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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 15. 1936
Com ment
A Letter to Eden
Dear Sir Anthony;
They just told me that the Argentine Republic has made you angry. My, what a shame for them to think of placing the Falkland Island on a stamp pictureing the Argentine's territory. The very nerve of them, when all good map-makers always place the mark, "Br." by the islands. But what I can't figure out, Sir Anthony, is how you happened to discover such a thing. With all of this worry about Germany I really don't see how you found time to get out your magnifying glass and go searching through postage stamps.
Another thing I can't seem to figure out is why
only two of them, just 3.101 people on Britain and the Argentime the territory since gaining the territory since British forces under Admiral Sir David in 1894 have been unable to control it until British forces under Admiral Sir David defended the troublesome German fact in the war over completing the elimination of the naval force of the Central Powers in the South Pacific." Could something like this have entered your head, Edon, old pal? But, that's all right, we'll excuse you this time, because we know that the Hitler tangle really has you perplexed right now.
Just to help you out, Anthony, I'll do a little more research. I find that there are large sheep farms on the islands and exports of wool are high. "There is no public debt?" What? Keep fighting for Falkland, my friend.
Awake Ye Rebels
In an editorial, printed recently, the Kansas City Journal-Post pokes fun at the editorial column of this paper, stating that "the stirring issues at Lawrence, it seems, are springtime on the campus and the pernicious habit of cutting at varsity dances." After prating a while on these two "stirring issues" and giving an example of a Kansas editor who was almost expelled shortly after the war for supporting Eugene V. Debs, the editorial closes, "Where is this young rebel now? Our guess is that he is enthusiastically going down the line for that other widely known radical, Alfred M. Landon."
It is uncommon for any intellectual editor of a metropolitan paper to blemish the lack of seriousness of student journalists. The usual practice is to mock at their knowledge of important LEvents and vital social problems, or else to condemn them as agents of Stalin and possessed with dangerous radical ideas. The Journal-Post has achieved distinctiveness in its mockery even though the truth of its implications may be challenged by these same student journalists.
What does the Journal-Post consider as "stirring issues"? Are they front page editorial campaigns against certain firms who refuse to advertise in their pages or are they thrilling eulogies of public utilities? In either case, the Kansan confesses its deficiency. Perhaps some suggestion from the Journal-Post would put us wise to such vital editorial topics.
We thank the Journal-Post for their kind interest in our problems. We also thank them for the valuable information that Alfred M. Landen
Among our trustees "pernicious habit of
been mistaken in our governors as a middle-of-
street floss will now be removed from the
house."
Thank you, year officer of the Surgeon Post, for fuil-
ning us by encouraging members of rebellion.
Good Husbands Wanted
"Records of colleges and universities show that from one-fourth to one-half of their graduates die stipsters," according to the article, "Is There a Scarcity of Good Husbands?" in a recent issue of the Readers Digest.
Many people attribute the increasing number of divorces in the United States and the number of unhappy marriages to the age-old cause of ignorance. In that case, would it not be wise to include divorce and unhappy marriages in the course of pre-marriage instruction?
In an attempt to remedy the tragic situation, Syracuse University has added a pre-marriage course to their curriculum. The course attempts to lower the per cent of sex-ignorance among the student body and extends into the fields of psychology, biology, sociology, home economics and religion. Questions relating to petting, sex in marriage, home environment and length of engagement are discussed freely.
But, the article goes on to explain, "Most men, when seeking wives, are looking not for executives but for someone with allure and willingness to flatter their vanity and make them feel superior." If that is a true statement of the situation, a course in "flattery and how to develop an inferiority complex" would be more appropriate and far more practical, to the college woman.
We Want Wood Benches
With the advent of spring-like weather the parks of Kansas City are being renovated. According to a recent editorial in the Kansas City Star, the park department is building new ovens in Swoke Park and doing other things so that city people who have been cramped up all winter can enjoy the spring weather out-of-doors. It seems only natural to echo on this page the annual earh on this campus for more benches and seats on the campus. No one can deny the beneficial effects of being outside in the sunshine. Ultra-violet rays are unharmed by panes of glass in their attempts to build bodies more able to resist disease.
