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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1939
Kansan Comment
N. Y. A. Should Be Kept Separate From 'Relief'
The proposed merging of the WPA, CCC, PWA, and the NYA under a single department of public works, as suggested by a Senate subcommittee on unemployment, is desirable with one exception: the college aspect of the NYA should not fall under such a program.
The first federal aid to college students was started in the spring of 1934 through the agency called the College Student Employment Project—the name, incidentally, by which the NYA program is still known on this Campus.
A year and a half later the National Youth Administration was instituted with a greatly extended program not only for college students but for high school students and for youths between the ages of 16 to 25 not in school. In fact many of the projects conducted by the non-school NYA groups are comparable to CCC projects.
Although there are reams of mimeographed regulations set up by the government for the NYA college aid, the rules do not extensively affect the projects worked upon or the students selected by the local committees of the colleges and universities. Any project submitted by a non-profit organization which is not of a routine nature; and any student who is of sound character, proves his need for work, and meets the scholastic requirements may be considered as far as the government is concerned.
On this Campus, at least, the connotation of the relief aspect of the NYA—comparable to that of the WPA—has been pleasantly lacking. For example, during the first semester in which the program was started here, there were 86 students working on the buildings and grounds project. This semester are less than a half dozen. Most of the students are now working on administrative or research projects.
Recently, moreover, there have been rumors that the NYA will serve as a means of administering whatever program is evolved for the proposed training of 20,000 college students each year to be air-plane pilots. This function, it seems, should be conducted by the ROTC and not the NYA. Of course, it has been further suggested that the non-school part of the NYA will have a part in training the airplane mechanics to correspond to the college pilot training.
Federal aid for college students should, therefore, be relieved of the connotation of relief or the unemployment angle. The National Youth Administration should not become, furthermore, a department of training for war. The liberal federal department of Education would serve as a perfect administrative body for federal aid to college students.
College students on the NYA have proved to be a scholastically superior group. They have earned their money doing many worthwhile projects. The program has helped many to attend and graduate from colleges and universities and it would be unfair to speak of these people as anything below college caliber individuals.
Every College Grad Should Know How To Read, Write
Announcement that more Harvard undergraduates will be required to study English composition, effective with the next freshman class, brings sympathetic repercussions among teachers and students in all colleges.
An ancient cry is that of teachers who protest the inadequate preparation in ordinary English usage which the large majority of students has to its credit. As far back as 1837 the University of North Carolina officials complained of the low standards of college preparation. It can safely be said, therefore, that for more than 100 years the problems of handling the mother tongue have not diminished.
Teachers probably never have been ignorant of the needs along this line, but the students themselves—that is another question. Too often they manage to slip through the freshman rhetoric classes, and continue their college education till suddenly the light dawns somewhere in the junior or senior year—often later.
They they realize they cannot write reports, term papers, and examinations in acceptable English. A simple business letter creates a major crisis. Interviews with prospective employers put them in a dither. The loss of selfconfidence in social contacts, whether in conversation, letters, papers, talks, seriously handicaps the would-be world citizen. The ambitious one frequently must spend spare time studying grammar after he is graduated.
Students generally do not realize the opportunities offered by the University's department of English in helping those persons deficient in English. All freshmen know that failure in the comparatively simple preliminary English test here spells an assignment to zero rhetoric.
Immumerable students, rather weak in their grammatical background, pass the test however. Especially do they realize this as their college status advances and new demands on the preparation reveal weaknesses.
The University cannot undertake to correct years of insufficient training in high school, nor can it deny instruction in other fields because of poor English, but it does provide the opportunity for those interested to help them-selves.
During the school week, students can attend any one of eighteen different tutorial groups in rhetoric. These meetings come at any hour of the day. Of the eighteen groups, eleven are regular class sections, and, seven are conference hours in which special attention is devoted to each individual's needs. All classes stress punctuation, grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
It is a hopeful sign that while only 42 are required to attend tutorial sections, 206 are enrolled. Without a doubt, there are several hundred more on the Hill who would profit by attending these classes. Are you one?
