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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936
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Diamond Jubilee
Kansas is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this week in Wichita. But the exposition is not just another "state fair." It is a parade of Kansas industries built up through seventy-five years of progress.
Kansas has been known so long as an agricultural state that few people are aware of the fact that it surpasses such well known mining states as Colorado, Montana and Utah in mineral production. More than two and one-half billion dollars worth of mineral wealth has been removed from Kansas petroleum. Petroleum leads the field. Gas and oil are found in 28 counties. Natural gas, coal and zinc rank high in the list, and the amount of volcanic ash produced in Kansas exceeds that in all other states. The only commercially valuable deposit of hydraulic lime known in the country is found in Wallace县。
While the annual income from minerals ranks second only to agriculture in the state, there are those who claim that the manufacturing industry exceeds agriculture in value of product.
Kansas ranks first in the milling of flour. More gasoline lamps and stoves than are made in any place else in the world are made in this state. Here also is a great revolving door factory and the greatest garden tractor factory in the world. And farm tools, household tools and industrial tools made in Kansas are winning world-wide recognition.
Seventy-five years of progress in this, the Prairie State, has opened wide the door of opportunity.
Agriculture still represents the largest single source of basic income, but the mineral and petroleum industries are expanding and will continue to expand. And the future of industrial development and advantages lies in the realization of opportunities at hand.
An enterprising reporter suggests subway trains be run in the University tunnel. We bet he wasn't in that Maxwell hall jam during blue card filing...Indiana Student.
Evening News cartoon: Coach advising team on opposition before the game, "And keep your eyes on their fullback. He'll run toward the near-record newscel camera every time."—Daily Trojan.
It might be a good plan to give all members of a symphony orchestra an audition to see whether they can cough in the key they're playing in.— Daily Texan.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor and should not be considered to contain length are sections to cutting by the editor. Contributions may not be combined with other articles.
Dear Kamaishi, prove that you are not a one sided player and put this in your opinion column. We have
It is with much disqut that I read the campus opinion column and find such lovely letters telling how a foot-stealer can get away.
Really I am surprised that they could spare the time to talk with me. And I had to take time off in the middle of it to order another copy.
First of all, I would like to state that there are enough suits in the dressing room to suit any and all of those who wear them. We usually have 2 for 3 hours every day while the kindly writers of these letters are either having a beer with their fraternity or just hanging out.
We leave for Iowa State tonight. Maybe we will win and maybe not, but one thing is certain we would feel better if they won. We will certainly be trying to do our best this back bit. We will certainly be trying to do our best. I can say about this student body. Who is so tight with me?
Are you fair weather friends? Any body has a lot of friends and support when they are on top but true friends are always on top.
You say why not get better boys here. I say why you take care of the ones you have. I myself was one of those kids, and I will never be many more of the boys. You have at this time some coaches that are so good as any. The only trouble is that we are mainly sophomores not to working with girls but they are a big part of it and good as any, but we will never get any where with no coaches.
Other schools have good teams and so can we, but we need both moral and financial support. The biggest challenge is to make sure that students
These schools that you so much admire fix good jobs, that do not keep you from getting your regular sleep. Some schools make it easier for sors that send their checks every month. They all eat three good meals and be more than 10 hours away. You play they say, flat up so we can have enough time to study and sleep 9 hours a night, but no work hours a day at 30 or 60 minutes.
We are glad to get the chance to work our way through school and get the education.
You will probably say that you are in favor of fixing football players. But no athletic dept can do it. Their support come from alumna and supporters. How about it? If you want a real team at least give us your moral support and we will try to win games on 6 or 7 hours a week. Our coach will work on our time and money will allow under the present set up.
We sincerely thank the Athletic dept. and coaches, staff, and alumni for their support. We thank our friend which is more than we can say about this beer drinking, surely lunge hounds that call themselves the Lunge Hounds, but we don't talk about what they don't like about our team then come back with advice.
I personally would like to see anyone of them follow through our footsteps for one practice. I will lay 10 to 1 odds that they haven't got the guts to take it. Yet they did. And I suspect someone one for something they know nothing about.
You say you want to see the ball thrown around even if we just stand still. If you could only you could the ball passed. But if we are putty enough
alright. We will play to suit the crowd but if we are playing to win we will play it the way we see fit.
(Editor's Note: This letter was received by us in good faith. We are printing it without change. It is suggested that any such communication in the future bear the writer's signature and the initials with which he has written it.)
