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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939
▼ Kansan Comment
Jobs Attract American Workers to Germany
A Nazi recruiting office for skilled American labor was discovered in Milwaukee, Wis., last week. The activity connected with the recruiting finally-attracted the attention of the press, who queried the Milwaukee agent and learned that similar posts are in operation in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich.
Germany is so badly in need of workers to man her ultra-active munitions factories that she is transporting skilled labor from other countries. Germany's armament program has turned her unemployment problem into one of a labor shortage.
The Nazis promise unemployed German-American workers a job and a furnished home. The transported laborers must pay their fare to New York and about one-fourth of a third class steamship ticket on a German-American liner; the remaining three-fourths is paid by one of a number of German industrial groups.
This is a sufficient entitlement to men who have been unemployed for months, or in some cases, years. Just how many will take advantage of the German offer remains to be seen, but doubtless it will run well into the hundreds. The American unemployed number approximately ten million. The Milwaukee agent talks to about one hundred men a day, with preferences given to machinists and automotive workers, who can readily become adapted to munitions work.
Americans may not care what Nazis do with their own workers. They are disturbed by the German treatment of the Jews, but are not immediately affected. However, they are apt to get excited by German recruiting of American citizens and turning them into Nazis.
But unless it is done on a large scale, there is nothing drastically alarming about this Nazi adoption of our unemployed workers. They will be able to attract only men who are not employed. It is better that they leave rather than remain the dissatisfied, eligible additions to the swelling ranks of the Bunds.
Bernard Shaw Already Knew
They didn't force an "Oscar" on George Bernard Shaw. Not on your life. The Motion Picture Academy each year offers these awards for the best work in the different fields of the industry. Usually the recipients are glad to get these awards. But not Shaw. He already knew that his play "Pygmalion" was the best of the year.
Dear old Georgie! How his eyes must have sparkled when he said that.
The author told the press that he considered the award an insult. He feigned indignation. Everyone—including himself—knew his play was the best. He didn't need America to tell him something he already knew.
Procrastinating producers of "Gone With the Wind" please copy. On February 28, President Azana of Spain resigned. The next day his family announced he was writing his memoirs. At this rate the book should be ready for the publishers by the time peace negotiations are concluded.
Lo, the Poor Indian Is on the Increase
Not a little embarrassed is the government to discover that the Indians, instead of being a dying race, are very much an increasing one. They are reproducing at a rate twice that of any other major race and are not being assimilated.
The government was never tremendously concerned about the Indian problem until it discovered that it could not meet all the suits for "stolen lands." In 1935 alone, the Indians cost the government some three billion dollars in suits. Now a bill is being introduced into Congress for investigation of Indian affairs.
It seem impossible to assimilate the Indian race as many tribal laws prevent intermarriage. They cannot be repatriated—their land is already occupied. Finally, it is impossible to pay them for their lands because the value of it has increased so greatly.
Although the Indians approve of education, they still do not quite understand its worth. The government has provided practical training in special schools of which Haskell is the largest. Still a large number of Indians drift back to the reservation and thirty per cent remain illiterate.
No solution as yet has been found for this minority problem. The Wheeler-Howard Act of 1834, based on the principle that the Indians should not be forced into the white man's mold, provided a communal plan, but some of the tribes refused the plan, the vote being 189-77 for acceptance.
It has been estimated that the 345,000 Indians will have increased to 940,000 in another
hundred years, while the white population will have fallen to 129,000,000 by 1880. While these are not especially startling, they do indicate that the status of our original Americans should be definitely determined and immediate provision made for their needs.
Mrs. Franklin D. Rosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Reports have assured us that it was not because she disliked traveling to the national convention every time.