Campus Opinion
EDITOR'S NOTE. The editors are not responsible for opinions or facts given in the letters published in this column. Letters more than 300 words are subject to deletion. In all cases, although the name will be withdrawn if the writer desires.
Claims Anf's, Pro's, Have Ax To Grind
Editor, Daily Kansan;
Those upholding the establishment of a Flying School are to be commended.
Wherever in history I have found Anti's and protectors anti-rap and pretexting it has been because they are human beings.
While the munitions men were making their milti
lons during the last war, what were the YMCA
of the war doing?
It's a wonderful thing to see your name in print, so just use my initials if you happen to need this for filler.
M. J. B.
Catalogs Campus Protesters Categorically Editor, Daily Kampai;
I wish to comment briefly on the protest letters I read during the last few days. It seems to me that the letters represent three distinct groups, and I consider that interpretation is necessary.
One group is comprised of those so deeply wrapped up in preparing for their profession, that the only point of view that they can see is the view held by the leading men of that profession. In other words, they are mules wearing professional blinkers. A second group is comprised of those who are good students, but so smothered with conventional education that reality intren- tional, that reason that really basic and fundamental thinking is impossible.
The third group is comprised of those who are not professional morons, nor are they buried under an avalanche of morality and conformism. This is the group capable of that most unsusual of all enterprises thinking. They are damned for their unsofficieness and for their unacceptability. The thinkers are ridiculed by these still enslaved.
GERALD BANKER
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Vol. 35 TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 1939 No. 80
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Stealing Boys Aren't Born Ornery, Says Endacott
By Mary Jane Sigler, c39
"You can't blame humpy boys for stealing; they aren't born ornery," declared John L. Endacott, gr. psychologist of the Boys' Industrial School at York. And endemic to that most of them from is certainly conducive to crime, and most of them will respond if you give them a chance.
Endacott was graduated from the University in 1937, majoring in psychology. He is now doing work in the psychology department. He commutes from the industrial school, where he has been doing his present work for nearly two years.
It is Endacott's job to keep case histories of all the youthful offenders who are committed to the school. He studies their commitment papers.
By Mary Jane Sigler, c.39
ents, and gives them a series of examinations when they enter the school. These examinations include a vocational training interview, a personality examination, and an intelligence test.
In the vocational training interview the psychologist endeavors to overcome the boy's shyness. He does not ask him what offense he has committed, but inquires what the boy wants to be and what he is most interested in. Through this and the other examinations Endacott tries to get a clear picture why the boy became delinquent.
Seek Real Cause of Delinquency
Endacot also uses the personality examination to find out what vocation the boy is most adapted to. When the boys first come to the school they all think they will run away, but in a few weeks after they are placed in their correct vocational groups, they become more adjusted. All of the work at the industrial school is done by the boys with the aid of their supervisors. The supervisors teach the boys trade adjustment. There is a dairy, a poultry farm, a laundry, a bakery, a printing shop, a manual training shop, and shops where the boys make all of the shoes and clothing used at the School.
notes'n discords by John Randolph Tye
Nelson Eddy said his fars should have known he was in love as he had been singing "I Love You Truly" for the last few months with her. And all the time we thought it was just a bad tube in our radio.
In the Osborne Farmer, C. E. Mann defines an intolerant person as one who persists in his own beliefs after he has heard our arguments.
Wee Gillis, a little Scotch boy who can't make up his mind, is the latest creation of the authors of Ferdinand the Bull. The authors might not have intended a moral for the Spanish saga, but the lesson of Wee Gillis is written into every book by J.R.R. Tolkien. Weee Gillis's adventure, however, and all in all, it's a darn good moral.
Members of Prof. Varvel's Abnormal Psychology class had the tables visited on them when they visited the state hospital at Topeka last week. As several of the Mount Ordeah hopes ankled by the cells were infested, the branch we not as well fed as the bunch from Manhattan."
A temperance sermon never does Wm. Ackworth, Iola editor, any good, but 10 minutes in the presence of a drunk does.
