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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY JANUARY 7.1937
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Comment
An editorial appears in the Kansas City Star asking, "How End Child Labor?" The writer tells the history of a child labor amendment submitted to the states twenty years ago which proposes that "congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age." So far the amendment has been adopted by 24 states, which is 12 short of the required 36.
Slaving the Newsies
Giving briefly the pros and cons of the argument, the editorial-writer winds up with the statement that child labor over a long period of time has been steadily diminishing and the optimistic observation that "quite possibly it could be speeded up and made more general even if the rather drastic amendment finally were to fail of adoption."
Such thinly veiled opposition to the prohibition of child labor is only typical of every metropolitan newspaper in this country. While it may be true that child labor is diminishing, nothing short of a miracle or an amendment to the constitution could hope to stop exploitation of unskilled minors as long as there are sweatshops, factories, and newspapers which demand cheap, unskilled labor.
The possibility of doing away with their "newsies" is an especial thorn in the side of metropolitan dailies because of the selling appeal which a small boy, ragged and dirty, has for the public.
It is an interesting fact to know that the warden of Sing Sing penitentiary reports that 69 per cent of the inmates in that prison sold newspapers as youths. This can hardly be construed as a coincidence, and gives a fair idea of the influences news boys are likely to come under.
Legally, a newspaper is liable for the health of its carriers only if they are in the employ of the newspaper, but by the system of selling papers direct to the boys, who in turn carry them on the street, the carriers are made "independent merchants" by many publishing houses. The dignified title must give a lot of satisfaction when the owner is run down and finds himself obliged to pay his own doctor bill.
Such are the reasons why newspapers are not in favor of the child labor amendment; and the public is soothed with the suggestion that possibly matters may right themselves even if the amendment fails of adoption. Possible, but not probable.
Monday, December 14, marked the beginning of the thirteenth year of struggle to add the child labor amendment to the U. S. constitution.
Since the NRA breathed its last, it has become imperative that the amendment be ratified. States records show increasing numbers of children leaving school with work permits. Only eight states have laws prohibiting factory employment for children under 16, and these fail to give even the surface protection of which they are capable since many are equipped with exemptions hindering proper enforcements.
The national child labor committee has sent field workers into 19 states where legislatures meet next month, with "almost incredible" statistics and photographs illustrating "ruthless exploitation of young children."
Kansas is one of the states which has not yet ratified the amendment. The state legislature will meet very soon, and the child labor bill will probably be introduced. The usual special interest groups will lobby against it, but the legislators should let nothing stand in the way of ratification. The system of child slavery has endured too long already.
Societal Sense
Not so many years ago, our fathers tell us, a peek at a woman's ankle was really something to write home about. Today silk stocking manufacturers testify to the profitable change in attitude toward this particular brand of ankle-staring immorality.
More important than the sinly shapiness of of a woman's ankle, is the garden variety of morality attached to the popular conception of syphilis and gonorrhea. These two scourges have been commonly regarded, not as dreadful diseases, but as unheavenly curses out of a special hell and unmentionable even in the less polite society. Five years ago the words syphilis and gonorrhea could never have appeared in newspapers pages—and only recently have they been allowed to be used on the radio. Society was being just too polite for its own good.
This taboo actually fostered the spread of the diseases. Public ignorance for generations
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2. Betterment of student working conditions.
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5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
has been the fertile culture providing rich fields in which the germs have bred.
But in the future syphilis and gonorrhea will have to progress without the aid of public ignorance. Over the holidays the first nations conference on the control of venereal disease drew some 500 physicians and health officer to Washington, D.C., to discuss methods of controlling and preventing these "social plagues. Public enlightenment and education proved t be the answer to the convention's problem.
By taking syphilis and gonorrhea out of the unmentionable columns, spreading knowledge concerning their cause, effect and treatment, and mobilizing public opinion along the lines of present tuberculosis campaigns, society will be able to wield a strong controlling force that will aid, not damn, unfortunate sufferers.
Must Face Facts
Both sides seem to be getting nowhere fast in this latest strife between labor and industry as the crisis grows more real every day.
Alfred P. Sloam, president of General Motors, speaks of "labor dictators" and collective bargaining in the same breath and labor labor to understand that his vast corporation will resist attempts of the John Lewis group to unionise its workers. He even has resented moves to draw the conflict out into the open. On the other side, Lewis, his lieutenants, and the workers themselves are just as adamant in their arguments.