Nothing can so buoy up low spirits as fresh air. Yet, there seems to be a one-sided point of view here at the University. We stay in a stuffy library room all afternoon improving our minds while our beds go sadly neglected. What could be the cause? Difficult equa-
of Vahraman valley and the curries of people
breens?
Elm park benches built of wood are what we want. After all, sitting on the ground or on stone is apt to have unhealthy effects on the slitter.
'Jinx' Fridav
The jinx was running true to form the other day for Joe College. That was Friday the 13th! No black cat running across his path could possibly have brought more hard luck to Joe that day.
Professor Blank gave an hour "shot-gun" and Joe was also blank. A "shot-gun" that should have been called a "machine-gun". In another class, the prof asked him the first question, and he tried to do a high-class job of bluffing. The more Joe bluffed, the more questions the professor could think to ask him and the more muddled the answers became. The note books were called for, but Joe's wasn't complete.
His best and only girl in the whole University stepped out with another guy. His friend wore his last clean shirt and brand new tie. Two tires on his car went flat.
At the Junior Prom, every girl on the floor (and some of the boys) managed to tramp on his prize "com-patch." And the stag line only added to his misfortunes and ill-luck of the day.
Friday the 13th was truly an unlucky day for poor Joe College!
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
In case, there is any doubt in the minds of some of the students as to what these trash cans are for on the campus, I should like to inform them that the cans are supposed to be containers for waste paper.
While every effort is being made to beautify our campus and to make an attractive setting for the famous tulip-beds, the handicaps are numerous. For instance the absent-minded student who drops papers that he no longer wants at last where the idea occurs to him. Bosten paths accustom a plate of grass also detract greatly from the appearance.
I suggest that the students put on their "think-
caps" and take this question more seriously. A.F.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notion day at Clausellier's Office at 3 p.m. preembral regular
publicday and 11:30 a.m. Saturdays for Sunday invites.
Vol. 23 MARCH 15, 1936 No. 115
COLLEGE FACULTY. The Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet on Tuesday, March 17, in Central Administration Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. H. E. Linden School.
E. H. Lindley, President.
KREIS DEUTSCHLICHT VERSEN der Dachdecke Verzeichn ver-
senthalten bei Wahrung nur M 18 Schirm um haltfunktion
in Zimmer 3 Disprer. Bernadine Beckley, Selbsträtter
PREMISSION COMMISSION Presidential Commission of
VOLLEY, will meet at Holmesley Hall at 4:30 on Monday.
FRESHMAN COUNCIL: There will be a meeting of the Freshman Council, Monday evening in Room 10 of the Library.
Jim Bounds, Secretary.
Jean Russell, Chairman.
K. U. PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE. The K.U. Peace Action Committee will meet at 4:30 Monday afternoon in Room 10 of the Memorial Union. Everyone is welcome. Alfred C. Ames, Executive Secretariat.
KAPPA PHI: The regular meeting of Kappa Phi will be held Tuesday, March 17, 6:30 p.m., at 1303 Tennessean, Mrs. Anna Neufelt will speak on her life in Russia. Anyone who is interested is welcome.
Beulah Pinneo, President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics Club will meet at 430 Monday, March 16, in Room 213 administration building. Miss Helen Welch will speak on "Flatland." Refreshments will be served.
James K. Hitt, President.
MEN'S PAN-HELENIC COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Men's Pan-Hellenic Council this morning at 10:30 in the basement of the Union building. Fine will be assessed those fraternities not represented.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Dr. H. E. Chandell of the Postgraduate Department, will speak on Shinjotown in the Japan Pavilion.
Fred Maier. President.
Is Free Speech Stifled on Campus As 'Liberals' Pan Zwicker Interview?
By J. Howard Russo, c28
What has happened to Dr. Dietrich Zwicker? Has he received an insight into the traditional American freedom of speech, fairness, and courtesy toward ruests?
When headlines last Saturday screened bird talks about Germany's military occupation of the Rhine valley, some ignorantion on the Kansan reportorial stuff (it was suggested that it might make an interesting slidowt to the news story, correctly) suggested that it might make an interestful slidowt to the news story, for he would ask for his views as to the situation which prompted this drastic move. The assumption (utterly false and defensible, as later developments indicate) was that his quarter-century of residence in Germany, under a wide variety of regimes, should qualify him to the present crisis of the background to the present crisis of the natural loyalty to Hitler.
