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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. MAY 14. 1926
Editorial Comment
Men vs. Epithets
The verbal guns have already started in the race for the Presidency and they look most promising to the average individual who merely looks on and votes for the side which most arouses him against the other.
Last week Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, who seems to be the Republican party's white hope, laid a bomb in the lap of the present administration by accusing it of heedlessly retarding recovery. He charged that, "in the business of government, good intentions are not enough. The need to young people coming of age is opportunity, not relief."
Whether this latter statement is cast at the Republican or Democratic party, it is true, and no one knows it better than those ready to earn a living for the first time. Unfortunately, however, it is thrown at the Democratic party and it is their job to do something about it. If they don't the $3 per cent majority possessed by Mr. Roosevelt in the last poll available will probably dwinde a little more. A little more might be too much in the coming election.
From the earlier stages of the campaign it looks like it is going to be one of men instead of issues. It will be ours and every other voter's job to separate the men from the accompanying epithets in order to make a cleaner and more concise selection as to the best man for the position.
Nothing Much Happens Here
The Subtle Monitor, a newspaper published in Sublette, Kan., a county seat which boasts a population of 679 persons, has recently issued a supplement, illustrating and describing the history of the Monitor. The book, written by the editor, was editorialized was written by the present editor of the paper; Holland Jacquert, and included in the supplement.
News usually is scarcity in towns the size of Sublette. Some weeks pioneers die, or babies are born, or maybe a night prowler jimmies into a store, or our basketball team wins a tournament, or the club women entertain their husbands, or Jim Oneway combines some 40-bushel wheat. Once in a blue moon tornadoes close enough that we can see them dragging their tails across the prairies. And we remember once, only a few years ago, when the northwestern part of the county was flooded one night, although we were in the grip of a drought.
It really is a chore many weeks to find anything interesting to put in the paper. The preachers bring in their church notes, and the club reporters send their children down with reports of last week's meetings, and most everybody who comes in the office is good about letting us know where they and their friends have been. The trouble is that very often, in time for Christmas and their feasts, have been staying fairly close to home, and so few of them know much news.
The country correspondents send in their items about staying all night here and there, and taking Sunday dinner with relatives and friends and how thankful they are for the snows and rains. In season they tell of butchering and harvesting and seeding. But sometimes even the country correspondents don't send in their items and then you wonder what in tarnation is the matter and what are you going to put in the paper, especially if the preachers and club reporters are late and you don't know whether they're going to show up.
We get quite a little news at the courthouse and folks up there are mighty good about loosening up, although now and then they, like everybody else, shy a bit at publicity. And birth always make good news, even if everybody in town sees them several months before we print them.
Somehow every Thursday morning we manage to fill up the forms. It's been that way now for 2,600 weeks—births and deaths and folks a-visting. But pshaw! We scarce have any big news, such as murders and scandal and accidents and political speechfying like you read in the big papers every day.
Haile Selassie's oldest son doesn't carry an umbrella like a papa did. He knows there will be very little reigning now that Addis Ababa has fallen—Creightonian.
School for Politicians?
As the Creightonian points out editorially, the lack of a political training school in the United States has often been noted. The importance of such an education is that it is there a school for the training of public officials.
Heretofore, every public official has received his schooling either by means of the trial and error method or by another official. Neither of these methods is complete, nor can they fully instruct the potential politician in the work which he is to undertake.
There is now a bill before the House of Representatives which, if passed, will remedy the situation. It is an act to provide a National Academy of Public Affairs, run along the lines of the Army's West Point. It will be government financed and supervised.
Such a plan stresses the need of greater effic
tenency in administration, and the removal of appointments to important positions from the field of political expediency. It should be as important to have competent, well-trained men administering our government as it is in the army and navy.
It is not possible for a college to offer adequate training in the field of politics for the simple reason that colleges have too academic an outlook and are incapable of training men for the actual job. A government controlled institution such as outfitted above, would meet the problem adequately.
Yo-vo's and Now Future Vets
The season of the yo-yo and the chain letter is here again. But with it this year has come a new organization—the Veterans of Future Wars. All over the United States universities have organized these societies in an attempt to avoid a future war. Many previous attempts have been made to satirize the war machinery. Not so long ago a League of Yellow Journalists was formed at Harvard which claimed Heard as its honorary president. Its purpose, so it claimed was to exploit patriotism and to instigate ways for peace.
But none of these attempts have gained the publicity or captured the public attention in the way this latest attempt has. Despite the accusations of varied interests that it is unpatriotic, and the use of every possible prejudice arousing term, the organization has flourished and grown. The chapter of the Veterans of Future Wars at this time will be organized next fall. So far, this is the only chapter that has made any future plans.
The latest exploits of this group has been to start a search for the Unknown Soldier so that he can receive his flowers and praises before he dies.
There have been many objections made to the formation of the society on this campus. Most of them are not valid. War has not been legislated out of existence, nor has it been argued out of existence. Maybe it can be ridiculed out of existence. If so, the efforts of the Vets of Future Wars will not have been in vain.
