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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1930
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Olympics Endangered
The recent action of Germany of again placing troops in the Rhineland may have some effect at a future date on the Olympic games which are to be held in Berlin this August.
An unnamed French official was the first to broach the subject when he said, "France undoubtedly will refuse to send a team to Berlin, and Great Britain, Italy and Belgium probably will follow suit." The veracity of the official's statement need not be either proven or disproven, but it does bring to the front again the question of whether or not political dislikes between nations shall govern participation in the Olympics.
When politics begin to play the decisive role in Olympics then the purpose of the games has been checkmated. For years Olympic competition has brought together men and women of all nations on an equal basis. Today it seems likely that new competitors will be entered in every event of the games—political maneuvers and race prejudice. It isn't the part of the athlete to compete with these new fees, but he can defeat them by going ahead with his previous plans for competing in the Olympic games through which he will be able to proclaim to people of all races, creeds, and ambitions that there is one group of people who are not affected by political maneuvers and race prejudice.
A news item says that in the treatment of certain types of diseases, radio can be used to induce artificial fever. By tuning in on some of the political speakers, one presumes.
Mr. Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic committee, said he did not believe the action of Germany would forestall the games, continuing his statement he said, "The Olympic games were awarded to the City of Berlin, they were not awarded to Germany. Political maneuvers have no significance in the world of sport and, unless war prevents, and if the rules and regulations of the International Olympic Association are respected the games of the eleventh Olympiad will certainly be celebrated in Berlin." Mr. Brundage without a doubt has the right point of view on the question but whether or not those nations who are more directly affected by Germany's recent move will feel the same way remains to be seen.
—Kansas City Kansan
French Folly
France seems to be looking for trouble if one considers the attitude taken by French leaders toward the German invasion of the Rhineland. Premier Albert Sarrant denounced the German move severely and absolutely refused to consider Hitler's suggestion of a 25-year peace pact. Meanwhile, the French are fortifying their position on the Alsace-Lorraine border and the French navy and air branches are put in readiness for war.
All this activity appears to be in the direction of war. Hitler has made clear his stand and has offered some suggestions for the League to follow. Certainly action should be taken to ward off Hitler's invasion but this action should follow the calm logic of reason and not the massing of troops and instruments of war against the German border. Anthony Eden, England's foreign secretary, is on the right track when he refused to aid France to expel Germany from the Rhineland by force and agreed to consider Hitler's peace offers.
Without England's support, France will not embrol herself in a war with Germany. Despite her recent mutual support pact with Russia, France still thinks too much of the power of the British Lion to start a war without a definite promise of aid from England. The French statesmen are bitter at what they call 'England's desert' in the French attempt to secure "justice". Just how justice could be obtained by expelling the German troops by drastic measures, is a little cloudy in the minds of many observers.
If ever there were need for the League of Nations, that time is now. The League has a chance to prove its worth in resolving the present crisis. Every country which sincerely desires peace will have the opportunity to make known such a desire to the world by the helpful and co-operative manner in which they participate in the League of Nations' meeting which is soon to come. And threats of expulsion of Germany by force is not in harmony with the spirit of peace on which the League was founded and supposed to operate.
Protect the Consumer
The most colossal sugar in the world is the American consumer, according to yesterday's convocation speaker, Dr. Paul Douglas. And the facts bear out Dr. Douglas's statement to an alarming degree. Americans were highly diverted several years ago by the publication of "100,000,-000 Guinea Pigs," a book which attempted to show the public just who is playing it for a sucker. But its very entertaining aspects served to rob it of its most important function, that of arousing the public to a sense of its own need for a better system of distribution.
Workers will always be suppressed until they
realize that their chief position in society is that of consumers, and not workers. Consumption is universal. Everybody consumes something, and not many people consume more of the basic commodities than others. But most persons have very little knowledge of how to live, nor can they lie in their position as workers, and completely overlook the fact that it is as consumers that they are being far worse mistreated.
Dr. Douglas's representations of the way Americans have been imposed upon by the manufacturers are interesting, and informing too, but they will accomplish the most good if they serve to arouse America to the crying need for consumers organization. Consumer's Co-operatives are no new thing, not even in this country. They are not a panacea born of the depression, and destined to die with it. They are the fruition of nearly a century's empirical attempts to protect the largest body in the world—the consumers.
