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Editorial Comment
Star Chamber Procedure
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1936
The following came from a text in English History:
"By an act passed in 1487 certain members of the privy council were given authority to deal with those offences that most disturbed the social order of the time: maintenance and livery, bringing undue influence to bear on juries and sheriffs, rioting and unlawful assemblies. The body thus established came to be known as the court of Star Chamber, from the hall in Westminster in which it held its sessions; in reality it was not a new court but merely the king's council exercising through some of its members the judicial authority that it had often claimed. At a later day the court of the Star Chamber developed into an instrument of royal tyranny."
A history of the University at a future date might well read in the following manner:
"The Men's Student Council exercises the governing powers granted to the Associated Men of the University of Kansas. Among its four purposes are these two: "To co-operate with the governing bodies of the University in all matters within the jurisdiction of this association; and to promote and regulate the activities, and to be the responsible governing body of the men students of the University, under the powers granted by the Chancellor, the University senate, and State Board of Regents. Administrative power shall be vested in the Men's Student Council." In order to do this more effectively, a student court was established, with four student justices and a student chief justice. Because they were criticized in trying their first well-publicized case, they decided to meet in secrecy. Thereafter the public was deprived of seeing whether or not justice was being done."
There is a marked similarity in these two passages. Perhaps the student court wants to become tyrannical, or maybe the let-down from tear gas bombs to traffic tickets is too great. Shrouding the machinations of the court in secrecy will give it publicity and make it seem more appealing and interesting than it really is, but the poor public's interest has been done away with by "star chamber" procedure.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.—Pope.
Campus Loses a Friend
With the resignation of Mrs. P. F. Walker as secretary of the campus Young Women's Christian Association, a Hill organization will lose a woman who has rendered an invaluable service. Five years ago she was brought here to tide the organization over in an emergency. Since that time she has given full-time service to what was supposed to be a part-time job. She has restored the association to a sound financial basis, and found for it many stamach friends on the faculty and in the town. She has aided greatly in bringing about the friendly relations between the women of the advisory board and women students of the University. As special counselor of members of the association, her advice has been invaluable. At all times has she had the interests of the students at heart; she has given unselfishly of herself. It is with regret that Mrs. Walker is being replaced.
"Flames at Oil Plant Go to Beer Garden" states a New York World-Telegram headline. Well, that's one way to put them out.
Regrettely we notice that Max Schmeling has come back to this country to fight Joe Louis. We're afraid this is going to start another pun wave.
It's Their Loss
Another exile from Germany, driven out by the lack of freedom of speech and research in Hirt Hitler's domain, Dr. Rudolph Schindler was awarded a gold medal for his exhibit of a refined gastroscope at Wednesday's meeting of the American Medical Association in Kansas City. Schindler is only one of a great number of German scientists and intellectuals who have been forced to leave their native land because of the heavy hand of Hitler and his aid, Julius Streicher.
The Nazi substitute for medicine is the "health cure." This consists of cold baths, vegetables, and several practices which hearten back to the medicinal witcheth of times before medicine was known much about. The discoveries of noted German scientists, Koch in the field of medicine, Einstein in mathematics, and many others are discounted because the Jewish blood in the scientists conflicted with the Nazi idea of a pure Aryan strain.
It seems inexcusable that Hitler should be so ignorant as to let the best brains of his country leave because of a silly racial prejudice. A glance at the record of German scientists will uncover the fact that most of them are of Jewish descent if not totally Semite. If all of the contemporary intelligence of the country are forced to leave, and the works of the past are cast out, then Germany will soon be suffering from a case of too much brawn and too little brain, an unhealthy condition for any country.
Discoveries which admitly benefit mankind should gain the respect and gratitude of humanity regardless of the nationality of their discoverers. Littleness and narrow-mindedness to such a degree that it is detrimental to the country as a whole are personified in Herr Hitler's anti-Semitic policy which is driving the best brains which Germany possesses into the service of other countries.
Color riot: The Black Committee fights the yellow press, whose boss is still chasing the red menace.—Daily Texan.
The Pause for Aim
The complicated machinery of education has been whirling at a great rate. The wheels have been turning; the cogs have been meshing. The last operation is under way. Soon the completed product will begin to drop out the graduation chute all wrapped in cellophane and labeled "educated."
The product will be called a bachelor of arts or a doctor of philosophy or some other high rounding title, but it will be just another job hunter in a week. It won't know where it is or where its going. All it will know is where it has been.
