UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938
Kansas State College Faculty Adds Protest
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(From Kansas City Star)
Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 24. Expressing fear that the proposed investigation of communism at the University of Kansas "would so discredit the institutions of higher learning as to cause competent educators to turn their backs upon our state for a generation to come," the Kansas State College chapter of the American Association of University Teachers today sent an appeal to executive and legislative officials at Topeka.
The association here wired an urgent petition to Gov. Walter A. Huxman and members of the senate and house of representatives to prevent passage of the measure. The resolution:
"Acting upon our own initiative a citizens and educators of Kansas, and aware of our stewardship to the people of Kansas, we urge you to pre-identify and abide by the tradition of free education in our commonwealth.
Protecion From Scorn
"We currently petition you to protect the name of Kansas from the scorn of free men and the fear of the proposed measure designed to set up a political committee to judge the qualifications of university institutions of higher learning, and to investigate these institutions for purposes called subyoutube influences in them.
"We feel that such a measure would be an unwarranted reflection upon our patriotism, an implied threat to our freedom as teachers, and gratuitous disparagement of our competence to which we have devoted our lives.
"Such a measure, we believe, would so discredit the institutions of higher education that educators to turn their backs upon our state for a generation to come."
"Furthermore, we feel that all self-researching educators now come from Kansas will leave the state at the first opportunity afforded them, if
"The official acts, and our work as educators, are an open book. We welcome examination and criticism from all sides, and we will with all the intensity of feeling bequeathed us with the previous heritage of a century and a half of free education."
Points to European Fate
"We who have dedicated our lives to the acquisition of knowledge, who have trained ourselves as teachers, to bring about a break from beating to succeed generations, are well aware that only in an atmosphere of direction can we carry on our work.
"Fear, suspicion and official coercion will destroy all we represent as a nation," said Dr. Cyril Koleva, a national leader of scholars in those unfortunate nations of Europe and Asia which have taken up the challenge.
"We cherish for the people of Kansas the reputation they have always borne zealous champions of education and we keep their reputation unatturbished."
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Don't Get Excited
Editor's note: The following editorial was written especially for the University Daily Kansan by Mr. W. A. Baley, editor and manager of the Kansas City Kansan:
An investigation instigated by the State Legislature to determine the extent to which isms are discussed, indorsed, or fostered by faculty and students of the University of Kansas could accomplish no permanently helpful results but rather might prove farcal and harmful.
Imagine such a hand-picked committee in action! What a thrill for those summoned from classrooms for questioning to find themselves flash-lighted into fame, martyrs to the “new school of thought!” Skilled as these martyrs are in “shot-gun quizzes,” we discount in advance any results the probs might claim.
On the other hand one serious result which such an investigation might have would be its tendency toward the curtailment of academic freedom within the university. There is a feeling general among university faculties that by and large professors in privately endowed educational institutions can be much freer in their classroom discussions and research work than those professors in tax supported universities. In the training of youth and the search after truth professors should not be hampered by the threat of politicians or cowed by the fear of losing their jobs.
In these turbulent times it is easy to lose one's poise. The activity of world powers which have attained their dominance while championing political philosophies antagonistic to ours tends to make those responsible for our government easily susceptible to rumors. Legislators, both state and federal, have grave responsibilities. It is their duty to furnish leadership and programs of activity to guide us through these times.
We believe, however, that our state legislators do not need to get excited $7,500.00 worth about radicalism in our state university.
Legislative Idiocy
So the American Legion highly approves of the proposed legislative witch hunt at Kansas University. "And if we are to be saved from Communism by that potential instrument of Fascism," roars one Kansas Conservative, "I for one am willing to take chances with the reds."
Concordia Blade-Empire:
What Kansas Editors Say
In fact, nothing in years has been so heartening as the reaction among conservatives and new dealers alike against the recent idiocy at Topeka, when the house approved the investigation of Communism at KU. Of course, exasperated tax payers who are footing the bills for this extra session fail to realize that the legislators are on a spot and have been for three weeks. The solons don't know which is the more dangerous, to fly in the face of thousands of political bloodsuckers and oppose the governor's relief bill or to fly in the face of frightened property owners and farmers and support the governor's bill.
For three weeks they have hedged and stalled and played for time and cluttered the hopper with inconsequential bills. But in the back of their minds they have seen the inevitable hour of reckoning. In desperation they grabbed at the Lawrence scandal. I am not crediting the gentleman of the legislature with sufficient political acumen to suggest that they deliberately used the affair as a red herring. Rather they used it instinctively to postpone their doom and to advertise their patriotism during the停顿ment.
There is probably nothing very dangerous going on at Lawrence. A Kansas University boy killed in Spain because he had heard about communism and had given his heart to the cause. This is tragic as all such matrydom is tragic. And the boy's friends and family deserve every sympathy. But they have no right to ask that other boys and girls shall be prevented from hearing and reading about Communism as they do about any other form of government.
I suppose that Communism is analyzed and discussed in history and sociology and economics classes. If it isn't, then the university had better close its doors and-appropriations for faculty hire had better be applied to state schools for brick laying.
