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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1939
Kansan Comment
A Two-Million Dollar Ash Trav?
We're lucky, we students. We may not all have modern homes, late model cars, expensive clothes. We may not even have the world's best football team. But we have something no millionaire can boast of, something no economic royalist has on his luxury list.
We lucky students have 28 ash trays at our disposal, 28 of the costliest receptacles for cigarette stubs in existence. Look a few of our buildings over:
Building Date Built Const. Cost
Fraser 1872 $185,000
Journalism 1884 12,000
Blake 1895 58,000
Chemistry 1900 65,000
Green Hall 1905 65,000
Robinson 1906 100,000
Marvin 1907 90,000
Haworth 1909 57,500
Fowler 1918 21,000
Power Plant 1921 300,000
Frank Strong 1911-1921 644,730
Memorial Union 1925 500,000
Watson 1926 250,000
Hoch 1927 207,000
We're lucky, too, because our carelessness has not yet destroyed one of these expensive buildings. But how long will our luck last?
Dance Pass Sacrifice
For voluntarily giving up our dance passes to the Freshman Frolic, the Men's Student Council deserves the sincere commendation of the entire student body.
The decision involved more than the ordinary M.S.C. legislation. It meant the Council was voting itself right out of the chance to have a swell time free. There was, then, a strong element of sacrifice. The ruling, furthermore, indicates the men legislators honestly are endearing to find a solution to the problem of putting class parties on a paying basis.
That solution lies in the alternative bill proposed by the dance committee a week ago. It provided that all Men's Student Council passes for class parties be abolished. But the bill, because of a technicality, could not be presented, read and passed before the Freshman Frolic. So the Council by special resolution in effect made the bill a law before it even was officially introduced.
When the chance comes to vote for the bill that will affect all class parties, the M.S.C., in the same spirit, should pass it. By so doing they will legislate themselves out of an attractive financial saving. But they will gain immensely more in student confidence and support.
From Newsweek: Sig Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, British Minister of Agriculture, broadcast a story he said was being whispered in Germany: "The Gestapo have found a new way to carry out the death sentence. They blindfold the condemned man, make him stretch out his arms horizontally. They put a pound of butter in one of his hands and a pound of bacon in the other. They whip off the blindfold and the man falls dead from sheer astonishment."
Third Term Thunder
National politics feel the impact of the Chancellory contest in Europe. Mid-western attitudes toward the 1940 election have shifted radically since Roosevelt's neutrality took the spot-light. Citizens who formerly complacently looked for a conservative reaction to the New Deal now are looking at the President through the "he'll keep us out of war" haze which reelected Wilson.
With even that ancient American holiday, Thanksgiving, moved by Roosevelt's magic wand, tradition continues to take a beating. The Third Term question, as always, generates more heat than light. As a sort of political hot potato, it is passed rapidly from hand to hand without official comment.
While some tradition-bound Americans regard the third term for any president as impossible because of precedent, others think of it as a wobbly superstition. The matter is not a constitutional question; the Constitution sets no limitation on the number of terms, twenty being equally permissible so far as the Constitution is concerned. Our "unwritten constitution" is the source of strength; and since Washington's refusal to run for a third term, this policy has been accepted, if not analyzed by Americans.
The first real statement of the third term objection is that of Jefferson, who refused toward the end of his second term reconsideration for a third. McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Coolidge all rejected talk of third terms though the two latter were elected to only one term having served out their predecessor's time. Washington, Jackson, and Grant were all urged to run for a third term, and Woodrow Wilson
wanted to run. But Theodore Rosevelt is the only president who ever was on the ballot for a third term, and in this case he ran on the Progressive ticket and his candidacy was not consecutive.
Third term objectors are admittedly opposed to the potential third-termer. Predecessors of Franklin D. Roosevelt have set a precedent, and he will have to buck a well-established tradition if he "choose to run."
Campus Opinion
EDITOR'S NOTE. The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters under 800 words are subject to copyright. Letters over 800 words, although the name will be withheld if the writer desires.
Civil Liberties At Stake
To The Editor:
September's and October's record of the violation of civil liberties, the rights of labor and of free speech are such as to awaken progressive people to the danger ahead.
Heading the list were the raids of the Dies Comittee agents upon the premises of the America League for Peace and Democracy in Chicago. Mr. Kern said a search warrant, for Dies considers himself the law.
In Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 1, two Sandusky police and severalToledo plain clothes men forced their way into the National Maritime Union Hall. They too had no warrant. An NMU member was arrested without warrant.
In South Barre, Mass. on Sept. 2, a gas attack was made upon a legal mass picket line before the Barre Wool Combing Co. One worker on strike was seriously injured. A vigilante group has been formed by
In Violet, Louisiana, Sept. 15, Mrs. J. B. Treadway,
54, an American on strike against Dunbar and Dukate
cannery was shot and killed.
In San Francisco, California, on the 16th, six Western Ernion messenger boys were arrested when the police charged a mass picket line at the main office of the Western Union. The boys were charged with wilting toil, malice mischief and assault, because they disabled the right to organize into a union of their choices.
