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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1937
Comment
It Needn't Die From Malnutrition
Two famous lecturers and authors recently spoke to University audiences . Ernest Sutherland Bates and Sinchair Lewis. Aside from the fact that both are famous and respected and both are keen observers of American life, they present widely differing personalities and thoughts. Yet both of them are concerned with propaganda in the United States and in the world.
Dr. Bates pointed out that propaganda could be either good or bad. Faced today as we are with great volumes of bad propaganda, he said we must answer with propaganda for the truth.
Mr. Lewis presented the fact that while most of our novelists of today are loading their works with propaganda either for fascism or communism, some few novelists are encouraging the "free, inquiring, critical spirit" which he advances as the essence of democracy.
In a democracy the right of propaganda dissemination, freedom of assembly, press or speech to any of the conflicting political movements cannot be consistently denied. Any democracy that attempts such measures ceases to be a democracy. Neither can a democratic government as such engage in any program of propaganda for self-continuance.
Is it true, then, that a democracy, as Plato pointed out, is by its very nature doomed to suicide?
The answer lies in the nice distinction between a democratic government and a democratic society and the functions of each. A democratic society may use propaganda to its highest extent in an effort to further the cause of democratic government without denying the fundamental concepts of democracy. Novelists, editorialists, lecturers, philippeleers, may well represent democracy against communism or fascism.
Thus the "free, inquiring, critical spirit" in a democracy may well keep that democracy alive.
Just A Couple Of Spending Tourists
Obviously it's too bad someone didn't tell the Baltimore federation of labor all about Edward, or that the United States Chamber of Commerce didn't get busy before the duke and his American-born duchess - were allowed to cancel their trip to this country.
Any Welsh miner could have told the labor representatives that Edward often went on "slumming parties" while he was Prince of Wales and while he was king and that nothing really came of it . . . and that was while he, theoretically at least, was in a responsible position. From that it might be deduced that, whatever Edward's impression of American labor, nothing much would come of it.
The United States Chamber of Commerce might have gone further and pointed out that the money these world-famous tourists would leave here might well have overcome what little difference Edward's impression would have made.
Co-incident with the decision of Japan to join the fascist nets of Europe in an "anti-communist" bloc is the re-appearance of Missouri's ex-Senator Jim Reed on the national scene. He seems tacily to join the military dictatorshins in their hatred of communism.
Missouri's Reed Apes Asia's Japan
In Asia, Japan is saving China from the bolshievik influence by conquering her most productive provinces. She knows that the "reeds" of western China are a minority—a growing and militant minority, but nevertheless a minority. She will not see the Communists, leading as they do the strongest anti-Japanese bloc in China, represented in the Kouminting. She feels that the extension of communistic influence in China means a closer alliance of the Dragon with the Russian Bear, a situation which might challenge the dominance of the Rising Sun in Asia. So, fearing a militant minority's challenge to her Asiatic position and seeing the Nanking government recognize the democratically-elected representatives of this minority in the national parliament, she invades China to stamp out communism. She fears and becomes the enemy of representative democracy in China.
In Kansas City, ex-Senator Reed is saving labor from the red influence by freeing its organization of that communistic peril, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' union. Senator Reed acknowledges that labor should be allowed to organize and to bargain collectively, but he cannot stomach the phrase, "representatives of its own choosing." Instead he would introduce the Donnelley Garment union, an organization dominated by company management and, lacking connections outside the Donnelley Garment company, devoid of the power to
strike. He sees a threat to the present right of the makers of Nelly Don dresses to browbeat, intimidate, and underpay the sweatshop labor employed therein. This threat is two-fold: first, the Norris-Laguardia act outlawing the hated "yellow dog" contract which binds a laborer never to join a union not approved by the company and legalizes the right to bargain and to strike and, second, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' union, which guarantees to labor in the dressmaking industry the right to elect its own representatives. He declares the law unconstitutional and the union communistic. He fears and becomes the enemy of representative democracy in labor.
As Japan calls representative democracy "communicistic," so Jim Reed sees "reds" in the ranks of democratically elected labor representatives.
Campus Opinion
Stifled Pep
Editor Daily Kansam
For the past three years the citizens of Lawrence have been crying for more pop and more enthusiasm in the student body. Lawrence is one of the state's most famous students, and it's hard to thank that to know it that the proud possessor of a winning football team. This year the tide turned and Kansers came out from among the "underdogs" to first place.
After the splendid fight Kansas put up to the Nebraska, which hadn't happened since 1923, the student body came out to celebrate that occurrence. The people went out to celebrate their accomplishment out to celebrate for those boys who went to Lincoln and received in return black eyes and plenty of bruises only to be refused a ten minute rally in the business hall. They were so nervous they were so anxious to keep traffic open on Mass, that they refused to let the students stage a rally. The result was that traffic was tied up much longer than would have been possible if the students had been permitted to rally for ten minutes.
How long will this necessary pep and school spirit students a ten minute rally in the business district?
Disgusted Ralliers,
G. V. S. A. J. P.
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AIEE: M. S. A. Solentic, consulting engineer for KLEM Systems, Inc. Students will be ill spake on power transmission, in Marvin auditorium at 7:30 this evening. All electrical engineering students are urged to attend - Raymond F. Horrell, Chair, KLEM Systems.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION The regular weekly meeting will be held this afternoon in C. Myers hall. All students and faculty members interested are invited to attend—Keith Davis, President.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Home Economics Club at 4:20 this afternoon in the Home Management house. All members are invited to attend - Dorothy Hoxty, Secretary.
