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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSÁN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. APRIL 27. 1937
Comment
Teachers' Oaths And The Constitution
Repeal of a law requiring Michigan teachers to swear allegiance to the United States is now before the house of representatives after having passed the senate by a 23-4 vote. The senate adopted the repeal measure of Senator Dotschi of Michigan who asserted that "Requiring teachers to take oaths gives them an inferiority complex and makes people think there is something wrong with them." There are innumerable other reasons, but if these did the trick, there is little room for complaint.
Not long ago the governor of Massachusetts vetoed a like measure which would have repealed the teachers' oath bill in Massachusetts. This was to be expected in that staid old state, however.
Certainly the bill should be cast into oblivion. Not only is it a violation of the basic premises of our democratic philosophy which maintains that all views should be presented without restraint, but it is a direct violation of the first amendment of the constitution which has been held applicable to the states also.
And the 14th Amendment has this to say: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law."
No one can deny that the great majority of teachers are citizens, yet the teachers' oath bill deliberately takes away their right to free speech. It is a shameful insult, and it should go.
Barbers Should Have Physical Examinations
Salvatore Ossido, recently sentenced to die for the murder of a 9-year-old child in New York, was a barber. He has been afflicted with syphilis since 1926. For 11 years and more he has been handling customers heads and faces, being infected the while with a disease that is extremely easy to spread. This makes one wonder whether Kansas has any sort of a statute requiring barbers to undergo a physical examination before they are allowed to work on customers.
Investigation shows that nowhere in the rules and regulations concerning the barbering trade is any mention made of a physical examination. A person must pass an examination covering the different phases of barbering, which also takes up skin diseases, but at no time is he required to show that he himself is free from disease before he is allowed to go to work.
Kansas would do well to follow this example and set up some sort of requirements that would safeguard all persons from such diseases when they go into a barber shon.
The neighboring state of Missouri requires all barbers to have a physical examination at least four times a year, and the barber must have his health certificate as well as his license before he is allowed to go to work.
Strange Doings Among the Educated
The old bugaboo of academic freedom in the classroom has again cropped up, this time in America's number one university. Result is that two of Harvard's most prominent young instructors, both in the field of economics, have been informed that when their contracts expire in June, both will receive "two-year concluding contracts" instead of three-year renewals.
Some time ago the American Federation of Teachers, a full-fledged labor union affiliated with the A. F. of L., received quite a jolt when informed that its president, Jerome Davis, will not be re-appointed to Yale's Divinity School faculty.
The two young men who have just received their walking orders from Harvard are, by some strange coincidence, also prominent in the teachers' union, one being vice-president of the organization and the other secretary of the Harvard unit.
A hasty statement issued from Harvard explains that the "cases present no unusual features; decisions have been made solely on grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability."
Because of the facts involved in the case, and because of the brilliant records they have
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. A settlement of student working conditions
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co operating hostel.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
made and the popularity they have achieved, many persons are inclined to think differently.
It was pretty bad when a Tennessee school dismissed a teacher for mentioning the theory of evolution. But when America's leading universities kick out some of their most promising instructors under such thinly veiled pretexts we may well wonder what the country is coming to.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kaman. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Concerning the Senior Class
Editor Daily: Kungwei
This morning a meeting of the senior class has been called. No particular publicity has been given the business to be taken up. If the tactics of former years are tried, the whole meeting will likely be just
Granted that the Association may be fine thing, it will be must repatriate if the class lets a few of its members leave.
Many of us have just about used up our financial assets, but you ought to thank us little to contribute to our stock. It especially those of us who may need all our available cash to carry us over until we get a job, are not anxious spence to make it happen.
Seniors, don't let an organized minority group rallie read your pocketbook. Let's go to the meeting and ask for more information.