In St. Paul, 60 WPA workers were indicted in connection with the nationwide WAPS stoppage of last July, and Minneapolis, Minn. Station WTON returned time to a WPA defense committee.
And so the story of violence and terrors, "legal" and illegal, runs the length and breadth of America. The picture I give is far from complete, but it should be said that the word "terrorism" Dick Henry. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
With vigilance must go organization and struggle. The International Labor Defense, the American Liberties Union and all clear thinking people should be encouraged to reinforce their civil liberties and their democratic rights.
Defense committees should be set up around each violation of civil liberties. The time to act is now.
A LIBERAL
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 27 Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1939 No. 24
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before birth during the week, and at 8 p.m. on day of delivery.
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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LECTURE. The first lecture in the Contemporary Literature Lecture Course will be delivered in afternoon in room 204, Mr. Harold Jackowski will review this course by Aron bald MacLeish. While this lecture is primarily for freshmen, upperclassmen and graduates are cordially invited. -W. S. Johnson, chairman, department of Engg.
LE CERCE FRANCAISE: Le Cerce francais se reunit aux趴劈du l'18 octobre a quatre heures et demi dans la salle 113 Fruz Strong hall. Tous ceux des francsaint invite-ajoute: Joriana, secretaire.
**MATHEMATICS STUDENTS:** The Mathematics
class in Mr. Kushner's room will speak on "Probability, Choice and Chance." After refreshments in the lounge, the club will adjourn to room 263 for the program—Marlow Shoulder, presi-
dent of the school.
RHADAMANTHI-Rhadamanthi, poetry society, will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. All interested are urged to attend-Gordon Brigham, president.
SIGMA XI: The regular October meeting of the students of SIGMA XI, at 10 a.m. on Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m., in Blake Hall, Professor V. P. Heeder, of the electrical engineering department, will speak on "Tecentic Developments in Sliding Contact Materials."
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Education is not a hindrance to happy married life. College graduates adjust themselves in marriages better than those with grammar school and high school educations. At least, that is the conclusion of recent studies of Cornell or Cornell and Prof. E. W. Burgess of the University of Chicago.
Is Marriage a Science Or Entirely a Gamble?
The two men interviewed 528 married couples, who answered questions relating to their education and housing. They provided the length of courtship before marriage
According to the results of the survey, 79 per cent of all marriages are either "very happy" or "happy" and only about 2.4 per cent of them are "very unhappy". The two men found that the couples who agreed on buying their money and how to handle their relations were very home.
Cottrell and Burges, whose surveys is included in the book "Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage," published by Prestige-Hall, conclude that wives who work before marriage adjust themselves better. Women who had taught school ranked higher than men in terms while chemical engineers and ministers hended the list of male occupations.
A positive correlation was also discovered between length of courtship and happiness of marriage. It was found that if the courtship lasted less than a year, there was incomplete adjustment and chances of happiness were 20 per cent less than for those who "went steady" for more than a year. Courtships of three to five years showed the greatest percentage of happy marriages, while those of more than five years showed less chance for happiness.
Results of the survey tend to dispel the popular belief that size of income has anything to do with happiness. The way it is spent, however, seems to be very important. Dr. Cottrell and Professor Bur-
By Roderick Burton
Today the Colorado turkey growers will observe "turkey day." This is not to be confused with the Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23) proclaimed by President Roosevelt, the Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 30) proclaimed by Colorado's Governor Carr.
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The more we read about "My Heart's in the Highlands" the more we are beginning to want to see it. But if it's as unreal as the previews say it is, we probably won't believe it anyway.
Success story: Sally Rand started out with nothing, made a business of it, and ended up with it.
Following is a schedule of the lecture course for the coming year:
Oct. 18—*Air Raid* (*Archibald McLeish*) reviewed by Harold Jenkins.
This department favors selling arms to warring countries as long as they don't use them over here.
Nov. 15—Huntsman, What Quarry (Edda St. Vincent Millay) reviewed by Helen Hoopes, assistant professor of English.
Harold Jenkins, instructor in the department of English, will review the radio play "Air Raid" by Archibald MacLeish at the first of a series of freshmen lessons on contempo- ries at 1:30 a.m. also alternum in room 255 Fresher厅.
Jenkins Opens Lecture Series
Jan. 10—"Grapes of Wrath" (John Steinbeck) reviewed by George Wagoner, instructor in English.
Feb. 14—The General's Ring*
(Selma Lagerlof) reviewed by Miss Blanche Yeemans, assistant instructor in English.
Dec. 13—"Of Time and the River"
(Thomas Wolfe) reviewed by Perry Westbrook, gr.
Mar. 13—"The Yearling" (Margaret Rawlings) reviewed by Maurice Hutch, assistant instructor in English.
geg comment on the results of their survey by saying, "So far only the results of simple statistical procedures have been presented in our study and in the book in which the study appears. These results have been quite sufficient to show two things that prediction of marriage falls within certain limits, and that an expectancy table of probabilities of success and failure in marriage can be deviled."
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