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SUNDAY. MAY 28. 1939
UNIVERSITY Daily KANSAN
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Publisher Harold Addington
Editor in Chief Editors Edition
Editor-in-Chief Roderick Burton
Editorial Director
75th Anniversary Edition Staff
Departments and Divisions  Murrell Ross
Society and Activities  Richie Smith
Pictures  Willis Mankiewicz
Pictures  Elon Torrence  Burgert Larpent
Advertising Manager  Ormon Wanamaker
Advertising Manager  Ormon Wanamaker
Subscription rates, in advance, $3.00 per year, $1.75 during the school year except Monday and Saturday during the school year except Monday and Saturday Entered as second class matter September 17, 1910; entered as Lawrence, Kansai, under the at March 4, 1879.
White Thinks Malott Has What It Takes
By W. A. WHITE
Editor, The Emporia Gazette and a world-lamous newspaper man. Mr. White was a student at the University back in the 1890s.
A tall, thin-faced, dark-skinned man with kind brown eyes and a soft determined voice is Deane Malott. I remember him first nearly twenty years ago sitting in the back of the room in the journalism department occasionally asking questions. I was happy to note that he was dubious about some of my remarks. It indicated an inquiring mind, a scientific spirit. I liked his style then. He was earnest without being solemn and evidently he was the kind of boy who wanted to know what it was all about and kept his faith that things weren't really so bad as they were cracked up to be. That attitude right after the war indicated an inner optimism.
Then Deane Malott dropped out of my mind and I did not see him until last month. I met him in Harvard. I saw him among his fellow workers on the faculty of the School of Business. It was plain that he was highly respected there and by his fellows. No one could doubt that he was doing a good job, a man's job in Harvard. It was administrative more or less, but he worked in a scholarly atmosphere and it seems to me that he has what it takes for the work laid out before him as Chancellor of the University. I was impressed again at Harvard by his earnestness, by his open mind, by the energy of his curiosity, by his sense of justice and his unquestioned sympathy with people.
Also I was to see Mrs. Malott, Hawaiian born, who was graduated from California State University, a most modern young woman, mother of two or three babies, deeply interested in how her rugs will fit the Chancellor's residence at KU. Mrs. Malott is a handsome girl—probably about as pretty as she'll ever be, in full bloom, to my eyes a beautiful woman. To me she seemed so beautiful indeed that it should settle any gossip that might arise that young Mr. Malott married for money. Girls who are married for their money are generally hard to look at and certainly Mrs. Malott eases the eyes perceptibly. And to me she seemed most intelligent with a quick sympathetic perception. I felt that she had a fundamental knowledge of the world about her, a practical, common sense woman whom the gods have given a bright lovely face.
The two, Mr. and Mrs. Deane Malott are obviously college people destined for the academic life—our kind of people. When he becomes Chancellor, Mr. Malott will know Kansas. He will know it better than any other Chancellor who ever came permanently to the head of the university except Snow who was here at the university's founding and was elected Chancellor after twenty years of professional service in Lawrence. I am willing to venture a guess and call it a bet of three to one that the Malotts will make good.
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Plugs for Knowledge Of All Government BY ALE M. LANDON
By ALF M. LANDON
Former Governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1916. Mr. Landon www.graduatedfrom the University in 1908.
I want my son to go to a school where they teach all forms of government.
I want him to know all there is to know about Communism, Fascism, and Socialism, as well as representative forms of government. I want him to know all the good and the bad points of all these theories of government, as they have been worked out in actual practice in the past and in the present. Their mistakes of omission and commission are written plainly for all to see who want to observe them.
These subjects, however, must be presented impartially and without prejudice.
dice. Any instructor who teaches from the point of view of a propagandist rather than that of the true educator casts doubt and reflection on his fellow-instruments, who are merely trying to stimulate thought and encourage search for the truth. So he is unfair to his colleagues, his students, and the university as well.
But that is not the spirit in which this university was founded. We do want our students taught to think for themselves, and to investigate new ideas. By testing them against the old, they sift out the truth. We are not afraid to weigh the advantages of democracy against the claims of any other form of government on earth, be it Fascism, Communism, or any other ism.
My only fear is lest we fail to see that they know our own country first—its government, its problems, its resources, and their responsibilities as citizens of this republic. Any honest supplemental research into the current political history of other nations will only enhance the superiority of representative government.
So long as our schools provide facilities for this type of education and encourage intelligent research, and our faculties honestly and impartially present the great social, economic and political problems we are experiencing. I shall not be apprehensive for the survival of American ideals.
That. I believe, was the concept of the founders of the University of Kansas.