Perhaps some secret meetings have been held at K.U. It wouldn't surprise me. But if they hadn't been held in the name of Communism, they'd have been held in the name of something. Secret meetings are the messes of university life. And if you want to pull down a heap of very real trouble on your heads, just suppress the eruption.
To be sure there is a danger of Communism and a danger of Fascism abroad in the land. But the seat of the danger is not at the state universities. It is principally in the state legislatures and in congress. There is only one way to prevent Communism and that is through regard for rights of labor, sympathy for the problems of the underprivileged, and through a
fair and decent administration of relief. There is only one way to prevent Fascism and that is through regard for the rights of the salaried people, the shop keepers and small-propertied middle class, and through a knowledge of the limit of middle-class endurance in taxation.
The Kansas legislators will have their hands full if they steer a safe middle course between the dangers of a ruthless laissez faire system and the dangers of collectivism. They had better tend to their own knitting which right now happens to be one of the most perplexing tax problems in half a century. They would do well to leave clucking old maids and village gossips the job of going down to Lawrence every night and looking under dormitory beds for hobgoblins.
Kansas University Investigation
The Topeka State Journal:
Doubless there is some ground for the charge that within the student body at Kansas University are students who sympathize with what we call "subversive activities."
If the charge proves true, that young Don Henry fittered away his youth as the result of radical poison imbibed at the state University from association with other radical students, it will have little significance. If, on the other hand, the proposed investigation discloses that there are members of the faculty who deliberately inculcate in the class room, in lectures, or elsewhere, revolutionary doctrines, then the remedy is easily within the possession of the Board of Remegs.
This worry in reference to Kansas University has been accented by the unhappy fact that an outstanding student went to Spain in search of his Holy Grail. He perished fighting under the banner of the communistic Loyal cause.
It's the habit of youth to be radical and to possess a more eager appetite for change than for truth. Throughout the ages, this tendency of youth to proclaim reckless doctrines has kept conservative age worrying.
The thing that should be kept in balance is common sense and tolerance. You cannot crowd the minds of all the Kansas University students into one pattern. An attempt to discipline free speech at the University would provide the very bait which subversive agitators eagerly await everywhere.
A Hunt for Reds
Arkansas City Daily Traveler;
The Kansas house of representatives has voted for an investigation of Communism at the University of Kansas. We hope the house has a good time, and we anticipate a lot of fun when the investigating committee starts its hearings.
But we don't anticipate any disclosures that will rock the foundations of Kansas.
Radicalism will be found at the University. The chances are the committee will find long-haired young men and short-haired young women who espouse the cause of Moscow and look upon the United States government as the last refuge of capitalism. Some of the professors may be found to believe that all is not perfect in this land of ours, and some may even believe we might borrow a leaf or two from someone else.
This is true of nearly all universities. Youth is experimental by nature. New ideas gain more converts among the young than among the old. The young are discontented with the past, and look to the future. The older we become, the more contented we are with the past and the more we look with suspicion and fear upon the future.
We seriously doubt that the house committee will find a thing at Kansas University that any house committee for the last forty years could not have found. But, as we said earlier, the hearings will be a lot of fun.
Some K.U. Youngsters are just pulling the state's leg. Three of them, waving red flags and displaying the Communicistic insignia of the hammer and sickle, drove along Massachusetts street in Lawrence the other day. The sight created what is commonly known as a "furor." Addled paddle citizens rushed around tearing their hair and shirts and prated loudly of a "Red uprising." The reverberation reached Topica, where the august legislature is in special session (mostly twiddling its thumbs), and some brainy wonder suggested a $7,500 appropriation for a "legislative investigation." This, in face of the fact that a committee of regents is already at work studying rumors of radical activities in the state university.
A Pop Valve and a Leg Pull
The ElDorado Times;
Apparently the utterly silly proposal of legalistic meddling in the university's affairs has been squelched. Certainly it should be in that condition after a letter sent to state senators and signed by representatives of eleven students
organizations, had been made public. Among other statements, the letter said;
"... As students of the university we feel that this appropriation is not only unwarranted by the facts but is doing the university irreparable harm. Until now this rumored investigation has been a joke here . . . We cannot believe that the well-meaning legislators who are proposing this investigation realize the seriousness of such action . . . Every bantering word, every gesture, every innocent action will be scrutinized for its subversive meaning with a collection of misinterpretations the result. Calling people 'Reds' these days is common. The term has even been applied to the President of the United States and could as easily be applied here . . . From coast to coast this criticism will be hailed down upon Kansas for its threat to academic freedom—freedom for which Kansas has long been proud . . . We know that the student body has unanimous confidence in its faculty . . . Because we feel this bill will do nothing but blacken the name of the university and foster a feeling of distrust and fear among its faculty and students, we plead with all real friends of the university to prevent its passage."
That about tells the story. It's all a mountain from a mole hill. Maybe a few students have assimilated some radical leanings, but that's just natural steam blowing off. The rank and file of K.U. students are as level-headed as any body of them could be when the "great socialist state" is in the making—and mighty near made, if you ask us.
