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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1936
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A Mistake Rectified
The powers that be in the New Deal administration apparently are quick to realize their mistakes if one is to judge by the recent re-instalment of Major General Johnson Hagood by President Roosevelt.
Hagood was removed from his post for his critical remarks concerning the use of WPA funds, referring to that important feature of the New Deal administration as "stage money." He was summarily dismissed through action of the administration by Chief of Staff Malin Craig who seemed particularly vindictive in his action.
Now after two personal conferences with the President, Hagood has been restored to the good graces of the army and has been appointed to a responsible army post in Chicago. The administration's charge of insubordination and displaying criticism of the national administration unbecoming to an army officer evidently gave way before the tide of public indignation which rose against the officer's dismissal. The sudden about face was the most effective way of meeting this feeling even though the element of grace is seemingly lacking.
Farmers in Ohio, a news item says, are installing radios on their cultivating machines. Can't you just see Secretary Wallace down there in Washington saying "calling all cultivators, calling all cultivators." -"Syracuse Daily Orange.
Freedom of criticism is one of the strong points of a democracy. Although in a great many cases, this criticism is not for the best good of the country as a whole, the fact that it exists prevents dictatorial policies of the central government. Hagood's criticism of the WPA is agreed upon by a great number of American citizens who are seeing the great possibilities of such a program become obscured before the petty politics and graft which mark its administration. His re-statement will be looked upon with pleasure by almost all right minded Americans.
Intellectual Laziness
Young Lloyd Lewis of Plattsburg, Missouri, rose to prominence last week by winning a nation-wide peace essay contest with an entry borrowed from the president of Newark University. Public opinion has been unusually lenient with this lad who disclaims any intention of misleading the judges of the contest, but the situation should furnish a valuable lesson to him and to all other students.
The habit of letting others do our thinking for us is one into which any of us may easily slip. In many cases, the subjects upon which we must inform ourselves lie in a field in which our knowledge is slight, and we must necessarily make use of material gathered by others. However the use of conclusions which others have reached through their own thinking is not justified by mere ignorance on the subject. Given the necessary facts, any person of normal intelligence should be able to formulate his own conclusions on the subject and will be better off for doing so.
Anyone, and particularly a young person who is forming his future habits, should beware of failing into mental slothfulness. The ability to meet the problems of life successfully depends largely on the ability to reason quickly and make one's decisions in an emergency. We should all profit by Lloyd Lewis' experience.
Mr. Borah's liberalistic principles are good and through his influence a number of them will probably be inserted in the Republican platform, but will he be guided by himself? From the
The slogan used to be "prosperity is just around the corner," but most persons have resigned themselves to being content to "brighten the corner where you are."—Pittsburgh Banter.
Borah and Liberalism
In looking over the list of Republican possibilities for the presidential nomination there is one name we cannot escape. That is William E. Borah, senior senator from Idaho and one of the Senate's leading Liberals. When the term Liberal is mentioned, however, much explanation is in order.
In the 1936 race we find three types, representing the New Dealers, the Old Guard ranks, and the Borah followers. The first two groups base their interpretation respectively on the principle of human rights as against property rights. Mr. Borah makes no such distinction. To him the two principles are adequately dealt with in the Constitution and therefore need no further interpretation other than specific statutory modification.
To go further with the Borah Liberal viewpoint, he is not for the mere recognition but for the actual enforcement of personal and property liberties. In governmental and business relations he is for a legal framework wherein competitive liberty can and must revive and thrive. He is for a currency and credit system which he hopes will reduce to a minimum governmental price fixing and raise to a maximum every possibility for free selling and buying in free markets.
present outlook, it seems that his roll-call votes in the Senate are inconsistent with good Republican policy, and his party members cannot associate party loyalty and a corresponding loyalty to beliefs. Considering the importance of party loyalty it will indeed be very difficult for the Senator to obtain Republican acclamation next June.
Keeping Up With the World
When Norman Thomas inquired recently of the attitude of university students toward world affairs, he was told that the average student spends his first two years trying to have such a good time that he must spend the last two making up the bad grades incurred during the first two—leaving no time for the consideration of the affairs of the world.
It has been said that one is incapable of grasping the significance of contemporary events without a knowledge of what has gone on before them. The fact that such knowledge is essential to an enlightened public attitude.
If this statement was an exaggeration its conclusion did contain a reasonable amount of truth.
But history is not all written on pages yellowed by time. Just as today's habits become tomorrow's traditions, so do today's events form the historical background for the future. History is in the making every day, and those who do not keep up with contemporary world events let a vast amount of potential breakup slip by to be recovered only in part if at all, and then possibly warped by second-hand prejudice.
Today's world events are or will be important in the lives of every individual. With so many countries abandoning democratic government, it is well that the people of America, especially those of the college-trained class, should not only know but also understand what is going on around them.
More classroom treatment of contemporary events is to be encouraged, and students should avail themselves of each opportunity to keep up with things. From many standpoints the facilities for this purpose are inadequate. But the first and immediate need is for more students with the will to seek a knowledge of current events and public affairs. The way will follow—Purdue Exponent.
The responsibility for a more currently enlightened University product is one that must be shared. The academic curriculum, the policy of the faculty, and the attitude of the students should be directed toward more acquaintance with happenings outside the forty-acre fence.
Believe it or not, but one coed on the Long Beach Junior College campus after being hit by an arrow while walking thoughtlessly behind the men's archery target, tried to convince her parents that she should quit school as there were Indians rooming at large on the wilds of the campus.—Los Angeles Juniors Collegian.