Invasion by the Barbs
Invasion by the Barbs
Edition: Daily Knowledge
Editor Daily Kansan;
The Jayhawker (that publication devoted to the author) is one of the most popular articles an article by a local Greek which, surprisingly enough stated that fraternities were probably, at their best only temporary social structures and doomed to de-
But it wouldn't require particularly keen eyesight to perceive that their downfall is not only at hand but actually in action and that the weaknesses causing this downfall are internal.
These factories for producing en masse identical bits of well dressed brainsess carriages have made their way to New York and are the modern intelligent raw material entering college (i.e. the University of Kansas) labs of them and the industry.
Net result: In the recent campus election both parties found themselves unable to select Greeks from their ranks who could fill the presidential shoes, so barrarians were used
The publications of the University, long undefiled by the turbarian bordes have succumbed and the Jay-hawker, Sow Owl and Daily Kansan have been headed all year by non-hellenic journalists.
Conditions are the same all over the campus. The only realms left to the Greeks are the social circles where orchids are the tickets of admission, where books are sold in the library and background are at a minimum. P. K
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epiremata and fir trees coming to
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COLLEGE FACULTY: The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 this afternoon in the Central Administration auditorium — E. H. Lindley, President.
FRESHMAN MEN: There will be a regular meeting of the Freshman Council of the Y.M.C.A. at 7 o'clock this evening in the Y.M.C.A. office—Don Vourhees, Chairman.
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TAU SIGMA: The last dance meeting of the year will be tonight at 7:30. A short program on national dances will be presented first. Please try to be out—Mary Ellen Miller, President.
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Japanese River Provides Thrilling Experience for K.U.History Professor
By Steven David, c37
Picture, if you can, a mad, incredible journey down a raging, swirling river in a primitive boat, a boat whose peculiar "breathing" facility was the only thing that kept water flowing as it lingered over waterfalls, twisted through snurling torents. Prof W. W. Davis of the department of history took such a journey, and he looks upon it as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life.
Even getting to Im, the village on the bank of the Tenryuko, had been a battle. When first the idea of him being an admired professor, he had sought information, only to be told by gaping, but nevertheless diplomatic Japanese, that such a thing "just wasn't done," and it was only after much perseverance that he was able to get the job. Then there was need of a guide.
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But the guides, too, maintained that such things weren't being done, feeling, probably, that they would rather go on living than to attempt to earn their in in so risky a fashion. So Dr. Davis turned to his friend Hisi, who expressed willingness to go along, though he, too, probably wondered where these Americans got such strange ideas.
There is, in Japan, a river called the Tennyuk and though it has tremendous possibilities as a source of electrical power, it is used only for floating logs down to the coast. To this river, by a devious route, came Dr. Davis, accompanied by arickshaw man named Hisa.
Hisa Accomanies Davis
The pair boarded a train a short time afterward, finally reaching Ia by means of an electric railroad which ran to a copper mine nearby. In the night it was in a tiny hotel, happy in the belief that the obstacles were past.
Bribe Captain with Liquor
But with the morning came another problem: no one seemed to feel the urge to go down the river. A crew of five was needed, but the men were busy getting it of themselves and it was only after resorting to a trick as old as Buddha himself, that the necessary crew and boat were garrered. The trick entailed the feeding of immeasurable quantities of Sake, the national alechoic drink of Japan, to a man who seemed to be a captain. By such a man they were acquainted at last able to convince him that it would be worthwhile to hum them.
Then came the trip itself. The boat was a weird, and was as proved, highly scientific contraption. Narrow and long, it turned up sharply at each end and was made of cyprus and criptemae wood. The bottom was thin, giving perceptibly to pressure. Two of the crew stood forward and two in the middle, each equipped with a long bamboo pole. At the rear was a man whose business it was to guide the craft by means of a long air used as a rudder. The function of the crew was that they would—the current did that remarkably—rather to hold it back and to keep it from crashing on the jagged, looming rocks which studded the river. By this time the professor knew he was in for something.
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He and he was not disappointed, for if there was danger, there was also beauty, a beauty rarely seen by the ordinary tourist. Both sides of the river were bordered by huge black
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The crew proved amazing in its skill. Professional rivermen—whose task it was to bring food by boats such as this to the isolated loggers—the they knew the dangers of the river.
