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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936
Comment
Suffering or Suffrage?
This year the majority of University students eligible to vote will cast their first Presidential ballot. After reading the foreign dispatches from dictator-ridden countries telling of the restricting of the rights of suffrage—of the transparent ballot envelopes and of the unfair wording of the issues—the we recognize the importance of being able to vote as we choose if our democratic institutions are to continue.
College students, because they have had the principles of suffrage pounded into them all through their formal education, do have a higher voting average than does the layman. However there are a number of students who would normally vote but do not because they are not in their home counties.
This situation is met by the absentee ballot. Clarence V. Beck, attorney general of Kansas, instructs absentee voters within the state as follows:
The law provides that a voter may present himself at any prescinct in this state where he may be on the day of the election, and subscribe to an affidavit that he is a qualified elector to be absent from his prescinct on the day of the election, and will have no opportunity to vote there, and that he has not voted elsewhere at that election. After subserving to a ballot as in a case of a resident voter, that ballot will be marked as the elector chooses. The judges will return that ballot separate to the county clerk, who will forward it to the county clerk of the proper county where the voter
It is obvious that the importance of exercising the privilege of suffrage is daily becoming more and more important. The peoples of other nations have lost this right of self-government because of their over-exuberance along the wrong lines—being led by powerful personalities into virtual subjection.
The American people will lose their voting privileges, if they ever do, not because of exuberance or misplaced interest, but because of enniu regarding their political affairs.
To preserve our right to vote, we must use it
Fashion Note (name as last year): There will be little change in boys' pockets this year.
Southwestern Collegian.
Pictures for the Public
First it was rotgravate sections, then tabloid newspapers, and now there is to be a magazine with pictures constituting 90 per cent of its contents. The picture magazine will appear Nov. 18 with a guaranteed circulation of 250,000. Is the American public returning to its childhood days and picture books?
"Time" is publishing the new magazine and according to Robert L. Johnson, vice-president of Time, Inc., the new publication will contain about 225 pictures a week. This gentleman also states that the use of pictures is ever on the increase. An analysis of the picture content in advertising done by the same firm in the same magazine through seven years showed 8 per cent of the space used for pictures in 1929, 14 in 1932, and 34 in 1936.
Pictures are more interesting, granted, but there must also be a certain amount of laziness and lack of comprehension involved. Laziness in that the public doesn't have the energy to read of something when it is so much easier to look at a picture, lack of comprehension in that the readers encounter difficulty in understanding and visualizing the object or scene described. One starts out his life with picture books because he does not yet know how to read, the supposition being that when he has conquered reading the individual will devote his time to perusing good novels, but all that is changed.
By 1980 we'll be back to heiroglyphics
Strikebreaking, it appears, is a profession which requires more than just animal brutality. It demands ingenuity. Or, as Chowderhead Harris put it "clever little stum."
Here are accounts of some of the clever little stunts, and some not so clever which were brought forth by the Senate Committee's questioning:
Catch-As-Catch-Can
In the Cleveland milk strike of 1921 red paint was daubed on the house of a company official "to create sentiment against the strikers" and quashed fires on their own men to cause disorders.
Strike breaking is a rough and tough profession, or, as Jack Fisher said, it is "a catch-catch can trade in which nobody trusts each other." Fisher, a professional of 20 years, told what he knew about the strong-arm business to the Senate Labor and Education Committee last week. Sam ("Chowderhead") Harris, strike-breaker for the Sherwon Detective Agency in New York, in the Remington Rand strike at Middletown, Comm.; the Borden Milk Company strike in New York; and the Purity Bread Company strike in Brooklyn; arrested 14 times, convicted five, sentenced to one term of four years testified along with several other veterans.
The Railway Audit and Inspection Company hired 21 "guards," armed them with machine guns
and tear gas and sent them to Lake Charles, La,
to break up a longshoreman's strike. Three of them were killed in a seven-hour battle with the strikers.
Union automobiles were overturned by "guards" during the Cleveland milk strike to cause trouble in hopes more strike breakers would be hired.
James H. Rand, Jr., promised 58 Pearl Berghoff "guards" on a train bound for the strike-closed Remington-Rand plant at Midtown, Conn., a $5 bonus to each man who got through the picket line to create the impression the plant was being reopened.
In strikebreaking activities at the plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company in Milwaukee in 1934 a strikebreaking company furnished 700 men with pickaxe handles and used steam hose connected with boilers to turn live steam on pickets.
Fifty. "guards" at the Columbus Enamel and Stamping Company strike at Terre Haute, Ind., in the summer of 1933 were armed with riot guns and tear gas bombs which came from the Federal Laboratories, Inc. None of the "guards" bad permits to carry guns.
"Guards" concealed high tension wires in the ground at the Milwaukee power plant strike, causing the death of one striker.
The action which may be taken by the Senate Committee may prove hard on Fisher and Chow-derhead and the other boys. But strikebreaking, in their own words, is "a catch-as-catch-ean trade."
And then there was the journalism student who thought it was perfectly proper to cheat in the test because he was writing it on copy paper.
—Junior Collegian.
Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today—for by then there probably will be a higher tax on it, or a law against it.
Daily Californian.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan;
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.
