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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928
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A War a War
In his syndicated column, Walter Lippman laments the fact that congress put the President in an exceedingly embarrassing position when it passed the neutrality act several years ago. Mr. Lippman was warning the country only a short while back that to give the President additional power would be dangerous to the health of the nation, but he now fears that the representatives of the people have limited too greatly the power of the President.
The columnist's thesis is that if the neutrality act is applied to the Sino-Japanese situation, China will be hurt and Japan helped. The act would be automatically invoked should Japan formally declare war on her enemy, for according to the provisions of the act, the moment a legal declaration of war is made, the president must automatically declare the law to be in effect. If he fails to do this, he is placed in the position of nullifying an act of congress. Lippman fears that to enforce the act would be "to enforce a policy which would be against the best interests of the country."
Unfortunately, Mr. Lippman, like many others, has misinterpreted the whole purpose of the neutrality act. The idea was not to prevent war but to prevent the United States government and its citizens from doing anything that might conceivably bring us into conflict with a foreign power. The sponsors did not intend to give to any person the power to decide whether one party in a conflict was right or wrong. Their only intention was to keep the United States neutral in any foreign dispute.
By relying on a loophole in the letter of the act the President has not evoked its more stringent provisions in the Oriental situation. In this way, he has unofficially shown to Japan that America disapproves of that country's war in China. The President's sentimental interests in China's fate are possibly shared by most American citizens; but it was for just such reasons that congress in a time of peace passed the neutrality act, remembering that it was the sentimentists' anxiety for "bleeding Belgium" and "prostrate France" which unmeaningly prepared the way for our own entrance into the World War.
At Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1936, the President, posing as a champion of peace, praised the neutrality act. "I hate war," he declared in his most bombastic manner. Yet today, the foreign policy which he is undertaking is leading the country nearer and a nearer to war. People are rapidly becoming more and more partisan. Neutrality in a few months will be nothing more than a farce.
When Roosevelt denounced the two factions in the labor dispute, he said, "A plague on both your houses." It wouldn't hurt to repeat the words again in reference to the Oriental difficulty, and then to prove that he was truly interested in American neutrality by invoking the neutrality act.
A Good Investment
—Even If It's Lost
Kansas City's administration and that of Jackson county are apparently not interested in clean elections in the Heart of America city.
David E. Long, judge of Jackson county court, and H. F. McElroy, city manager of Kansas City, have both refused to honor vouchers issued by Kansas City's state-appointed election board when such vouchers exceed $3.50 per day. Their refusals have been based on the necessity for economy. They feel that the election board is not being economical when they have paid 52 assistants more than this per diem wage.
In 1934, $586,000 was spent by election boards in Kansas City and Jackson county. The present board, appointed by Missouri's courageous Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, agrees to keep within its $212,800 budget. Moreover, the board assured both the city and county that the vouchers issued earlier this month are all within this budget.
It looks as though as long as political henchmen can spend the money, half a million is not too much to pay for a dishonest election. But when a bi-partisan board, composed of two Republican members more or less hostile to the Democratic machine and one openly-antagonistic Democratic member of the 1934 Fusion movement, spend half this amount, it is too much to pay for a clean election.
Roy L. McKittrick, Missouri attorney general, has informed J. E. Woodmansee, chairman of the election board, that the statute under which the board is operating is, in his opinion, constitutional. Edgar Shook, anti-organization Democrat on the board, has proposed to meet the salaries of registration checkers by public subscription. These subscriptions are to be repaid whenever the statute is held constitutional and mandamus proceedings can
be instituted against the county and city governments. If the statute is not constitutional, however, the subscribers have made, in the words of Shook, "a bad investment."
Kansas City's machine government clearly does not want clean elections. Now we'll see if Kansas City does.
Sin Swings Sans Springfield
Down in Springfield, Mo., the devil has met defeat. Not since the immortal Billy Sunday used to get him in the corner, black his eyes, knock him down, and then hold him up to public ridicule has the old boy taken such a walloping as he got down in the show-me city.
And it was about time his hand was called Things were getting pretty bad in Springfield Sin and evil were rampant. The city was sinking to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah. But the forces of goodness and decency prevailed just in time and routed Satan. Righteousness hath conquered and not a minute too early.
Low, evil-minded and cowardly persons had almost succeeded in corrupting the youth of Springfield. The superintendent of schools was permitting mixed dancing to be held once a week in the publicly-supported high school gymnasium. In their innocence, young boys and girls of high school age were attending these "dancing" classes, unable to see the evil lurking there. Inexperienced and guileless as were these students, their errors could be overlooked, but not that of the parents.
It is a sad commentary on the moral decay of America when it is known that everyone of the students who attended these weekly dances had his parents' written permission. What kind of parents are there today who let their children frequent such breeding places of sin with no thought to the moral welfare of their youngsters? What, oh what, has become of the dear, old-fashioned mother who raised her children to be God-fearing men and women and to shun the very appearance of evil?
