PAGE TWG UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY. NOV. 3, 1939 Kansan Comment We Have A Hospital Students have a tendency to take for granted the blessings which they possess and to become articulate only over the improvements that would make the University a dream campus. On this Hill we have one of the finest student hospitals in the country. Other universities yearn to possess such a hospital, just as Jayhawkers picture the mirage of a new Journalism building towering toward the blue The Arkansas Traveler, student newspaper, complains: "For several years people have been de- ploring the fact that the university has no adequate hospitalization facilities. The building is not large enough to accommodate a full class, and would certainly be too small in the case of a major epidemic. The hospital closes for the night. The staff of the infirmary is on par with the best buildings, rules, and equipment are in force." The new building situation at the University may lack the necessary silver lining, but contrasting our lot with less fortunate schools makes us appreciate our unique and generous patron the late Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins, who presented the hospital to the campus. The University health service is a group enterprise supported by a student health fee of five dollars each semester. For this low fee the student hospital offers a free dispensary service, common medications, three days hospitalization a semester, and free physical examinations. The modern sixty-five bed hospital is a campus institution which serves us well. Perhaps in some Utopian future a wealthy alumni will remember the dilapidated medical lean-to and the antique Shack, and become an immortal by sharing his wealth, but in the meanwhile the students should count their blessings. N.Y.A. On the Hill The question was recently raised at the University of Minnesota as to the value and need of the National Youth Administration in universities. Minnesota authorities found an immediate answer to the question in the splendid record of the student aid program in its five-year-old history there. No government agency had had higher ideals and more practical aims than the NYA. This semester at the University of Kansas 390 students from dependent-ridden families in the lower-income brackets found work with the student aid agency that enabled them to pay for part of an education they would not have had otherwise. The work done by the students is high in quality and usefulness because only those students with a high scholastic rating and good character are given work. Politics does not enter into the dispensing of jobs in the NYA. Students place their application blanks and references with the office before the beginning of the school year. If their records and recommendations merit it, they are given jobs without any investigation into the politics of their families or friends. No social stigma is attached to the student aid work. The pay ranges from 30 to 35 cents an hour with the students earning every penny they receive. Many NYA workers are student leaders highly respected in school circles. The very ideal of the NYA to give the less-privilolved youth his farble chance for college training raises it far above the idea of "relief" as it is popularly known. Last months NYA students earned $4,697. If other government agencies could achieve the success NYA has at the University of Kansas, complaints against the New Deal would decline. St. Louis Blues Kansas City continues her task of washing the political linen and airing our her skeleton-laden closet, St. Louis advances another position toward first place among American cities in decay. Soon to rate superior in rotten government, St. Louis already ranks high as a sufferer from smoke, economic idigestion, and intellectual palsy. According to the United States Bureau of Public Health, St. Louis ranks as the smokiest in the nation. Smoke has left its mark both on housing conditions and on the economic welfare of St. Louis. Business as well as residential districts have slipped into slum areas for want of taxes which pour into county coffers. Since 1929, evaluation of city property has fallen $240,000,000; county taxes have risen proportionately. Formerly noted for her shoe factories, St. Louis now claims only seven, while clean villages nearby boast thirty-nine. With the exception of music, culture in St. Louis stands in a deepening trough. Shelves of the public libraries suffer from malnutrition. Last year the issuance of books fell 16,390 due to decreases in appropriations. The City Art Museum labors under an inefficient board. Instead of purchasing articles of contemporary Americana, the board adorns the museum walls with ordinary European paintings. An instance of the group's policy toward statues is cited in the purchase of a bronze chariot from an early Egyptian dynasty for $14,400. Aroused by this extravagance, the American Artists Congress protested against the program of choosing high-priced antiques over excellent modern work. St. Louis supports St. Louis and Washington universities, but her support has not included the election of progressive boards. Both institutions need an alert administration to jolt them from their narrow paths, for St. Louis University confines itself to classical studies, while Washington stresses only medicine. As a background for the town's other ills, a dirty government rears its head. Election frauds and political crimes blacken St. Louis' history. Negroes make up eleven percent of the population; and to the party that can offer the highest bid goes the support of this group. In 1936, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered forty thousand faked names on the primary rolls. Yet, the majority of the citizens paid little heed to such courageous exposes. Arbitrary control of unions surges as the chief racket in the city. Openly admitting their game, these labor racketeers terrorize hundreds of businesses. Autopsy of these cases shows that most of the