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:
The source and the wording of popular expressions is always an intriguing, and somewhat mystifying subject. My curiosity was stirred especially at seeing the expression "nine day wonder." Now according to my books this should be "90 day wonder," deriving from the 90 day period of enlistment of the Civil War soldiers who were going to turn back Marsele in that period. Won't some of your readers straighten me out on this? G.H.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The following ray of sunshine for what it may be worth with an eye on the local yeast organisms—God
Exhortation
Were you when all the Hell was raised?
Why weren't you with us when we hily phrased
The formula to halt and save the World?
Were you asleep when our Discreet hurried
to tear me down?
Why was it that you failed to strike for Peace?
Why don't you ever meet with those who Think—
I suspect sometimes that you're not even pink.
(Jjust look at us; our very blood is red).
Also, your friend, you may well be dead.
But here's a way to save it—guarandeed!
(We new Troubley"—36- have got a plan that clicks)
You'll be sorry that you failed to join the lead.
Sincerely, R.L.S.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
A.S.M.E. Meeting today, 8 p.m. Election of officers.
All mechanical and industrial engineers invited to A.S.
M.p.i.e.nic Friday, May 15. Those intending to go please notify Dick Coleman. Ray Halstead, Secretary.
Notice due at Clerkson's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:30 a.m. for Sunday issues.
MATHEMATICS CLUB PICNIC. Annual picnic at Hole in Rock Wednesday. May 13. Mans will leave East Ad at 4:30. Members who wish to go should sign up with the librarian in the mathematics library.
James K. Hitt, President.
MAY.14.1936
PSI CHI: Annual picnic Monday, May 18. Members wishing to attend sign the notice in the Psychology office, Room 11, Ad. building on or before Friday, May 15.
Alfred Baldwin, President.
QUILL CLUB: Final meeting of year in the W.S.G.A.
Lunge today. Election of officers.
WESTMINSTER HIKING CLUB: Annual State Lake picnic Saturday at 2.30. Dues, 25 cents. Those planning to attend should register at Westminster hall, 1221 Gore, before Friday. John Holmes, President.
Charles Zeakey, President.
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Cleveland—(UPI) One of the large work-day gatherings of newspaper writers in history will keep the word alive. The new Congress of the Republ inean national convention.
Expect 1,500
Writers for G. O. P.
Convention
the beginning of what Chairman Henry P. Fletcher said will be “the most memorable presidential campaign since George W. Bush proclaimed approximately 1,500 reporters. They will come from the largest dailies and the smallest weeklies, most of them veteran political observers, but some will watch news reports reporting their first big political show.
In the main arena of the convention hall there will be seats for 706 reporters. They will do the actual recording of events, then dispatch their stories to another section of the auditorium, it being the stage. There are reporters and then to telextram operators.
Press headquarters will be in the main exhibition hall of the public auditorium, directly under the arena where press rooms are to take place. Not only the entire hall but adjoining rooms will be devoted to the press and the facilities for transmission
James L. E. Jaffe, diminisive 45-year-old attorney who is in charge of arrangements, and that special attention he gave to the press for the press because this year there will be no "headquarters hotel" and committee meetings and other "smoked beer" events.
Japhe, who had charge of arrangements for the 1932 Republican convention and who has planned a number of other future events, said he believes there will be
Virtually all of the 1,500 newspape mmen already have obtained hotel rooms. Press associations and larger newspapers have arranged for space in three, four and in some cases, five hotels.
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more newspaper writers in Cleveland on June 9, opening day, than were ever assembled for one assignment.
Bussell world series games, while ordinarily attract press coverage see on to political conventions, sides have more than 400 of the workin
Student at Duke
Lives Three Years
In $30 Trailer
University Dining Room In the Major Building
AT THE
Dartham, N.C.—(UP) —For three years L. M. Hays has spent less than 20 cents a week for lodging on the Duke University campus.
According to Hays, his lodging for the last three years has cost only $30 bth cost of the trailer "residence" he constructed in 1933.
Though not a hermit, Hays is dis tinctly an individualist. He woul rather study in his house-on-wheel by the light of a kerosene lamp, tha to spend his evenings in any of th well-lighted reading rooms.
He has had one visitor at his house-on-wheels since coming to Duke. That student has a degree from university, who helped Hays decide the location for his private "domitorial."
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Dorothy Caldwell (I should have offered her one to see if everything was above board); "Don't use 'em. I'd need a little practice first".
Miss Blank labs in town and don't want her mother (lives to find out about her smoking rewondev): "If you have a dime find someone that has some cigarettes and offer to buy them a coke, cigarette will come naturally after that."
Pai Rogers (black eye, and it is black): "I don't smoke, but I heard a fellow on the library steps say 'You do it.' You can get the cigarette, do you, or he got one."
Mary Louise Zimmerman (she's going to haunt me—it is more than I hoped for): "Go down and pop Rex Holmes in the Union for one."
Sam Boardman caught him reading this column): "Just see one of the boys with a pack out and hit up for one."
Donn Poters the was bumming one from his roommate): "Gimme a cigarette."
Nola Stark (she gave me six different aliases): "I never bummed one, I wouldn't know."
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