Editor Daily Kansan:
Yes, Phog, when a football player drops a punt he reminds himself. Don't you think you are running for the wrangle?
"Three hundred students late to Saturday's game!" Possibly so, Phog. but that's not entirely spirit—remembrance of numbers, having your "petition picture" looked at, signing names and others. There are always three long lists of names that I do not order to see the game from unseeded teams, and still wormy they have to look directly into the sun. "No, I don't."
"The old order changement yielding place to the new"
"order in the middle of the season. Had his print been"
"moved in the middle of the season."
Of course a popular star was at Stukey will bolster
himself with a wonderful player and really
known his football. ASK IHM.
We will never have a winning team if such a spirit makes the team lose. Maybe the larger percentage of the student body is wrong, but it is easier to convince or remove one or two men than it is to remove several thousand students and teachers.
No Phog. I'm not crazy enough to sign my name but
I am back of the Kansan 100 per cent. I think I know.
(Why don't I check out a suit?)
Editor Daily Kansan:
May an old Grad who does not profess to be a "downtown quarter back" have a small voice in your ear? May you want to play football and And yet want more open style, and you contend the coaching is punk unless we produce it? If the coaches will only become dazzle-dazzle, the miracle of school sports will happen. And if we whether we lose games or not. Many passes will make you look happy, eh! All right, Mr. Edison. You are a champion. And all of us K. U. Z. Iowa state K. U. Z. word passes attempted: K. U. Z. Iowa state $^{22}$. And so, Mr. Editor, you team plays its heart out making all the passes it can in order to win. At University and the Kansas stuff your paper bursts forth with a funeral dge on Sunday, in which there is much weeping and wailing
Again let's look at the rows: "New York, Oct. 10—A big southern football pass, attached to its opponent, brought down by the Polo Gente as a result Fordham's outplayed Rams defeated the invading Mustangs from Dallas 7 to 0 in a highly important game."
"Statistics: Yards gained in passing—Fordham 0. S.
M U, 217."
This, my dear Editor, on the part of the greatest exponent of the life in the United States is it borne upon Mr. Edison, my Mr. Editor. To him I am grateful to body at Fordham offered a terrific set-back by this victory of their team, because they played straight foot-
Again the news. "Columbus, O. Oct. 10-By the exclusive and convincing use of 'old fashioned' football, Pittsburgh's Panthers won a victory for unadulterated, fundamental methods of offense witnessed in many a moon and noteworthy particularly for the thoroughness with which Pittsburgh umbroiled the heralded 'razzle-dazzle'
Read that full story, Mr. Editor, and then be consistent with your logic and tell us that the spirit of Pitt was a celebration of our heritage.
I can only conclude that freshmen are now controlling the paper, for one a yearning would forget the noise at Colorado. I refuse to admit that real spirit manhood is in the classroom, but I am forced to the unhappy conclusion that while material for clean spirit manhood, fine manhood, courage and leadership is crucial to the coaches, it is tragically absent in the leaders of the school.
Yours in the name of the good old days at K. U when bon fire were burned even when the team was winless.
Richard B. Stevens,
Old Grad Vintage of '25.
County Attorney, Douglas County
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Vol. 34 TUESDAY, OCT.13,1936 No.24
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Council ON RELIGION: All church young people's groups of Lawrence churches are urged to send their ministers, presidents, and another student representative to the organizational meeting of the Council on Religion at the University of Koma today in Myers hall at 4:30 p.m. The Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. are each held by the Student Ministry and another student representative; the Peace-Action committee by two delegates; and the University administration by one.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. There will be a special meeting of the Men's Student Council tomorrow night at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 23.
FRESHMAN MEN. There will be a regular meeting of the Freshman Council of the Y.M.C.A. this evening in the Y.M.C.A. office, basement of the Memorial Union building, at 7. Don Voorhees, Chairman
KAPPA PHI. There will be a hamburger fry at 5 p.m. today in the Methodist Church. All pledge and donation are welcome.
of Freshman Council
PHI DELTA KAPPA: The first meeting of the current year will be held in room 115 Fraser, Thursday, October 15 at 7:30. Professor W. J. Brockbank, of the School of Law, who received his Ph. D. degree at the University of Paris, will speak on the French school system. Gilbert Ulmer, President
William Zupanec, Secretary
TAU SIGMA: The first regular dance meeting will be held Tuesday night to 8. Everyone please be present.
