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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUFSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938
Comment
'Youth' Goes To the Supreme Court
Slowly but surely the President is bringing down the average age of the members of the Supreme court. With the appointment of Stanley Reed to the Supreme bench, the average age of the court justices will be 66 and 2-3 years.
At the same time liberalism is taking a natural lead over conservatism—as a result of the death of the latter. The President is succeeding through evolution where he failed by suggesting revolution. And he is doing it amid the applause of his bitterest foes.
Reed is a man of rare legal training and known to be the poorest politician to come out of the hills of Kentucky. For a number of years Reed has been prominent in the activities of the American Bar Association. His record is one to be proud of.
With the appointment of Reed the President performed a stroke of political genius. The confidence of a great many Americans will be restored by having such a man on the Supreme bench. His record marks him as a man who will not be dictated to and those who know him say that he will suffer none of it from the President or any pressure group while he is on the bench.
Nevertheless, Reed will not bring down the wrath of a nation because of his membership in some anti-social organization such as the Ku Klux Klan. His record is clear and he has the confidence of the nation behind him.
Colored News Of the Sea
Friday, a seaman, who refused to give his name, testified before a congressional investigating committee about conditions in the American merchant marine. During the investigation he told some very gruesome tales of violations of passengers' rights and privacy, and absolute lack of discipline.
In recent months such testimony has made headlines both in United States papers and in foreign papers. A great deal of delight is reflected in the articles because they tie up with the Labor Union controversy. The conclusion of each article lays the blame to the Unions for the demoralized conditions now existing.
Investigation proves, however, that such testimony is usually false in whole or part. Time news magazine was forced to back down on a two-column account they ran in a current issue. The newspapers are not so courteous.
If conditions in the merchant marine are questionable, a thorough investigation is in order. And whether the marine officials are to blame or the Unions are to blame, conditions should be corrected without delay. But the present practice of the press of printing editorialized accounts about the subject should be stopped. It is bad taste and tends to destroy public confidence in the newspapers.
At any rate the situation should be cleaned up and the good name of our valuable merchant marine restored.
Spend a Penny;
Save a Billion
Unquestionably the 30 percent increase which Roosevelt is demanding in the billion dollar army-navy budget—already the highest peace-time military appropriation in history—is not for defense purposes.
The Navy department's avowed purpose is "to maintain the Navy in sufficient strength to support the national policies and commerce; to guard the continental and overseas possessions; and to protect American lives, property, and interests, especially the development of American foreign commerce. ..."
Mine sweepers are not made to clear Puget Sound and 'Frisco Bay' but to clear the port of Yokohama for our dreadnaughts of aggression. An oil tanker is not built to stand amid the derricks of the Long Beach marine oil fields but to establish a base halfway between Honolulu and Tokyo. Submarines are the spearheads of attack, not defense. These weapons which President Roosevelt demands are weapons of offense, not defense.
American for foreign reasons.
Despite the statements of Generals Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson, William C. Rivers, and Johnson Hagod and Admiral Ridley McLean that the United States cannot be successfully invaded, appropriations in the name of national defense go on.
Let the truth out. These are not appropriations for defense but for aggression.
rations to Roosevelt's proposal will soon be introduced into Congress. The time-table on the last naval budget as it was passed through the mill is as follows: Apr. 29, naval bill printed; Apr. 30, bill presented to the House; May 1, bill rushed through House; May 4, bill sent to Senate; May 5. Senate sub-committee on appropriations
ended hearings, refusing to hear opposition; May 6, bill reported to Senate during recess; and May 8, the largest peace-time naval appropriation in the nation's history passed the Senate without a record vote.
Your congressmen and senators need to know how you feel about this appropriation bill. Washington observers credit the heavy vote of the peace bloc on the Ludlow war referendum proposal to postal cards and letters from constituents back home. By their own admissions, the entire Kansas delegation in the House went down the line for the Capper-Ludd bill because of letters from back home.
Kansans may well take pride in the consistent votes of both Senators Capper and McGill against the mounting military appropriations in the last two Congresses. Our senators have been kept consistent by letters from back home.
Spend pennies for postage today and knock dollars off next June's tax bill.
Campus Opinion
It's All in Point of View
Editor, Daily Kansan:
I would like to use your letters-to-the-editor column for a little essay contest. It is open only to ASU members; the topic is "Why I Didn't Join the International Brigade and Fight for My Ideas." As a first prize I will confer the Order of the Whited Sepulcher first; second order, the Double-Cross of St. Ananias; third prize, the Sir John Falstuff Gold Star of Valor.