This is in short an indictment of the educational system. There is no concrete objective. There is no clear cut goal. All we have is a somewhat hazy idea of what an educated man should be—a nobleful idea of what should be a foundation for life.
Before an intelligent man pulls the trigger on a gun, he must know at what he is aiming. He would never think of just pointing the weapon at random and then shooting. But when it comes to education, our intelligent man is content to aim his gun either at random or at a whispy form in the distance.
Four years is a long time to spend going through a machine to make something you're not sure you want. Four years is a long time to travel without a destination.
Education needs an objective. We can't go on with a confused system much longer. It is about time that the college student stopped the machinery, stood off in the distance and said; "What the h—?"" Daily Northwestern.
In a recent medical success a few muscles were taken from the hip and placed in the eyelid; it restored sight. To bad that some device couldn't be perfected for students so that their eyes would be open to their opportunities—Hutchinson High School Buzz.
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 Kansan:
I heartily approve of the stand that the Kansan has taken in regard to the Allen-A.A.U. scrap.篮球是
However, I don't think the whole story has been told yet and I would like very much to read the next induction.
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Editor's Note: This is the final installation of the latest in a series of letters written by Karl H. Flietz
Barbara Kirchhoff.
Pfuetze Says Germans Gave Hitler Vote of Confidence in Recent Election
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION STUDENTS: All undergraduates and graduates enrolled in the School of Education are urged to attend a business meeting for the purposes of attending the School of Education, Room 15 Fresno, Tuesday, May 19, 4:30 pm.
Sergeant Josselyn.
And now in regard to the election itself which I suppose was branded in many countries as a fraud, and not representative of the true sentiment of the people. According to the figures, more than 98 per cent of those eligible were members of the United States, almost 98 per cent gave their vote of confidence to Adolf Hitler.
The election was held on Sunday so as to give the greatest possible number of people the opportunity to vote. And although the streets were filled with thousands, there were no signs of disturbance or excitement. Being curious to see just how the elections are conducted in Germany, I made it a point to visit some of the polling places. As far as I could see there was no possible way for the candidates to be divinely voted. Each person was given a ballot and an envelope. He went into a little enclosed booth where no one could see him, marked his ballot, put it in the envelope, sealed it, and dropped it into the box. There were no people around who could see the ballet by which it could be ascertained later how the person had voted.
Henry G. Parker, Secretary pro tem. Dean R. A. Schwegler.
As far as I have been able to ascertain there was no violence or force used in any way during the election in Leipzig. I have not talked to her until I met her in disorder that day in the polls. It was a shock to trust to the election day in Kansas City, Mo., two years ago this spring when four people were killed and disorder, sluggles, etc., were the order of the day. (I refer the reader to the Kansas City Star that day following the election there two years ago.)
The only pressure which was brought to bear on the people was the propaganda urging everyone to vote—and everyone did, practically.
The whole Nazi political organization worked like a well-oiled machine to see that every eligible voter cast his vote. Ballots were even brought to the patients in the hospitals. (I have seen many of them at the Frauenklint.) Salulors and passengers on German boats far out at sea and passengers in the two huge dirigibles, the "Hundenburg" and the "Graf Zeppelin" were given ballots. This gives one an idea as to how thorough it is to get the sentiment of the people.
And now a word about the results of the election, in which 99 per cent cast their ballot for Hitler. It is true that German citizens vote for the party, vote for the party are not considered as German citizens. However, according to statistics the Jews represent only about 1 per cent of the population in Germany and they do not have altered the material results.
I believe it would be an error to assume that all of the 99 per cent who voted "yes" are enthusiastically in favor of the present regime. It is my impression after talking to a good many people (whose opinions of course varied considerably) that perhaps 55 or 99 per cent of the assenting voters are in full sympathy with the regime. The remaining 40 per cent voted "yes" because, although they were full accord with things as they are, they prefer the present situation to that which existed before 1933. Then I believe there was a small remaining per cent which voted "yes" because for one reason or another they were afraid
to cast their true opinion. (I have talked to a n few of the latter sort). I do not, of course, maintain that the above estimation is correct—it would be better if we were told these figures as my impression as an impartial observer. However, if we assumed, for the sake of argument, that they are approximately correct, they would still go to show that the major regime and want it, to continue.