The downtown cops would doubtless appreciate another cold snap and deep snow to give them a rest from tagging cars and get over the writers' cramps they have developed.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Just Another Bird
How many species of birds, other than the robin, dove, blackbird and sparrow, can you recognize? How many species of sparrows do you recognize? Or is every sparrow just another sparrow to you?
Sixty-some species of birds commonly visit the backyards in Lawrence. Specimens of these species were shown in Dyeche Museum of Natural History, before it was closed to the public, Nov. 30, 1932. In one case, "birds of the vicinity" were displayed; in another case, "birds of the season." The displays were changed once a week. It was a store-house of knowledge for the "hovers of nature."
Some people visited the Museum to learn the name of a particular bird they had observed; others looked at the week's display, then carefully watched their own yards for the species represented in the display.
The Museum is closed now and cannot be reopened, because of the present financial circumstances.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Karnan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
For many months now the University has had workers landscaping the campus. Since fall these men have been planting and transplanting shrubbery, areas, and planting grass. The tulip beds, known for their beauty, have been planned. All of this work has been done in preparation of spring, when the results will be evident. For the next several weeks appear at its best as worm paths are made in front of the tulip beds or across sodded lawns.
Several places, scattered over the campus, are lawns of growing grass divided by a narrow brown path, worn with graffiti.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Enough sidewalks have been built to lead to all building entrances. Cannot the students of this University use the paved walks and in this way co-operate with the teachers in helping to make the campus place of beauty? D.P.
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AL ETENATO: Al Eteno tendra una session el jueves a las cuatro y media de la tarde.
ENGLISH LECTURE: Miss Margaret Lyrm will speak to English majors and others interested on Thursday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. in 205 Fraser. Her subject will be "A Literary Honeymoon." W. S. Johnson, Chairman,
JAY JANES: There will be a meeting of the Jay
James at 4:30, Room 11. Prinner hall, today. Members will
have lunch at the YMCA.
Betty Tholen, President.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS Le Cercle Français se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demi dans la suite 306 Fraser. Vous ceux qui parent francés sont invites.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: Phi Delta Kappa will meet at 4:30 today in Room 115, Fraser. The purpose of the meeting is to elect members. All members, faculty and students, are urged to attend.
Nicholas D. Rizzo, President.
Lincoln, Neh., March 7—(UP)—The movement to displace the traditional American system of two-house state legislatures with unicameral assemblies is taking hold slowly in six states besides California. United Press survey revealed today.
QUILL CLUB: Quill Club initiation will be hold for all eligible pledges Thursday at 7:30 at the home of Professor E. M. Hopkins, 1234 Mississippi. Faculty members are cordially invited.
Lawmakers Fight Drives in Six States for Unicameral Legislatures
--coordinating to political leaders in Sacramento. The state wrangle is leading the fight, believing that the present state senate is dominated by men who are not in sympathy with the livestock industry. Massachusetts is toying with the unimaginable idea, but prospects for immediate action of the movement there are not bright.
New York, Missouri, California, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio are the other states in which there is some talk of the two-bounce legislative system.
Charles Zeskey, President.
Nebraska already has written the principle of unicameralism into its state constitution. The legislature which governs Nebraska is housed of 43 members. The bicameral legislature which will go out of existence at that time consists of a Senate of 32 members and a House of 19.
Legislators Oppose Change
One factor in the movement for unilateralization appears in every state where the governor is appointed to serve as president of current two-house legislatures are opposed to this change in government. This was true in Nebraska. The amendment creating a one-house legislature would allow the governor through the influence of U.S. Sensor George W. Norris, was initiated by the people—not by the legislators.
In New York State Senator Thomas C. Deemond of Orange, recently introduced a legislative committee to study the feasibility of a unilateral assembly. Most observers there feel that the movement has not gained sufficient momentum to succeed.
RIHADAMANTHI: Rudhamanthi meets today at 4:30 in the Green Room, Frier hall.
Alfred C. Ames, President;
Defects Are Stressed
Desmond's arguments favoring his resolution were the familiar ones—that two houses in a legislature, instead of providing a system of checks and balances, assure a system of "buck-passing."