WORLD STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION: Moni Sen, graduate of Saint Stephen's College, Delhi, India, and John C. Alexander, graduate of Ornord College, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, will speak on "America Through the Eyes of Visting Students" under discussion with Dr. Dan Keller, under will discuss "The World Student Christian Federation, Its Present Influence and Work" at Westminster Hall at 7:38 p.m. today. Dorothy Hodge.
WORLD STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION: Moni
Paul Moritz. Co-chairmen
Was Columbus a Crook? Mystery Shrouds Character of School Boys' Hero
On Thursday night, the 11th of October, 1482, Juan Rodriguez Bernejo, a sailor, stood on the prow of Columbus' ship, the PINTA, and strained his eyes into the shadows ahead. As the light of the full moon strengthened he saw a large explosion in the sandbank some little distance away. Tremely he examined it, making sure that it really was land, and thereupon he briskly seized a lombard (Lombard yum) and discharged it, exclamating, "Terraal Tierra!" The next day, Friday the 12th, Columbus and the miners of the Santa Maria, Pinta, and St. John were recorded European history on the American continents officially began.
It has been quite conclusively ascertained by historians and paleontologists that Lel Ericson and his band of roving Norwegian landed on the coast of Texas in 1842, and that Mexico was known to some Oriental race 1000 years before the time of Columbus. Credit for the discovery, however, has gone to Columbus because, it is claimed, it was only after his voyage in 1492 that people became aware of the fact that this uncircumclosing expense actually was a new land.
Did Columbus. Come before 1492
There can be no doubt that Columbus came to America. But did he really discover America? And was his voyage of 1492 the first trip here? Was it beaten by another ship? Was his new route to India or was it for some other reason that he was prompted to sail west from Spain? Was Columbus really an Italian, born in Genoa? . . . or was he a Spaniard? Many an historian in these 430 years since 1506, when Columbus died, had slept happily by those historical ghosts which are ever-current and invisible.
Packed away in the storerooms in a few ancient Spanish courthouses are long yellow files of testimony taken between the years 1512 and 1536 by the Tribunals of Justice. The credibility and consistency of these testimonials have led certain ardent investigators to believe that this was the discord and discovery of America was not Columbus, a navalier of the port of Huelva, Spain, named Alonso Sanchez?
The starting revelations of the testimones are, in part, briefly as follows. Alonso Sanchez of Huelva was the master of a ship with which he navigated between Spain and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Sailing from the Canaries on his last voyage with the object of returning to Spain he ran into a tempest, which, after many dreadful struggles and dramatic incidents, brought him in sight of the island far off in the unknown West.
The fatigued mariners landed, no doubt thanking God for their delivery from the prospect of a horrible death. They provided themselves with necessary food and supplies, and, gathering samples of gold and other things they sought, sought to return to Spain over the route by which they had come.
At the end of many days of great suffering and after having been forced to change their course, they succeeded in reaching the Madeiras.
Alonso Sanchez was an expert sea man and formed during the voyage a chart of the route he had followed in going and coming on that remarkable journey. Probably his chief anxiety was to draw an exact chart of the route he had taken, so he made under the trying circumstances he no doubt sufficiently correct.
Naturally and eagerly, Sanchez went to Columbus for assistance, and, receiving it, in gratitude continued to him the gift of equipment, showed him all his papers, computations and chart, amplifying their incompleteness with verbal explanation.
Sanchez Aided by Columbus
Columbus lodged the worn-out and ill Sanchez in his house. And in his house, the records declare, Sanchez had suffered and compassionate, he sheltered the few remaining mariners who had survived the sufferings of their ill-fated voyage. But curiously enough, nothing was recorded of them; they died there!
In the island of the Madeiras called Pato Santo, at which he landed, lived a young Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus. Sanchez, to doubt, had heard of him during his travels.
Columbus Used Sanchez Charts Soon thereafter in 1484 the calculs
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ing man, Christian Colon, his (name, these records show are not Columbus nor the Spanish or Italian translations thereof) carrying the papers of Alonso Sanchez, come to Portugal to offer it in his subtle way the discovery of a New World. For many years he treated the young men who accepted set in Portugal but in Spain.
