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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1938
Comment
Elephantus Politicus And the Dodo Bird
The speech of Glenn Frank in Topeka at the Kansas Day Republican hodge-podge was not of the brand that will make the elephant wag his trunk with unusual vigor.
But even if Mr. Frank's charges were true, they're not the hypodermic that the elephant needs. Mr. Frank should be sufficiently astute to realize that President Roosevelt has been called everything from "Communist" to "Fascist" and back again to "class traiter" with impunity.
The Republican party can beat Al Smith or Cox or Davis with words and phrases, but not Franklin D. Roosevelt. The man has a smile, a radio voice, a fascinating personality, and—though perhaps he-skelter—some new ideas. And you can't beat that combination with less than a similar or better combination.
If the Republicans would win, let them muzzle Dot Thompson, Walt Lippmann, Frankie Kent, "Sully" Sullivan, and Herb Hoover; or at least divorce themselves from such unpromising bedfellows. Then let them utilize the abilities of undoubted scholars as this same Glenn Frank—stripped, of course, of epithets and dead cats—Andrew W. Cordiac; Charles P. Taft, and William Allen White.
Let these men build a program as friendly, as humanitarian, and as public-spirited as the one which, despite his many changes of front and personal confusion, Franklin D. Roosevelt has been attempting for the past six years.
With these men free to steer a course, clear of the cries from bearded reactionaries who keep slipping over the starboard rail, the Republican party stock may rise. As it is, the party threatens soon to have earned this classification: "Elephantus Politicus (extinct) which once roamed this country in countless thousands and now has gone the way of hoop skirts and the dodo."
Great Britain Has a New Ally
When the Japanese-British conflict in the Orient first began, there must have occurred to many persons who have studied the policies and "hates" of Heart, the following question: "Which will he hate more, Britain or Japan?"
Throughout his life, Hearst has endeavored to portray in a personal embodiment, the two "perfect" evils: Great Britain and Japan.
His hatred of the former led him into serious difficulties with our government—into a senatorial investigation, in fact—because he insisted before we entered the war that Britain was wrong and Germany was right, and maintained this to the edge of our entry. Immediately after the war was over, he depicted us as a "cat's paw" for England. Paradoxically enough, his whole policy was in complete denial of his professed and self-manufactured creed of "Americanism."
His utterly false translation of a Japanese book, published in his Sunday supplements in 1912, roused public opinion in this country to a war-pitch against Japan, which was allayed only when our government officially and publicly denounced it for the lie it was, and offered formal apologies to the government of Japan.
Such acts often repeated, led W. D. Wheeler,
writing in Harper's Weekly a few years ago,
caustically to remark, "Hearst voices lie and
Heartst papers lie."
Yes, we wondered what the Hearstian reaction would be to the Anglo-Japanese tension. The recent writings of H. R. Knickerbocker are his answer—flat and not in the leanslip.
Knickerbocker's reporting smacks of the Richard Harding Dainty flavor. Davis, it will be remembered, was Hearst's star reporter in Cuba in 1897-1898. He was the man who helped to put over the Cisneros affair which had so violent a reaction in the United States. He also engineered the Olympia affair which promised even better results until Pulitzer pricked the colored bubble of its being, exploding it harmlessly into nothingness.
We cannot say that Knickerbocker is lying, or exaggerating, and the day of the flamboyant newspaper hoax is, we believe, but a page in journalistic history.
But it is an easy matter to report the sayings of an individual as the driving motive of a race. It is easy to find an ignorant, chauvinistic individual and quote him as the oracle of a people Davis was adept at that.
We can say that a rational and informed mind must question most of what Knickerbocker has to say.
We See In the Paper
One hundred fifty-eight children were killed as were 300 other civilians, according to yesterday's reports, while 700 more were wounded in the insurgents' air raids on Barcelona. The children, fleeing from an orphanage, had taken refuge in the basement of an old church when the insurgent airplanes bombed the church dome causing the building to collapse on them. This raises the total deaths for January to 1,080 civilians killed and 2,000 wounded in raids on government towns behind the battle lines.
Three thousand Chinese and 1,000 Japanese were slaughtered last night in Japanese victories on warfronts west of Shanghai, according to reports.
Who says war isn't a glorious affair?
A New Plan In Community Education
Dr. Philip C. King, president of Washburn College, has advanced a new plan for the cultural improvement of the community in opening to the citizens of Topeka the privilege of auditing both the cultural and practical lecture courses at Washburn.
