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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1937
Comment
Where Lies the Blame?
In the present "red" probe at the University, the tendency of outside "investigators" has been to obscure the issue and lose perspective by warping and magnifying the facts until at last we have the ridiculous charges made yesterday against a dean on the faculty and the secretary of the University Y.M.C.A. The published statements of these two men need no elucidation.
What, then, is the issue?
Communism is not the issue. Mr. Henry's conviction that Communists exist here is not surprising. If the University is to be a cross-section of the country, the absence of representatives of all factions would indicate an unhealthy state of academic freedom. The Communist party is a recognized, legal organization in this country, and the national ballot bears its name and emblem. Communists have a legal right to exist.
Don Henry's reasons for going to Spain are not the issue. Psychological experts can easily interpret the real influence, or combination of influences, which caused him to react as he did. The fact that Don Henry did go to Spain is the real issue. Mere possession of funds with which to make the trip would not influence the average person to follow his example.
The issue is certainly not negligence or complicity on the part of the University. How much supervision should the University make of student extra-curricular activities?
It cannot be legitimately claimed that the University must see to it that each of the 4,500 students obey all the laws of the United States or of the state of Kansas. Students are, or should be, old enough to accept such responsibility for themselves.
The issue involved in the present situation revolves around an individual's reaction to a challenge that despite its appeal to idealism also happens to have transgressed the criminal code of the United States by enlisting in the armed forces of a foreign power.
Thus the issue that stands out clear and uncompromising is: A former student violated the federal criminal code and his tragic death has called attention to that act.
University officials have accepted more than their share of responsibility in carrying on an investigation of the activities that led this former student to commit the act he did.
Logically, the cry should be. Why did not the federal government take steps to see that its criminal code would not be violated?
A House Divided Against Itself-ported a record circulation of 1335 books. This is 131 books over the previous high of 1294. Perhaps by the time mid-season examinations have taken the measure of the student body, some fruits of this extraordinary cranial exertion may be evident.
Eight million organized workmen this week turn their eyes toward Denver as the American Federation of Labor opens its annual convention, held this year in the Colorado capital city. And well they may, for the actions of the convention may prove to be the death sentence of labor's power for many years to come.
If the A.F. of L. ostraizes its rebellious offspring, the Committee for Industrial Organization, the schism already existing between fairly equal halves of America's organized labor will become permanent. But the question is not whether the A.F. of L. or the C.I.O. will reign hereafter.
The split is fundamental, leaving divided labor groups instead of a cohesive, organized force. The factual dispute will, after a time, rearrange itself, but in the meantime an effective fight for labor's cause hangs fire.
Maybe It's The Roman in Us-ported a record circulation of 1335 books. This is 131 books over the previous high of 1294. Perhaps by the time mid-season examinations have taken the measure of the student body, some fruits of this extraordinary cranial exertion may be evident.
Luckily the Nebraska fullback who was injured in the Minnesota-Nebraska game last Saturday will recover. Coincident with his unfortunate accident, an article appeared in a national magazine discussing the permanent mental and physical wobe wreaked by football.
Many cases have been cited of "punch drunk" or "slap happy" footballers who continue through life in a perpetual mental muddle after failure to recover from head injuries received in playing the game. Broken bones, cuts and bruises are the natural order of the day in football, and are taken with a good-natured grimace. But permanent mental injuries are too high a price to pay for sixty minutes of sport.
Protective equipment has been perfected that to a certain degree prevents many injuries, but real reform will have to come from the game itself. Some changes in the rules have been made in the past few years which have helped in this respect, and before football is lifted out of the barbarian, gladiitorial combat status, some more changes in the game will have to be made.
Will We
Never Learn?
Hand-slapping with diplomatic notes has increased to such a proportion that it should be classed as the international sport.
Just such practices as those Secretary of State Hull now employs are the ones that drew us into the last war. Long formal letters dealing with different phases of international law are quite useless during a state of conflict. Their only significance is that they publish to the world our sympathies and serve as invaluable counsel to traders in munitions.
The absence of any international law in time of war is a fact accepted by international lawyers over the world. Why, then, should we or any other nation endanger our state of peace by airing our sympathies to possible allies and enemies? Perhaps this inexcusable practice is being used as a step in the continuity leading from a state of peace to a state of war.
Campus Opinion
Congratulations
Yesterday's editorial dealing with the housing problem should arouse the proper authorities and the community.
Editor Daily Kansi
The rooms situation in Lawrence is the worst to be found at any state university in the country. This is because most of them are not only have housing programs with private owners, but a big many have long time projects which will take years to complete.
An example of a constructive housing program that is under way is the one at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where students are housed in dormitories men students. Such a project not only adds revenue to the school coffers but brings the student closer to their host country.