Versailles Treaty at Fault
And so it was. Zwicker was interviewed, and gave what appeared to be manual and unquenacular answers to our questions, but the editors should have allowed themselves to be so completely hoodwinked by the subversive utterances of this unprinzipled propaganda! Salt tears flood our autumnic eyes when we think of it. The editors state that (the Versailles treaty) is the root of the opinion easily) concerned with the opinion later expressed by one of the most prominent liberal professors on the Hill, merely serves to extremely clever these propagandists he interview.
The Kauan published his interview.
Several days later (not immediately upon reading the paper, he it noted), Zericker came into the Kansas office. Initially it was perturbed about something.
"Why did you give such publicity to my comments about the German situation?" he pleaded. "Please don't quote me on political aspects in Germany any more—I'm afraid it might lead to the belief that I am spreading 'Nazi propaganda,' and perish endanger my scholarship."
May Cause Political Talks
He may decide, he continued, never to speak again of the political status of Germany. Asked to speak before a debate in a high school Thursday on the subject of male Youth of Today', he changed his topic to a discussion of geographic conditions in central Europe, and declined a request to answer questions regarding present-day Germany. Thus will the purpose of the exchange scholarship be achieved, in bringing about in each country a more complete picture, a better understanding, of conditions in the other.
Why this sudden change of heart? He declared to comment further; but here and there on the campus sly hints are dropped which mention letters written before him, which previously had been used principally in the manufacture of "Campus Opinion"—letters protecting against a slanderian invasion of the Commu- pard us, we must liberate—sole right to freedom from the exercise with impunity for these men.
**Outlooks of Indignation**
From all sides come reports of outbursts, an indignation on the part of college students who quotes are used adversely) which greenlight the Zwicker interview. University students, too young to distinguish between read Utopian doctrines and creeds which loeaden inoxorily to perdition, must be shielded from the knowledge that such man as Hitler exists, and that there are "Dozen" dislikable foreigner realize that the demeanor of speech at the University is a co教 institution, maintained for the exclusive use of the noisy minority? It is led enough for a spoilable system in Nazi-ium to exist, without speak- about it. Now Community and communism—ah, but that's another matter!
All is peaceful on the campus. Peaceful, that is, except for impulsive and unwarranted outbursts from those students who insist that it is their right to hear any question, if only for varley's sake. If so, a delectable dish for those who like it, as a steady diet it begins to lose its charm. These crass individuals find it difficult to understand why Socialism and Communism may be discussed endlessly in public gatherings and in the campus. A word of Naziism must be breathed.
oral organization has publicly deployed the dismal lack of brains in the Kansan staff, that such a seditious article should have been taken seriously. Indeed, indeed, not to see at all that
Communism (or Socialism, depending on which particular liberal happens to be talking) is good, and that Nazi-Islam is bad.
Peace Reigns?
They even have the bad taste and unfortunate ability to recall the cries that "liberals" sent to high heaven last autumn, when a member of the board of democratic statements that were interpelled into liberal "liberals"仁篡ianable right to freedom spoke it. It is mentioned that in a pint-sized publication of characteristic color, members of the same groups which allegedly raised the present rumors, were equally silent at that time in denouncing any restriction upon their right to speak their minds.
Still, it is peace on the campus. For does not suppression always trump peace, quiet, and harmony? True, there will be clamers from truth-skeptic progressives, but what would they do with the bad 10? Are they ill-tolerated for their own reasons or den their feeble minds with an assent of viewpoints, when it is so much more eminently satisfactory to hand them their opinions pre-digested? And anyway, they use the strongest logic. Some even contend that such accretion would be a mistake to constitute a violation of fair phy-cleanly a faulty and irrelevant content. They have the tenency to suggest that these groups should maintain a degree of consistency—that either free speech should be universal, or that all minorities should be suppressed to save them on the carduums of the majority.
Liberals Censure Kansan On the other hand, the head of a lib-
And so it goes, ad infinitum, ad nauseatum.
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