 Their knowledge was proved further with each passing minute.
But there was much to disconcert the pair. It had begun to rain and it was necessary to keep the river energetically. Too, the river was getting wilder. Great waves, some of them six feet in height, rose around them. The water could not be seen from waterfalls over which the boat had to ease. Then it was that Dr. Davin discovered the value of the boat's unusual construction: as the boat went over each fall, sometimes at a 45 degree angle, its sharply curved end dipped down and up with the water, thus preventing a spill which probably would have meant death. And the plibble, seemingly breathless, lifted the boat to "bend" with, rather than turn over in the raids.
In the background the lower peaks of the black rock mountains rose to pinnacles, some rising from the forest itself to needles of height. Occasionally a group of loggers could be seen, mere specks on the sky, and there red stains added a smear of color to the whole picture.
The craft passed dozens of waterfalls which came streaming into the canyon, shooting up great billowing clouds of mist through which the boat sometimes passed. At one time the party could see three immense waterfalls at once tumbling down the rocky mountainside. "Your beauty was almost beyond words," the professor declared.
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And when, after seven hectic hours, the end of the rapids was reached, the boat put ashore, having survived a river which fell some 1800 feet in the approximate 120 miles traveled. It would take the crew seven days to tow the boat back, walking along footpaths on the tops or faces of the cliffs and dragging the boat below by means of extremely long kilkened clouds. The ship back, but at fifty cents a day per man, it wouldn't be so difficult. The pair made for the nearest village which they reached after two hours' walking. There they found a Japanese who boasted a Ford car, and it was this conveyance which took them to the small railroad station at Ono.
But Dr. Davis wasn't traveling along a dusty road in a decidedly out-moded car, for in his mind he was re-living that exciting journey he had just completed. "To put into words that experience, one must turn to poetry," the professor will tell you. "It was like another world.
The weird beauty, the intermingling colors of the sombre forests, black cliffs, and the vivid flashes of blood - red azaleas are things I shall always remember. And the enthralling sight of anow-capped mountains, fenthery waterfalls, always with the constant roar of the
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Marian Morris, c'uncet: "It's the spring, without question. As for the color, well, it just comes out that way I guess." We were inclined to believe that she is taking this color; we know how much haps if the grass would change with the fashions, her feminine instinct might be aroused.
After gazing at the broad green fields interspersed with yellow blotches of dandelions the past week, we have given our thoughts over to conjecture as to the origin of these green meadows. Springs come and, but never yet has one failed to bring with it all its green wrappings. Now this greenery-varies with the locality, so in order to keep the stirred-up feel alive, we need Leah's ask, "What makes the grass grow green over the Hill?"
Barbara Goll, c'37: "How should I know? I just take nature as it comes and don't try to delve into its little secrets. It's time nature should be accorded some degree of modesty." If that's not a guilty conscience speaking, we'll put in with you . . . or anybody else.
Charles Lueck, c. 38," I don't protest to know anything about it, but what Uncle Tom told Little Eva is good enough for me. I'm sure the botany department will substantiate me on that." Abh. subtly. Now all cash around and mind find out what Uncle Tom did tell Little Eva, etc.
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Lida Alene Brown, c37: "Of course there are a great many elements combined in the process. Taken as a whole, I suppose they could be classified as 'atmosphere.' That word 'atmosphere' seems a trivial thing; take it you mean the rain, soil, etc." Adelaide comes through in her habitual grand manner with the solution to the whole query. She confided to us, very confidently, you understand, that it was that which made the world, the people, and, oh, just about everything. Now if you tell them what to do to whom you will and if on the other hand you are an athlete, you can always fall back on that steadfast "cureall", science. Your intellect is nothing short of astounding. Adelaide.
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Miss Smith also gave to the University a collection of chrysanthemums, roses and shrubs.
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