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University Reflects Spirit of Builders
The University of Kansas has a long and honorable history. Conceived during the Civil War by farsighted pioneers, it seemed doomed to extinction almost before it started. But from the hearts and souls of those who believed that Kansas needd an institution of higher learning for the youth of the state, added strength came, and the University was born, and grew, and thrived.
Today the physical part of the University consists of 28 buildings and some 400 acres of land. But the University is more than that. Much of the real K.U. is in the spirit of the pioneer free-soilers who founded it, of the teachers who have taught in it and made it nationally famous; of the graduates who have made the University of Kansas noted for its educational product.
As a part of the three-year celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the University, the Daily Kansan is publishing this special edition. We have attempted to present a history of the University telling its story through a candid review of its chancellors, organizations, Hill activities, the struggle for buildings, and the successes and failures in the diversified system that makes up K.U. We have tried to make it as complete and accurate a history as possible; mistakes may have crept in. It is almost impossible to publish any large edition without some inadvertent errors occurring. Editors are, after all, burden
The Kansan is publishing some of the wealth of historical background ok the University in the hope that it will furnish those who read the Anniversary edition a greater insight into the true soul of the University of Kansas. If we have succeeded in catching something of the spirit of K. U. in these pages the Kansan will consider its work well repaid.
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Support 'Alumni Place'
To Help Housing Problem
What may easily be the first concrete step toward the establishment of a series of men's dormitories on Mount Oread is now in progress. Twenty thousand dollars is being raised from the alumni to buy and refurnish Brynwood Place for a co-operative men's dormitory which would be operated similarly to Watkins hall.
The funds must be secured by July 4, in order for "Alumni House," as the dormitory is to be called, to open at the beginning of the next school year. Deane Malott opened the contributions with a $100 check.
This is not connected with the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary celebration. But if you desire to show your appreciation to the University in some financial way, we suggest that you help buy and set up "Alumni Place."
Life History of an Old Bird-
In the turbulent life our young
Opportunity for College Youth Still Is Good
It is expecting a lot of this much-criticized economic system to absorb such a volume of college grad-
By Theodore C. Alford, '07
Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star. Mr. Allred, whose mother D. Allred was an early graduation, began his degree from the University in 1907.
So it behoves the young college graduate to be concerned more about what he will do before he reaches 40, than to blemish the fact the world is not waiting with golden offers immediately after he discards his cap and gown. If there is to be any sympathy wasted these days on any employable group, at least a part of it should be spared for the oldsters who have behind them training and experience but who are not wanted because the actuarial statistics are against them.
Washington, May 28 — The opportunity for youth, the young college graduate, is just as good as it was when I departed from the University of Kansas in June, 1907, to make my living.
The group that suffers most today, in my opinion, is composed of those who have reached the age of 40, or passed that mark. They are more to be pitted than the young man and woman leaving college, who have not met the test of endurance and performance in the competitive system. Few employers today want an older man or woman. One of them explained the other reason: "You're older than man over 40 largely because of the fact that under its old age retirement and unemployment plan the company assumed a greater liability in employing older persons.
In my opinion too much emphasis is being placed today on the lack of opportunity for the man or woman leaving college. It is a defeatist attitude, unjustified by the facts of the situation.
Sympathy for Aged
utes as it is expected to do today. When I attended the University of Kansas more than thirty years ago, the enrollment was about 1,200. Today, I am informed, the enrollment is close to 5,000. Yet the population of Kansas during the intervening period has increased only a few hundred thousand. So, is it any wonder that a large eastern distributor of oil and gasoline has had a policy of employing only college graduates for filling station attention men because they were more courteous and intelligent, and provided also a reservoir from which might be drawn later employees for more responsible positions.
My suggestion to the young college graduate is not to blame so much the economic system as the situation human beings created without the conivance or consent of that system. In the beginning of the industrial age, few persons believed the system would be compelled to absorb each year hundreds of thousands of the sons of farmers and artisans into white collar employment; that hundreds of thousands of women, formerly content to remain in the home, would demand a job in the office or the factory.
There is still a glorious future ahead for the trained and best equipped young men and women. As the competition becomes keener for the best jobs, the space is narrowing for the less efficient and the more poorly trained. That is true in industrial employment, as it is in the search by employers for the better white-collared workers and technicians. The made-over world of the late 30's wants youth, infants and children to be trained for those best trained to perform the services demanded of them. For the aloftful, the discontented and the poorly trained, the economic system of today offers only a poor opportunity to make a living.
