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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS.
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1939
Comment
The Great American Field
Prof. T. N. Carver of Harvard maintains that "as long as the active money of the nation goes through the hands of the masses, the economic structure is basically sound" and uses it as part of an argument against the wealth distributing plans of President Roosevelt.
In the United States, half a million families are classed in the very high income groups. They receive in the aggregate as much income annually than the average lower income group—under a thousand dollars.
Every farmer knows that if he plows around a field the same way each year, throwing the furrow always to the center, the center eventually is raised but at the expense of the rest of the field. If continued over a long period, all but the center would be nearly worthless.
So it is with our economic setup. The income is plowed toward the upper income groups and the edges of the field are becoming barren. The thousands of unemployed, the sixty-three million families whose annual income is far below the amount necessary to maintain a fair standard of living, and the millions piled up each year in the high income groups show that beyond question.
Of course, the great middle class is still comparatively untouched and the majority of the aggregate income of the nation is still received in this group. Every year a few thousand families fall from this more fortunate state to the barren fringe. It takes no great imagination to envision the day that, because of its destructive system, the masses will be "marginal" like the plowed out field. Here, however, the analogy falls down. The upper income group would fall with the masses rather than continue with increased fertility as would the center of the field. The capitalistic system would strangle itself.
We have those who question the soundness of the system, while others have doubts as to the practicability of substitute plans put forth by those objectors. Disregarding the alternative of changing our whole economic setup in an effort to halt the destructive tendencies of capitalism, we have in the White House, a man pledged to do what he can to keep the system going with the greatest benefit to all. Is it fair to criticize the man when he tries to do little grading down in the field of our economic structure just because the majority of the field has not yet been rendered worthless?
As Others See Us
It was interesting to note an editorial in an Eastern paper which commented upon our peace strike. It was entitled "It Might Have Happened Here." It it goes on to say that some of the strikes and demonstrations for peace held throughout the nation were anything but peaceful affairs and it is interesting to speculate on what might have happened.
Reports indicate that on April 22, the subject of peace was not nearly so attractive as the matter of demonstration. The Peace Mobilization Committee has a more logical plan in suggesting a peace meeting on Memorial Day. At that time students are emotionally keyed for a real discussion of peace. The accent will be on "peace" and "demonstration" will be pushed into the background where it belongs. -Ohio State Lantern.
"At Temple University, at the University of Kansas, and at Lawrence College, the demonstrations had particularly unfortunate endings, resulting in everything from the pelting of overripe tomatoes to the release of tear gas bombs. The partial failure of these demonstrations was the lack of a united front among organized groups with highly diversified sentiments as to revolt against war.
Professor in Doubt
Down in Travis county, Texas, recently, the officials were filling out applications for drivers' licenses. Fortunately the officers had a sense of humor.
One professor had difficulty with the word sex. When asked which sex he was, he answered simply "yes" . "One 19-year-old boy insisted that the question "Sex" answered with his question "Sex" answered with their weight.
Other brilliant people had trouble when asked their height in inches and feet. They filled in their height in inches and for feet gave the size of their shoe or soek, according to the person. A smart young fellow answered "occasionally" to the question "Race". When asked for an extension, he replied that he rode the highway and raced one of his friends. (Sounds like giving himself away on a driver's license).
Many were ignorant as to the date of their birth and color of hair and eyes. A black-haired Negro insisted he was a red-head. His explanation was "It's always been just a little bit sandy." Brown, black, and grey-eyed people by the score claimed to be green-eved.
When it gets to the place where college people don't know the answers to such questions about themselves, we say "What is the use of going to college before going to kindergarten?"
—The Daily Texan.
Your Last Chance, Seniors
Over a thousand seniors will in less than a month be graduated from the University of Kansas, and many more will leave Lawrence this spring knowing that it will be impossible for them ever to return as a student in the University.
After attending school in some form since their earliest days, these seniors realize that they are soon to embark upon a new life, the sort most of them have never before known. Their school days will be over forever, and college activities will be a thing of the past—only memories to ponder. A good portion of these thousand graduates are probably wondering if they have done in college all that, in future years, they will wish they had done. Now before it is too late, these seniors should examine their minds, and ask themselves if there is any part of college life which they have missed and which in the few remaining weeks they will be able to accomplish.
Most of these graduates will never return to the University as students and nothing should be left undone that would leave an unfillable gap in the memory of college days.
Hollywood Criticism
The latest blow to college education comes from Hollywood, observes the Minnesota Daily. The press agent of one Frances Farmer, a "pretty movie actress," has the film player say that from a woman's standpoint, a college education doesn't pay. Miss Farmer is doubly qualified, the Minnesota paper believes, for she is both a woman and a college graduate—the University of Washington, which is what he has been glanced at her photograph reveals is a white bathing suit, Miss Farmer told the press that colleges and universities rob women of their capacity to live."