We have a large stadium and a great need for inhabitable rooms, why then, do we not the students lobby and stalls?
I know that the reason lies in that students are jellies and something like apes in that they cannot keep their minds on any one thing for more than a moment. I don't have to negotiate a committee for this fine action. A hill climber
Official University Bulletin
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Saturday for Sunday.
Vol. 35 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937 No.21
A. S.M.E. The A.S.M.E. will hold its first regular meeting of the year this week in 206 Marvin hall. The meeting will start promptly at 8 o'clock and cover of moving pictures—Donald A. Barnett, Sectarian.
GRADUATE FACULTY: There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Graduate School at 4:38 p.m. tuesday, Oct. 12, in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building—E. H. Lindley, President.
KAPPA PHI. There will be a picnic at Engel's thumbnail in front of Robinson gymnasium at 4:30. -Aiden Peters
PHI DELTA KAPPA: Professor U. G. Mitchell will be the speaker at a Phi Delta Kappa meeting to be held on Monday evening. Oread Training School on Monday evening, Oct. 11. He also be a business meeting - Gilbert Ulmer, President
PHI SIGMA: The first meeting of Kapca of Phi Sigma will be held at 7:38 this evening in 206 snow hall. Dr. R. I. Canutesse will speak of "The Tuberculin Reaction." Dr. R. H. Thompson, Secretary.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Green room of Fraser hall. Everyone is invited to bring a manuscript to be read and criticized—Kenny Lewis, Chancellor.
**STUDENT FORUMS BOARD:** There will be a **living in the Pine room at 4:30 today** — Dean Moorhead.
TAU SIGMA: Final tryouts for Tau Sigma will be
held at the University of Miami. Attendance is required.
Catherine Dunkel, President
W. A.A. : There will be an important business meeting today in Robinson gymnasium. Members please be present.
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By John Bondson
This is in the story of Freddie and Frieda and Freddie and Frieda are members of the freshman class ... and how they encountered difficulty on the Hill never before encountered by crops.
Librarians Are Swamped By Swollen Volume of Business
By John Bondeson
It all has to do with Watson library, and their efforts to study there. For some reason, as yet unexplained, or indicated by results in classrooms, upperclassmen are spending time in the library this year. Great numbers of them are spending time in great quantities, and when Freddie and Frieda go to the reserve desk to get a book, they first have to wait interminably for a chance to stutter the name of the volume to impatiently retrieve it, they must wander through the room in search of a chair... two chairs together, for it would be a shame to separate Freddie from Frieda.
To date, the reserve desk has reported a record circulation of 1335 books. This is 131 books over the previous high of 1294. Perhaps by the time mid-season examinations have taken the measure of the student body, some fruits of this extraordinary cranial exertion may be evident.
on the SHIN by Virgil Mitchell
Mid-Semesters May Benefit
Many times they discover no such seats, and have to resort to the periodical room, which in most cases provides them with a general reading room upstairs. Ambitious Freddie and Friada are usually rewarded for their climb, and settle into adjacent seats, where they study for a time in happy proximity. But not for long, for the reasons the students have taken much of their budgeted time for study ... it is a bad situation.
Betty Graham, Guest Conductor
'Isn't it wonderful what a car will do for one's personality?' Eddie Sifford, over at the Phi Delt burn, used to be just a nice quiet engineer, always on the books and out of the way of the brothers. This year, the folks came through with a snappy little Olds convertible—and Ed is a changed he. He's keeping up with the rest of the boys, dating such bits of sophistication as the Butler kiss of Milwaukee, and even giving Romance and Moonlight a fwe, hearing. Oh, well, even an engineer will turn.
It looks as though the Greeks are taking a beating from the independents this year in more instances than one. They're telling the story now of the barbarian engaged to a Chi O and a Gamma Pi simultaneously who up and jilted them both on the same day. Probably just wanted to show he could take em or leave him. But I think Margaret Wilson of Kansas City is gal who should do right well by herself.
After the A.O. Pi-Beta hour dance the other night, the girls have decided to honor the boys by carrying out the pink-and-black motif in decorations, etc. What was the trouble, and why did they forget they were little gentlemen?
The Landon system of apple-polishing (in case you didn't know) consists of starting on the back row of a class, gradually moving up, until at the last of the semester Peggy Ann is shining directly in front of the camera. And at the course. As if this were any stage of the game to be sublute.
Add idle ambitions. To be able to dance like Marian Dresser. . Betty Cole is a very, very extreme introvert, the psych test探察. Tsk tsk, if Dietter had only known. She can't truck either. . Wish Rola Nuckles was as good a teacher as he is a guy. . Ross Robertson has absolutely the sillest walk. . Wonder who the guy is who answers the Gam Phi phone so much of the time. . Russ Brother Bill. . Brother Bill. . Nominations for some of the cuter fraternity neophytes: Johnny Fowel, Sigma Nur. Jack Minor, S.A.E; John Battfeld, Beta. . By the way, what's become of the Kappa Siig's -haven't heard of them since rush week.
