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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 1937
Comment
Of Course, Of Course,
Of Course, Of Course, Etc.
Of course you're staying over.
Of course you're taking in Hobo Day.
Of course you're participating in Home-
coming.
Of course you're going to the game.
Of course you'll have fun.
Let 'em Fuss But Not on Public Time
Following a year of political, economic, national and international upsets—the latest upset lies in the changing attitudes of the President and congress. Most remarkable is the changing aspect of the congressional mind which has heretofore so docile rubber-stamped presidential measures, and now shows definite signs of having some plans of its own not in accord with Roosevelt's.
In conciliation to this congressional attitude, the presidential tone has been modified, but whether the modification will avert oncoming disagreements is another question. For, at the same time he asks co-operation, the President renews his insistence on reorganization measures increasing the power of the executive, serves another warning on the south that it won't be exempt in the matter of wage-and-hour regulation, directs attention to the plight of agriculture and generally indicates that none of the main reform objectives of the government have been abandoned.
Members of congress are exhibiting desires to make an end to experiments, relieve business restrictions, and above all relieve Roosevelt of the use of the free hand which they delegated to him the past years.
If the antagonisms between President and congress come to a head what will be the result? Probably a realignment of political party membership along lines of philosophic thought. The problem is not whether and how political factions will realign, but whether governmental officials can keep their personal differences sufficiently out of their official duties, to perform their services as loyal and honest citizens.
Serious Charges Are Being Flung-ship, while sterilization is a surgical invention to prevent socially undesirable types from perpetuating themselves.
Most delicate of any "situation" to develop in Kansas, in recent years—the matter of alleged wholesale sterilization and unsexing of girls in the industrial school at Beloit—broke into the headlines again this week when the woman campaigning against the practice voiced her charges at a session of the state legislative council in Topeka.
Presence of legislators from Nebraska and Illinois—who had journeyed to Kansas to see the remarkable "little legislature" in action—made the woman's charges a matter of embarrassment to the state, and that embarrassment was heightened by the fact that newspaper men from Chicago, Lincoln and Omaha accompanied the visiting legislators.
The protagonist in the singular campaign, Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin-McCarthy, charges that from a total of 148 girls in the school, 84 were recommended for sterilization, and 64 actually underwent operations. Eight girls, she says, were completely unsexed, and five other girls were partly unsexed.
Whether her charges are true or not remains to be determined. The Kansas City surgeon who performed the sterilization operations stonly denies that any of the girls was unsexed. But the fact that the Kansas law authorizing sterilization creates a situation where even charges of such a practice are brought, is something that deserves the serious consideration of every citizen of the state.
Certain excellent arguments exist, as a matter of fact, against the practice of sterilization in corrective institutions. Such institutions are established upon the assumption that inmates possess the innate requisites of good citizenship, while sterilization is a surgical invention to prevent socially undesirable types from perpetuating themselves.
It is a problem that cannot be solved with a shrug of the shoulders. It merits concern.
"We forget we deal with young men. We think we see red when what we really see is green."-Herbert E. Hawkes, dean of Columbia College.
Honest Thief--
Dishonest Public
"What the hell could anyone find to like about stealing, working hard all the time, always being likely to land in the can, paying over to the coppers and the fixers everything he gets?" Thus the late Chic Conwell, professional thief, comments on his profession in a book entitled "The Professional Thief," which he wrote for the social science research committee of the University of Chicago.
Unusual in itself, the book brings out many unusual points. "Kansas City is the easiest place in the country in which to straighten out a case (fix it). . . . There are probably many honest coppers, if so, most of them are in the sticks . . . Codes of ethics are much more binding among thieves than among legitimate commercial firms."
The author knows whereof he speaks from years of experience, but perhaps his best and most convincing whack at a smug public was this illustration: "As proof that they are no more dishonest than the public, thieves often observe that of the pocketbooks thrown away to avoid arrest, few are ever turned over to the police."
"The Aggies may have made the K.U. footballers look like the Olpe high school second last Saturday afternoon, but the Lawrencers may take some consolation from the fact they have a vastly superior band. The Manhattan musicians are hopelessly old-fashioned. They have only one drum major, K.U. has five." —Jack Harris in the Chanute Tribute.
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Bestor's estranged wife said she was sorry for him, but "it's his own fault."
Dominican President Implicated in Killings
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Bestor wanted to move a piano into his cell, but Sheriff John Stack now the line at that.
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Kanakek, Ill., Nov. 23—(UP)—All of Orchestra Leader Don Bestor's attempts to get out of jail were in vain today.
Bester ste pork and beans with the rest of the prisoners, but admitted that he had a yearning for lobster or at least the breast of a guinea hen. He was held on a non - support charge.
Washington, Nov. 23—(UP)—The name of General Rafael Trujillo, president of the Dominican republic, tonight was brought permanently into the account of the alleged mass of "thousands" of Hayatian men, women and children on t he Dominican-Haitian border early in October.