Two answers are unacceptable. The first is "I didn't have the money." There are many organizations, American and foreign, which would have been glad to help pay the taxes. But they don't want the second. The second bad idea is "I thought I would do more good at home." This is a coward's plea, unless you think you’re a Norman Thomas. The second bad idea is that the protester revolution have hung back and let the Spanish workers bleed and die in your place. When the real danger came and the actual fighting started, you were 5000 miles away, and not trying to get any
necessary. The source of my interest in this question is not a desire to see the Loyalists victorious. The basis is this: they are not a large per cent of the international Brigade and certainly become casualties. I since thought that in many cases this would be a highly desirable result, I resolved to stimulate their participation by shooting ATVs willy-willy, but if any of them are looking for trouble, I want to encourage them. Let me show you why. If we want to name of "slackers." why? J. B. Lawrence, RCTC
Official University Bulletin
Netites due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 25th.
Vol. 35 Tuesday, January 18, 1938 No.79
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in room C. Myers Hall. All students and faculty members invited are invited to attend - Keith Dews, President.
COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 a.m. afternoon in the auditorium on the night before the Administration building - R H Lindsey, President.
DIAMATIC CLUB: The K.U. Dramatic Club site
music at 4:20 in front of Greshall hall,
Rolla Nuckels.
HOUSE PRESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION: There will be a meeting of the House Presidents' Association in the Fine room at 4:30 this afternoon. It is important that every house president send a representative to this meeting if unable to attend it herself. -Sophia Schellenberg, Secretary.
PHI CHI DELTA: Professor Crafton will speak at the regular superset meeting of Phi Chi Delta at 5:30 this evening at Westminster hall—Jane Howe, Pro-gram Chairman.
W. S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE. The W.S.G.A. book exchange will start buying books at 9 o'clock thursday morning, January 30. The exchange will be open on Friday, the time of final examinations—Edith Borden, Manager.
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Marian Anderson Began Career When Six Years Old
Marian Anderson, contralto, described in the Chicago Tribune as "bringing the world to her feet," after a concert in the Auditorium theater in Chicago Sunday, sat durely in a comfortable chair at the home of Mrs. Farina Lampkin, 1111 Mississippi street as the cub reporter tried out her first real job of interviewing yesterday.
Entered as second-class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Layworth, Kan.
Miss Anderson asserted that her pastor was also helpful in aiding her sincere career.
"When I was 13," Miss Anderson related, "I went with my ment to the senior chair. That is really where I got my start. Then one day when I was in high school my chance came. The school was presenting a concert and I did it. Teacher, teacher. He insisted that I had a good voice and persuaded me to take lessons, free at first and then I began paying."
To the question, "Do you get much f a n m mail?" the contraito replied: "Yes, indeed; after every broadcast
By Willie Harmon, c'uncl.
Liner Europa Steaming To Aid of British Freighter
Miss Anderson, who sang to a packed house last night in Hoch auriorium, began her career at the age of six years when she sang in the junior choir of her neighborhood Baptist church in Philadelphia.
New York, Jan. 17—(UP)—The liner Europa reported tonight it was steaming to the aid of the British freighter Cragsoll, reported in distress in the North Atlantic when we requested to leak into its engine room.
The Europa said in a message intercepted by radio marine that it was making 26 knots and was approximated from the Crapsole 7.15 EST.
The Europe said the Cranepool had radioed that it was "not immediately in a sinking condition."
Blow Torch for Hot Dogs
Dallas, Texas—(UP) —Mechanics students at Dallas Technical High School have discovered a new method for roasting wieners. When a Wiener roast was almost paired by a rain storm, students found a shelter, filled a bucket with wieners and applied a blow torch. Within a few minutes, the hot dogs were done—well done, too.
"I'm really surprised at the large auditorium that you have, and the ones that I sing in all over the country, because when I sang at my graduation exercises the auditorium only held 1,500 persons."
whenever I'm in large cities I have to employ a public stenographer to handle the mail."
At the time of the interview, the contratoo was attired in a black crepe de chine dress topped by a short bolero trimmed in gold braid. She spoke with a slight foreign accent.
"I shall present 60 concerts before May," Miss Anderson said. "I'd rather not say which audience I like to sing to best. However, I visited America last year and liked it so much that I'm returning this year."
Miss Anderson will leave at one o'clock today for Omaha, Neb., where she will sing in the Central High school auditorium.
Haywire-the thing, but it was no sale. They got the bright idea that people start at the back of a paper and work to the front, so they put the front page on the cover even. This makes the paper open on the left instead of the right.
Continued from page 1
Virginia Lee Rochon lost two of her blonde locks via the snipping route yesterday. Virgil Mitchell decided to tie her kid girl he would at least have a curl.
We heard a new name for Mr. Littioy, the Beta flash, yesterday. It goes something like this: Fred-I date-both-Johnsons - Dori, I am-a-queen-i am-the-sister-of-Doris - I am-a-beauty-celebrant-Johnsom-Littioy.
EDUCATION
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He lived a hard and bitter life
Without the Golden Rule.
He was a mug "without no nerves"
And knew how to handle a gat.
Yeh, he was tough and that's a fact
He wasn't an ordinary rat.
But in him was a heart of gold
And someone told him so.
So he killed himself with a knife.
Trying to get the dough.
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