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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938
Kansan Comment
Negro Forges On ToEqual Opportunities
The Negro, in his perpetual battle for equal rights, is still forging onward. His most recent victory is in Missouri where the traditional racial feeling is yet far from extinguished.
For the past 99 years no Negro has been permitted to enroll at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The "equal rights" clause of the Constitution was supposedly taken care of by the establishment of Lincoln University, an exclusively Negro institution. A Missouri statute further provided for the payment of the tuition and fees of any Negro student at some university of an adjacent state if such person wished to take a course offered at Missouri University but not at Lincoln University
The issue just decided upon by the Supreme Court of the United States is that of Lloyd Gaines, a Negro who sought admittance to the School of Law at the University of Missouri since a law course was not offered at Lincoln University. He was refused admittance, and he refused to attend the university of another state. The Supreme Court ruled that Gaines be admitted to the University of Missouri.
The court's distinction, in the words of Chief Justice Hughes, is that the constitutional requirement had not been met, because the legal training facilities were not provided "within the state," as they were provided for white residents.
The people of Missouri are now confronted with two choices. They may either open the gates at the University of Missouri to any Negro desiring admittance to the School of Law or they may provide such facilities at Lincoln University. Because of the deep-seated prejudice, the latter may be selected.
Whatever the result, the Negro has little to lose and everything to gain by his persistent defense of his Constitutional rights.
American Scientists Publicly Condemn Fascist 'Science'
When scientists agree, it is an event. When a committee of 1,284 outstanding scientists take pains to publish a written manifesto, the world may well listen and think.
The statement issued this week under the leadership of Prof. Franz Boas of Columbia University is a great deal more than a polemic against the Nazi regime. It is underbear by an essential stratum of truth which bears significance for all time.
The immediate subject is something less than impressive. It implies the question: Should Galileo have discovered the laws of falling bodies by first believing there were such laws? Hitler says he shouldn't have. The 1,284 scientists say he should have. Of course, the fact of the matter was that he did—but that does not annoy the Nazi pragmatists. They are bent on destroying the scientific method, on which modern civilization largely rests, by declaring that science should be "practical," not theoretical. Theory is "non-Aryan."
That this is a misconception of science is obvious. To say that experimentation is possible without any ideas to start with is to divest science of progress. But that all this is a natural product of totalitarianism is also obvious. Nazism must be complete if it ever is to be successful. There must be no opposition either of persons or of facts. There must be only one sort of knowledge—the knowledge which acts to promote the fascist state. Such knowledge is Nazi "science." It is controlled and outlined by civilian demagogues.
Is it any wonder that American scientists are militant in their denunciation of the entire totalitarian system? Is it any wonder that men like Prof. Harold C. Urey, Prof. Robert A. Millikan, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, Nobel prize winners all, adhere to a manifesto which "publicly condemns the Fascist position toward science?" Is it any wonder that they are increasingly willing to fight, tooth and nail, any advance of the Fascist "idea"?
Every night, when the lights of a city flash on, silent tribute is paid to the genius and persistence of Thomas A. Edison. Yet he worked on a theory. He dared to believe that an electric light could be both possible and practical. He was willing to work for long months, doggedly, on the strength of that theory. He had the freedom to believe in that theory, and to work to prove it—without interference, without being tied to dogmatic definitions and restrictions. And now Hitler, as well as America, receives the benefit of his contribution.
Totalitarianism, coming before Edison, would have laughed at his dreams. Totalitarianism, coming before Galileo, would have stifled the science of physics. Totalitarianism, coming today—who knows what might be lost to the progress of science?
Soviet scientists believe findings in the Arctic show that the world is getting warmer. But not redden, they report sorrowfully.
An explorer is one who runs away from it all and comes home to tell what a hard time he had—Portland Oregonian.
Pierre Van Winkle Finds No Change
If on a green knoll in France, a politically-minded Rip Van Winkle should awake and rub his eyes after a forty-year nap, he should find it possible to fit casily into the present situation with nothing more difficult to explain than the long white beard that had mysteriously appeared.
To his ears would come the familiar chatter of politics swayed by a precarious majority in the chamber and senate. He would find in progress another attempt to set up a strong government—an attempt that has been repeated about 88 times in the 63 years since the Monarchists and the Moderates drafted the constitution for the Third Republic in 1875.
He would find the premier faced with the choice of three roads which have been open for years—and are all fraught with danger: to continue his policies with a shaky majority; to attempt to dissolve the chamber and ask for a new election; or to resign and allow a new government to be formed. Rip would not be surprised. French cabinets have averaged nine months in duration since the Third Republic was formed. He would find class still struggling against class, and France aggressive against itself in such problems as strikes, but holding the belief that the way to maintain international peace is by being pacific.