But the danger has been temporarily averted. The good, decent, and moral-minded men and women of Springfield have risen up in a storm and stopped these weekly training schools for vice. No longer will the high school gymnasium be turned into a den of iniquity every weekend. No longer need true-blooded American citizens drop their heads in shame when they pass the high school. The devil has taken a bad beating in Springfield and his cochors have been scattered.
Put More Cops On the Highways
The news tells us of a campaign in New Jersey to clear streets and highways of defective motor cars. It is a highly commendable activity.
Kansas has such a campaign operating on a permanent basis, but on far too small a scale. Residents of Lawrence will remember the "lane" which state highway patrolmen conducted here last summer, when many local cars were sent to garages for immediate and badly needed repairs. But time permitted only a sketchy check-up.
Talk persists of a forthcoming special session. If the legislature does convene, it could take no action of greater significance than to increase the appropriation and personnel of the highway patrol.
Forty-five men are on the patrol now. Plenty of work exists to keep twice that many men busy, or even more. And until that work is done, Kansas lives and Kansas property hang in the balance.
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The cry of the Big Apple swings from Oregon to Vermont, from Texas to Michigan. Everywhere it trumpets its dance; a dance; a race; it's the Apple!
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Apples: A Dissertation
By Rosemary Blakely, gr
That's right. That's all the word means anymore. Get hot-had dance! You're wrong there. "Apple" means a dart sight more than off hand I can think of at least twenty associations with the word.
You win, friend. That's a lot of ways to apply a five-letter word. The dance sort of diminishes under your fire.
Wait a minute. Did you say apple?
sure. Adam's apple, Atlanta's apples in mythology, the familiar apple cart in big cities, the Apple Woman in "Little Lord Faunley," and other books, the legend of Appleseed Johnny, the slang word, "applesauce"; apple cider; bing for apples (for cooking at Halloween, apple around it on examination time, apple butter, apple pie, apple turtles, fried apples, baked apples, stewed apples, the expression "in apple pie order," Sir Isaac Newton and his apple that to the theory of gravitation, William Tell's apple he shot off his son's head to show his marksmanship, Eve's apple that gave Gus the game, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," the current state of Washington apple growers telling of an "apple hour."
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Can you?
Oh, don't misunderstand me, I realize the significance of the Big Apple caper. Girls are wearing formal dresses graced by rosy apples stitched on the skirts. Scarf, handkerchiefs, and ladies wear apparel in general has taken up the craze. But men's clothes are standardized, thank goodness. Men don't get excited about everything that's going around.
Alameda, Cal., Jan. 18—(UP)—A copy of the Daily National Journal of Thursday, June 9, 1825, just found in the walls of an old house, throws considerable light on what was important news in the United States nearly 113 years ago. The paper itself appears to have been of such importance at that time that it was not even necessary for it to state in what city it was published. The name of Peter Force, is given as the responsible publisher.
Papers just received from England, the Journal announced, contain the important information that at a meeting of the British ministers at the time, that there was a change in the corn laws would be made for the moment.
The United States government took advantage of the Journal to carry an advertisement announcing that the postoffice department would receive proposals for "transporting in two-horse stages once a week" now made available on horseback between N.C. and Knoxville, Tenn."
Navy Wanted Meat Bids
Other advertisements offer to a complete copy. John Grand March and Quick Step," as well as copies of "Manners at Home."
The navy also had recourse to the Journal in asking for bids on 3,000 barrels of beef and 3,000 barrels of pork to be delivered at each of the navy yards at Changshu, Vienna, and Venice. Other advertisements offer for sale
Horse-shoeing establishments had the part in American life that garages have today. Typical of this is the advertisement of Josese Bosworth, owner of a "Hardware Manufactory," who announces to his friends that he "has lately been at a considerable expense in erecting a fence" for the residence of horse-shoeing where six or eight may be completely sheltered from the weather at one time." Lotteries in Vogue
Lotteries appear to have been much in vogue at that time. The "Tyler's Temple of Fortune" announced lottery prizes ranging from a few dollars to $50,000, while the Quantico Canal Lottery of "Va" went it one better with lottery prizes totaling $87,170.
The really important news of the day, however, was a Presidential proclamation by John Quincy Adams which began as follows:
"Wheres a General Convention of Peace, Amity, Navigation, and Commerce, between the United States and Colombia, in which Colombia was concluded and signed at Bogota, on the third of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four ... The full text of the proclamation
The full text of the proclamation covers two of the four pages of the newspaper.
Less Chinch Bug Damage Seen
Say, here comes Arthur. Wonder what's allying him. He looks like he's in a daze.
Manhattan, Jan. 18 — (UP)—Chinch bug damage will not be as great in 1938 as it was last year, Prof. R. H. Painter, Kansas State entomology department head, said recently. The number is about normal, he said, and the number surviving until spring will depend upon variations in temperature, spring will reduce infestation, he said.
