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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1928
Kansan Comment
Public Opinion Polls Add To Democratic Machinery
Like a doctor's index finger on the public pulse, the poll of public opinion predicts general attitudes on any element of national policy with such exactitude that the old straw vote publicity stunt has moved from the cluttered press agent's office to the ordered laboratories of science.
In October, 1936, Gallup predicted 519 electoral votes would be cast for Roosevelt; Fortune predicted 62 per cent of the vote would be marked with X's behind his name. He received 523 electoral votes and 61 per cent of the popular ballots.
During the recent pre-election hallabaloo, Gallup said Barkley of Kentucky would win by 59 per cent of total ballots deposited in the square tin boxes. He won by 57 per cent. Gallup stated, furthermore, that Smith of South Carolina, who won by 55 per cent, would win by 57 per cent; that George of Georgetown would win by 46 per cent. He won by 44 per cent.
Results have been published three months ahead of elections, refuting, almost directly, Walter Lippman's bland statement in "The Bogey of Public Opinion": "Nobody . . . is in a position to predict the opinion of the American people will be six months hence on any element of national policy, which is involved in the world-wide depression."
Accurate, swift, and impressive, the polls can readily substitute for the Ludlow amendment to determine the weather vane of popular sentiment in regard to American public desire to march to the battlefield, which opens up a whole new field: voters shanning directly national policy.
To politicians the thermometers of public opinion are godsends. Knowing some constituents to be fanatically for and against him, the candidate wants to know next what groups are fence straddlers. The result shows the panting politician where his quarry lies.
Critics predict that the majority of the American public will switch carts in the middle of the pre-election stream, jumping on the band wagon after reading the polls' results. However none jumped very far on the Landon wagon after the Literary Digest published its fiasco in 1936.
As yet, the poll scheme of predetermining election results and the general public's attitudes cannot be condemned as harmful merely because it spills the beans as to who will land on top in America's biannual election scramble. Few will deny that the public opinion poll adds another democratic instrument of dispensing information to the roster that already includes the newspaper, the more recent radio, popular education, and ordinary campaign methods.
Britain Turns Deaf Ear To U. S. Foreign Policy
By the withdrawal of the United States' ambassador from Germany, and the sharp tone of the diplomatic notes sent to Germany and Japan, President Roosevelt apparently wants to impress supon Britain the necessity of taking a strong stand to the dictator countries. Britain, however, in the past has shown that she is not interested in action for international peace and an ideal new world order.
When Italy invaded Ethiopia, a League of Nations embargo against the aggressor was blocked and made ineffective through British action. Yet, the United States was understood to be willing to co-operate with the League of Nations in any measures it might adopt.
In 1931 Japan entered Manchuria. The United States suggested to Britain joint action against Japan to discourage such aggression. Britain demurred, with the result that nothing was done.
In the last world crisis Britain refused to take a definite stand, but pleading compromise and threat of war, acceded entirely to Hitler's demands.
From the records, President Roosevelt and the state department should realize that until Britain changes her foreign policy—which many critics believe must mean her present cabinet—such an American foreign policy is futile.
U. S. Looks to Lima For Pan-American Solution
Definitely playing the role of good neighbor, Uncle Sam will attend the eight Pam-American conference Dec. 9 at Lima, Peru, hoping to bring about with the twenty republics in the western hemisphere a closer alliance that will result in a common front against possible aggression from abroad, and in economic benefit to the United States.
One of the weapons of defense that is expected to be used by the United States
against economic penetration of South America by the totalitarian states of Italy, Germany, and Japan is that of bilateral treaties with countries to the South. German barter treaties with Mexico and several other American republics are tending to drown United States trade with a flood of merchandise.
A new conception of the Monroe Doctrine, which would make it a Pan-American rather than a strictly United States policy, may be crystalized at this conference. President Roosevelt recently indicated the line of action he hopes will be taken in proclaiming his national defense program as protection against a potential infraction of the doctrine. Relations among the republics would offer less opportunity for friction if all the nations of the western hemisphere would join in the responsibility of preventing foreign nations from taking territory in Latin America.
Two other problems that will come up for discussion are the creation of an inter-American court of international justice and a league of American nations, and the report that Britain and France are considering granting colonies to Germany in West Africa. A holding there would give Germany a base less than 2,000 miles from South America.