hoodlums, if caught, slide through the courts with little or no penalty. The golden years of untroubled sloth have flitted away. Such crusaders as the Post-Dispatch have thrown a search-light down the dark political alley. But without an aroused citizenry reform efforts fall flat when confronted by a well-greased system. St. Louis, it seems, could use a little honest soap-and-water as well as the customary pre-election whitewash. And how about some swing time to replace the old St. Louis Blues. --film—Paper—Chemicals and supplies for the industry War comes to all parts of the Empire even Bermuda, home of onions and American honey-moders. Bermuda was noted formerly for its absence of cars, as well as its English tweeds, until England declared war. Now the island is cluttered up with Army trucks, women have been given the right to vote, and mail is being rigidly censored. Thunder over Paradise! --film—Paper—Chemicals and supplies for the industry YOU SAID IT EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than ten must be subject to revision, must be signed, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires. To The Editor: Scority Sing The boys on this Hill sing better than the girls! I don't think so. But nobody ever gets a chance to hear the girls. Every spring the boys in the fraternities give a demonstration of their singing ability in the form of an interfraternity Sing. The girls sit welley back at home, looking like they carry away the sinnery triumphs, who can't she here? The sororities on the Hill ought to get together and put over an Interscope Sing. Let the boys sit back and listen to them. Everyone enjoys the singing of the chorus, but you can sing just as well. They should be given a chance. To The Editor: Splintering Chairs Another day, another pair of stockings shot. Oh, her stockings are a little more expensive than our classroom certainly play have, with silk stockings. I have ruined so many pairs of hose since I started using them. I don't have money enough to get my hair set in stockings. While most of the girls were wearing anklets and getting splinters in their legs instead of snagging hose, I was being a lady like my mother told me to and wear them. They were stockings. Now it is almost too cold to go bare legged. I think the school should see that all chairs are gone over with sand paper or what ever they smooth chair off with and get rid of all their splinters. Can't we get the administration to do something about it? Criticism Continued Criticism Continued "And the obvious remains all that the shallow can see!" That learned remark caused me to read Leo D. Freed's Campus Opinion beating campus critics with a smile because we didn't want to be classed by Leo as "shallow." The care taken paid dividends. We noted this statement in Leo's letter to the editor: "It shows that in the middle of his career he was a director, who hewer he is." For Mr. Freed's edification we him on in the secret that his very best friend, Rolla Nucklejess, was the director. If Lee knew this when he met with Mr. Freed, it must have his castigation of Mr. Poulteauhtah's critical efforts. BYSTANDER UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Publisher ... Horry Hill Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editor-in-Chief ... Moriyl McBrien Associate Editor ... Uarda Sherry, Digita Diaggs Associate Editors ... James K. Brumfield Managing editor Chelsea Brunton Stew Jones Clivette Burton Roderick Burton News editor Roderick Burton Campus editor Bety Culvey Dale Keenlandmont Makeup editor Levin Young Levin Young Rewrite editor Elizabeth Kirstch Russell Kirstch Walt McGann Sunday editor Publisher Editorial Staff News Staff Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 per semester. Published at Lawrence, Kansas, daily during the school year except Monday and on Saturday. Entered as second class course. Registered at Lawrence, office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Business Manager ... Edwin Browne ON THE OFF B-E-A-T Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome! And that goes also for the other 157,479 persons here too. (Don't ask us how we know that you're going to cause no one would believe us if we told them we counted 'em.) By Roderick Burton We are refusing to breathe a prediction about the football game this afternoon. If an AP correspondent and a Kansas editorial can get it wrong last year, we don't have a chance of being right. Anyway, after today the visitors (and this department) will know exactly what it is that the cornhusking champions have on the cob. The New York World's fair is over. The closing of the World of Tomorrow puts the question duller and more management." After the future, what? Student complaint: The only trouble with a holiday is that it gets filled up too rapidly. Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the People's Lobby, Washington, D.C., spoke Wednesday morning to the political science students in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. Political Science Body Hears Marsh --- According to Mr. Marsh, democracy cannot survive if it degrades into the art of merely trying to force its policies on the past 29 years. At 10.30 he spoke on "American Democracy at the World's Crossroads," and at 11.30, "America and the International Situation." He has written "An Introduction to City Planning," the first book on the subject in America, and "Taxation of Land Values in American Cities." He edits the "People's Lobby Bulletin." Mr. Marsh studied conditions in Europe this summer when he made his seventh European trip since 1922. Freshman Raps-film—Paper—Chemicals and supplies for the industry "I am elected. I will act to achieve the popular will of the student body, voting for each measure on its own merits without feeling the obligation to bow to party dictates." (Continued from page one) The candidates for president of the freshman class are Elmo Maiden, c'43, P.S.G.L.1 and Ralph Shenemen, c'43, Pachmehnar. 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