Industry doesn't want to face the fact that in the last four or five years the United States has become socially conscious. It shudders when it thinks of collective bargaining or social security, if its last-minute attacks on the latter in the campaign are any indicator. But both are here to stay and are a part of the new order.
Labor is no more unreasonable or unscrupulous in its demands than industry has been in years gone by. It, in effect, is asking only for a square deal from employers and a right to be heard with its own organization rather than by company unions which have plagued the industrial scene for some years.
When industry decides to face the issue—and it must, sooner or later—both sides will be better off and the country as well will gain by the new attitude.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kanan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansas:
(1) A general suggestion to the music critics of the Kansan: Don't be too smugly complacent in your coaching write-ups of musical events that take place at a college or a professional basketball/music halls are likely to play tricks on even Kansan critics. Remember that perhaps you are sitting in one of those trick, off-balance, anything-but-good stuff and that writing your criticism you may be expressing a minority, if not an individual opinion. Were you to occupy a seat not ten feet away your impressions might be entirely different. It's best to be pretty sure
(2) . A specific suggestion to the reporter who covered the Christmas Voeps; It is often in good taste to investigate the problem from a客观 point of view, by the Kafkaian or the supposed-lumely, debunking writings. A paragraph might be devoted to the bad journalistic style of the writer, and the opposing opinion is on the defensive rather than the offensive.
Just for the Vesper critic's own information here are a few of the worries of any vesper organist: (1) A recessional accompaniment must be played noticeably enough to be heard, and (2) the audience which is facing the organ rather than the singers.
(3) . As for tempo, the organist is at the mercy of the choral group, since no lead can be taken with the instrument. (4) In this case, the instrument is in motion.
(2) If the organ is played too softly the singer loses
the pitch, which you obviously would object to.
(4) He must worry about the reporter who may be sitting in some accountedly-crazy spot and find the reporter.
P S - *Vying* "and "mammoth instrument" are pretty words.
ALEE. There will be a meeting of the KU.
branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at 7:30 this evening in Room 206, Marvin hall.
There will be a short program, after which the election
EL ATENEO: The first meeting of the Spanish Club for the new year will be held this afternoon. Retirees who wish to participate in the business meeting. Those who attend our sessions last year and who are not now members of the club may attend as well.
Official University Bulletin
Claude Parish, Secretary
Vol. 34 Thursday, January 7 1937 No. 71
Helen Mvers. President
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: The meeting originally scheduled for today has been postponed until Thursday, January 14. All members will be notified by card as to the nature of the program.
OWL SOCIETY. The Owl Society will hold its January meeting tonight at 7 o'clock at the Delta Chi house. Meeting will be ended in time for members to attend the forum. Newton Hovestock, President
Martha Peterson, President
Y.M.C.A. CABINET. There will be a meeting of
Cabinet members at 4:30 in the YMCA in
Greensboro and Greene County.
YW.C.A. CABINET. The YW.C.A. cabinet will
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Mrs. Beaupre. Please be prompt.
One Survey Claims Winning Teams Do Not Greatly Benefit Universities
Such is the comment that is often encountered when the subject of variety athletics comes up for discussion—especially the subject of the success or failure of the team during the season.
"It stands to reason that a college or university gains in many directions if such an institution has a winning football team."
The belief in the potency of football publicity in the upbuilding of a college is as widespread as the belief once was that a pet of gold would be found at the foot of the rainbow—and equally illusory according to the findings of Mr. A. C. Martz, who has taught on the subject of college publicity and the ways it can be used in securing more endowment funds.
But does it "stand to reason"?
Don't Help Knowns.
In a study on college football and athletic apps, "Does this glittering shop-window exhibit draw into the cloistered halls of learning patterns of education who leave behind them gifts and offerings?" And Mr. Marts, after a careful search, declares, "It does not."
Marts points out in his study that these colleges without "big-time" football and all that goes with the usual Saturday afternoon hippodrome show have, during the past decade or two, fared far better in attracting students and endowment funds. But the most tried to attract attention with big football stadia, Rose Bowl teams, etc. The report goes on:
The explanation, according to Mr. Marts, is simple. He declares that advertising and publicity are of value to a college or university provided they publicize the college and its functions.
