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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1937
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Comment
'De Repression Is Still On'--Or?
"The next ten years will probably see more deadly warfare against free speech than our nation has known within the lifetime of any who hears me," says Francis J. McConnell, bishop of the New York Methodist Episcopal area, who spoke last year on Mount Oread.
And the University of Kansas plays its part in that "ten years."
This year, at the height of the "red scare," the University administration effectually squashed an attempt on the part of the Y.M.C.A. to clear itself of the unfounded charges heaped upon it by an unfortunate, but singularly uninformed person. An assembly had been prepared, news stories announcing the topics and speakers published, and particular individuals, because of their positions within the community, invited. The "Y" hoped to state its case—to vindicate itself in the eyes of students who had seen it portrayed in the daily press as a hotbed of communism. Regardless of whether the assembly was judicious or not, the administration should not have suppressed free assemblage and free speech.
An attempt was made this year to organize a teachers' union on the University Campus. Professors were tired of hearing the empty shibboleths urging them to remain non-partisan in the conflict between labor and capital, tired of knowing unrestored pay cuts and a rising cost of living. Teachers, too, wanted collective bargaining, representatives of their own choosing, and the unity of organization. But following a series of half a dozen conversations with University professors, the administration made it quite clear that the state of Kansas could not—would not—stand for teachers aligning themselves with labor by crass unionization. Again the right to free speech, free assembly had been successfully sabotaged.
Ernest Sutherland Bates had been unfortunate enough to speak critically in an unauthorized biography concerning William Randolph Hearst, though he had also written a book in praise of the Bible and another on Mary Baker Eddy. Therefore, when he was invited to the Campus to speak on the innocuous subject, "Are You Propaganda Wise or Foolish?" it was the occasion of a prolonged conversation between the chairman of the M.S.C.-W.S.G.A Forums Board and administration leaders. Not that Bates would say anything seditious, but that the administration merely wished to know exactly what he was going to say and to censor the content.
Andy, of the tooth paste team, was unintentionally correct when he said. "Do repression is still on."—Or has it just begun?
The Gringos Get the Gaff
Those American capitalists who own all their property in the United States where the government is concerned only with an underprivileged third are much more fortunate than those who have wide holdings in Mexico, where the Cardenas government is attempting a quick remembering of the forgotten 90 per cent.
The program now being carried on by the Mexican government calls for the pie-slice division of big estates into one-peon farms. The division is progressing with unusual rapidity. Cardenas, who now has his supreme court justices elected right along with him, is encountering very little opposition, and, of course, the peons are all for it.
The first rub to the United States comes when the Cardenas government pays for the land on the basis of the owner's own tax-assessment estimate. It seems that the Yankee owners have been getting away with murder in paying taxes on land assessed at practically nothing. Now they are being boiled in their own soup by being paid for their land at those rates.
The second rub comes when the Mexican government replies to the representations of our state department with the quite logical answer that our administration, too, is trying to care for our under-privililed, and that they have had no quarrel with our methods.
It's an unusual situation, and so far no one feels particularly bad but the Yankee landowners and the state department officials.
'Hizzoner'
Gets Slightly Told
It was not exactly a polite speech that J. Warren Married chairman, of the national labor relations board, made at the opening meeting of the Conference of Mayors, but it was a successful speech in that he bluntly laid the blame for many of the difficulties that have arisen from the Wagner act at the door-steps of the mayors themselves.
The chairman did not hesitate to show the number of shortcomings on the part of some mayors of American cities where the act is being frustrated by the connivance of municipal officials. Pointing out that mayhem, murderous assault, and kidnapping have been committed with impunity in some cities against citizens whose only offense has been that they were union organizers, Mr. Madden charged that in many of these cases the criminals could not possibly have escaped detection unless the police had been under instructions that such crimes were to be unpunished.
The chairman's accusations should not be interpreted as a blanket accusation against all American cities, but there have been many cases, especially in southern cities, where the Wagner act has been vitiated by unsympathetic officials. Some cities have sold their souls to manufacturing magnates, in one case just the threat t oclose a plant brought the city manager cringing to an industrial baron in a manner that was humiliating to an official.
"I have seen a man who is as gentle and deserving of the protection as you or I, whose head was hammered to a bloody pulp on the main street of a great American city by a gang of criminals in plain view of many witnesses." Madden said. "He was a union organizer. No arrests were made."
Protests against such conditions seem to carry little weight, however. Undoubtedly labor's only chance for a square deal in such cities is to work for the election of men who will be as anxious to protect the rights of the workers as those of the employers.
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DILETTANTE COMMISSION. The Dilettante Commission will meet at 7 o'clock this evening. We will continue our work in finger painting. Anyone interested is welcome. Alice Russell, Chairman.
--music for the occasion. Reservations for the dinner can be made by calling 1429.
MEDICAL APTITUDE TEST. The annual medical aptitude test given by the Association of American Medical Colleges will be given on Dec. 3 at 2:30 p.m. in room 161 Snow hall. All premised students who plan to apply for entrance into medical school next fall, should know that a Kaiser or elsewhere, should take it at that time. A fee on one door will be collected from each person taking the test. Parke Woodard.
"OLOGY" COMMISSION. The "Ology" Committee will be on Friday at Henley house - Evelyn Brubaker, Chairman.
PRACTICE TEACHING. Students who wish to do practice teaching at Oread Training School during the spring semester should make application in the office of the school of Education at once. R. A. Schweizer.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING:
The faculty of the School of Education will meet Tuesday, Nov. 23, at 3:30 in 115 Fraser.—E. H. Lindley,
President.
SIGMA XI. The regular November meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 in Blake hall. Dr. E. A. Stephenson of the petroleum engineering department will speak about their work in Gas Wells to Their Ultimate Recovery." W. H. Schoeck, Secretary.
SOCIAL DANCING CLASSES: The social dancing classes will meet in the Union ballroom at 7 c clock the next day.
SPANISH CLUB: El Ateneo will meet in 113 Administration building at 3:30 this afternoon. Professor Oma will speak to the organization. All members and teachers of the department will freshments will be served = Karl Ruprecht, President.
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Eighth and Kentucky streets, announces the University class, Sunday at 9:45 a.m., with the subject, "Science and Religion." The class orchestra, led by Lynn Hackler, will play.
"My Idea of A Good College Student." Laura Helen Johnson is in charge of the devotional service.
The chorus 'chair' and the male chorus will sing special Thanksgiving numbers at the worship service on Wednesday. There will be a Thanksgiving fellowship supper, Sunday, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with toasts and special songs.
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M. G. Miller, formerly a professor at the College of Emporia, and now connected with the educational staff of City Co-operative, will speak Sunday evening to the Westminster Foundation group at 7:30 o'clock.
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Sunday School begins at 9:45 a.m. The teachers are Mrs. Bruce Cameron and Dr. James Naimish. The topic of Dr. Naismith's discussion group Sunday is "Does It Pay to Be Straight in School?"
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