This conference bids fair to be the most important one since James G. Blaine, secretary of state, called the first conference fifty years ago. High expectations are held for the dispelling of the cloud that European and Asiatic dictatorships have cast over the western hemisphere and in lining up the American republics into a common front.
The keeper of the jail at Guayaquil, Ecuador, has his own ideas about crime and punishment. He frequently rewards prisoners who have good conduct records with a night out of jail. Starting a crusade to oust the keeper, the Guayaquil newspaper Universo complained that police had a hard time catching thieves because they took refuge in the jail—The Pathfinder.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1538 No. 53
due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., pre-
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A. S. M. E. There will be a meeting in room 206 Marvin Hall at 7 o'clock this evening. A picture entitled "Glass- Servant to Man" is to be shown. Everybody is invited—C. E. Godfrey, Secretary.
CURRENT ACTION COMMISSION: The Current Action Commission of the Y.M.C.A. and W.Y.C.W will at 4:30 this afternoon at Henley House. Gerald Banker will lead a discussion of Father Conbullin's reopening all the families of his persecution of Allen. All are invited to a formal welcome. -Gerald Banker, Harriet Stephens, co-chairman.
GERMAN TABLE. The German table will meet in the Union Building this evening. Everyone interested in speaking German is invited to meet at 5:30 in the main lounge of the Union Building—M. Moyer.
JAY JANES: The Jay Jones will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the Pine room. This is a very important meeting and all members are urged to be present.—D. J. Willetts, President.
MEDICAL APTITUDE TEST. The annual medical aptitude test given by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on December 2 at 2:30 in room 101. Snow Hall. All premedical students who attend this test should have either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere, should take it at that time, since, due to a recent action, the Association is discontinuing giving supplementary tests in the spring. A fee of one dollar will be collected from the student. In regard to the test may be secured from the under-signed-Parke Woodard, Room 8A, Frank强 Hall.
UNION SOCIAL COMMITTEE: There will be a meeting of the Union Social Committee at 4:26 this Thursday afternoon, in the Pine room—Ruth Hurd, Chairman.
QUACK CLUB: There will be a short business meeting of Quack Club at 8:15 this evening. Attendance is required of all members and pledges—Mary Learnard, President.
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Through the College Student Employment Project, the local name for the National Youth Administration, the 480 students on the payroll earned $5,478 last month. Last year approximately the same number of students at the college. These students would not have been able to attend school without this financial assistance.
CSEP. students work on such varied projects as reading to the blind students who transcribe text-books into Braille, testing physical reactions of dogs in the animal house, preparing accounting problems, or digging out fossils in the basement of Dyche museum.
N. Y.A. funds were first available to college students in the fall of 1936. However, state funds had been available to University students since the spring of 1854, under the Emergency Relief Commission.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley has been a member of the advisory committee of the N. Y. A., since its inception. The board funds for the Youth Administration.
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It's it about time that we return the Status of Liberty to France? We're in the newspapers, they need it at the present time more than we do.
It's a shame that France is suffering from political disturbances because, as the old song said, the French they are a witty race, hi ho. In what other European country would the solemns be subtle enough to call an umpire "a Chamberlain"?
The Iola Board of Education now allows the teachers in that city to dance and play cards, but the suffering pedagogues must still drive outside the city limits to enjoy a cigarette in peace.
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We were surprised yesterday morning to find the man who plays the radio at the Union building ordering a bromo at one of the college restaurants. He assured us however that he is still on the water-wagon, but that he has to get off occasionally to grease the axle.
Overheard at The Cottage: His mind is 15 years his junior.
What the country needs most right now is another song with music and lyrics as catchy as "I Wanta Go Back to Ball."
We are beginning to believe that all the talk about the influence of newspapers is—as Hyman Kaplan says—just sound and foey signifying nothing. Just two weeks after we commended the students at Alabama on news, he called them Agiges, the students there get a out petition to change the name of the place to Oklahoma State College.
If you never have read Carl Ewald's famous short story, "My Little Boy," you should read the selection from the same story that Walter Winchell reprinted in his column Monday.
If the T. S. Eliot admirers will pardon us, we will end this column on a poetical note:
This is the way a column ends.