Campus Opinion
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Of course freshmen are invited to tour the library with a guide, who explains the machinery of the library, early each fall. However a great number of new students come to the library to build the building昂贵 and dazzed. They see books and cards and files, but have no idea which desk in the library provides reserve books and which offers magazines.
Editor Daily Karusan;
In an incomprehensible corner of the bulletin board in the Watson library, along with the bounding house ads and unwrapped bills and founds, is the directory to the more noticeable pieces of copy, is unknown to the great majority of Kansas University students, and is of no value. When a new student or enterer leave the library, the archive must be made accessible in office in search of the text be desired. The items in the various rooms are numbered—even the door leading outside the building bears a tag—but there is no visible guide or explanation to aid the stronger in finding the materials.
Our library needs a directory, located in a capacious spot, and explaining where certain types of magazine and books will be found. It should be an easily understandable list of students, who daily attend all of the types and ages.
H.R.W.
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Vol. 33 APRIL 10, 1926 No. 135
AIEE. A meeting of the AIEE, will be held in Marvin auditorium on Thursday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Douglas of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company will talk on "Wide Band Lines." E. Loudsale, Secretary.
E. H. Lindley, Chancellor,
ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION. The annual Honors Convocation will be held Friday morning, April 17, at ten a.m., in the University auditorium. President Stephen M. O'Reilly, College will speak on "The Strategy of the Educated."
Teaching Positions Are Opening Up For K. U. Students, Says Chandler
By Sarah J. Lister
The little red, yellow, green and blue pins are moving these days on the Kansas and big U. S. mails on the wall of the University building. Chandler is at the head of the K. U. Teachers Placement Bureau and the little pina moan jobs in high schools, elementary schools, and emergency education centers. It is edited by University of Kansas graduate
"The most apparent thing about the kinds of positions that are opening up," said Mr. Chandler recently, "is that they will be of the same general type as of those in the business economy, and commercial subjects. There will probably be a big run in those fields. The other fields, to date, are not scattered to indicate much. Most of the openings currently in are from the smaller industries of difficult combinations. For instance, in the past, the bureau has received requests for someone who can teach music and manual training, mathematics and home economics, commerce and tourism."
At a recent meeting of the State Appointment Secretaries in Wichita, which Professor Chander attended, a rather interesting statewide trend was noted toward an increasing number of avail-ible degrees in physical education and art for women.
Administrative jobs seem to be more numerous this year. In the last ten days, eight or ten such have been filled. While the placement burden does not solicit nor advertise for out-of-state positions, a few come in every year.
Art Field Is Opening
"The day is coming, I believe," said Professor Chandler, "when art in the form of music comes to a certain station to that which music occupies today. The field for speech and dramatic art may also open up considerably along with it, then continue to return to normal."
"In normal times," remarked Professor Chandler, "one-fourth of the graduates we place go to out-of-state jobs. Since last September, there have been 45 positions filled, of which six were in the college field and these openings are in the college field."
Few Modern Language Openings
The most difficult positions to fill are in the modern language field. At the University of Kansas, where schools in Kansas which offer French in the curriculum, Only two or three requests came in for modern foreign language.
language teachers last year. On the other hand, and almost paradoxally it seems, there was an unusual demand for Latin teachers last year.
If you should be a history of social science major and wish to touch, it may be difficult to find a job. For the past four or five years statistics from the business department surpass applicants. The demand is good, but the supply is just too low.
In normal years, the bureau places 250 to 275 students. Three years ago this year, the bureau last year went up to 290. "We're hoping this year that it will climb to the 250 place."
Teachers Want Adventure
That graduates of this University are not lacking in the romantic or adventurous spirit is shown by Mr. Chandler's reply to the query, "Do many students at the desire for out-of-state schools?"
"Oh, yes," he laughed, "an enormous number. Not only out-of-state jobs but out-of-country as well. We have quite a few students who would like to go to Alaska, Porto Rico, the Philippines, the Caribbean, and the like. The field in such places is not too difficult, though, as the educational system in those places are becoming more adequate and they are training their own people to teach in their schools. This is especially true in the Philippines, and positions there will be increasingly rare since their independence has been made possible by the United States, Alaska, last year. Yes, many students get the fcch to follow their vocation into far places."
"Genius doubtless, like an army, travels on its stomach, but what a stomach."
Literature and Science Indebted To Indigestion
Taking a side glance at "the influence of the stomach on the human mind," Dr. T. Wingate Todd, anatomist at Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, stuck stock of the results of his 12 years of research on the human stomach.
liance imagery and creative thought."
He chose Samuel Johnson as a good example, stating that "there is no doubt at all of Johnson's chronic indigestion at all" and "he has suffered with which there goes an bribe."
hance imagery and creative thought. He points out that Benedict's "quick answer" to the question of why the spearer's "Much Ado About Nothing") reminds us of the indiebeneity of both literature and science to indigenation. Then again would Durwin have framed his own story in the context for the imagery created by his chronic indignation? Would Conrad have written his stories, had the facts of his ex-communication been amplified by nervous dysppeal?
It is a well known fact that Edgar Allan Poe suffered from hallucinations of a terrible slect brought on by alcohol and resulting indigestion. He did some of his best writing while under the influence of drugs to relieve pain of one sort or another. Had these facts given him any help, he have produced such works of art?
Scientifically speaking, Doctor Todd reported that 800 experiments on students have revealed that emotional waves from tomcat's gastric waves of contraction.
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Not a major engineering problem, to be sure. But thou-sands of strange lute problems, too, have been solved to assure you the world's most reliable telephone service.
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