"Is publicity, then, of no value to a college? This failure of the widely-publicized college in comparison with the achievements of quater institutions will seem incredible to a generation which has learned to put a blind faith in the magic value of advertising."
"But football publicity is not college publicity; it is football publicity. The two concepts are in separate air-tight compartments and publicity about one has practically no effect either for good or ill, on the other."
Registration Unaffected
No one does a "big league" football game without the Carnegie Foundation reports on intercollege athletics point out that "as matter of fact the athletic reputation of a college or university, and especially its success at college sports, is something to do with college registration."
According to the most reliable data, then, this notion that a college or university must have a winning football team does not, to refer to the statement at the beginning of this article, "stand to reason."
Yet there seems to be a determined effort on the part of some individuals to make football and varsity athletics in general more glittering than ever. The experience of colleges that have started out with a determination to expand by way of the football route has been disheartening to say the least. Over-emphasis of football has produced universities academically speaking and there are colleges in the United States that probably will never get out from beneath the heavy burden imposed by winning football teams.
In his recent biennial report on the university to the board of regents, Dr. titus D. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, pointed out: "Certain claims are set up by the friends of American sports. One is
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that they increase attendance at universities that have successful teams; another is that they increase the revenues of these institutions; and a third is that they help to improve the educational work of such institutions. Not a single one of these claims is true."
The camp photographer was setting up his camera in the company street. The sergeants came straggling out of their tents to have a picture taken. A fine sight they were, toule headed, bleary eyed.
"Vigilantes No. 8"
Incidentally, Dr. Coffman suggested an eight-point program to deflate intercollegiate football that has elicited a lot of comment and argument. This program includes the following points: no professionalism; high scholarship standards for athletes; games between natural rivals; reduction of athletic gate receipts; reduction of athletic experience; support of free admission; free admission for students to many, if not all, games; and halting, insofar as possible, the activities of professional gamblers.
Coming from the head of a university that has been at the top of the intercollegiate athletic heap for quite a period, these statements are significant and offer further evidence that the trend toward further and closer analysis of the relationships that exist between athletic programs and the well-being of the college or university is becoming marked.
It was Friday afternoon, a half holiday and the two weeks encampment was nearly at an end. Since before noon, boisterous laughter had been coming from the serpent's tent. The company loafed and caught up on bunk fatigue, glad for a respite from the vigilance of the higher non-coms who seemingly hated to see anyone rest—except themselves.
"Look at Randallp. Just because he served a hatch in the navy, he can not pit eyeed with the sergeants. Any one could be drunk or not as if, not be drunk in camp."
The aforementioned corporal was thrusting a bottle at the photographer. "Hell you ain't no better'n we. Have a drink."
A mocking byena-like laugh floated from the open front of a tent.
"Who did that?" the burly Randolph demanded as he glared belligerantly into its depths.
"Whata ya gonna do about it?" drawled husky, grinning private
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"Shut up you damn fool," prowls Benny's own corporate who had been fighting desperately to cover up the obvious contempt of his背叛 for the abuse.
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"By God, you fall out here or I will come in there after you."
"I wouldn't deprive you of that pleasure," drawn Benny insultedly. From the crowd, which had gathered in a semicircle around the front of the tent almost as if by magic, came a murmur. Such audacity and foul-burdened was seismon seen in the company long noted for its hardboiled nature.
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"Take your boy friend home and let him sleep it off" he told the sorgeants contemptuously as they picked up the fallen hero.
The next moment Randolph struggled to his feet on the other side of the tent wiping the blood from his battered mouth. The still grimming private grabbed the bulking corporal by the collar and gave him what is known in the vernacular as "the burr rush."
Filled with "tightree" wrath and spiked cokes, Corporal Randolph charged into the tent and jeerked the offending private to his feet.
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"Report to the captain's tent immediately."
"I knew it!" the luckless private corperal granted as private Benny marched away at the Lientenant's side.
"You just can't get away with anything. Those birds always have the power on their side."
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The company didn't see the Lieutenant's smile as he turned the earrer out of their sight. They didn't see the handkendra he gave the fearful lieutenant a piece of cheerworms when the company fell in for revolt next morning.
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