This is the way a column ends.
This is the way a column ends.
Not with a hang but a whimper.
--which has three divisions: the college program for universities, colleges, and junior colleges; the high school group, much smaller proportionally; and the out-of-school, out-of-work program which teaches trades and crafts to young people. The program also a trade and cannot attend college.
Stuart Dore Vore, b'uncl, and Richard Oliver, c'42, leave today for Manhattan where they will debate twice before the Manhattan High School and the Junction City High School. The question to be debated is the school. The United States should abolish the present policy of isolation."
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To Debate U. S. Isolation Policy
Santo Domingo is about the size of Ireland.
A University committee of eight faculty members passes on applications for C.S.E.P. jobs, and makes general rules for this school from the federal regulations. Raymond Chancellor, chairman of this committee, and Martha Tillman is its executive secretary.
Graduates Do Specialized Work
Three requirements must be met to obtain a C.S.E.P. job. The student must have a scholarship record slightly better than average, it must be impossible for him to attend school or remain in school without financial assistance of some kind, and that he is not required as evidenced by references from three members of his community. The jobs are granted for the year, but can be withdrawn at any time if students do not maintain their scholastic standing, or if they do not continue to need the work.
Fifteen of the 480 students on the payroll are graduates who do very specialized work for which they paid 40 cents an hour or higher. Undergraduate pay is either 25, 30, or 35 cents an hour; the base rate does not require any particular qualification.
Allotments for undergraduates range from $5 to $20 monthly and average $15, or 42 hours of work per individual. Graduate students earn up to $40 per month and average $30. Well over two thousand students have profited from these jobs in the past four years, and a tremendous amount of work has been done for the University, much of which could not have been accomplished without governmental assistance.
Clerical work occupies a large percentage of the students-133 are engaged in stenography, typing, filing, editing, and preparing bibliographies and surveys. Departmental service, the classification employing the second highest number, includes research work, translating foreign language books, and preparing insects, fossils, and other specimens for the University museums.
Testing recipes for the home economist department and testing the engineering properties of soils are two of the research projects. Other students devote their working hours to construction of apparatus and models, library work, art, recreation, and other fields of work.
The C.E.P. has come to be an integral part of the University because of the help that it gives to the various departments, and because of the students who are ensembled to come to the University through its financial aid.
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Kenneth Postlethwaite, poet laureate of the Owl Wowl, turned out a dinger for the Christmas issue. It's a noble attempt to decrease the volume of nickelodeans down to the police siren or fog-horn level. Intellectuals who like to converse over a coke will probably appreciate it.
Last evening Ye Shinster borrowed a pipe from Wally Weekes thinking to do a little philosopher-making—maybe even a little mediating. As he left the house a freshman holder, "Hey Robertson! are you practicing up to look like a college man?" Naturally the remark was ignored. But when Ye Shinster got within 10 yards of Agnes Mumert, Agnes took one whiff and said, "You aren't near tall enough to get by with smoking that thing." The pipe will be returned this morning.
Ellsworth To Preside At Council Luncheon
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the University Alumni Association, will be toastmaster at a luncheon Dec. 9, at which President Morehouse of Drake University will speak. The luncheon will be a part of the meeting of the American Alumni Council in Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 8, and 10. The conference will be held in conjunction with the district meeting of the National Association of College Publicity Directors.
Ellsworth formerly was director of the regional conferences of the American Alumni Council. Planned for the evening of Dec. 7 is a meeting of alumni secretaries from all Kansas colleges.
Billiard Champion To Be Here Dec. 8
Charles C. Peterson, world's fancy-shot billiard champion, will be at the Memorial Union building for an exhibition and lecture Thursday. Dec. 8, during the course of his seventh annual tour of American colleges under the auspices of the Association of College Unions.
Prepared to give a brilliant exhibition of his uncanny technique and an entertaining lecture on the "sport of all ages," Peterson will show why his understanding of the novice-player has resulted in increased billard play throughout the country, where billards have become an increasingly popular recreation.
Peterson will be here all day Thursday and will devote some time to individual instruction for anyone wishing to take advantage of this opportunity. He is particularly interested in introducing the game of billiards to college girls. Any girl, or boy, interested in this free competition may make arrangements with the attendant at the recreation room.
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