Upholding our belief that journalists are a bunch of neurotics, comes this story of the Reporting I student filing "blind"* turned in this copy;
"Yesterday morning at 4 p.m. a small man named Jones or Brown or Smith, with a host in the hole of his wife, is blowing a dose of suicide. by swallowing a dose of suicide.
Theories Vary on Phenomena
Theories vary as to the cause of this academic phenomena. There are those who think it is an abnormally high rate of resolutions which would ordinarily have fallen to normalcy by now.
"The verdict of the inquest returned a jury that the deceased came to the fact in accordance with his death. He leaves a child and an annuity, and he died of untimely死亡. In death we are in the midst of life."
Others attribute it to a group of new and over-zealous professors who, true to the pattern of new professors, have high illusions as to the industry of University students; they have a long list of the books they have failed to read in their undergrad years. Some students should give their classes every opportunity to absorb the learning to which they were exposed.
Results in Vicious Circle
But to get back to Freddie and Frieda . . . here, perhaps, is the solution to the mystery. Freddie and Frieda represent, perhaps, a conscience. We are told that he will come to school many strong, with determination to get the most out of every hour. They are zealous.
Added to the usual run of library patrons, they make an impressive assemblage. The casual-calling-upper-sclassman, seeing this uniquely privacy, no doubt is alarmed. He concludes the competition is going to be stiff and that it might be advisable for him to add his presence to the multitude.
And so, a vicious circle is responsible for the swollen volume of 15
New English Course Honors Better Students
The department of English is offering this semester, in addition to the honor courses in English, introductory French, and expressly for the superior student.
For some years the department has provided for the student who has difficulties with written composition. Now it is adding another course in writing and mentoring both at Kansas University and elsewhere to do something for the student of unusual ability. Freshmen are admitted to a special rhetoric class by means of examinations which test their ability in English. Students are exempted from two hours of the five hour requirements in rhetoric.
superior ability and an excellent high school training."
"The new course," said Mr. Harold D Jenkins, instructor in the department of English, who is teaching the course, "might be described as a 'telescoped' course—that is, one in which the normal five hours of training in freshman composition is condensed into a three-hour course. This means that the students who are admitted to the class must have
The 16 students who were admit
ted this year are: John Begert, Toperka
High School; James Bernard, Westport High School, Kansas City; Moz. Bette Burrows, Eagle Rock High School, Cedar Creek; Jordan Jr. Topeka High School; Bruce Crabtree, Wichita H1 gh School; East; Marion Crenshall, Toperka High School; Oliver Edwards, Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Ks.; Margaret Hagen, Rock Ridge High School; John Hutchinson Senior; Margaret Hydre, Lawrence High School; Jeanne Knick, Dickinson County Community High School, Chapman, Kan; William B. Langworth, Leavenworth; Sue Anvent Owen, Toperka High School; Robert Smith, Waverley High School; Waverly, Kan; Jean Stouffer, Lawrence High School
Camera_Club_Will_Meet
The K.U. Camera Club will hold its initial meeting in room 102,
education building at 7 o'clock tonight. All members are urged to attend; all students interested are invited.
K F K U
October 7-Thursday
October 9-Saturday
9:13 p.m.—The intramural sports review by Nelson Sullivan.
9:15 p.m. - Jayhawk Trumpeteers.
p. m.-Physical Education for Health. Discussion by Miss Ruth Hover, Miss Elizabeth Dunkel, and Mrs Alice Sherrow Baumann, Dr. F. C. Allen will introduce the speakers.
October 8-Friday
4:28 p.m.—Campus News Flashes by Prof. W.A.Dill.
2:00 p.m. Sham.
6:00-8:30 p.m. Violin recital, Professor Waldmar Geltch.
6:00 p.m. Piano recital, Mary Jane Bruce, studio Professor Carl A. Preyer
If you guess the prices from the models .you'll be wrong
You'll think $50 . . . when the price ticket says $29.50. All these suits cost less than they look even off.
There's not a $29.50 suit in this Fall stock that doesn't wear $50 ear and eye marks and if you judge the suits without asking the prices, you'll be $10 to $15 out of the way.
So you can imagine how much money they look like ON.
COME SOON
SPORTS COATS 16.95
TOPPERS 1.00
SPORTS OXFORDS 4.50
BEE JACKETS 1.25
SKIRTS 2.95
SWEATERS 2.95
WEAVER'S — SECOND FLOOR