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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1936
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Memories Will Live
"There was a little of the Carlyle about him."
This was the simple tribute paid by an associate when informed of the death of Prof. R. D. O'Leary, former head of the University of Kansas English department.
A more fitting tribute could not have been made, for there was something of Carley about Professor O'Leary. His distinctive character, his sound judgment, his integrity in his love of literature, and his independent, yet truly scholarly, attitude, spoke of the great English writer.
Professor O'Leary was an idealist. He had high hopes for the world, hopes that he knew would not be fulfilled, but hopes that served as a star toward which he might strive. Realizing that his star was beyond his reach, he did not become bitter, but remained sympathetic in his effort to aid mankind.
Professor O'Leary was remarkably sensitive to the trouble of others. The thought of suffering was unbearable to him.
He was an individualistic and independent scholar. As he believed it was unnecessary to go through a set routine of study to acquire knowledge, he did not work toward a doctor's degree after receiving A.B.'s from both the University of Kansas and Harvard, still he was a scholar in the truest, broadest sense of the word.
His sincerity and kindness were manifest in his relation to his students. He worked for them, making their interests his interests, criticizing only to improve, caring to display his knowledge only through his teaching, and evincing his wisdom only as it would help others.
The memory of Professor O'Leary will live.
This Rage for "Isms"
The present rage for "ISMS" is a travesty on common sense. This does not necessarily apply to such "ISMS" as Socialism and Communism alone either. The smug individual who boasts of his unqualified belief in Capitalism is as senseless as the one who advocates Communism.
You American conservatives too often let conservatism keep you from thinking clearly about a problem. Is your stand the ideal one when it tends to call all student peace movements Communistic? Do not some manifestations of the present system often place a premium on human greed? Is it a good policy to drift into a state of blind, intolerant of change forefather worship when something new is offered? Why don't you break your "ism" shackles?
You American radicals also are too completely enslaved by your "fems." You may justly complain against some present unfortunate conditions in this nation, but do they warrant a wholesale condemnation of American institutions? Should you indict whole groups of persons for the sins of the few? Is there any value in rabidly proposing share-all plans that glorify the shiftless? Where is your common sense?
Is this an indictment of honest efforts to preserve what has been gained in the United States or of those who wish further beneficial changes? It is not! The indifferent man—that kind of man who says politics are rotten and fails to realize that his indifference is the reason for its rottenness—is a fool. He is a deadweight dragging down everything worthwhile. This indictment is of the narrowed reasoning that is holding back sane political and social action by those who think that they are properly attempting it.
Why cannot you conservatives and radicals forget your labels and study to find the best action to overcome each of the evils that are still present in America's social and governmental systems? Why do you not think in the terms of the common good instead of allowing yourself to be blindly carried away by "Ims?" You, as human beings, are supposed to be rational animals. Why don't you show it?
Now Is the Time
Remember when, not so many years ago, we were laboriously learning to pick out on the typewriter that old finger-twisting sentence: "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." Over and over we wrote it, and it became our usual warming up morning exercise. More than one student has asked himself the meaning of that short sentence and at last classified it merely as a provocative nuisance in the typewriting world.
But at last, with a wee bit of twisting around, that old sentence can be constructed to contain an apt meaning. With only six weeks of school remaining before the final examinations, students are returning from their Easter vacation with serious faces and determined miens, saying "Now is the time for the spurt;" or "Now is the time to settle down to work if I pass that course." In other words: "Now is the time for all good students to work for the sake of a grade."
Ah, yes! There had to be a moral; and now that it has been discovered, we must waste no more time but busy ourselves with that final push to get over the line.
Poor Politics in the Soviet
The late Soviet refusal to visa the passport of Robert L. Ripley of "Believe It or Not" fame, because the cartoonist attributed the deaths of 4,000,000 peasants in the Ukraine and the Caucasus to the Soviet regime and termed Russia a "pigantic poorhouse," would lead one to believe that the Russians are the children of Muscovite folk-tales, simple in their likes and hatreds.
What makes the refusal particularly childish is its dignification of Ripley to the role of fearsome critic of U.S.S.R. when really his greatest achievement six-scaledlegs and freakish vegetables.
There is no danger that Ripley has irreparably shured the Soviet, for accounts by reporters of the sympathetic and painstaking school of Walter Duranty have retrieved Communist fame from such exaggerated notions as the cartoonist has presented.
Shutting Russian gates to unfavoring critics in poor politics, for it tends to detract credence from favorable reports—Oregon Emerald.
Campus Opinion
Article in this column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any individual author. The opinions expressed are not intended to serve as a guide to reading by the editor. Contributions may be made to the author.
Editor Daily Kansas:
It used to be possible for students to get a good drink of water out of the fountains on the first floor of the Administration building, but times have changed. When students are in class and need a drink, they plight. Today the thirty person in the Ad building has virtually defied the laws of gravity to get any drink at all. This situation is not necessary, and it could be dangerous.