No college credit is given for auditing, but people have the same opportunities for improvement as are given regular college students.
Courses open to auditing during the second semester are those in history and political science, philosophy and psychology, natural and physical science, art and music, literature and journalism, home economics, foreign language, business training, investments, taxation, accounting and economic theory. Practically all college classes are offered to the public.
The experiment is new in community education. Immediate benefits to be derived are self-evident, but what they may be in the future is largely a matter for speculation.
The large bulk of a people does not take readily to education extended beyond a purely practical field. The effects of this experiment will be felt, primarily, in only the small group which will take advantage of this opportunity. And to them it will undoubtedly be a blessing.
But since cultural improvement is largely a process of slow diffusion throughout a group, there is every reason to believe that in time the effects will become more widespread.
It will be an interesting experiment to ob serve.
Official University Bulletin
Notice due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication date from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
(the first week).
Vol. 35 Wednesday, February 2, 1938 No.85
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission will have a stamp meeting Sunday, Feb. 6, at 3 o'clock at Henley house. Students will gather their collections—Ruth Fergalong Yecamms.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION: The psychological examination will be given at 2:30 Friday afternoon, Feb. 4. New students who have classes which conflict with their examination should see their instructors about being excused from class—a. A.H. Turney.
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JAY JANES: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in the Pine room, Memorial Union building —Roberta Cook.
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Conspicuous among new enrollees is the Lock family, which moved to Lawrence from Columbus, to enroll en toto in the University this semester.
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From their home town comes information that Mrs. Ebbel Lock, the mother, is a prominent woman in the community. She is president of the American Association of University Women in Columbus, also a member of the local Shakespeare Club, and an active worker on the campus. She also holds two degrees from the University.
Whole Family Moves Here To Enroll in University of Kansas
This spring, desiring to complete her master's degree in history, she resigned the position as principal on the faculty of the Cherokee County Community High School, which she has hold for the last 14 years.
Last Wednesday she returned to the institution from which she already holds A.M. and B.S. degrees in education, accompanied by her son and daughter, who also wish to be graduated from the school which they attended. They have taken residence at 612 West Fourteenth street.
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School Stop Signs Uniform
Uniform school stop signs were recently approved by W. T. Markham, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and George Reid, Safety Engineer for the Highway Department. These signs and an approved safety aid use are expected to be highly beneficial to state school officials.
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Edmund Fisher was probably right behind him, so at least it was one of the Fisher boys.
The qualitative analysis students were pleasantly surprised last week when they came to take the final. The questions were of the Little Audrey type...If Little Audrey mixed hydrogen and oxygen and lighted a match, what would happen? ...(Our answer would be, bang!) The questions involved much more chemistry than the one above, but the unique wording put the students more or less at ease.
Another hangover from last week's rounds of coffee and aspirin is this little saga: The representative of a coffee company, checking up on the story of an old mountainer who reputedly drank 24 cups of coffee a day, asked him if it were true. Finding it was, he asked him if that the coffee didn't keep his breath "Wall" drawn the old fellow "it helps."
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A. F. of L. Makes Bid For Aid of Manufacturers
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Miami, Fla., Feb. 1.—(UP) The American Federation of Labor tonight began an unprecedented attempt to organize the purchasing power of its members behind manufacturers who employ them. It promised to spend six million dollars annually on goods made or serviced by federation affiliates as an inducement to industry to seek A. F. of L contracts.
Officials indicated the new program is designed to seek A. F. of L. contracts. The position of the federation constitutes another indirect attack on the rival Committee for Industrial Organization.
They explained the A. F. of L is seeking, in effect, a quid pro agreement with as many manufacturers as possible to sign contracts with its affiliated unions in return for a guaranteed market. The inference, they said, is to encourage employers to abandon C.I.O. agreements.
Green Shirt Leader Defies Agreements
Bucharest, Rumania, Feb. 1.-(UP) -Cornelia Codreanu, leader of the green shirt fasciat iron-guard, today defended government agreements abolishing all military organizations throughout Rumania.
Law Requires Safety Be Considered in Towing Cars
Codreena attacked the government for interfering with the electoral campaign now under way, accused government authorities of arresting several of his iron-guard members and commanded the organizations to define "how the iron-guard will have to protect their own electorate."
The Kansas law requires that safety be the main consideration when one vehicle is towing another on the highways. It is required that an adequate drawbar or other containment装置 be installed if the consimons of a rope, chain or cable there shall be attached thereto a white flag.
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