May the three thousand-old students on the Hill who walk, humbly beseech of the few hundred-old students on the hill to make their way in rainy days? It is really unpleasant enough to have one's clothes get all wet with rain but at least rain is nice.
It is hard, we'll admit, to drive slowly when the drive on the campus would be such a good place to speed but think of the feelings of the student who wants to go through it and feel the stresses off the curb and take his chances for fear someone will come hurrying by and splash muddy water all over him thereby necessitating the use of a lot of soap and detergent.
Is it too much to ask you to be a little more careful.
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Vol. 34 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 38, 1936 No. 15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The first meeting of the year will be held in Room C, Myers Hall, at 7:55 this Thursday morning. Students and faculty members are welcome. Keith Davis, President
Canuteson Reveals Highlights And Sidelights of Dreaded Physical Exam
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMISSION: The Creative Leisure Commission will meet at Henley House this Thursday evening at 8 o'clock clear
JAY JANES: The Jay James will meet on Wednesday at 4:30 in Room 212 Administration. Brian Judge - Vice-President
INTERRACIAL MEETING: The Interracial Commission of
Y.M.C.A. will meet at Henley House at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening. Evelyn Brubaker
Dorothy Holde, Chairmen
By Kenneth Graeter, et.
There are only a few universities in the United States which give as complete a physical examination upon enlistment as required by the number of freshmen who appreciate the service is pitifully small. Many of them arrive at Watkins Memorial hospital literally trembling in their boots, or shoes, or slippers, as the case may be. Some are indifferent, regarding the examination as just another petty annoyance to which they, as new students, must submit themselves to the training hidden beneath the annoyance, is the wonderful service it offers to anyone willing to take advantage of it.
MID-WEEK DANCE. There will be a free mid-week dance tonight from 7-8 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. Stags will be fined 10 cents. Stag limit=200.
W. W. Cochrane, Manager
M.D. Martinez, Managing
Bill Townsley, President
KU KU CLUB: Important meeting in the third floor meeting room in Union Building Wednesday at 8 p.m. All members must be present.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF VACANCY IN THE MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. A vacancy in the Men's Student Council is hereby declared because of the failure of the Graduate Representative to return to school.
For four years these physical examinations have been given, and there are now more than 3000 complete cases on file at Watkins Memorial hospital. The high value of these records is unquestionable. Especially the tuberculin tests, or b.tacks as students will obtain for this type of examination, and demonstrate the efficiency of the entire program. Yet some of the new students refuse the test, even bringing notes from misguided parents to excuse them. And many of those who do take the test neglect to report back to the hospital. If there are cases where the doctor cannot handle it and the annoyance of the test, if anyone goes for nought.
Bv Kenneth Graeber. c'38
Petitions for filling this vacancy must be in the hands of the Secretary by 12 p. m. Wednesday, October 7, and must be signed by not less than fifteen (15) qualified electors of the Graduate School.
William Zupanec, Secretary
QUACK CLUB: Tryouts will be continued this evening at 8 o'clock. All girls who were asked to return after Saturday's tryouts and any others who were unable to try out then are asked to report tonight.
Marjorie Rowland, President
The excited state of some of the students at the examination is manifested by what Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of student health, smiling refers to as the hospital "spoils", articles of this course being given to a usually consist of two or three under-shirts, an occasional pair of shoes—can you imagine anyone so preoccupied as to walk all the way home without no clothes? You can easily add an odd sock or two, and sometimes a jacket or sweater. The articles are usually masculine. Very few *quan* "un-
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB: All members of the Women's
Glee Club must have enrolled by Thursday, October
1. Regular rehearsal will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Monday
in the Auditorium of Marvell hall.
Irene Peabody, Director
mentionables", or for that matter, mentionables. are found.
And there are always, one or two students who, the moment the needle touches their arm, very quiet but also very decisively, faint all over the doctor's nice clean floor. Coeds, according to Dr. Canteson, on the whole braver than men when taking the tuberculin test.
To date this year, more physical examinations have been given than in any previous year since the service began. The staff members were unwilling, had have the state of their health exactly recorded, and is really disheartened. 10 upperclassmen who have learned the value of the job have taken on their own vocation for a repetition.
Engel Praises
German Comeback
Under Hitler
Characterizing present-day Germany as "a remodeled social structure." Dr. E.F. Engel, professor of German at the University from Berlin, where he is investigating German educational institutions with seven other members of the International Education committee. Dr. Engel leaves from his duties at the University.
On board ship crossing the Atlantic Dr. Engel served as chairman of the daily conferences and in Germany he has acted as an undergraduate at Berlin, and now is visiting other cities, including Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Friedburg, Prague and Dresden. He will sail on the S Bremen for American Oct. 4.
An excerpt from his letter explains his views on the new Germany:
"I cannot begin to tell you all that my eyes have seen and my ears have heard
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but this much I can say—that I and the rest of the group are receiving impressions and forming convictions about this Third Reich that will enable us to correct many false notions in our country. The youth movement, the "Kraft mit Freude" program and of all the ideas "For God remodeling the social structure here, unemployment is reduced to almost normal and the people are happy in their work, even though the job is ridiculously low. The hotel maid here gets 10 marks a week . . . I am thinking now of questions about Germany." The latter answer is prompted by his questionnaire on Germany which met with instant approval from his colleagues.
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