Why is it that when the average person orders a sandwich in a cafe he feels honor bound to devour the last potato chip?
The only thing that's news is finals and that's not news because everybody knows about them.
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Like Grand Hotel, nothing every happens on the Campus anymore. The LSA. fixed up its squabble, the University hasn't been selected as one of the 13 schools in the nation to compete for a school; Kannas hasn't lost a football game in months; the Legislature hasn't appropriated money for a new pharmacy-medical building, or for Dyche repairs, or even for postage stamps; Hardin, Mont., don't want Manichean anymore, or any way it isn't news; even the Break Club can't get up for breakfast.
--importance of Cooperation Stressed
The importance of preventing juvenile crime through the cooperation of schools and community organizations and through better housing was stressed by Endacott. Individual attention to the delinquent boy or the boy who is apt to become delinquent could help the boy immeasurably, and would in many cases keep him out of penal institutions.
Importance of Cooperation Stressed
Institutions aren't good for anyone, the psychologist asserted. Juvenile courts and probation officers endeavor to adjust boys within their own homes, then if that fails, to place them in foster homes, and only as a last resort do they send the children to school. The cost of keeping each student in school last year was well over $500, needed an expensive proposition.
"Schools could be socializing agencies and could decrease the cost of maintaining such an institution as this," Endacott stated. "There should be more thorough examinations to determine physical handicaps. Also, such maladjusted personalities as the smart alelu, bulky, day-dreamer, and the truant could be helped in the schoolroom."
Junk Collecting Leads to Sialing
Pete larrycen and trunny are the main forms of delinquency among boys. They start collecting "junk" and get worse and worse until they are actually stealing. Endacott asserted that trunny could be greatly reduced through the individual attention of teachers. Most of the trunners work in gangs; these groups make an adventure out of crime and soon become hardened to it.
At present there are 221 boys at the industrial school. About 35 per cent of them are repeaters; they have been paroled and have repeated crimes, and therefore have been sent back to the institution.
Endacott's work at the School afords him an excellent field of practical research for his graduate study of clinical psychology. In addition, by applying his specialized knowledge of offenders to help adduct themselfs
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over the sun visor. So Bill went. When he returned he told Milt there was a ticket on his car for parking on the street in front. Milt just laughed and laughed because his car was in the parking lot all the time. Bill looked, and sure enough it was.
Only yesterday did I discover that Ted Foster of A.T.O. is the son of Harold R. Foster, who formerly drew the Tarzan strip and is now doing one of his own for Hearest called "Prince Valiant." Ted, a fine arts student, occasionally helps his father with the picturing.
The lingerie Leone Hoffman has been wearing on her chin lately is not the result of any alterations with John Tyler or anybody else. She merely failed to keep her equilibrium while navigating in a modern version of old Dutch shoes — klamfs, or something like that.
Ted Granger promised Max Cole he would go to church with him last Sunday if Max would get him a corn pad. Unable to find a corn pad but being a Good Samaritan, Max constructed one out of a patented iodine bandage and a few note-book-paper hole reinforcers. The device eased the pain about like a new shoe, but Ted went to church anyhow. Dr. Cole's address, by the way, is the Acacia house.
Bill Fey got a little suspicious Sunday when Joan Taylor called him to break a date with Helen Walker. So Bill called back a little later and discovered that Helen wasn't just ill—she'd flew the coop. Bill therefore assembled a date with some other Chi Omega and returned with her in time to see Helen good-nighting his rival.
Such stuff as this is called gossip Some people like it. I don't.
Musical Trio Entertains At Rotarian Luncheon
A musical trio, made up of students and members of the faculty of the University, entertained Rotary members at a noun lunch yesterday.
Miss Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of piano, Miss Oleg Elитner, instructor in violin who will take Prof Waldenar Gelch's classes during his stay abroad, and Miss Rita Gunsu-肌us: 'fa'39. were the musicians.
Numbers included on the program were "Still As The Night" by Bohm; "The Swan" by Saint-Saure; "March of the Tin Soldiers" by Pierne; "Player" by Grandes; and
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