Another thing. Why does the swimming pool stay closed to the University men so much of the time? There are regular sets use for general swim. When the student pove over to cool off with a swim, some class or coach might take care of the students' class-work and other group meets in the pool. Better management on the part of the athletic coaches might possibly take care of this condition, also. After all the men who pay fees and exercise expenses should realize the investment. These men may not be experts, but they will want to work out and take them now and then.
N.M.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Some of our intelligent students—patriots all have been associating the name "Unamerican" with students who have altruistically attempted to express liberal viewpoints—and God only knows how difficult this attempt has been. These same pseudo-intellectuals slander these efforts and use the words Socialism, Communism and Libertarianism. Incidentally it is also these very same individuals who pride themselves on being truly patriotic and American.
It would place me immensely if three students would read Thomas Jefferson's political works for then they would realize that our government was founded on principles of independence—that worthy document which our forefathers so valiantly and successfully showered on a passive and conservative group—was a move away from England's tyrannical rule. This document was just as important to him, and it was the Declaration of Independence "Unamerican?"
Let these same students read more about the things they attempt to criticize. We can at least credit the illusion that what is criticizing, but also knows what's wrong with that which he does criticize. Yet, I am worried, for if these patriotic individuals should become acquainted with what is criticizing, they inevitably all become "Ummarican" and that's bad.
(Signed) Mac, S. Strauss.
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MEN'S PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL. There will be an important meeting of the Men's Pan-Hellenic Council this morning at 10:30 in the basement of the Union building will be announced, represented. Lloyd Morgan, Secretary.
FRESHMAN COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Freshman Council on Monday evening at 7 veckle in the basement.
PI SIGMA ALPHA: Active members please meet in the Political Science office at 30 on Monkey May. 4. Meeting will be held at 10 am.
K. U. PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE. The K.U. Peace Action Committee will meet at 4:30 Monday afternoon in Room 10, Memorial Union. Everyone is welcome.
Jim Bounds, Secretary
SENATE MEETING: There will be a meeting of the University Senate at 4:30 Tuesday, May 5, in the auditorium on the third floor of the administration building. E. H. Lindley, Chancellor.
Alfred C. Ames, Executive Secretary.
WESTMINSTER STUDENT FORUM. The Forum will not meet Sunday night, May 3, as the Westminster Choir is giving a concert at the Presbyterian church. Fletcher Moe Public Librarian.
Eleanor Mann, Publicity Chairman.
FRIHISHAH COMMISSION: Freshman Commission will meet at Henley house to announce the commission. J Russell, Chamin.
Increasing Suicide Rates Caused Mainly by False Values Which We Cherish
Twenty thousand people in the United States kill themselves every year! These are the figures given by Dr. Fredrick Hoffman, statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. He further states that the rate has been rising steadily since 1925. In 1921, suicide claims in the Metropolitan amounted to 1.9 per cent of the total population. By 1921 they had risen to 4.4 per cent of the total, and $6,494,254 was laid out.
Suicide, in general, seems to follow the business cycle. In depression years the rate increases and in times of prosperity it becomes lower. There were 38 murders in Seattle in 1928 than in 1929, and those due entirely to economic and financial causes were nearly four times as many. Miriam Allen de Ford studied the murder rates in Seattle and found that 83 or $32\%$ per cent of these were due to the depression. Some were men and women who had been out of work a long time, others were people once prosperous who had lost nothing, and some had hungry children.
Suicide Is Complex Phenomenon There is, however, a tendency on the part of observers to stress too greatly the importance of depressions on safety and that these causes previously mentioned 32% per cent were due to the depression—but what about the other 67% per cent? Sociologists and psychologists agree that no single factor is usually a cause of suicide but rather the combination of these factors which produces results. Suicide is a complex phenomenon and it is only by analyzing the data on it that we get a clue as to its real nature and its causes. The results show that 32 women kill themselves to every 100 men. The type of person who kills himself is not, as might be expected, a common laborer or even a skilled workman. He is a business or professional worker, perhaps an average about 45 years. There is the
A Corner On Books
By Wilma E. Socken, c37
"Monogram," By G. B. Stearn. (Mac millan Co., N. Y. 203 pp.)
G. B. Stearn, an English woman novelist, continental traveler, and Hollywood writer, struts from her conveniences in this book about autobiographical publishers delicately suggested that I should write a book about anything I liked; anything I jolly well liked; anything I damn well pleased; in fact, about anything I swaggered for days before I could trust myself. I began to suspect that they were altogether too boundless, and that what I needed were a few horizons laid down here and there." The outcome is this book of literary feathers, light, airy and mysterious through her mind, beastily snatched, and put down in black and white.
The first part bears the caption,
"King Charles's Head," the second part,
"The Cows Come Home." She tells
what her own particular King Charles's
career has been like. The Cows Come Home" as a title for an autobiography. This whimsical conglomeration includes thoughts on everything from jazz, sobbery, and flower garden in Florence, Peter Pen, and just anything else you could imagine.