Only Jules Verne Could Forecast K. U. Progress
Future Still Glorious
It is a far cry from the days when the University of Kansas was unsteadily beginning its existence down through the years to the present great educational institution. Only a Jules Verne of the 1800's could have foreseen the highly trained teachers corps and varied curriculums, the well equipped laboratories and fine lecture halls, the modern athletic plant and numerous extra curricular activities.
This same period has been filled with equally significant years for our nation. With higher standards of living, greater production, larger urban areas, better means of transportation and communication came far reaching social and economic problems. Our nation beats the competition, a hard fought of nerves, throughout which were transmitted with undiminished intensity any local disturbance to the existing system.
By HARRY WOODRING
Secretary of War and former Governor of Kansas.
Nation Grows
people find it indeed difficult to locate their place in the sun. Unless they are soundly educated in their chosen professions, they can scarcely hope to navigate the whitpools and rapids of their youth which must be avoided if they are to reach the still waters of social and economic security.
The University of today faces a very profound task if it would develop successfully the minds and bodies of its students so that these youths will have the mental and physical capacity to cope with the social, economic and political problems now existent.
Sees Success
In the clear reflection of this University's progress during the past 75 years, I am sure all of us can see, whether or not we were fortunate enough to bask in the warm wisdom of the Oracle of Mount Oread, success in the years to come. I have every confidence that the University will provide to provide her students with the scholastic background so essential for their own, their State's and their Nation's prosperity.
Today's College Students Must Find the Answers To National Problems
Commissioner for Scriptures-House and other newspapers. Mr. Clapper wrote a signed letter to the commissioner, one of the most authoritative of the many interlinear volumes. He was graduated from the University of Chicago.
I hesitate to the volume of somber warning and advice which deluges college men and women at this time but a few years ago in the year of greatest concerning what today's graduates face.
When I left Mount Grouad in 1916 the World War had been raging for two years. Already the American people were beginning to think of the War in terms of democracy against autocracy and totalitarianism, so call to make the world safe for democracy was not to be heard until nearly a year later.
We thought then that democracy was challenged by the Kaiser, never realizing that the real challenge to democracy was to arise from its own weaknesses and inadequacies. With the victory of 1918, we thought democracy had triumphed and we tried to return to normalcy. We had questions about many things but not about democracy. Self-government seemed to be the inevitable goal of mankind.
It was natural that this should be so. During my school years democracy at home was in hardy, hopeful growth. States were breaking down the sinister forces which had conceived their politics. The initiative, the referendum in the state and the municipal machinery was being improved. Direct election of senators was on the way. Theodore Roosevelt had conducted his stimulating fight for progressivism which was a movement to make self-government more real and effective. At Washington Wilson was capturing the spirit of that movement into action.
In Europe also self-government was on the rise. Lloyd George had given it new vitality in England. Germany was moving toward it steadily. After the war new democracies were born. Even Russia's convulsion was considered a positive development of government. Self-government was the goal toward which the world seemed to be moving with the firm inevitability of destiny.
But as the years passed, we saw the ideal curdle. Italy's self-government broke down and out of the chaos was born Fascism. Russia moved toward more arbitrary and entrenched dictatorship. German democracy collapsed and prepared the way for Hitler. Self-government disappeared in numerous small countries. In Great Britain, France and the United States democracy did not break over the economy in all three countries was so weak and all but collapsed. Democracy's economic strength the trend to other forms of government elsewhere, until now there are millions of people in Europe who believe that democracy is an outmoded and ineffective way of life, one to be shunned as the plague. They point scornfully to the United States, a country of vast riches, struggling in the tenth year of the Great Depression with unemployment still acute.
Graduates leaving the University of Kansas, and those leaving other universities and colleges will, within a few years, move into positions of control in this country. Within five, ten, fifteen and twenty, he be handling the levers which run America—its factories, its banks, its organs of opinion, its governmental machinery.
Our problems are far from solved and we are baffled to find the answers. Democracy is menaced by these failures. In other countries, where it didn't work, it disappeared. Ours will survive in the end, only if it works. We live in hope that some in this year's college generation will turn up a few years hence with the answers.
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University Is Living Democratic Lesson
EDITOR'S NOTE. Extracted from an address by the editor of the quarter-century journal on the occasion of the quarter-century anniversary of his death.
"There is really no more democratic institution in our country than the college or university. All distinctions of family and of wealth disappear here more than anywhere else in the world. The son of the hod carrier and the son of the millionaire there sit side by side on the same hard bench. Whichever of them has the brains and the character is there the king; and it is quite as often the son of the hod carrier as the son of the millionaire who wins the regal honor in the friendly competitions of the class room.