It might seem from the foregoing account that I am a bit too enthusiastic over the existing regime. However, let me add that there are many things of which I do not and cannot approve, and that Trooper's friends admit that the movement has made mistakes, that they have gone too far in some directions and that changes remain to be made. They admit themselves that a general toning down of the more radical element in the party must come - in fact that it would make no sense to be wrong but it seems to me that I have noticed the appearance of a more reasonable and tolerant attitude during the seven months I have been in Germany. It has been over three years since Nazi-ism came to power. With the restoration of law and order, and the rejection of anticomradicomic welfare of the people should come a siner attitude toward things. Let us hope so.
In the meantime let us assume a more tolerant and less antagonistic attitude toward them. These people are armed with the same faults, hopes, ambitions and desires that we have. I only wish that more Americans, particularly students, could spend some time in Germany and have the right to impact and admire these people as I have.
Sincerely,
Karl H. Pfuetze.
Sincerely.
A Corner On Books
By Wilma E. Soeken, c37
"If I Have Four Apples" by Josephine Lawrence. (Frederick A. Stokes company, N.Y., 1955, 314 pages.)
"Can you teach that two and two make four to people who are firmly resolved to believe it makes eight?" Mildly insulted. "How does a modern family of a modern family that can manage to live on the weekly, salaried income. Since no budget or checking list exists, and most bursements soon become so chaotic that it affects the self-esteem of the entire family. Although the picture is very clear, the situation is more helpless, and heptees, that by the time the book is finished it is more than enough. The grandmother analyzed the situation in her critical comment, "They can't fly, they cannot ask if they had wings."
"The Golden Lady" by Dorothy Gardner.
(Literary Guild N.Y. Printed at
the Country Life Press; Garden City,
N.Y. 489 pages.)
There is gold in the Duke's Gulch. Yellow, glittering, precious gold! Caroltta--back in Denver she was the Leadville Lily—and her gambler husband, Pompey snow, build their shack on the steep mountain side. The first baby, Caroltta's child, to be born in Denver, will be her son. She is to be a lady. At the christening she is presented with gifts from all the miners. Tandy, the aristocratic drunkard from Boston gives her nus terrific Lady, in which he is sure gold will be found in "just another foot." Evanna Aurelia, the child- beautiful, is made a mermaid of her experiences, her journeys, the Golden Lady remains the theme of her existence. To Evanna the world is cold, and cruel, and meaningless; she returns from a gay, tragic life abroad to see the beauty of her days near her Golden Lady.
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Neither will you, if you have your winter clothes cleaned at Advance. Moths don't like these moth-proof bags a bit, but you will.
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This truly fictitious novel is entrancingly written. Exceedingly wield in wrought are some of the characters; namely, Tandy, the drunken; Squeaky, the naive; amaze the suspicious mother; and greatest of all, Evanna Aurelien Swell Trank.
"Here Lies a Most Beautiful Lady"
by Richard Blaker. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.
N.Y. 378 pages.)
Her husband tours the world in his search for wealth and adventure. The parsons daughter, living in a quiet hamlet in England, is given to him in a carriage he does not have yet materialized. Immediately they leave for Canada, where he plans to deal in tires. He turns from furs to tinder, shipping steel from England on his returning ship. Oil is found on the island of Bermuda, leaves North America to seek their fortune in the oil fields of the Carpathians. The Yukon gold rush rushes him back to the eastern hemisphere, only to disappoint him so that he salts away with his family and scramble for wealth. His beautiful wife, following him usually to the new abode, tend to the rearing of their two children. Containment to his infidelity, she remains true to him always. She faces misfortunes assail her yet above all she is calm, courageous, sympathetic—a most beautiful lady.
The Roving Reporter Conducted by Virgil Mitchell
Question: Do you think happy endings are probable?
Evert (Higgly-bottom) Higgin: "There might be one if you would leave." From the Union man what we戴tectable collars: "You mean in a specific case?" I said yes, and he said, "Did Td say not in the Pi Ph house." John 210 Hampton (I gather you have the same shirt) but he is a soldier. "I had never one."
Virginia Smith (accompanying, or accompanied by pseudo-lawyers, Peters and Higgins): "You mean marriage or something?"
Mr. Roller and Mr. Treger (they are working on a thesis—term paper to the average intellect): "We are men of science—not philosophy."
Jean Frank (a maniac - depressive, she even thinks that grass is green): "I know of an ending in a couple of weeks that will be very unhappy." Either Mal (she didn't leave an embassy there is no story): "Why of course."
Mary Helen Fiske (she's not afraid of milk shakes): "Very few things end
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