The most foolish move that could be made would be to dignify this incident with a "legislative investigation." Kansas should avoid this particular piece of asinity—already having a considerable program of that nature on its hands.
Campus Opinion
You Can't Find It Here
Edition: Dual Language
Editor. Daily Kansan:
I am decidedly against anything communistic, but I hate to have K.U. made the point of any more criticism, and believe that there are not enough "rvds" on the Hill to justify the so-called investigation.
B. M, G.
I hope you print this in your Campus Opinion.
A play in one act.
A play in the office
Character in the戏
they plan a coup, Redski.
year plan son, redskin!
Scene: Some people think all over the HILL;
Time: Supposedly the present. Opening scene:
Mr. Studentki is sitting with his feet up on a machine gun reading the pu-
mrs. Studentski is listening to the hit of the song "Bash It For Me" over the radio.
week. Diana A for her
Little Red Tedz is playing ten - pins using a
bomb for the ball.
and run
Mr. Studentki: Down with everything! The Topeka
was discovered, no bad intent
Mr. Studentskii Down with everything the twirps have discovered our hideout. They've finally noticed us at last! My how blind some people can be You would have thought they'd noticed this important place long before, with so many things needed them to go back and rack in. And the low salaries of some of the best professorskis in the world. New what was it Stalin said? What took these mortals be?
Mr. Studentski (calmly): Now, now dear, don't get excited. They won't find enough of us here to shake a bomb at Althouat at. They're betting $7,000 to a rubble that they sweep us from Karsa. And it
always reminded of Silber, who was
made up of his mouth): Mama, may I
go out and play?
Mrs. Studentski: Conradeski, how do you think it will end? all?
Mr. Studentskij: Well, dear. I wouldn't worry, I'd say that the Topeka boys will run true to form and sound the $750 "trotsking" around like a Japak with his head off.
What do you say, dear? Let's go bomb a factory.
(Little Reddik) goes out to practice the shot-put to help him train for his life's work.)
Mrs. Studentskiy, Yes, for a little while, but remember not to go near little Adolph Nazi. Remember the last time you played together he won all of your marbles—I mean bombs.
Let Them Have Their Fun
The first time I visited the state house to see how our government functioned, for example, they spent most of the morning discussing and adopting a result-based tax system that was highly laugable. And even then half of them went to sleep.
I believe that we University students are taking the legislature too seriously. After all, any one who has visited one of their sessions realizes that they are duller than a 1:30 lecture and they have to do something once in a while to keep up. Usually they want to be going to school with only themselves and taxes to listen to (o).
We must remember the Kansas constitution says, "... all persons may freely speak, write or publish their sentiments on all subjects ... and... the people have a right to pass themselves to personage manmade in the community to be common good ... and if the legislature wants to get together to investigate and talk about our communistic activities, that's all right. We might even help them. We could have a committee to point out to each other the needs of the schools and the sticks with which C.S. E.P. students cut grass in the spring. In the show case in Hawkholt hall is a show case with bottles labeled "T.N.T. and "dynamic". Of course they're fakes, but they are real and true. Of course their red socks and the披肩s and their red sweaters and the Pi's their red skirts. And we could point out the predominance of red roos on the Hill. They could lunch at Brick's and hear the waiters bowl "Bowl of Red." A look at the last vestige played by the player played by Joseph Furter" by Rinsky-Karolkoff.
Admittedly the $7,500 might be better spent on the hospital, or Dyche, or in sending 15 students to school a year, but everyone knows it's more fun to spend a nickle for candy than for what you need.
BB.
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CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION. The Creative Leisure Commission will meet Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Henley house. Work will be continued on the movies. All interested are invited to attend..Ruth
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLWISHES. Applications for scholarships and fellowships in the Graduate School for the academic year 1938-39 are due at the Graduate office on Tuesday, March 25. Application forms may be sent to the Graduate office, 225 Frank Stouffer hall—E B. Stouffer, Dean.
MEDICAL APITUDE TEST. A supplementary medical aptitude test will be given by the Association of American Medical Colleges on April 9, 1838. All premedical students in the program are planning to enter a medical school, either at the University of Kansas or elsewhere, next fall, should take this test on Dr. Owen. Those who desire to take this test notify Dr. Owen in Strong hall (phil.-KU-86), immediately—O. O. Stoland.
MENS STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a room—Moesh Ettenman, Secretary, at 815 in the Pine room. Moe Ettenman.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: The Y.W.-Y.M. Reinterpretation of Religion Commission will meet at Henley house at 4:30 this afternoon. The Rev. Joseph King will continue to lead the discussion on The Teachings of Jesus. This week, we will discuss this week. -Evyn Brubaker, Donald Deford.
VACANCIES IN MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: Notice is hereby given of the following vacancies on the Men's Student Council: law representative and president of the sophomore class. Petitions for the Men's Student Council or the secretary of the Men's Student Council on or before Monday, Feb. 28. Mott Eitten, Secretary.
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