Thus runs the narrative through the court testimony in the law auctions instituted against the Crown by the heirs of Henry VIII. How much weight we should give to these revelations in view of the tremendous amount of controversive "sacr" that has been recorded in favor of the history of the discovery, it is hard to say.
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The recent death of Professor Luis Ulloa, Peruvian historian, recalls the account that gentleman gave the Americanists Congress in 1930 of what he considered to be the true story of the puzzling mariner.
"After eight months' study among the Spanish archives in Madrid," Ulloa said, "I can definitely declare that Colon became the leader before 1492 and that he came to the New World by way of Ireland, Greenland, Labrador, and Newfoundland. He was accompanied by a Danish captain came without the aid of Spanish knights."
Undeniably confusing and contradictory, these reports. How much of them are fabrications, figments of the imagination, or stories enlarged to incongruity by the telling and retelling through the years we do not know.
Who Was Columbus?
Even the reports of Colon's origin are obscure. If we are to believe with the old school represented by that scholarly history Henry Vigi a n u d, whose work on the subject is not to Columbus (not Colon) really discovered America in 1492, that he was a son of a Genoese wool weaver, and that he came to Spain, a poor man, in search of support of his theory that the world really is round and that a trade route India could be found by going west.
On the other hand, what of the knowledge Ulloa claims as factual that he was the son of a Catalonian corniar with King Juan II of Aragon. And what of his king, the likewise 'positive' knowledge of W. G. Nash, English historian, who maintains, "Christological Colon was NOT founded by an independent province of Pontederve, Galicia, Spain."
Four hundred and forty-four years have passed since that eminent navigator and the crews on the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina planted the flag of Queen Isabella in the wilderness of a New World. But the obscurity of the name on the true panorama of events behind that voyage has never been cleared.
Hero or Crook?
Columbus, the scholar, intrigued by the Poemaic theory that the earth is round; or Columbus, the illiterate, motivated by low impulses? . . . the altruist, scientist, and philosopher; or the suave, calculating, and shrewd cartographer of Porto Santo who might have killed the crew of Sanchez in its sleep that he might heap ilegal treasure on his shoulders? . . . no one knows.
Spaniard or Italian; Protestant, Jew,
or Catholic (each has claims on him),
rich or poor; we cannot say.
That his voyage of 1482 was his first or second trip to America we do not know and that he discovered America we are not sure.
But that he is and perhaps will remain perpetually an enigma we have no doubt. D.O.B.
Cooperative men's, and women's boarding houses under the direct supervision of the University have been opened by students at the University of Texas. They are the first official cooperative houses on the campus. If they were not established as they have two houses filled and many on the waiting list.
The students living in these house,
must assume all responsibility for debts
incurred, sign a year's lease, and make
repayments. The approximate cost is $15 a month.
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Sam Follett Anderson, c83 president of Deutscher Verteuer, German club of the University, after spending last summer in the land of the Nazis, concluded that political things in Germany are better than American newspapers would indicate, but that it is impossible to get a view of affairs because of contradictions.
Generally, Anderson asserted, freedom of speech is denied, but someone is always ready to disregard governmental strictness and express his opinions on national problems. There were no Jewish instructions and few of that race can be found in the Göttingen Hanover, where Andersen studied with a German teacher.
In addition to his work the American bicycleled through Bavaria, dressed in the new style he was wearing at youth camps which he characterized as "really wonderful." The contacts he made with the area of the area gave him an insight into the Bavarian ten-
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Anderson stayed for a short time in Vienna, Austria, and the Prague, Czechovskia. He also visited France and Belgium. Back in Berlin he saw the festivities for the Olympics and taught his only alumne of Hitler.
The tour was completed in 16 weeks. Anderson crossed the Atlantic in the Europa and the Bremen. His face was serious when he spoke of Germany, "I have a feeling something awful is going to happen there. There are zebras everywhere."
Patent System Of This Country Nears Century Mark
Washington, (UP) - A nation - wide celebration of the founding, in 1836, of the present American Patent System will be held here on Nov. 23.
The announcement was made by Dr. Charles F. Kettering, president of the General Motors Research Corp., who has accepted an invitation of Secretary of Commerce C. Roper, to serve as chair of a committee to celebrate the event.
The celebration will have the sponsorship of the national committee whose membership includes representatives of the Department of Commerce, the U. S. Patent Office, the national association of patent engineers and companies and the industries of the nation.
The American Patent System Centenial will review the past, present and future progress of industry through the inventive arts.
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