What do you say boy?
Gentleman, I am in love. It's that new girl, Agnes. She's wonderful, she's perfect; she's all I can talk about--she's all I can talk about. She's the apple of my eye.
said.
What do you say boy?
Super Highway On Toll Basis
Pittsburgh, Jan. 18. — (UP) A commission of four engineers is making plans for an "all-weather" highway between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, which may be the first of a chain of super-highways stretching from coast to coast.
Samuel W. Marshall, member of the Turnpike Commission, appointed to work out the many engineering details of the highway, 160 miles long, stresses the "all-weather" aspect of the proposed highway.
Constructed over an abandoned railroad right-of-way, the new high-way would not be exposed to hazardous fogs and conditions which menace traffic on the Linch and Altam Pen highways. Marshall said.
The commission is studying the question of lighting the seven miles of tunnels through which the highway will run.
He said the "super-highway" will have no speed limit and no red lights. Traffic hazards will be reduced to a minimum. There will be, according to present plans, only four overhead bridges and four contour-plated outlets.
The highway will have four horses divided by a planted strip of land, according to Marshall. There will be 13 toll stations, Marshall said, to accommodate motorists using only a part of the route.
He estimated that the toll would be $1 or $2, the money to be used to liquidate the project.
A force of 200 men has been excavating and draining the tunnels, Marshall said, and an additional 400 men are expected to be put to work by next spring when the task of financing the project will be completed
Manhattan, Jan. 18—(UP) —James Gould, Manhattan, and Edward Declier, Carmen, Oka, are representing Kansas State College on a debating trip to the west coast. Their topic is the unicameral system of laws from Denver University, the University of Utah, Leland Stanford, California, Southern California, Arizona and Texas.
Farmer Uses Only Oxen
Melbourne, Ark—(UP)—Thomas "Uncle Tie" Hodge, 76 is late about discarding pioneer ways. This year he hauled three bales of cotton to the gin from his farm near here by means of oxen. He cultivated 24 acres of cotton, corn, sorghum, and truck crops, using oxen. He never has used anything but oxen on his farm.
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Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis,
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3:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 10:05 p.m.
The Lawrence Choral Union will present its spring concert in Hoch auditorium Sunday afternoon, March 27. The chorus of 250 voices, made up of singers from the University and the city of Lawrence, will be under the direction of Prof. Otto Musselman, department of public school music.
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Athens connection
The concert will be open to the public and the School of Fine Arts has received reports that a large number of musicians from the surrounding territory will be present for the event.
The chorus will present "Pilgrim's Progress" and the 81-year-old composer, Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife, of New York City, will be present as the honored guests of the evening.
The chorus met last night for one of the final rehearsals before practice with orchestra accompaniment. Voice sections are complete with the chorus, piano, and Professor Messier is seeking volunteers for high male voices.
- Atchison connection.
Dorothy Shufflebarger has bee, selected secretary-treasurer of the organization, according to John Andrews, president of the union. She look place in a meeting of the executive committee Monday afternoon.
Choral Union Sets Date
Will Present 'Pilgrim's Progress' March 27 in Hoch Auditorium
National Trailways System
Case Continues 24 Years
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Jan. 18—(UP) In process of liquidation for 24 years, affairs of the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad are to be closed up in common pleas court here this month, according to G. W. Cross, receiver. The case has been on the court docket 95 regular terms. A payment of 10 percent has been made to creditors, and a nominal distribution will be made soon, closing the case.
The rail line 30 years ago was 130 miles long, and extended from here to Perryville and Farmington.
London, Jan. 18—(UP)—A mystery of the jungle is disclosed in the Colonial Office's report on the State of Brunei, Bornee, for 1936.
Insurgents Gain Near Tetuel
The age of the bones was estimated at about 50 years, and an examination of the tree suggested that not less than 50 nor more than 100 years ago a panel six feet in length had been removed from the side of the tree and the heart hollowed out to contain the bones, the panel being then replaced and regenerated onto the tree.
Led by Col. Juan Yuase, who caught the Loyalists by surprise, a toll of 12,000 lives was believed to have been lost around Teruel.
The bones of about four persons were found completely enclosed in an artificial cavity in the living trunk of a tree. The tree which was about 40 years old, however, is the ordinary course of nature when the discovery was made by a saver.
Rebels in Counter-Offensive
Saragozgo, Spain, Jan. 18—(UP)
Moreoccan cavevalley conquered the heights of Alto de Mueiten tonight, seizing Loyalist "impenetrable" steel and concrete fortifications out-lying the cave, which 3,000 dead spruced on snowy slopes. Nationalist headquarters announced
Barcelona, Spain, by telephone to Paris, Jan. 17—(UCP)—The government war office admitted tonight that a violent counter-offensive, designed to recapture Tercul, h widened several strategic positions from the Loyalists on the northern outskirts of the city.
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