"It is an experience of untold value to this nation that in the colleges and universities thousands of our young men and young women are living in a community in which, beyond all other communities on the face of the earth, every one of them is judged by his intrinsic worth and talent, regardless of the accidents of birth and fortune. That is a great object lesson in the purist democracy, and can never be forgotten by one who has learned it by years of companionship in the student world."
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February 20, 1863 - Legislature passes bill creating a State University at Lawrence and a College at Winchester.
November 2, 1883—Proclamation by Governor Carney that Lawrence has been determined the permanent location of the University.
March 1, 1864—Approval of act organizing the University and the granting of its charter. March 21, 1865—Board of Regents hold q first organizing meeting.
July 19, 1866—First faculty selected.
notes'n discords
By JOHN RANDOLPH TYE
For an historical edition one is supposed to write something special . . . if you do a sports column you must write a history of athletics . . . if you write editorials, a masterpiece worthy to stand beside work of Willard Burroughs. If you turn out a column, your conturbulation is expected to out-winchell Winchell or at least out-broun Brom.
Marvin Goebel, editor of this section, gave us instructions. . . Turn out something with a lot of umph he said. . . Harry Hill chimed in. . . the more umph you get in it the better". . . all this talk about umph can be a bit concerting at times. . . because natty. By you think everything you write persuades you. By you know you know it persuades it. . . and anyway this umph business can be carried too far. . . especially if you don't feel the least bit hump.
We considered the assignment very seriously . . . decided to turn out something special . . . something worthy of an historical issue . . . something with loads of umph . . . first we thought of writing an ode . . , the idea was fascinating . . . and the first lines were easy . . . but then the thing bogged down on the fifth line . . . and on second line . . . and then the benefit of a sonnet . . . the rhyme scheme was a b a b . . . anyone knows that's the way a sonnet starts . . . and that a sonnet has no place in an historical edition.
For a change we had an original thought, . . . why not do something historical for an historical edition? . . . the idea was a bit unorthodox . . . even revolutionary . . . but after the way our ode had bogged down before it even got to be an ode, we were in a revolutionary mood . . . and after all what are conventions?
We took the new idea seriously . . . considered all the different angles . . . we read everything in the Daily Kansan morgue . . . and plowed through the old files of the Kansan as far back as 1900 . . . but along about 1905 we had an initiation of futility . . . there was much good material in the files . . . but most of it you couldn't use if you had srumples . . . it seemed better not to mention the age of your professors . . . or the fact that one of the faculty had been a candidate for May Queen back in 1901 . . . or that another professor had almost been expelled in 1906 for disturbing the peace of the campus . . . or that another had been accused of attending dances at Ecke's Hall without a chaperon.
But we did discover that Frank Harris, the man who discovered George Bernard Shaw, once attended K.U. . . . and that the late Kate Stephens was a sister-in-law of Uclem Jimmy Green . . . and that although he is not outstanding alumnus, William Allen White received graduate that Prof. E. M. Hopkins taught the first classes in journalism . . . and that he taught dramatics as well as being head of the department of English . . . and that he was also the first football coach, and served as University organist in his spare time.
That Governor Hudley of Missouri was a graduate of K.U. . . but that while he was governor of that state his sons attended K.U. . . . that Helen Rhoea Hoopes was quite a student of Dr. L. Patterson served as a war correspondent in France . . . and that he has been assistant dean of the College.
That Brick's was named for a former pro-
That Brick's was named for a former proprietor called Bricken's . . . that in pre-war years the Dean of Women used to raid down-town dances which students were suspected of attending . . . that while an undergraduate, Deane Malott made a speech to the International Club on the necessity of U.S. extending its borders to the Panama canal during the Daily Mail's May 1917, advised students to permaude their friends to come to K.U. because there would be thousands of jobs for students when the war was over.
You knew of course that Prof. Margaret Lynn is the author of a number of novels based on early Kansas history . . . that Allen Crafted served in the war . . . that old Snow hall used to stand directly in front of the library . . . that Professor Flint dislikes being called "Poppa" . . . that in 1917 the School of Law adopted a new song which began "Glorious, glorious, one keg of beer for the four of us" . . . that editorially, the Kansan said the new song adapted itself readily to harmonization.
That when a committee tried to choose a war memorial it practically refought the war . . . that Spooner-Thayer Museum was formerly Spooner library . . . that while a student, John Ee used to sing at the Bowerosock
We discovered hundreds of other items . . enough to write an entire volume of this and that . . . but from it all we only came to one conclusion . . . that things go on the same year after year . . . that the Campus of 1939 is very much like the Campus of 1917 . . . and that the students get excited about the same things.