If Rip Van Winkle should awake today, he would probably yawn and return to sleep, not knowing that forty years had passed. That is, if he could find a satisfactory explanation for the miraculous growth of that long, white beard.
Some men carve their way to fortune others chisel, saw Wright O'Connor.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 35 THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 1938 No. 64
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
recessive publication on Sunday, March 18th, 2009,
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IRREGULAR PAY ROLL. All students on the irregular pay roll for the month of December should call at the Business Office to sign up pay roll before leaving town for the Christmas vacation—Karl Kozlo, Jr.
MATHEMATICAL COLLQOUIUM: Professor G. W. Smith will be the speaker at the sixth Mathematical Colloquium, to be held at 4:30 this afternoon in 203 Frank Strong Hall. His subject will be "A Property of Conics that is not Well Known." Anyone interested can attend by B. Stouffer, Chairman, Colloquium Committee.
PRACTICE TEACHING: Students wishing to do practice teaching in Oread Training School or in music or art in the city schools next semester should make application at the Education office at once. Persons who have already been approved for practice teaching may apply for accommodation for the spring semester - R. A. Schweiger, Dean.
SIGMA XI. The regular December meeting of Sigma Xi will be held tonight at 7:30 sharp in Blake Hall. Dr Loren Easley of the Sociology department will speak on Monday. Dr Daniel Titian of the Sociology. The regular social hour following the lecture will not be held in order to allow sufficient time for members to get together and participate in a party without being late - W.H. Schober, Secretary.
YMCA FRESHMAN COMMISSION: A joint Y. MCA and YMCA program, running from 1288 Oakland, from 4:30 to 5:30 after a breakfast. Games will be played. Ellen Payne, W. Y secretary, will lead the group in Christmas singing. Light refreshments are available.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: All those who would like to go caroling this evening please meet at Westminster Hall at 7:30. Afterwards there will be a social hour at the hall—Ethylene Burns, Music chair.
STUDENT STATE-WIDE ACTIVITIES COMMISSION: There will be a meeting at 4 o'clock today in room 103 Frank Strong Hall for members of this commission who missed the Tuesday meeting—C. H. Mul-
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By Mary Jane Singer, c. 19
Millions of years ago they roamed the mountains of age, laying in pieces in the fossil workshop in the basement of Dyche museum.
This in part is the history of the specimens of bison, wolves, and other animals which will be on display once an inn opens it doors.
Dyche Museum Basement Is Workshop for Fossils
Ry Mary Jane Sigler. c'29
Dyche museum was closed to the public in 1831, when it was condemned as being unsafe for use as a public museum. Although nuch reconstruction work has been done since that time, a great deal remains to be done, both to the building proper, and to the display cases. Money for this work is lacking, and until it is obtained no date can be set for the re-opening of the museum.
In spite of its being closed, the museum is far from being an idle place, and work is going ahead rapidly in both its divisions—the Museum of Mammals and Birds and the Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology. In the latter division, which will occupy the entire basement floor, Claude Hibbard, assistant curator, and seven CSEP students are preparing specimens for display purposes and for class study.
Two complete specimens, a bison (the American buffalo) and a rhinoceros, are already mounted. The bison was found in Logan county Kan, by H. T. Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology. Its shoulder blade an arrow-head was found, the first evidence of fossil man in North America that had been discovered.
Have Enough Specimens For Cases
The museum has enough specimens to fill all the cases in the basement. Hibbard explained. These specimens are ready to mount and move into the cases, but cannot be moved in until the cases are completed.
The display cases will have backgrounds of typical western Kansas scenes, the true habitats of the animals. The indirect light fixtures, and the floor work on the cases also remain to be done.
Paleontology is the science dealing with the life of past geological ages and is based on the fossil remains of this past life. Difficult as it may seem, paleontologists can cut bones from their animals in their bones. They can mount the skeleton, figure not the muscle attachments, and from its teeth determine the animals eating habits.
Can Reconstruct Entire Animals
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by John Randolph Tye
You can lead a college man to water, but why disappoint him.
Educational note: The Collegio, student paper at Pittsburgh state teachers college, publishes more indignant editors against smoking on the campus than any other college paper in the country.
We could join more heartily with the Kansas press in gloating over the downfall of the Jackson Club, if we were more positive that a Lincoln or a Hamilton Club wouldn't arise in the two years to take its place.