A bill proposing a unicameral legislature was killed in committee at the California legislative session last year, but the movement there is still alive, ace
Seven members of the Board of Regents will play important parts in the Republican and Democratic conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, respectively.
Board Members To Attend Political Conventions
Fred M. Harris in a Republican delegate from the second district and Leader McCoy in the Republic delegate from the third district. The Cleveland convention this spring.
Dudley Doolittle, former Democratic national committeeman for Kansas, will be an important factor in the Democratic race in Indiana. Palin R. O'Neil and Balle P. Wagnerer, Mr. O'Neil was in charge of the Democratic organization for ex-service men for the national committee in 1982. Charles M. Harger, chairman of the board of the Republican convention of all Republican national conventions since 1908 and is expected to have the same position again this year. © Oscar S. Stuffer is the head of the Democratic national committee and is in charge of the London headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
Lafellets Are Opposed The movement in the 1953 session of the Wisconsin legislature, but they met some opposition within their own party and the state.
In Ohio the movement for unicameralism has not taken definite form. Emphasis is being placed on crystallizing the state's unique legal regime of no more than 50 members. (At present there are 32 senators and 125 representatives.) Under the unicameral proposal, representation in the House arrattly attests to a population basis.
The attempts to introduce universal legislatures in Illinois and Missouri have been feasible. A candidate for the Illinois legislature two years ago, who included former President Bill Clinton in assembly, was defeated, but his bill did not reach the floor of either house.
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R. W. Hempill, Norton attorney, who was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1914 and from the School of Law in 1916, has announced his candidacy for state senator from the Norton-Nipple Smith county district. He has previously served two terms in the House of Representatives.
Editor's note: This is a continuation of Mr. Pinetze's letter which was started in last Friday's paper.
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Mr. Pfuetze Expresses His Opinion On System of Exchange Scholarships
Harrisburg, Pa.—(UPI)-Reports and inquiries at the Department of Forest and Waters indicate that there's a steadily increasing demand for Pennsylvania produced wood by large manufacturers. The manufacturer specializes in gun stocks.
On my return to Leipzig, I stopped off for a day in Nuremberg, an intensely interesting old medieval town. Of all the cities in Germany this has probably retained its medieval identity more than any other. The museum is the finest that I have seen and the most beautiful museum shown here, one can get a picture of the cross section of Germanic life, and customs of the people for the past four or five hundred years; their dress, jewelry, utensils, weapons, armor, scientific instruments, etc. There are completely furnished rooms and dwellings showing how the people in the various sections of Germany have lived during
TWO JUDGES PROUD THEY WERE ONCE NEWSPAPERMEN
Springfield, IL —(UP)—Two members of the Illinois State Supreme Court who pride themselves on the fact that they were once newspapers are Justice Warren Orr, Rock Isle and Justice Francis Wilson, Chicago.
Wilson worked as a reporter on the Youngstown, O., Vindicator in his younger days, later leaving that job to go to Chicago where he studied
I had meant to include in this letter some of my impressions of the political, social, and economic conditions of "new America," having been here nearly six months. There is no doubt in my mind but that the average person in America has somewhat false impression of condition at home today. Not that the newspapers print
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Ort, one of the youngest members of the court, earned his way through the University of Missouri largely by serving as editor of the college paper.
The castle at Nuremberg is still intact and gives one a vivid picture of what life must have been like in those times. In one of the towers is a large collection of instruments of torture of almost every kind and description from ancient times, including an iron maiden), a delicate contraption in the form of an upright coffin arrangement which bears a resemblance of the outline of a woman. The front half opens outward on hinges showing the inside lined with long abrasp spikes. The unfortunate victim was thrust into the front half swing back into place.
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untruths about Germany but they don't give the whole picture.
The system of exchange scholarships can be a tremendous force for bringing about better relations and understanding between the nations. I sincerely hope you will make the most of your opportunity at K. U., to learn to know the German student there, and through it, to stand up to standing and a finer appreciation of the German people and the problems which they face today.
I would like to suggest to those of you who have not made the acquaintance of Dietrich Zwicker, the present German scholar at thur. to try to find a way of acquaintance with the school year. It is only by learning to really know the people of these European countries, particularly the better classes who reflect the finest qualities of the race, that we can appreciate their back-ground and the life they live.
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Most sincerely,
Karl H. Pfuetze.
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