaly is created when consideration is given to the fact that the nation faces an acute relief problem within its own boundaries this winter with Cleveland just past a critical point, and a real crisis forcesen in Denver, Atlanta, and Birmingham.
This country has been sending money to Spanish refugees, Chinese non-combatants, Polish, Jewish, and German refugees, and in fact to every war torn locality where need has been acute. Too much praise cannot be given for this activity in behalf of foreign suffering—at the same time, Americans should be willing to give equal consideration to their own homeless and jobless people.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 37 Sunday, Dec. 17, 1839 No.64
ALPHA PHI OMEGA. There will be a very important meeting of the National Service Furterance on Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All members and pledges must attend this meeting.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION The regular weekly meeting, open to students, graduates and faculty members, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Room C Myers hall - Jack, Dickay, etc.
ATTENTION. All cases to appear before the Student Court should first be appealed to the Clerk of the Court, Bob McKay, telephone 2903—Gene Buchanan, chief justice.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB. The Home Economics Club will have its annual Christmas party Monday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. in room 110 Fraser. Will anyone have to bring them to 104 Fraser? Audy Bateman, president
NOTICE TO STUDENTS ON THE IRREGULAR PAYROLL: All students, on the irregular payroll, are requested to call at the business office and sign the Declaration before the Christmas holiday.-Karil Kobzar, bursar
COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong hall on Tuesday, Dec. 19 at 4:30 p.m. Dana W. Moltz choreographs.
NOTICE TO SENIORS GRADUATING IN FEDERAL ARY: You may have a complete examination at the Health Service. Please make your appointment as soon as possible—Dr. R. I. Canutson.
WESTMINSTER STUDENT FORUM. Everyone is invited to come to Westminster Hall after the Christmas Yepsen this evening, for an informal social gathering. You are welcome and retreats served - Charlotte Yeemans, president.
LUTHERAN STUDENTS: Don't forget the Christ-
ain parade insight at Vogel's. We will meet at the
north entrance.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Mr. Glenn Sheppard will speak on the topic, "Slow Neuron Beams," Monday at 4:30 p.m. in room 203 Blake Hall. Anny interested is cordially invited—Seville Chamber, secretary.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION. The Roger Wiliam Foundation will have open house this evening from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Mississippi Street. The girl of Theta Epsilon will serve as hostesses. Come with a friend—Gordon Kohman.
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Lansing Prisoner Writes For Kansas Magazine
Ronald Finney of Emporia is the man, and his story in the magazine is the result of assignment No. 20 written for a course in the short story offered by the correspondence study of the University.
The Emperia banker, who is serving a prison time in connection with the Kansas bond scandal of a few years ago, has a real ability in writing, according to his correspondence instructor. A graduate of Cornell Finney had devoted his time to banking, and his ability and determination to write are recent developments.
Back of a short story in the Kansas Magazine, the 1840 edition which was published Friday in Manhattan, lies a story of a man in prison at Lansing who wants to learn to write—and is learning through correspondence lessons from the University.
The story appearing in the Kansas Magazine is the second one that
Teachers of chemistry, physics, astronomy, and geology in Kansas high schools have been invited to attend the second annual Physical Science Conference to be held at the University Saturday, March 6, according to an announcement yesterday by the extension division.
Invite Teachers For Conference
The purpose of the conference is to acquaint students with the vocational possibilities in the application of these sciences to many fields of industry and commerce. The departments of chemistry, physics, astronomy, and zoology are co-operating with the extension division in preparing the program, which will feature two general sessions in the morning and lecture demonstrations in the afternoon. Complete programs will be available early in January.
The science teachers also are ask to bring outstanding students with them to the meeting. Sessions will be held at school or teachers and students, it was said
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Finney has placed. Not long ago he had one accepted by the Christian Science Monitor. In accepting it the paper wrote, "We are accepting this salary on our merits and we have to submit patent material from time to time."
Finney's story, which has rained a flood of protests on the publishers, is not regarded as his best by the correspondence bureau, but is regarded by the bureau to possess literary merit to be published.
The five writing courses offered by the bureau of correspondence which are proving popular for hundreds of salads are the short story and feature writing in the department of journalism, and narrative description and English Composition V in the department of English.
Housewives, doctors, mechanics—men and women in all walks of life—are enrolling in larger numbers each year, the bureau secretary said. Some want to write because they feel that they have a "message" to tell, others want to earn money, and others just want to learn to写
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