The band leader offered to put up insurance policies worth $7,000 in lieu of the $5,000 cash bond demanded by the court for his release. Circuit Judge W. R. Hunter refused the offer.
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The new report of the alleged massacres came from American and Dominican sources of unquestioned reliability. Two of them stated that the Dominican president spent the night of Oct. 2 in the neighborhood where they were the first wholesale killings were carried out to successive nights early in the month.
Schiller Shore bindery foreman of the Journalism Press, has designed a good luck charm to present to each of the Missouri football players to offset the number of rabbits' feet, horseshoes, and white elephants that have appeared in the Jayhawk camp.
These reports fgm the Dominican Republic confirm statements by Americans in Hayti that about five thousand Haytians were slaughtered. The Haytan government on Nov. 21 requested Cuba, Mexico, and the United States to tender their good offices in the controversy caused by the killings.
The Shore talisman is made of lead and is of a swastika design. It is five inches high and about the same width, and weighs approximately five pounds, six and one-half ounces.
Trujillo has not accepted but has designated envoys to the foreign capitals to state the Dominican case. Dr. Manuel de la Concha, Dominican diplomat, said he here tomorrow to explain Trujillo's views to the state department.
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Shore believes that the lucky piece should be hung around the neck, although a position inside the left ankle has many advantages. In case the players for Old Mizou raise a squawk at his generosity, the ingenious inventor and philanthropist stands to stand on the sidelines at the game and present them to the players via the air route.
Elk City, Okla. Nov. 23—(UP)—The motif of a vegetable grown by J. T. Armstrong on his farm and exhibited here causes no little discussion; pumpkin: others a watermelon. But those who tasted it cast melon votes.
Watermelon Apes Pumpkin
'What It Takes To Rate'
To Be Commission Theme
"What It Takes To Rate on the Campus" will be the subject of a talk by Dorothy Fritz, csp. at a meeting of the Freshman Commission next Monday. The commission will meet at Hensley house at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday and will present three lectures on this subject. The discussion the following Monday will be led by Betty Coulson, c41. Two weeks from Monday a joint meeting will be held with the Y.M.C.A. Freshman Commission. Betty Van. Campbell, c41, and Brendit Campbell, csp. will be in charge of this meeting.
The meeting next Monday is open to any freshman woman.
Hobo--
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cided by applause of the gathered student tramps
Following the ceremonies in the hall, University fraternities and sororites will compete in a sack relay and a mouse race. Sororites will vie for honors in the mouse sprint, while fraternity teams do the sock relay. Trophies will be presented to the winning houses.
Students not engaged in the Greek competition will snake dance to the Union building for the corpse of a hobo dancer by a Hobo dance to the music of Blackburn's Swingers, which will wind up the morning's activities.
Half-Hour Rally Over KFKU
Although no events for students are scheduled for this afternoon, the Homecoming rally, parade, and variety dance promise a full program.
At 6 o'clock, KFKU will broadcast a half-hour radio rally from Hoch auditorium.
The Homecoming parade, with the bands of Haskell Institute and the University leading the way, will begin at 7:30 o'clock from Eleventh Street. Three large bombs will announce the assembling of participants.
More than thirty floats, representing Hill fraternities, sororites, and independent organizations will make up the body of the parade. Students carrying lighted torches will light the way for the marchers.
Candidates in the Homecoming beauty queen contest will ride in autos, flanked by their cavalry escorts. A group of 20 costumed Indians from Haskell Institute will complete the personnel of the parade.
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To the accompaniment of band music, and with aerial balloons forming a colorful overhead atmosphere, the floats and marchers will move north on Massachusetts street past the judges, who will select the winning entries. Twenty-five dollars in prizes has been offered for the most effective floats: $10 for first; $8 for second; and $7 for third. Eight awards of $5 each will be given other entries.
At Seventh street, the parade will
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the line of march will be discontinu-
ated before they begin. Featured in the hour's rally,
to be broadcast by station WREN,
will be music by the participating
bands, yells led by the University
cheerleaders, and talks by members of the coaching staff.
Homecoming Varsity at Union
To complete the evening's program, students will go to the Union ballroom for the Homecoming variety to the swing arrangements of Red Blackburn's orchestra. At 10:30 AM, a musical performance is planned by station KMBC.
Pre-game activities Thursday morning include radio rallies by stations KMBC and WHB. At 11 o'clock, a rally features music by the Mar's Glee Club and the Uni's band will go on the air over KMBC
Alumni were beginning to arrive in Lawrence early this morning.
Jayhawk spirit will be demonstrated to a national radio audience when station WHB broadcasts a pregame rally and dance from the Union ballroom at 1 p.m. The dance, which will be concluded at 1:45, will feature music by both Louie Kuhrn and Red Blackburn's orchestra.
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