It is reported that the King and Queen of England, afraid that the American public will not receive them with dignity, are beginning to dread their forthcoming visit to the United States. Their Highnesses shouldn't lose any sleep over the prospect of their visit will be as successful as the visit of the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor last spring.
It may be, though, as the New Republic says: If at first you don't conceed, fly. fly again.
The visit of Anthony Eden is an entirely different affair, however. We can't enjoy it as much as we should because we can't understand the reasons for it. British diplomats aren't in the habit of making flying trips to America just to lecture to the National Manufacturers Club.
Then there was the absent minded professor who forgot to write a $3.50 text book to sell to his class.
Note to the Dies Committee: The K.K.K. will ride on Mount Oread tonight. That is if the Kanan Kansas Krooners can get the Daily Kanan enough to aseem their friends in the accustomed Yukute fashion.
The lecture committee played a trump card when it signed a newsreel ace as the next feature on the lecture course.
These non-medical "homes specialist" know all about the oreadan, an extinct animal with no modern counterpart, which can best be described as a cross between a sheep and a pig. They are familiar with them. The camel is bred by a fox terrier, and with the camel which was the size of a small deer. All of these animals were abundant in Kansas.
Most of the material being worked on by Hibbard and the CSEP students was collected over a period of years by Martin, and during the past three summers by Hibbard and zoology students interested in paleontology. Progress on the collections has been slow until this year, when preparation of the specimens was made a CSEP project.
The preparation process consists of three steps. First, the dirt, sand, clay, and other matter is removed from the specimen. Second, the cracks and holes in the bones are filled with plaster and the bones tightly fitted. Finally, when the plaster is dry the outside surface a treated with shellac or gumrabic, giving it a smooth finish and preserving the specimen intact for ever.
The museum leans fossil speeches to schools and museums throughout the country, and receives many more requests than it can fill. The collection is valuable, and many of its members are a school he size of the University.
Dyche museum represents many thousands of dollars in expeditions, equipment, and specimens. It is far too valuable an investment to be closed to the students and the public because of lack of money with which to finish the building and the displays.
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The affair is Poggy McCarthy. The
aid she and Frank Wilson are
feeling romantical to the point of
trasticex.
Duke D'Ambra, who can be seen at almost any University function perpetuating for posterity the scene with his camera, is one of the few who addresses to the "NO SMOKING" signs in the buildings. Duke is not a student on the Hill, but he ablises by all the rules. Although he would provide a first class lesson, he looks with disgust on those who go so far as to strike matches on the no-smoking站.
Some people are just born rats—like Cary Jones, *fremable*; Tother day gandit's beautiful Jeanne Wilkins was wishing for a ride from the Union building (don't sneer—some people hang around pool halls) and Cary offered to take her. He pointed to a car in the driveway and told her to go on out and sit down when he made a fone call that would take a minute. Jeanne was sitting and kept on listening for 20 minutes. Cary in the meantime, went into the Sour Owl office and laughed profusely—because he didn't know who owned the car.
Meetings Will Draw-
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c'42, William Hays, c'40, Paul Raup,
Zoologists, Richmond, Va, Dec. 28-30
Loren Eisley, assistant professor of sociology, at the American Anthropological Society, New York. Dec. 27-30.
Allen Craffon, head of the department of speech and dramatic art, at the Association of Teachers Speech, Cleveland, Ohio. Dec. 26
G. B. Price, assistant professor of mathematics, at the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., Dec. 27-30.
J. F. Brown, professor of psychology, now on leave, at the Society of Dynamic Psychologists, Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 29-31.
John Ise, professor of economics at the American Economics Association, Detroit, Dec. 28-30.
U. G. Mitchell, professor of mathematics, and Gilbert Ulmer, instructor in education, at the National Academy of Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 24-25, 1939
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arrived secretly in Paris with Hitler's answer as to what Germany would do if France and Italy went to war in the Mediterranean.
Showdown in House
5. A promised showdown on Chamberlain's program of appeasement in the House of Commons Monday when the combined opposition attempts to overthrow his government on a motion stating that "the house has no confidence in the policy of His Majesty's政府." The small province of Memel but that Germany has made no reply to the government."
6. Demands by the newspapers of Hitler and Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goering that the Anglo-Saxon surrender a portion of the canal's control to the totalitarian bloc-Germany, Italy and Japan.
7. Disclosure in Paris that Britain and France have offered to serve
8. German newspapers, referring to the Nazi banquet boycott, asserted in connection with the recent identification of former Premer Stanley Baldivin as a juttertanger dictator, who also agitators against the third Reich, must reckon with being struck back at."
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