"The Rolling Years." By A. S. TURNBULL. (N. Y. Macmillan Corp. 436 pp). From 1850 to 1955 the rolling years bring trials, success, tragedies, and happiness to this midwestern family, brought to life by Turnbull. The family agrees with the pioneer father, stern and hard-nosed, patient and obedient. The family, farm, and school life is centered around Jeannie, the youngest of the 12 children. Only one son, a lawyer, and three daughters live to maturity. The two old - maid sisters of and widowed Jeannie, with her child Comic, move to New Salem after the death of their parents. The narrative then turns to Connie.
Time does not stop with these three generations; you feel that the rolling years will go on and on.
"The Way of a Transgressor." By Negley Farson, N. Y. Harcourt Brace and Co., 602 pp.
New Books of the Season "Fiandlah. The New Nation." By Agnes Rothery, N. Y. Viking Press. 251 pp.
New Books of the Season
"South Riding." By Winifred Holthy N. Y. Macmillan Co. 569 pp.
"Father Struck H Rich." By Evalyn Walch McLean; with Boon Sparkes Boston, Little, Brown, and Co. 316 pp.
"Education Before Verdum." By Arp Anderson; with the German by Eric Sutton. Published by the Viking Press. N. Y. 447 pp.
"Know thy lot, know thy enemies,
know thyself."
greatest number of auctions among the divorced group, the next greatest among the widowed, the third greatest among the single person is last on the list.
Men Have More Responsibility These are the facts in the case. What can we make of them? First, the great discrepancy in the sex of the suicide victim is very clear. The answer to this question lies largely in the fact that men are in most cases still the breadwinners, and this is a serious responsibility. The downward trend of the market may be a cause for a number of grey hairs on the bushes head, but the wife goes aggressively on to her teeth and bridge parties.
A similar reason might be given for the fact that it is the business and professional type which most often commits suicide. These are, for the most part, the work of a class. They are also more high strong and given to emotion. A laborer can go to the pay window and get his wages after digging holes all week, with no boss over him can never be heard. The dollar is coming from. Equipped with a higher mentality, he thinks more on questions and problems of the world. Often, too, he is responsible for great misdeeds. He can happiness of hundreds of workers.
Age Is Big Factor
The age of the average suicide may be partly accounted for as being the time of life when the employer begins to get worried about Smith becoming
The Roving Reporter Conducted by Kenneth Postlethwaite
Question: "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Eile McLaughlin, T36 (feeling philosophical and hateful toward the fair sex): "There isn't much a thing as love, it is just physical attraction."
Virginia Wallace, fa39 (with a date who may have believed that the Rover was getting just a little too personal) when everything can happen on this campus."
Eugene Wannamaker, c28 (cleaning the containment in the Union basement, which should clean up any doubt you had about the situation) and 1954 (in one and increases like rabbits).<sup>3</sup>
Harold Raport, c.36 (going into the library with a date): "I don't know, I haven't had enough experience yet."
Lucille Bryant, c'36 (the date): "I have nothing to say."
Ted Val Sloom, fa37 (a whole-hearted woman hate): "Lead me out of husbandry, leave me footloose and fancy free."
Tate Clark, c37 (enjoying a smoke between visits in the library): "No, definitely, no."
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too old for his job. His philosophy is that new blood is needed every few years, and Smith, whose hair is greying, is tossed out into the world to sink or swim. Too often he sinks. He plays but unempheable. It isn't that he hasn't had experience or doesn't know his job. It is those telltale grey hairs and the lines in his face. Fearing that he may soon be a burden on his life, he takes the easiest way out. To balance this side of the scale are the shinies of young people who are making their first step into the world. If they meet with too many rebuffs they will too take the quickest way out.
Strange as it may seem, the greatest number of suicides occurs not in the blank and harren East but in the sunny West, California in particular. This is shown rather well by the lists of the 10 cities in the U. S. with the highest rates. The figures are based on the number committed per 100,000 population.
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The ten highest:
Sacramento, Calif.
Seattle, Wash.
San Francisco, Iowa
San Francisco, Calif.
San Diego, Calif.
Nabha, Nebu.
Denver, Colo.
Portland, Ore.
Tacoma, Mo.
The ten lowest:
Holyoke, Mass.
Waterbury, Conn.
Newton, Mass.
Cicero, Ill.
Milton, Mass.
Altoona, Pa.
Cambridge, Mass.
Mt. Version, N. Y.
Pueblo, Calo.
One Goal Is Not Enough
There are various reasons for this. One is that many go to California in search of health and do not find it. Another is that because of the film industry it is a Mice to job seek whom must necessarily be disinfected.
But after all these factors are considered, the basic reason for many suicides may be bailed down to one thing — false tales. The story is told of a man in the Philippines islands who was sent to the 70 million dollars. When the creature slit his arm and licked of it but he still had 14 millions left. He committed suicide because he could not bear the thought of living on such a low standard.
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