There Will Now Be A Short Pause for Recovery
A radio news commentator reports that F. D. R. will co-operate with business in the future. Snow blankets Kansas bringing life-giving moisture. The Kansas City grand jury return 110 indictments, an all-time record. Dear ob Missouri is threatening Kansas for the Big Si championship. Kansas City reports increased employment in this section. Governor Ratne is "agin" unfair political pressure in state jobs. Count Basie is headed for the Prom. But the Sour Owl was still the Sour Owl—even a little more than usual, in fact.
Scientists would say the weather is the cause of these gladi tidings. Politicians would say "their" party was the cause. Jurists would say justice is stronger. Coaches would say K. U. still doesn't have a chance. But the Kansan comments—
Hot-diggety-dawg!
Some speech specialist has decided that the Southern accent is "just laziness." If this gets around, it is expected that colleges will be flooded with demands to teach the drawl.
Campus Opinion
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editors are not responisible for opinions or facts given in the letters published i this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to editing and proofreading, though if thn name will be withdrawn if the writer desires.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
The campus opinion letter in yesterday's Kansas concerning the right of Negro students to attend the Junior Prom as spectators should be given serious consideration by those "in authority" at the dance.
The Negroes at the University are entitled to the same standing as students as are the whites. They pay fees, just as we do. The University is part of the state's public education system. If the dance managers engage a Negro orchestra to play for a class dance, is there any reason why Negroes should be barred from performing that matter, is there any good reason why they should be barred as dancers if they care to attend?
But the least consideration which should be shown the Negro students is to allow them to hear the music of one of the outstanding band leaders of their own race.
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Curfew Rings for Many Nights, Reasons, Persons
By Ruth Sammers, c.1917.
They used to call it ciret law. Now they call it closing hour. For our present day regulation is only a distant deviation of a very old precaution.
The Curfew Bell, or as it was sometimes more expressively called, the Cover-fire Bell, is believed to be of Norman origin. In 1086, William the Conqueror decreed by law that all people should put out their fires and lights at the eight o'clock bell and go to bed. Soon the regulation became a common and approved regulation in northern Europe, the intention being to prevent accidents caused by fire. At this time all the buildings were constructed by timber and entire villages were continually in danger of destruction by fire.
It is not recorded what the exact punishment was for people who did not conform to the eight o'clock signal. But the precaution involved by King William continued until it ended. King William rather than a pre- prevention of fire.
In some places the curfew was used to give the hour and time of the month by the number of tolls. This
notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye
The London papers called the suggestion that King George hold a press conference when he arrives on his recruiting trip this summer "an amazing attack on royalty." They added that it was insurging for any enemy to rob the king and nob with the king as freely as they do with Mr. Roosevelt. That must be one of the reasons we call England our sister-democracy.
One student planned to attend the Lenten services at Myers hall Wednesday morning but didn't get up in the rain and instead,prise they held the services anyway.
The height of something or other was the student who got up and walked out of the Gorin concert the other evening while the soloist was singing "None but the Lonely Heart."
One of the advantages in having a woman president is that the country would not be called upon to cele- bate the President's Birthday every year.
It's thoughtful of the Supreme Court that it waited to outlaw sit-down strikes until nearly two years after the epidemic was over.
On the Shin -day that he didn't appreciate it when one of his English history students fell asleep and snored profoundly. Noise made by the class as it filed out at the close of the hour did disturb the lab. Noise made by Prof. Crawford before the next class filled in did.
Neville Chamberlain's idea of recognizing Franco and snubbing Mussolini is like saying hello to a friend. He says he has the cold shoulder to Edgar Bergen.
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Something about the well-dressed and well-groomed Philip Nicholson is always reminiscent of a little boy who has been taught to lesson all prepared and everything.
Bill Hines spent a quiet evening at home in the Phi Pai house Tuesday and amused himself with a gun. When there weren't any rodents left to shoot in his room he fired out the window three times. Finding that dull sport he decided to test the strength of his closet door. The door couldn't take it as well as he ex-planed. He had included the cost of one panel and a repair job on the plaster. And while Bill played "Dead-Eye Dick," Larry Winn had a little trouble getting to sleep in the same room.