TAU SIGMA: Tau Sigma will meet at 8 o'clock
evening in Robinson gymnasium — Catherine Dunkel.
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting Wednesday at 4:30 in the Pine House - Huberla Cook. President.
SOCIAL DANCING CLASS The social dancer
band will be on his evening in the Union
ballroom -Catherine Dankel
W. S.G.A. There will be a regular meeting of the WSSG at evening in the Pine room—Bette Wasson, Secretary.
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Heated Feuds Once Heralded the Coming of the Kansas-Aggie Classic
Not so very long ago, the yearly football game between the University of Kansas and Kansas State College was heralded by a number of disconcerting incidents and exhibits. Both teams were involved with a few glistening bald heads that had been unceremoniously shorn by members of the rival faction. Here and there a statue of a school digitized by the team in bauked with paint by artist impart hands.
By Louis R. Fockele
It was all part of the annual ceremony—the calisthenics which proved the o world that stamina loyalty still matters. The cost to callulate accoutrements.
One of the more disconcerting and upsetting blows that the K, U. raiding parties ever scored during this age-old feud occurred several years ago, it seems that the "cow college" was his proud possessor of two bovine beauties, a Shorthorn and a Black Angus, all sleeked and fattened in readiness for the American Royal livestock show.
These two bossies achieved a much different kind of fame than was expected, however, when it was discovered one morning that K. U. initials had been clipped into their well groomed sides. The Aggies retaliated with one of their favorite punches, the one that is so blaphene as viewed by the "laws." It was more unnerving than that the base of Uncle Jim's green been daubed with purple paint and that the young Jaylawker that stands so immovable by him had been attired in an Aggie sweater.
Frequently during the inter-collegiate war, the rivalry rose to such a high pitch that almost the entire male elements of both student bodies was called upon to defend their respective campuses from the depredations of their rivals. Often the sword in the cry "The Aggies are coming" would ring out over our campus and the whistle would sound the alarm.
Before the first long note would have died out, paddle-armed, half-running minute men could be seen dashing up the Hill with the cry "On to Brick's" on their lips. Many times the whistle had only sounded a false alarm but occasionally some unfortunate Aggie rider would be captured
Students in the radio class of the department of speech and dramatic art will present a play, "Old Man River," over station WREN tomorrow at 6:15 p.m. This play is under the direction of Rolla Nuckles, instructor in the department, and is presented in conjunction with the annual Red Cross drive now in progress.
Radio Class Members To Give 'Old Man River'
The play concerns the loss of life and property caused by the Ohio flood last year, and the work of the filmmakers evoking the effects of that disaster.
Students taking part are Mary Elizabeth Schreiber, *Chr.*; Nola Rings, *Jr.*; James Fowles, *Art.*; Arthur Hammill, *Wolf*; c39, and Ralph Meyer, *C*38.
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It was decided to hold the next meeting of the Forum here. This meeting will be in the spring Plains and it will be held in a series of dramatic entertainment.
Three men from the department of speech and dramatic art attended the convention of the Kansas Theater Forum of Universities and Colleges in Lawrence, Kansas, day. The men were Prof. Allen Cafon, head of the department; Robert Calderwood, associate professor; and Rollia Nuckle, instructor. They all were elected to the Kansas Theater Forum.
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Just as frequently as our students became alarmed over raiders in the night, so did the Aggies live in conjunction with the arousing cry of "everybody out" rang over Aggieville and troops of paulina-claime men poured out of their warm beds into the night to defend them. The devastating effects of invasions.
The big white K that the Aggies prize so highly was once painted a brilliant red despite the cordon of men thrown around it. Steps to various buildings over the campus were often given generous coats of red and blue paint. Usually attacking parties were more or less successful, but in some cases two of them were captured, shorn of their locks, and returned to their fellows with a crude purple K painted on bald heads.
The Agie masseet, Touchdown II, was made the object of many a raiding party, as was our stuffed Jayhawk, but those who appeared with the attackers never were successful for they came, saw, and unlike Caesar, were conquered. The Aggies vowed to feed Chalkie, as he was called, to their wildlife, but this was never accomplished. Dawn never tasted of Jayhawk Reish.
And so the rivalry continued, interrupted only by occasional treaties rounded on the flimsy idea that collapses. At present, the savageness of the eud is strained by a calm. Will it continue through this year and those o come, or will it prove to be only he will cover the storm? We shall
Roosevelt Begins Series Of Business Conferences
Washington, D.C., Nov. 5 — (UP)—Possible resettling of the administration's relief, budgetary, and other economic policies arose tonight after President Roosevelt began a series of conferences to obtain first-hand information on the scope of the current business declines.
kims, Leon Henderson, chief deputy economist; Indor Lubin, head of the bureau of labor statistics; and Currier federal reserve economist.
The President conferred more than four hours today with Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hop
Seven Toes Cat Family Trait
Kenosha, Wis. —(IP)—Three kittens born to a cat owned by Ariene Jackson should be certain to follow in their mother's footsteps. The mother cat has seven toes on each of her front feet. So do the kittens. The rear paws are normal.
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