"As she sees it, the trouble is inherent in college education and the only way women can keep their capacity to live intact is to shun higher education," 'A girl is fairly normal when she enters college,' Miss Farmer explains, 'but this thing of being intellectual and of meeting each problem rationally and all that is a terrible thing."
"Women live on emotion," she continues, "and when that is taken from them by too much introspective thinking, they're not feminine any more."
Of course conditions may not be the same at the University of Washington as they are at the University of Kansas, but it is only reasonable to presume that they are similar to what we find here and in colleges and universities from one region. I am familiar with the group of K.U. woman students would soon quiet Miss Farmer's fears that university women of today are meeting each problem rationally.
"Deep down in her heart," the Minnesota Daily believes, "Miss Farmer is probably an idealist about college education. At some time during her college career the actress probably took a note in freshman orientation reading: 'College education—Object: To enable one to meet problems rationally and intellectually.' But purpose and accomplishment are, alas, two very different things."
Campus Opinion
Article in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editors or authors. The length of the text may not be correct by the editor. Contributions made to this article are appreciated.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Even though the trial had been conducted in strict judicial order, I would doubt the wisdom of the Supreme Court. Who are they to pass judgment on their fellow students? Are they considerably more intelligent than any other student? Do which one might pick at random? Are they less sensitive to prejudices and biases than any other five students?
The five mastersminds of the University have just completed their first case, an justicees of the Student Court. No verdict has been given out yet but what is the use of this case? It would be fun to arm a more student, like myself, to watch five other students drop their informal ways and don the cloak of formality to preside over such an august court. One would actually claim that they had practiced long hours in the courts. This disability was some what marred by occasional slips in court procedure which called for laughs from the audience. However, they tried to rise above the ally actions of students and we must give them credit for that even before their efforts at some times mounted almost to the rulership.
The proper disciplinary body on the campus should be the Men's Student Advisor. He is older, more experienced, and less connected with student affairs, than any group of students which might be set up to judge. I guess we shouldn't kick though. Look at the swell titles which were created for five students. (Signed) R.E.
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Germans Hope To Regain Lost Colonies by Revision of Versailles Treaty
Editor's note: This is the conclusion of Mr. Fluente's letter, which was started in Thursday's issue of the Kan-sun.
Something might well be said in regard to Germany's lost colonies. There is no question but that they want them back; most Germans will readily admit it. And Germany needs them, too, if she ever to regain the wealth and power of the country she had in 1914. Moreover, they feel they are entitled to them and able to govern them properly. (One of the reasons given for taking them away in the first place was because "it was felt that German wasn't able to cap the German invasion when they expect to get them back the Germans don't seem to know. They hope that before long, there will be a general revision of the Treaty of Versailles which was drafted during World War I. But after the World War, and that in this manner Germany will recover at least a part of her lost possessions. I don't know how they reconcile this attitude with the statement of the British Colonial Minister made some months ago when he warned that England would return Ireland to their colonies. When I ask my friends here would you fight England to regain their lost colonies, they shake their heads emphatically. In fact, there is a discussion about this matter everywhere in Germany. One gets that impression in conversation with people in the newspapers. Friendship with Britain seems to be one of the keystones of Hitler's foreign policy. He believes that we can and I believe he means it.
The aims of the Third Reich in regard to Germany's lost territory in Europe are more difficult to determine. They say that they don't wish to govern areas populated by other than German business men and business man put it, "It only makes for trouble in the long run," and I agree with him. Now and then one hears rumors of a great desire to expand eastward in some of the relatively sparsely settled and richly fertile Slavic countries. But such rumors have not always been the present situation—or so it seems to me. There is, however, a strong sentiment for union with Austria making one great German - speaking nation
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to business at home, and let events work themselves out Early in our course, we would have been united with Austria—and given presents of remaining so for some time to cause Moscow has no desire to have Havel Germany for a next door neighbor.
RICHARDY
While we are discussing Germany foreign policy, it is most interested to note, in view of everything that has occurred during the past three years, that the Foreign Office seems to have remained largely outside of Nazi party control anywhere. It is a strange and contradictory significance of the Hitler regime, when everything else has undergone radical change, that there has been very little change in the personnel of the Foreign Office since Hitler came into power. The seats of real authority in Germany remain the seat of the old German and not by Hitler's Nazi party benchmen. The German diplomats in London, Washington, Rome, and many other capitals are men that Hitler inherited from the past when he came into power. Moreover, the army under General von Blöhm remained outside of party control. I do not know what thing, I merely call attention to them.
It's a G-Man Now!
In my next letter, which I hope to write soon, I would like to tell a little of the recent election in Germany when Hitler polled a 99 per cent majority and over 86 per cent of those eligible to vote did so. Some record. Even the industry's machinery needs to come to heat that mild waht?
Hunsinger Is Candidate
Wilfred Husinger, 27, of Lawrence, has announced that he will be a candidate for the state legislature from the eleventh district in the county Poplahcum primary. Since his graduation from the School of Business, he has been associated with his father in the automobile business.
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