At the risk of provoking another downpour of "Campus Opinions" as regards bands, Ye Shinster notes with a smirk that after members of the L.S.A. had danced 90 minutes to the music of Artie Shaw last Saturday night they voted to use real photographs of the next of such affairs. Also-rans were: Goodman, Krupa, Luceford, and Lombardo.
practice was followed at Oxford and was in addition to the fire covering and retiring regulations of the bell In course of time, the hour of the curfew changed from eight to nine and in some places to ten o'clock
In London, the ringing of bells has been attributed to the "couve-feu" but it is predominately controlled by bewers in wills for that purpose. Today in Flastings, England, it is used at the regular eight o'clock hour as a part of the celebration from Michaels to Lady's Day.
Some of the small towns of America used the curfew as a signal that people should be in their homes for the week. They almost abandoned it early in the century.
Jones Receives Appointment To Corporation Commission
Arnold R. Jones, b27, was recently made a member of the Kansas Corporation Commission by Governor Payne Ratner, Dean F. T. Stockton of the School of Business announced today.
Before his appointment, Jones was comptroller at Washburn College and was affiliated with the public accounting firm of Beilford and Gifford at Toptea. He was state president under Gov. All. M. Landon.
William T. Paullin To Review Book for Y.M.C.A. Council
Dr. Hertzler's "Horse and Buggy Doctor" will be reviewed by William T. Faullin, history instructor, at a meeting of the Freshman course on Monday morning in the lounge of the Memorial Union building this evening at 7 o'clock.
The meeting has been changed from 4:30 in the afternoon to 7 o'clock in order that more students will have an opportunity to attend.
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... this telephone idea can help you
WHILE you're in college, you're on the consumer side of the fence. There you'll find the "Where to Buy It" section of your Telephone Directory a quick, easy way to discover who sells what you want.
After graduation, you may be on the other side of the fence, too—the seller's side. As a manufacturer or distributor of an advertised product you will find classified telephone directory listings a most effective and economical way to direct buyers to the dealers handling your product.
This directory service, tying up the national advertiser with the local distributor of his product, is just one of many Bell System ideas that help to increase the value of your telephone.
Hair weaving made to order
Furnishing Appointments
A telephone call home would be appreciated. Rules to meet paint are set aside after 7 P.M. and all oil Sunday.
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Permanents ...$2.00 to $6.00
Shampoo and wave 35c and 50c
Marcels ...50c and 75c
KEYS DUPLICATED WHILE YOU WAIT Fine Locker Padlocks RUTTER'S SHOP 1014 Mass. St. Phone 319
We handle packages and baggage
Jayhawk Taxi Phone 65
Cinderella Beauty Shop
7231 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. Phone 50
The Granada theatre is showing Shaw's play, "Pygmalion." Adelyn Cast, cost your eyes on this free pass.
"Zaza" is the current attraction at the Dickinson theatre. This is your free pass, Chett Eckman.
Meet Your Friends Here Stadium Barber and Beauty Shop
BILL HENSLEY
formerly with the Jayhawk
Barber Shop, now located at
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Come in Often
LEARN TO DANCE
Marion Rice Dance Studio
private lessons in Ballroom dance
Phone 310 1033 Mass. St.
Phone K.U. 66
A Modern Shop and Quality Service
PERSONNEL: Joe Lesch,
"Jimmie" Pierce, Frank Vouhain
IVA'S BEAUTY SHOP
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Shampoo and Wave ... 35c
Oil Shampoo and Wave ... 59c
Permanents ... $1.50
Phone $33 ... 941% Mass. Ss.
Personnel
927 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. St.
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Some Hair Is Cut
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Castile Shampoo and Set ... 35c
Revita Oil Shampoo and wave 50c
Revlon Manicure ... 3 for $1.00
Seymour Beauty Shop
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Claudette Colbert in "Zaza" is the current attraction at the Dickinson. Jean Egbert, accept this free pass.
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